The Fame Kills: 'Born This Way'
Eating For Free
Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson
4.8 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture landscape: Where it comes from, who wields it, and who suffers at the hands of it. Find out the stories behind the stories, as together they look beyond the headlines of troublesome YouTubers or scandal-ridden A-Listers, and delve deep into the inner workings of Hollywood's favorite pastime. The truth, they've found, is definitely stranger than any gossip.
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Sources:
- The Lady Gaga Anthem That Previewed a Decade of Culture Wars, 02/11/21 [The Atlantic]
- Growing Up Gaga, NY Mag, 03/26/10 [NYM]
- Lady Gaga: Our Lady of Pop, 02/09/11 [Vogue]
- Lady Gaga's new gay anthem, 02/14/11 [Guardian]
- How 'Born This Way' Was Born: An LGBT Anthem's Pedigree, 01/30/19 [NPR]
- The Lady Gaga backlash begins, 04/20/11 [Guardian]
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm I'm a I'm a |
| 0:21.6 | I'm |
| 0:22.6 | I'm |
| 0:23.6 | I'm |
| 0:25.6 | I'm |
| 0:26.6 | I'm |
| 0:27.6 | I'm |
| 0:28.6 | I'm going to be. I'm This is the manifesto of Mother Monster. |
| 1:02.6 | On G-O-A-T. |
| 1:05.2 | A government-owned alien territory in space. |
| 1:09.0 | A birth of magnificent and magical proportions took place. |
| 1:13.5 | But the birth was not finite. |
| 1:16.1 | It was infinite. |
| 1:18.1 | As the wombs numbered. |
| 1:20.4 | And the mitosis of the future began. |
| 1:23.7 | It was perceived that this infamous moment in life is not temporal. |
| 1:29.9 | It is eternal. |
| 1:32.2 | And thus began the beginning of the new race. |
| 1:35.9 | A race within the race of humanity. |
| 1:39.1 | A race which bears no prejudice. |
| 1:42.2 | No judgment. |
| 1:43.9 | But boundless freedom. |
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