{"id":5716,"date":"2017-09-30T12:54:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T16:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/?p=5716"},"modified":"2017-09-30T12:54:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T16:54:18","slug":"lady-gagas-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsavannah.com\/blog\/index.php\/lady-gagas-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"My thoughts on Lady Gaga’s documentary & chronic illness"},"content":{"rendered":"

dSavannah note<\/span>: Yes, this is my first post in a long time. Yes, there are probably errors. Everything sounds great in my head, and then I go to write it out, and my brain drops out and my eyes cross and my back spasms and the words turn to mush. (A fun benefit of having a chronic illness.)<\/p>\n

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I’ll admit: I’ve never really been a fan of Lady Gaga. I’ve never actively disliked her either, but I never really cared for her or her crazy persona with the wild outfits and wigs, or her pop music (I’m more a blues, alternative, rock – and occasionally rap – girl).<\/p>\n

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Lady Gaga at a doctor’s office; from the Netflix documentary Five Foot Two<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n

But the chronic illness community has been talking about Lady Gaga’s documentary, now streaming on Netflix, and how she opens up about chronic pain and how great the movie is.<\/p>\n

So, I watched it.<\/p>\n

And… erm… well…<\/p>\n

Please note that there are easily spoilers<\/strong> in my “review” here, so if you’re concerned about that sort of thing, stop reading here<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Essentially, per all of the samey-samey articles I read after I watched the documentary, Five Foot Two<\/em> (a nod to the celebrity’s height) follows Lady Gaga around for eight months while she’s writing, recording, and releasing her “family” album Joanne<\/em> and on her way to performing at the Super Bowl. It’s (theoretically) unscripted and she let the director have “unprecedented access” to her life.<\/p>\n

We see her without makeup and crazy hair, we see her creating her album in the studio, we see her dancing; we also see her driving expensive cars, living in expensive houses, see her followed by paparazzi and fans in New York; see slews of people surrounding her, so many it’s impossible to keep track; see her endlessly endlessly having makeup put on.<\/p>\n

But the reason I watched was to see her show her chronic pain, and see if the movie really “raises awareness” as she said she wanted it to do in a tweet after the movie had long wrapped:<\/p>\n

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In our documentary the #chronicillness<\/a> #chronicpain<\/a> I deal w\/ is #Fibromyalgia<\/a> I wish to help raise awareness & connect people who have it.<\/p>\n

\u2014 xoxo, Gaga (@ladygaga) September 12, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n