Lady Gaga's baffling speaking style

Lady Gaga's baffling speaking style

Lady Gaga: British Wanna-Be, or Just Tragic Over-Enunciator?

People may be "born that way" when it comes to sexual orientation, but Lady Gaga definitely can't put the fluidity of her accent off to anything having to do with circumstances of her birth.

For years now -- which is saying something, given how short her stardom has really been -- the web has been filled with fans and detractors posting queries with headlines like: "Why is Lady Gaga speaking British?" and "Lady Gaga's accent: wtf?" That tradition won't be stopping any time soon, thanks to the lengthy spoken-word introduction to her new video, "Marry the Night," in which Gaga speaks in something that is not quite an English patois but still seems an Atlantic ocean away from anything resembling her native New York-ese.

You can also catch her current mode of elocution in her reading of the introduction she contributed to a new book of photographs of... well, herself, naturally:

Lady Gaga's baffling speaking style