Don’t Let Larry King Interview Drying Paint, Let Alone Lady Gaga
It was like watching Glenn Beck interview Rep. Eric Massa: An hour of television that could’ve been a thrilling moment in on-air chatting, Larry King’s interview with Lady Gaga was instead a boring and trivial creampuff session between two people who wear suspenders.
King, notorious for conducting his research on Wikipedia, asks the questions that have been covered a thousand times before: How’d you get your name? Did you always want to be a pop star? Are you wearing underwear?
Here’s the part about Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and Madonna and the Catholic Church, topics only one of which we should really value her thoughts on above anybody else’s. Surprise: You already know what she’s going to say.
And here’s the part where King asks whether she prefers penises or vaginas. Jesus.
No, Larry King’s interviews with young ingenues are not for the fans she has already; they’re for 70-year-olds who see Gaga on the cover of Time and go, “Who?” Essentially, Larry King.
I like Larry King. I think he’s a great guy and a good interviewer. The problem was Lady Gaga. I like her music a lot but she acts strange in interviews. She really isn’t that articulate. I like her better when she’s singing than when she’s talking.
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@Tommy: A “good interviewer”? She answers his questions and he just moves down the list of his pre-written questions as if she hasn’t given an answer. I wouldn’t call that a good interviewer.
He’s older, he’s tired of interviewing people who he couldn’t care less about, I get it. But to say he had no part in this being a bad interview is sort of comical. GaGa at least went on an elaborated after answering the one-liner questions to cut up the “question, answer, question, answer, rinse and repeat” monotony.
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the interview was BOOOORING! and lady gaga seemed really tired. when asked what are her models, she said her mother and lady di. after a while she remembered to say david bowie. it seemed really really fake. i adore lady gaga, but i was disappointed. plus, the alejandro preview looked like a copy of madonna’s vogue.
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@wannabegay2: is it a copy of vogue simply because it’s black and white? apart from that and her outfit in that one shot, i fail to see how it’s copying it… homage to perhaps, but then all of gaga’s work is homage/parody/ironic copy…
the interview was boring as sh*t however. The time delay made the questiosn far mpre stilted than it was and it’s obvious neither of them particularly care for the other. Gaga’s interviews are often very dependent on who the interviewer is. The two hour interview she gave live streaming the other night was awesome, she connected with the interviewer and the camerawoman.
Whereas on this one, or the jonathon ross interview she did for example, she didn’t want to be there…
[;us she’d still be exhausted from the monster ball and all that jazz… adds up to an exceedingly frustrating interview
mind you, King was on very bad form himself… bad bad questions… nothing worse than someone interviewing someone when they have no idea who they are and what they do
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Respectfully, I do think it’s important for positive gay icons to be in the limelight. Though trite and perhaps boring, this interview served a purpose: to integrate a culture that needs support and acceptance.