
Adam Cronstedt @adancycrew
METTING GAGA BACKSTAGE
METTING GAGA BACKSTAGE
On the 31st of August me, my boyfriend and my friends met her! Mother Monster!
We had come up with an amazing gift to giver her on stage (as you all know it's very competitive).
We had bought a digital camera with the capacity of 25 pictures on it, a petite box we had written whore on and a barbie card where we had smudged the barbie and written "Kill The Bitch".
We took some photos of us during the day and put the cam in the box when the show started.
I gave the box to my friend and told her to throw it onstage after Bad Kids.
Due to overexcitement she by mistake threw the box on stage just before Bad Kids had ended wich led to a dancer, Black Jesus, picking up our box and remove it from Gagas sight. We started shouting and screaming and crying at him that he would give it to Gaga, at first he didn't seem to hear us but seriously, we were front line, overly make-upped and had crazy outfits so he put the box in front of her.
And this is when my heart stopped beating.
She heard us shouting and looked at the box and took it. She asked my friends name and marked how hard it was to open the box "Have you wrapped this thing for life?"
She opens it and laughs, sees the camera and asks if we want her to take a picture. Aggressively as we are we're shouting NO and she gets so confused. Luckily Black Jesus sees the card in the bottom and gives it to GaGa.
"Oh, thank you, slut whore, hooker bitch... thank you :)
On this camera there are 24 pictures taken by us during the day, the last one we saved for four of us together"
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"Oh that's so sweet, you wanna come backstage?"
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After that I can hardly remember what happened after. I just remember how my friends were crying, the whole audience was screaming, people were jumping on us. When Ed came and gave us backstage passes there where so many people holding their hands out to try get backstage. It was almost so I wouldn't get backstage because GaGa had counted us wrong. At last I got the wristband and after Scheisse we had to go to the side of the Monster Pit. I remember meeting some of the people from the line and the key holders in our "Backstage" area besides the stage. I hugged them and we screamed and cried.
After the show we were taken backstage to first fill some forms (if any pictures were taken they could be published etc.)
I saw Starlight walking past us greeting us. Later some random girl waked by us with Fozzi :D :D
after ONE and a HALF our we finally got to meet her.
It was so peaceful, we walked in to the room 12 of us. She sat on her bed and told us to get in it. She greeted us and gave the keyholder the key and said some few words. Then she asked us if we had any questions.
We talked about ARTPOP and DISNEY and everything new in her life. I was so shy, or you know, in a place where it actually was unimaginable to speak, I just sat there while gaga watched me try to say something. After a while when everyone had their time I finally found courage to talk.
I wanted to give her a gift, an USB with four of my short films in it. I told her there was a story behind them and it was kind of personal. She got shocked and asked if it was okay if everyone was in the room. I said it was fine.
I told her how I had struggled with my life one year ago and I was so insecure and scared because I was becoming vulnerable to myself. No one in my life realized what was going on and thought I was just unstable...
But I found peace, in my art, where I could put everything in my that made me sad and create it to something beautiful. I became Brave because of GaGa.
She was honored that I told her my story, she said that she herself have suffered with depression her whole life. She is also like me, scared of the impact because sometimes you never know when the wave is going to hit. She gave me so many good advices. "There are people around you that can help, the monster family is there to help and if you ever feel lonely you know where I am."
She told me that there are medical treatment if need be.
"I'm not sure I am suppose to tell you this, but I take marijuana, because it makes me happy, and because I have cut down on drinking I feel so much better now. Marijuana makes me happy but also it makes my creativity flow"
I don't think it's cheating to use MaryJane to make art, it's not like the pot will tell you what to do, it's already in your mind.
It was such a special moment for me to pour everything out on Mother Monster, and that she actually and honestly understood me and my problem.
"You're just like me" she said when I talked about my art.
After my talk with Gaga it was time to go, I hugged her and showed the bracelet I got from a staff there
It said " > Be Brave" and I told her she had made me brave.
She shook her head and replied
" NO, I didn't make you brave, but I may have been the inspiration to it."