Lady Gaga: 'New song is not about Taylor Kinney'
Lady Gaga insists her new song is not about her ex-fiance Taylor Kinney.
The superstar has returned to the pop world with Perfect Illusion, her first solo track in three years - and the lyrics have thrown up suggestions it's all about her love split from Kinney, who split from the singer in July (16) after five years together.
Gaga made her long-awaited comeback on Friday (09Sep16) after a
three-year absence from making solo music, dropping her new song
and performing a secret set in a tiny London venue.
Her new song references a failed romance in the chorus hook: "It
wasn't love, it wasn't love, it was a perfect illusion," but Gaga
explains while part of the song is about the type of love she has
experienced, it's not specifically about her ex-fiance.
"I love Taylor so, so much and this song is not a hit out against
Taylor," she told SiriusXM host Andy Cohen. "This song is just
about... I'm sure not only feelings that I've had but that he's
had, that my friends have had, my sister has in her relationship...
it's a record about all of us. And I would never use my song or
want to use the public to hurt anyone that I love so much."
The 30-year-old went on to explain to SiriusXM host Sway Calloway
the song is more about the public's perception of her.
"(The) illusion that people have of me every day... and I think
that that's transferred to everyone with social media," she said.
"Now we all have these perfect illusions that we get to create on
our different accounts and you feel like you've got to live up to
that in real life.
"But this song's also just about being so intoxicated by love or
lust...," she continued. "The song is about waking up one day and
realizing you were so intoxicated by something but it just wasn't
real and the rage you feel about that. It's a song about being
angry when love doesn't work out."