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06:13hi everyone I'm Benito Skinner I'm so honored stop stop it I'm so honored to
06:19be celebrating mayhem with you we're gonna do a little press conference
06:25everybody Lady Gaga
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07:22that's Lady Gaga hello
07:27hi 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 I like being
07:52in trouble I'm so happy to be here it's kind of surreal honestly and I just was
07:59so excited for you to hear the music and I can't wait to hear what you're
08:03going to ask me welcome to the press conference
08:10I'm Mario it's been a long time before so you know her history I put you on to
08:30a rapper Azealia my question is did you see her tweets about disease like she
08:37was praising it I did
08:43but you know justice for ratchet that too
08:50yeah that's my this really is a little monsters press conference I was like how
08:58many seconds in his party not just gonna be brought up but it might as well be
09:035 a.m. yes I diva hi also been a long time so good to see you in the way that
09:20you made the Harlequin album for the character if mayhem had a character that
09:25you constructed that album for who would it be the lady you've known for the last
09:3120 years you know I think that mayhem for me is actually this integration of
09:45who I am in real life and who I am on stage and how I really started to
09:50celebrate bringing those two things together two things that don't really go
09:54together actually turns out that's the whole me and this album is like it holds
10:03all that tension the softness of like who I am on the inside and then the
10:08intensity that I like to bring to my music and to my stage performances like
10:13how do I hold that in one place and for me that's my personal mayhem otherwise
10:19known as exercises in chaos here okay just someone stand up I love you
10:32repping from the big eggs bra big bronze um my one question is what's the tea on
10:42telephone part two somebody get my kettle thank you my the tea on telephone
10:59part two is that there will be but I'm not not gonna give it all away you
11:08wouldn't want that anyway I mean I think that you should all call Beyonce
11:17together yes silk button-down or is it velvet it's it's velvet I'm sorry it's
11:34like fake cheap velvet but it's fab thank you mother oh I stand up sorry
11:40didn't stand up first of all the album mother oh my god
11:50incredible obviously we all love die with a smile on that album an incredible
11:56collaboration I would love to know what is a dream collaboration of yours if you
12:01could choose anyone living or dead to collaborate with who would it be oh wow
12:06I think it would have been John Lennon I think like you know he had such a
12:16beautiful heart and I think that's one of my favorite things and like the
12:21history of music is when you don't just remember an artist for their music but
12:26you remember them for their heart so I think I think I would well I mean and I
12:30have a peace sign tattoo so and that that that this peace sign was right
12:35outside 72nd Street by the Dakota where he was sadly taken from the world but
12:42that peace sign was there every day yoko would put flowers outside and I got this
12:48tattoo because of that I never forgot what he stood for and it's what I stand
12:53for to the hat
13:07hi gaga hi my name is Roy hi I love you that goes without saying so in abracadabra
13:17you say don't waste time on a feeling use your passion no return how does it
13:23feel to know that all the passion that you have put into the New York City
13:27nightlife has been shaped by that passion of yours I cannot imagine going
13:32out in Manhattan or Brooklyn without hearing gaga at any bar and if I don't
13:36hear gaga then I'm getting out of that bar
13:40I mean New York completely shaped who I am as an artist and I you know I I
13:56didn't want to leave New York when it was time to go to college because I felt
14:01like I hadn't seen it all yet and I've been talking about this a lot recently
14:07but being on the Lower East Side especially with Lady Starlight and it
14:15made amazing musician that that time was so special because I had this community
14:23and I was living in this like this area basically where you know everyone was a
14:33musician or a writer or a photographer or a dancer or a club promoter a
14:41bartender it's like working working in the arts and in nightlife and we all
14:47supported each other and I would never have created my stage performances and
14:55my persona had that community not existed and so it means a lot for my
15:02music to still play in New York and just just to see you all here so vibrantly
15:08like that time it makes me feel like it's still alive in in you and it's very
15:15alive in all of us right it's really like a total privilege and I and I feel
15:23like that time taught me so much you know it's like community is everything
15:28and like the further away I got from that community the harder it was for me
15:34to like maintain my center of gravity but I will say I went back recently and
15:39it was really really special I have a couple from global Bryce asks what was
15:52the 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 that was
16:10track five I think it is thank you and the last was die with a smile so like
16:25the album like ended in a happy place but it started out like in this kind it's
16:33it's interesting it's they're kind of both apocalyptic love songs but one is
16:37just way less hopeful in vanish into you I imagine that I'm just want to
16:47disappear into the person that I love the most and die with a smile there's
16:53this like sense of peace and I really wanted mayhem to end like I wanted to
16:59know that for myself too and I really did find that I think that like we can
17:07all bear a kind of personal chaos in our lives and then find a sense of peace
17:14and stability and I'm really really happy that I that I did but that I get
17:21to put all the all the instability into my artwork
17:30choose where we want yes in the front row with other I'm too nervous to stand
17:43so I'm just sit down you have changed my life I know that everyone says that to
17:47you but I have never been able to say it to you directly so I just want to say
17:51thank you you've changed mine I'm so nervous my question sorry my question is
17:59there's a lot of lore about your demos or unreleased songs and rumors of it did
18:07you revisit any of those for mayhem or do you close the chapter in the era in
18:15which you wrote it and let them rest you know I think at one point I was
18:21feeling anxious and I like drudged up some demos and I'm just I just listened
18:29to them and then threw them out I know it might sound like cold but each one of
18:36my albums is a like piece of music that I like conceive of from start to finish
18:43and it's it's a moment in time and in my life that's like very special and
18:50whenever I say to myself oh there's that song like that you know I'm gonna I'm
18:57gonna put that out whenever that happens it just like never really comes to
19:01fruition because it never really belongs so yeah so yes and no yes I know I threw
19:10it out it was um it was Frankenstein yeah yeah okay okay I didn't want to
19:18name names but I don't want to name names but it was him can you see in the
19:26back leopard please oh I you know what you're good whatever hey your mother
19:31monster you do what you want hi gaga hi I'm Haley hi um I wanted to ask you for
19:40mayhem what was your favorite song once it was finished and what was your
19:44favorite song to create okay I think my favorite song once it was finished was
19:56blade of grass I think one of my favorite things about making that song
20:04was working with like everyone all at once on it and it representing
20:15something so special it's it's about when Michael proposed to me and he he
20:23long before he did propose said we were in the backyard and he said if I propose
20:31to you one day what I'm like what am I supposed to do and I said you can just
20:37get a blade of grass from the backyard and wrap it around my finger and he did
20:41actually propose to me with this these green bands he also gave me a my ring
20:52you've seen it it was a very special moment and I started writing that song
21:14at home with him brought it into the studio and guess awful Stein was there
21:20and you know he was talking to me a lot about wanting to make a very classic
21:27record and I thought that was kind of interesting you know sometimes I'll you
21:34know meet people or work with you know artists and you know you just you meet
21:39people and they say like we really want it to be you know whatever and I don't
21:45even like fully know what that means and I feel like I sort of did that to
21:48Gustavus Stein we need to do like a dance you know I was like kind of trying
21:53to egg him on and he sort of looked at me like can we just do something
22:00original and and and then we all we all did and it was really it was it's
22:08special because every time I hear it Michael and I when we did the bridge
22:12together I said I'll give you something and it's no diamond ring and he said the
22:20air that I'm breathing when I hear that song it represents this special time in
22:26my life but also just to explain like my backyard and those blades of grass was
22:33also like the place that I saw my friend Sonia get married and then like
22:38later she'd be like two months like passed away there was so much loss in
22:44that backyard in my life like you know those places in your life where you just
22:48like it's like maybe your happy place but also your sad place so that song
22:54that's like what mayhem is to me so it's very special song to me and then my
23:00favorite song when it was to make yes yes was was killer
23:11another record with the Southwell Stein really really like an industrial funk
23:18song the only live instrument on that record is the guitar and my voice the
23:27best instrument Jessica asks how did mayhem come together and what inspired
23:36the return to dark pop how did mayhem come together over many months of a lot
23:45of hard work in the studio and I how did I return to dark pop I think I learned a
23:55lot about not being dark being dark while I was making the music and
24:01there's something kind of method about the way I make my records and I've kind
24:05of become characters and through the music and I still do that but I've
24:10learned how to not let it completely take me over and so I would say I
24:16returned to it because it felt safe to and maybe that's why I didn't for a
24:21really long time because it felt maybe like too much which was hard because I
24:27knew I knew you really wanted that so I'm sorry but also it was too hard but
24:33it but we're okay now bring it on
24:39why don't you choose yeah choose choose way in the back two mustaches love hey
24:51girl that's Lady Gaga isn't that so nice to you see how nervous I am to talk
24:55to you I'm so nervous hi hi Gaga I'm Rob one of my favorite errors of yours is
25:02the Tony Bennett error and I feel like something changed in you and you grew
25:10and so I wonder if there was something that he taught you that you bring with
25:14you into the way you make music now definitely I mean any any time I think
25:21that any artist is like lucky to work with somebody is like full of artistry
25:28as Tony you'd like take something strong with you and Tony used to always say to
25:32me stick with quality kid I thought that was really smart he was kind of trying
25:40to tell me that like no matter what anybody says or what you feel pressured
25:43to do that you just should make great music and when I went into the studio
25:49and I made mayhem you know I was just like so focused on making the best
25:55possible record the best possible music so it definitely stayed with me it's
26:01Tony kind of reminds me to like drown out the noise you know can get noisy
26:07noise isn't music only sometimes if I want it to be
26:19really okay yeah right here red hair first of all the album is so it is I
26:28forgot we're on Spotify I'm sorry I work in drag it's a compliment thank you
26:36so you talked about community and through your music I found the drag
26:41community and I've now had the blessing of a drag career for about going on 10
26:45years thank you thank you you're a huge inspiration to drag artists everywhere
26:53and whenever I listen to your music and I'm on you know long car rides I find
26:58myself going okay if I was gonna perform this song I would do this and it would
27:02look like this and this is what it would be when you have a new album out
27:06and you find yourself staring down the barrel of things like a tour or
27:10performances on TV or whatever your version of a drag number would be which
27:15is just kind of what you do anyways do you ever do the same thing do you listen
27:19to your own music and go okay this would be fierce that would be cool like how do
27:23you conceptualize the numbers a hundred percent yes and actually I'm like when
27:29I'm writing songs I have the I have total visions and when I made this album
27:35I had all these like gothic dreams but while I was awake you know and they're
27:42all these like dark just like visions and each one of them I'm trying to bring
27:50to life in my own way like abracadabra was its own gothic dream and it came to
27:55life in the video and I think that those visions are really powerful and
28:01they're important because it's it's your artistic intuition and it's meant to be
28:05followed whenever I don't follow that I later I'm like why didn't you it's like
28:13it's almost like I let it go what could have been what could have been exactly
28:18so absolutely it's it comes out in tour it comes out in videos it comes out in
28:25personal style those dreams are really I think that's a through line to some of
28:33my earlier records too is is gothic dreams and that was like how I found
28:38mayhem I think is I will I realized that
28:43right here yes hi how you doing okay so I wanted to start about saying that I'm
28:54a heavy supporter of you I'm 19 years old I've been listening to you since I
28:58was 5 like I remember when my mom told me I was literally listen to telephone
29:03with my t-shirt and her heels on and so I wanted to say like you know as you
29:10being like you know a big celebrity you have a lot of haters and you don't let
29:13that fade you you still do you and you still make your music and you striving
29:16it and you do your big one all the time so I wanted to ask you what's your like
29:22what's the inspirational speech you can give to the new generation you just got
29:29to do you and all you can do is your best
29:35I'm fangirling too bad I love you well I love you too I love you oh I love it too
29:43all any of us all any of us to me this is just what I believe like I'm not
29:48really an authority on anything but this is what I believe I think we're all
29:52trying our best and that's all we can do and sometimes people aren't gonna
29:58like it and that's life and that's a quote from a song I sang and joke a
30:06joker you know like you you have to be willing to like die on the sword with
30:13your work too I think like I stand by everything I think that I've made and
30:20things that I don't stand by you know I know when I'm wrong or I can like like
30:25adjust myself and learn like it's okay to make mistakes too I think that we
30:33like for ourselves have to be like the inventor and the conductor of our own
30:41symphony of our life and like it's my music you know so it's like when I when
30:49it's all over it's it's when it's all over it's yours so I wouldn't leave
30:54yourself behind that's what I'm saying I think it's okay to make things for other
30:58people I do that I love making things for you but I try not to leave myself
31:04behind because I also don't I wouldn't want you to leave yourself behind so
31:08it's like the spirit of it is being authentic no matter what and also love
31:17if your love love was there if I feel like it's okay thank you so much I love
31:23you so much this is so fun why did we not do this forever ago okay this
31:39sparkles okay Queen of Pop everyone okay so I'm gonna abuse my BFA a little
31:51bit here a few years ago you did a interview with Lin-Manuel and you
31:56expressed interest in maybe wanting to do Broadway and you know I as a theater
32:01queen obsessed with your performance on the Oscars the Sound of Music tribute
32:06was one of my highlights of your career and I just want to know like is that
32:12something that you still would love to do you're so theatrically inclined and
32:17you really bring your artistry to life when you perform and I just would die to
32:22have you on Broadway um and do you have a dream role cuz I have a list
32:28I had to I'm sorry I had to I have to plant the seed not the list my god we'll
32:39start with Blanche in Streetcar ah I'll play first it's unexpected that's how
32:45you get the Tony and then the witch and into the woods and then Dolly I can't
33:01believe you said Blanche that's oh my god like I mean yeah okay so first of
33:08all thanks for your list bless you that you have one oh you made it you came
33:13with it oh I was ready yeah I've been I think that I would really love to write
33:22a musical and I feel like that would bring me like so much joy to and to work
33:30with like some amazing writers and but I think the first thing that needs to
33:35happen is I need to figure out what the important story is that I want to tell
33:41with with whoever I want to tell it with while I appreciate the desire for
33:48me to win a Tony you got I thank you I I just feel like it's like that's I would
33:57want to put like years of work into that and then oh my god it shows a week but I
34:04mean they they are rock stars rock stars that is rock star shit I got the
34:09contract we'll do six okay say I can't do that then they'll say I did six
34:13they'll say she only did six. Patti LuPone did it and Evita, it's okay? No. Thank you, love you. I love you too. Gaga, don't be mad at me we only have
34:25time for two more questions so we're gonna do one from the audience and then
34:29one online. Don't be mad. Mm-hmm. Now it's both of you. I just need to say love you
34:40since day one my question is what did you whisper to Ariana Grande during the 2020 VMAs
34:50during Rain On Me? I watched that performance I just watched it today at
34:55work. 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
35:12recall. I believe you. It was probably something very very silly because the two
35:20we're very silly when we're together. How about this? I will watch it back and
35:26I will write you an apology and I will try to remember. I'm gonna ask her she
35:35might remember. It was that really high note but love you so much.
35:44Right behind. Yes. Hi Gaga. Couldn't say no to this. My name is Nick Gaga. I know.
35:58Thank you. Thank you. For everyone who doesn't know me I'm her premier
36:03impersonator. I mean you should be up here. Absolutely not. I'm here to listen
36:13to you and the album which is obviously a killer. Thank you. The first time that I
36:20met you was back in 2012 when you visited Russia with the Born This Way
36:25Bowl and you brought me on stage and then we chatted backstage. That was the
36:30first time. So my question is very simple and very short. What was your favorite
36:35tour and when are we getting Mayhem tour?
36:43I don't know. It's okay. I know but I know but they're okay. But when I did the Fame
37:06Ball it was the first time I ever saw you. I know that the Fame Ball was
37:15probably it was it was the most inexpensive tour. It was like the low
37:20budget tour. It was my early tour but that was when I like met Little Monsters
37:26for the first time and then and then the Monster Ball happened and everything. So I
37:34I would have to say the Fame Ball I think because it was like it was such a
37:40different grind. I was on a bus. I did like. You were where? Yes. No I lived I
37:49lived on a bus. I lived on a bus and I did I did three shows a night. Three. I'm
37:56serious. Three shows. I would open for New Kids on the Block or the Pussycat
38:03Dolls and then I would play three clubs and then that turned into theater. This
38:09I probably got this wrong because it's like a blur but anyway thank you for all
38:18the tours that you've supported and come to. They've all been important to me. The
38:25Art Rave was also really special. The reason the Art Rave was so special was
38:34because that album was so criticized. Justice for Art Pop always.
38:47But Little Monsters showed up for the Art Rave as if everything was you know
38:53Monday morning. I was there yeah. It was but that's like I mean thank you and
39:00there will probably be something soon.
39:08Can't wait to replicate all of it. Thank you Gaga. Love you. You always come with
39:13those questions. It's like really you know it's like we've never left guys.
39:20Gaga you brought up the Art Rave. Yes. And like 10,000 people asked. 10,000. So
39:27many people asked. It's actually scary. Can we talk about Art Pop Act Two?
39:34Now this feels like a courtroom. It is. This is a trap. Okay. Okay. Okay. So when I
39:54make my records there is a reason that songs are left off and it's because some
40:04simply are not good enough for you. And I'm not saying that it's a never but I
40:10am saying that I'm not gonna take all my demos that I specifically left off the
40:16record and just chuck them on an album and put the number two on it.
40:23Do it. Do it tonight. Stop it right now Gaga. You're doing it. No. No. Okay but I'm not
40:31saying that it's impossible. I'm just saying that it's you know it's not gonna
40:36happen like that. I just would I would just want to go in and I feel like it
40:41would have to be be reactionary to to what so much happened when we dropped
40:47that record. You know as a you know community. So I feel like we would have
40:52to kind of respond to that with the music. Which is maybe some of what's on
41:00Mayhem. So I would have to I would have to I mean that's like that was my EDM
41:08opus. That record. So but it would have I would have to like I'd have to get back
41:15in that headspace and complete it. So oh that is an excellent idea.
41:30Gaga thank you so much. Thank you. And thank you for playing Mayhem. And thank you
41:36Little Monsters. You guys were the best. Truly.
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