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.
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.
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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."
