Gaga: Five Foot Two

Hi, angel! Hi!

They're doing so much better now and they're happy.

Want some chicken?

Hey! Down.

Mommy.

Ronnie.

Come here, sweet girl.

Chicken.

...walking out the door.

This is not happening.

Okay, is that one cooked?

No, this is not. Definitely I not give it for you.

They're really good.

It's so good.

Yeah, me and Taylor are fighting, so that sucks.

And I'm like just in a different time in my life now.

I just don't like... I just like... I don't know.

I just feel like my threshold for, like, bullshit with men is...

it's just-- I don't have one anymore.

I just don't care.

I don't know if it's because I'm 30 and I'm...

I feel better than ever, you know?

All my insecurities are gone,

I don't feel insecure about who I am as a woman. I don't--

I'm not... embarrassed or ashamed of what I have.

I just feel like a more sexier, sexual...

like all of that shit is better,

and so what I think what happens is, is like...

I don't know.

Well, in relationships, you have to... I don't know.

You got to move together, I guess, as much as you can.

What are the balloons for?

Warner Brothers greenlit a movie...

that Bradley Cooper's directing.

And Bradley wanted me to be in it.

A Star is Born.

And, um...

you know, I'm going to star in the movie.

- How's your girlfriend? - Good!

It's tight.

It spasms on the right.

It's not all the way up my shoulder yet, into my...

I mean, a little bit. It's not that--

It's the QL. Yeah.

If I get depressed, my body can spasm,

like, into a full body spasm.

And it all kind of originates from this trauma in my hip

from this injury years ago.

I wrote this new song.

I started it yesterday, and sent it to Mark this morning,

and he sent me some guitar stuff back already,

so when I get there, we'll maybe do that.

So many, I think, men in my life,

in business and also that I've dated, you know, over the years,

I just started to feel like what I was on my own wasn't good enough.

And I don't feel that way working with Mark.

- - Koji.

Oh, bigger, better deal.

Bigger, better deal!

They probably don't know who I am.

They probably think I'm just some crazy old lady who lives down the street.

I'm thirty. I'm old to them.

I think my back probably looks really good.

Like a Polynesian scarification ritual. Is it?

- It is. Turn around. - Is it bad?

An Englishman with cupping is really funny. I don't know why.

I'm going to look like such a badass on the beach in Mallorca.

Like, "Don't fuck with that dude. He's into some weird shit."

- What do you think? - Hi.

- Hi. - Hey!

How are you?

- Hello! - How you doing?

Thank you for drawing me that weird Xanax monster.

Oh, right. I forgot about that.

The last time I had a camera in front of me was the Born This Way tour.

Oh, the Born This Way tour.

When I, like, broke my hip, it's been like three years since then,

but I'm still dealing with it, and I was just like, "Whoa."

Like life is so crazy.

It's only three years since Born This Way tour?

I think so.

- Right? - Yeah.

What I was thinking, just some straight, maybe acoustic guitar.

Yeah. Those could be great.

You have to go to that broken place of your heart

to write songs.

They say sometimes it's like open heart surgery, you know? Making music.

Every time, it's invasive.

You know it sounds good. You know that it feels right.

You're not leaving, are you?

Well, I'm leaving pretty soon.

We're not going to be here too long either.

You're in here by yourself anyways. Just don't act like I'm leaving.

See, you're such a good friend.

Oh, my God, you are so weird.

When you reference or nod to something in the music,

it's just like putting something precious and plastic in a suitcase...

that you are going to take into the future.

Because I've experienced that

with people feeling like I was taking from them, right?

I have now learned going--

Looking back at what they were saying and going, "Oh, my God. No."

I was totally, like, honoring."

And so, the thing with, like, me and Madonna, for example,

is that I admired her always, and I still admire her,

no matter what she might think of me.

Okay.

- No, I do. - Yeah.

The only thing that really bothers me about her

is that I'm Italian and from New York, you know?

So, if I got a problem with somebody, I'm gonna fucking tell you to your face.

But no matter how much respect I have for her as a performer,

I could never wrap my head around the fact

that she wouldn't look me in the eye

and tell me that I was reductive, or whatever.

She's never given you a call and been like, "What the fuck you doing?"

No. I saw it on fucking TV.

Telling me that you think I'm a piece of shit through the media is like...

it's like a guy passing me, like, a note through his friend.

"My buddy thinks you're hot. Here's his, like--."

Fuck you. Like, "Where's your buddy"

fucking throwing me up against the wall and kissing me?"

Right.

I just want Madonna to fucking push me up against the wall and kiss me

- and tell me I'm a piece of shit. - Yeah.

Remember when we played it in, we were maybe gonna do it...

When producers, unlike Mark,

start to act like they're the one--

You know, "You'd be nothing without me."

For women, especially.

It's those men have so much power...

that they can have women in a way that no other men can.

Mm-hmm.

Whenever they want, whatever they want,

the cocaine, the money, the champagne, the girls,

the hottest girls you've ever seen.

And then, I walk in the room, and it's like...

eight times out of ten, I'm put in that category.

And they expect from me what those girls have to offer,

when that's just not at all what I have to offer in any way.

Right.

Like, that's not why I'm here.

I'm not a receptacle for your pain.

You know what I mean?

I'm not just a place for you to put it.

Right.

And you felt like you've had to do, like, extreme shit

to put yourself out of that category?

I mean, like, what's the methodology?

The methodology behind what I've done

is that when they wanted me to be sexy or they wanted me to be pop,

I always fucking put some absurd spin on it

that made me feel like I was still in control.

Right.

- I know. Fuck it. - So, you know what?

If I'm going to be sexy on the VMAs and sing about the paparazzi,

I'm going to do it while bleeding to death

and reminding you of what fame did to Marilyn Monroe.

Right.

The original Norma Jean.

And what it did to Anna Nicole Smith.

And what it did to...

Yeah.

Do you know who?

You can use none of that footage.

This Thursday, Lady Gaga performs at an invitation-only concert

at the Democratic National Convention.

...will headline the show called Camden Rising

at the Democratic National Convention.

...hours before Hillary Clinton accepts the Democratic Party's nomination.

The Super Bowl. It appears that Gaga is in talks to perform at halftime.

Last year she sang the National Anthem.

This year she could actually do the whole show.

I have the privilege to introduce someone

who tells everybody,

"You weren't born to fit in."

Ready?

You were born to stand out, to speak up, to act out,

and to live life out loud.

Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce to you, Lady Gaga!