Dear Lady Gaga…

I don’t care that you sing about cigarette stained lies and smoke cancer-causing and voice-destroying cigarettes in every one of your videos, because, that’s art or whatever. But why promote drugs, drinking and smoking in interviews? Even though she says she doesn’t use that many drugs anymore, she says – “A little MDMA once in a while never killed anybody.” – which is not only not true, but also a stupid thing to say when most of your fan base isn’t even old enough to drink. MDMA (otherwise known as ecstasy) causes so many physical and mental problems it would be obnoxious to list them. It’s a rationalization that kids and young adults don’t need, Oh this didn’t kill anybody. Well, it did put people into hospitals and give them chronic depression, is that enough?

Lady Gaga goes on to say that she drinks whiskey and smokes cigarettes because it frees her mind. Later she says, “But I care about my voice. The thrill of my voice being healthy on stage is really special. I take care of myself.”

I really wouldn’t care so much if I didn’t know how young Lady GaGa fans are and how kids look up to people like this. They appropriate their lifestyles onto their own. Kids can be smart, and make choices for themselves, but alot of them fall into hero worship especially with someone so generational and eclectic as Gaga.

Then again she probably knows the effect she has on people. Yet she says this stuff anyway. Performance art perhaps?

Sad.