The ‘Poker Face’ singer - who is well known for her eccentric clothing and party lifestyle - can’t stand the thought of life away from the public eye and wouldn’t be able to cope with normal life.
She said: “There are times when it can be a lot to deal with but always when I get up in the morning I try to find that very joyful place that reminds me that I would die if someone took it all away. If someone did that I wouldn’t be a person any more.”
After years of singing in clubs and penning tracks for stars including Britney Spears, the 23-year-old beauty - who topped the UK charts with her debut album ‘The Fame’ - is grateful of her newfound success.
She explained: “I have such an appreciation for where I am in my life because I’ve struggled and because I couldn’t get signed, and because I couldn’t get played on the radio.”
But the eccentric star, who went to the elite Convent of the Sacred Heart School with Paris and Nicky Hilton, relishes the opportunity to be herself.
She said: “Right now the only thing that I am concerned with in my life is being an artist. I had to suppress it for so many years in high school because I was made fun of but now I’m completely insulated in my box of insanity and I can do whatever I like.”
• Kanye West compares Beyonce, Lady Gaga to Legends
Rolling Stone - Kanye was inspired by a candid photo of Rihanna (the muse of his new 808s & Heartbreak video “Paranoid”) stepping into a yellow cab in New York City. “Yo why can’t all paparazzi photos be this good?” Kanye asks. “This pic is hardcore. Peep the perspective shot of the city in the back. Sometimes the paps overexpose the lens or have the flash too high taking all the emotion out of the moment. This moment is captured in time now. Then, Kanye got controversial.
“I look at our current superstars like legends in the making. Like Justin [Timberlake] is the new Mike [Michael Jackson], Beyoncé’s the new Tina Turner, [Lady] Gaga’s Madonna, Jay[-Z] is Sinatra, [Lil] Wayne is Hendrix, Thom Yorke is Roger Waters,” Kanye said in his Match Game. A couple issues, obviously. For starters, Lady Gaga has a long way to go before even being in the same weight class as Madonna, Jay-Z can’t sing or act like Sinatra, Weezy can’t shred like Jimi and while Roger Waters can be considered the heart of Pink Floyd, guitarist David Gilmour was the soul. Plus, let’s see Radiohead continue on without Yorke like Floyd did without Waters.
• Lady Gaga Opens Up About Her Preference for Boys
Lady Gaga has a very specific kind of man that she wants in her life, and she is not afraid to admit it.
“I like boys that look like girls,” she told Tarts in a recent interview. “All my boyfriends look like Nikki Sixx, amazing.”
Now to confuse us even more, the mysterious pop princess said that her hit song “Poker Face” was written in honor of her many boyfriends … and girlfriends too?
“I’ve dated a lot of guys that are really into sex and booze and gambling so I wanted to write a record that my boyfriends would like,” Gaga added. “But something I don’t really talk about is if you listen to the chorus I say ‘he’s got me like nobody’ then ‘she’s got me like nobody.’ It’s got an undertone of confusion about love and sex …”
But when asked if she was bisexual, the flamboyant pop princess played mum on the “very personal” issue. But back to note of love, the Catholic school drop-out also loves to party at a place a little different to your typical Hollywood hotspot.
“I love church music, church and mass in general, it’s like a play. I really enjoy it,” the 22-year-old enthused.
But earlier this year Gaga committed the ultimate sin of baring too much of her bottom in itty bitty hot pants while out in the streets of Chicago and scored herself a citation.
“I was on my way to a festival, I was on the street and he (a police officer) stopped me. He said ‘put your ass up against the fence’, there were kids around so I guess he wanted me to cover up my bum - quite a bit was showing,” Gaga explained. “But it was quite an epic moment for me, I was up against the fence going ‘it’s fashion, I’m an artist!’ I signed his ridiculous piece of paper and left. I was being wildly disrespectful to him, he looked like some park ranger on a bike.”
And despite being considered one of the world’s hottest commodities in the entertainment arena today, the “Let’s Dance” diva has had her fair share of rejection.
“I was told for a very long time that I was not pretty enough, too strange, not edgy enough,” Lady Gaga added. “But I’ve always been famous, it is just that nobody knew.”
• Lady Gaga to bring feel-good vibe to MMVAs
Fans of the MuchMusic Video Awards have one more reason to go gaga on June 21.
The live show, which has already nailed down the Jonas Brothers as hosts, will also include chart-topping pop/rock sensation Lady Gaga.
Gaga, 23, whose debut album, The Fame, has already spawned three hit singles, confirmed she’ll be performing when 2009 MuchMusic Video Awards go live next month.
“I’m really excited. I love Toronto. I just love Canada in general. It was the very first place to really take a liking to me,” said Gaga, a.k.a. Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, earlier today following a sold-out concert last night in Melbourne, Australia.
Two hit singles by Gaga, “Just Dance” and “Poker Face,” have gone platinum six times in Canada, something no other artist has ever achieved. A third single from the album, Love Game, is set to follow.
The native New Yorker got her start at 19 as a songwriter for Fergie, Pussycat Dolls, Britney Spears and New Kids on the Block before moving to Los Angeles and launching a solo career.
Gaga said influences for her concert performances go as far back as vaudeville, describing her stage work as “performance art.”
Gaga said her musical influences include the Beatles – especially their Abbey Road album – Pet Shop Boys, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin, Queen, David Bowie and vintage jazz singer Etta James.
“I work so hard and I live and breathe my performances every day. It’s a wonderful thing when people love what you’re making,” Gaga said.
“I want my fans not to come to my show and say ‘I love you,’ I want them to say, `I love myself.’ I really feel that music can make people feel good about themselves. It’s all about the passion and the love,” she added.
• Lady Of Fame
Lady GaGa remembers the moment she got perspective on celebrity culture overload. She was reminiscing about Aaliyah, the late princess of dark urban.
“I argued with a friend about how Aaliyah put Timbaland on the map,” GaGa says. Her friend countered: “That must’ve been weird. She was dating R. Kelly then.”
GaGa was stunned. Not by the R. Kelly reference. But by the fact that she knew Aaliyah only for the music.
“I never gave a damn who anyone was dating, who they were sleeping with, or if they were getting married,” GaGa says. “All I cared about was the music, the song, the artist.”
But times change. And GaGa’s hit album, The Fame, speaks to a celebrity-obssessed climate.
“Sadly, celebrity has become as prevalent as the music,” she says. “I don’t want to say it’s become as important. But the music industry has shifted towards pushing celebrities as singers, as opposed to artists.”
GaGa, 23, born Stefani Germanotta, built her brand as a performance artist in New York’s club scene. But she flipped the script on the jaded underground. She powered her burlesque shows with hooked-up, undeniable pop.
“The stage was high-brow and pop music was frowned upon,” she says. “Pop music was for the mainstream. It was for talentless losers. When I chose pop, I went with something real f***ing risky.”
Lady GaGa has an art context for everything she does. Her show is an installation. Her songs are museum pieces. Her fashion, while futuristic, will have historic clout.
“I want to look at the future, but in a way that has nothing to do with The Jetsons or outer space,” she says. “My fashion is about the urban woman in the year 3000, when there is a tonne of pollution, and we all need to protect our bodies and cover up, because the air outside will acidise our skin. I think about obscure, weird things and try to create a world around it.”
Indeed, right now, the pop world belongs to Lady GaGa. Her singles Just Dance and Poker Face were hits worldwide.
She began crafting pop as an in-house songwriter for a record label. At 19 she was signed to the Def Jam label, then swiftly dropped.
“It made me realise how fearless I am,” she says. “I’ve got a nerve in my body that is so powerful, it scares me. But I felt so alone. Alone, alone, alone in New York. All I had was my piano, a teeny-tiny apartment, my talent and my dreams.
“It’s not supposed to be a life of fairytale. Making music is not a silver platter. It’s not handed to you.”
Six months later, she was signed to a major label offshoot overseen by singer Akon.
“I put it down to my work ethic. I put it down to my drive,” she says. “I am Lady GaGa – the girl with the big voice and a whole lot of f***ing nerve.”
Late last year, a raw nerve was hit when commentators compared GaGa with Christina Aguilera.
Aguilera said she was unsure if GaGa was a man or woman. GaGa said the backhander boosted her profile. It also played beautifully into her brief for The Fame.
“Fame is when everybody knows who you are,” she says. “The fame is when nobody knows who you are, but when you walk into the room, everybody wants to know who you are.”
The Lady crafts her pop from a creative space and production house called The Haus of GaGa.
“It’s all about being catchy,” she says. “At the end of the day, I find records to be entirely worthless if there is no big chorus. For me, you need that orgasmic explosion after the verse. I live for that.”
Today, Lady GaGa knows she has moved beyond the fame – the “Who’s that girl?” angle she worked to get famous.
“I’ve been able to trick people into thinking I was famous for a long time – then it became true,” she says. “This is a pop show for a museum. It’s about sex, drugs, partying, and being 23. And that’s OK.”
Gaga sees herself as a role model for unpopular
She's one of the hottest music acts on the planet right now, but US pop star Lady Gaga sees herself as a role model for the unpopular and not so beautiful.
The 23-year-old singer says she believes she sends a positive message to young women.
"The truth is what I'm a role model for is the ability to change culture," Lady Gaga told AAP in Sydney.
"The ability for a young woman who may not be the most popular girl in school or the most beautiful or the best at everything to bust her arse and never give up and make something of herself.
"So if that's not a good message, I don't know what else is."
Lady Gaga's sexy videos, lyrics and fashion sense have raised many an eyebrow.
Her hit track Love Game, which features the lyrics "I wanna take a ride on your disco stick", gained attention for its sexual references.
The accompanying video, in which she dances nearly naked, was banned from playing on Video Hits in Australia for "frequent verbal and visual sexual references".
Lady Gaga says it doesn't worry her, saying sex is "an important thing to everyone".
"I don't make my videos for television - I make them for art," she said.
"So I do whatever video I think is best for the story and the vision of the song. And then whether or not someone plays it is up to them."
At the end of the day, Lady Gaga, a former convent school girl, says she didn't set out to be a role model, but wants her music and videos to make people feel good about themselves and send a message.
"I'm not riding around in the sand glistening naked in the sun in my videos," Gaga said.
"They have a very clear message.
"I have not made a career out of being this incredibly beautiful supermodel of a woman, that was plucked off of a television series.
"I'm a decidedly eccentric young girl with a weird style who changed people's minds."
Lady Gaga is currently in Australia supporting the Pussycat Dolls on tour.
She will be touring the rest of the year in the likes of Europe, Asia and Canada, but says she is writing new songs every day and plans to release more music at the end of the year.
"I don't abide by the industry rules of releasing things," Gaga said.
"I intend to release almost a full album's worth of new material by the end of this year without saying I'm putting out a new record.
"Just because my fans deserve my music."
Being so busy with her music, Lady Gaga added she had no time for a personal life or boyfriend.
"I'm a very passionate woman," she said.
"I just don't put emphasis on that sort of thing.
"I believe in love and art and togetherness but my music will never wake up and tell me it doesn't love me anymore."
AAP
Posted on 24 May 2009 by Mel
Lady Gaga says lip synching is a ‘NO-NO’
Lady Gaga has pledged never to mime her words to recorded tunes on stage, insisting it defeats the purpose of a real artist.
The pop vixen said she would never resort to lip synching even if she was to perform heavy dance routines along with her songs.
“I would never even think about it (lip synching). The whole point to me is, if you’re gonna be number one, you better really be f***ing number one,” the Daily Star quoted her as saying.
“If you’re gonna be on top, you better be able to do all those things, because it’s a real privilege to be able to make music everyday, and I get away with a lot.
“Andy Warhol says art is what you can get away with, and I get away with a lot with my music and my clothes, and I work really hard so I could truly be a real artist for all my fans. That’s really f***ed up when you lip-synch?” she added. (ANI)
Source: entertainmentandshowbiz.com
Posted on 23 May 2009 by Mel
Lady Gaga: Good Sex Is Better Than Love
The singer revealed that the ideal St. Valentine`s Day celebration includes spaghetti for endurance, followed by good sex.
Talking to English reporter Alex Sim Wise, Lady Gaga (23) revealed that the ideal St. Valentine`s Day celebration includes spaghetti for endurance, followed by good sex.
Great sex is better than true love. I don`t know what true love is – Lady Gaga claims.
The singer offered tips to other women, saying it is not a good thing to apply a thick layer of bright red lipstick if they are having dinner with a man, because they will smudge it with a napkin and leave them looking horrible. However, she believes they should put on some light make-up, because men like wet lips.
The singer offered tips to other women, saying it is not a good thing to apply a thick layer of bright red lipstick if they are having dinner with a man, because they will smudge it with a napkin and leave them looking horrible.
- The cheesiest chat-up line? I was at the Johnson`s and my boyfriend was there that night. He was working and was late and this guy comes over to me and asks me: `What do you do?`. I said I`m a singer, an artist. I asked him: `What do you do` and he said: `I`m a ninja fighter`. First of all, if it`s true, then it`s totally rad, and if it`s not true, it is so creative and imaginative that it would get my attention – Lady Gaga recalled.
Awful photo of both GaGa and Speedy (her current boyfriend) imo. :( They both look so much hotter, urgh not so good publicity for her I guess. She's usually a lot grander in most of the magazines/newspapers she appears in
He needs to do something about those eyebrows. :lol:
• Anthem Magazine Interviews B. Åkerlund
Lady Gaga often talks about how she was destined for something much bigger than herself. Sure, her ridiculously catchy pop songs become mega hits overnight and her rousing persona has startlingly little restraint, but it’s her loud outfits that fans seem to have really embraced with genuine gusto. This orbit headgear alone exemplifies Gaga’s defiance of the evolutionary science of fashion. So, how do these outfits come together exactly?
Much of Lady Gaga’s original creations are manufactured by “Haus of Gaga,” her in-house collaborative team of artisans and technicians. But there is an important name you may not yet be familiar with: B. Åkerlund. Following their handsome collaboration on the latest “Paparazzi” music video, Åkerlund immediately jumped onboard as Gaga’s first official personal stylist. If you’ve seen the video, you’ll agree that this partnership is irrefutably awesome.
Åkerlund gave Anthem a detailed breakdown of the megastar’s stunning transformations in “Paparazzi.”
Can you talk a little bit about your background in fashion and how you ultimately chose to become a stylist?
I’ve loved clothes my whole life and it’s always been a passion of mine. I guess I fell into it quite naturally. Someone told me that I should become a stylist, but I didn’t know what that would entail and didn’t realize you could get paid to do something that you love.
What were you doing before you got into styling professionally?
Well, I started styling when I was 17. I’ve been doing it for quite a long time…
How did you first meet Lady Gaga?
I actually had a meeting with her before her album came out and she sought me out wanting to work with me. But at the time, I wasn’t available because I was pregnant. I just gave birth to twins and I was in Sweden for a couple of months taking time off. So, I passed on her offer. She called me up for every video that she’s ever done and I was just never available. This time around, she actually contacted my husband, Jonas, the director of “Paparazzi.” He asked me, “Should we do Gaga?” and I’m like, “Yes, perfect timing!” I was totally ready for her and we both realized that it’s a match made in heaven.
How did she stumble onto your work?
I have no idea. She just said she knew. I asked her, “How do you know that we’re so perfect for each other?” and she said, “I just know.” She’s like a sister that I never had.
Did she have a personal stylist before you came onboard?
She never had a personal stylist, but she has a creative director named Matthew Williams that she works with that does all the set design and collaborates with her on all her own designs. She calls her all of her own stuff “Haus of Gaga.” She hasn’t really worked with one particular stylist before me.
For the record, you’re her first official stylist?
I hope so! [Laughs]That’s the word!
Is this a full-time gig or does she sort of hit you up whenever she has something specific in mind?
She’s definitely a very strongly opinionated artist. She knows exactly what she wants and sometimes she’ll go ahead and make stuff on her own. I think she just needs me for more specific jobs, you know? I mean, she’s very busy and she’ll never do anything twice. On her promo tour around the world, she has about a million things going on all the time so I try to help out whenever I can.
What is it like styling for someone with such a huge presence in the world of celebrity, and especially Lady Gaga whose persona is so strongly informed by what she wears?
For me, it comes very naturally. I feel like styling her is like styling myself. [Laughs] She’s like what I see myself 10 years ago because I used to be a really crazy dresser. It’s just an amazing opportunity to be able to dress somebody as elaborate as your imagination will take you. As far as my imagination will go, she’ll most likely go there with me.
What is the collaborative process like in creating Lady Gaga’s clothes? How much of the concept comes from Gaga and how much input do you have as the stylist?
I feel like I have a lot of input because I come from the world of fashion. I don’t like to pull fashion; I like to make fashion. I feel like Gaga and I are alike in that respect. It doesn’t necessarily have to be about the new hot designers; it’s whatever we feel like doing at the moment. If that means pulling from old resources of designers we like or archives of things or whatever it is. It doesn’t matter as long as it feels right
• Lady Gaga to Hit Seoul Next Week
Best known for her hit songs “Just Dance” and “Poker Face,” Lady Gaga will arrive in Seoul, June 16, and stage a show at Club Answer, Cheongdam-dong, June 17.
The much-anticipated show will also feature rising K-pop singer A.J. as the opening act and DJ Koo.
Lady Gaga will also have a press conference to promote her first album “The Fame,” which is all about today’s celebrity and fame-obsessed world.
The pop star made her debut last year, with catchy dance songs like “Just Dance” and “Poker Face” that shot up the Billboard charts in the United States and charts around the world. “Just Dance” was nominated for Best Dance Recording at the Grammy Awards.
Her subsequent singles “Eh Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)” and “Love Game” also climbed up the top ten of the Billboard charts. The music video for “Love Game” was directed by Joseph Kahn, who also directed videos for Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, and The Pussycat Dolls.
Lady Gaga also caught everyone’s attention with her fashion-forward and sometimes, over-the-top style. She handles her own creative production team called Haus of Gaga. With her long blonde hair, oversized sunglasses, huge hair ribbon, and outrageously sexy costumes, Lady Gaga’s trademark look has spawned wannabes everywhere.
Born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, Lady Gaga grew up in Manhattan, New York and studied at a private Catholic school and later attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. By age 20, she started writing songs for The Pussycat Dolls and Akon, who suggested she make an album.
Lady Gaga got her stage name after producer Rob Fusari started calling her “Gaga,” taken from Queen’s song “Radio Gaga,” while she was recording her album.
With her sudden rise to fame, Lady Gaga is experiencing “fame” and its pitfalls firsthand.
“I feel that people treat me differently now because I’ve become famous. In the past, people gave me weird looks at the clubs because I was dressed differently and acted differently from other clubbers. Now they look at me just because I’m a celebrity, but really, I’m still the same person,” Lady Gaga said, in an interview with The Korea Times last March.
LADY GAGA: MY BIT OF BBQ SAUCE
TODAY'S Playlist is edited by Little Boots...
TO celebrate New In Town charting I planned a BBQ where everyone had to come dressed as someone in the Top 40 - I was going to be Lady Gaga.
As ever, it all fell apart and no-one bothered so we just got drunk and ate meat.
I had a black body, shiny leggings and big sunglasses ready.
Gaga is the most fun stand-out thing that has happened in the charts since Christmas.
She has got some really good songs and is fun and interesting.
Personally, I would never feel comfortable parading around in a bra in the middle of January or signing some bloke's penis but she wants to shock and get a reaction - so good on her.
• Not quite like a virgin: Lady Gaga feels the fame
USAToday - In the landscape that is pop culture, Lady Gaga so far defies categorization. “Shy” is one label she certainly would not wear.
The 23-year-old performer of danceable synth-pop rocked the cover of Rolling Stone in a dress made of bubbles recently and also told Britain’s Daily Star newspaper that she would be interested in hooking up with all three Jonas Brothers. “The journalist asked me what I thought of the Jonas Brothers, and I told her,” she says.
Lately, Lady Gaga is getting as much attention for her candor as for her music and cutting-edge costumes. As for her propensity for discussing sex — and her flexible sexuality — she says: “I don’t think being gay or being bisexual or being sexually free is anything that should be hidden. Everybody has a right to their secrecy, of course, but I don’t feel particularly shy about it. It is who I am.
“I sing very openly about it in my music, so I suppose I could say that I choose not to hide it in interviews because I don’t care to hide it and, two, because it is very obvious in my music that I like women.”
Lady Gaga’s 2008 debut album, The Fame, has gone platinum — and remains No. 8 on The Billboard 200 chart — and her first single, Just Dance, became just the fifth song to sell 4 million downloads. (Singles Poker Face and LoveGame are Nos. 5 and 6 on Billboard’s Hot 100.)
A former New York University art student who lists influences such as Andy Warhol, David Bowie, Prince and Madonna in her album credits, Gaga (her name comes from the Queen song Radio Ga Ga) began writing songs for acts such as the Pussycat Dolls. She originally was signed by Def Jam; R&B artist Akon and Interscope’s Jimmy Iovine, who signed her after she was dropped, released The Fame.
Her unique ’80s-esque dance music has been embraced by the gay and hip-hop community alike. “Those are two very different communities, but something they both share is love of celebration,” she says. “My relationship with the gay community is long-standing and loyal, and I love them very much. I consider my music to be very gay, and I love that it is gay.”
As for her hip-hop acceptance, Kanye West is planning a fall tour in which Lady Gaga will co-headline and perform with him. “It is very exciting,” she says. “He is extremely talented, and I think it truly shows his relevance as a pioneer that he has taken such a new artist under his wing to share the stage.”
Currently in Tokyo performing and doing interviews — she spoke by phone early Thursday morning — Gaga also is working on a rerelease of The Fame as well as new material.
Though it may be early in her career for comparisons, many have likened her to Madonna.
“I’m very flattered. She has always been completely unique and original,” Gaga says. “That is something I aspire for. I hope to have a very similar conversation with you maybe 30 years from now when we are talking about another album of mine.”
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'I really felt New York was my teacher and that I needed to bite the bullet and go it alone,' she tells Elle.
Lady Gaga has managed to go from underground dance-music sensation to full on pop superstar, thanks to a slew of catchy hit singles, a renegade spirit and a fashion sense that has left everyone equally perplexed and interested.
And before she made the transition to the pants-hating Gaga we all know and love, she was just a girl going to college trying to figure out the best strategy to get famous.
So what was her first move toward fame? Dropping out of school.
"I loved NYU, but I thought I could teach myself about art better than the school could. I really felt New York was my teacher and that I needed to bite the bullet and go it alone," she said in the Women in Music issue of Elle magazine. "I wasn't interested in going to frat parties. ... I was really interested in the music scene and waitressing and cleaning toilets, or whatever the f--- it was I was doing."
The other things she was interested in included "sex, pornography, art, fame, obsession, drugs and alcohol," all of which she used as inspiration for her album The Fame.
"Why would anyone care to listen to me if I wasn't an expert in what I write about? And the album itself is the story of me and my friends and, again, our lives in New York — and you either want to know about it and be a part of it, or you don't," she said. "I am completely, 100 percent honest in what I do and who I am, and I've got nothing to hide."
Though born as Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, you know her as pop’s avant-garde It Girl Lady Gaga, whose debut record, The Fame, is still blasting out of car windows and underground clubs after being released last year. Here, the leotard-loving 23-year-old talks fashion, her next album, and why she has nothing to hide.
ELLE: You dropped out of NYU at 19. Why didn’t you want to finish?
Lady Gaga: I loved NYU, but I thought I could teach myself about art better than the school could. I really felt New York was my teacher and that I needed to bite the bullet and go it alone. I wasn’t interested in going to frat parties and doing those sorts of collegiate things. I was really interested in the music scene and waitressing and cleaning toilets, or whatever the f*** it was I was doing.
ELLE: What experiences did you draw from to create The Fame?
LG: I write about what I know: sex, pornography, art, fame obsession, and alcohol. I mean, why would anyone care to listen to me if I wasn’t an expert in what I write about? And the album itself is the story of me and my friends, and, again, our lives in New York—and you either want to know about it and be a part of it or you don’t. I am completely 100 percent honest in what I do and who I am, and I’ve got nothing to hide.
ELLE: What can we can expect from your next album?
LG: Well, let’s just say that right now I’m quite obsessed with 1950s sci-fi monster movies.…
ELLE: Good tease. Obviously, fashion plays a huge part in your live performance. How do you approach it in regard to your music?
LG: I think they’re in tandem. Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I’m making music.
ELLE: If you had to perform in one outfit for the rest of your career, what would it be?
LG: Oh! Curse you! I wouldn’t want to hurt all of my other outfits’ feelings. It would probably be a black catsuit. Even though that’s very difficult to dance in. Or maybe my Hussein Chalayan bubble dress. That’s even more difficult to dance in.
"Lady GaGa - My Hair Is Real!"
Lady G’s not back to black
POP star LADY GAGA has revealed she dyes her hair blonde to avoid being mistaken for AMY WINEHOUSE.
The Poker Face singer, 23, was horrified when an interviewer once spoke to her for five minutes thinking she was the boozy brunette, 26.
New York-born GaGa, real name STEFANI GERMANOTTA, said: “Amy is a badass but I want to be known for my own look.”
Pop star Lady Gaga lived up to her reputation as a fearless fashion icon when she wore a black see-through catsuit with an exaggerated clown collar to a press conference in Seoul, Wednesday.
“Gaga style does not equal kooky. I have a natural inclination for haute couture and avant-garde fashion. To me, this is not shocking,” Lady Gaga said, referring to the skintight outfit by Tokyo-based designer Dress Camp. “It’s vogue and beautiful.”
Lady Gaga was in Seoul for a three-day promotional trip, which included a showcase at Club Answer, Cheongdam-dong Wednesday evening. The petite blonde singer has topped the charts with catchy dance songs like “Just Dance,” “Poker Face,” and “Eh Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say).” However, it was her eclectic style that elicited more questions during the press conference than her music.
“It’s exciting for me (to be considered a fashion icon). A year and a half ago, when I first came out, people said I looked funny. … It’s great that now it’s so mainstream,” Lady Gaga said.
Born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, Lady Gaga grew up in Manhattan and studied at a private Catholic school where she has said she was an “outcast.”
Now that she’s a star, Lady Gaga still feels like a “outcast.”
“In some ways I’m still a pop cultural misfit. I don’t think I’ve changed. I’m still myself,” she laughed.
Beneath the outrageous outfits, it was obvious that Lady Gaga takes her music, fashion and performances very seriously.
“You can say the philosophy of Gaga is fashion-music-technology-performance art. It’s an interactive experience for the audience,” she said. “I design everything together and New York is the nexus of my inspiration. I was born and raised in New York City. I am inspired by street fashion and the attitude. Andy Warhol is a huge inspiration of mine and I have a lot of Pop Art elements in the show. I am so passionate about my music.”
Lady Gaga is planning to release a new version of her debut album, tentatively titled “The Fame Monster,” later this year. “I’m obsessed with 1950s science fiction monster movies. The inspiration from the album comes from the sort of dark infatuation with monsters and apocalypse and darkness and theater. So you will see in this album, a more scary Lady Gaga, if I wasn’t already freaking you out enough,” she said, wryly.
Lady Gaga is currently planning a fall tour with hip-hop star Kanye West in the U.S., but Korean fans just might have a chance to see her againthis summer.
“Nothing’s been decided on a international tour with Kanye, but I’m tentatively coming to Korea this summer on my own for some summer festival,” she said.
During the press conference, Lady Gaga, who loves collecting wigs, was given a traditional Korean wig. She also revealed that one of her best friends while growing up in New York was a Korean adoptee.
“We used to go out for Korean food together. She’s never been here before so I sent her photos and told her about what I’ve seen here. It’s personally very exciting for me,” she said.
In a The Cut via NY Mag interview, renowned stylist Nicola Formichetti talked about working with GaGa and her July V Magazine shoot among many things.
You work with a lot of celebrities in your job — recently, Agyness Deyn, Joseph Gordon Levitt, and Lada Gaga. How did you get involved with Gaga?
I did a shoot with her for the July issue of V magazine, and she fell in love with some of my things, like the Orbit hat by Nasir Mazhar. I've given her a few things since then. But she has a whole team of stylists around; she calls it the House of Gaga.
How do you gauge what she'll like?
It needs to be something no one's seen before, something that's a bit tongue-in-cheek and outrageous. And maybe some people would really hate it. That's what I love about her — it's very similar to my work.
Bless her :heart: The internet IS amazing.
From US Weekly:
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Awful photo of both GaGa and Speedy (her current boyfriend) imo. :( They both look so much hotter, urgh not so good publicity for her I guess. She's usually a lot grander in most of the magazines/newspapers she appears in
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'I really felt New York was my teacher and that I needed to bite the bullet and go it alone,' she tells Elle.
Lady Gaga has managed to go from underground dance-music sensation to full on pop superstar, thanks to a slew of catchy hit singles, a renegade spirit and a fashion sense that has left everyone equally perplexed and interested.
And before she made the transition to the pants-hating Gaga we all know and love, she was just a girl going to college trying to figure out the best strategy to get famous.
So what was her first move toward fame? Dropping out of school.
"I loved NYU, but I thought I could teach myself about art better than the school could. I really felt New York was my teacher and that I needed to bite the bullet and go it alone," she said in the Women in Music issue of Elle magazine. "I wasn't interested in going to frat parties. ... I was really interested in the music scene and waitressing and cleaning toilets, or whatever the f--- it was I was doing."
The other things she was interested in included "sex, pornography, art, fame, obsession, drugs and alcohol," all of which she used as inspiration for her album The Fame.
"Why would anyone care to listen to me if I wasn't an expert in what I write about? And the album itself is the story of me and my friends and, again, our lives in New York — and you either want to know about it and be a part of it, or you don't," she said. "I am completely, 100 percent honest in what I do and who I am, and I've got nothing to hide."
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1613781/2...611/index.jhtml
Elle Magazine - Women In Music: Lady GaGa
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Though born as Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, you know her as pop’s avant-garde It Girl Lady Gaga, whose debut record, The Fame, is still blasting out of car windows and underground clubs after being released last year. Here, the leotard-loving 23-year-old talks fashion, her next album, and why she has nothing to hide.
ELLE: You dropped out of NYU at 19. Why didn’t you want to finish?
Lady Gaga: I loved NYU, but I thought I could teach myself about art better than the school could. I really felt New York was my teacher and that I needed to bite the bullet and go it alone. I wasn’t interested in going to frat parties and doing those sorts of collegiate things. I was really interested in the music scene and waitressing and cleaning toilets, or whatever the f*** it was I was doing.
ELLE: What experiences did you draw from to create The Fame?
LG: I write about what I know: sex, pornography, art, fame obsession, and alcohol. I mean, why would anyone care to listen to me if I wasn’t an expert in what I write about? And the album itself is the story of me and my friends, and, again, our lives in New York—and you either want to know about it and be a part of it or you don’t. I am completely 100 percent honest in what I do and who I am, and I’ve got nothing to hide.
ELLE: What can we can expect from your next album?
LG: Well, let’s just say that right now I’m quite obsessed with 1950s sci-fi monster movies.…
ELLE: Good tease. Obviously, fashion plays a huge part in your live performance. How do you approach it in regard to your music?
LG: I think they’re in tandem. Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I’m making music.
ELLE: If you had to perform in one outfit for the rest of your career, what would it be?
LG: Oh! Curse you! I wouldn’t want to hurt all of my other outfits’ feelings. It would probably be a black catsuit. Even though that’s very difficult to dance in. Or maybe my Hussein Chalayan bubble dress. That’s even more difficult to dance in.
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