Lady Gaga is baring it all on the latest cover of PAPER magazine.
The pop star donned her birthday suit for a bizarre, robot-themed cover shoot for the publication’s “Spring Transformation Issue,” in which she dishes on her forthcoming album, Chromatica, and coping with her depression.
Gaga is pictured on her knees, arched backward with her rear-end facing the camera. Belgian artist Frederik Heyman and creative director Nicola Formichetti used 3D scanning and CGI to depict the 33-year-old singer connected to a network of cables, with her scalp and lower leg removed to reveal a robotic core.
The set complements the sci-fi world Gaga built in the video for Chromatica’s first single, the synth-heave dance number “Stupid Love.” The ever-changing entertainer told PAPER the track was almost ditched as the lead single after leaking weeks early this January.
“There was a minute where me and my manager, Bobby, were talking, ‘Do we change the single?’ We’d just spent months and months developing this video and choreography. And I said, ‘Nope!’” she told PAPER.
“You know why? Because the song, when it’s mixed, mastered and finished with the visuals, and everything I have to say about it — when all those things come together at once, that will be the art piece I’m making,” she said. “Not a leak.”
Gaga said she was still struggling with clinical depression, her past traumas and her 2017 Fibromyalgia diagnosis — and that only reinforced wanting to return to her dance-pop roots on her latest record.
“I will do whatever it takes to make the world dance and smile,” she said. “I want to put out a record that forces people to rejoice even in their saddest moments. And by the way, I’m not standing over here with a flag going, ‘I’m all healed, everything’s perfect.’ It’s not; it’s a fight all the time. I still work on myself constantly. I have bad days, I have good days.”
She told PAPER that processing being raped repeatedly as a 19-year-old head-on is the “bravest step you can take as a human.”
“I’ve met people who have said to me, while sucking down bottles and bottles of wine and doing drugs, ‘I will never do what you did. I will never take care of my heart and my emotions the way that you have.’’ she said. “And it really made me think about what a step it was for me in my life to decide to get healthy mentally.”
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