The singer and actress Lady Gaga 38, stated that would not be defined as a drag artist just for wearing “wigs, makeup and costumes” . Despite being known for its iconic style and embraced by the LGBTQIA+community, the star explained why comparisons with drag queens are not accurate.
“I would probably not use that word, because I feel it is a very specific art form, and I don’t do it,” she said in an interview with Iheartradio’s Podcast Las Culturaticas.
However, the actress of “Joker: Delirium to two” agrees that there is a drag touch in her aesthetics: “But for me there is also a drag element in what I do, but I don’t think wigs, makeup and costumes necessarily summarize drag.”
Lady Gaga clarified that she respects art and just wouldn’t like to appropriate something.
“I think it’s a very dear and specific art, but no … It’s hard to say yes, because I would never like to take something from someone who dedicated life to it,” she said.
At another point in the interview, the singer talked about her relationship with the LGBTQIA+community, in which she feels inserted since school times.
“I think what marked me most was that I had gay friends in high school, and I didn’t have many friends at that time. I was studying at a school just for girls, so when classes ended, I walked eight blocks to the boys’ school. They had not taken over, but we were friends, we made musicals together, and that’s how I found my class, ”said the singer.
Gaga confessed that he would not be the artist who is today without her LGBTQia+fans: “Later in my career, when I started introducing myself and realized that I had LGBTQ+fans, I thought ‘oh, this is the community that loved me when I was a child, and that’s the community to which I belong now’. I don’t think I would be Lady Gaga without the Queer community. ”
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