Lady Gaga Does Cocaine

According to a new interview with Vanity Fair.

She reveals that she has had issues with drug abuse in the past but still does cocaine "occasionally".

I am of course not surprised that someone in the recording industry does drugs (I assume most of them do), but I can't remember very many other pop singers who have talked about current drug use. I read an article once where Tori Amos mentioned doing cocaine, but she's pretty spacey and it was clear she was like "oops!" after she said it to the reporter. Of course we all know about the trainwrecks like Amy Winehouse, but has someone like Gaga copped to casual hard drug use before?

And how do we feel about the idea that she's failing as a role model for mentioning this stuff?

I don't give a damn about role model bullshit. I just don't think that it's reasonable to expect every famous person to be a paragon. It even seems a bit cheap, since often to succeed in many of the fields that get people media attention, they've got to be monomaniacal, which is not a good culture medium for growing what I'd consider a good role model.

Consider the latest pop singer a role model for your aspirations for artistic expressions, that's fine. But don't expect their lives to withstand minute scrutiny. Choose your role models for the roles you want to emulate, dammit.

I think it's a tad brave. The boyband, East 17, that were huge in Britain during the 1990s hastened their fall from stardom when one of their members spoke postively about using ecstasy. This band had a primarily teenage and preteen following so a typical moral panic ensued. I think society's attitude to recreational drug use is ridiculous and I for one applaud Ms. Gaga for coming out and admitting to an activity that is very common.

She spoke about it openly before she was globally famous (probably when only really the gays knew her...like me. ha!). I think this is how she's saved herself in the current era from major fallout. The Gaga basically admits her faults before they'd ever really become an issue. Thusly any tell-all/tabloid stories about her are destined to crumble since they'd be less dramatic than the tales she tells herself. Hence why the tabloid fodder about her has always come dramatically out of left field.

That being said, I think it's at least refreshing she admits it out loud and is not selling a false image of herself.

Plus, HELLO

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Originally posted by Myrnalene

And how do we feel about the idea that she's failing as a role model for mentioning this stuff?

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If you expect Lady GaGa to be a role model for your children, you've already failed as a parent.

I know of a lot of cases where a celebrity has gone into rehab and been open about their abuse, but casual "yeah, sometimes I do drugs" type of stuff for things harder than pot? I'm unaware of how often that comes up. I'm completely unsurprised that she does it and considering her public persona it's even fitting that she'd be open about it. The fact that she is so open is one of the things I like about her, cocaine use and all.

Yeah, no one should be expecting Lady Gaga to be anyone's role model. She outright is supposed to be an over the top nearly caricature of the fame obsessed pop diva. It's hard to tell with her where the line ends between her performance as the character "Lady Gaga" and her real life. (precisely because she wants it that way) The only thing I know of that she's ever said about being a model for anyone was that she wants her fans to have some weird person to look to so they can feel alright about being weird themselves. But I don't think that's ever been intentionally directed toward children.

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I think honesty is a virtue that we should all be glad someone is trying to model for our children. :smug:

Good Lord I hope Lady Gaga is not a role model. That would be depressing to me, very depressing.

So that said, more power to her for being honest about casual drug use. It is time to legalize this anyway.

Just what I'd expect from a supervillainess.

In other news: water revealed to be wet.

Remember when pop idols were squeaky-clean featured, wholesome and respectable? Damn, those days were dull!

ps. If your child is wearing a futuristic pvc bikini to play in the street and asking you for more cocaine pocket money, the problem is with YOU, not Lady Gaga, m'kay?