She had a particular way of articulating her consonants that made her words feel very purposeful, which I liked. We both liked Coney Island and old New York. We went to the same college-different campuses but still, the same school. Out of all of Bob’s girls, Lizzy was my favorite. on a winter Sunday sounded reasonable to her. Going to the frozen hellscape that is New Jersey at 9 a.m. on Sunday?” she suggested, because she was also fundamentally a strange person. Because she had always been, fundamentally, a nice person. I asked Lizzy if she’d be up for a video.
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Lizzy had lived in a trailer park while working on her record, so maybe we could film there? White trash was also going to be the next big thing. Video was going to be the next big thing. Molly asked if we could also film a video. I read her email and thought to see if maybe she’d be interested in an interview with my friend Lizzy who had a record coming out. I was included on a group email from Molly asking if anyone had any interview ideas. A&R reps were crowded along the edges of the room, leaning forward and sweating in their button-downs and artfully distressed jeans, ready to sign checks. But in this universe, Stefani was clearly going to be huge. In an alternative universe, “Just Dance” didn’t happen because some idiot listened to me. I’d seen a few Behind the Musicson grunge. When Stefani said she was going to write more dance music, I tut-tutted because we were going into a recession and people don’t like dance music in recessions. Even I knew that and I have the worst music industry instincts of anyone I’ve ever met. Everyone wore Uggs.Īnyway, I watched Stefani writhe around the stage. Sometimes on Tumblr, I see kids talking about the early days of Gaga as if it was the bad old days of New York, as if we were crawling through the Lower East Side with needles sticking out our elbows, turning tricks for guitar strings. To be fair, it was never that edgy or sexy or weird. It worked-the actor married one of the bartenders-and the place has since been shut down and remade it something more family-friendly.
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I didn’t write anything down because I had no idea it’d be worth remembering.īob hosted shows at a Manhattan venue started by a famous actor to meet chicks. He surrounded himself with girl singer-songwriters-I was one, and so were a whole host of girls who never got famous either, but Lizzy was one as well along with Stefani Germanotta, though she’d started calling herself Lady Gaga by that point. He had signature glasses and five ex-wives. He’d been the keyboard player of a band that toured with Aerosmith-or someone like Aerosmith-in the ‘70s and then I’m pretty sure he’d played with Stevie Nicks during the solo cocaine years in L.A. I was friends with a music industry guy named Bob. “So I just want to say it’s been a long 10 years of bullshit reviews up until recently and I’ve learned a lot from them, but also I feel it really paved the way for other women to stop ‘putting on a happy face’ and to just be able to say whatever the hell they wanted in their music – unlike my experience where if I even expressed a note of sadness in my first two records I was deemed literally hysterical as though it was literally the 1920s.Lana, Gaga & Bob Leone Lower East Side music scene before the fame: “And that was sadly my experience up until the point that those records were made. News flash! That’s just how it is for many women,” she wrote. “I’ve been honest and optimistic about the challenging relationships I’ve had. She also took aim at men working in the music industry who “hear yes” when a woman “says no”, as well as “bullshit reviews” of her music. “Now that Doja Cat, Ariana, Camila, Cardi B, Kehlani and Nicki Minaj and Beyonce have had number ones with songs about being sexy, wearing no clothes, fucking, cheating, etc – can I please go back to singing about being embodied, feeling beautiful by being in love even if the relationship is not perfect, or dancing for money – or whatever i want – without being crucified or saying that I’m glamorising abuse?” she said.