{"id":282464,"date":"2019-10-26T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1086409"},"modified":"2019-10-26T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T10:00:00","slug":"untangling-the-rumors-and-reality-of-lady-gagas-romantic-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/untangling-the-rumors-and-reality-of-lady-gagas-romantic-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Untangling the Rumors and Reality of Lady Gaga&#8217;s Romantic History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201981\/rs_600x600-190901105622-600-lady-gaga.cm.9119.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>It was fire meets&nbsp;<em>Chicago Fire<\/em> when Gaga started dating actor <strong>Taylor Kinney<\/strong>, a cool Pennsylvania guy she met when he starred in her &#8220;Yo\u00fc And I&#8221; video in 2011.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember I went up, and we&#8217;re rolling, and I kissed her and she didn&#8217;t expect it,&#8221; Kinney recalled on&nbsp;<em>Watch What Happens Live<\/em>.&nbsp;&#8220;They cut, and she slapped me. And then it was just awkward. And then the next take, I just did it again and then she didn&#8217;t slap me. She didn&#8217;t slap me then.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They steadily grew more serious and in 2014 Gaga told Howard Stern that she just knew Kinney was the guy.&nbsp;&#8220;I really can&#8217;t imagine being with anyone other than who I&#8217;m with right now,&#8221; she said. Moreover, he&#8217;s&nbsp;&#8220;supportive of everything I do,&#8221; she told the U.K.&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Times<\/em>, &#8220;loves me from the inside out. And he is completely blind to the way that I dress, my creative process as it is\u2014he knows me as the Italian-American girl my mother and father gave birth to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a hidden weirdo. He is extremely strange, actually, and we complement each other&#8217;s weirdness,&#8221; Gaga had told <strong>Ellen DeGeneres<\/strong> in 2013, dispelling the outward opposites-attract vibe that emanated from the couple.<\/p>\n<p>Kinney\u2014who on the side is an artist who enjoyed using his girlfriend as a canvas for drawing and painting\u2014felt the same, and proposed in 2015.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alas, something went awry along the way, and in July 2016 they announced they were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/781302\/hold-up-lady-gaga-and-taylor-kinney-are-just-taking-a-break\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">taking a break<\/a>. Gaga took to social media to encourage fans to root for them, that they still believed they were soulmates and wanted to figure out how to make &#8220;the simple love we have always shared&#8221; work.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if &#8220;Perfect Illusion&#8221; off&nbsp;<em>Joanne<\/em> was inspired by Kinney, she told E! News that fall, &#8220;I would just say that my music on my album as well as all my albums is inspired by my personal life and this one more than others. I have said it before\u2014I love Taylor so much and he&#8217;s my best friend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1086409\/untangling-the-rumors-and-reality-of-lady-gaga-s-romantic-history?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was fire meets&nbsp;Chicago Fire when Gaga started dating actor Taylor Kinney, a cool Pennsylvania guy she met when he starred in her &#8220;Yo\u00fc And I&#8221; video in 2011.&nbsp; &#8220;I remember I went up, and we&#8217;re rolling, and I kissed her and she didn&#8217;t expect it,&#8221; Kinney recalled on&nbsp;Watch What Happens Live.&nbsp;&#8220;They cut, and she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-15 15:34:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}