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Lady Gaga Is a Motorcycle

Well, this is certainly something! The cover of Lady Gaga’s Born This Way — whose title track is a brazen call-to-arms for all drag queens, cholas, transgenders, and evergreens (especially evergreens) to accept themselves as they naturally are — features our hero as the head of a motorcycle. We understand that, in doing so, Gaga is extending the “BTW” ethos even to freakish half-man-half-machine abominations (good news for Terminator, RoboCop, Baby RoboCop) and also making a statement about her inner strength that is more impacting than any Chinese-character tattoo for the word “power” could ever be. But, honestly, all we can think about is Rob Schneider as a stapler.

Lady Gaga Is a Motorcycle