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Lady Gaga Named Billboard Woman Of The Year


Lady Gaga is Billboard magazine's Woman of the Year.

The 29-year-old Artpop hitmaker, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, details the moment she nearly quit music for good, during her Billboard magazine interveiw, after her latest album failed to be received as well as others.

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"At the end of 2014, my stylist asked, 'Do you even want to be a pop star anymore?' I looked at him and I go, 'You know, if I could just stop this train right now, today, I would. I just can't. [But] I need to get off now because I'm going to die,' she said.

"When you're going so fast you don't feel safe anymore, you feel like you're being slapped around and you can't think straight.

"But then I felt hands lifting me.

"It was like everybody came together to try and put a star back in the sky, and they weren't going to let me down."

The Born This Way artist said she craves normalcy and stoped being what the public wanted, because she just couldn't do it anymore.

Speaking about growing older, the star said she takes issue with the way women in their thirties are treated.

"Why is it that we're disposing of people once they pass that mark? It's suddenly, 'You're an old woman.' I'm not f–​king old. I'm more sexual and powerful and intelligent and on my shit than I've ever been," she said.

"I've come a long way through a lot of heartache and pain, but none of it made me damaged goods. It made me a fighter.

"I want to show women they don't need to try to keep up with the 19-year-olds and the 21-year-olds in order to have a hit.

"Women in music, they feel like they need to f–​king sell everything to be a star. It's so sad. I want to explode as I go into my thirties."