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People Magazine: What Lady GaGa Is Really Like

 

 

Lady GaGa clowns around

 

THIS LADY must be GAGA if she expects us to believe her latest tale.

 

The Just Dance singer says despite her reputation as a wild child she actually prefers the quiet life.

 

She said: "I'm not like a go-out-and-party girl too much. I'm actually taking every minute I have to myself to write music and be in the studio right now.

 

"I don't have much time to relax but I don't have much time for celebrities either, so I'm happy."

 

But stepping out in transparent jester outfits doesn't exactly equate to a cup of tea and an episode of Corrie.

 

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Yahoo Music: How Lady GaGa Became Lady GaGa

 

 

• Lady GaGa: I’m an Artist Not a Celebrity

 

 

 

Drum roll please…here is the third and final installment of the interview with Lady GaGa brought to you exclusively by Desi Hits! You’ve already seen Lady GaGa discuss the beginning of her artistic career, her unique fashion sense and all the details down to her favorite Indian foods. For this final portion Arun and Lady GaGa have an in depth chat about a very important part of her life and career: her public image.

 

Lady GaGa prides herself on being an artist, not a celebrity. No doubt about it, she loves having a good time with friends (have you seen the ‘Just Dance’ music video? That certainly seems like quite the house party!) but GaGa has set the record straight in this interview: when it comes to the club scene, she avoids it in order to maintain her credibility as an artist. Even though she named her first album after it, fame is not something GaGa truly desires. Lady GaGa is in the music industry to produce great tracks and focus on her music.

 

Regardless of how extremely wacky or extremely entertaining you find Lady GaGa’s image, her main goal is to promote her art, and her image is an integral part of this. She uses her image to draw in her fans to the work she produces, not to draw the attention to herself.

 

Has Lady GaGa made you bigger fans because of her image? What do you think of her idea that “celebrity is the birth and the death of art”? Leave your comments below, we would love to hear what you think (and so would Lady GaGa).

• A twisted, intoxicating encounter with the first lady

Maxim.com – Morton’s Steak House is not the kind of place you expect to run into vamp-tastic Lady GaGa. It’s very business casual, the speakers pipe Sinatra into the johns, and the palette is all ambers and browns, like you’re eating in a cigar box. So when the foul-mouthed, pants-allergic, electro-loving pop princess behind “Just Dance” and “Poker Face” walks in for our Q&A, there’s hardly a person in the dining room who doesn’t do a double take. GaGa, born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta 23 years ago in Yonkers, New York, is wearing giant gold sunglasses, a lavender leather jacket, and white vinyl capris.

 

“I’m dressed conservatively today,” she says. “I should take off my pants just to freak them out!”

 

This interview was supposed to take place at your house. What happened?

 

“My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I’m very protective. My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage—they’re just not stages you’re allowed to see. When you let a bunch of people in there, they f*** with that energy and it becomes a circus. Put it another way: Everybody wants me to show my vagina to the world all the time. And the truth is, I don’t have to.

• Lady Gaga is a creation, but an authentic one

 

 

 

Associated Press – Lady Gaga doesn’t get why some people don’t get her.

 

“I am so often puzzled (by journalists). Sometimes they go, ‘So what’s this all about? … What do you look like when you go home? Do you dress like this all the time?’ It’s rude! It’s not nice,” the “Poker Face” singer laments.

 

The questions may not be polite, but they are understandable for a woman who arrives for a low-key breakfast interview at a nearly empty hotel restaurant sporting a face full of makeup, two pairs of false eyelashes, a sheer outfit strategically cut to showcase her silk bra, platform pumps AND her now-signature hair bow.

 

It’s hard to imagine that she can keep up this act when the spotlight fades away. But that’s the kind of thinking the singer is trying to dispel. She may have been born Stefani Germanotta, but Lady Gaga insists this is no Sasha Fierce act.

 

“My realization of Gaga was five years ago, but Gaga’s always been who I am,” says the 23-year-old, in a soft, girlish voice.

 

“I don’t appreciate when people call me Stefani, because if they don’t know me, I feel like it’s their way of acting like they do … they’re completely ignoring my creative existence,” she says, before adding coyly: “(Lady Gaga) is who I am. Me and my hair bow, we go to bed together. She sleeps where I sleep.”

 

It’s that kind of pop philosophy that has helped to make Gaga’s music the latest sensation, and a confounding one at that. While she’s surpassed the platinum mark with her debut CD, “The Fame,” thanks to the throbbing disco beats of songs like “Poker Face” and “Just Dance,” she has captured the imagination of millions — and left an equal number scratching their heads — with her futuristic outfits, outrageous Gaga-isms (most recent: a suggestion of a foursome with the wholesome Jonas Brothers), and her eye-popping live shows, which are as much art as music performances (she starts a tour with the equally provocative Kanye West in October).

 

“She offers a degree of mystery that has been pretty rare among pop stars over the past few years,” says Brian Hiatt, a Rolling Stone editor who interviewed the star for the cover of the magazine.

 

“She has a more fully formed artistic persona than we’ve seen for a while,” he adds. “She’s this intriguingly odd character.”

 

And Gaga is perfectly comfortable with being music’s peculiar “it” girl, a role she has played from grammar school.

 

“I’m kind of the odd person out in general,” she surmises. “I don’t really like hanging out with celebrities and I don’t fit into that world, as I sort of keep to myself. So in a way, even in the new group of cool kids and the pop music world, I’m still the odd girl, but I’m OK with it; I like being the odd girl now, it’s where I live.”

 

By now, most Gaga fans know her back story. A piano prodigy, she grew up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, went to the tony private school the Convent of the Sacred Heart and spent her early teen years singing in cabaret clubs.

 

She attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts before leaving to pursue her music recording dreams. She was signed to Def Jam Records and dropped, then got picked up by Interscope Records, which released her best-selling debut CD.

 

But most fascinating is what has been described as the defining period in Gaga’s life: her days immersing herself in the drug and sex haze of the New York City party circuit in her “journey to Gaga.” A fan of Andy Warhol and the Studio 54-lifestyle, her research into that era involved cocaine, sexual experimentation and other eyebrow-raising behavior.

 

While Gaga is not ashamed of that phase, she’s frustrated so much has been made of it — especially the drug use.

 

“I think it’s a terrible message to young people that you have to ruin your life in order to make music, because I don’t think you have to,” she says. “But it’s just the way my brain and my heart and my obsession for love and art were functioning at the time.”

 

It also plays into the mystique of Gaga as an artsy, kooky figure who rode her love of mirrored disco balls and club culture to the top of the charts. But in describing her plan for success, while she constantly professes her love for making art, she also sounds as strategic as a veteran record exec.

 

“I went to art school, I studied pop culture, I know everything about music and iconography, pop, cultural and religious,” she says. “I’m self-manufactured. … (I look) at it not as poison or lowbrow, but looking at it in a very highbrow way, and self-making myself to be a powerful visionary and say something that will genuinely speak to people.”

 

Gaga draws comparisons to Madonna, in the same way that the Material Girl pushed the envelope culturally and sexually when she emerged from the dance clubs years ago. And she is a huge fan of Madonna, who came to check out Gaga when she performed recently in New York City: an excited Gaga gushed with excitement when she heard that her idol — who, like Gaga is of Italian descent — was coming to her show.

 

But when Gaga sees similarities to Madonna, she doesn’t see them artistically.

 

“I think what they’re more genuinely drawing upon is the strong ambitious part more than anything. I think that’s what — and I hope I’m not being hyperbolic — but I would like to think that’s what I share with her more than anything, is my ambition, and my strength,” she says.

 

Hitmaking producer RedOne, who worked with Gaga before she was dropped by Def Jam at 19 and ended up producing several records on “The Fame,” including “Poker Face” and “Just Dance,” says the singer’s confidence is partly what drew him to working with her.

 

“The moment I met her, I was like, ‘Oh, she looks like a star’ — she had this thing about her,” he says. “That’s the kind of artist I was looking for to showcase my music, a real artist in every way. … She took it to the next level for every artist.”

 

When asked how she managed to not only get, but also retain that kind of self-confidence in an industry that feeds on the insecurity of artists, Gaga says simply: “Because that’s your fame. That’s where your fame lives. … my luminosity. My constant flashing light. It’s in my ability to know what I make is great. I know it is, I know it’s great, and it’s that sureness. That sureness is infectious.”

Lady GaGa 'hysterical Over Jackson Death'

 

DigitalSpy.co.uk - Lady GaGa was reportedly "hysterical" when she found out Michael Jackson had died. The 'Paparazzi' singer reportedly cancelled all interviews before her Glastonbury debut after hearing the news and refused to leave her tour bus.

 

A source said, "GaGa was hysterical with grief. She could not be consoled and spent the day on the phone to her produces RedOne in America.

 

They penned hits 'Poker Face' and 'Just Dance' together. He had been working with Michael on new material recently and was beside himself."

 

The pop superstar died on Thursday at the age of 50.

GaGa At Body Positive North West, Manchester
30/06/09 - Lady GaGa has hit on a unique way to keep the sun off as temperatures soar. While most people would wear a hat or stick to the shade, the pop star opted for an enormous hairpiece in the shape of a button.
She wore the elaborate wig while visiting a charity in Manchester, putting everyone else in the shade with her typically over-the-top look.
The 23-year-old was at Body Positive North West to help decorate a garden for people affected by HIV. But as often the case, her wacky wardrobe choice took centre stage.
Swapping her microphone for a paintbrush, she made her mark by dawbing the message 'Love + Art + Kindness' onto a picture of herself on a wall as excited volunteers looked on.
Her visit to the charity was organised by Orange RockCorps, which gives people a chance to earn tickets to exchange for four hours voluntary work, the singer will perform in Manchester on July 13, along with The Enemy and N-Dubz, to 3,000 people who have given up their time to help community charity projects. It was business as usual this weekend as the Poker Face singer made her Glastonbury debut performing with a live band, she wore three showstopping outfits on stage, including a buttockskimming silver dress that seemed inspired by a disco ball. - lady-gaga.net

Marilyn Manson Has A Crush On GaGa

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Lady-gaga.net - Marilyn Manson and Lady GaGa are two of the most different artists out there. And both of them really rock at singing. Marilyn recently admitted to Britain's Observer that he has a crush on GaGa:

"I was most impressed by her Paparazzi photos. I thought that it looked the way rock stars should look, as exciting as something Warhol or Dali would do. And I don't consider her to be similar to her contemporaries - the other girls that do pop music - simply because she knows exactly what she's doing. She's very smart, she's not selling out, she's a great musician, she's a great singer, and she's laughing when she's doing it, the same way that I am."

Lady Gaga at Isle of MTV Press Conference
Lady Gaga, one of the Isle of MTV’s headline artistes turned up at a press conference this afternoon wearing a face mask, but said it had nothing to do with swine flu. The eccentric singer, returning to Malta for her second concert, insisted the black plastic mask was an item of contemporary art. It complemented her sexy black dress and massive patent leather booties.

Lady Gaga, who has enjoyed a year of huge success, said that Malta was now a place in her heart. She expressed her remorse at the death of Michael Jackson.

“I grew up singing his songs, I don’t know what world I am making music to any more without Michael Jackson,” she said.

Her inspiration, she said, was to make the fans feel good about themselves, her music was not ego-centric but aimed at the fans. She reflected on her video Paparazzi and said it had a special message about the media and social death. She said she had always lived an isolated life, a life of solitude totally committed to her work, and that was all she cared about.

Asked about her dress sense, she said she was currently obsessed with the clothes she found in sex shops

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Isle Of MTV 2009 – Rehearsals (09/07/07)
Lady Gaga at the rehearsals for the 2009 Isle Of MTV, which is Gaga’s second Isle Of MTV in Malta. Lady Gaga will perform tonight with her band, and this will prolly be broadcasted in late September.

Lady GaGa's press conference Isle of MTV

She's truly unique :wub:

LOL what the hell has she got on her face. :lol:

LOL what the hell has she got on her face. :lol:

It's an art piece :P

Is there anyone else you'd like to work with?

 

"You know, maybe someone like Stevie Wonder because he's such an icon! I wrote a song with Lady GaGa just after she'd shot her first video, which was so cool. She came into the room in full costume and I was like 'Wow, who's this girl?' It was just crazy because she was already like that then. We really had a lot of fun together - she's really smart and nice to work with."

 

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Lady In Red
Gimp masks, bras that shoot out sparks, latex granny knickers and skyscraper stilettos don’t come cheap.

Just ask Lady GaGa. The chart-topping pop minx has confessed her addiction to outlandish attire has left her penniless.

Despite two No1 singles and a No1 album, GaGa is flat broke. She told me: “I’ve gone bankrupt about four times now. My manager wants to shoot me. Every dollar I earn goes on the show. Now we’re finally getting to a place where it’s not bankruptcy.

“Then again, with another tour coming up soon I’ll probably be homeless again.” The New Yorker plays her first London headline show next Tuesday at the O2 Academy Brixton. Then later this year she kicks off a US tour with rapper Kanye West.

And the self-assured songbird reckons her dates with the hip-hop titan will go down in history. She said: “I can’t give any details, but it will be one of the most important moments in music ever.”

Wow. Typically bold words from the brassy blonde.

But if the pop princess isn’t prepared to spill the beans then here’s a teaser of what we might expect. And it sounds like the show’s not going to be for the faint-hearted.

She said: “I’m inspired by the moonlight, sex, slasher films and pornography.” It seems there’s a bit of a love-in going on with the Chicago rapper.

She added: “I truthfully adore Kanye. I always poke fun at him and joke around. We have a lovely creative relationship. He’s so sweet. I can’t say enough good things. He’s undeniably brilliant.”

But all this focus on her shows is playing havoc with the star’s weird taste in men. GaGa told me her perfect bloke would be dead German composer Beethoven.

But at the moment she’s not seeing anyone. She said: “I’m a single girl. I like to have a good time. “I just sleep with the guys in the band all the time because it’s easier.”

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Lady GaGa Doesn't Need Love Or Marriage

Contact Music - “‘Poker Face’ Lady Gaga refuses to fall in love and settle down because no man could ever compare to her music.

Lady Gaga will never get married.

The ‘Poker Face’ singer - who is dating a businessman called Speedy - won’t ever settle down with a man because her work will always take priority over her love life.

She said: “You know, I probably won’t ever settle down. Part of me would love all that, but the bigger part of me knows it’s never going to happen. I don’t think I’m cut out for love and marriage. Music and my art are the big things in my life. I know whatever happens they won’t cheat on me and they’ll never let me down. Men nearly always do.”

However, the 23-year-old singer - who is known for her outrageous flesh-flashing outfits and party lifestyle - insists she is not upset at the thought of spending her life alone.

She explained: “I don’t need a man. I might sometimes want a man, but I don’t need one. I earn my money, I create my art, I know where I am going.

“I think my parents thought I’d be married by now, but I rebelled against that whole life. I’m unconventional, I’m a rebel.”

Lady GaGa Dumped by Her Gentleman
E! News – Speedy’s disco stick is no longer Lady Gaga’s for the riding. The mono-monikered entrepreneur broke up with his hitmaker girlfriend of three months Wednesday after a photo of her snogging another fella made it into the U.K.’s Sun tabloid, a source close to the ex-couple exclusively tells E! News.

The ill-advised makeout session occurred at the restaurant Balans in London’s Soho district, where Gaga trotted her 20-person entourage following her man-straddling gig at Brixton Academy.

“He was so disappointed, but he’s not into cheaters,” our source said of Speedy. “It was hard enough for them to be in a long-distance relationship, but then this came out and it was over for him.”

The 31-year-old Los Angeleno had put business on hold to accompany Gaga on tour. The previously happy duo, who met on the set of her “Love Game” video, also vacationed last month in Hawaii, where they were photographed smooching on the beach.

Maybe Lady Gaga thinks you’re just supposed to start kissing anyone when there’s a camera around. A rep for the singer didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Republicans Use Lady GaGa To Attack US Taxation

New GaGa Music Inspired By Volunteering

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Lady GaGa has revealed that her recent stint at volunteering inspired her to create "joyous melodies".

The 23-year-old singer lent a hand at an Orange RockCorps HIV Support Centre in Manchester earlier this month - and later claimed that she likes to do "everything" she can for those in need.

Speaking to Orange about the visit, GaGa commented: "The volunteers there were so full of joy, so kind and full of love. It was really an amazing and inspiring thing.


"I got to meet not only with the volunteers, but with volunteers that were affected with HIV in their own lives. They have such positive spirits, they were all so happy and looking forward to the future, and there's the sentiment in there that's well-suited to anyone, I think."

Asked if the experience would affect her music, she replied: "Yes, absolutely. It's funny that you should say that, because I've recently been writing these incredibly joyous melodies.

"I don't know where it's coming from, I just have this instinctual energy to make happy music. My current music that I'm writing is happy - maybe Orange RockCorps has something to do with that."

GaGa recently announced that she is keen to collaborate with Glasvegas.

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