lol. I always forget to charge my iPod at work, so I end up streaming Youtube from my phone (I am a nebulizer technician... I just make tiny little machine parts under a microscope, it is very dull without something to listen to), and eventually the algos decided to give me nothing but miniature art movies people made for their music videos. And that was distracting, but I discovered they were actually... good.
Then I ended up watching Lady Gaga's documentary on Netflix and reading her biographies because I was intrigued by her funny dramatization of her 20s in her Marry the Night piece. Because that's the sort of person I am now. This is what Covid has done to us all.
In honesty, though, she is a fascinating person in her way - very naive Italian-American/French-Canadian Catholic schoolgirl piano prodigy goes to uber arts school in New York, is fed into New York fame machine and partially digested, stint in crazytown for depression, has fibromyalgia... still manages to dance and do what she does. Smokes like a chimney still, but I see a little Buffy Sainte-Marie in her musical fluidity and experimentation, I was surprised to find I admired her. The kids called her "the Germ" when she was growing up, and then producers kept saying they doubted her star potential because of her "physique" (so she developed an eating disorder) - which is baffling, since she appears entirely nude a lot in that video and her documentary, and I looked closely, I could not find anything wrong with it, maybe others can find it for me, who knows. But she hit it big right out of the gate as soon as a producer gave her her head and let her be the extremely weird person she is instead of a pop princess.
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Then I ended up watching Lady Gaga's documentary on Netflix and reading her biographies because I was intrigued by her funny dramatization of her 20s in her Marry the Night piece. Because that's the sort of person I am now. This is what Covid has done to us all.
In honesty, though, she is a fascinating person in her way - very naive Italian-American/French-Canadian Catholic schoolgirl piano prodigy goes to uber arts school in New York, is fed into New York fame machine and partially digested, stint in crazytown for depression, has fibromyalgia... still manages to dance and do what she does. Smokes like a chimney still, but I see a little Buffy Sainte-Marie in her musical fluidity and experimentation, I was surprised to find I admired her. The kids called her "the Germ" when she was growing up, and then producers kept saying they doubted her star potential because of her "physique" (so she developed an eating disorder) - which is baffling, since she appears entirely nude a lot in that video and her documentary, and I looked closely, I could not find anything wrong with it, maybe others can find it for me, who knows. But she hit it big right out of the gate as soon as a producer gave her her head and let her be the extremely weird person she is instead of a pop princess.