Lady Gaga dishes about her musical taste…..and her parents.

Singer Lady Gaga sat down with BlackBook Magazine to dish about the different things that are going on in her life, career and music.

What music did your parents listen to when you were growing up?
Oh my God the best. Like Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, like the best shit ever.

You wrote a new song on Britney Spears’ album and have written for the Pussycat Dolls, right?
Yeah it’s true.

So do you get high?
[Laughs] Do I have to get high writing them?

How do you channel the place where you know you are writing super-seductive lyrics for sexy singers, even though it’s not really your persona? How do you get into their zone?
The idea is to always to write a hit.

How do you know when you have one?
In the sound, it makes you dance, it’s undeniable, and you know when it’s not. I’m really good at knowing when it’s not.

One of the things I wanted to talk about is race. What you’re doing is kind of cross-racial, working with R&B cats like Akon, and also more electric musicians. Do you consider racial factors when making hits?
Yeah, it’s really true. It conquers race boundaries in terms of the audience, and I also cross sexual boundaries, with straight audiences and gay audiences. It’s funny, I played a show in San Francisco this weekend, and it was supposed to be a gay night at a club, and it was not just gays. It was gays, it was straights, you know, men and women. It was black, it was white, it was Asian—it was everybody all showing up on a gay night.

What are some of the things you think are sexy?
I think intelligence is really hot. I think that “Love Game” and “Poker Face” are really sexy because the lyrics are just smart, but it’s about sex.

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