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Lady Gaga in Rolling Stone on The Dresden Dolls’ influence. 🥰
🕑 Added 2025-12-18 19:44:13 +0000 UTCMorning loves.
Greetings from Boston, two days to go til leaving for Christmas and tour down under.
This is a nice little tidbit to wake up to…
Lady Gaga talking to Rolling Stone about The Dresden Dolls’ early influence on her music/style. Punk Cabaret Is Freedom, rah rah ah ah ah…
Here’s the whole interview: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lady-gaga-life-in-10-songs-video-1235483426/.
I remember when she was little Gaga and cited the Dolls as an influence on her MySpace page, we were so chuffed. When was that…2008? Around the time I wrote my silly little spontaneous ukulele blog song lit by flashlight defending her god-given right to be a pop star if she wanted to be. People were giving her shit for abandoning her arty-farty roots and going mainstream. I was like; people, shut the fuck up.
I think Gaga has done an incredible job with her career and choices. She’s worked her ass off and dealt with a ton of hatred and blows and still, she persists and charts her own course. Hail.
Enjoy “Gaga Palmer Madonna”:
https://youtu.be/9dxDREaCyjE?si=bJgX7G8-B6wBNYT6
I miss that internet, when things like this felt so fresh and exciting.
Sigh.
……
I posted this to socials (feel free to go to me/dolls and share):
Go, Gaga, go! In the long lineage of theater kids who keep the freak flag flying, we salute you. 🫡 Thanks to all the people who sent this link over to us. Nothing happens in a vacuum.
Music is an endless conversation between artistic souls, through space and time. Some of the Dolls early influences: The Doors, The Muppets, The Clash, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Fugazi, Weird Al, Beethoven, Laurie Anderson, Black Flag, Ani Difranco, The Cure, Depeche Mode, SWANS, Current 93, Thelonious Monk, Elvin Jones, Robyn Hitchcock(now on tour!), Nick Cave, The Legendary Pink Dots, PJ Harvey, athe Thompson Twins, Kurt Weill, Nirvana, Madonna, King Missile, Diamanda Galas….and the list goes on. Forever. Love to all on the ride. Music saves.
🎹🥁
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Xx
A
Comments
Nicola Sykes
The next video that YouTube gave me after gaga palmer Madonna was "the house I grew up in". Nostalgic, sweet, and also... makes me wonder about the story since you're back there again ❤️. And God, I miss the old days of the internet.
Scott Meekins
Gaga was so great in Ridley Scott's House of Gucci (2021).
Amanda Palmer
Always fine to leave and come back. Welcome home. ♥️♥️♥️
Deana LeBlanc
That’s nice about her mentioning the dolls. I wish I could see baby Gaga watching the Dresden dolls. / I will have to watch the video at some point. I was such a Gaga head. She was my fav pop star of that era- and I followed closely and studied the imagery of each video drop - But I remember the first time I heard her song just dance just on the radio driving at night in my 1997 Saturn, the message I got was to let go of the sadness of the times with the Iraq war looming over our heads which we were feeling really down about at the time, and then much later I heard her comment something very similar about that song in an interview and I thought it was cool that the message got through to me from the song. I could go on and on about her. I’m glad she’s come out happy (strong, honest) after all she’s been through and the pressures of her identity.
EmVT
🤘🎪 long live the punk cabaret 🖤❤️
Judy Donofrio
Beautiful! And 16 years ago to the day!
Dea
Scathingly* sorry, typo
Kell Rippy
Holy shit that was 16 years ago. Unbelievable. Some of my fondest internet memories include #LOFNOTC. I've been reminding people for years that Gaga listed the Dolls as an influence in her early career and was beginning to wonder if anyone else remembered.
Amanda Palmer
🥳♥️🥳love you hay
Pedro B. Gorman
Ah, Amanda! To quote you back at yourself (this one sent shivers up my spine) "I miss that internet, when things like this felt so fresh and exciting." So do I, my dear, so do I! ❤️ And, HOW the fuck did I not know your "Gaga Palmer Madonna" even existed?!?! (Answer: I was too busy being a heroin addict and missed many beautiful things going on around me in 2008 😂😂😂🙈) I also wanted to say this to you, Amanda: sorry I dropped off your Patreon radar! It was completely not related to your output, or anything at all, it's just that life got busy (for the better) and now I finally have time again (life is still better)...so there! ❤️ I still love you, I still revere everything that you've done and continue to do for women, empathy, art, kindness, real-time emotional healing and the beautiful, visceral messiness of figuring ourselves out in this Jenga-tower-built-on-swampy-ground that is life in 2025 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Dea
I love it when musicians shout out fellow musicians, as Gaga did, in this interview - because true influence (as opposed to that sponsored as "content") is an ephemeral, ever-changing sphere, merging into other, ever-changing spheres, if we're being honest about it. It's homage, tribute, adoration...not intellectual theft, or reductiveness (as Madonna once scathing claimed, re Lady Gaga). While I'm not a bona fide Gaga fan, this woman is clearly a creative powerhouse, a gifted singer-songwriter, and unquestionably unique and original, in her genre; so, not surprising at all, actually, that she loves The Dresden Dolls:) Go, Gaga, Girl!
Adrienne Danielle
I was a Dresden Dolls and Gaga loving senior in high school when you first posted that “ Gaga Palmer Madonna” video. I can’t believe it’s been 16 years since then. 🤯 It feels like a different lifetime. I also really miss that internet.
Hayley Rosenblum
How fucking cool to have her cite the Dolls as an influence now, amongst all the influences she's talking about in the Rolling Stone profile. Validates the fever dream of what we knew to be true of the Myspace, that got lost in the waves of time. Hell to the yes.
