If you felt something during Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s Oscars performance of “Shallow†Sunday, well, join the club. (The club is everyone on the internet.) But despite your many tweets and posts arguing that a romantic moment of that magnitude must be born of real romance, hey, it’s just show biz, baby. “Social media, quite frankly, is the toilet of the internet,†Lady Gaga declared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Wednesday night. “And what it has done to pop culture is just abysmal.â€
According to the singer, if two consummate professionals seducing each other in front of a piano means they’re actually in love, then Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett have together for years. “People saw love, and guess what?†the A Star Is Born actress said of their extremely compelling duet. “That’s what we wanted you to see.†Concluded Gaga, “I’m an artist, and guess we did a good job. Fooled ya!â€