Gaga Stigmata Interview with Spex

By Kate Durbin & Meghan VicksBack in May 2011, Spex Magazine interviewed Gaga Stigmata editors Kate Durbin and Meghan Vicks. Excerpts from this interview appeared in a roundtable discussion in Spex #333, which also featured exclusive images of Lady Gaga by photographer Wolfgang Tillmans. Below are our responses in full to Spex’s questionnaire. Excerpts from this interview were translated into German for the 15 June 2011 edition of Spex.1) Why...

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Questions at the Edge: On Interpretation & Expectations, Lady Gaga & Gaga Stigmata

By Meghan VicksThis is the final piece in our series on “The Edge of Glory.” Click here for our previous analyses of the video.In his novel Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov delivers a poem written by the fictional John Shade, and commentary about the poem written by the apparently insane character, Charles Kinbote. In his “Foreword” to John Shade’s poem, Kinbote writes:Let me state that without my notes Shade’s text simply has no human reality at all...

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