Lady Gaga Tattoo Meaning

Lady Gaga explains the meaning behind her new tattoos. In the new issue of Interview magazine, Gaga let the mag followed her around Tokyo where she got inked twice. So what’s the meaning behind her new tattoos?

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 The tattoo on her inner arm is a tribute to her favorite writer.

“That one commemorates my favorite writer, Rainer Maria Rilke, a poet and romantic philosopher,”  “In German he writes, ‘Confess to yourself in the deepest hour of the night whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write?’ ” Lady Gaga tells Interview magazine.

The other tattoo on her shoulder, this one is a bit more risqué.

“That was to celebrate the Haus’s collaboration with legendary Japanese photographer Araki. I was bound by Araki’s personal bondage artist, by several ropes and Japanese knots … Araki photographed me, using a series of several cameras. He did not photograph my image; he photographed my soul. We spent the night with Araki and his friends at a members’ only bar he’s owned for more than 20 years, where he displays his work. Here, he painted me and took Polaroids through the night. I was honored to be the first American woman he’s photographed, and only the second pop artist, in the company of Björk. He signed the Polaroids ‘Tokyo Love,’ and the Haus got tattoos of his marking in celebration.” – via Pop Eater

Both tattoos were done during Lady Gaga’s trip to Osaka and Tokyo, where she was photographed in an S&M-inspired photo shoot with Araki.

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