Lady Gaga Speaks Up For Trans People At Her Vegas Residency
metroweekly.comShe chose to include her single “Born This Way” during a recent Jazz + Piano show, which all LGBTQ people know well. The residency is focused largely on jazz songs and tracks that are part of the Great American Songbook, but she deviated fro standards and put a fun classical spin on the dance-pop tune.
During a moment captured on video from the show, Gaga sat at her piano and spoke to the crowd before and in between lines from “Born This Way.” “I’ve got something to say about trans rights in this country,” Gaga declared with conviction, before commencing the opening chords of her former Hot 100 No.
1 smash. “When you’ve got something to say, you’ve got to speak up, right?” The comment was met with applause and cheers, of course.As she crooned the lyrics, “There’s nothing wrong with loving who you are / ’cause he made you perfect, babe,” Gaga turned toward the audience, inviting them to join in, and encouraging them to sing along to the empowering lyrics.
Later, she went on to speak further about the state of the world and how people are treating LGBTQ people. “And you know, sometimes you hear people say things like, ‘I don’t know what to say,'” Gaga commented.
