“What I really want to say is that it is really hard sometimes for women in music. It’s like a fucking boys club that we just can’t get into.”
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“I tried for so long, I just really wanted to be taken seriously as a musician for my intelligence more than my body ever in this business. You don’t always feel like when you’re working that people believe that you have a musical background, that you understand what you’re doing because you’re a female.”
According to reports, the audience, which included Gaga’s mom and fiancé Taylor Kinney, was incredibly receptive to the speech and broke out into applause when she called the industry a “boys club.”
Gaga was being honored for her work in the industry both as performer and songwriter. Earlier this week, she was nominated for a Golden Globe for her work on Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story.
She was also nominated for a Grammy for her contribution to The Hunting Ground, a documentary about campus rape. In a separate event earlier this week, Gaga spoke openly about her own rape and its aftermath. “Because of the way that I dress, and the way that I’m provocative as a person, I thought that I had brought it on myself in some way, that it was my fault,” she told the panel.
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