I have some sad news for the people problematically shipping Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper: She might—and this is a big might—be seeing someone else. According to Us Weekly, Mother Monster has recently been hanging out with actor Jeremy Renner.
But not so fast: Sources tell the magazine Gaga and Renner’s relationship isn’t romantic yet. All we know, at this point, is the two are allegedly “spending a lot of time” together.
Gaga’s legion of Little Monsters claim to have receipts that at least prove she and Renner are friendly. According to one fan, the two stars hung out at the Black Rabbit Rose in Los Angeles last week, where Gaga gave an impromptu jazz performance. A Renner fan account on Twitter posted a video of Gaga’s performance and claims you can hear his voice in the background. Of course, take both of these tidbits with grains of salt. We won’t know anything definitive about Renner and Gaga’s relationship until one of them says something.
Fans on Twitter are more confused about this rumored coupling than anything else:
This is the second romance rumor involving Lady Gaga to pop up this year. As I mentioned earlier, some people are convinced she and her A Star Is Born costar Bradley Cooper are an item, even though he has a girlfriend and child. Their intimate performance of “Shallow” at the 2019 Oscars gave this rumor new life—but Gaga shut it down during an interview with Jimmy Kimmel.
“Yes, people saw love and guess what? That’s what we wanted you to see,” Gaga said, chalking up her and Cooper’s chemistry to just good acting. “[‘Shallow’] is a love song; A Star Is Born is a love story. It was so important to both of us that we were connected the entire time…. When you’re singing love songs, that’s what you want people to feel.”
When it comes to red carpets, Lady Gaga has a pretty consistent approach: go big or go home. From arriving to the 2013 American Music Awards on a fake horse to the orbit she brought to the 2010 Grammys and, of course, the egg, Mother Monster isn’t one to just hit the step-and-repeat with a smile. She brings her A-game—and, more often than not, loads of props.
But the type of red-carpet extravagance Gaga has been serving lately is different. It’s not so much bizarre or avant-garde as it is just…fabulous. That’s not a word I use often, but it perfectly describes her photos since last fall. Gaga has been full-on basking in herself lately, and I’m living for it.
Just look at any of the red carpet pics she took at the Oscars, Golden Globes, or, most recently, an event honoring her hairstylist, Frederic Aspiras. Their translation, in my opinion, is, “Yup, it’s me: Lady Gaga. Legends only!” Which is 100 percent accurate. I mean, if I were Lady Gaga, I’d literally take every opportunity to tell the world, “I’m Lady Gaga!” These recent red-carpet pics do that without words, and they’re national treasures.
The Lady Gaga-Bradley Cooper rumors just won’t die, and this latest one really takes the cake. A tabloid published a report this week claiming the Joanne singer is pregnant but doesn’t know if her A Star Is Born co-star or her ex-fiancé, Christian Carino, is the father. Of course, this isn’t true—but just in case you’re skeptical, Gaga took to Twitter to shut it down. And she dropped an even bigger surprise in its place.
“Rumors I’m pregnant? Yeah, I’m pregnant with #LG6,” Gaga tweeted Tuesday night, March 12. That’s right, people: Lady Gaga isn’t pregnant, but she does officially have an album on the way.
Here’s the thing: Gaga has said in the past she’s working on a new record, but her dubbing it #LG6 on Twitter suggests it’s nearing completion and a release. Fans have been waiting for this moment for a while now, and the reactions online prove it.
Below, check out Gaga’s tweet:
And her fan reactions:
We don’t have an album release date right now, but fans can expect it to drop this year—maybe even in a matter of months. Awards season is over, and Gaga has a long stretch of time before her next Enigma Vegas show on May 30. It seems like the perfect opportunity to tackle a big project…like her sixth studio album.
It’s hard to venture where Gaga will go music-wise. After all, the acoustic-inspired Joanne from 2016 came out of left field. But the neon-tinged vibe of her Enigma show, not to mention her glam-pop rendition of “Shallow” at the Grammys, suggest she’ll return to her electronic roots. Over the summer, the cutting-edge DJ Sophie revealed she worked with Gaga on new music, which adds fuel to this fire too. As a Gaga diehard, I’m fully on board with this. No one makes pop music like Lady Gaga, and the world could use some “Just Dance” magic right about now.
You know an Oscars performance for Best Song is note-worthy when we’re all still talking about it many days later. But, just in case you missed it, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper gave an intimate performance of their hit song “Shallow” from A Star Is Born, and the Internet collectively lost its mind with rampant speculation about whether the two were more than just friends and co-stars. It was an incredible live moment filled with chemistry, yes, but the response was more than a little problematic.
Now, Lady Gaga is finally speaking out about the rumors of their supposed affair during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.
“Social media, quite frankly, is the toilet of the Internet,” she told Jimmy Kimmel of the commentary, while offering up an eye roll to end all eye rolls. “And what it has done to pop culture is just, like, abysmal.” So far, we’re detecting no lies here.
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“Yes, people saw love and guess what? That’s what we wanted you to see,” Gaga continued. She added that while she’s not usually one to relinquish control of her live performance vibe, she let Cooper direct the entire thing, down to the lighting. “[Shallow] is a love song, A Star Is Born is a love story,” she explained. “It was so important to both of us that we were connected the entire time…. When you’re singing love songs, that’s what you want people to feel.”
Gaga noted that she’s been doing lovey duets with her “arms wrapped around Tony Bennett” for years and hasn’t been confronted with the same rumors and innuendo. So, yeah, we can all just shut down those Gaga/Cooper ‘ship rumors right now. Mostly, she’s just really proud of her friend for getting up there and singing live in front of the world.
“My favorite thing about the whole experience was I was just so excited for people, not only at home, but our peers in the room to see him sing live and know that he sang every take live in this movie every single time,” she said. “I mean, all of it. There’s no lip synching.” And because Gaga is the best sport, she even reenacted that now-iconic head tilt with Kimmel.
Watch the full interview below.
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Now that Lady Gaga has finally set the record straight, it’s probably time for us all to let the old ways (of conjuring a relationship between two costars) die.
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper‘s performance of “Shallow” at the 2019 Oscars currently has the Internet buzzing. It was a gorgeous rendition, yes, but people seem more interested in what’s going on between Cooper and Gaga offstage. The speculation that these two are more than friends is out of control—and problematic. As we pointed out yesterday, Gaga and Cooper were tasked with developing enough chemistry to sell A Star Is Born, so of course their performance at the Oscars had sparks. They’re actors.
Neither of them has directly addressed these rumors, but Gaga did call Cooper a “true friend” on Twitter late Monday night, February 25. “Nothing could be more special than sharing this moment at the Oscars with a true friend and artistic genius,” she wrote alongside a photo of herself and Cooper singing at the Oscars. Take a look at the message for yourself, below:
And here’s the pic she used of the performance:
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Lady Gaga and her “Shallow” cowriters Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando, and Andrew Wyatt won the Oscar for Best Original Song. In her emotional speech, Gaga thanked her sister and Cooper before opening up about her own showbiz journey. “I’ve worked hard for a long time, and it’s not about winning. It’s about is not giving up. If you have a dream, fight for it. There’s a discipline for passion,” she said. “And it’s not about how many times you get rejected or you fall down or you’re beaten up. It’s about how many times you stand up and are brave and you keep on going.”
In the Oscars press room, Gaga revealed what Cooper said to her right before they hit the stage to sing “Shallow.” “One of the hardest things in life is to be brave enough to be yourself. I wish to everyone that is going to that celebration to feel a joy inside of them,” Gaga said, recalling Cooper’s words. “That’s actually what Bradley said to me yesterday, right before we did our last rehearsal for this performance of ‘Shallow,’ He said, ‘Let’s just drop a little bit of joy.’ And I said, ‘OK.’ And turns out, joy did a whole lot for me.”
If you didn’t watch the Oscars last night and only tuned into the top headlines, you’d think Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper made out on top of a piano while his girlfriend and the mother of his child, Irina Shayk, looked on—and then everyone went home and called it a night.
Literally as I write this, the Today show is breathlessly declaring “Gaga & Bradley steal the show” as tweets about their, let’s say, intimate “Shallow” performance scroll across the screen. That’s tame compared with what’s happening in my news feed, where the language becomes increasingly sexual. “Everyone was horny” for Gaga and Cooper’s performance, according to one overly excited headline, while another says people are “shipping” the costars. Several writers described feeling “pregnant” after watching their duet. Over on Twitter the speculation and (admittedly hilarious) memes are loud and persistent:
The (unproven) narrative circling the Internet right now is essentially this: Lady Gaga split from her fiancé because she and Bradley Cooper are maybe-definitely in love, and everyone’s extremely into it. They “seem like a couple” at Oscars parties. Their chemistry is “undeniable.” Fans on Twitter are actively rooting for them to get together.
It gets even weirder once you add Shayk to the picture. I saw the same outlet describe Cooper and Shayk’s Oscars red-carpet PDA as “picture perfect” while simultaneously going off the deep end (pun intended) into Gaga and Cooper’s supposed affair. A “jealous” Shayk sat between the two all night, never mind that’s just how the Oscars seating chart works. And after Shayk gave her boyfriend and Gaga a standing ovation following their performance, people praised her—as if Shayk, at best, proved she’s above the rumors and, at worse, is completely clueless.
With all the noise, it’s hard to determine what the truth is. Did Gaga and Cooper’s performance feel incredibly intimate? Yes, I have eyes. Do they clearly have a close connection? Of course, though I think it’s important to remember that these two had to build a believable chemistry to sell A Star Is Born tickets. On the flip side, did Cooper and Shayk look happy together on the Oscars red carpet? Yup, and she was by his—and Gaga’s—side all night, looking ostensibly happy and not at all uncomfortable, annoyed, or awkward.
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We don’t know what’s really going on with these three—but what I do find interesting is the wide-spread support for Gaga and Cooper to be together. It’s striking to me because society normally loves to hate on the other woman, especially if she is viewed as “taking” the man away from the mother of his child. People are still not over Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s affair. When they divorced in 2016, tabloids circled like hawks to shout that Jolie was discovering what goes around comes around. The New York Post‘s front page that week was a picture of Aniston laughing, a full-circle moment for Team Jen.
And look what’s been happening recently to Jordyn Woods: Her removal from the Kardashian’s inner circle after reportedly hooking up with Tristan Thompson, father to Khloé Kardashian’s daughter and a brother-in-law of sorts to Woods’ best friend Kylie Jenner, has been treated as a joke. Something she completely deserved because of her actions. Khloé, meanwhile, has become the new Jen Aniston—even The Bachelorette was hoping to cast her as the next lead. People cheer that Woods’ life and career are over, but root for Cooper to end his relationship and be with Gaga? Because what, they look hot cuddling next to each other at a piano?
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