Beautiful, Dirty Rich

Sure, I've heard this song a million times on the radio, but recently it's become my anthem. In an interview, Gaga said;

Lady Gaga: I was doing a lot of drugs when I wrote "Dirty Rich." It was about two years ago, and it was about a few different things. First and foremost the record is about – whoever you are or where you live – you can self-proclaim this inner fame based on your personal style, and your opinions about art and the world, despite being conscious of it. But it's also about how on the Lower East side, there was a lot of rich kids who did drugs and said that they were poor artists, so it's also a knock at that. 'Daddy I'm so sorry, I'm so, so sorry, yes, we just like to party.' I used to hear my friends on the phone with their parents, asking for money before they would go buy drugs. So, that was an interesting time for me, but it's funny that what came out of that record – because it's about many different things – but ultimately what I want people to take from it is "Bang-bang." No matter who you are and where you come from, you can feel beautiful and dirty rich.

 In the past year with Paul Mitchell The School, I've been doing a lot of thinking about how fame and fortune is a state of mind. At school, we're taught to stay "forward focused" meaning that we are expected to be working towards a goal at all times and not dwell in failures or fall backs. To constantly push forward and to see the future you in the mirror. It's been the best "happiness" training I've ever had. The Paul Mitchell Culture is changing my life by changing my mind. I think this song, for me, reminds me of that concept, that success not in the stars, but in ourselves.

“The last of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
—Viktor Frankl, Holocaust survivor

“If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.”
— Henry Ford

“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
— Abraham Lincoln