Lady Gaga is poking fun at the rumors that she’s a hermaphrodite by wearing a pair of leather trousers with a fake bulge in them on the cover of UK Magazine Q. Inside, Gaga explains that she’s going to address the rumors and chalks them up to her deeper-sounding voice and the fact that she’s a liberated woman who is “open about her sexuality.” (There’s also that performance video she fails to mention where it looked like something fell out of her panties. I think it was her nude-colored panties bunched up and that she’s all woman, but I get how those conspiracy theories gained traction.) Previously, Gaga simply said that she wouldn’t talk about the hermaphrodite story and that it was “too low brow for me to even discuss.”
LADY GAGA lives up to her wacky image – admitting she can understand how the rumour that she’s a hermaphrodite started.
The US singer – who sports a fake bulge under her trousers on the latest cover of Q mag – has been the subject of frenzied speculation over the state of her genitals.
And Gaga has played up to the gossips, telling Q: “We all know that one of the biggest talking points of the year was that I have a d***, so why not give them what they want?
“I want to wear a d*** strapped to my vagina.
“I also carry myself onstage in a masculine way and sing in a low register. This is not out of nowhere, right?
“I want to comment on that in a beautiful, artistic way. How I wanna show it. And I want to call this piece Lady Gaga Dies Hard.”
The Poker Face star also blasted draconian attitudes to women who sleep around.
She added: “When a guy says, ‘Oh I f***** all these chicks this week,’ there’s a high-five and giggling.
“But when a woman does it and its publicised or she’s open about her sexuality or she’s free or liberated, it’s, ‘Oh, she must have a d***.’
“There’s a threat.”
[From The Sun]
I don’t know, I just think she should have ignored it. This is Lady Gaga however, and she’s shown that she’s the queen of courting the press. These kind of quotes are sure to get repeated. It’s better than saying the first outrageous thing that comes into her head. Gaga is a media savvy woman who has often impressed me with how courteous and wise she seems in interviews. The Daily Mirror reports that Gaga freaked out during the semi-nude photo session for Q, though, and that she started crying and said “promptly walked out. She then insisted she would only continue if her boyfriend took the pictures instead.” Maybe she wasn’t as ready to address the hermaphrodite rumors as she claims.
Cover via Q Magazine. Other photos from The Mirror
I don’t understand all the hype. She’s not unusually talented; she’s not beautiful; it’s all been done before.
Yyyyeah, just because the Daily Mirror reports it, doesn’t mean it happened. English tabloids are every bit as full of shit as anyone else’s. The Mirror’s a rag.
And if it had happened, I’m pretty sure Q would have mentioned it themselves…
Man she’s an ugly women isn’t she.
Anything (!) to detract attention from the face.
She does have a nice body though, and seems to be hard working. Must be tough to wear any mask, all the time.
in that first pic, the way they air brushed her boob so full and ignored the other that is fully covered makes one look WAY bigger than the other. just sayin’.
holy edward scissorhands
I think she’s beautiful.
And I want those gloves for rush hour in the subway.
Just sayin.
Does that double standard really exist very much now? When I hear of a soldier (we are a military family) talk about “bagging a bunch of chicks” he is pretty well known for being a pig.
Maybe it is just the crowd I run with.
She’s not beautiful, but she is talented. Anyone who has ever watched her perform live cannot dispute that. That’s the difference between her and Madonna. They’re both not beautiful (masculine looking), they’re both shocking and overtly sexual, but only one of them has any real talent and that’s Gaga.
I’m just going to keep saying it until maybe one day it will come true:
CLOSE YOUR MOUTH!
I actually like that story about her crying during the nude photoshoot and leaving, it brings her back down to earth in my eyes. She loves to put herself out there, dress like an alien queen, and display this crazy outlandish confidence, but she’s still just a person, a woman.
Did anyone notice that we never see Lady Ga Ga and Marilym Manson in the same room together? I’m starting to believe they are the same person… I’m not kiddding!!
Gatsby, I agree that it’s a very human story of vulnerability, but I don’t think it’s plausible whatsoever. This is the same Gaga who walks around with no pants and a high cut bodysuit, who performs in strips of lace that barely contain her nudity. She has marketed herself as bold and strong and exhibitionist. What part of being photographed wearing as much (if not more) clothes as she usually does is likely to be that upsetting, and she has previously told us that she doesn’t care about random hermaphrodite rumours. I expect we’ll hear her denying that story soon enough.
I’m not sure what this quote even means: I want to comment on that in a beautiful, artistic way. How I wanna show it. And I want to call this piece Lady Gaga Dies Hard. Um, what “piece,” the photoshoot? You get to title it, Gaga? Does that mean you also did the styling for it, or the concept? How does this address the rumours anyway?
mouth breather.
I personally abhor the common belief that Lady Gaga is somehow avantgarde, cutting edge and/or uniquely important to art and music (especially when Bob Costas make daily reference to her on NBC’s Olympic broadcasts, a sure sign your 15 minutes are done-zo)
but I am tickled pink over the idea that the mainstream has possibly embraced a hermaphrodite as their own vanilla version of avante garde.
In other words, I wish it were true, if only to horrify middle America.
My my my my my Butterface!
Man, she has a killer body.
Sorry juiceinla Lady Gaga doensn’t horrify middle America because mid-America isn’t paying that much attention to her. If you listen to her songs, they aren’t that strong, memorable or iconic. I’ll give her credit for trying to reinvigorate music videos which have become cookie cutter, but along with irishserra and many others Madonna, Europe pop 80s groups, and glam rockers from the 70s – Bowie,etc. – have all done it and her live shows aren’t Hendrix or Santana at Woodstock. Her popularity is due in part to the staleness of much of today’s music.
Puh-LEEZE. David Bowie played all these tricks and games 35 years ago. I love Lady Gaga, but she’s had enough exposure that she can lay off the heavy-handed “sexually ambiguous” publicity photos. Right?
juiceinla-
Love the elitist attitude you’ve got there. Why do you even care about what middle America thinks (or what YOU think they think), since you are so much better, more enlightened and cooler than they are, right? Shouldn’t you be out there living that glamorous, wonderful lifestyle that everyone would (supposedly) die for, instead of taking snide little swipes at middle America?
jover- I agree she’s popular due to the stale, (and I will add, regurgitated) nature of today’s popular music, but middle america is indeed aware of and in love with her. I hear her music at grocery stores and the olympics- it doesn’t get much cookie cutter than that.
I see nothing original in her music or her look, but I agree 1,000,000 bazillion Percent with Sumodo on the David Bowie point!
She’s got catchy tunes, that stick in my brain. So did Britney once.
She obviously has fun with it all, she’s not afraid to be outrageous, even when she totally looks like an insane person.
People bitch about her face, but would you rather she does a Heidi Montag? She is what she is (I think she’s got an interesting face that sometimes is attractive) and I don’t think she gives a whole lot of thought to people who think she’s ugly.
The comparison to Madonna is perfect. They both seem to get off on being outrageous and wearing (or not wearing) stuff that gets people’s attention. Neither one will win a beauty pageant, both can dance pretty well, although I think Gaga has a much better voice than Madonna ever did.
Who cares who did it before and better? Sinatra did it better, but Michael Buble and Harry Connick have done it and done it well.
Music and fashion are cyclical.
While yes she isn’t very pretty I think that must be very liberating for a pop star. She doesn’t have to always worry about looking beautiful–she’s free to be out there. That said, her album is great. Full of great pop/dance tunes. I think that cover is hilarious though! So far, she’s pretty savvy with the media. She’ll need that sense of humor to have a longer than flash-in-the-pan career.
Well…for those who don’t get it…I think its like this: Painter, painter, painter, PICASSO! The hiccup in a sector of entertainment or visual art with no inhibitions or prescribed look made up by a studio executive. Personally her CDs are ok, she’s much better live. A real performer…perhaps subconsciously people realize most performers aren’t very good?
OK, so she’s not “pretty” in a safe, cookie cutter way like Britney. Who cares? She’s not pretending to be a model. She wears her looks well and has a ton of confidence, using her talent and aesthetic sense before relying on anything as fleeting and superficial as looks. I think that alone is a breath of fresh air. And the now overused and boring “15 minutes” comment does not apply. How many hit songs has she had now? She’s gonna stick around. ( oh, I will be disappointed if she gets a nose job, however)
love Gaga for so many reasons.
her voice is at the top of the list.. i was raised by a choir teacher and i do know a good strong voice when i hear one. Gaga rocks.
but i find her costumes interesting in and of themselves. Women today are taught to focus on our appearance so strongly… and sometimes I wonder if Gaga’s total immersion in this persona she’s invented for herself is her reaction to the tyranny of modern aesthetics.
We women are taught that we are just our looks. Even a male is allowed to call himself a woman if he just dresses a certain way. If he conforms to a certain appearance. Biology no longer makes a woman! Appearance is everything. Appearance is all that matters.
Gaga just takes that quiet assumption and brings it out into the open.
just my opinion.
“We women are taught that we are just our looks. Even a male is allowed to call himself a woman if he just dresses a certain way. If he conforms to a certain appearance.”
Please tell me I’m misreading this and it isn’t some sort of attack on transgendered people.
@Emily,
I don’t think it was. But it is true to a certain extent that all women are the sum of their maintained parts . Any man can look like a women if he primps enough. To Wong Foo taught us all that. For most of my young life I really thought RuPaul was a women. Because he looked like one.
What I think she’s saying is that being a women is just a ‘look’ whereas men have more leeway into what it means to be them. They get a whole person and personality ascribed to them that means something solid.
Basically look down the comments here. Half of the people here, who you know do not look like no supermodels, have simply commented on her appearance. Her ‘worth’ to them is based on little more than her prescribed femininity. A standard they would never hold their friends or their family to. But it’s okay to do it to ‘other’ women. Its girl on girl bodysnarking. It’s pathetic and demeaning and contributes nothing.
Very few commenters have actually talked about her talent or her work.
So I have a feeling that is what is being addressed in said comment. Not anything to do with transgendered people.
She’s not hot.
I really don’t get why everybody’s like “Oh, she’s not beautiful, she’s not pretty, she’s ugly”
Personally, I think she’s anything BUT ugly. True, she doesn’t fit in the mold of ‘traditional’ beauty, but she has her own kind of beauty, and that’s what she’s all about–she doesn’t fit into the usual molds anyway, so it’s only fitting that her looks should be unique too. She’s beautiful!
Added to that, her music is fresh and fun. She’s talented, there’s absolutely no denying that. You can’t honestly tell me you haven’t at least ONCE caught yourself humming or singing along to a Gaga tune.
This woman is the real deal–she’s amazing.
@Peach, thanks, I totally didn’t think of drag queens! But then, the same could be said about drag kings, too. Except they’re not as fun, in general.
Where are you GG?
I usually ignore pop music but I like Gaga,her voice is great. Who cares about her looks.
Gaga’s no supermodel. We all agree on that.
But if she were as attractive as she is talented, she won’t make it as Gaga, because her label and the public won’t allow her to.
I think it’s a blessing that Gaga isn’t conventionally beautiful (although I do think she’s good-looking in her own way). Otherwise her physical appeal would become a distraction and there won’t be as much interest in what else she can offer.She would probably be seen as a pretentious ‘artistic’ version of Britney, and her message (whatever it is) won’t get across as effectively.
So I think Gaga’s face works in her favour. It lets her get away with more of the arty stuff.
Which I cannot claim to understand, but again, whatever.
😆 Hey Trillion.
I think she’s got something working for her. Her little publicity blitz is working for her like an A-bomb, she’s got – what? five consecutive number 1 songs and can’t hold all the awards she’s won since she came out – what? one year ago?? Pretty damned impressive if you ask me. She’s doing something right.
Not to mention nobody can outsing the woman. Nobody. You try dancing and singing at top volume on key without a lead tape playing.
And yeah, her face works for her. Conventional overworked faces are getting quite BORRINK, dahling.
I was so impressed when I read that she practices singing her songs while running on a treadmill. Hard work. Something most young stars have no clue about.
JuiceinLA~
wow! your comment was as generic as a sunny day in LA. While your intention was obvious, it made you look as vanilla as a starbucks drink.
pnw- your horrible grammar aside, try not to be such a hypocrite when attempting to be personally insulting.
Your comment to me speaks volumes, showing your true character: the sort of person that trolls a public comment arena like this merely to take potshots at others who comment. yawn.
Pretty damn vanilla yourself there superstar.
@gg and Trillion: nah, Christina could outsing her anyday. But apart from her, yeah, you guys are right, she’s got a strong voice. I couldn’t sing on a treadmill-I can barely keep a level note if I’m sitting in a bumpy car.
I just don’t think her music stands up to her image, which pisses me off because then she is just cheating people.
I think she’s talented (and pretty) but it’s a shame she isn’t above all this crap. It’s just a fucking gimmick, I hate it.
Christina does have a damn good voice too.
I’m usually scratching my head at the silly outfits on Gaga, but at least she’s not boring. Or rapping.
She wants to be controversial, so she never got that couture is not ergonomic – especially for dancing in – it’s only for the runway, and the drill team routines are a hair tired imo, but she’s having fun and it’s never boring, and she doesn’t really fall down much even with the getup obscuring her sight and dancing in platforms, which gives her a pass from me.
I loved her with Elton John on the Grammys though! The pale green glitter wedges were to die! Halston does her stuff now so maybe they’ll be a little better constructed, but I doubt it. The most recent purple leotard has a bad neckline.
She is ugly as sin! don’t know what all the fuss is about! As far as singing is concerned she can’t!
She lip Syncs all her live performances and has all her songs written for her. What she does have is very good management and marketing and a very powerful publicity machine.
pity the poor sods who actually think she’s any good.