{"id":48220,"date":"2025-10-03T13:25:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T13:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/03\/lady-gaga-talks-persona-earliest-shows-becoming-a-mom-on-colbert\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T13:25:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T13:25:29","slug":"lady-gaga-talks-persona-earliest-shows-becoming-a-mom-on-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/03\/lady-gaga-talks-persona-earliest-shows-becoming-a-mom-on-colbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Gaga Talks Persona, Earliest Shows, Becoming a Mom on &#8216;Colbert&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lady-gaga\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lady-gaga\" data-tag=\"lady-gaga\">Lady Gaga<\/a> sat down with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/stephen-colbert\/\" id=\"auto-tag_stephen-colbert\" data-tag=\"stephen-colbert\">Stephen Colbert<\/a> for a deep dive on her career, her earliest days performing in New York City, her desire to start a family, and her perfect bagel order on <em>The Late Show<\/em>. She also passed judgment on Colbert\u2019s efforts to pull off some of her most famous looks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe interview took place at the Bitter End, the famed NYC nightclub where Gaga first started performing as a 14-year-old. For the occasion, Gaga shared some fliers from her earliest performance \u2014 when she was still using her real name Stefani Germanotta \u2014 as well as other ephemera, like a clipboard for interested fans to write down their names and emails, as well as a photo from right before she signed her first record deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;I Found My People&quot; - Lady Gaga On Her Earliest Shows In NYC And Her Perfect Bagel Order\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cbsaP1vnx9k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tGaga also spoke about how she came to adopt her stage name around this time, describing the persona as a kind of \u201ccreative armor.\u201d The <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/lady-gaga-mayhem-review-1235291651\/\">Mayhem<\/a> <\/em>artist explained: \u201cCreating Lady Gaga was a way for me to become something that I felt I didn\u2019t already have inside of me. Sort of like the star I always wanted to be. I knew I had musical talent and I had things I wanted to say, but I was just deeply insecure my whole childhood. So, I created this other thing to give me wings. And it was also kind of born after some really tough experiences\u2026 professional and personal. It was so hard that I changed my name.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Can Stephen Colbert Pull Off Lady Gaga&#039;s Most Iconic Looks?\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zIlZqeBC-aI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tDespite the protection this persona afforded her, Gaga said the early days of her career as a pop star and navigating the rigors of the music industry were still extremely difficult. \u201cI white-knuckled my way through a very long period of my career,\u201d she said. \u201cI just had my head down and just worked and worked and worked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAnd while figuring out how to deal with fame was tough, Gaga <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QJGLooclejg?si=YYw3Mr4sJqOG6rf_\">admitted<\/a> that the more difficult conflict ultimately turned out to be that between Gaga and Stefani. \u201cFiguring out how to integrate those two things, psychologically, for me, that was my big forever work,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tElsewhere in the interview, Gaga praised Colbert\u2019s efforts to photoshop himself into some of her most famous looks, including the dark bangs and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lady-gaga-surprise-single-video-abracadabra-1235254784\/\">Lady in Red from \u201cAbracadabra.\u201d<\/a> She also spoke about growing up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and then moving to the Lower East Side, picked her favorite NYC institutions, flatly declined Colbert\u2019s dare to rank the NYC boroughs (\u201cNot a chance, this is a trap\u201d), and shared her bagel order: \u201cSo there\u2019s two bagel orders,\u201d she sagely explained. \u201cThere\u2019s the TBB \u2014 toasted butter bagel. Just like, easy, walking, TBB. Or, lox, cream cheese, tomato, salt, pepper.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tNear the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ACAnhzZHAzg?si=7judkI7cI2f0AyIG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">end of the interview<\/a>, Gaga spoke about welcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/lady-gaga-fiance-michael-polansky-proposal-blade-of-grass-1235283056\/\">her fianc\u00e9, Michael Polansky<\/a>, into her creative process. Colbert also asked Gaga what kind of projects she was interested in taking on next, such as Broadway, prompting her to reveal, \u201cI would like to do many things. But what I really want is to be a mom. That\u2019s my next starring role, I hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lady-gaga-persona-shows-mom-colbert-1235440021\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lady Gaga sat down with Stephen Colbert for a deep dive on her career, her earliest days performing in New York City, her desire&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":48221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}