Lady Gaga discusses criticism of her “poisonous” music video; Plus kiss-n-tell from her beefy lesbian inmate
”It’s my personal belief that the video’s getting so much attention, not because of thsoe themes — because I’ve done those themes before haven’t I? I’ve done those in many of my videos. But it’s because I’m with Beyonce, and it’s because there are so many homosexual themes, and transsexual women, and transgender women in the video. And suddenly it becomes “poisonous.” It becomes something else, because there’s some people in this world that believe being gay is a choice. And it’s not a choice. We are born this way.”
Lady Gaga speaking on the Australian “Kyle and Jackie O Show” about the controversy swirling around her music video, “Telephone.” A couple of days ago, Sandy Rios, a little-known, socially conservative contributor to Fox News called for the video to be banned because, in her words, it’s “poison for the minds of our kids.” Apparently, Gaga (a/k/a Stephanie Germanotta), thinks that the sexuality of the video is oddly causing more objections than the violence and murder depicted. (2dayfm.com.au)
”[So,] they ended up casting me as an inmate in the prison scene. They were blocking the scene, and the woman who was blocking for Gaga disappeared, and Gaga came out, and she just kind of instantly called me over, and it just happened like that. She called me over and asked me to portray her girlfriend and said, “OK, you’re going to be my prison girlfriend, and you’re going to come to me, and I’d like you to touch me inappropriately…. After we did the [kissing] shot, she screamed across the yard to me, ‘I think you got me pregnant!”’
Heather Cassils, the rather handsome and very “cut” woman who got to French kiss Lady Gaga on the set of her music video “Telephone.” She tells Out Magazine that, in real life, she is a painter turned performance artist. (Out)
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