Spotify Presents: Little Monster Press Conference

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Gaga

five um hi everyone I'm Bonito Skinner

I'm so honored stop stop it I'm so

honored to be celebrating Mayhem with

you we're going to do a little press

conference are you ready can we do this

everybody Lady Gaga

w

that's Lady Gaga

hello hi everybody I'm so happy to to

see you thank you so much for being here

today the album wait the album the album

the album It's Gaga do you like

it you're in big trouble you're in big

trouble for that thank you yeah thank

you I like being in

trouble I'm so happy to be here um it's

kind of surreal honestly and I just was

so excited for you to hear the music and

I can't wait to hear what you're going

to ask

me welcome to the press

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conference I'm Mario hello

Mario it's been a long time see you

before um so you know our history I put

you on to a rapper ailia and my question

is did you see her tweets about uh

disease like she was praising it I

did where you know Justice for

Ratchet that

too but yeah that's my question this

really is a little monster

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press I was like how many seconds in his

party now just going to be brought up

but okay it might as well be 5:00

a.m.

yes hi Diva hi it has also been a long

time so good to see you it's good to see

you um in the way that you made the

Harley Quinn album for the character if

Mayhem had a character that you

constructed that album for who would it

be

the lady you've known for the last 20

years thank you you know I think that uh

Mayhem for me is actually this like

integration of who I am in real life and

who I am on stage and how I really

started to celebrate bringing those two

things together two things that don't

really go together actually turns out

that's the whole me and uh this album is

like it holds all that tension the

softness of like who I am on the inside

and then the intensity that I like to

bring to my music and to my stage

performances like how do I hold that in

one place and for me that's my personal

Mayhem otherwise known as exercises in

chaos here okay just someone stand up I

love you repping from the big eggs

Bron big

Bron um my one question is what's the

tea on Telephone part

two somebody get my

Kettle one sec thank you um my the tea

on teleph F part two is that there will

be but I'm not not going to give it all

away you wouldn't want that anyway what

a sneak peek a taste or

something I mean I think that you should

all call Beyonce

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together here yes silk button down or is

it velvet it's it's velvet I'm sorry

it's like fake G velvet but we like it

it's Fab thank you

mother oh I stand up sorry didn't stand

up um first of all the album mother oh

my

God

incredible um obviously we all love die

with the smile on that album an

incredible collaboration I would love to

know what is a a dream collaboration of

yours if you'd choose anyone living or

dead to collaborate with who would it be

oh wow I think it would have been John

Lennon

yeah I think like you know he had such a

a beautiful heart and um I think that's

one of my favorite things in like the

history of music is when you don't just

remember an artist for their music but

you remember them for their heart so I

think I think I would well I mean and I

have the PE sign tattoo so and that that

that this PE sign was uh right outside

72nd Street by the Dakota where he was

um sadly taken from the world but that

PE sign was there every day um Yoko

would put flowers outside and um I got

this tattoo because of of that I never

forgot what he stood for and it's what I

stand for too

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the

Hat hi gagaga hi my name is Roy hi I

love you love you um that goes without

saying um so in Abracadabra you say

don't waste time on a Feeling use your

passion no return how does it feel to

know that all the passion that you have

put into the New York City NTI has been

shaped by that passion of yours I cannot

imagine going out in Manhattan or

Brooklyn without hearing Gaga at any bar

and if I don't hear Gaga then I'm

getting out of that

bar I mean New York completely shaped

who I am as an artist and I you know I I

I didn't want to leave New York when it

was time to go to college because I felt

like I hadn't seen it all yet and I've

been talking about this a lot recently

but being on the Lower East Side um

especially with Lady

Starlight shout out an amazing

musician uh that that time was so

special because I had this

community and I was living in this like

this area basically where you know

everyone was a musician or a writer or a

photographer or a dancer or a club

promoter um a bartender like working

working in the Arts and a night life and

we all supported each other

and I would never have created my stage

performances and my Persona had that

Community not exist Ed and so it means a

lot for my music to still play in New

York and just just to see you all here

so vibrantly like that time it makes me

feel like it's still alive in in you and

um it's very alive in all of us

very it's really like a total privilege

and I and I feel like that time taught

me so much you know it's like Community

is everything and like the further away

I got from that Community the harder it

was for me to like maintain my center of

gravity but I will say I went back

recently and it was really really

special yes PS up forever Gaga love you

thank you love you

too Gaga I have a couple from Global

Bryce asks what was the first song

written for Mayhem and what was the last

song written for Mayhem

okay okay the first song written from

Mayhem was vanish into

you that was track

five I

think it is thank

you um and the last was I with a

smile so like the album like ended in a

happy place but um it started out like

in this kind it's it's interesting it's

they're kind of both apocalyptic love

songs but one is just way less

hopeful um in vanish into you I imagine

that I'm just want to

disappear into the person that I love

the most and die with a smile there's

this like sense of peace and I I really

wanted Mayhem to end like I wanted to

know that for myself too and um I really

did find that I think that like we can

all bear a kind of personal chaos in our

lives and then find um a sense of peace

and

stability and I'm really really happy

that I that I did but that I get to put

all

the all the instability into my artwork

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choose whoever you

want yes in the front row with

Le you I'm too nervous to stand so I'm

going to sit down um you have changed my

life I know that everyone says that to

you but I have never been able to say it

to you directly so I just want to say

thank you you've changed

mine

um oh my God I'm so nervous my question

sorry my question is there's a lot of

lore about your demos or unreleased

songs and rumors of it um did you

revisit any of those for Mayhem or do

you close the

chapter in the era in which you wrote it

and let

them rest you know I think at one point

I was feeling anxious and I like drudged

up some demos and I just I just listen

to them and then threw them

out I know it might sound like cold but

each one of my albums is a like piece of

music that I like conceive of from start

to finish and it's it's a moment in time

and in my life that's like very special

and whenever I say to myself um oh

there's that song like that you know I'm

going to I'm going to put that out

whenever that happens happens it just

like never really comes to fruition cuz

it never really

belongs um so yeah so yes and

no yes and no I I threw it out it was um

it was Frankenstein yes yeah okay

okay I didn't want to name names but I I

don't want to name names but it was

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him oh wow can you see in the back leard

please oh I you know you know what

you're good whatever hey you're mother

monster you do what you

want hi Gaga hi I'm Haley hi um I wanted

to ask you uh for Mayhem what was your

favorite song once it was finished and

what was your favorite song to

create

okay I think um my favorite song once it

was finished was blade of grass

I think one of my favorite things about

making that song was uh working with

um like everyone all at once on

it and it representing something so

special it's it's about when Michael

proposed to

me and um he he long before he did

propose said um we were in the backyard

and he said if I propose to you one day

what like what am I supposed to

do and I said you can just get a blade

of grass from the backyard and wrap it

around my finger and he did actually

propose to me with this these green

bands he also gave me a a my

ring um

you've seen

it

um it was a very special moment and um

I started writing that song at home with

him brought it into the studio and uh

gelstein was there and you know he was

talking to me a lot about wanting to

make a very Classic record

um and I thought that was kind of

interesting you know sometimes I'll you

know meet people or work with you know

artists and you know you just you meet

people and they say like we really want

it to be you know Gaga whatever and I

don't even like fully know what that

means and I feel like I sort of did that

to gofstein

like we need to do like a d you know I

was like kind of trying to egg him on

and he sort of looked at me like can we

just

do something

original and um and and then we we all

did and um it was really uh it was it's

special cuz every time I hear it Michael

and I when we did the bridge together uh

I said um I'll give you something and

it's no diamond ring and he said the air

that I'm

breathing when I hear that uh song it

represents this special time in my life

but also just to explain like

like my backyard and those Blades of

grass was also like the place that I saw

my friend Sonia get married and then

like later she like two months like

passed away um there was so much loss in

that backyard and my life like you know

those places in your life where you just

like it's like maybe your happy place

but also your sad place so that song um

that's like what Mayhem is to me so it's

very special song to me um and then my

favorite song when it

was to make yes yes was uh was

killer it's another record uh with the

alstein really really like uh an

industrial Funk song The Only Live

instrument on that record is the

guitar and my

voice the best instrument

okay Jessica asks how did Mayhem come

together and what inspired their return

to dark

Pop um how did Mayhem come together it

to over many months of a lot of hard

work in the studio

um and uh I how did I return to dark Pop

I think I learned a lot about not being

dark being dark while I was making the

music and there's something kind of

method about the way I make my records

and I kind of become

characters and through the music and I

still do that but I've learned how to um

not let it completely take me over and

so I would say I returned to it because

it felt safe too and maybe that's why I

didn't for a really long time cuz it

felt maybe um like too

much which was hard cuz I know I knew

really wanted that so I'm sorry but also

it was too hard but but we're okay

now bring it

on oh why don't you choose I'll choose

really gaka you yeah choose choose

choose way in the back two mustaches

love hey girl that's Lady Gaga isn't

that so I'm nervous too you see how

nervous I am to talk to you I'm so

nervous hi hi Gaga I'm Rob uh one of my

favorite errors of yours is the Tony

Bennett error

and I feel like something changed in you

and you grew and so I wonder if there

was something that he taught you that

you bring with you into the way you make

music

now uh definitely I mean any anytime um

I think that any artist is like lucky to

work with somebody is

like full of artistry is as Tony you'd

like take something strong with you and

Tony used to always say to me um stick

with quality

kid I thought that was really smart he

was kind of trying to tell me that like

no matter what anybody says or what you

feel pressured to do that you just

should make great music um and when I

went into the studio and I made Mayhem

you know I was just like so focused on

making the best possible record the best

possible music um so it definitely

stayed with me it's Tony kind of reminds

me to like drown out the noise you know

can get

noisy noise isn't music only sometimes

if I want it to

be you do it whoever you want want you

to do it go really okay yeah right here

red

hair um first of all the album is

soy it is

I forgot we're on Spotify I'm sorry I

work in drag it's a compliment I well

thank you you're welcome um so you

talked about community and through your

music I found the drag community and

I've now had the blessing of a drag

career for about going on 10 years um

thank you thank you um you're a huge

inspiration to drag artists everywhere

and whenever I listen to your music and

I'm on you know long car rides I find

myself going okay if I was going to

perform this song I would do this and it

would look like this and this is what it

would be when you have a new album out

and you find yourself staring down the

barrel of things like a tour or

performances on TV or whatever your

version of a drag number would be which

is just kind of what you do anyways um

do you ever do the same thing do you

listen to your own music and go okay

this would be fierce that would be cool

like how do you conceptualize the

numbers 100% yes and actually I like

when I'm writing songs I have the I have

total visions and when I made this album

I had all these like Gothic dreams but

while I was awake you know and there

were all these like dark just like

visions and each one of them um I'm

trying to bring to life in its own way

like Abracadabra was its own Gothic

dream and it like came to life in the

video and I I think that those Visions

are really powerful and they're

important because it's it's your

artistic intuition and it's meant to be

followed um whenever I don't follow that

I later I'm like why didn't you it's

like it's almost like I let it

go what could have been what could have

been exactly um so absolutely it's it

comes out in tour it comes out in videos

it comes out in personal style um

those dreams are really um I think

that's a thr line to some of my earlier

records too is is gothic dreams and that

was like how I found Mayhem I think is I

real I realized

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that right here

yes hi hi how you doing hi okay so I

wanted to start up by saying that I'm a

heavy supporter of you I'm 19 years old

I've been listening to you since

I was five like I remember when my mom

told me I was literally listening to

telephone with my t-shirt and her heels

on and so I wanted to say like you know

as you being like you know a big

celebrity you have a lot of haters and

you don't let that fade you you still do

you and you still make your music and

you strive in it and you do your big one

all the time so I wanted to ask

you what's your like what's the

inspirational speech you can give to the

new generation

you just got to do you and all you can

do is your best oh my God

sorry I'm so I'm Fang girl in tub I love

you I love you too I love you all all I

love you too all any of us all any of us

to me this is just what I believe like

I'm not really an authority on anything

but this is what I believe I think we're

all trying our best and that's all we

can do um and sometimes people aren't

going to like it and that's life

and that's a quote from a song I sang in

joke a

joker you know like you you have to be

willing to like die on the sword with

your work too I think like um I stand by

everything I think that I've made and

things that I don't stand by you know I

know when I'm wrong or I can like like

adjust myself and learn

like it's okay to make mistakes too I

think that we like for ourselves have to

be

like the inventor and the conductor of

our own Symphony of our life and like

it's it's my music you know so it's like

when I when it's all over it's it's when

it's all over it's yours so I wouldn't

leave yourself behind that's what I'm

saying I think it's okay to make things

for other people I do that I love making

things for you but I I I try not to

leave myself behind cuz I also don't I

wouldn't want you to leave yourself

behind so it's like the spirit of it is

um being

authentic no matter

what and also love if your love love was

there like feels like it's okay thank

you so much I love you so much I love

you

too oh my God

okay this is so fun why did we not do

this forever

ago okay the

Sparkles okay Queen of Pop

everyone okay so I'm going to abuse my

BFA a little bit here um a few years ago

you did a um interview with Lim and well

and you expressed interest in maybe

wanting to do Broadway and you know I as

a theater queen obsessed with your uh

performance on the Oscars The Sound of

Music tribute was one of my highlights

of your career um and I just want to

know like is that something that you

still would love to do um you're so

theatrically inclined and you really

bring your Artistry to life when you

perform and I just would die to have you

on Broadway um and do you have a dream

roll cuz I have a list

I had to I'm sorry I had to I have to

plant the have to plant the seat not the

l oh my God we'll start with blanch in

street

car a play first it's unexpected that's

how you get the

Tony BFA

BFA and then the Witch and into the

woods um and then Dolly and Hello

Dolly I can't believe you said flan

that's oh my God like I mean yeah okay

so first of all thanks for your list

bless you that you have one you made it

you came with it oh I was ready yeah

I've been ready I

think that I would really live to write

a

musical and I feel like that would bring

me like so so much joy to and to work

with like some amazing writers and but I

think the first thing that needs to

happen is I need to figure out what the

important story is that I want to tell

with with whoever I want to tell it with

um while I appreciate the desire for me

to win a

Tony you got I thank you I I just feel

like it's like that's I would want to

put like years of work into that and

then oh my God it shows a week I mean

they they are rock stars rock stars that

is rock star I got the contract

we'll do six it's okay okay I can't do

that then they'll say I did six they say

she allergic Patty Leone did it naita

it's okay no thank you love you thank

you so much thank you Gaga don't be mad

at me we only have time for two more

questions so we're going to going do one

from the audience and then one

online don't be

mad mhm oh now now now it's both of

you I just need to say love you since

day one my question is what did you

whisper to Ariana

Grande during the

2020 bmas during rain on me I watched

that performance all I just watched it

today at work and I was like hm what did

she

say I don't

know we're not leaving okay here's okay

here's what I will say I truly do not

recall I believe you it was probably

something very very silly because the

two we're very silly one more together

how about this I will watch it

back and I will write you an

apology you don't need an apology and I

will try to remember I'm going to ask

her she might remember it was that

really high

note but love you so

much right behind there yes Ian hi

Gaga couldn't say no to

this my name is Nick Gaga I know thank

you thank you for everyone who doesn't

know me I'm her Premier

impersonator um I mean you should be up

here absolutely

not I'm here to listen to you and the

album which is obviously a Killa thank

you um the first time that I met you was

back in 2012 when you visited Russia

with the Born This Way bowl and you

brought me on stage and then we chatted

backstage that was the first time so my

question is very simple and very short

what was your favorite tour and when are

we getting mehem

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tour okay my

favorite I don't know it's okay

you show I know but I know but there

okay but when I did the fame ball it was

the first time I ever saw

you I know that the fame ball was

probably it was it was the most

inexpensive tour it was like the

lowbudget tour it was my early tour but

that was when I like met little monsters

for the first time and

then and then the Monster Ball happened

and

everything so I I would have to say the

fame ball I think because it was like it

was such a different grind I was on a

bus I did

like you were whereare yes yes no I

lived I lived on a bus I lived on a bus

and I did I did three shows a night

three I'm serious three shows I would

open for New Kids on the

Block or the Pussycat

Dolls and then I would play three

clubs and then that turned into theater

this I probably got this wrong cuz it's

like

AER but anyway thank you for all the

tours that you've supported and come to

they've all been important to

me the art Rave was also really

special the reason the art art Rave was

so special was because that album was so

criticized Justice for art poop

always but little monsters showed up for

the art Rave as if everything was you

know a Monday morning I was there yeah

it was but that's like I mean thank you

and there will probably be something

soon can't wait to replicate all of it

thank you Gaga love you you always come

with those questions it's like really

you know it's like we've never left

guys Gaga yeah you brought up the art

Rave yes and like 10,000 people asked um

10,000 so many people ask it's actually

scary um can we talk about Art Pop act

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two now this feels like a

courtroom it is this is a trap

okay okay okay so when I make my records

there is a

reason that songs are left

off and it's because some simply are not

good enough for

you and I'm not saying that it's a never

but I am saying that I'm not going to

take all my demos that I specifically

left off the Record and just Chuck them

on an album and put the number two on

it no do it do it tonight stop it right

now Gaga you're doing it no no okay but

I'm not I'm not saying I that it's

impossible I'm just saying that it's you

know it's not going to happen like that

I just would I would just want to go in

and I feel like it would have to be um

be reactionary too to what so much

happened when we dropped that record you

know as a you know community so I feel

like we would have to kind of respond to

that yeah with the music

which is maybe some of what's on Mayhem

so I would have to I would have to I

mean that's like that was my EDM Opus

that

record so but it would have I would have

to like I'd have to get back in that

head space and complete it so

oh star get basement on

oh I mean that's that's that is an

excellent IDE

idea Gaga thank you so much thank

you and thank you for playing Mayhem and

thank you little monsters look the best

truly

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