AllRespect.com // Lady Gaga Ditched NYU To Study The Art Of Fame

Posted on 2009-06-13 03:00:12
Artist/band(s): Lady GaGa [FB]

musicnews View: Profile - All Posts

Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1613781/20090611/lady_gaga.jhtml

'I really felt New York was my teacher and that I needed to bite the bullet and go it alone,' she tells Elle.By Jocelyn Vena

Lady GagaPhoto: Streamline/ Interscope Records

Lady Gaga has managed to go from underground dance-music sensation to full on pop superstar, thanks to a slew of catchy hit singles, a renegade spirit and a fashion sense that has left everyone equally perplexed and interested.

And before she made the transition to the pants-hating Gaga we all know and love, she was just a girl going to college trying to figure out the best strategy to get famous.

So what was her first move toward fame? Dropping out of school.

"I loved NYU, but I thought I could teach myself about art better than the school could. I really felt New York was my teacher and that I needed to bite the bullet and go it alone," she said in the Women in Music issue of Elle magazine. "I wasn't interested in going to frat parties. ... I was really interested in the music scene and waitressing and cleaning toilets, or whatever the f--- it was I was doing."

The other things she was interested in included "sex, pornography, art, fame, obsession, drugs and alcohol," all of which she used as inspiration for her album The Fame.

"Why would anyone care to listen to me if I wasn't an expert in what I write about? And the album itself is the story of me and my friends and, again, our lives in New York — and you either want to know about it and be a part of it, or you don't," she said. "I am completely, 100 percent honest in what I do and who I am, and I've got nothing to hide."

RELATED NEWS

Lady Gaga To Sing The National Anthem At Super Bowl 50
Related Artist/Band(s): Lady GaGa [FB]

Billboard's Women In Music 2015
Related Artist/Band(s): Lady GaGa [FB] Demi Lovato [FB]

Lady Gaga To Release New Album This Year
Related Artist/Band(s): Lady GaGa [FB]

Lady Gaga's "applause" Music Video
Related Artist/Band(s): Lady GaGa [FB]

Lana Del Rey Takes Shots At Lady Gaga In New New Demo
Related Artist/Band(s): Lady GaGa [FB]

Page -