Lady Gaga interview with Barbara Walters

Barbara Walters Lets start with a 23 year old who’s act is a head on collision between performance, and art and underwear. This year you couldn’t take your eyes off Lady Ga Ga. Barbara Walters Outrageous and outlandish and out of this world. In 2009 Lady Ga Ga outperformed everyone. She became the first artist ever to have 4 number one hits off her debut album. She has appeared on Saturday Night Live with Madonna. Lady Ga Ga Guess what Madonna? I’m totally hotter than you! Barbara Walters Won best new artist at the MTV music awards. And that night performed a shocking blood soaked version of her song Paparazzi. Barbara Walters But when I met her, the most shocking thing about her was dressed in the Channel suit, she wasn’t shocking at all. Barbara Walters Just who is Lady Ga Ga? Lady Ga Ga Well I am a song writer, I’m a performance artist, I’m a daughter, a sister. You know I don’t take my glasses off for many interviews but I will take them off for you. Barbara Walters Thank you. Lady Ga Ga But I am also an Italian girl from New York Barbara Walters Born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta she grew up a Catholic school girl in a tight knit family. Lady Ga Ga I had this dream and I really wanted to be a star ad I was almost a monster in the way that I was fearless with my ambitions Barbara Walters By eight-teen she was performing in New York night clubs and two years later she landed a record deal. Barbara Walters You had a big success with Poker Face, now there is a line that everybody found “ah” had to do with your sexuality. You know what I’m talking about. Lady Ga Ga Bluffin’ with my muffin. Barbara Walters Ya, bluffin’ with my muffin, I hope I am allowed to say it. Barbara Walters So people thought you were saying you were bi-***. Are you bi-***? Lady Ga Ga Well, I do, do, I do like women, Barbara Walters Do you like men too? Lady Ga Ga Oh, ya, I have only been in love with men, I’ve never been in love with a woman. But that’s really what the song was about. Why, when I was with my boyfriend I was I fantasying about women? Barbara Walters Have you had sex with women? Lady Ga Ga Well, my goodness, Barbara Walters You don’t have to answer me, we can leave it as a big unknown, if you want. Lady Ga Ga I’ve certainly have had *** relationships with women, oh ya. Barbara Walters Kissing women, bizarre outfits and scantly clad performances, not exactly a fathers dream for his little girl. Lady Ga Ga Its wasn’t really easy for my dad, especially in the beginning, we didn’t talk for months after he first saw me playing. My mother told me that he was afraid that I was mentally unstable. Barbara Walters But they moved on from there and she recently saw him through his life saving heart surgery Barbara Walters What’s the biggest misconception about you? Lady Ga Ga That I am artificial and attention seeking when the truth is that every bit of me is devoted to love and art and I aspire to – try to be a teacher to my young fans – who are – who are just like me – who feel just like how I felt when i was younger. Barbara Walters Which was? Lady Ga Ga I just, I felt like a freak – I guess what I am trying to say is – I wanna liberate them – I wanna free them of their – of their fears – and make them feel that they can create their own space in the world. Barbara Walters You are not at all what I expect – you are much more Thank you. Lady Ga Ga Lady Ga Ga Thank you.