Lady Gaga Has Top-Selling Record Globally For 2010

The year-end accolades keep rolling in for Lady Gaga, who reportedly has the top-selling record wordwide this year with The Fame Monster.

According to German website Media Traffic, the Mother Monster sold a total of 5.8 million copies of her album across the globe.

Gaga beat out stiff competition from rapper Eminem, whose Recovery sold an estimated 5.7 million copies, and Justin Bieber, who moved 5.6 million copies of My World and My World 2.0.

She quickly took to Twitter to thank her fans after receiving the new earlier this week.

"THE FAME MONSTER was named the best-selling album of 2010!" she wrote. "I'm so excited for the future, believe + work hard, you will achieve your dreams."

The glam queen also confirmed that there will be more big news in the coming weeks. She has promised an announcement about her new album Born This Way on New Year's Day.

"Merry Christmas little monsters! I love you with all my heart," she wrote earlier this week. "My gift to you is a BORN THIS WAY announcement Midnight on NEW YEARS EVE."

Lady GaGa meets boyfriends parents

Lady GaGa reportedly showed her "domestic side" in an attempt to impress her boyfriend Luc Carl's parents whom she met for the first time over Christmas.

According to The Sun, the 'Poker Face' singer travelled without her entourage and dressed casually when visiting Carl's childhood home for the first time.

A source said: "GaGa is used to the best hotel suites in the world but wanted to sleep with Luc in his old bed in the room he grew up in.

"The holidays are a special family time so she wanted to slot in without any fuss.

"It's a chance for her to get to know them, show her domestic side and prove there's more to her than what they see on the TV."

The 24-year-old treated the family to a trip to a local bowling alley and casino, where she was apparently taught how to play blackjack by Carl's father.

Lady Gaga success is the result of pure hard work?

London, July 10 : Lady Gaga's manager Svengali Troy Carter insists that the singer's phenomenal success is the result of pure hard work.

Carter says his eccentric client has set an example of how hard work and hits can turn an expectant into a somebody, and he fears too many current acts break into the big time too quickly and fade out just as fast.

"She (Gaga) has put in the work. She has really put in the work. This was years in the making. Gaga has a work ethic. Gaga hustles. She understands all of that," the Daily Express quoted him as telling CelebrityAccess.com.

"One of the problems now is that we have a very lazy business. People are lazy. That girl gets out there. When we first started I didn''t know anything about pop music and she didn''t know anything about touring or anything like that.

"You can''t skip a step. People take the discovery process for granted. Fans want to feel like they have discovered you, and part of that discovery process is having the patience to start small," he added.

Lady Gaga turns into a man

Lady Gaga is a man. Or at least, she poses as one in a new gender-bender fashion shoot. With her wardrobe of shocking outfits, she’s never been one to shy away from the outrageous.

But Lady Gaga seems to have managed to pull another fashion surprise out of her seemingly endless repertoire, by posing as a man.

A series of new photographs appear to show the controversial singer dressed in a series of suits and shirts, with her normally platinum hair gelled up in a dark quiff.

Gone are the usual extravagant costumes usually favoured by the star. In their place are sombre suits and conservative white shirts.

The photos were taken in London by renowned photographer Nick Knight and arranged by regular Gaga stylist Nicola Formichetti.

They are set to appear in a men’s fashion editorial for the September issue of Vogue Hommes Japan.

Formichetti has also posted the images on her blog, but mysteriously lists the model's name as 'Jo Calderone.'

However, one of Gaga's biggest fans, blogger Perez Hilton appeared to acknowledge the images are of the star whom he jokingly refers to as 'my wife'.
Lady Gaga is like, hotter than you. Image source: showstudio.com

Perez posted links to the pictures on his Twitter account. 'My husband, Jo Calderone! We're in love!' he wrote, before later adding: 'My man is so hot! Love him!'

Perhaps the pictures are Gaga's idea of poking fun at rumours that she is a hermaphrodite

'I love the rumour that I have a penis. I'm fascinated by it,' she said in a recent TV interview.

'In fact, it makes me love my fans even more that this rumour is in the world because 17,000 of them come to an arena every night and they don't care if I'm a man, a woman, a hermaphrodite, gay, straight, transgendered, or transsexual.

'They don't care. They are there for the music and the freedom.

'This has been the greatest accomplishment of my life - to get young people to throw away what society has taught them is wrong.'

The Day Lady Gaga Bites The Dust

Here is Lady Gaga biting the floor at Heathrow Airport, embarrassing herself in front of a few hundred travels while attempting to be the weirdest most outrageous looking person. Lady Gaga wore another one of her dumb outfits the other on her way to catch a flight from London to New York, and this time her shoes fought back in anger for making them look so stupid. She strutted around at first on her 12-inch boots but then, as was inevitable, she collapsed in a fleshy heap like a fat kid falling out of a tree.

The bad news is that she didn't do the fall from the top of some concrete stairs. She really needs to be careful where she steps, especially in those boots that were certainly not made for walking around in. Perhaps it’s time she think twice about some of the costumes she put on. The last thing any of her tween fans want is to find out her tours have been canceled because she lost her step. Anyway, how the hell this talentless twit is where she is is beyond me. The only thing I can come up with is tween girls are way too powerful. Katy Perry is another one but she is cool because she has huge breasts.

Obama vs. Lady Gaga : Facebook face-off

On today's ever more open Web, to whom do you want to be closer? Is there someone for whom you wish to express your affection, your desire, or your admiration, perhaps in the hope of getting some in return?

May I give you just two choices? President Obama or Lady Gaga.

Perhaps you feel I am limiting you too much. But this is an issue of such importance, one that will show just what the world sees when it looks in the mirror.

On the one hand, we have someone who is trying to rectify so many wrongs. Someone who wants you to know that, yes, anyone can. On the other, we have Barack Obama, who is also trying to do the same thing.

Here's how things stand right now. (Though these things never really stand. They are a constant dance.) Barack Obama, president of the United States, has--as I touch the reactive parts of my MacBook Pro--9,116,672 fans on Facebook. Famed exhibitionist singer of gym music, Lady Gaga, has 9,152,517.

Do you really love her more than anything in the world?
(Credit: CC Domain Barnyard/Flickr)

Why is this significant? Well, no one living has 10 million fans on Facebook. Not Justin Bieber. Not George W. Bush. Which means that this race is vital and might well be decided over the coming hours and days.

Should you not have examined the numbers very closely, Lady Gaga is winning.

You will either decide that this is a fair reflection of those who participate in a superficial medium in which they post pictures of their vacations, their excesses with libations and their babies with bongs.

Or you will decide that, because you tend to believe everything Mark Zuckerberg says, Facebook needs to be seen as a deeply important social movement, one that will eclipse all other forms of searching, communicating, or being.

Look at the candidates. One wishes to make energy renewable and health care available. The other expends energy without end and would dearly love to excite you to the degree that health care would be unavoidable.

But please don't let me influence you.

Of course, I understand that you could balance your rear end on the spikes of a fence and declare your fandom for both of these world figures.

But wouldn't that be like not declaring just where your ultimate respect, your ultimate love, your ultimate sense of style and wit lie? And wouldn't that be like allowing others to make the decision for you? You know, as you have so often done on voting day.

So, please, hotfoot it to Facebook, hotfinger your feelings, and may the winner be a worthy one.

Lady Gaga Out For a Baseball Game

Lady Gaga recently took some time off her busy schedule to attend a Yankees baseball game...in true Gaga style.

The singer, notorious for her eccentric behavior and outlandish costumes, showed up in an unbuttoned jersey that revealed her lacy black bra.

As if to stay in character, Lady Gaga also went pant-less and spotted matching black panties.

Source: The-fame.org

The Meaningless Meaning of Alejandro

Before working with Lady Gaga on the just-released "Alejandro," famed fashion photographer Steven Klein had never directed a proper music video. But after seeing Gaga perform live, he knew it was time to take the plunge.

"I went to see her show in NYC, and it felt like performance art in the '90s. And I had not seen anything like that in a while," Klein told MTV News in an e-mail. "Lady Gaga approached me about doing this particular song, and in the past, I have passed on such offers, but this time I felt [a] narrative drive you could make interesting, and we both aligned on the vision for the film."

Working closely with Gaga, the two created an eight-minute-plus, darkly surreal epic that draws equally from Madonna and Marlene Dietrich (to name just a few). Of course, given that Gaga and Klein are among the hottest names in their respective fields, getting together to plan "Alejandro" was difficult — and actually shooting it was nearly impossible.

"I had a vision and story for the film, she reacted to it, then we both collaborated ... We shot in Los Angeles on April 30, 2010," Klein wrote. "My schedule and hers are both complicated, so it took a lot to get the days that we both could work together."

Now that the "Alejandro" video has been unleashed on the world, we figured we'd ask Klein to reveal what inspired the clip ... or, at least explain what the heck it's all about.

"I was not thinking in terms of influences. I saw it more as a combination of cinema and theater," Klein wrote. "[It is] about a woman's desire to resurrect a dead love and who can not face the brutality of her present situation. The pain of living without your true love."
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Earlier today, the highly anticipated video for Lady Gaga’s latest single, “Alejandro,” premiered, much to the delight of fans from all over the world. As we were also saying, because of the images included in it, the video has great potential of causing a controversy – and it would seem that Katy Perry is leading the attack on it, as AceShowbiz can confirm.

The video features Lady Gaga surrounded only by male dancers who, in certain scenes, wear fishnet stockings and high heels. In others, Gaga is dressed in a plastic outfit that resembles a nun’s outfit, while another shot sees her swallowing a rosary, to mention just two of the things that are potentially controversial. It’s precisely this use of religious imagery that got Katy Perry all hot under the collar.

“Katy Perry is rumored to have taken aim at Lady Gaga. The ‘I Kissed a Girl’ hitmaker sparked such speculation after writing on Twitter, ‘Using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke.’ The fiancée of funnyman Russell Brand didn’t mention Gaga;s name on her post. However, people were quick to link the tweet to ‘Alejandro’ music video due to the fact that the newly-premiered clip features, among other Catholic imageries, a crucifix during a bed scene,” AceShowbiz writes.

Still, the e-zine says, if Perry is targeting Gaga, this would be a very clear case of pot calling the kettle black. “Aside from Katy Perry’s rumored jab at Lady GaGa, the two female singers actually have several things in common. [T]hey seem to have similar style when it comes to undergarments. Katy picks a pair of cannons that launch frosting to the camera for her bra in ‘California Gurls’ video, while Gaga opted for rifles to equip her own,” the report says.

Perry has remained mum on intensifying buzz that she dissed Gaga’s “Alejandro” video, as also has Gaga herself. Gossip blogger Perez Hilton, though, is convinced that the diss was real, saying on his Twitter that what is one’s blasphemy is another’s cannons shooting frosting, thus pointing out that one should never be so quick to judge others.

Lady Gaga Have Lupus?

Lady Gaga's friends aren't the only ones concerned for her after she almost collapsed on stage. The singer also knows she has to be more careful and is taking added precautions, especially after a recent health scare.

"I have tested borderline positive for [lupus]," she says in an interview on Larry King Live scheduled to air Tuesday night.

"As of right now," she says, "I do not have it, but I have to take good care of myself."

When asked by King how she's feeling, the pop star, 24, responds with a simple, "I'm okay," before adding that lupus, which took the life of her aunt Joanne, does run in her family.

But Gaga, who has a full slate of summer concerts lined up, and who earlier revealed she was tested for the disease, wants to reassure worried fans that she hasn't shown any symptoms yet.

Gagalogy - The study of Lady Gaga

This course is a must for those weirdos who is going for fame in a short span of time.

Doctoral student Meghan Vicks and poet/performer Kate Durbin started Gaga Stigmata earlier this year to compile their distillations of Gaga videos, original artwork and guest essays (sample: "On the Shared Sisterhood of Kate Bush's 'The Big Sky' & Lady Gaga's 'Dance in the Dark.'")

Salon posted an interview with Vicks and Durbin today, in which they explain the reasoning behind their project:


Why is Lady Gaga worth studying?

Durbin: Pop matters. What we hear in the mall, in our cars, on YouTube, makes the world around us, which is to say that it makes us. I believe Lady Gaga's art pioneers awareness and liberation at such a massive cultural scale that it would be ignorant, and potentially even destructive, not to take it seriously.

We needed a pop star who could simultaneously celebrate the spirit of pop -- the spirit that makes everyone, no matter who or where they are in the world, stand up and start dancing when "Billie Jean" comes on the jukebox -- and deconstruct, and ultimately shift, the static notion of the pop star as a figure of blind worship and untouchable-ness.

Gaga has put the glitter wand back into the hands of the audience. She's made the audience responsible for what they are viewing. No other pop singers are doing that, at least not on the level that Gaga is. No pop singer has done it on that level, ever, period.

Durbin and Vicks say they hope to collect enough writings to make a book.

Lady Gaga wants to die with fans

The eccentric 'Poker Face' singer thinks her alcohol intake will "kill" her one day but refuses to slow down, insisting she would rather risk exhaustion than take a break.

Speaking on stage in Sweden this weekend, she told the crowd: "You know when people say, 'Lady Gaga's really tired; she needs to take a break,' I just think about all those times I sang in bars when nobody was singing my lyrics. I'll sleep when I'm dead, OK?

"I know that I work really hard and run myself into the ground, and I also know that alcohol will kill me one day, but I would rather not die on vacation. I'd rather die on stage with all my fans."

The singer - who cancelled several performances in January due to exhaustion - showed signs of feeling the pressure when she crumpled to the floor and had to lie down during the last song for one of her recent sold-out 'Monster Ball' shows in Auckland, New Zealand.

Among many people to express their concern for the 23-year-old star is her friend Janet Jackson.

The 'Together Again' hitmaker said recently: "I really love Gaga, yeah, and she's a sweetheart. She's definitely doing something different and I love that.

"She works so hard, and I told her, I think she needs to slow down just a little bit, take some time out for herself."

Lady Gaga in Stockholm - in stockings and see-through

Lady Gaga was in Stockholm, Sweden yesterday after a performance this weekend wearing a pair of heels so high it looked like she was on stilts. But more to the point she walked around yesterday essentially naked in lingerie and you could kind of see her hairy kitty. Like any good tranny, Lady Gaga was out flashing his lady bits for all to see. She walked around in mesh underwear and flashed her junk to everyone who would dare to look while terrorizing the streets.

It was probably the most exciting thing she has ever done yet the most disgusting. Anyway, it is nice to see she finally ran of out of ideas and just started walking around in only her underwear. Stockholm must put a lot of money in their transvestite festival because to get a scantily clad Lady Gaga to walk around the city on Sunday in see-through panties and some ridiculous high platforms boots ain't cheap.












I really hope this gave her the attention she so desperately craves or help you fight off those tranny rumors. Lady Gaga is a hard dude to figure out. Sure his face isn't that attractive, but his tits are pretty solid. His ass may be a little dumpy but nothing to turn your nose up at. What he lacks in physical appearance he definitely makes up for in outward sluttiness, which any fat girl will tell you is the great equalizer. BTW, stop looking for her penis because I think it is tucked under. LOL... I don't mind the amazingly skanky outfit and hidden penis, it is the shoes I don't like.

All jokes aside, I no longer think she is a man but rather a very ugly chick who dress like a West Hollywood transvestite street prostitute. But I do want the hermaphrodite rumors to continue because they are working and it is killing her on the inside so soon she will provide us with an unobstructed view of her pussy to stop it. Not that I want to see some surgically constructed va-jay-jay but it would make for a good post.

Lady Gaga to Fox: You Suck!

By Hussnain
When it comes to her reaction to Fox’s broadcast of her American Idol performance Wednesday, Lady Gaga isn’t bothering putting on the p-p-p-p-p-poker face. She’s just straight up annoyed. The scene-stealing diva lashed out at Fox via Twitter, accusing the network of some shoddy editing work when it came to her much-heralded American Idol visit.

Lady Gaga performed her current hit "Alejandro", another song that has her repeating catchy little phrases over and over. "Ale-Alejandro/ Ale-Alejandro" has replaced "Roma-roma-mama" in the Pop-Culture Nonsense section of my brain, right next to Snookie's "waaaahhhhhh".

You've got to admire Lady Gaga, she's more interesting than Beyonce, more talented than Britney Spears, and freakier than Marilyn Manson. However, after her performance it was like the show came off a heavy acid trip and decided to soothe the hangover with a big band bonanza staring Harry Connick Jr.

Harry Connick Jr. not only performed a new cut off of his album ("And I Love Her" by the Beatles) but backed up the Idol's as they sang a medley of his songs, told a story about meeting Frank Sinatra, and also starred in his own montage video. Is this their way of telling us Harry Connick Jr. is Simon Cowell's replacement? Or maybe he was sent by Brian Dunkleman to destroy Ryan Seacrest? Either way, the man knows how to suck up precious airtime and I'm sure the Idol producer's are taking note.

Seeing Aaron Kelly go was no surprise. He seems like a nice enough kid, with a good voice, who just can't match up against the juggernaut power of Lee DewYze and Crystal Bowersox at this point. The Top 4 is one of the strongest in awhile, so here's hoping for a finish that's at least half as interesting as Lady Gaga's thing for men from South of the Border. "Ale-Alejandro/ Ale-Alejandro".

Lady Gaga amputated her legs to entertain

Is she out of her mind? Lady GaGa amputated leg another silly Gaga joke? No. It’s true.

Lady GaGa astounded fans and TV audiences Friday when she announced that she has had one of her legs amputated below the knee purely for fashion purposes. Crazy, huh? Who in the world would get his or her legs amputated just to be “different”? Only Lady GaGa.

She definitely achieved her objective. Her record company even paid for the operation and her new video will showcase the new “amputation” when filming begins in three weeks.

I don’t think it’s necessary. What was she thinking? How hard would you try to make a difference?
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The American recording pop artist, Lady Gaga, surprised her fans and the TV audience after she announced that she had one of her legs amputated below the knee solely for fashion purposes.

The pop singer withstands the operation in order to look increasingly different, and because of this she seems to achieve her objectives. Her record company even paid for the said operation. In her new video, which will start its filming in three weeks, showcases her new image.

Lady Gaga said on MTV “This is the latest fashion I’m starting and you can see that I’m a world leader when it comes to wacky and weird shit huh. Next month after I recover from the surgery I hope to have the other leg amputated or maybe my arm, hmm…which one should I amputate next?”

Most pop music experts would say that Lady Gaga has pioneered a new trend in pop acts who want to cash in on the amputations.

Veteran pop act Madonna has already shown her interest in the new frenzy trend and has vowed to have both of her unsightly arms amputated and have it donated to science.
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By Frankie Genchi on May 2nd, 2010
Filed Under: Music | Tags: Lady GaGa, LOL, Rumours

The rumours that Lady Gaga has had her leg amputated from the knee down are not true – what a surprise!

According to reports Gaga dropped the bombshell on Wednesday, on MTV.

Then came the blogs, Tweets and photoshopped images of Gaga with a fake leg – and to think, some people still didn’t believe the rumours.

One site who didn’t was E!, who contacted Gaga’s label and eventually received a reply saying that the rumours were “not true”.

So there you go, despite our photo, Lady Gaga still has two (or possibly even three) legs as she arrived in Japan.

Lady Gaga Need No Plastic Surgery

Did Lady Gaga go for plastic surgery? If she did, then the surgeon have done a terrible job of it. Lady Gaga has denied the recent reports that she is considering having some cosmetic procedures to change her look. The story had stated that Lady Gaga had been depressed and was considering plastic surgery as a way to lift her mood. It was said that she would be looking into plastic surgery for multiple different areas of the body.

A rep for Lady Gaga has “categorically denied” the previous reports that the singer was considering these procedures. The tabloids claimed that Lady Gaga was considering a nose job and breast implants.

Lady Gaga first came into the public view in 2008 when she released her first single and subsequent album, “The Fame.” Since then, Gaga has had a long list of different hits that has kept the rising star near the top of the Billboard charts throughout her short career. She is currently on her Monster’s Ball tour that will run from the beginning of July through the end of September. The tour is said to be more like a Broadway musical than a concert, featuring a plot, characters, and a storyline that will incorporate many of Gaga’s hit songs from her most recent album, The Fame Monster, as well as her original album, The Fame.
Her most recent single, “Telephone” featuring Beyonce, has been a huge success and reached number one on the Billboard charts shortly after its release.

Lady Gaga - Telephone Album

Lady Gaga, amidst tweets of aussie flags and wenches, announced via twitter that she would appear May 5th on American Idol.

The self proclaimed "pop-conquistador" tweeted the following late Friday evening.

"See you on American Idol. MAY 5th, Little Monsters."

The 'tweet' was accompanied by a link to a video for Gaga's current single "Telephone"(below). The single, originally written for Britney Spears, features Beyonce as a guest vocalist, and appears on Lady Gaga's current album "The Fame Monster".

"Telephone" is Lady Gaga's sixth consecutive Top Ten hit in the US and peaked at number 3 on the Billboard's US Hot 100. The video, featuring the native New Yorker, was unveiled last month.

Lady Gaga, from her website, describes the video as “gritty, erotic and wildly fierce” and claims, "Gaga's on-screen chemistry with Beyoncé transforms the song from a popular dance floor gem to a raw and explosive piece of art.”

It remains to be seen if Gaga's "Telephone" is slated for the Wednesday, May 5th edition of American Idol, which airs on Fox.

You don't have to have s-e-x : Lady Gaga says

Lady Gaga to Fans: "Don't Have Sex"
Singer Says She's Celibate and Tells Her Fans "You Don't Have to Have Sex to Feel Good About Yourself"

The singer announced that she is now celibate and is urging her fans to do the same.

"I can't believe I'm saying this - don't have sex," Gaga said during a stop in England, according to MTV.com. She was there promoting MAC Cosmetics' Viva Glam campaign, which supports HIV and AIDS projects around the world.

"I'm single right now and I've chosen to be single because I don't have the time to get to know anybody," she continued. "So it's OK not to have sex, it's OK to get to know people. I'm celibate, celibacy's fine"

The 24-year-old added that she was spreading the celibacy message in part because of the steady rise in the rate of HIV infection among women around the world, while cases among men have continued to decline.

She also said that she wants her celibacy to be something she shares with her fans and that she doesn't want them to shy away from being different.

"It's OK to be whomever it is that you want to be," she said. "You don't have to have sex to feel good about yourself, and if you're not ready, don't do it…It's not really cool anymore to have sex all the time. It's cooler to be strong and independent."

Gaga added that she hoped her fans who idolize her will listen to the message.

"When you're in the public eye, you're a role model whether you want to be or not. And I want to be," she said. "I'm not one of those self-obsessed artists who don't care about their fans. It's not just about the music."

Lady Gaga defends Her Student-Fans

Lady Gaga Defends Students Wearing a Gaga-Themed Shirt
This one looks like it's headed straight for the Supreme Court, since it sounds like one helluva of First Amendment violation. A Tennessee teen was sent home from Greenbrier High School to change his shirt, which sported the phrase, "I Heart Lady Gay Gay." The school's brass felt the shirt would cause a disruption among other students with its supposedly inflammatory statement.

The student, Cole Goforth, was asked to go forth and make a tee change and the teen's mom claimed that the school was in violation of the First Amendment with its request. When word of the incident made it back to Gaga, she tweeted: "Thank u for wearing your tee-shirt proud at school, you make me so proud, at the monsterball, you are an inspiration to us all. I love you." She also tweeted, "Been in the studio for days and hours of record after record, and when I hear that a little monster was discriminated against by teachers…It reminds me of my commitment + love for u, and the deep unconditional devotion I feel to write music that will deliberate you from prejudice." She also wrote, "I love you Cole, you just be yourself. You’re perfect the way God made you."

Looks like wearing a t-shirt can get you a direct message from the reigning queen of pop music. If I were you, I'd wear as many incensing t-shirts as possible so that it could be a conduit with which you can communicate with your favorite musician!

Lady Gaga working on her latest album

While fans are still enjoying “Telephone” and “Bad Romance,” Lady Gaga is already penning her next project !

Confirming the effort, which she says is already turning out “great,” Gaga told UK sources “I’m working on it now and I’ve already written the core of it so I’m just continuing to travel around the world and make something really great. It’s certainly my best work to date.”

While Gaga is pulling from experiences on the road, it may be some time before we hear the follow up to “The Fame” and “The Fame Monster” as she’ll be on tour for much of the year, including stops in the U.S. and Canada through September.

Lady GaGa's Topless Birthday Photo

Nothing like a communist-red teacup to make for the perfect Birthday gift. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. Happy Birthday, Lady Gaga!

Fashion's first lady

MELISSA KENT
Anyone who’s heard of Lady Gaga knows the new high priestess of shock doesn’t hold back when it comes to fashion.

She’s met the Queen in a red PVC Elizabethan gimp dress, held press conferences in gigantic shoulder pads that could double as an airline chair, flourished capes made from skinned polar bears, writhed in nude body-stockings with gaffer-taped nipples (fashion is pain, people), sculpted her hair into telephones and, of course, sparked a no-pants craze with her trademark “underwear-as-outerwear” look.

With her bizarre style - masked face, overdone hair and make-up, gridiron shoulders - Gaga has emerged as a surprising muse for both the high street and haute couture.

Her space-age aesthetic has influenced designers such as Giorgio Armani, Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci and Jean Paul Gaultier, while at the other of the scale outlets such as UK internet retailer Asos has attributed a 30 per cent rise in sales to Gaga-inspired lace party frocks, body suits and underwear.

While singers have long spearheaded the fusion of music and fashion, in just 15 months Gaga has in equal measure rocked the pop and fashion worlds in a way many have compared to pop’s original fashion wild child - Madonna.

In fact, she’s been been compared to the Material Girl so many times that she and Madonna did a skit together on Saturday Night Live: Gaga’s opening line was “Madonna? I’m totally hotter than you.” Madonna has said: “I see myself in her.”

Perhaps the Wall Street Journal nailed Gaga’s influence on pop and fashion when it said: “Gaga ... really understands
spectacle, fashion, shock, choreography - all the things Madonna and Michael Jackson were masters of in the 1980s.”

It’s fitting then, that Lady Gaga’s Melbourne show this week coincides with an exhibition of Madonna’s most iconic costumes as part of the Melbourne Fashion Festival.

The 30-piece collection at Chadstone includes the pink dress worn in the Material Girl video clip and the infamous gold conical bustier designed by Jean Paul Gaultier and worn by Madonna during her provocative 1990 Blonde Ambition tour.

“As stand-alone pieces, each of those costumes makes a comment on either class, gender, sexuality, race or just the power of the individual,” says Antonino Tati, editor of Cream magazine and self-confessed Madonna aficionado.

“These are really iconic because they’re so ingrained in the public’s mind and stand for so much in pop culture.”

Like Madonna, Gaga’s ambition is well-documented and she exerts a vice-like control over her image. While her outfits are largely the work of a team she calls “The Haus of Gaga”, she remains the creative force behind her aesthetic.

“I’m this way all the time,” she has said.

“I’m always dressed the way you see me in my videos and my performances. I live and breathe fashion, art and music. I was the girl who used to be made fun of in school because I was wearing some crazy outfit. For me, it’s not a costume; it’s not a look. Lady Gaga is me.”

It was only a matter of time before Gaga-inspired trends filtered down the high street, in admittedly diluted forms - no telephone hairpieces or polar bear capes - but rather in structured shoulders, lace body suits and leggings.

“She was the first one to really embrace those strong shapes, particularly those kind of Cube-esque shoulder pads. I see big shoulder pads and straight away I think, ooh very Gaga,” says Melbourne singer and designer Lee Lee from the
band Dirty Laundry.

“I see her as the love child of Bette Midler and Madonna, but even more out there. I like that her look is not just about being the beauty queen. It’s visually stimulating.”

Melbourne designer Alexi Freeman sees Gaga as a pop star of post-modern relevance.

“Like David Bowie in the ’70s, like Madonna in the ’80s, Lady Gaga is a real icon of fashion and where things are going,” he says.

“Admittedly, she does seem kind of insane, but I think she’s on a very creative journey. She is really on her own trip - in the beginning anyway, when she made her own outfits and did her own make-up, she was pursuing her own aesthetic. She’s genuinely expressing her own vision of what’s relevant now.”

Lady Gaga performs at Rod Laver Arena on Tuesday and Wednesday, and April 9, as part of her Monster’s Ball tour.

Source: theage.com.au

Pop superstar Lady Gaga sued by former boyfriend for £20m

LADY GAGA is being sued for more than s20million by an ex-boyfriend who claims he co-wrote some of her hits.

Music producer Rob Fusari says the Bad Romance singer axed him after he helped to create the flamboyant persona that made her famous.

He alleges he came up with the name Lady Gaga and helped write Paparazzi and Disco Heaven.

Robert Meloni, a law yer for Fusari, said: "It's an age-old story in the music business. You become famous and you turn on the person who discovered you."

Fusari filed the suit in Manhattan Supreme Court, New York, this week. He claims a talent scout pal introduced Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, to him in March 2006.

He says he was initially disappointed when the singer arrived at his 150 Studios in New Jersey.

The suit reads: "Fusari was expecting someone a little more grunge-rocker than the young Italian girl 'guidette' who arrived at his doorstep and was worried that he had made a mistake."

But when he asked her to play one of her songs on the studio piano, he realised "within seconds" that Germanotta had star potential.

The suit continues: "The trick would be coaxing it out of her."

Fusari claims he was responsible for "radically reshaping her approach" over several months - and convincing her to add dance beats to her songs.

He said he came up with the name Lady Gaga after playing Queen's Radio Ga Ga for her every day when she entered the studio.

"One day, when Fusari addressed a text message to Germanotta under the moniker 'Radio Gaga', his phone's spell check converted 'Radio' to 'Lady'," the suit says. "Germanotta loved it and 'Lady Gaga' was born."

Fusari, who has producing credits on Destiny Child's Bootylicious, is seeking a 20 per cent cut from a 2006 contract he says he signed with Gaga's two companies, Team Love Child and Mermaid Music.

He claims to have received just one cheque, for about s140,000.

Fusari and Germanotta, 23, were at one time romantically linked but broke up in January 2007, the suit says.

In the introduction to the court papers, Fusari portrays Lady Gaga as "a woman scorned".

The suit says: "All business is personal. When those personal relationships evolve into romantic entanglements, any corresponding business relationship usually follows the same trajectory - so that when one crashes, they all burn."

The singer, who is currently in Australia, has previously said: "I was Gaga from the time that I was 19 through my first record deal.

"I always dressed like that before people knew me as Lady Gaga. I was always that way - I stuck out like a sore thumb."

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Lady Gaga's lawyer said that an agreement at the heart of the legal battle was "unlawful".

Song writer and music producer Rob Fusari claims that he and the Grammy Award-winning performer formed a business partnership, in which he was entitled to 20 per cent of the business.

He is claiming $30.5 million (£20.3 million) from the singer.

The lawsuit said they co-wrote songs such as "Paparazzi" and "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich."

Mr Fusari also said he came up with the 23-year-old's stage name and helped get her record deal.

He said his protégé and former girlfriend, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, abandoned him and their partnership Team Love LLC as her career soared.

Mr Fusari claims that their business partnership entitles him to 20 per cent of her record deal.

He acknowledges that he has received $611,000 from her but says it is not his full share.

But Lady Gaga's lawyer Charles Ortner told that court that the agreement between the singer and the producer was "unlawful".

He said that Mr Fusari and his company violated statutes that prohibited them from "acting as employment agents without a license and charging Lady Gaga an unlawful fee for their purported services."

Mr Fusari's lawyer, Robert S. Meloni, called the claim "ludicrous".

"Fusari is a PARTNER in the Team Love LLC with Gag," Mr Meloni wrote.

"Rob was no more of an 'agent' for her than she is a Roman Catholic nun."

Lady Gaga won two Grammys in January: best dance recording, for "Poker Face," and best electronic or dance album for "The Fame."

A spokesman for Lady Gaga, who is on tour in Australia, declined to comment on the suit.

Lady Gaga and Beyoncé's Telephone music video 'to become one of YouTube's most watched'

The nine minute promo debuted on Thursday night and has already been viewed 12,170,080 times.

Directed by Jonas Akerlund and inspired by Quentin Tarantino films, Lady Gaga strips naked, kisses a woman, swears like a trouper and goes on the run with her "honey bee" Beyoncé in the outrageous video.



YouTube user vansrockz raved: "12,170,080 views! Just in 3 days, thats amazing! I love the details in this videos like the costumes, cameos, dancing, and Lady GaGa's raw facial expressions!"

Another Hayeslad06 said: "It's great to see an artist finally taking the time out to actually make interesting video's instead of the boring repetitive dancing to a white background shit we see of late!"

"Lady GaGa is showing the world that the music video is not dead, and I wish more artists would take note."

"Its a shame the likes of Madonna, who once revolutionized the music video, have now resorted to making cheap crap and just expect their fans to be happy with it! What happened to artists taking pride in their work? "

Susan Boyle's Britain's Got Talent performance is one of YouTube's most watched music clips with 89 million views since last year while OK Go's Here it Goes Again has had 50 million views over the past three years.

LADY GAGA Finished?

Lady Gaga is gone? As quickly as she rose to fame, it seems she is on the brink of total collapse.

LADY GaGa is on the brink of a Britney Spears-style meltdown, it is feared.

The triple Brit Award winner admits the stress of her success is causing “blinding headaches and blurred vision”.

She was forced to cancel gigs on the US leg of her Monster Ball tour after collapsing with severe breathing problems backstage.

And paramedics in West Lafayette, Indiana, warned her she could be suffering respiratory problems that require urgent attention.

The 23-year-old brushed aside their concerns, declaring: “I’ve resigned myself to this ridiculous schedule because I feel it is my destiny to provide for my fans.”

But close pals of the wacky singer – real name Stefani Germanotta – believe the pressures of fame are drastically affecting her off-stage behaviour.

And experts believe the strain of constantly playing to the cameras could be unsettling her mentally.

Los Angeles psychotherapist Jane Martinez said: “No one can put on an act 24/7. The almost inevitable result of this action is a mental and physical breakdown somewhere down the line.”

Before flying to London to accept her Brit Awards last month, she strolled into trendy Desmond’s Tavern in New York wearing an outfit too revealing even for her outrageous stage show.

Tavern owner Hugh Connolly said: “She was in fishnet stockings and a top – but had no pants.”

Before that, GaGa – who appeared on Jonathan Ross’ show on Friday night – fired several members of her staff after her dress almost fell off during a performance on the Oprah Winfrey Show.

She has also issued bizarre personal demands of Monster Ball tour promoters.

In Dublin, her backstage rider demanded a spiritualist, a tarot card reader and a “non-smelly cheese on ice”.

Pals say she’s been “close to the edge” after her father had open heart surgery last October.

Weeks later, she split from long-time boyfriend, a 31-year-old US millionaire known simply as Speedy, amidst claims of cheating.

Lady Gaga screws her outfit again

Here's Lady GaGa in London last night and screw her outfit. Check out the look on her bodyguard's face in each shot. There's a man who went straight home, told his daughter he loved her, then bought ten ponies and a Lamborghini just to make sure she got the message. Because she's two.

Lady Gaga's British tour marred by problems

Lady Gaga's first concert in Britain on her revamped "Monster Ball" tour was hit with a string of setbacks after several costumes and parts of the set went missing and technical mishaps marred the show.

The "Poker Face" hitmaker wrapped up her dates in America last month and brought the tour to the U.K. with an all-new stage set and concept for the British gigs.

But the opening show in Manchester, England on Thursday night was hit with problems after key pieces of the stage, props and costumes failed to arrive at the MEN Arena venue in time.

A source tells British newspaper the Daily Mirror, "Right up until the wire there was a mad panic. Gaga lived up to her name when she arrived to find half her costumes had not arrived and pieces of the set were missing. She has spent over a million pounds on this new stage show so she was furious that everything wasn't in place."

The singer took to the stage 40 minutes late and the show was marred by technical problems including missed lighting cues and an improperly balance sound mix, according to the BBC.

Lady Gaga will take the tour to Ireland this weekend before bringing the concerts back to Britain for nine more dates, ending in Nottingham, England on March 8.

She climbed atop a flaming piano, donned a Beetlejuice-esque striped bodysuit and unleashed a 40-foot multi-tentacled beast onstage. Yes, Lady Gaga arrived in Manchester, England, on Thursday night to kick off the European leg of her Monster Ball Tour, and the results were typically dazzling despite some technical snafus.

Gaga ran through 15 outfit changes, four acts and 19 songs — including "Just Dance," "LoveGame," "Dance in the Dark" and concluding with "Bad Romance" — in front of 23,000 screaming fans. The entire production had been put together in just four weeks.
"We were doing another show in the United States," the 23-year-old pop star said, according to the BBC. "But I got very bored, so I threw it away."

The quick turnaround time to build the show, however, led to a string of production malfunctions on opening night, from subpar sound mixing to missed lighting cues to the show wrapping up 30 minutes late.

Nonetheless, Gaga delivered. According to multiple reports, her outfits ranged from a tight one-piece bathing suit to a yellow hair-covered cape to an oversized red gown and matching red bonnet to a cotton candy-style wig. Other songs she performed included "Brown Eyes," "Alejandro," "Poker Face" and "Paparazzi."

From Manchester Gaga heads to Dublin on Saturday for a two-night stand. From there she'll swing through London and Birmingham before jetting off for dates in cities including Auckland, New Zealand, Sydney and Perth, Australia, and Osaka, Japan, in mid-April.

"The show is a musical, it's not just a pop show, there are lines and a score — there's a lot of music that you haven't heard before," Gaga said recently. "Some of it's very old, some of it's new, there are scores specifically for the show itself. The show's completely different and I have some really amazing surprises, and it's unlike anything I've done before."

Lady GaGa may be struggling with her stardom
London: Lady GaGa has fuelled speculation that she has been struggling with her stardom after her "weird" behaviour at a photo shoot for Q Magazine.

The 23-year-old singer faced the camera nearly naked and swathed in chainmail as she grabbed her crotch.

But she was said to have bursted into tears halfway through before irking the photographers with her tantrums at the Mayfair Hotel in London, The Mirror reported.

The Poker Face hitmaker apparently hated the snaps and began crying and walked out. She later insisted she would only continue if her boyfriend went behind the lens instead.

A source said: "The magazine wasn't going to stand for that so they told her people where to go. Her behaviour was weird

Lady Gaga wins 3 awards at Brit Awards

Lady Gaga was the big winner at the Brit Awards, held Tuesday in London. The American pop star lead the pack, winning three awards: International Female Solo Artist, International Female Solo Artist, and International Album for The Fame. Jay-Z was won the Brit award for International Male Artist.

As for the actual Brits, JLS was the big winner. The boyband, who were runners-up in the 2008 season of The X Factor, won the British Breakthrough Act and British Single for "Beat Again". Kasabian won the the group category, while Lily Allen won for female artist and Dizzee Rascal won for male artist. Florence & the Machine won British Album for Lungs. Paul Epworth won British Producer and the Critics' Choice went to Ellie Goulding. Robbie Williams was given the Outstanding Contribution to Music.

Celebrating their 30th anniversary, the Brit Awards handed out two extra awards: Performance of Last 30 Years went to the Spice Girls 1997 performance of "Wannabe"/"Who Do You Think You Are" while Album of the Last 30 Years went to Oasis for (What's the Story) Morning Glory?.

Lady at it again - exposing her private part in public

This time she is giving a bonus to spectators especially those seated in front for helping her to win 3 British Awards. I wonder if those frontseaters smell it. But they sure saw the best part of Lady Gaga.



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