Lady Gaga
American Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (Lady Gaga) talks about happiness, her family and where she can feel free. She speaks rather slowly and clearly with a standard American accent, so you should quickly be able to understand her.
First listen to the audio (sound) at least once. The audio clip is less than one minute long. Then read the text (at the bottom) and check out the vocabulary list for any words you might not know. Also, consider these questions:
Does she say she needs to be a famous superstar?
Does she expect to be able to live a normal, or near normal, life when she goes outside her home?
Do you think she would welcome you warmly if you knocked on the door of her house and asked her for an autograph?
relationship: the way in which two or more people behave towards each other or deal with each other ความสัมพันธ์
encouragement: words or actions that give someone confidence or hope กำลังใจ; คำให้กำลังใจ
in that space: (from the story) family, working hard as a musician, playing music for peopole
acutely: very strongly; extremely อย่างมีไหวพริบ, อย่างแหลมคม
property line: the edge of an area which is owned by someone ขอบเขตที่ดิน
legal: allowed by the law ถูกต้องตามกฎหมาย
stalk: to illegally follow and watch somebody over a long period of time, in a way that is annoying or frightening ย่องตาม
Lady Gaga speaks:
If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar, playing music for people. The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. So, as long as I stay there, in that space, I can do anything.
I’m very acutely aware that once I cross that property line (of her own home), I’m not free any more. As soon as I go out into the world, I belong in a way to everyone else. (It’s) legal to follow me, legal to stalk me at the beach. I can’t call the police or ask them to leave and I took a long hard look at that property line and I said, “Well, you know, if I can’t be free out there, I’m going to be free in here.”
