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As I’ve mentioned before, I don’t really have a problem with Lady Gaga. I don’t think she’s as original or as groundbreaking as she thinks she is, but generally speaking, she seems pretty harmless. But one thing I do find funny is how everyone basically goes along with the idea that she’s “23 years old”. Really? I mean, she honestly might be 23, if she’s lived a really, really, rough life, but the girl looks like mid to late thirties to me. Now Lady Gaga is opening up about her rough life, though - and we may have an answer for why she looks older than the Grande Dame of Gristle herself, Madonna.
According to Gaga, she “did bags and bags of cocaine” back in the day (“the day” = 2005). Gaga says that all she would so is sit around doing coke and listening to The Cure. It sounds a lot like me when I was thirteen, minus the endless coke supply. Put in “bags and bags of chips” and that was my teenage experience circa 1992:
Lady GaGa has revealed her tough no-nonsense father save her from drug addiction. GaGa admitted spending long periods snorting cocaine alone in her cramped New York apartment, playing music by The Cure.
The Poker Face singer was giving a frank account of her abuse of the Class A drug - and admitted she thought she was going to die - before she became famous.
GaGa, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, said: ‘My father is a really powerful man, a telecom guy. So he looked at me one day and said, “You’re f***in’ up, kid.” And I looked at him and thought, “How does he know that I’m high right now?”
‘And he never said a word about the drugs, not one word. But he said, “I just wanna tell you that anyone you meet while you’re like this, and any friend that you make in the future while you are with this thing, you will lose.” And we never talked about it again.’
The 23-year-old began taking cocaine regularly in 2005 after dropping out of a music course at New York University to find fame.
“My cocaine soundtrack was The Cure. I loved all their music, but I listened to this one song on repeat while I did bags and bags of cocaine.’
She said: ‘I didn’t think there was anything wrong with me until my friends came over and said, ‘Are you doing this alone?’ “Um, yes. Me and my mirror”.’
‘But I was able to stop, because I was panicking more on the drugs than I was sober. So I’m fine now.’
However she admitted that she still likes to ‘party’. She told a US website ShockHound: ‘I can drink, and I’m not gonna say that I don’t party. But it’s not everyday, and it’s no longer a tool for my creativity.’
‘The label gets mad at me for talking about it – they say, “We don’t want people to think that you’re not a pop star.” But I am a pop star. I’m a pop star with a story!’
In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine earlier this year, GaGa also said she used drugs to drive the inspiration for her futuristic hair and make-up.
She said: ‘It was quite sick. I suppose that’s where the vanity of the album [The Fame] came from.’
After her confession, GaGa was in good spirits last night when she appeared in a wacky outfit at a party hosted by Dr Dre in Berlin. She wore a latex dress, mask and a Marilyn Monroe wig.
[From the Daily Mail]
Sigh, I miss The Cure. Oh, look an official fan site! The last update was in May, though, when Robert Smith was hosting a two-hour show on Sirius. Damn. That would have been good. Oh, look, an epic entry in Wikipedia! Who would have thought The Cure would have such geeky, anal retentive fans? Oh, right. Robert Smith is God of the Goth Nerds. Whatever happened to my copy of Disintegration?
Anyhoodle, does anyone think Lady Gaga’s story is little strange? Strange, as in, I don’t really buy it. How did she afford “bags and bags” of cocaine? Why did she just do lines and listen to The Cure? Didn’t she have the energy to get up and do something else? Oh, well. We’re not going to figure this out today. Better to just spend a few hours watching old Cure videos. Hey, remember when the Cure-heads thought Robert Smith sold out with “Love Song”? It’s still a great song, by the way.
Here’s Lady Gaga at the Monster Cable party at Tube Station nightclub Berlin last night. Images thanks to WENN.com .
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30 Responses to “Lady Gaga did bags of cocaine & listened to The Cure”
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The messy wig and the plastic cape were more baad ideas, Gags. But I adore the tulle dress in the header photo. She really needs a little help in the styling department, but I still like her.
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Yeah my #1 question about this is–how did she afford it?
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Just Like Heaven, The Forest… Ahh The Cure!!
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(smirk) Who didnt?
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I don’t believe it because it’s Lady GaGa. I think the hardest stuff she’s ever done is a cigarette and a shot.
She’s an idiot.
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omg you guys she’s like sooo edgy.
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I’m still waiting for her to do something transgressive and original. Waiting, and waiting… [::falls asleep::]
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Wait - you’re not a pop-star if you do coke? I don’t even get what she’s driving at there.
I hate when people talk about their story like it is some momentous moment in OUR lives. Tell us the story and we’ll decide if its worthy of making waves or not. And doing coke isn’t note-worthy.
p.s. Coke doesn’t necessarily make me want to go out and be crazy with energy like you hear about. Sometimes I just want to stay in my house and organize a junk-drawer in solitude. lol.
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I trust nothing said by this Gaga except that whatever she says is to market herself. I think she’s a geek and a poser looking for “street cred”.
Her dressage is not shocking or compelling really, it’s cartoonish and sillyassed.
But, if I were trying to market myself, looking as plain as she does, I too would hide under props and things to distract visually.
I swear this Gaga’s success inspired that other desperate plain-jane (Lily Allen) to misguidedly hollow out her eye sockets with unfortuate metallic blue shadow.
“bags of cocaine” … yah, you so badass … bwah ha ha haaa. -
Hmm…You can never see her face.
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Her age is no secret. She’s 33. She was born on March 28, 1986 and has admitted her age on BBC TV.
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Funny, I was just listening to Joy Division. Not the same as The Cure but a one of the best groups ever!
By the way, I call drama and gaga
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uh soulwax, I was born in ‘85 and I’m 24. Making her 23.
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you’d have to be born in ‘76 to be 33.
i don’t buy her ridiculous story. everyone i know who is off cocaine now says that it leaves an emotional hole inside… no one says “oh, i’m fine now”. Like, oh, I had Mono when i was sixteen, but i’m fine now. I hate when people lie about stuff like that because it demeans everyone elses’ battles and struggles. -
The Forest… mmm. Plainsong too. It always takes me so far away.
For a while during my long distance relationship, Picture of You was a friend by my side. I’m not a diehard fan, but when I think back, The Cure was a big part of my life. Great in concert too. -
I’ll believe 33 over 23. If she were born in 1976, that would put her in her mid-teens during the Cure’s hey-day. It makes much more sense. I don’t believe the “bags of coke” story either. She’s trying way too hard and it makes her look goofy. I’d like to see pictures of her from her teens to see if she in fact was Stefan.
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I went to school with her, and unless she was lying about her age back in grade school then she’s 23. Love her or hate her, she’s 23.
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Here you go, Cinderella, age 16:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/05/16/article-1183174-04EDA091000005DC-923_468×427.jpgand you just cannot purchase a butt like this, nor, perhaps, would you want to:
http://www.teenmusic.com/concerts/group/id/30815/image/fullsize/pp/8
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I don’t know if she’s telling the truth about the drugs or not…frankly I guess I don’t really care. BUT she did go to a reaaly fancy prep school on the Upper East Side and her family is very wealthy so perhaps that’s how she could afford them.
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Personally, I love Lullaby.
I too thinks she tries to hard. And also noticed that you can never see her face.
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Yeah, I was born in 1976 and am 33 so if LGG was born in 1986, that would make her, um, 23.
Also, I hope she’s doing “fine” now (whatever that means) past her coke days and isn’t lying to herself about not having an addiction when in reality she may still have one. I hope not to see a repeat of Whitney Houston in her.
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Ughhhh, stop coppying others, Gaga. A number of celebs including Madonna talked about their “wild” drug pasts (liars!). Obviously, they did it to sound cool and get attention. She should focus on making better music and not just looking cool.
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gg: that second picture was disturbing. I felt uncomfortable for her having that leotard so high up in there. ouch
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That’s a rough 23. Not as rough as, say, a Lohan, but unconvincing nevertheless.
Seriously? 23?! I sort of feel bad for the blowhard. . . she doesn’t look a day over 35.
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Love Cats and Boys Don’t Cry - the music of a youth with lots of black eye liner..
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I believe the older age explains a few things about her appearance, as well. I just figured that since she wasn’t, let’s use the term “pretty” just for the sake of argument, she was just doing what girls do - play up your better assets and hide whatever else you can. Hell I do that. Course, I’m 50 and ain’t trying to be 23. lol
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wow…she did drugs alone in her room while listening to the cure. who didn’t?
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this is a lie….. she’s never said anything in an interview about cocaine…
LIES LIES LIES
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