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Love Quote by Lady Gaga

"I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly"

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Gaga isn’t talking about self-esteem in the bland, after-school-special sense. She’s describing pop as a delivery system: a beat you can dance to that smuggles in a new inner voice. The word “hypnotize” is the tell. It frames fandom not as passive admiration but as a state of suggestibility, where repetition, spectacle, and community can override the old scripts people carry about their bodies, their desires, their worth. She’s naming what great pop has always done: make the listener feel temporarily bigger than their day-to-day shame.

The specific intent is both tender and tactical. Gaga wants an audience that doesn’t just consume her confidence but mirrors it back at themselves. That matters because her brand was never simply songs; it was permission. In the late-2000s/early-2010s pop landscape, her maximalist aesthetics and “little monsters” mythology turned outsider feelings into an identity you could wear. “Instantly” is another key word: she’s chasing the hard reset, the three-minute transformation, the chorus as a switch you can flip when the world is hostile.

There’s subtext, too, about power and responsibility. Hypnosis implies control, even if benevolent; Gaga is acknowledging the influencer-before-influencers dynamic between star and fan. She’s also quietly rejecting the old pop contract where the artist is the object of worship and the audience stays hungry. Her ideal fan leaves the temple fed, not desperate.

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Gaga, Lady. (2026, January 17). I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-want-my-fans-to-love-themselves-its-almost-like-32406/

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Gaga, Lady. "I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-want-my-fans-to-love-themselves-its-almost-like-32406/.

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"I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-want-my-fans-to-love-themselves-its-almost-like-32406/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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

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