Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986 in Yonkers, New York, United States), who performs under the stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter and musician.
Lady Gaga was the most liked celebrity on Facebook during 2010, with more than 24.7 million people expressing approval for the Bad Romance singer.
Figures published by Facebook show that she beat Eminem to the title by around 800,000 likes.
Megan Fox, Vin Diesel and Rihanna completed the top five, with Barack Obama in sixth.
The identity of the most liked celebrity on Facebook will have come as little surprise to people who have followed Lady Gaga's meteoric rise to superstardom, as she has arguably harnessed the power of social networking sites as a promotional tool more effectively than any other star.
In July the Poker Face singer became the first living person to gain 10 million Facebook fans, narrowly beating President Obama to the landmark.
She also has the most followers on Twitter (7.5 million) and although she only has the 50th largest subscriber base on YouTube, Famecount.com names her as the world's top social network star.
Justin Bieber, who is the ninth most liked celebrity on Facebook and has the third largest Twitter following, is second on Famecount.com's list, ahead of President Obama.
Eminem, Taylor Swift and Katy Perry are among the other stars to make the top ten.
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 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.
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 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.'
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.
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.
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." ------------------------------------------
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'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.
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.
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 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.
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".
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? ----------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------- 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.
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, 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.
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 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!
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.
