Lady Gaga has posed naked for the latest issue of Paper magazine, ahead of the release of her sixth album, Chromatica.
In the past, Paper magazine has been responsible for Kim Kardashian’s instantly iconic Break The Internet photo-shoot, as well featuring strikingly demure shots of former child star Amanda Bynes.
As revealed on Monday, the Stupid Love singer is the latest star to be given an incredible cover shoot with the magazine, appearing nude as a half-human, half-cyborg.For the photo-shoot, the star was given a full body scan by 3D cameras, after which Belgian artist Frederik Heyman, used a “Gaga avatar” to recreate her image in “various digitally constructed environments”.
Describing the themes of the shoot in her accompanying interview, Gaga insisted she doesn’t “like futurism for the sake of it”, but noted: “I’ve been obsessed with the future for so long, going, ’What’s next?’. And then I turned back and looked at my life. I unpacked all the things I’ve learned that have helped me and that have hurt me, and that taught me infinitely more.
“Now, [the past] informs my work. It’s like I was blocked because I was so obsessed with what was next, what was coming, what does it mean to go forward, that I didn’t realize I was already in the future. And where we are, where we stand in the present, is powerful.”
So yes, if you’re wondering, she’s still very much the same Gaga as always.
In the same interview, she discusses a collaboration with a “fellow female pop star”, one who has “experienced immense trauma while in the public eye”, heavily rumoured to be Ariana Grande.“I sat with her and we talked about our lives,” Gaga explained. “It’s two women having a conversation about how to keep going and how to be grateful for what you do.”
Gaga’s new album Chromatica was trailed by the single Stupid Love, which reached the
UK top 10 earlier this month, weeks after leaking online.
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