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the bangle chairs are a little high
thank you so much for coming I’m gonna
put my purse wait I love you too hi
everyone
can you just get out of jail me too
[Laughter]
we are so excited to have you here I’m
so glad to be here I just want to say
before we even begin thank you so much
this is such an honor you know when I
was in high school all my girlfriends
wanted to get jobs here and I wanted to
be what they were searching for or
putting on this you know the side column
what comes up first and believe that’s
what my friend Mary Haley does here at
Google but so just thank you so much for
coming and I really I respect all of you
so much I know that there’s some really
amazing minds at this firm and how
competitive it is so thank you
and speaking of searches you are among
the most searched people in the world
you’ve been on the top of our 2009-2010
fastest rising searches we made a
portrait here under you taking the
millions of searches that have come in
for lady gaga
[Laughter]
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so obviously you’ve been a huge search
star also a huge YouTube star bad
romance
it has 360 million views just that one
video and ur the queen of the download
you’re actually the most downloaded
artist in history with more than 20
million singles downloaded thank you so
much thank you
all of which brings us to today so last
week you opened up a lottery or page on
your YouTube channel and you got
questions for your fans 54,000 questions
and more than a quarter million votes in
just three and a half days we have
questions that are both in text and
video I bought the top 20 questions here
we’re gonna go through those and also do
some wearing the same dress branding so
the first question I’m gonna ask how you
came in in video form it was also gonna
be my first question it comes in from a
user a certain resonance and we’ll go
ahead and roll that video question hi
Gaga well my first question that I
wanted to ask was how are you I remember
in one of your interviews you said that
was a question that interviewers never
really asked you and actually meant it
and so I wanted to ask you and actually
mean it so how are you
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well I am absolutely wonderful and a
little bit choked up because that is why
I am still here and why it works so hard
it’s because I really am very blessed to
have fans with such a beautiful spirit
and I’m sure you can see just from that
one video very much what a lot of my day
is like I do spend a lot of time on
Google looking for fan videos and
messages and I’m doing wonderful today
and I would say that the only reason I
ever mentioned that people don’t ask me
how I am genuinely is because it took a
lot of bravery to get to where we are
today a lot of people seek glasses and
shoulder pads and crazy outfits and over
the years it was very difficult to do
interviews because that’s all people
would talk about so I guess what I would
say is I’m doing wonderful now because
of how brave that all my fans have made
me so thank you for making me brave and
I hope I can make you brave
and they’re also on tour so you’re
performing tonight in Oakland and going
and the next question is about your
torso got Fame 11 from the UK asks do
you have any funny stories to tell about
things that happened backstage at the
Monster Ball there are lots of funny
things that happen backstage at the
Monster Ball I don’t like surprises and
I don’t like pranks now I’m sure you can
maybe tell that but I don’t like pranks
but I actually with me have brought all
my friends in New York City on tour with
me so I have had very few I should say
famous acts opening it’s been mostly
really underground bands and DJs that
I’ve known since I was 18 years old so
there’s a lot of backstage shenanigans
very often they they make jokes about my
diet because they know I have to say
stay fit for music videos so they’ll
leave like mountains of cheeseburgers
and stuff in my dressing room
I often wish efficient so going back to
before the cheeseburgers where you got
your stars one of your fans mister
called Maddie from California asks where
were you the first time you heard one of
your songs on the radio I was in Canada
I know never forget it but it’s a very
different I mean it’s funny it’s almost
more enjoyable now when I hear it for
the first time on the radio because at
the time in Canada I had I mean many
people don’t know this about me because
it seems as though when just dance hit
number one it was this big massive oh
she became a star overnight
to tell you the truth I have been
working so hard doing three shows at
night all day long going to radio
stations doing of a Foner’s my the
reason we’re here at Google today is
because the original campaign for my
music and my project began with online
and media based advertisements so that’s
really where I began so I remember I was
in Canada and I was really tired and I
was about to go on stage at this outdoor
performance I actually think it was in
Winnipeg which is where Maria Aragon is
from from the video and I remember I
heard it and I started crying and my
tour manager David said how does it feel
and I said it’s about damn time and so
now when it comes on it’s a little bit
more of a gracious humbling romance so
in terms of other special moments song
Adelaide from Sheffield England asks
when exactly was the moment in your
career when you realized you were going
to be an international superstar I still
don’t feel like one I know that sounds
very silly but uh even this morning I
was getting ready to tweet that I was
coming here today and I got like 50
freaking emails like don’t tweet it they
don’t want anyone to know
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[Laughter]
[Applause]
I guess they were worried for security
but you know I need to I need to market
my worker you know people easy we’re
gonna be and so everyone was saying well
they know you’re gonna be there just
don’t tell them when and I and oh my
gosh my security is always they want to
shoot me because I will literally leave
the house and go to the bodega down the
street where I live in New York and
they’re like where are ya because where
I live I have been hustling for so long
that it’s more just like your home you
know like everybody is so cool and I
guess even though I first elbow was
called the fame that was never the
ultimate goal of any of this it was
always that I just really am genuinely a
musician to my core and a lot of people
don’t know that about me but I write
every lyric and we melody I’m in there
what the producers whipping them to make
the new future of music and I that is
why I’m here I’m not here to be a
superstar but so yes and no I I never
ever there was never a day when I woke
up and said I’m a superstar I’m still
waiting for that to happen
fair enough though in terms of formative
experiences hugs and kisses
xoxo 94 yeah from Pennsylvania and you
said that in school a lot of people
bullied you and didn’t like you now that
you’re famous have any of them tried to
court on court apologize and become
friends if so what did you say to them I
wouldn’t say apologize there’s been lots
of concert ticket work and I think one
of the most awkward things that anyone
ever said to me was a oh my my how the
tables have turned
but to be honest say I don’t have that
kind of vengeful spirit in myself and I
never did it was just more that you know
I say this with so much
you know genuineness from like my heart
is it bullying well I stays with you
your whole life and it really really
never goes away and I know you using
words like super star and most googled
and billions of YouTube videos but I was
never in the winner I was always the
loser and that still stays with me and
do I want to stick it to anybody no I
just want to make music so
and well I do think I think bullying is
a really big issue right now especially
[Laughter]
and so I imagine I imagined that born
this way is a little bit about being
yourself and how to overcome believe if
you want to talk a little bit little bit
what’s so funny when I put that song out
because everybody was like oh the lyrics
are so literal
and then like yeah when you know when
you get bullied you kind of try to
there’s almost that’s like emotional
poetry that you go through in high
school oh well someday and you just kind
of try to hide from it and be the bigger
person but born this way is about saying
this is who I hate them this is who the
I am and there’s I mean the next
single Judas is like this very classic
gaga record but more importantly the
song born this way
is this like gateway drug for the album
and really trying to say and it the most
literal and honestly that I can that
when I go to the Monster Ball I see
something so fearless and so special in
my fans but I also see something afraid
something that I was something that was
unsure and I really encourage people to
look into the darkness and look into
places that you would not
I look to find uniqueness and
specialness because that’s where that
the diamonds are hiding and you actually
are a very classically trained pianist
jazz musician and one of our video
questions from Leppard scour 20 actually
is about your did you have a little bit
upward scar leopard scar 20 why don’t
you like about your training and ongoing
so we’ll go ahead and roll that video
hey Gaga this is Rudy Hernandez one of
your little monsters from Portland
Oregon my question is is I was just
wondering if you still took piano
training and vocal training to improve
your skills be great to hear you answer
my question I can’t wait to see you
again here in Portland Oregon and
paws-up
[Laughter]
[Applause]
yes I actually vocally rehearse every
single day I do a 30 minute warm-up
every single day it’s been the same
vocal warmup that I’ve been doing since
I was 11 years old I’ve been I’ve had my
mentor Don Lawrence has been my voice
teacher since I was 11 so it’s over ten
years now and in terms of piano piano is
funny I mean it’s kind of this thing
that always stays with you I don’t know
if there’s any of peanuts in this room
but if you don’t practice for a little
while and then you focus on it you kind
of get your chops back pretty quickly so
I what I do mostly for a piano is I try
to find time when I’m in New York City
or on the road to do shows and have jam
sessions with my band just for fun so
whenever you see those really horrid
photos of me looking drunk on a piano
bar I’m actually rehearsing
that’s just how I like to rehearse I
like to have a couple where teenies and
play some Cole Porter and
it’s just the way I like to learn stay
in school
[Laughter]
[Applause]
so changing changing gears a little bit
I actually have a confession to make
so we’ll pull a picture up here I was
new for Halloween in 2009 you were I
don’t want to see it I wish me and you
can see here it’s so fabulous on my
hands so I guess transitioning to your
style has inspired so many people now
what is it enough is it because it’s a
blonde in New York Monde and I can find
stars on my face and the long I like the
other night there’s poker chips on my
hat from poker face oh okay
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so so many people beyond just me
millions of people have been inspired by
your style and one of those fans would
like to know is sir gaga official start
Gaga would like to know with all the
clothes you have how do you decide what
to wear every day and what happens to
the Garland’s after they’re worn how do
I decide what to wear it’s actually not
quite as complicated as somebody might
imagine I sometimes I mean I’ll plan
months ahead for certain things that I
for example at the Grammys the host
Angeline vessel although it’s become
known as the egg he wants me to remind
you it’s the vessel that was that took
months and months of conception and I
wanted to do a whole performance art
piece that began on the red carpet and
ended after the performance so certain
things take a while and yes I do view
the vessel as a fashion piece but like
today I wore the same black dress
because I wanted the fans to recognize
me a certain way when I enter the Google
building and also on the topic of style
you have the tattoos and one of other
fans noticed that they’re all on your
left side
so Taylor monster 15 would like to know
why are all of your tattoos on the left
side of your body it was actually pair
of my father’s request so tell us more
ask that I remain on one side slightly
normal
[Laughter]
so I only have white tattoos on my left
side I don’t I’m also a lefty so it’s
funny my father when I was a kid he used
to try to change my hands when I was
little and the doctor would be like she
was born that way yeah so I think maybe
some of it just from a neurological
dammit my bait because I’m creatively
driven by my left side maybe that’s why
but he’s at he’s asked that I don’t get
any more on the right side but whatever
reason I did I think he sees this is my
like Marilyn Monroe sign and this is my
Iggy Pop side yeah
so beyond your style and clothes tattoos
you also to show tremendous style in
your videos and thus tribbey do would
like to know how do you come up with
your video ideas every time I watch that
I’m stunned by the creativity and
meaning I love you lady gaga tribbey do
your little monster scooby-doo
scooby-doo Jimmy dude it’s just good old
faithful I’m a creative person and I
just always at some point the idea comes
to me and the most important thing I
think with creativity is that you honor
your creativity and that you don’t ever
ignore it or go against what that
creative image is telling you because of
what society is projecting on you I
remember when I called Troy Carter my
manager from Amsterdam and I was like I
want to be on a government-owned alien
territory in space and I want to be
giving birth to my own head I was always
asked about the climate important I
guess you hear them
and it’s like why and I said because I
see myself and my fans and I feel that
they give birth to me and I gave birth
to them and the egg symbolized the race
of the future which bears no prejudice
so you know I have my own and I’m like
then I was showing him Francis Bacon
photos which is like all this like you
know bleeding imagery and he’s like I
don’t get it you know we worked with
Nick night on that video if you think
I’m bad Nick nice oh he is so smart
I’m just like Nick I love you but I
don’t understand what you’re saying but
I just really always like just the other
night last night I was laying in bed and
I had this idea for an outfit and I just
made myself get up and I sketched it
well fast when I went back to sleep I
think it’s when you say oh I’m too tired
let me just go to bed that’s when the
creativity stops stops coming it’s when
you you know if God calls you pick up
the damn phone so I’m on the topic of
videos you’ve always been this huge
YouTube star
I didn’t ask and so it was dakka dakka
the USA from Kentucky what’s your
favorite YouTube video that isn’t yours
my favorite YouTube video that I’m so
embarrassing I love it so much I love
the boy but when he comes home from the
dentist
[Applause]
I can’t think if I always say whenever
I’m really tired before I so I always go
in this real life
cuz I went up for like 30 hours straight
interviews and then I’ll hear that you
know did it that that and the show
starts and I just go I love that video
though there’s also so many fan remixes
and remakes of your songs on YouTube I
was learning if you have a favorite
there I know there’s Maria the young
girl I think really embodies a lot of
what is interesting with technology
Maria it’s just so special and you know
she’s just like tinya
she’s 10 years old but even 10 year-olds
today I know how to work a webcam and
upload a YouTube video you know and I
think that’s that is why this for myself
my campaign and with my album has been
so successful is because I too am a
child of the dot-com era my father ran
an Internet company when I was really
young so I was listening to lots of
Technology talk jargon over the dinner
table
not understanding till much later what
it all meant but she’s beautiful she’s
very young and she has a voice in the
world and she latched on to a song that
was very risky for me to put out so soon
and my career but if I could just touch
maybe 10 10 year olds in the world and
every single continent maybe
I could make a difference then we have
the Maria video I think would be good
for people that just yet
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she said
[Music]
[Music]
[Applause]
tasted so I mean you know and that’s
it’s so what I would like to speak about
is the way that we experience music now
we experienced the music from the
internet but it has really great effects
and also has really negative effects the
great effect is Maria the negative
effect is you sort of quite
mathematically and put your songs and
your soul into a computer and out spits
out charts so like the fan experience no
uhm digitally is they buy the song and
then they get into chat rooms and they
watch the song climate chart but
somebody like Maria has no pretension
she’s wildly innocent and beautiful and
she only cares about the music and the
lyrics so what I’m working on doing now
is creating a fan experience with the
release of Born This Way that takes them
a bit away from the computer in terms of
the actual purchase of the song I want
to encourage the fans to experience the
music and the lyrics we moved that sort
of behind the computer banter when I was
a kid I was standing outside of
anciently
praying that I saw can’t Billy Joe’s
fingernail in the window why don’t you
get my Green Day CD science I was hoping
that I would see Tom York when Radiohead
came in you know that is what I want to
recreate for my fans we’ve done it with
the Monster Ball and now I want to do it
with album retail and you’ve also shown
a lot of things from behind the scenes
so you had Dogon vision on YouTube and
Gaga info from Twitter we’d like to know
please could you bring that Gaga vision
we miss it so much
yes we love you and we’re so proud I
love Gaga vision that was the day
weren’t these little films that I was
doing back when I first began touring
but I actually just got so busy that it
was a really difficult time a camera in
my face you will never see me do reality
television
it will never don’t even ask it whatever
happens it will never happen it’s just
um I’m not that kind of person
uh my whole life is a performance piece
so I don’t need to have my picture taken
to feel that I’m in a moment of art so
but the good news is as I’m planning the
Born This Way Ball I have been speaking
at Terry Richardson who’s this really
amazing photographer he wanted to film
some of the making of process of what
we’re doing so I’m hoping we can
resurrect the Gaga Vision videos for the
creation of the new tour so you guys can
creatively be more connected to how I
make things I’d be great so since we’re
at Google this question is apropos these
run from the Chicago Illinois asks have
you ever googled yourself just to see
what came up yes of course I have
when was the last time the last time
work probably uh well last night I
wanted to know if people knew and I was
gonna be here because everybody was
telling me not to tweet so I googled and
I didn’t say enough come up so I said
well I’m tweeting I solved that problem
well you’ve had 443 million hits on
Google for Lady gaga which basically
means you don’t have very much anonymity
left at all and I guess Pookie
one-two-three-four from Colorado asks
are there ever moments the paparazzi
doesn’t recognize you I have to be
really honest people that stay
that they can’t escape the paparazzi are
full of so let me just be the
artist to throw everybody under the bus
and my head of security is standing over
there nodding I don’t spend money on
houses and lots of cars but I do spend
money on security and they never find me
so no it doesn’t run my life because
getting my photo taken is not what makes
me feel like an artist it’s being in
front of 50,000 fans screaming I was
born this way baby
that’s why I’m here so we have another
video question from peach dog one two
two four names are great job
peach dog who wants to know a little bit
about regrets hey mother monster my name
is Matt and my question for you is that
in the song born this way the original
released which is awesome do you have
the lyrics that don’t hide yourself and
regret I was wondering if you have ever
regretted anything or if there’s
something your life that you’d ever want
to change in the past um thank you
forget my question I really love you
thank you for making music
bye is there anything that I regret from
my past um well I’ll begin with the
lyric and I will say don’t hide yourself
in regret is don’t perpetuate a
negativity in your life don’t obsess
about the things that you didn’t do or
the things that you may have not done
your best obsess about the future obsess
about today think endlessly about how
you can pull the inner queen or king out
of yourself and let that let that
superstar shine I don’t believe that
fame is something that is obtainable I
believe that it’s it’s inside of you
it’s not something that you can touch it
tangible which is why when I speak about
the paparazzi and things it’s very
meaningless to me there are days that
when I wake up and I don’t feel like a
superstar and it’s those regrets you see
did you ever wake up and feel like a
superstar the answer’s no the regret of
some days me waking up and not feeling
brave enough those are the regrets I
have because I have so many things to be
grateful for so many fans looking up to
me and the days when I feel insecure
those aren’t my regrets I want to always
be secure and strong for you because
look at how sweet they are there there’s
so so genuine and they’re listening to
the lyrics you know and so I guess what
I would say is don’t don’t obsess over
what you’ve done wrong always look into
yourself for the answer and to be the
best to you that you can be in the
future and in the same in the same vein
we have a Christian Australia what’s the
greatest piece of advice you’ve ever
received the greatest piece over my
advice I’ve never received it is if you
don’t have any shadows you’re not
standing in the light I say that to
myself every day every single day say
that because I’m not a squeaky-clean
person you know so there’s nothing about
my music or the monsterball or my fans
that we’re not squeaky clean well you
know people always say to me who’s the
really you when in reality pretty much
an open book about my life what you’re
asking me about is magic
and if you are magical you always have
shadows yeah you’re in the light you
must cast a shadow so let’s talk a
little bit about the new album it’s out
on May 23rd born this wedding
the the first thing all the title
singles already out it’s been number one
for five weeks already and we have a
video question about the new album so
we’ll go to jazz bridge return here on
video hahaha
if you could describe the bonus for
album in just three words what would
they be in three words see how smart my
fans are I would call it
I went well I would I went DZ it is one
word I supposed that avant-garde is one
word but I would call it avant-garde
techno rock it’s a lot of it’s a lot of
rock influences on the album but not in
a this is a rock music record kind of
way it actually is quite steadfast and
that it is an exploration and electronic
music and in techno Sonics but I have
sort of created a genre of metal dance
techno pop music with a lot of rock
anthemic choruses because that is the
music that I love I’m actually really
obsessed with Bruce Springsteen
um my father used to play Bruce
Springsteen records for me all the time
when I was a kid and he was blue collar
America and in a way I guess I related
to Bruce because I watched my father a
blue-collar American citizen relate to
Bruce and I think that in a social way
my fans feel blue-collar they feel like
they’re the underdogs that will someday
be the winners and I took the influence
of Bruce on my father in my life to
create this album and yeah lots of
really big almost like being Def Leppard
style melodies and that in the choruses
but it’s electronic dance music it’s
very hard and very ng and I’m very
excited for you to hear it we’re all
looking forward to
one of the things that you face as an
artist is censorship so Shane our z66
from Colorado asks how do you feel about
Malaysian radio stations editing out
your imperative no matter gay straight
or bi lesbian transgendered life line
from war in this way well obviously I
disagree with that otherwise I wouldn’t
have specifically put those words and a
song that I knew would be put on top for
any radio what I would say is for all
the young people in Malaysia that what
those words to be played on the radio it
is your job when it is your duty as
young people to have your voices heard
you must do everything that you can if
you want to be liberated by your society
you must call you must not stop you must
protest peace away no but I don’t
believe in violence I don’t believe in
negativity there’s no reason to be
derogatory you just have to keep
fighting for what you believe in
I mean to be quite honest honesty and
the truth is always what will set you
for you I can’t tell you how many times
I get phone calls from TV stations and
Troy will call me and he’ll say they
want you to edit out this section of the
video or and I said we’ll just tell them
I’m not doing it and if they don’t want
to play it they don’t have to if the
artist is constantly molding ourselves
and changing and bridging of bridging
what we do for the Machine then the
artist becomes part of the Machine I
don’t want to be part of the Machine
I want the machine to be part of me the
next question
the next question is actually composite
and we’ll open up taxi to Googler
questions do you want to move to the
microphones in just a minute
there was 643 fan questions asked about
the next single that comes off of Born
This Way Judas and so I’m wondering you
can tell us a little bit about the
inspiration for it the video you have
planned I’m very excited actually I can
exclusively rosio here at Google that I
will be making my directorial debut with
Laurieann Gibson directing this video
with her ourselves
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it’s no surprise I’m sure to many of you
that Judas is a man of the biblical
census so expect to see some symbolism
in this video but the song is about some
of the words in the song I can reveal
here are when he comes to me I am ready
I’ll wash his feet with my hair if he
needs forgive him when his tongue lights
through his brain even after three times
he betrays me I’ll bring him down I came
with no crowns so the song is about
honoring your darkness in order to bring
yourself into the light it’s kind of
what I just mentioned to you but if
you’re standing in the light you cast a
shadow I have been haunted by my past
for a very very long time and actually
that’s a recurring theme on the album
and has a lot to do I think with
identity and being able to be proud and
saying I was born this way but I was
haunted by being able to go back to New
York being able to go back to my past
being able to understand why I made
certain decisions that instead of
regretting them I chose to embrace and
understand why I made those choices and
what the song dude is about is about is
you have to look into what’s haunting
you and you need to learn to forgive
yourself in order to move on we all look
forward to it and it’s really fun to
dance to okay and it sounds like it
could be as a pop priest record it’s
very fun so we’ll go ahead and take some
questions from the audience hi so I
understand that the fame brought you a
lot of great things like your monsters
and everything that’s happening to you
but is there something that the fame
brought you that you could do without
and I could do with that um I don’t know
no I would say no I don’t want to focus
on anything negative like that it’s
there’s always whether you’re famous or
you’re not there’s always things in your
life that
you could do without so I don’t think
anything is particularly fame related
I’ve got a really good family and if
anything I’m grateful because my family
and I wrestled fame to the ground and
we’re stronger than ever so no hi Lady
Gaga thanks so much for coming you look
so cute a little background on this um I
took the inspiration from the Kermit the
Frog one yeah and I added a little bit
of myself in it there bunny so for
Easter and I thought it’d be a hop in
you know attire like that I liked it too
I am funny sorry what was that
that’s funny okay yeah so I mean I
thought I’d had to you know dress up
cheese I I definitely wanted to speak to
you and give you a hug or whatever but I
think I think Google as a whole and
YouTube in the world is very excited for
you to come here and be so candid so on
that note I’m just bleeped you know
really curious when you’re not in the
spotlight and when you’re home you know
in New York with your family um what are
what are some of the things you enjoy
doing what do you wear what are your
pajamas look like well I’m actually I’m
very into yoga so I do a lot of that
really cry sounds like yoga Ruth Terra
vikrum vikrum at Google I was like it’s
inching my way but I’m actually really
into crazy hot yoga and hundred-degree
rooms it’s the only thing that I can I
feel can be really bad at and nobody
knows so I sort of take comfort and the
journey of becoming good at Yoga because
if I suck at it one day nobody sees it
and it’s just me know that’s I guess
that’s the thing about Fame that that is
is difficult is if you screw up
Google there so I love I love yoga I
love cooking I’m a really good cook
actually in which me up some of you
might not know about me I love spending
time with my mom
I love getting really drunk with my
friends at the same bars that we used to
go to and listening to a CD see records
and what else don’t what do I wear I
mean to tell you the truth it’s very
funny because my father quite often is
like can’t you just put on this or but
have you been to any of my shows out of
curiosity no not yet you haven’t yet
well I would say anyone that’s seen me
live would tell you that whether I’m
dressed like this or wearing a t-shirt I
look the same and I know that that might
sound silly but it’s not this that you
are responding to anymore and I keep
talking about this because my fans are
actually quite blind to my clothes now
because they’re so used to it that they
don’t see it anymore they just see me
and I’m excited about that because I
think with this new album people will
wonder less and less what I look like
when I’m brushing my teeth but the truth
is I look exactly like I look right now
I just you know probably have a Motley
Crue t-shirt on and there’s a really
good-looking guy away then
well I think I think my managers in the
room well anytime you want to come
cooking or you know hanging out with my
mom and your mom you’re more than
welcome why you ask do you want to come
over
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let’s meet you so cute
that’s a lot of bunnies sixteen so we’ll
take a few more questions here hi my
name is Logan thank you so much for
coming I love that you’re here
hi I’m wondering have you seen the video
called Friday by Rebecca Black No so
this is the latest internet sensation
and it’s this thirteen-year-old girl who
made a video and now it’s online and
everyone’s making fun of it and just
kind of criticizing it as really cheesy
which it is but she’s only 13 and my
reaction to it or I’m curious about your
reaction to YouTube as a forum for new
artists and for some of the criticism
that maybe young people get for going
online and then on the other side
there’s the Justin Bieber’s who are
becoming famous through YouTube so what
do you think about the future of fame
through YouTube I think it’s fantastic
I say Rebecca black is a genius and
anyone that’s telling her she’s cheating
is full of hi God thanks for coming
[Laughter]
I don’t want to laugh because I’m quite
certain that sometimes I want to I enter
the room that’s the power people feel
but it’s really good it kind of looks
like the Chrysler Building
thank you I used to be an architect how
would you go to school Carnegie Mellon
great I’m happy to I lend this to you
for your concert tonight it looks an
awful lot like one of them won’t go
quite well actually it’s all yours
thank you that might sir my serious
question though is we’ve talked about
Gaga Gaga that and the fame and the fame
monster but what about Stephanie like
how do you stay
Stephanie through this question who are
you looking for I’m right here
Stephanie is also Who I am Gaga’s just
my nickname it’s like when you’re a kid
and your mom calls you skip or
instead of calling you you know Johnny
she calls you Jonathan when you’re when
you’re bad it’s the same thing for me
it’s just it was a way for me to release
so many years of being told no by this
business and it’s actually funny because
I didn’t I didn’t shop around to record
labels until I was calling myself gaga
until people in New York knew me as Lady
gaga
but in high school and making music and
choir and being casted and the boys play
and all the girls hated me so I always
got the lead hated me for that I was at
the boys school so if you got the lead
you’re always at the boys school I’m for
school so I guess what I’m trying to say
is is I really make absolutely no
separation between Stephanie and Gaga
it is the absolute same person it’s just
it was a way for me in my life and it’s
a gift I wish I could give to anyone as
if you went through hard times when you
were a kid or when you were in college
or maybe you had a job that really you
know they fired you and you were your
you know poor for two years and then you
got me I wish I could give that gift to
anyone of being able to say I rebuke all
of that negativity and I am now a new
person and I’m going to be the queen I
know that I can be and that’s really all
that ever that it is thanks well I know
you have a meticulously planned wardrobe
but just in case I’m gonna leave this
for you thank you very much we will take
these leave all fashion accessories
thank you
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I can’t it’s not balancing okay one more
question thank you very much for coming
so much of you music is as you kind of
label the avant-garde techno rock and
kind of lends itself towards this really
epic sound and then you you take those
songs and you make these amazing
acoustic versions that that are just
this polar opposite in terms of the
music out and I was just wondering if
you talked about the process of building
those two songs out of the same lyrics
same notes same chords and is there one
that you prefer like performing um well
I guess what I would say is a lot of
times in my songwriting process
I won’t begin at the piano so I will
actually write one of the songs on the
album that is truly one of my favorites
it’s called the edge of glory and it’s
kind of a sad story sorry to be a downer
but my grandpa died about five months
ago and my dad and I were going to say
goodbye to him at the hospice and I got
out a big thing of Agave Tequila my dad
sat next to me at the piano and we just
started doing shots back and forth and I
wrote the edge of glory on the piano my
dad and I cried and the songs about your
last moment on earth the moment of truth
the edge of glory is that the moment
right before you leave there so that
song can be played on the piano but it’s
actually set to this giant huge techno
rock Springsteen s dance suite I
actually had Clarence Clemons from the E
Street Band come in and play saxophone
on it it’s okay hey beautiful and I do
that with a lot of my songs but it’s
it’s funny it’s so interesting to hear
your perspective on it because that is
really what I wanted to do with this
album as I wanted to show
my abilities as a songwriter so a lot of
the songs are like that there’s really
no song on the album that can’t be
played at a piano acoustically it’s all
about the songwriting it’s all about my
abilities as a writer from a melodic
perspective and I co-produced every song
in the album so sonically it just it
just smells like me if that makes any
sense so I guess what I’m trying to say
is in my opinion all good music can be
played at a piano and still sound like a
hit hi I’m Chris hello why do I feel
like some of you were coaxed into doing
this well because we were promised we
would get a prize if he’s the best
dressed
oh so you’re 200 bucks up there what
loofah loofah oh sorry I can’t I take my
glass for that yeah take a really fancy
shower then after I’ve got my critics
I’m nervous but uh um but I wanted to
ask you after hearing you talk you have
a very positive look on life so I was
just kind of wondering where that came
from what happened in your life to shape
that because not many people are like
you and can always say rebuke things
that are bad and you know always looks
as good well my mom has a really good
mom she really went there for me and she
always taught me to be very gracious my
mother is the kind of person that won’t
give you the shirt off her back if
you’re cold and that is how I was raised
but I guess I would also stay in and I
don’t know if people in this room are
religious and I always feel kind of
awkward talking about religion because I
don’t want people to feel like I’m
impressing any kind of belief on you
but I do see I do believe that God comes
in many forms and I don’t believe that
we know what he looks like that’s
something that I actually address and in
Judas but I see God in my fans so every
night when I look into the audience I
feel like I see this this force of
beauty and and that I don’t know it’s
just faith so I see faith and my fans
and that’s what keeps me strong as them
as I really when I go out there that you
know I don’t I don’t go out after the
show and get plastered and do a ton of
drugs I when I go on stage the next day
I can barely sing you know I’m very very
disciplined and hard-working
and I am a as a as a blonde woman with
tits and ass very proud of my
accomplishments as a musician and I say
that with with lots of strength people
call it arrogance but I I do believe
that women in pop music have a very bad
rap and I think people have learned to
it expect very little from all of us and
it’s very unfair it’s a very prejudiced
so me and my tits and my ass and my
brain I’m very proud to be here today
and I and I truly say I truly think God
in my fans they are they are they are
who I worship is what I’m trying to say
and I believe what you worship in your
life doesn’t have to be religion or an
institution or a certain kind of God
it’s just
you must worship your your faith but I
perhaps I’m speaking in my own Gaga
tones but I worship my fans is what I’m
trying to say they are they are my
religion one thing I’m sorry to ask but
can I have a hug too just like one of my
dreams I love your music I love you okay
yeah go ahead oh oh I thought he was
asking I look insane oh so much
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but that’s how that towel wrapping is
given to me like New Jerusalem to them
so if I’m not mistaken
next Monday March 28th is your 25th
birthday yeah so happy birthday thank
you and you can tell me I just keep
telling people I’m 25 we won’t tell
goodnight but we have a surprise for you
but you can tell there’s many people in
the audience who are dressed up in their
best Gaga garb and we’ve handed cards to
a few people so one of the people who
came and got her card before the show
come up and we’re gonna have you I’ll
seek the best Lady Gaga oh well I can’t
really do want to cover the come on here
hi oh my gosh all of you that’s really
good
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thank you thank you hi hello this is
interesting it’s very it’s on the wrong
thank you for 60 that’s heavy
nice boots hi beautiful hi you know
what’s so funny when I was on my first
record label oh you can go back I’m
saying when I was on my first record
label Def Jam not to bring up it’s our
story but I sent all of the employees at
Def Jam disco balls that I panned
painted myself like that except I wrote
gaga all of them and I sent them huge
bags of candy from the dollar store what
these disco balls it had my name on it
and I got dropped like a month later but
but I just remember someone called and
told me that everybody in the office was
like who sent all these these gummy
worms and disco bugs let’s sing Kaka
I hand-painted those suckers I mean one
of them okay well this is very good and
this is very good because it looks
almost exactly like my Thierry Mugler
inspired outfit from the fame ball a
very first Fame ball this is amazing
because it looks just like the telephone
video however I have to say that the
mark of a true Gaga fan is always
thinking forward and that is you
it’s very detailed it’s very detailed
the ponytail looks perfect the the
shoulder pads on that you did a nice job
with the duct tape and that is exactly
what it took me an hour to get my makeup
done for that and it’s 15 minutes see
that’s a real glamour girl well
congratulations and okay Gaga is
performing in Oakland tonight so all of
our co-chair competition people here on
stage will all get a pair of tickets to
the concert tonight you can have the
riding fat you look really really
wonderful it’s really not that actually
that setup was um just to explain in
love it um
Rico who is in the video with me he has
the same he’s tattooed that way yeah
that’s really he’s really tattooed that
way and I asked him you know we won the
set I was said why didn’t why did you
get it’s kind of like a weird funny
question but why did you touch it
yourself this way and he sent bazooka
gum I said what do you mean bazooka gum
and he said well you know how Pacifica
cone comes with the stick on tattoos he
said I really liked them and I love to
punk rock when I was a kid so I just
used to listen to punk rock and put
bazooka gum tattoos on so I tattooed my
face like this so that’s why we’ve we’ve
chew bubblegum in the video but I wanted
to tribute Rico because um I believe
what this look represented to me was
that I will not allow society or critics
dictate my beauty I I tell you what I
believe is beautiful about me every
person defines their own beauty for
themselves so that’s what that makeup
represents to me is that Rico was
defining who he is in an artistic way
and not relying on society to tell him
what makes him valuable
so you look fabulous just coming to the
show yes they’re all coming to the show
right you’re gonna fit right in and they
are not the only people who are coming
so we have 40 more of these cards taped
to the bottom of seats so if you look
under your seat you get a pair of
tickets of the Gaga concert there there
are instructions on the back as to how
did it go cute and just so no one leaves
empty-handed
we actually have special edition Google
goes gaga
t-shirts they are in Benghazi in
building 43 starting at 3 o’clock so
they’re there now so you can stop by
there on your way on your way leaving I
just want to say a big thank you thank
you to the house of gaga
have been an unbelievable number of
people here at Google who have helped
out but mainly Andrew Schulte who was
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some of you don’t know this but Andrew
was an RA at third North where I went to
college and he wrote me up for drinking
in my room
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