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06:13Hi everyone, I'm Benito Skinner. I'm so honored
06:18Stop it. I'm so honored to be celebrating mayhem with you. We're gonna do a little press conference
06:26Everybody Lady Gaga
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07:23That's Lady Gaga hello
07:26Hi everybody, I'm so happy to see you. Thank you so much for being here today
07:34The album wait the album the album the album it's Gaga. Do you like it?
07:46You're in big trouble you're in big trouble for that. Thank you. Thank you. I like being in trouble
07:51I'm so happy to be here
07:54It's kind of surreal honestly, and I just was so excited for you to hear the music, and I can't wait to hear
08:01What you're going to ask me?
08:05Welcome to the press conference
08:07Welcome to the press conference
08:19I'm Mario. Hello Mario. It's been a long time. I've seen you before
08:28So you know her history I put you on to a rapper Azealia
08:32My question is did you see her tweets about disease like she was praising it. I did
08:43But you know justice for ratchet that too
08:51But yeah, that's my this really is a little monsters press
08:57I was like how many seconds in his party not just gonna be brought up, but
09:02It might as well be 5 a.m.
09:06Yes
09:09Hi Diva, hi
09:12Also been a long time so
09:16Good to see you
09:18In the way that you made the Harlequin album for the character if mayhem had a character that you
09:26Constructed that album for who would it be?
09:29The lady you've known for the last 20 years
09:37You know I think that
09:40mayhem for me is
09:42actually this integration of who I am in real life, and who I am on stage and how I
09:49Really started to celebrate bringing those two things together two things that don't really go together
09:55Actually turns out that's the whole me and
10:00This album is like it holds all that tension the softness
10:05Like who I am on the inside and then the intensity that I like to bring to my music and to my stage performances
10:13Like how do I hold that in one place and for me? That's my
10:18Personal mayhem otherwise known as exercises in chaos
10:24Here
10:30Okay, just someone stand up. I love you reppin from the big eggs brah
10:36Big bronze
10:39My one question is what's the tea on telephone part two?
10:52Somebody get my kettle
10:55One sec thank you my the tea on telephone part two is that there will be
11:05But I'm not not gonna give it all away you wouldn't want that anyway I
11:10Sneak peek a taste or something. I mean, I think that you should all call Beyonce together
11:24Mm-hmm
11:26Yeah
11:28Yes
11:29Silk button down or is it velvet? It's it's velvet. I'm sorry
11:34It's like fake cheap velvet, but it's fab. Thank you mother. Oh
11:39Stand up sorry didn't stand up first of all the album mother. Oh my god
11:46Incredible
11:52Obviously we all love die with a smile on that album and incredible collaboration
11:56I would love to know what is a dream collaboration of yours if you choose anyone living or dead to collaborate with who would it
12:04Be oh
12:05Wow, I think it would have been John Lennon
12:10Yeah, I
12:12think like you know
12:14He had such a
12:16beautiful heart and
12:18I think that's one of my favorite things and like the history of music is
12:23When you don't just remember an artist for their music, but you remember them for their heart
12:28So I think I think I would well
12:30I mean and I have the peace sign tattoo so and that that that this peace sign was right outside
12:3672nd Street
12:37by the Dakota where he was
12:40Sadly taken from the world, but that peace sign was there every day
12:45Yoko would put flowers outside, and I got this tattoo because of that. I never forgot what he stood for and
12:52It's what I stand for to
13:01The hat
13:03I
13:08Gaga hi, my name is Roy. I love you
13:13That goes without saying
13:14So in abracadabra you say don't waste time on a feeling use your passion no return
13:22How does it feel to know that all the passion that you have put into?
13:26The New York City nightlife has been shaped by that passion of yours
13:31I cannot imagine going out in Manhattan or Brooklyn without hearing gaga at any bar
13:35And if I don't hear gaga, then I'm getting out of that bar
13:45I
13:47mean New York completely shaped who I am as an artist and I
13:54You know I I didn't want to leave New York when it was time to go to college because I felt like I hadn't
14:02Seen it all yet, and
14:05I've been talking about this a lot recently, but being on the Lower East Side
14:10Especially with Lady Starlight
14:14And it made amazing musician
14:18That that time was so special because I had this community and
14:24I
14:25was living in this like
14:29this area basically where you know everyone was a musician or a writer or a photographer or a
14:37dancer or a club promoter a
14:42Bartender it's like working working in the arts and in nightlife, and we all supported each other and I
14:51Would never have created my stage performances and my persona had that community
14:58not existed and
15:00So it means a lot for my music to still play in New York and just just to see you all here
15:07So vibrantly like that time
15:10It makes me feel like it's still alive in in you and it's very alive in all of us
15:20It's really like a total privilege, and I and I feel like that time taught me so much. You know it's like
15:27community is everything and
15:30Like the further away. I got from that community the harder
15:33It was for me to like maintain my center of gravity, but I will say I went back recently, and it was really really special
15:47Gaga I have a couple from global
15:50Bryce asks what was the first song written for mayhem, and what was the last song written for mayhem?
16:00Okay, okay the first song written for mayhem was vanish into you
16:08That was track five I
16:14Think
16:16It is thank you
16:19And the last was
16:22die with a smile
16:24So like the album like ended in a happy place, but it started out like in
16:32This kind it's it's interesting. It's they're kind of both apocalyptic love songs, but one is just way
16:39less hopeful
16:41In vanish into you I
16:44imagine that I'm just
16:46want to disappear into
16:49the person that I love the most and
16:52Die with a smile. There's this like sense of peace, and I really wanted
16:57Mayhem to end like I wanted to know that for myself, too, and I really did find that I
17:05think that like we can all bear a kind of personal chaos in our lives and then
17:11find a
17:13sense of peace and
17:15Stability and
17:18I'm really really happy that I that I did, but that I get to put all the
17:24All the instability into my artwork
17:33Juice wherever you want yes in the front row with other
17:41I'm too nervous to stand so I'm just sit down
17:45You have changed my life
17:46I know that everyone says that to you, but I have never been able to say it to you directly
17:50So I just want to say thank you you've changed mine
17:56I'm so nervous my question. Sorry my question is there's a lot of lore about
18:02Your demos or unreleased songs and rumors of it
18:07Did you revisit any of those for mayhem or do you close the chapter?
18:14In the era in which you wrote it and let them
18:18Rest you know I think at one point. I was feeling anxious, and I like
18:24dredged up some demos and I
18:27Just I just listened to them and then threw them out I
18:32know it might sound like cold, but
18:35each one of my albums is a like piece of music that I like
18:41Conceive of from start to finish, and it's it's a moment in time and in my life
18:47that's like very special and
18:51Whenever I say to myself oh
18:54There's that song like that. You know I'm gonna. I'm gonna put that out whenever that happens
18:59It just like never really comes to fruition because it never really belongs
19:05So yeah, so yes, and no
19:08Yes, I know I I threw it. It was um it was Frankenstein. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, I
19:17Didn't want to name names, but I don't want to name names, but it was him
19:25Can you see in the back leopard, please oh, I you know what you're good. Hey your mother monster you do what you want
19:33I
19:34Gaga hi, I'm Haley hi
19:37I wanted to ask you
19:39For mayhem. What was your favorite song once it was finished, and what was your favorite song to create?
19:47okay, I
19:51Think my favorite song once it was finished was blade of grass I
19:58I
20:00Think one of my favorite things about making that song was working with
20:09Like everyone all at once on it and
20:14It representing something so special. It's it's about when Michael proposed to me
20:19and
20:21he
20:22he
20:23long before he did propose said
20:27We were in the backyard, and he said if I proposed to you one day what I'm like. What am I supposed to do?
20:35And I said you can just get a blade of grass
20:38From the backyard and wrap it around my finger, and he did actually propose to me with this these green bands
20:47He also gave me a my ring
20:57And
21:01You've seen it
21:07It was a very special moment and I
21:12Started writing that song at home with him brought it into the studio and
21:19Gasophel Stein was there and
21:21you know he was talking to me a lot about wanting to make a
21:26Very classic record
21:30And I thought that was kind of interesting you know
21:33Sometimes I'll you know meet people or work with you know artists
21:37And you know you just you meet people and they say like we really want it to be you know
21:43Whatever, and I don't even like fully know what that means and I feel like I sort of did that to Gasophel Stein
21:50We need to do like a dance, you know I was like kind of trying to egg him on and
21:55he sort of looked at me like
21:57Can we just?
21:59Do something original?
22:01and
22:02and and then we all did and
22:06It was really it was it's special because every time I hear it Michael, and I when we did the bridge together I
22:14said
22:16I'll give you something and it's no diamond ring, and he said the air that I'm breathing
22:21when I hear that
22:24Song it represents this special time in my life, but also just to explain like
22:30My backyard and those blades of grass was also like
22:34The place that I saw my friend Sonia get married and then like later. She'd be like two months like passed away
22:42There was so much loss in that backyard in my life like you know those places in your life, or you just like
22:49It's like maybe your happy place, but also your sad place
22:53So that song
22:55That's like what mayhem is to me, so it's very special song to me
22:59and then my favorite song when it was
23:04To make
23:06Yes, was that was killer
23:12It's another record with this awful Stein really really like
23:17An industrial funk song the only live instrument on that record is the guitar
23:23and my voice
23:26The best instrument
23:31Jessica asks how did mayhem come together and what inspired the return to dark pop?
23:38Um how did mayhem come together it
23:43Over many months of a lot of hard work in the studio
23:48and
23:50I
23:52How did I return to dark pop? I think I learned a lot about
23:56Not being dark being dark while I was making the music
24:01And there's something kind of method about the way I make my records, and I've kind of become characters
24:06And through the music and I still do that, but I've learned how to
24:12Not let it completely take me over and so I would say I returned to it because it felt safe to and
24:19Maybe that's why I didn't for a really long time because it felt maybe
24:23like too much
24:26Which was hard because I knew I knew you really wanted that
24:30So I'm sorry, but also it was too hard, but it but we're okay now
24:35Bring it on
24:39Why don't you choose
24:42Yeah, choose choose choose way in the back two mustaches love
24:50Hey girl, that's Lady Gaga
24:53To you see how nervous I am to talk to you. I'm so nervous. Hi. Hi Gaga. I'm Rob
25:00I one of my favorite errors of yours is the Tony Bennett error and I
25:07Feel like something changed in you and the you grew and so I wonder if there was something that he taught you
25:12That you bring with you into the way you make music now
25:17Definitely I mean any any time I think that any artist is like lucky to work with somebody is
25:25like
25:27Full of artistry as Tony you'd like take something strong with you and Tony used to always say to me
25:33stick with quality kid I
25:37Thought that was really smart
25:38He was kind of trying to tell me that like no matter what anybody says or what you feel pressured to do
25:44that you just should make great music and
25:48When I went into the studio, and I made mayhem
25:51You know, I was just like so focused on making the best possible record the best possible music
25:58So it definitely stayed with me. It's Tony kind of reminds me to like drown out the noise
26:04You know can get noisy
26:08Noise isn't music only sometimes if I want it to be
26:13Whoever you want
26:19Really okay. Yeah right here red hair
26:24First of all, the album is so D
26:28I forgot we're on Spotify. I'm sorry. I work in drag. It's a compliment
26:34Thank you. You're welcome
26:36So you talked about community and through your music?
26:39I found the drag community and I've now had the blessing of a drag career for about going on 10 years
26:48Thank you, thank you
26:51You're a huge inspiration to drag artists everywhere and whenever I listen to your music and I'm on you know long car rides
26:57I find myself going. Okay, if I was gonna perform this song
27:00I would do this and it would look like this and this is what it would be
27:05When you have a new album out and you find yourself staring down the barrel of things like a tour or
27:11Performances on TV or whatever your version of a drag number would be which is just kind of what you do. Anyways
27:17Do you ever do the same thing? Do you listen to your own music and go? Okay, this would be fierce
27:21That would be cool. Like how do you conceptualize the numbers?
27:25100% Yes, and actually I'm like when I'm writing songs
27:30I have the I have total visions and when I made this album, I had all these like gothic dreams
27:38but while I was awake, you know and
27:41there are all these like dark just like visions and
27:46each one of them
27:49I'm trying to bring to life and my own way like abracadabra was its own gothic dream and it came to life in the video and
27:57I think that those visions are really powerful and they're important because it's it's your artistic intuition and
28:04It's meant to be followed
28:07Whenever I don't follow that I later I'm like why didn't you?
28:12It's like it's almost like I let it go
28:15What could have been what could have been exactly?
28:19So absolutely, it's it comes out in tour. It comes out in videos. It comes out in
28:25Personal style
28:29Those dreams are really I
28:31Think that's a through line to some of my earlier records to is is gothic dreams
28:35And that was like how I found mayhem. I think is I will I realized that
28:44Right here, yes
28:48Hi, hi, how you doing?
28:50Hi
28:51Okay, so I wanted to start about saying that I'm a heavy supporter of you. I'm 19 years old
28:57I've been listening to you since I was 5 like I remember when my mom told me I was literally listen to telephone
29:03With my t-shirt and her heels on
29:06and so I
29:07Wanted to say like, you know as you being like, you know a big celebrity
29:11You have a lot of haters and you don't let that phase you you still do you and you still make your music and you?
29:16Strive in it and you do your big one all the time. So I wanted to ask you
29:21What's your like? What's the inspirational speech you can give to the new generation?
29:28You just gotta do you and all you can do is your best
29:36I'm fangirling too bad. I love you. Well, I love you, too. I love you
29:41I
29:42Love it to all any of us all any of us to me
29:46This is just what I believe like I'm not really an authority on anything. I but this is what I believe
29:51I think we're all trying our best and that's all we can do
29:55and
29:57sometimes people aren't gonna like it and that's life and
30:03That's a quote from a song I sang and joke a joker
30:07You know like you you have to be willing to like die on the sword with your work, too
30:14I think like I
30:16Stand by everything. I think that I've made and things that I don't stand by
30:21You know, I know when I'm wrong or I can like like adjust myself and learn
30:28like
30:29It's okay to make mistakes, too. I think that
30:33We like for ourselves have to be like
30:39The inventor and the conductor of our own symphony of our life and like
30:45It's it's my music, you know, so it's like when I when it's all over
30:50It's it's when it's all over. It's yours. So I wouldn't leave yourself behind
30:55That's what I'm saying. I think it's okay to make things for other people. I do that. I love making things for you
31:02but I I try not to leave myself behind because I also don't I wouldn't want you to leave yourself behind so
31:08It's like the spirit of it is
31:12Being authentic
31:14No matter what and
31:17Also love if your love love was there if I feel like it's okay
31:21Thank you so much. I love you so much
31:32So fun, why did we not do this forever ago?
31:38Okay, this sparkles
31:43Okay queen of pop everyone
31:47Okay, so I'm gonna abuse my BFA a little bit here a few years ago you did a
31:54interview with Lin-Manuel and you expressed interest in maybe wanting to do Broadway and
32:00You know, I as a theater queen
32:02Obsessed with your performance on the Oscars the Sound of Music tribute was one of my highlights of your career
32:10And I just want to know like is that something that you still would love to do?
32:15You're so theatrically inclined and you really bring your artistry to life when you perform and I just
32:21Would die to have you on Broadway. Um, and do you have a dream role because I have a list
32:30I
32:32Had to I'm sorry, I had to
32:36To plant the seat not the leg. Oh my god. We'll start with Blanche in Streetcar. Ah a
32:43Plate first. It's unexpected. That's how you get the Tony
32:50BFA BFA
32:54And then the witch and into the woods and then Dolly
33:00I can't believe you said flange. That's oh my god, like I mean, yeah, okay, so
33:07First of all, thanks for your list
33:10Bless you that you have one. Oh, you made it you came with it. Oh, I was ready. Yeah, I've been ready. I
33:17think
33:19That I would really love to write the musical
33:24And I feel like that would bring me like so much joy to and to work with like
33:31Some amazing writers and but I think the first thing that needs to happen is I need to figure out what the important
33:38Story is that I want to tell with with whoever I want to tell it with
33:45While I appreciate the desire for me to win a Tony
33:50You got I thank you
33:53I I just feel like it's like that's I would want to put like years of work into
34:00that and
34:02Then oh my god, it shows a week. I mean, they they are rock stars rock stars. That is rock
34:08So sure, I got the contract. We'll do six. Okay, so I can't do that. Then they'll say I did six
34:15Patty Lapone did it in the Vita?
34:17No
34:18Thank you. Love you
34:21Gaga don't be mad at me. We only have time for two more questions
34:27So we're gonna do one from the audience and then one online
34:31Don't be mad
34:33Mm-hmm. Oh now it's out. Now. It's both of you. I
34:38Just need to say love you since day one my question is what did you whisper to ariana grande?
34:47During the
34:482020
34:49VMAs during rain on me. I watched that performance all I just watched it today at work
34:55And I was like, hmm. What did she say?
35:06We're not leaving okay, here's okay. Here's what I will say. I truly do not recall I
35:13Believe you
35:15It was probably something very very silly because the two were very silly when we're together
35:22How about this? I will watch it back and
35:27I will write you an apology
35:31And I will try to remember I'm gonna ask her she might remember
35:43Right behind yes
35:52Couldn't say no to this
35:56My name is Nick Gaga, I know thank you. Thank you for everyone who doesn't know me. I'm her premier
36:04impersonator
36:06I mean you should be up here
36:10Absolutely not
36:13I'm here to listen to you and the album which is obviously a killer. Thank you
36:19The first time that I met you was back in 2012 when you visited Russia
36:24With the Born This Way Bowl and you brought me on stage and then we chatted
36:29Backstage that was the first time. So my question is very simple and very short. What was your favorite tour and
36:36When are we getting me ham tour?
36:43Okay
36:52My favorite, I don't know it's okay. I
36:59Know but I know but they're okay
37:05But when I did the Fame Ball, it was the first time I ever saw you
37:13I know that the Fame Ball was probably it was it was the most inexpensive tour
37:18It was like the low-budget tour
37:21it was my early tour, but that was when I like met little monsters for the first time and then and
37:29Then the monster ball happened
37:33So I
37:35Would have to say the Fame Ball I think because it was like it was such a different grind
37:41I was on a bus I did like
37:45You're aware
37:46Yes
37:48Yes, no, I lived I lived on a bus. I lived on a bus and I did I did three shows a night
37:55Three, I'm serious three shows. I would open for new kids on the block
38:01or the pussycat dolls and
38:05then I would play three clubs and
38:07Then that turned into theater at this I probably got this wrong because it's like a blur
38:14but
38:15anyway
38:17Thank you for all the tours that you've supported and come to they've all been important to me
38:25The art rave was also really special
38:28The
38:31Reason the art art rave was so special was because that album was so criticized
38:38and
38:40justice for art pop always
38:47But little monsters showed up for the art rave as if everything was you know a Monday morning I
38:55Was there yeah, it was but that's like I mean, thank you and
39:01There will probably be something soon
39:09Can't wait to replicate all of it. Thank you. Gaga. Love you. You always come with those questions
39:14It's like really, you know, it's like we've never left guys
39:20Gaga you brought up the art rave
39:22Yes, and like 10,000 people asked
39:26So many people asked it's actually scary. Can we talk about our pop act two?
39:42Now this feels like a courtroom it is this is a trap, okay
39:49Oh
39:50Okay, okay
39:52so
39:53When I make my records, there is a reason that
39:59songs are left off and
40:02It's because some simply are not good enough for you and
40:07I'm not saying that it's a never but I am saying that I'm not gonna take all my
40:14Demos that I specifically left off the record and just chuck them on an album and put the number two on it
40:22No
40:24Do it do it tonight?
40:26Stop it right now. Oh, you're doing it. No. No, okay, but I'm not I'm not saying I bet it's impossible
40:33I'm just saying that it's you know, it's not gonna happen like that
40:37I just would I would just want to go in and I feel like it would have to be
40:42Happy
40:44Reactionary to to what so much happened when we dropped that record, you know as a you know
40:50Community, so I feel like we would have to kind of
40:53respond to that
40:56With the music which is maybe some of what's on mayhem. So I
41:03Would have to I would have to I mean that's like that was my EDM opus that record
41:12But it would have I would have to like I'd have to get back in that headspace and complete it so
41:25That is an excellent idea
41:30Gaga thank you so much
41:33And thank you for playing mayhem and thank you little monsters
41:41Oh
42:11Oh
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