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People may be "born that way" when it comes to sexual orientation, but Lady Gaga definitely

can't put the fluidity of her accent off to anything having to do with circumstances of her

birth.
For years now -- which
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how short her stardom has really been -- the web has been filled with fans and detractors

posting queries with headlines like: "Why is Lady Gaga speaking British?" chep dr dre beatsand "Lady Gaga's accent: wtf?"

That tradition won't be stopping any time soon, thanks to the lengthy spoken-word introduction

to her new video, "Marry the Night," in which Gaga speaks in something that is not quite an

English patois but still seems an Atlantic ocean away from anything resembling her native New

York-ese.
You can also catch her current mode of elocution in her reading of the introduction she

contributed to a new book of photographs of... well, herself, naturally:
Now, Gaga hasn't crossed the line into full-on Madonna-esque delusionality when it comes to a

sense of vocal national identity. Some commenters would contend that she isn't going all Brit

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an overly careful and formal manner, perhaps after studying some of her early on-camera

interviews and recoiling.
But clearly, she's trying to distance herself from her linguistic roots, in tone as well as

the shedding of the "y'knows" and "likes" that notably peppered her earliest interviews. By

2009, New York magazine was already noting that Gaga was speaking in "a robotic, faux-English

monotone" in their conversation with her (which wasn't even for broadcast, but a seemingly

casual backstage print interview).
If you want to hear how the artist formerly known as Stefani Germanotta sounded back in 1995,

when she made a cameo in an MTVcheap monster

beats prank show, you can find her real (or at least erstwhile) voice here:
It's not as if Gaga is above being deliberately playful with her choice of accents, as in the

exaggerated New Jersey-ism the Jo Calderone character she tried out (and arguably wore out the

welcome of) throughout September's MTV Video Awards telecast. So maybe her stiff formality

when she's playing herself these days is just an adopted persona she'd cop to, as well.