Lady Gaga appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, where she gave her first big post-Oscars interview. And there, once and for all, she gave her response to those online convinced that because she and Bradley Cooper had visible chemistry onstage at the Oscars, they were romantically involved in real-life. The reality is they’re professionals performing a love song, and every little detail was staged to sell the world on the romance lyrically in the song. “When you’re singing love songs, that’s what you want people to feel,” Gaga summed up. “I’m an artist. I guess we did a good job. Fooled ya!”
Here, Gaga’s full remarks where she laid out how everything was very deliberately put together:
“First of all, social media, quite frankly, is the toilet of the internet,” Gaga started of the dating gossip. “And what it has done to pop culture is just like, abysmal. And yeah, people saw love, and guess what? That’s what we wanted you to see. I mean, this is a love song, ‘Shallow.’ The movie, A Star Is Born, it’s a love story. We worked so hard. We worked all week on that performance. Bradley, who—you know, I like, never relinquish control at a live stage performance, I’ve done a million of them—he directed this film. And he directed all of the musical moments in the film, and he directed obviously ‘Shallow,’ the moment in the film. So I knew that he had the vision for how it should go. And so I was like, what do you think, Bradley? And he gave me—he laid it all out, everything that you saw, the way that it was shot, the way that they push the piano out—you saw them put the piano together and us walk up on stage, no intro—all of that, that was all him. And he even also was the one that was like, I think that the audience should be lit. So that we’re not just lit, the audience is lit so then I called Roy Bennett who I work with, he does my lighting, and I’m like, ‘We need to light the entire room with amber. It’s because Bradley wants honeycomb, and we gotta give him what he wants.’ And you know, it was just great.”
“And from a performance perspective, it was so important to both of us that we were connected the entire time,” she continued. “I mean look, I’ve had my arms wrapped around Tony Bennett for three years touring the world. When you’re singing love songs, that’s what you want people to feel.”
Kimmel then teasingly asked if she was having an affair with Tony Bennett.
“No, no,” Gaga responded. “I’m an artist. I guess we did a good job. Fooled ya!”
Watch her full interview below:
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