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Creativity Quote by Lady Gaga

"I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need"

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A pop star dragging Los Angeles is never just geography; its a way of auditioning her own authenticity in public. Gaga frames LA as a factory town for fame where the workers refuse the shift: "everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game". The jab lands because its a paradox you can picture immediately: aspiration without labor, image without apprenticeship. She isnt only insulting a city; shes taking a scalpel to a whole cultural script of effortless stardom, the kind sold by reality TV, red carpets, and algorithmic luck.

Then she swings the camera back onto herself. "I'm from New York" is less biography than brand architecture. New York stands in as discipline, grit, and an older show-business ethic: you earn your spot by sweating in small rooms, not by floating through meetings. Its a classic outsider move from someone already inside: she positions her success as workmanlike rather than accidental, a rebuttal to the suspicion that pop is manufactured.

"I will kill to get what I need" is the volatile closer, and its doing double duty. On the surface, its swagger - a deliberately excessive, tabloid-ready threat. Underneath, its a confession of how fame actually functions: scarcity, competition, hunger sharpened into myth. Gaga isnt pretending the game is pure. Shes telling you she plays it harder than the people who only want the glow.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Gaga, Lady. (n.d.). I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-like-los-angeles-the-people-are-awful-and-32396/

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Gaga, Lady. "I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need." FixQuotes. Accessed February 1, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-like-los-angeles-the-people-are-awful-and-32396/.

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"I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-like-los-angeles-the-people-are-awful-and-32396/. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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Lady Gaga (born March 28, 1986) is a Musician from USA.

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