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sir pball

(5,225 posts)
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 09:01 PM 5 hrs ago

Flashback: Lady Gaga answers the most offensive interview question I have ever heard, from Anderson Cooper no less.



In a later interview she said: “The reason why I didn’t answer the question is because I didn’t feel like a victim with that lie. But I thought about, like, what about a kid who is being accused of that who would think that a public figure like me would feel shame?” Gaga told Gates. “I’ve been in situations where fixing a rumor was not in the best interest of the well-being of other people. In that case, I tried to be thought-provoking and disruptive in another way. I tried to use the misinformation to create another disruptive point.”

1000% Chaotic Good, from one of the genuinely best people I can think of in recent memory to attain superstardom.

eta, the later interview: https://www.them.us/story/lady-gaga-anderson-cooper-rumor-penis-intersex-interview
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Flashback: Lady Gaga answers the most offensive interview question I have ever heard, from Anderson Cooper no less. (Original Post) sir pball 5 hrs ago OP
We love love LOVE her ZDU 5 hrs ago #1
She is the only superstar I believe is a genuinely good person. sir pball 5 hrs ago #3
That would be amazing! ZDU 4 hrs ago #5
It would be good for sure, but TBH not sure it would be as good as Dolly and her god-daughter... sir pball 4 hrs ago #6
9 to 5 ZDU 4 hrs ago #8
Oooh I like it sir pball 3 hrs ago #10
Casting call! ZDU 3 hrs ago #12
Flowers ZDU 3 hrs ago #13
And Jane Fonda ananda 3 hrs ago #11
Love it. Perfect response. Irish_Dem 5 hrs ago #2
The best "what's in your pants" response ever. nt sir pball 5 hrs ago #4
OK, now I genuinely love her RVN VET71 4 hrs ago #7
Her best National Anthem was at Biden's inauguration... sir pball 4 hrs ago #9
Maybe if women go around saying they have a penis, men will be nicer to them. ???? Irish_Dem 3 hrs ago #14
Cooper was tactless and obnoxious. She rocked it. Joinfortmill 3 hrs ago #15
The way she shook her head a little at the end... sir pball 2 hrs ago #16

sir pball

(5,225 posts)
3. She is the only superstar I believe is a genuinely good person.
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 09:11 PM
5 hrs ago

Well…her and Dolly.

They should do a collab…Jolene?

sir pball

(5,225 posts)
6. It would be good for sure, but TBH not sure it would be as good as Dolly and her god-daughter...
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 09:55 PM
4 hrs ago

Who's also an ally, Miley identifies as queer: https://people.com/music/miley-cyrus-sexuality-everything-she-has-said/

It's more that this style isn't in Gaga's wheelhouse…but it's brilliant:

sir pball

(5,225 posts)
10. Oooh I like it
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 10:36 PM
3 hrs ago

But you'd still have to replace one of the originals…maybe Jane Fonda?

RVN VET71

(3,108 posts)
7. OK, now I genuinely love her
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 10:01 PM
4 hrs ago

I'm way too old to be deeply acquainted with Ms Gaga. But she won much of my heart on that Superbowl show she put on a few years back, and again singing the O Say Can You See at, I think, Superbowl 50. (Or was it the show, first, the anthem second?)

But her retort to Cooper was the best thing ever and it sealed the deal. Such talent, such intelligence such beauty and poise. If I was 50 years younger, she'd totally break my heart.

sir pball

(5,225 posts)
9. Her best National Anthem was at Biden's inauguration...
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 10:11 PM
4 hrs ago

She's one of the only artists EVER to not lip-synch it. It's accepted as a fair practice, of course you can't screw up the Inauguration…

…but she went no-ropes.

sir pball

(5,225 posts)
16. The way she shook her head a little at the end...
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 11:28 PM
2 hrs ago

Gaga ain't got time for this shit.

There is a reason she is an icon 💙💙

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