We’ve all done it: tried to woo those with opposing bits with that mighty courting tool: the mix tape.  Sure, it’s now probably an iTunes playlist for those crazy Gen Y kids, but for the nerdier among us it’s more like a well thought-out CD, including cover art complete with handwritten track listing on the inside cover. 

Mix tapes are much like photos, they’re an image of ourselves.  But not the drunken-falling-out-of-a-cab photos your arsehole mate uploaded to Facebook on Monday morning; more like those professional headshot photos used by actors and models.  They’re what we want to be, not necessarily who we really are.  So we don’t use any of those albums we guiltily have stashed away under the bed (*cough*), we only use the cream of the crop. 

So if, for example, someone made you a compilation and had included any track off The Fame Monster, or indeed any of Lady Gaga’s previous material, you’d know there’s no way in hell this person was even making it into your house, let alone into your bed.  - Kylie