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