In the landscape that is pop culture, Lady Gaga so far defies categorization. “Shy” is one label she certainly would not wear.

The 23-year-old performer of danceable synth-pop rocked the cover of Rolling Stone in a dress made of bubbles recently and also told Britain’s Daily Star newspaper that she would be interested in hooking up with all three Jonas Brothers. “The journalist asked me what I thought of the Jonas Brothers, and I told her,” she says.

Lately, Lady Gaga is getting as much attention for her candor as for her music and cutting-edge costumes. As for her propensity for discussing sex — and her flexible sexuality — she says:

“I don’t think being gay or being bisexual or being sexually free is anything that should be hidden. Everybody has a right to their secrecy, of course, but I don’t feel particularly shy about it. It is who I am.

I sing very openly about it in my music, so I suppose I could say that I choose not to hide it in interviews because I don’t care to hide it and, two, because it is very obvious in my music that I like women.”

Lady Gaga’s 2008 debut album, The Fame, has gone platinum — and remains No. 8 on The Billboard 200 chart — and her first single, Just Dance, became just the fifth song to sell 4 million downloads. (Singles Poker Face and LoveGame are Nos. 5 and 6 on Billboard’s Hot 100.)

source: [maxim]