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Lady Gaga strapped a dildo to her vagina for a Q magazine photo shoot. This is a statement about “the most humorous rumour of her life” and her femininity, and to make fun of “the hilarity of the media”. Going too far as perceived by many, Gaga is not only a fame monster sculpted in designer clothescreations. She has a vision that is artistic and that speaks to (young) people who’re little monsters. She believes money ruined this world and she used to read tabloids with a scholarly approach. The fact that she was a prodigiously talented child, studied at a Catholic high school and led a disciplined high school life (I believe she’s still very disciplined, considering her professional and constant better-than-ever output), and enrolled early in a prestigious arts school is perhaps often missed. While her talent lies in both her music and her image, the two are in fact one and the latter shouldn’t have overshadowed the former as she always answers. She’s gained enormous attention worldwide, but she deserves yet more positive attention. Please try to listen to her more and criticise her less. Here are some of the things she told Q.

On the MTV Awards fame kills spectacle,  she explained the metaphor and the reason for denying Interscope something beautiful:

The world is looking for a story about me being fallen. So maybe if I just show them what it looks like, they’ll stop looking. Here’s what I look like while I’m dying. And I bled to death surrounded by flashing lights and was hung like a martyr in all of my blonde glory. Like many others before. Princess Diana. Marilyn Monroe. Anna Nicole Smith. …the last thing any young person needs is another photograph of a woman rubbing her glistening tits, enjoying life, because that’s not how we fucking feel.

As a teenage art student Gaga wrote about the death of God (no, she doesn’t hate God, she always thanks God and her fans) in relation to shock art and analysed Spencer Tunick:

Why are people so offended by the naked, organic person and not offended by the evil that’s surrounding them in Times Square? The commercialism, corporate America… And I talked about how the apocalypse has already happened. Racism, gay-bashing, wars, the Presidents we’ve been through. [Whispering] We’re already in it. So now we must be joyful and rebuild.

I must admit I myself am a little surprised to read Gaga commenting on money and commercialism, as she’s always so branded and Warhol-reincarnated (well, technically it wasn’t possible…Gaga’s an ’86 kid), and extravagantly glamorous. This is exactly the type of misconception around her. She truly devotes herself to art:

But you don’t have to know anything about art to love it. And if you’re reading this article and think Lady Gaga is wildly pretentious and think the cat’s miaow, that’s not the case. I just take what I do seriously. My art is liberation. Things confine us as human beings. As a society. And I want to free you. I want to free you.

Now, are we really so incapable of accepting this little girl from New York?

If we need any religion at all, this would be our religion.

If we need any science to explain love, this would be our evolution.

Tilda talked about androgyny:

Q. You’ve played a number of men in your career, most notably in “Orlando.” What does the idea of androgyny bring to your performance of Gabriel?

A. The director, Francis Lawrence, did the sensible thing by just presenting the idea to me and then letting it percolate through my brain. It felt like a little bit of a dangerous idea in a big Hollywood movie, and then I ended up thinking it was a good idea, because an angel is not immutable but fluid, and so his identity is amorphous and not strictly human.

Q. How much do you think your looks have to do with this protean quality you have?

A. Quite a lot. The other day, I was going through the airport security and I was searched by a male security guard. I’m very often referred to as “Sir” in elevators and such. I think it has to do with being this tall and not wearing much lipstick. I think people just can’t imagine I’d be a woman if I look like this.

Q. Why does it interest you as a performer to play men?

A. I’m basically interested in identity, and I still find fascinating the question, “How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people’s expectations for our identity?” This is not only true in stories like “Orlando,” who spends the first half of his life as a boy and then becomes a woman, and, even though he’s the same soul, there are all these different projections on him because he’s now a woman. But even in a story about a suburban mother, like “The Deep End,” you have an idea of yourself based on living your life, and then you feel something else coming up in you. Like you’re quite used to being a soccer mom living in Lake Tahoe with a husband who is mostly absent, and then maybe you fall in love with a gambler. The moment when one realizes one might not be fixed, that one’s story might not be over. This is the transformation we all go through all the time.

This blog is not promoting homosexuality but aesthetics of genders and open-mindedness on sexuality.

When Ellen was on the cover of W:

W: We initially asked you to wear a dress. You considered it, but in the end you were passionate about not doing it.

ED: I know what this magazine is. It’s a beauty magazine; it’s a fashion magazine. For me to even be considered and asked to be on the cover—it’s huge…. When I [first] thought about doing it, I thought, Okay, I’ll be open to this. I’ll play dress-up. Then I thought, I just don’t feel comfortable in it. I don’t want to apologize for who I am.

W: Do you enjoy fashion?

ED: I usually wear Jil Sander, or I wear Marc Jacobs, or I wear Viktor & Rolf…. I love Raf Simons, but I didn’t know he was even doing the [Jil Sander] collection. I like Neil Barrett. I love clothes, so when I wear clothes, they’re usually somebody’s. You know, I’m not wearing Kmart.

W: Do you think that’s the perception?

ED: Whenever Portia and I are on the red carpet, they’re yelling out for her to tell them what she’s wearing. But nobody cares [about what I'm wearing] because I have a suit on, even if it’s a Gucci suit. That to me is frustrating, because I put effort into getting ready too. But I guess it’s not as important, and I’m not as dressed up somehow. I also feel myself more of a person than a gender. When people show me clothing that seems very, very feminine, it’s hard for me to embrace that, because it just doesn’t feel like me…. It was fun [for the shoot] having somebody do that to my hair, and do that makeup. But would I want to do that every single day? No.