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Lady Gaga With Three Heads Covers V Magazine, First Fashion Column Inside (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post  
First Posted: 05/12/2011 4:06 pm Updated: 07/12/2011 5:12 am

A three-headed Lady Gaga covers V magazine's "Asian issue," and inside, the songstress pens her much-awaited, first style column for the glossy. A few key excerpts:

Glam culture is ultimately rooted in obsession, and those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour are masters of its history. Or, to put it more elegantly, we are librarians. I myself can look at almost any hemline, silhouette, beadwork, or heel architecture and tell you very precisely who designed it first, what French painter they stole it from, how many designers reinvented it after them, and what cultural and musical movement parented the birth, death, and resurrection of that particular trend. So dear critics and bullies: get your library cards out, because I'm about to do a reading.

Okay, so she's better at this/life than we are. Then, the article takes a turn toward the philosophical:

There is no chicken or egg. It's molecular. Cells give birth to cells. To put it more bluntly, the Hussein Chalayan vessel I wore at the Grammys wasn't inspired by a chicken. It was stolen from an egg. But the transformation, the context, and the approach taken to reinterpret the meaning of birth and rebirth in terms of fame on a fucking red carpet -- this is what creates the modernity of the statement. The past undergoes mitosis, becoming the originality of the future.

Can I get that last sentence on a t-shirt, please? Then, there's her epiphany on the set of the "Born This Way" video:

Accompanied with a side ponytail, it took me back to moments when I was just a little baby monster. When my mother would perch a pony high on my hair and we would dance so hard to the tape deck that the perfectly perched pony she fashioned would fall to the side. I had to take an uncomfortable journey back into high school, where my youth represented tears. Wishing I had a mask. Hoping that I could artistically hide the woulds buried deep from years of being bullied. I have since reckoned with this psychology in my performance art. But this time, the revelation was clear. I still want to wear the mask, but now I wear it proud, and with the same effervescence and innnocence I had when I was 6, dancing with my mom.

And wear that mask she does, on one of her faces, anyway.

Take a look at Gaga in V and for more, head over to Vmagazine.com.

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07:42 PM on 05/15/2011
Rock on, Lady GaGa!!!! You've got balls!!
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LMPE
I connect the most dissimilar things
01:41 PM on 05/14/2011
Brave Sir Robin wasn't afraid of any three-headed person
08:51 PM on 05/13/2011
"The past undergoes MITOSIS, becoming the ORIGINALITY of the future." - Lady Gaga, fashion "expert," epically failing scientist.
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sybarys
03:23 PM on 05/13/2011
She is all artifice and no substance, manufactured in the music industry backrooms for the same people who buy Jersey Shore, Desperate Housewives...
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WoodsideCraig
Author of the blog "The Weiler Psi"
06:54 PM on 05/14/2011
Until she sings. She has an excellent voice and she writes her own songs.

I don't like all the extraneous crazy s**t either, but she does have real talent underneath it all.
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Catherine Lynch Monks
If you don't vote don't complain
03:12 PM on 05/13/2011
I'm 53 and I love her. I look at her and see courage and innovation and a mind open enough to accept inspiration wherever it comes from.
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12:40 AM on 05/14/2011
DITTO! I love her too. I am 60, never gave a fig about Madonna, but Gaga enthralls me. This very young woman is poised, polished, intelligent, courageous and just kicks ass all over the place. Why do you think all the superstars of the past several decades fell all over themselves to perform with her? That includes Madonna, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, the guy from Kiss adores her. These folks have already made it, made it and have nothing to prove and they all love Gaga for the same reason we do.

Rock on, Gaga. Keep it coming!
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Linda VanLerberg
01:27 PM on 05/15/2011
yeah! me too!!
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Dionita
Love is the new black.
01:39 PM on 05/13/2011
Where are the haters? Oh right. I just won’t look down. Gaga is fame personified and she is becoming quite the master of her own fate. I am such a fan.
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mikeyaz17
a conservative's worst nightmare
02:04 PM on 05/13/2011
agreed
01:34 PM on 05/13/2011
i wonder if gaga was always obsessed with fashion from the time she was little, or if that's just a recent addition to her persona. I really don't know. Either way, she sure seems to be a master. Popdust.com made this fun quiz you can take to test your fashion knowledge against gaga's...http://popdust.com/2011/05/13/lady-gaga-respect-exam-v-magazine/...pretty entertaining.
01:18 PM on 05/13/2011
she can do no wrong for me. Go GaGa!!!
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Aitch5
Scintillating
09:36 AM on 05/13/2011
Dangerously close to over-exposure.
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indy girl
Sorry, this micro-bio did not meet HP guidelines.
12:42 AM on 05/14/2011
and that was a year ago!
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dmsdzinr
Progression wit a twist of sarcasm.
07:43 AM on 05/13/2011
Meh
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07:21 AM on 05/13/2011
Sing it with me! (to the tune of raw hide) "Paycheck paycheck paycheck, paycheck paycheck paycheck, paycheck paycheck paycheck,paycheck. . ."
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WYHKTai-Tai
Wyoming, Hong Kong, Tai-Tai
04:44 AM on 05/13/2011
LOL! Yesterday I read about those Chinese baby girls born with 2 heads on one body. Gaga is obviously NOT to be out-done! "Curses! I'LL show YOU, I'll have THREE heads!"
AllyCat7
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11:23 PM on 05/12/2011
It looks cool. She is still a puppet, though.
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Isobel Quinn
and the word of the day is: schadenfreude
11:19 PM on 05/12/2011
you know, i rly tried to get on board with the whole gaga thing...and i just can't. she just seems like a watered down, uglier version of an early nineties madonna. the same attempts to be 'shocking' (i'm an atheist and even i found her 'judas' stunt during easter to be offensive...like so many ppl who preach tolerance, she has none for anyone whose beliefs do not mirror her own)--even her voice is almost indecipherable from M's. Just another idiot with google and a gimmick...she plays the old b s artist's game of: 'throw enough sixteen syllable words together that mean absolutely nothing and ppl will assume they just aren't deep/intelligent enough to understand your point...." you actually pay attention to the rediculous things she says --you'll find she isn't really saying anything at all. just giving l ron hubbard a run for his money.... at least madonna was a little original...even if i didn't care for her music/her stunts. when will ppl learn it's what someone SAYS and DOES that matters---not how many ooh's and aah's they can illicite from a crowd......gaga may be great at cgi, but i'd wager none of it actually comes from her. like her dramatics, she is the intellectual equivalent of the face the corporate a-hats paste their glitter to....and a million silly teens all ooh and aah. congrats, hats off to de evolution.
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ASHTON CRUZ
So Meaty!
12:12 AM on 05/13/2011
yawn! For someone so not into her you seem to be wasting way too much time thinking about her to put your energy into such a long post. The sad thing is that I bet you have never even considered spending equal amount of time penning a positive board message, just as long and well thought of, about an artist you actually like. But by all means, hate away, its all the rage now.
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sort84
07:13 AM on 05/13/2011
As an atheist, I to was offended.

I thought this stunt should have gone waaaay further just to prove how large and damaging a fairytale religion of any kind truly is.

Life's too short to be offended for people that think you are a fool. Religious people will not protect you when you say that you're a non-believer, they will hang you.

Be offended by thins like their ministers refusing to house college volunteers because the congregation does not agree with a professor at that college...not by Gaga mouthing some rosary beads.

http://youtu.be/NM51qOpwcIM That is Gaga at an NYU music student...she really is talented.
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Isobel Quinn
and the word of the day is: schadenfreude
03:33 AM on 05/14/2011
if she had presented a well thought out argument, i would be applauding her. (re:rel) instead, she took the low road and just resorted to mockery; which i think i think is childish and wrong--and certainly doesn't disprove anything. i never said she wasn't a talented singer vocally--or that her theatrics don't require some talent, as well. i said that considering her lyrics/statements tend to be about as brilliant as britney spears, ppl shouldn't be wrapping their lives around this woman like she has something to offer beyond a few minutes of flashing lights--but ppl r turning her into this generational spokeswoman/spiritual leader--and i think it's absurd. she's never said or done anything to deserve that.
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3Nox
Turns into a hedgehog when messed with
11:05 PM on 05/12/2011
She looks like she's got a great body.
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emrogers
What could possibly go wrong?
09:02 AM on 05/13/2011
Not really - watch her HBO special. Like the pretty girl you went ot high school with. That said, I like the fact that she doesn't feel she needs to be perfect...