So there’s nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who’s cool hates - and then making it cool.

Lady Gaga frames provocation not as shock for its own sake, but as a strategic reversal of cultural taste. The “genre that everybody who’s cool hates” suggests a style dismissed as uncool, lowbrow, or passé; her challenge is to reclaim it through craft, charisma, and reinvention until it becomes desirable again. The line reflects her broader artistic persona: embracing artifice, pop maximalism, and theatricality while insisting these can be serious, innovative, and culturally leading. It also gestures to a democratizing impulse—valuing what elites sneer at—and to the power of performance to rewrite the social meaning of a genre.