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With this look i think we can narrow down the options to either GUY or Fashion as it's a bit awkward to wear Jean Paul Gaultier to Donatella!
With this look i think we can narrow down the options to either GUY or Fashion as it's a bit awkward to wear Jean Paul Gaultier to Donatella!

Since when is Venus out of the question? Lol.

That looks so cool! Reminds me of the BRIT Awards performance in honour of Alexander McQueen. Her neck must be killing her though. :(
I have a feeling she is releasing a brand new single that is not on Artpop
Why?

because she would have announced a single already if it was one from artpop

Maybe she's just recording a video with little/ no miming so she can film it all, choose which single, and then edit in the small miming sections post-choice? :drama: #Hasn'tshedecidedyet???
I really hope that's G.U.Y.! :wub: It would fit perfectly!
I will go for G.U.Y as long as she doesn't take out: Greetings, Himeros, God of Sexual Desire, lay back...

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Lady Gaga, seen here in Paris, filmed a music

video at Hearst Castle and made a donation to the

site’s organization, which Gov. Jerry Brown noted

in a letter to the pop diva.

Everybody’s a critic. How else to explain the

state’s disjointed nose over a State Parks

employee’s decision to allow Lady Gaga to use

Hearst Castle to film a recent video shoot?

Nick Franco, district director of the coastal area

that includes the famed former home of William

Randolph Hearst, was placed on administrative

leave shortly after Gaga’s video project

wrapped up. State Parks won’t confirm that

Franco’s discipline was related to the Gaga

shoot, and it’s possible – maybe – that it’s for

reasons unrelated to the project. But the timing

and refusal to explain invite speculation.

Gaga’s request for permission to film at the

castle’s iconic Neptune Pool created some

ripples, since a decision had recently been

made to drain the leaky pool. That process had

already begun.

When Gaga asked that the pool be refilled,

State Parks administrators reportedly balked; they

didn’t want to appear like they were wasting

water in a drought. That’s when Stephen Hearst,

vice president and general manager of the Hearst

Corp. western properties, stepped in. He said

water to refill the pool could come from a Hearst

Ranch reservoir, and when the shoot was done it

could be used to water landscaping at the castle.

Gaga also agreed to make a donation of nearly

$300,000 to the castle – some of which would go

to repair of the leaky pool – and to film a water

conservation video for the state. And face it,

Gaga’s video is likely to reach an entirely different

audience than anything done in other forms.

The video was shot Feb. 11-13, and was

considered a success. Gaga even got a laudatory

thank-you note from Gov. Jerry Brown. Nice.

Hearst was a complex man. But on one thing,

nearly everyone can agree: He thought big. He

knew how to create publicity, using every facet of

his media empire, the greatest of his era, from

newspapers to magazines to movie studios to

radio stations. Gaga is a lot like him, a master

promoter. Showcasing Hearst Castle in a music

video is priceless publicity that’s sure to boost

attendance but also draw attention to California’s

beauty.

Why, then, was Franco – a popular district

director who’s helped raise the profile of the

castle – suspended?

Perhaps State Parks has thrown Franco under the

bus, making him a fall guy for anyone who would

criticize the filling of a leaky swimming pool

during a drought. But such critics don’t have the

whole story, and frankly they lack imagination.

State Parks isn’t saying why it put Franco on

leave.

We believe that Hearst would have wholly

approved her use of his beloved home and given

it rave reviews. And he would have likely thanked

Franco for his role in making it possible.

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