November 13, 20195 yr iHeartRadio names Gaga as the 'Icon of the Decade' for "influencing the world of music like few others have". :clap:
November 14, 20195 yr Author How Gaga did on Billboard... pretty well! #11 artist Songs: #84 Bad Romance Albums: #31 The Fame #33 A Star Is Born (YAY) #134 Born This Way (HOW THIS LOW WITH 1M+ COPIES FIRST WEEK?!?!) #152 The Fame Monster (EP) Shallow was #3 digital song! https://www.billboard.com/charts/decade-end
November 15, 20195 yr The Decade on the @billboardcharts: @ladygaga lands the No. 1 dance/electronic album of the 2010s with #TheFame https://t.co/kDCg4Lp4jj :cheer:
November 16, 20195 yr Author Gaga of course DOMINATES this list The most memorable award show moments from the past decade During the 2010 MTV VMAs, Lady Gaga's controversial meat dress was tied to her protest against the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. During the 2011 Emmys, Jimmy Kimmel tackled Jimmy Fallon to steal Fallon's acceptance speech in case he won that night. At the 2011 MTV VMAs, Beyoncé revealed she was pregnant by unbuttoning her tuxedo top and rubbing her belly after her performance. During the 2013 Golden Globes, hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's opening monologue taking shots at "the beautiful people of film" received a lot of laughs. At the 2013 MTV VMAs, a scantily clad Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke's raunchy performance shocked audiences. At the 2013 Oscars, Jennifer Lawrence tripped going up the stairs to accept her award for Best Actress. During the 2014 Billboard Music Awards, Kendall Jenner "forgot how to read" and had an awkward teleprompter moment when introducing the band 5 Seconds of Summer. At the 2014 Golden Globes, Jacqueline Bisset ended her acceptance speech saying, "I believe if you want to look good you've got to forgive everybody," confusing everyone. Midway through the 2014 Oscars, Ellen Degeneres handed out slices of pizza to some of Hollywood's biggest stars. The famous celeb selfie taken at the 2014 Oscars was retweeted more than a million times in less than an hour. At the 2014 Oscars, John Travolta mispronounced Idina Menzel's name as "Adele Dazeem" when he introduced her. Not even close. At the 2015 VMAs, Nicki Minaj used her acceptance speech to confront host, Miley Cyrus, who didn't talk fondly of Nicki to the press. John Hamm tried to be funny at the 2015 Emmys by crawling on stage to accept his award. At the 2015 Golden Globes, Chrisy Teegan's awkward crying face became a viral moment thanks to the camera operator's impeccable timing. Viola Davis made history at the 2015 Emmys as the first black woman to win lead actress in a drama series. It was at the 2016 Oscars when Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar after being nominated six times. Host of the 2017 Oscars, Jimmy Kimmel, brought an unaware Hollywood bus tour out during the live show. At the 2017 SAG Awards, Winona Ryder's facial expressions on stage accepting an award with the "Stranger Things" cast stole the show. During the 2017 Emmys, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, and Jane Fonda, stars of the 1980 film "9-5," came out to a standing ovation at the award show. Celine Dion wowed the crowd at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards by singing the "Titanic" theme song in honor of the song's 20th anniversary. At the 2017 Oscars, Nicole Kidman's now famous "seal clap" was likely an illusion caused by the camera operator using a wide angle lens. During the 2017 Grammys, Adele used her tearful acceptance speech as an opportunity to share her admiration for Beyoncé. At the 2017 Oscars, "La La Land" was incorrectly announced as the winner of the "Best Picture'" award, which was actually "Moonlight." For the 2018 Golden Globes, Oprah delivered an empowering and emotional speech in which she called out sexual abusers. At the 2018 Emmys, producer and director Glenn Weiss got down on one knee and proposed to his girlfriend on stage. She said "yes"! Remi Malek fell off the stage at the 2019 Oscars soon after accepting his award, causing paramedics to rush to his aide. During the 2019 Oscars, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper had such intense chemistry while performing a song together from their movie, "A Star Is Born," that their performance sparked romance rumors. For the 2019 Golden Globes, Melissa McCarthy brought 40 sandwiches with her into the award show and handed them out to hungry guests. At the 2019 Golden Globes, the Fiji water girl photobombed almost every celebrity on the red carpet, and social media couldn't get enough. The 2019 Oscar win for Lady Gaga made her the first female to win all big five awards in one season. At the 2019 VMAs, Adriana Lima mistakenly yelled "What's up New York?" to the crowd in Newark, New Jersey. At the 2019 Oscars, Spike Lee won his first competitive Oscar for his film "BlacKkKlansman." During the 2019 People's Choice Awards, Noah Centineo confused everyone when he tried quoting former President John F. Kennedy during his acceptance speech. https://www.insider.com/most-memorable-awar...-decade-2019-11
November 19, 20195 yr Author Billboard staff: 100. Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born Soundtrack (2018) A Star Is Born, the soundtrack, is many things -- a meta-take on how an artist evolves in their career when thrown into the pop machine, a reflection on one's unwillingness to change, a coherent story that tells the rise of one popular performer (Lady Gaga's Ally) alongside the fall of another (Bradley Cooper's Jackson Maine), and a great pop-rock album that will stand the test of time. From Jackson's opening riffing on "Black Eyes," to the closing of Ally's Whitney-inspired "I'll Never Love Again" -- with the indelible "Shallow" in the middle, of course -- Gaga and Cooper designed a fully realized work that transcends the film itself, allowing it to exist on its own as a piece of art. And sure, Jack couldn't appreciate the pop-brilliance of "Why Did You Do That?" but hey, we wish he would have taken another look at it. -- DENISE WARNER 21. Lady Gaga, Born This Way (2011) Mother Monster dug her pointy claws deep into her inspirations and pulled out the weirdest, most nostalgic and erotic elements from basically every genre she could muster with third album Born This Way. The singer created an inclusive anthem on the title track, then got downright nasty on “Government Hooker,” transformed into a glam metal goddess on “Electric Chapel,” called upon E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons for “Edge of Glory” and went full power ballad on “You And I.” Born This Way was a brilliant display of pop excess that only Gaga could get away with -- let alone sell over a million copies first week with. -- B.G. https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/lis..._source=twitter POOR ARTPOP!!! :(
November 19, 20195 yr EW ranked 'Shallow' as the 'best song from a movie' this decade! "It just works on every level a movie song can hit, whether it's the importance it holds in the film's narrative, the masterful songwriting that allows it to stand on its own... the tune is timeless" :wub:
November 22, 20195 yr Author Born This Way was named as one of the 100 songs that defined the decade by Billboard https://www.billboard.com/100-songs-that-defined-the-2010s (Wonder why the page is half blank...)
November 23, 20195 yr Author Here's the essay! “It gave a big voice to people who could only whisper at that time.” Twitter scholars often argue over the moment where society reached Peak Gaga. Some point to 2009’s “Bad Romance,” widely considered to be one of her most adored songs and videos to date, as the most Lady Gaga of all Lady Gaga. Others say the meat dress she wore at the 2010 VMAs, or her similarly otherworldly fashion moments following the release of The Fame Monster, should earn this title. But in 2011, Gaga unveiled “Born This Way.” The singer’s third single to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (following “Just Dance” and “Poker Face,”) the track quickly became known as one of her most iconic singles to date, and what many agree is the true moment of Peak Gaga. It had everything fans had come to expect from a Lady Gaga release: a stomping, electro-pop beat; an absolutely insane music video (which clocked in at a whopping 9 minutes); and a pulsating message of empowerment. To Fernando Garibay, the co-producer behind the song and many of the other tracks on Gaga’s Born This Way parent album, it was more than just another catchy single for Mother Monster to feed to her fans. This was personal for Gaga. “Fifty versions of this song were done to get it to that point,” he recalls. “The song meant more than just, ‘Can this be a pivotal moment in pop history?’ It was more, ‘Can this create change?’ And in order to create change, the content needed to be spectacular.” Dave Russell, who recorded Gaga’s vocals and mixed the track, says “Born This Way” was the first of the songs to be written and recorded off of the album, which struck him as atypical. “Normally singles come towards the end of making an album project, and in this case here was ‘Born This Way’ leading the way as a spearhead for the album,” he says. “There was a sense of fearlessness when it came to writing some of those songs.” While the star certainly had her eye on success, her collaborators point to the song’s inclusive message of a divinely bestowed inner power that drove the song’s production forward. The political climate was changing; loud activism in the LGBTQ community continued and led to the implementation of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” repeal, and protesters continued to shame the U.S. government for heightened levels of deportation throughout the year. Garibay explains that while the two were working on the album during Gaga’s Monster Ball tour, the star would come in from her shows distraught over emotional meet-and-greets with fans. “She talked about how there needed to be a voice, and some action, anything we could do,” he says. “We realized that we could do something through song.” The message of relentless activism through self-actualization permeates the track -- the song’s bridge in particular aims to speak to as many perspectives as possible, as the star listed through different races, sexualities and gender expressions as she could. Even today, those lyrics still push past boundaries: Gaga made history at the 2017 Super Bowl, where she became the first person to say the word “transgender” during the live telecast. As Russell puts it, “It gave a big voice to people who could only whisper at that time.” “Born This Way” was birthed at the height of Gaga’s public saturation -- fans had come to expect an event with each of the star’s releases, especially after the culture-breaking moment that was her “Bad Romance” video. As each song and video the singer released added to her mythos and furthered fan fervor, the short drought between the release of her “Alejandro” video and “Born This Way” only made the heart grow fonder. That anticipation certainly helped the single’s ultimate success -- after just over a year of no new Gaga, “Born This Way” became the fastest-selling single in iTunes history at the time, with over one million copies sold in just five days. The song also made its debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, the only song in the superstar’s discography to do so to this day. Upon its release, the song did become the subject of some criticism. Avid music listeners and commentators noticed striking similarities between “Born This Way” and Madonna’s “Express Yourself”: The melodies had similar chord structures, the tracks operated at the same tempo, and they both featured uplifting, empowering messages. Madonna herself famously referred to Gaga’s track as “reductive” of her own work. Despite the criticism, Russell says that the song was (and is) a career-defining moment for the star simply due to the strength of the song itself. “A good song doesn’t need bells and whistles thrown at it,” he says. “No matter how much production is thrown at that song, it still stands up on its own.” Similarly, Garibay has seen firsthand the impact of the single’s musical activism. “I work with a lot of Generation Z artists as well, and they come to me because they realize that with the power of the music we can make together, we can help affect change,” he says. “We were able to make social justice cool and relevant again in pop music.” https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/...ined-the-decade
November 24, 20195 yr Biggest Hot 100 hits this decade are apparently: #1 Bad Romance #2 Born This Way #3 The Edge of Glory #4 Applause #5 Shallow
November 25, 20195 yr Author I'm surprised that TEOG and Applause are still considered bigger than Shallow which outlasted both on charts.
November 28, 20195 yr Artists with most weeks at #1 this decade (10's) on the Official Irish Albums Chart: #1. Ed Sheeran — 62 weeks #2. Adele — 50 weeks #3. The Greatest Showman Cast — 22 weeks #4. Lady Gaga — 16 weeks https://t.co/wKibnwiemh
November 29, 20195 yr Author NME has ranked "Born This Way" by Lady Gaga at #78 on their 'Greatest Albums of the Decade' list! "Steeped in Eurotrash excess, Lady Gaga’s second album had all the subtlety of a bull rampaging through a silent yoga retreat. ‘Edge of Glory’ and ‘Born This Way’ are wonderfully silly, overblown and flamboyant. ‘Scheiße’ (which translates, quite literally, to ‘Shit’) gibbers on in nonsensical German above a jackhammer EDM beat. ‘Judas’ is a Biblical traitor fable shot to heady Eurovision heights. It’s cheesier than Cheddar Gorge and all the more brilliant for it" https://www.nme.com/features/nme-best-album...10-2019-2580278 Edited November 29, 20195 yr by SKOB
November 30, 20195 yr Author 25 Of The Absolute Best Lady Gaga Outfits Of The Last Decade https://www.buzzfeed.com/shelbyheinrich/lad...-best-of-decade
