Shadowing Practice: Lady Gaga - Interview for MSN Canada (11/19/2013) [Full] - Learn English Speaking with Video
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So how did you decide this?
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Oh, I don't know.
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I like wearing white sometimes.
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It feels very pure.
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Is this for me?
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Do you have like 20 outfits that you go through and say, I feel like this right now?
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Or do you pick them up the night before and say, this is for tomorrow?
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Oh, well, you know, I've just been changing for each interview to, uh, you know,
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um, I guess my way of saying thank you to all my fans here in Canada that I really miss them and, um, besides the one way I can say thank you, which is just thank you,
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uh, I just wanted to wear something different for each interview and I don't know, I was, I was feeling like a white pantsuit might be nice for this occasion.
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I appreciate it.
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Especially with your, your Abbey Road shirt.
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It's got a little bit of a blank there.
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Bleeding keys, it's really nice.
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So Old Gaga, we were just talking about that a little bit.
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You tweeted the other day that you've had that on your head for a while.
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Yes.
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So did you have all the ideas?
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Were these all your skits?
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No, no. They have amazing writers there at SNL, and they do like 50 skits a week of brand new writing every week.
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And it was just sort of the one idea that I brought to the table, and I had had it in my mind for a while.
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And the writers helped me bring it to life.
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They wrote a script from the ideas, and we just worked together, and I got to do it with Kenan, and I loved doing it.
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We were laughing and having a great time.
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It looked like it was fun.
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Even the performance looked like it was fun.
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It looked like, too, like Art Kelly was really trying to perform for you.
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You could see it in his eyes.
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He was really trying to please me.
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Yes.
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He's awesome.
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He's just an amazing performer, and it's been such a pure, real collaboration.
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We both really love the song and feel such a,
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I think, connection with one another over feeling like people write a lot of untrue things about us.
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And the song Do What You Want is all about being yourself
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and knowing truly who you are and knowing
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that your body's just the vehicle for your work and that your heart and your mind will always be protected by you.
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You just shot a video for it too?
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Yeah.
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Can you say anything?
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Do you want to keep it?
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Um, it's a fantastic video and it's a little longer than usual.
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We did a little storytelling, me and R.
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Kelly together.
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And it's a powerful video.
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I really love it.
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It shows me in a very, very raw side as well as him and then it shows us completely beaming
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and smiling into the camera as two very passionate performers.
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And I think it's sort of the juxtaposition of all these worlds and all the different Lady Gagas and R.
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Kelly's that you think you know coming together through the eyes of Terry Richardson.
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Is it going to debut on this Gaga TV on the app?
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Because I downloaded the Art Pop app yesterday, and there's two sections that are still locked.
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So what is Trackstar and Gaga TV?
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Well, the app in general, the ArtPop app, this is a creative process app.
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This is an app where we're inviting you to come inside our minds
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while we're in the middle of building and changing something over the next five years.
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So the app begins with an experience with Petka as she introduces you to the world of ArtPop
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and you generate your aura, which scans you and the light in the room.
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It also scans your interests as you choose them on the application, and then you can give them your location if you like,
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and then you get this aura that's a light source that changes over time, depending on how you interact with the app.
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And then there's Art House, which is a GIF -making program, which is going to continue to get upgrades every couple of
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weeks as we start to see how the fans engage with it, how they're learning how to use it.
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And then TrackStar is something that will be out in a few months
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that is a musical engineering system where you can actually use the stems from the album to make music.
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And then Gaga TV will be a more interactive way for me to share things with the fans directly through the app,
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for example, performances or debuting songs, all sorts of things.
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So the app is really a way for you to just engage in my creative process as me
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and the House of Gaga go on this app journey together.
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Talking about the stems of the songs, I want to know, I'm a bit of a sound geek.
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Cracks in the speakers on this record that you've created?
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You've created like some sort of crack?
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You can crack my speakers or you crack speakers to make sounds?
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I can crack your speakers.
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Sounds dirty.
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But how does one crack speakers?
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Well, it's really just about playing with frequencies when you're in the studio, when you're listening to how the instruments bang against the speakers in different ways.
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You know, with electronic music, you can really ride and gain things in like tons of different ways.
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And I spent a lot of time, like when I was working on Venus, on making this like really, really gooey bass line that is kind of wrong.
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But when it sits there in the right spot, it's just the way it smacks against the speakers and the way that it creates this, you know, boom, boom, boom,
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boom, boom, these sounds, it's just so futuristic and so otherworldly.
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And so I spent a lot of time experimenting with Sonics during, you know, it's a very psychedelic pop record.
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You said the live show is going to feel like the album cover looks.
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Yes.
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How so?
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It's going to be explosive and fun and everything that you love about where I began and where I am now.
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It's going to be a total rollercoaster through my life, and then it's going to be a moment, an experience.
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It'll be a nice thing I'll never forget.
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My shows always are.
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I work year -round to make sure that we put on the best show we can, and I go out there every night and give it everything I have.
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So the show will be what it always is, which is my heart, my heart and my hands bleeding for you to take.
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Knowing that, do you write with the show in mind, knowing there's going to be theatrical elements to the song?
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Sure, always.
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But I'm a theatrical performer as well, so this is something that has always been a part of my music, and it's been, you know,
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I think what the definition of art pop really is and putting art in the front, and this has been something that I've been doing since the beginning of my career,
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letting my references really be on my sleeves and showing my adoration for the history of art and the history of music.
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I like to think of art prop in all of my albums as like little suitcases
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so that if something were to explode and we were going to excavate artifacts back in time,
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if they only went as far back as 2013, I'd want in my album for there to be something from the past that was carried on.
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Things that I think are cool, like Mark Bolan and, you know, Richard Prince.
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You wrote the record, you composed it as a piece, you've said.
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Does that need to happen in the live show?
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Are you going to play it front to back?
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I don't know.
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I really want to, but I'm not sure yet.
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I mean, we're still putting the live show together, but I love the album start to finish.
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But there's always a story component to the live show, so once I start to get the story together, I'll figure out if I'm going to keep it in order or not.
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And by then, as well, I might have act two out from the album, and it might be nice to play both acts on the tour.
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See, I've heard act two is a lot more avant -garde, is this true?
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No, not necessarily, because actually in the beginning, I was thinking of sort of splitting the album up into two parts based on,
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you know, what I thought was more pop and what I thought was more art, but this was during actually the inception of the record and I wasn't even quite sure what art pop meant yet.
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I was like, what does this mean, what does this mean?
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Well, art pop for me means a lot of things, but one of the things that it means is I discovered
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that we were putting this pop art back onto the commercial mountains.
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We were taking this, you know, the soup can art, right, and putting it on the soup can.
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So we're taking the art of Jeff Koontz and we're putting it on the CD.
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You know, it's like, it's the reverse of Warhol.
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And so I was looking at all of this, and then I was listening to the music, and we were working, work, working, and then I realized it all had to be a hybrid.
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And I wrote the lyrics, a hybrid can withstand these things.
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My heart can beat with bricks and strings.
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My art pop could mean anything.
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And what I mean by that is that instead of feeling that I needed to compartmentalize things, I just completely freed up my mind, my image, my spirit, and I said, just make what you want to hear.
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And it will be a blend of those two things.
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It will be truly art pop but will really be a collaboration of those two things as opposed to keeping them separate.
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It felt wrong to keep them separate.
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It felt an injustice to the title.
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I've got to let you go.
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So we do something called five questions.
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Five quick questions.
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Sure.
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One more answer.
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Although I have a sixth because I have a special one for you.
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Okay.
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Road or studio?
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Road or studio?
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Well, sometimes the studio's on the road.
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What do I do?
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I like them both.
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Next question.
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Lennon or McCartney?
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Oh.
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Everyone gets these same five questions.
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That's mean.
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I mean, I love Paul, but I actually am a huge Lennon fan.
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I was a Lennon girl.
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When you hear a song, what usually hits you first?
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Lyrics, melody, or rhythm?
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All three at the same time.
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This is a special one for you.
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If someone's dining at Joanne in NYC, what dish do they order?
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Depends what you like.
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I always get just Joanne's spaghetti and meatballs.
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But I love the eggplant meatballs.
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They're brand new that my dad just started making.
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They're delicious.
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Nice.
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I don't know if they're completely veggie.
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I think it's chicken with eggplant, but it's so delicious.
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But there are delicious veggie dishes there.
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My father has a great restaurant.
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I'm so proud of him.
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Everybody was trying to tear it down, you know?
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Because I come from like a famous family now.
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I mean, not my whole life, my family was not famous at all.
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But now that my career's taken off, they really try to target your family.
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And I'm just so proud of my dad to see his restaurant doing well now.
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I was like, you can do it.
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Don't listen to what they say, Dad.
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You know your food's good.
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If someone's never heard Lady Gaga before, what song do they start with?
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an art pop it could be oh well i would i'm gonna choose an art pop song
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if you've never heard me before i would tell them to listen to do what you want right now yeah
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because it that's why it's out really i think it shows
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such a different side of my songwriting a different side of
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my voice a different type of love song a different sort of compassion
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and dual meaning you know uh I often have these quite like you know sort of catchy metaphors
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and this one is is a catchy metaphor
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but it's it doesn't rely as much on like a concept as it does on a really passionate statement
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but you know that in my career deciding
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that I'm gonna do what I want to do and
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and not ever let anyone make me feel like I shouldn't
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be doing what I want to do that's why I'm the artist
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and and They are the label or they are the public.
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That's why you are the artist and they are the public.
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I want my fans to, through art pop, feel a tremendous sense of joy and creativity, like they can do anything, not just because they love themselves,
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but now that they know that through loving themselves, they were able to withstand the challenges and now they can celebrate.
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In one word, Lady Gaga.
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Fearless.
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Nice.
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Thank you.
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Appreciate it.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 192 sentences and 2256 words to shadow. The speech runs for 11:11. The speaker talks fast, about 202 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 less common words from the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
- crack /kɹæk/ (noun) — A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
- boom /bum/ (verb) — To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
- delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/ (adjective) — Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.
- performer /pɚˈfɔɹmɚ/ (noun) — One who performs for, or entertains, an audience.
- engage /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ/ (verb) — To engross or hold the attention of; to keep busy or occupied.
- lyrics /ˈlɪɹ.ɪks/ (noun) — The words to a song (or other vocal music).
- stem /stɛm/ (noun) — The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
- collaboration /kəˌlæbəˈɹeɪʃən/ (noun) — The act of collaborating.
- dish /dɪʃ/ (noun) — A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
- depend /dɪˈpɛnd/ (verb) — To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition
- soup /sup/ (noun) — Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food…
- hybrid /ˈhaɪ.bɹɪd/ (noun) — Offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent strains.
- passionate /ˈpæʃənɪt/ (adjective) — Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
- scan /skæn/ (verb) — To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
- metaphor /ˈmɛt.ə.fɚ/ (noun) — The use of a word, phrase, concept, or set of concepts to refer to something other than its literal meaning, invoking an implicit similarity between the thing…
Phrasal verbs you will hear
- talk about (verb) — Used to draw attention to the speaker's characterization of someone or something.
- act on (verb) — To act decisively on the basis of information received or deduced.
- back in (verb) — To reverse a vehicle into a space.
- back onto (verb) — To reverse a vehicle onto something.
- carry on /ˈkæɹi ˈɑn/ (verb) — To take baggage or luggage onto an airplane, rather than check it.
- come from (verb) — To have as one's origin, birthplace or nationality.
- come together /ˈkʌm tʊˈɡɛðɚ/ (verb) — To assemble; to congregate; to combine.
- figure out (verb) — To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce.
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 43 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: theatrical /θiˈætɹɪkəl/, withstand /wɪðˈstænd/, sixth /sɪksθ/, rhythm /ˈɹɪð.əm/, otherworldly /ˌʌðəɹˈwɜɹl(d)li/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, collaboration /kəˌlæbəˈɹeɪʃən/, dish /dɪʃ/, passionate /ˈpæʃənɪt/, occasion /əˈkeɪ̯ʒən/
- Long words — get the stress right: collaboration /kəˌlæbəˈɹeɪʃən/, theatrical /θiˈætɹɪkəl/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, experiment /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mənt/, interactive /ˌɪn.tɚˈæk.tɪv/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like crack, boom, delicious.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | I've just been changing · has been something |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | you've created · has always been · you've said |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be protected · are still locked · was carried |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | you, which is · House, which is |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.