Lady Gaga Gets Two New Tattoos

October 20th, 2009 · No Comments

Lady Gaga Explains Her New Tattoos
By Cara Alwill
Published : October 5, 2009

Lady Gaga is known for her wild fashion sense and eccentric outfits — and in the new issue of Interview magazine, we see that her fashion sense doesn’t just apply to what she wears over her skin. The singer let the magazine follow her around Tokyo, where she got tattooed not once, but twice.

What’s the meaning behind her new ink? 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,” Gaga told the mag. “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?’ ”

The other tattoo, on her shoulder, 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.”

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

Source : MTV News