Lady Gaga Opens Up About Her Early Struggles in Fame
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Synopsis
Lady Gaga reflects on her challenging journey in the music industry, highlighting the struggles she faced during her rise to fame and how it impacted her authenticity.
Key Takeaways
- Lady Gaga faced significant hardships early in her career.
- She emphasizes the importance of authenticity and self-expression.
- Her music has always been under her control since she was 17.
- Criticism for being different shaped her artistic identity.
- She recently released her seventh album, 'Mayhem'.
Los Angeles, March 10 (NationPress) Singer-songwriter Lady Gaga recently revealed that she had to endure a lot during her early days of fame.
The 38-year-old artist, whose birth name is Stefani Germanotta, burst onto the music scene in the late 2000s with chart-topping tracks like 'Poker Face' and 'Bad Romance'. She admitted that this success pulled her far away from her true self and that she became hardened by her experiences, according to ‘Female First UK’.
However, her perspective has changed significantly. In an interview with ‘The Sunday Times’, she stated, “I’m just a much more stable, healthy human than I was for the last 20 years. The music industry took over my life when I was younger. It took me far away from myself and I had to endure a lot and it hardened me, for sure. It took me a while to find my feet.”
As reported by ‘Female First UK’, the 'Disease' hitmaker, who has just launched her seventh studio album 'Mayhem', emphasized that her true authenticity shines through when she can be fully expressive in herself, even if she faced criticism for being different upon her rise to fame.
She continued, “(People say) Why doesn’t she play the game anymore? So what used to be considered inauthentic of me is now how people recognize me, but I am at my most authentic when fully expressive. I’ve been criticized for being the weird one or different. Since the beginning of my career, I’ve been asked, ‘What’s your style? How can we define you?’ And my earliest music was clearly identifiable as me.”
“But soon it’s seen as a machine and a business. Well, my music has always been under my control. Since I was 17, I never allowed anyone to control that. But then you’re surrounded by systems figuring out how to monetize and market you, to turn you into an enterprise,” she added.
