She is an outré artist who wanted to be a sensitive singer-songwriter, whose musical heroes include Britney Spears, Billy Joel, and Bruce Springsteen. Who is Lady Gaga? She is a twenty-four-year-old woman whose stage mantra-"I'm a free bitch!"-is the polar opposite of who she is offstage: isolated, insecure, and unable to be alone. She is a once-in-a-decade artist, a gifted singer, composer, designer, and performance artist who mixes high and low culture, the avant-garde with the accessible, authenticity with artifice. In little over a year, Stefani Germanotta, a struggling performer in New York's Lower East Side burlesque scene, has become the global demographic-smashing pop icon known as Lady Gaga. I hate the truth so much I prefer a giant dose of bullshit any day over the truth."-Lady Gaga, 2010
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