Lady GaGa is known for being a bit, um, eccentric during interviews with the press, however, she’s also known for not answering stupid questions. More than once GaGa has ripped into an interviewer for asking a lame question, and a recent interview she did with a Norwegian journalist was no different.
When asked if Gaga felt like her “sexual references undermine her music” or if she was “scared” that people would focus on her sexuality rather than her music, Gaga curtly replied:
“No. I’m not scared. Are you scared?”
The journalist pressed on...
Do you think that people will just take out the sexual references and not care about the music?
No...not at all. I’ve got three number one records and I’ve sold almost four million albums worldwide.
What’s been the biggest thrill of your career so far?
The gay community...because I love them so much. Because they don’t ask me questions like that. Because they love sexual, strong women who speak their mind.
See, if I was a guy, and I was sitting here with a cigarette in my hand and was grabbing my crotch and was talking about how I make music because I love fast cars and fucking girls, you’d call me a rock star.
But when I do it in my music and in my videos, because I’m a female, because I make pop music, you’re judgemental and you say that it is distracting. I’m just a rock star.
Are you a feminist?
I’m not a feminist! I hail men! I love men! I celebrate American male culture, beer and bars and muscle cars. But that’s not what you asked me. You asked me if my music was distracted by my sexuality. And it’s not.
As much as we love Gaga’s ferociousness and ability to call bullshit when people treat her different because she’s a woman, someone needs to give her the memo that feminism doesn’t mean hating men, hating American male culture or being anti-male.
Just saying.