Each of these facets powered her career’s most distinct parts: the celebrity fascination of her first two albums, 2008’s The Fame and 2009’s The Fame Monster the subversive layering of 2011’s Born This Way and 2013’s ARTPOP the sincere reverence of 2014’s Cheek to Cheek, her jazz standards album with Tony Bennett and the rootsier songwriting of 2016’s Joanne. In a sense, her creative identity had crystallized by age 21, having been a child pianist, aspiring actor, and burlesque performer. Never wedded to the same image-one minute wearing a dress made of raw meat at the MTV VMAs, the next a coat of Kermit the Frog puppets on German TV-Gaga personifies pop’s surface obsessions while simultaneously upending them. No artist has more defiantly embodied that provocation this century than the one born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (in New York in 1986). But for Lady Gaga-one of popular culture’s greatest, most extravagant creations-the inauthenticity is the point.
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