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Lady Gaga revealed her hopes to write a Broadway musical during a Q&A with influencers that was webcast Thursday.
“I would really love to write a musical. I think that would bring me so much joy,” Gaga said, in response to a fan’s suggestion that she needs to make a move into Broadway and go for an EGOT. Gaga, who just released her seventh studio album, “Mayhem,” was speaking during a press conference presented by Spotify.
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She continued, “The first thing that needs to happen is I need to figure out what the important story is that I want to tell, with whoever I want to tell it with. While I appreciate the desire for me to win a Tony, I would want to put years of work into that.”
She put the kabosh on the questioner’s suggestion that she needs to star on Broadway, however, saying she didn’t think she could maintain the eight-shows-a week regimen required of theater actors for months or years on end, and that she’d rather put her effort into the behind-the-scenes creation of a show.
Gaga, who was in New York ahead of her guest host and musical appearance on “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, was also asked about a possible follow-up to “Telephone.” The 2009 video featuring Beyonce ended on a “To Be Continued” cliffhanger. Gaga had addressed the possibility of “Telephone 2” recently during an interview with Vanity Fair. While she said the storyline would be continued, she told the audience, “That, there will be, but I’m not going to give it all away. You wouldn’t want that anyway.”
She quickly added, “I think that you should all call Beyonce together.”
Talking about “Mayhem,” Gaga said the soaring ballad “Blade of Grass” was one of her favorite songs on the album. She said the song was a reference to her fiance Michael Polansky and his proposal. “We were in the backyard, and he said, ‘If I propose to you one day, what am I supposed to do?’ And I said, ‘You can just get a blade of grass from the backyard and wrap it around my finger.’ And he did.”
Polansky co-wrote the song with Gaga. “It’s special because every time I hear it, Michael and I, when we did the bridge together, I said, ‘I’ll give you something and it’s no diamond ring.’ He said, ‘The air that I’m breathing.’”
She was also asked about collaborating with Tony Bennett and what the singer had taught her. Gaga responded, “Tony used to always say to me, ‘Stick with quality, kid.’ I thought that was really smart. He was trying to tell me that no matter what anybody says or what you feel pressured to do, that you just should make great music.” She went on to say, “When I went into the studio and I made ‘Mayhem,’ I was just so focused on making the best possible records, the best possible music, so it definitely stayed with me. Tony reminds me to drown out the noise.”
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