Woman Gaga seems again at her alter ego Jo Calderone: ‘it is now not with us’

Woman Gaga seems again at her alter ego Jo Calderone: ‘it is now not with us’

Woman Gaga’s alter ego, Jo Calderone, made a long-lasting impression on followers again in 2011. 

The suave and charismatic Jo, described as “a mechanic from Sicily,” first appeared on the September 2010 cowl of Japanese Males’s Vogue. Nonetheless, it was on the 2011 MTV Music Video Awards that Jo really made a memorable efficiency, singing Gaga’s tune Yoü And I and presenting Britney Spears with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award.

In a latest interview with Them, the singer mirrored on the importance of Jo Calderone in her life. 

“That was actually kind of a big moment for me as a woman to put all the pent-up fear or anger I had about relationships into one character,” she stated. 

Gaga continued, “Yoü And I was actually, I think, the first video that I ever did where I played multiple me’s, and I brought that back on Mayhem. But Jo was an important character for me. It’s the way I explored what I was looking for in men, and also what I was maybe lacking in myself.”

Final month, she revealed to Self-importance Truthful’s polygraph check that Jo was “no longer with us.” Nonetheless, when requested by Them to make clear her assertion, Gaga defined, “the character is no longer with me. But I wish Jo all the best.”

Gaga additionally spoke about her upcoming seventh studio album, Mayhem, and its themes. “I was always kind of fascinated with some kind of inner torture since the beginning of my career. I think I’ve always felt a little bit at war with myself. Like there was a soft side of me, but then also this really intense side and a desire to be heard,” she stated. 

“On this album, I was taking a really long, hard look at the last 20 years. And I think it’s interesting that I ended up calling my album Mayhem.”

Mayhem is ready to be launched on March 7, marking Gaga’s first album since Chromatica in 2020.