After picking up a Pride Flag from the audience, she declared that “ the most important thing I have to say about it is that everyone’s gotta love each other.” Following on from her public attack of Trump’s plans to ban transgender people from the military, this shows us what we can learn from Gaga’s words. It is thus perfect to end with a very recent quote from Gaga’s opening set on her 2017 Joanne World Tour. “It is always wrong to hate, but it is never wrong to love.” Her support has extended to philanthropic contributions and public speeches, with her most famous line celebrating that “ being gay is like glitter – it never goes away“. This was first obvious in her releases ‘Bad Romance’ and ‘Born This Way ‘ where she not only promotes LGBT equality but supports gay culture. Outside of music, Gaga’s most important contributions come in her work with the LGBTQ+ community. Gaga promoting LGBTQ+ equality at her opening Joanne show (Credit: Pink News) “Don’t be a drag, just be a queen!” For her, music is production and performance. We should treat music as a way to understand ourselves and transport ourselves to another place, just as it is done in television and theatre. In fact, “we listen to music because we want to dream”. It’s a form of relaxation and escapism, the fantasy that helps us get away from reality. Music is a way of understanding ourselves and interacting with others. “We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult.”įor Gaga, music is about more than just the words and the rhythm itself.
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For in the words of one of Gaga’s inspirations – drag icon Ru Paul – “ If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell can you love someone else“. And when people challenged her identity and the ideas behind her music, she insisted that she would “ignore all hatred and criticism” as you must “ live for what you created and die protecting it”. She then moved on to develop and create a multi-dimensional artist through the soft jazz of Cheek by Cheek and the country-soul of Joanne. Her initial albums were about providing music that challenged the standard perceptions. Music needed a rebirth, so she went and made it happen. She had found music in a fixed and unyielding mould which was both restrictive and suffocating. Gaga’s attitude towards music reflects this individuality too.
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An iconic look from an ARTPOP performance at the 2013 MTV VMA’s (Credit: Kevin Mazur)