Wednesday 31 March 2010
Tuesday 30 March 2010
Lady Gaga has revealed that she finds it hard to sleep - because her music is always on her mind.
The Telephone singer claimed that she has suffered from sleepless nights since she hit the big time last year.
GaGa told Ok! Magazine: “My passion is so strong I can’t sleep - I haven’t slept for three days,”
“I lie in bed and try to pray and breathe. I have a very overactive mind. I’m the sort of person who’d never take medication to calm myself. It’s maddening. But I love what comes out.”
The 24-year old, who recently celebrated her birthday added: “If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that’s my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything. For some people, fame kills it and becomes more important than the music or the performance.”
She said: “But for me fame is like rocket fuel. The more my fans like what I’m doing, the more I want to give back to them.”
Growing Up GaGa (New York Magazine) Part 2
NY Mag — One year later, the transformation is complete: With six No. 1 hits in the last year, Lady Gaga is the biggest pop star in the world. By definition, a pop star is manufactured—rock stars weren’t, at least not until well into the seventies, and that may be part of why rock became pop—and in some ways she has benefited from a very traditional star-making model, one of the last purviews of corporate music labels. But success can have a thousand authors. Several different people have claimed credit for discovering Gaga, 24, shaping her, naming her, making her who she is: Rob Fusari, who co-wrote and produced her early songs, sued her two weeks ago for $30 million, claiming among other grievances that he had a contract for 15 percent of her merchandising. And Gaga, of course, takes the credit herself. “I went through a great deal of creative and artistic revelation, learning, and marination to become who I am,” she explains. “Tiny little lie? I wanted to become the artist I am today, and it took years.”
All of them are partly right. But in another sense, she was an accident, a phenomenon that happened in New York in the first decade of a new century.
And what a happening. At a time when you wouldn’t recognize the faces of the people who make most of the music we listen to (who are those guys in Vampire Weekend, again?), Gaga is visually iconic; in an age of Twitter, the remoteness she has cultivated since her first moment in the spotlight has made her an even bigger star. She completely turns the page on the last decade’s era of bimbodom, taking back the limelight from women who made their careers by admitting that they had nothing to say, like Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson. She also closes a strange era in female pop stardom, with rising talents unable to push through to superstardom (Katy Perry, Rihanna), American Idol contestants (Kelly Clarkson), older stars (Gwen, Fergie), tween stars (Miley and posse), and hugely popular musicians who aren’t pop in their hearts, like Taylor Swift (country crossover) and Beyoncé (urban crossover). She’s riveting in any language, with lyrics that compose their own Esperanto—she’s effortlessly global.
Gaga’s presence also introduces the formerly unthinkable idea that Madonna, another voracious Italian girl, may really, truly, finally be on her way out. Her new look is an appropriation of Madonna’s circa “The Girlie Show” and “Blonde Ambition” (the darkened brows, the platinum-blonde hair, the red lips), and her music-video director, Jonas Åkerlund, is a major latter-day collaborator of Madonna’s. But the two are very different: Madonna hasn’t had a sense of humor about herself since the nineties, where Gaga is all fun and play. At her core, she’s a young art-school student, full of optimism and kindness, childlike wonder at the bubble world. Though she may not be bisexual herself—of the many friends of hers interviewed for this article, not one of them recalls her ever having a girlfriend or being sexually interested in any woman offstage—her politics are inclusive, and she wants to promote images of as many sexual combinations as are possible on this Earth. Gaga says she’s a girl who likes boys who look like girls, but she’s also a girl who likes to look like a boy herself—or, rather, a drag queen, a boy pretending to be a girl. There’s little that gives her more pleasure than the persistent rumor that she is a hermaphrodite, an Internet rumor based on scrutinizing a grainy video. That’s not Madonna. Madonna wouldn’t pretend she has a penis.
But that’s the genius of Gaga: her willingness to be a mutant, a cartoon. She’s got an awesome sense of humor, beaming tiny surreal moments across the world for our pleasure every day—like the gigantic bow made of hair she popped on her head last year. “One day, I said to my creative team, ‘Gaultier did bows, let’s do it in a new way,’?” she says. “We were going back and forth with ideas, and then I said”—snaps finger—“hair-bow.” She giggles. “We all fucking died, we died. It never cost a penny, and it looked so brilliant. It’s just one of those things. I’m very arrogant about it.” Her videos are global epiphenomena, like the Tarantino-flavored “Telephone,” with its lesbian prison themes and Beyoncé guest appearance. “Gaga doesn’t care so much about the technical part, but she’s involved in every creative aspect,” says Åkerlund. “We just allow ourselves to be very stupid with each other, and then you get ideas like sunglasses made of cigarettes.”
Gaga also throws in our face something we’ve known all along but numbly decided to ignore: American celebrities have become very, very boring. (The fact that she has done this at the same time that much of the actual music she makes herself is somewhat boring is another feat.) One of her essential points is that celebrity should be the province of weirdos, like Grace Jones circa Jean-Paul Goude and her pet idol, eighties opera–meets–New Wave cult figure Klaus Nomi, who died of AIDS at 39. To Gaga, our video-game-playing, social-networking, cell-phone-obsessed culture has made all of us smaller, more normal, less interesting—and, except for odd lightning strikes like the Jersey Shore cast and Conan O’Brien’s anointment of one Twitter fan—famous to no one, after all. “Kudos on MySpace? What is that?” she says, spitting out the words. “That’s not emblematic about what I’m talking about. I’m talking about creating a genuine, memorable space for yourself in the world.”
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Growing Up GaGa (New York Magazine) Part 1
NY Mag — One year ago this month, Lady Gaga arrived for an interview in the dark, oak-paneled lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel, a massive Spanish-style place in the tourist district of Hollywood that was supposed to make the area chic but has largely failed. “Just Dance,” the lead single off her first album, The Fame, had reached No. 1 in Australia, Sweden, and Canada in early 2008, but in March 2009, she was still an up-and-coming artist in America: a few thousand MySpace plays, a generic website, and a short tour as the opening act for New Kids on the Block. Gaga had a video, though. “My colleagues at radio in those three countries agreed to support her if I made a video,” says Martin Kierszenbaum, the president of A&R at her label, Interscope. The “Just Dance” video, shot a few miles from the Roosevelt, features Gaga shimmying with a disco ball in her hands while her friends drape themselves on a couch nearby—though most of those people were extras, not real friends. She didn’t know many people on the West Coast. “I don’t like Los Angeles,” she told me. “The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.”
Before the meeting, I assumed that someone with a stage name like “Lady” (her given name is Stefani Joanne Germanotta) was going to be a bit standoffish—that’s the strategy employed by most nervous young musicians on the occasion of their first real interview, in any case. But I never thought she was going to actually be Lady Gaga. These days, very few artists play the media like Bob Dylan, or stay in character as Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh did in his early career. In the age of VH1’s Behind the Music, tabloid culture, and reality television, musicians are aware that they should show themselves to journalists in as much mundane detail as they can muster. “But Lady Gaga is my name,” she said, amazed that I would have thought otherwise. “If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.”
Gaga eased into a brown leather couch with as much grace as possible given her outfit, a stiff white jumpsuit with a jacket cut from a Martin Margiela pattern, the enormous shoulder pads stuffed underneath the fabric extending toward her ears. At five-two and 100 pounds, with her hair styled into a mod blonde bob, she looked flush from a strict diet of starvation: “Pop stars should not eat,” she pronounced. She was young, skinny, and blonde, but she had a prominent Italian nose, the kind of nose that rarely survives on a starlet. (This was during Gaga’s “hair-bow” phase—that would be pre-hair-hat and pre-hair-telephone—and when I asked about the bow’s whereabouts, she rested her head on a pillow of her hands and said, “She’s sleeping.”) In the hallway near her table, families of tourists took pictures of one another with cameras, unaware of her presence, and she recoiled dramatically at every flash. “Oh, cameras,” she said, shielding her eyes. “I cannot bear the cameras.”
As we began the conversation, Gaga spoke carefully in a very odd accent—some combination of Madonna as Madge and a robot, an affect enhanced by the fact that she refused to remove her lightly tinted sunglasses over the course of two hours. “What I’ve discovered,” said robo-Gaga, with a photo-ready tilt of her head, “is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth—and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.”
Gaga was very taken with her new “bubble dress” at this point, and we talked about its unreality, the beauty of the imaginary. Everyone wanted that dress, but it wasn’t a dress at all—it was a bunch of plastic balls. “On my tour,” she declared, “I’m going to be in my bubble dress on a piano made of bubbles, singing about love and art and the future. I should like to make one person believe in that moment, and it would be worth every salt of a No. 1 record.” She dropped the accent for a moment now—the real girl, unartificed, was right underneath—and leaned in. “I can have hit records all day, but who fucking cares?” she explained. “A year from now, I could go away, and people might say, ‘Gosh, what ever happened to that girl who never wore pants?’ But how wonderfully memorable 30 years from now, when they say, ‘Do you remember Gaga and her bubbles?’ Because, for a minute, everybody in that room will forget every sad, painful thing in their lives, and they’ll just live in my bubble world.”
Monday 29 March 2010
On Sunday evening Lady Gaga logged in to Gaga Daily to post a few messages for the fans in the chat box. Her username wass ‘GAGAREAL’ and she later confirmed on Twitter that it was really her.
LITTLE MONSTERS! THIS IS GAGA! I JUST SAW YOUR VIDEOS, IM VERY EMOTIONAL. GOD BLESSED ME WHEN HE MADE YOU.
I SAW THIS LITTLE BOX OF MESSAGES, AND I THOUGHT I WOULD SAY HELLO AND I LOVE YOU
I PROMISE ITS ME
I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH
I WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU AND GIVE YOU A PRESENT
I’VE ALREADY WRITTEN THE FIRST SINGLE FOR THE NEW ALBUM
AND I PROMISE YOU, THAT THIS ALBUM IS THE GREATEST OF MY CAREER. IT IS THE ANTHEM FOR OUR GENERATION
I WROTE IT FOR YOU
BECAUSE OF YOU, WHEN I WAS IN LIVERPOOL, I WROTE THE GREATEST MUSIC I’VE EVER WRITTEN
I LOVE YOU, I HAVE TO GO NOW
YOU ARE MY LITTLE MONSTER ANGELS
YOUR LOVE IS MY INSPIRATION, AND THE NEW ALBUM IS FOR YOU
ILL COME BACK SOON AND ANNOUNCE THE ALBUM TITLE, I DONT WANT TO SPOIL IT YET!
i love you, bye! xoxo
(I promise ill come back here again, little monsters need me now in AUSTRALIA) X
Sunday 28 March 2010
Happy Birthday GaGa!
I wrote this on my other blog but I wanted to post it again for all you little monsters to see.
Two years ago on a simple day in April I discovered you on perez hilton. It was the premiere of Just Dance and after the first minute of seeing it, I knew I was a fan. Months later I tried to get my friends to listen to this new singer named Lady GaGa; she is going to be big I know it. They weren’t really interested by now they sure are. When the music video for Beautiful, Dirty,Rich came out, I was instantly inspired by your look and your actions. Your unique movements you use with your body and your amazing outfits made me swoon for the first time. Once Poker Face came out, that was when I fell in love with Lady GaGa the artist and the person. I’ve never been this obsessed with an artist since Britney Spears 10 years ago. Months later, you went from an unknown artist with a popular song to one of the most known and respected artist today. I am happy to see you grow into a superstar and maybe into the new Madonna; but you got a long way to go to be the queen ;). Everyday I watch videos of your performing live wishing to see you in the same arena with me. I know there are millions of other little monsters saying the same thing but I believe I could be the hungriest little monster craving to see you live. I know GaGa will never see this because she has other things to do than lurk a 15 year old’s blog but I wanted to write this because Lady GaGa has changed my life in a matter of two years. She has made me think out of the box and she has also made me want to chase my biggest dreams. One day I hope to be interviewed and I want to tell the reporter that Lady GaGa is my all time inspiration. I also hope that one day I will be able to meet her, show her my parodies, and tell her the exact same thing that I am writing.
p.s. I’ve kept my poker face hidden behind my brown eyes again and again. But I know that the paparazzi will never catch my bad romance between me the monster and the beautiful,dirty, and rich gaga. i wish to meet a man named alejandro so we can dance in the dark and get retro physical. ;)
Saturday 27 March 2010
lady gaga celebrating her birthday at the second brisbane monsters ball last night the 27th of march - sumbitted by littlemonsterr
Friday 26 March 2010
Thursday 25 March 2010
Wednesday 24 March 2010
Tuesday 23 March 2010
Sting, Elton John, Lady Gaga and Dame Shirley Bassey will perform together at Carnegie Hall, as part of the semi-annual Rainforest Fund benefit concert on May 13. The event will mark the 21st birthday of the charitable organization founded by Sting and Trudie Styler to help protect and preserve the world’s threatened rainforest areas. The performers, plus additional surprise guests, will attend a live auction and gala dinner following the concert.
Styler, who is also the event’s producer, helped convince Gaga to take a break from her European arena tour to be a part of the unique performance. “She’s such a great young woman,” Styler told Billboard in a phone interview earlier today. “Its a winning combination – we’re going to have a riotous time up there. Sting, Elton and Gaga will play together, and the boys will be performing with Dame Shirley, doing a great rendition of ‘Hey Big Spender.’”
Elton John and Lady Gaga forst performed together on the Grammy Awards telecast earlier this year.
Ticket for the concert will go on sale in early April at the Carnegie Hall box office, while information about the gala and a ticket order form can be downloaded at rainforestfoundationfund.org.
Over the last 21 years, the Rainforest Fund has raised more than $30 million for its efforts, which have expanded from the Amazonian rainforest in Brazil to include efforts in 23 different countries.
“One of the things about this night,” Styler said, “the audience comes expecting to see unusual combinations of singers. Because I’ve never recorded it, everyone let’s their hair down. We raise a good amount of money for what I consider to be an incredibly important cause, but they have one heck of a night.”
Source: Billboard.com
Sunday 21 March 2010
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Monday 15 March 2010
North American Monster Ball Tour Dates Announced
June 28 Montreal, QC Bell Centre On sale TBA
July 01 Boston, MA TD Garden On sale March 22
July 04 Atlantic City, NJ Boardwalk Hall On sale TBA
July 06 New York, NY Madison Square Garden On sale March 19
July 11 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre On sale March 19
July 14 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena On sale TBA
July 15 Indianapolis, IN Conseco Fieldhouse On sale TBA
July 17 St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center On sale TBA
July 20 Oklahoma City, OK Ford Center On sale TBA
July 22 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center On sale TBA
July 25 Houston, TX Toyota Center On sale TBA
July 28 Denver, CO Pepsi Center On sale TBA
July 31 Phoenix, AZ US Airways Center On sale TBA
August 03 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center On sale TBA
August 11 Los Angeles, CA Staples Center On sale March 20
August 13 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand On sale TBA
August 16 San Jose, CA HP Pavilion On sale March 19
August 19 Portland, OR Rose Garden On sale TBA
August 21 Tacoma, WA Tacoma Dome On sale TBA
August 23 Vancouver, BC General Motors Place On sale March 19
August 26 Edmonton, AB Rexall Place On sale TBA
August 30 St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center On sale TBA
Sept. 01 Milwaukee, WI Bradley Center On sale TBA
Sept. 04 Detroit, MI The Palace Of Auburn Hills On sale TBA
Sept. 05 Pittsburgh, PA Consol Energy Center On sale TBA
Sept. 07 Washington, DC Verizon Center On sale TBA
Sept. 08 Charlottesville, VA John Paul Jones Arena On sale TBA
Sept. 14 Philadelphia, PA Wachovia Center On sale TBA
Sept. 16 Hartford, CT XL Center On sale TBA
Sept. 18 Charlotte, NC Time Warner Cable Arena On sale TBA
Sept. 19 Raleigh, NC RBC Center On sale TBA
Additional cities, venues and on-sale information to be announced. Itinerary subject to change.
MONSTER BALL US TOUR DATES!!!
June 28 – Montreal, QC / Bell Centre / On sale TBA
July 01 – Boston, MA / TD Garden / On sale March 22
July 04 – Atlantic City, NJ / Boardwalk Hall / On sale TBA
July 06 – New York, NY / Madison Square Garden / On sale March 19
July 11 – Toronto, ON / Air Canada Centre / On sale March 19
July 14 – Cleveland, OH / Quicken Loans Arena / On sale TBA
July 15 – Indianapolis, IN / Conseco Fieldhouse / On sale TBA
July 17 – St. Louis, MO / Scottrade Center / On sale TBA
July 20 – Oklahoma City, OK / Ford Center / On sale TBA
July 22 – Dallas, TX / American Airlines Center / On sale TBA
July 25 – Houston, TX / Toyota Center / On sale TBA
July 28 – Denver, CO / Pepsi Center / On sale TBA
July 31 – Phoenix, AZ / US Airways Center / On sale TBA
August 03 – Kansas City, MO / Sprint Center / On sale TBA
August 11 – Los Angeles, CA / Staples Center / On sale March 20
August 13 – Las Vegas, NV / MGM Grand / On sale TBA
August 16 – San Jose, CA / HP Pavilion / On sale March 19
August 19 – Portland, OR / Rose Garden / On sale TBA
August 21 – Tacoma, WA / Tacoma Dome / On sale TBA
August 23 – Vancouver, BC / General Motors Place / On sale March 19
August 26 – Edmonton, AB / Rexall Place / On sale TBA
August 30 – St. Paul, MN / Xcel Energy Center / On sale TBA
September 01 – Milwaukee, WI / Bradley Center / On sale TBA
September 04 – Detroit, MI / The Palace Of Auburn Hills / On sale TBA
September 05 – Pittsburgh, PA / Consol Energy Center / On sale TBA
September 07 – Washington, DC / Verizon Center / On sale TBA
September 08 – Charlottesville, VA / John Paul Jones Arena / On sale TBA
September 14 – Philadelphia, PA / Wachovia Center / On sale TBA
September 16 – Hartford, CT / XL Center / On sale TBA
September 18 – Charlotte, NC / Time Warner Cable Arena / On sale TBA
September 19 – Raleigh, NC / RBC Center / On sale TBA
Sunday 14 March 2010
GaGa to be on Glee!
Ryan Murphy, the creator of Glee, in a recent interview with E!:
“We’re doing an episode that’s a tribute to theatricality. We reached out to Lady Gaga and she said, ‘Yes, I’d love to be a part of it.’ So we will be doing Lady Gaga this season.”
Source: E! Online
FIRST NEW MONSTER BALL TOUR DATES!
July 1, 2010 – Boston, Massachusetts – TD Garden
July 6, 2010 – New York, New York – Madison Square Garden Arena
August 11, 2010 – Los Angeles, California – Staples Center
August 16, 2010 – San Jose, California – HP Pavilion At San Jose
Saturday 13 March 2010
Friday 12 March 2010
Thursday 11 March 2010
The highly anticipated new music video for Lady Gaga’s hit single “Telephone” featuring Beyoncé is coming out tonight!
The 9-minute mini movie, directed by Jonas Åkerlund, will premiere during E! News (starts at 11:30 PM EST / 4:30 AM GMT) and will be released to VEVO / YouTube immediately after its TV debut.
Wednesday 10 March 2010
Tuesday 9 March 2010
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