Lady Gaga [Mega-Merged] Discussion Thread

[joshBTW]

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The Edge Of Glory in American Idol​

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Music Interview: Lady Gaga

"There are a lot of artists who put out number one single after number one single," says Lady Gaga, in her hotel room hours before going on stage for an impromptu one-off performance of her newest hit single, Born This Way.

"But they don't sell any albums," she adds pointedly.

It's the start of the next colossal wave of publicity for Gaga as her second album is about to be released.

Sales are certainly not a problem for Gaga, born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta. Her first album Fame Monster set the record for digital album sales and the LP of Born This Way sold more than 100,000 copies in one day – and that was just in the UK.

In challenging times for the music business, Gaga's found a way to make big, bright, pop music with a heart and a soul, and to make people actually buy it.

Apparently the secret is simple: "Every single song on this album can be played on the piano," she murmurs.

Lady Gaga learned to play the piano aged four and at 14 was performing at open mic nights in her home city of New York. She walked away from a degree course at the distinguished Tisch School of The Arts three years later and began writing songs professionally for bands such as New Kids On The Block and Pussycat Dolls, before heading to Los Angeles and recording her first album.

It can be very easy to forget Lady Gaga makes wonderful music. Just Dance, Poker Face and Born This Way might have been international hits, but she's more often discussed for wearing meat dresses and turning up at this year's Grammys in an egg.

In fact, all she needs to do is turn up at next year's Brits with a baked bean on her head and she'll have scored a full English breakfast.

For the release of Born This Way, she's plumped for prosthetic bones in her face, creating an otherworldly visage that looks part-alien, part-plastic surgery disaster.

"To put it bluntly," says the unbluntly-cheekboned singer, "the choices on where the bones have been coming out of my face are based on that idea that they're specifically where people have plastic surgery done when they get older."

If she keeps the look up, she's in for a trying few months in make-up, because she's talking about releasing a Michael Jackson-esque nine singles from the album.

But while nobody will ever look like Lady Gaga, more importantly, no one else sounds quite like her either.

Influences range from Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel, to hard German electronic dance music, and the results are quite unique.

What's most refreshing is that in a world of what Gaga describes as "plastic popstars" she's doing it all her own way.

"I don't have a record label behind me going, 'You have to put this out, you have to put that out'," she says. "I played them the album, they heard songs they knew could be singles, they were happy."

While other A-listers are calling in the same, tired old producers and songwriters, Gaga's been working mainly with comparatively unknown producers Fernando Garibay and DJ White Shadow.

Hanging out with the three of them in her dressing room, it feels like they've bonded into an incredibly tight unit during the recording of the album, and Gaga puts it down to the fact they all found themselves on uncool fringes when they were growing up.

"It's nothing short of revenge of the nerds when it comes to Fernando, White Shadow and I," she explains. "All three of us, we're part of that same mentality."

She talks about how one of the album's big themes is about how you deal with having been bullied as a kid, later on in life.

"Maybe that's the reckoning with this album. Do I want to be one of them or not?"

Aside from such self-reflections, Gaga insists everything she does is for her fans – those 'Little Monsters' who hang on the every word of 'Mother Monster'.

During her record-breaking, 201-date Monster Ball tour, which finally ended last month, she saw "a couple of real meat dresses".

"They stunk as bad as mine did," she laughs. "I've also seen a lot of red tie-dye. Fans know how to express the idea of meat through fashion with a white t-shirt and some tie-dye.

"So if I wear a meat dress, they will tie-dye a white shirt and wear a steak on their head. It's like a garment metaphor. They're very funny, very clever and very smart. That's what I love most about being on stage."

And did she see many people turning up in eggs?

"A few," she smiles. "I saw lots of prosthetics on people's faces. The first few rows at my shows are all the super-fans so there are lots of piercings in lips, ears, shoulders...

"It looks like a disco. A Seventies underground disco. It's just amazing. And there are lots of Lady Gaga tattoos."

Real ones? "Yes, real ones..."

The first few rows of her concerts might be dressed up to the nines, but Gaga's plugged in enough to know you don't become one of the biggest-selling album artists in the world without some mass appeal too.

"It's not just kids who feel disenfranchised, who listen to my music, all sorts of people do," she says, understanding there's no point in preaching acceptance if only minorities feel comfortable at Gaga shows.

"I love the fact my music gets played on a pop radio station and people from all sort of different walks of life love it," she says. "That's the whole message behind it!"

Lady Gaga might not always hit the mark and certainly takes her fair share of negative publicity, but it seems clear that however aggressive her detractors might be, she'll always be her own fiercest critic.

Today she even describes the exquisite video for Bad Romance – the most viewed YouTube video ever and almost universally hailed as a pop art triumph – as "a bit disjointed".

"Every single thing I do is being compared to legends," she says calmly. "I'm not being compared to contemporaries, I'm being compared to people who've been around for 30 years. I feel that I'm still very young, both as a woman and as an artist."

In a world of style over substance, it looks like pop has finally found someone who's got both.

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[asu1117]

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God, GaGa is everywhere! This woman is unstoppable. And I'm loving every minute of it!

 

[AngelFromAbove]

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Wow! To think that there was "controversy" surrounding that American Idol performance. I actually thought the BTW performance on SNL was more controversial than the American Idol one.

 

[joshBTW]

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^^^ Cause of the "suicide"?

 

[joshBTW]

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Someone has been under a rock the past three years!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwnoDYAzhIk[/ame]

Yes, she does.

 

[asu1117]

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So I'm loving the bonus track on Jennifer Lopez's new album that GaGa produced!

 

[Nocturnal]

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Universal Music now has the last four million selling debuts as Lady Gaga joins Taylor Swift, Lil Wayne and 50 Cent in a very rare category these days.

Here's how it looks headed into the weekend:

*Lady Gaga (Interscope) 1m+
*Brad Paisley (Arista Nashville) 145-155k
Adele (XL/Columbia) 125-135k
*Glee Cast Vol. 6 (Columbia) 75-80k
Now 38 (Capitol/EMI) 45-50k
*Maybach Music Group Presents: Self Made, Vol. 1 (Maybach/WB) 45-50k
*NKOTBSB (Columbia/Jive/Legacy) 35-40k
*Journey (Nomota) 25-30k (Wal-Mart exclusive)
*Foster The People (Startime/Columbia) 25-30k
Mumford & Sons (Glassnote) 24-27k
Seether (Wind-up) 21-24k
Beastie Boys (Capitol/EMI) 18-21k
Lady Gaga The Fame (Interscope) 18-21k
Lemonade Mouth (Walt Disney) 18-21k
Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop) 18-21k

*Debuts (5/26p)

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Does she really have a penis or was that a myth?

mmHm...Yes, she has a huge one! And I would LOVE to gag on it!
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQhx6P3Kzm0[/ame]

Someone has been under a rock the past three years!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwnoDYAzhIk

Yes, she does.

Rock? More like a fucking boulder! LMAO!

 

[Fucker29]

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1 million?!? That's fucking HUGE!!! =O

 

[Nocturnal]

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LMAO!!! Get it gurl! Hey! Hey! Hey! Awwwww yeeeah!

Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' Will Sell a Million in Its First Week, Billboard Projects​

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Billboard projects that Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" will debut with first-week sales of at least a million units, far outpacing earlier projections, thanks to explosive sales at Amazon, which priced the album at 99 cents for two days this week.

According to sources, "Born This Way," scanned 330,000 units at Amazon on Monday, even though the unprecedented traffic derailed the Amazon servers. While the Amazon experience left some consumers in a sour mood, the news on the technical glitch helped heighten awareness about the album (not that Interscope and Lady Gaga needed any help in that department).

As a make-good for customers who experienced difficulty in downloading "Born This Way" on Monday, May 23, the merchant priced the album again at 99 cents on Thursday (May 26). Industry sources expected that the second-day availability of 99-cent prices would generate another 150,000 scans.

But even without a second day of 99-cent pricing, "Born This Way" was on its way to a million-unit debut week, sources told Billboard. On the first day alone, the album moved at least 500,000 units, with sources saying that first day sales at iTunes totaled 104,000 units; Best Buy, 45,000 units; Target, 35,000 units and Starbucks, 10,000 units. Consequently, industry prognosticators project that Best Buy will hit 200,000 units by the end of the SoundScan week on May 29; Target will reach 150,000; Wal-Mart will hit 125,000, and iTunes will hit 200,000 units.

Moreover, the album is one of the most widely distributed titles in current times, available in about 20,000 storefronts, including CVS pharmacies, Whole Foods, Walgreens and others, according to UMG sources.

The pricing of the Lady Gaga album and how the industry reacted presents an interesting dichotomy for the industry.

On the one hand, some brick-and-mortar merchants complained that "Born This Way" units moved both at Amazon and at Best Buy (which gave away the album for free with a smartphone), shouldn't be counted in compiling the Billboard 200 chart. Billboard decided to count the former, but not the latter.

But beyond the loss-leader strategies, "Born This Way" was also a story about a pricing rebound. Of the 2.1 million units shipped by Universal Music Group before street date, 1.3 million were for the deluxe version, sources say. The standard physical version, which contains 14 songs, listed for $12.99 and wholesaled at $10.35; while the deluxe version, which contains three extra tracks on the main album and a second remix disc with 10 tracks, listed for $21.98 and $14.00 wholesale. Meanwhile, the digital standard version carried an $11.99 list price and a wholesale of $8.40; while the deluxe digital version carried a $15.99 list, which translates into an $11.20 whole.

Beyond Amazon's 99-cent deal, retail sources say that the deluxe version far exceeded opening-day expectations, with the higher-priced album taking as much as 70% of sales, in both CD and digital versions.

Last month, UMG executives were expecting sales of about 400,000 units and went to higher projections as the album's street date approached. By Monday they were talking 650,000-700,000 units, and then moved it up to 800,000-900,000 units. It wasn't until Wednesday that they began conceding the possibility of a million-unit week.

Amazingly enough, as recently as Monday -- the "Born This Way" street date -- some merchants and executives at competing labels felt that Lady Gaga was overexposed and could suffer a sales backlash.

So much for that train of thought ... Source

 

[Nocturnal]

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It's only fitting!
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf72ljWJqAY[/ame]

 

[asu1117]

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I'm watching the MTV Lady GaGa special now.

 

[asu1117]

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I'm downloading a bunch right now, so I'll be back with more favorites later.

 

[joshBTW]

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[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esa-qaPo7GQ[/ame]

 

[SexyKev]

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MTV News.....

May 27 2011 4:06 PM EDT 5,770
Lady Gaga 'Started To Cry' When She First Heard 'Marry The Night'

'Imagine if Bruce Springsteen had a baby with Whitney Houston — that's what it is,' she says of Fernando Garibay-produced Born This Way track.

By MTV News staff

Lady Gaga has been working with producer Fernando Garibay for years, with the first fruits of their labor being the Fame Monster deep cut "Dance in the Dark." But, as Lady Gaga put it in MTV's "Inside the Outside" documentary that premiered Thursday, the pair had yet to "conceive" a hit record when she began work on Born This Way.

That all changed when Gaga heard the church-bell-filled sounds Garibay had concocted while on the road for the Monster Ball Tour.

"He goes, 'Your show is a religion and your fans are a cult,' " Gaga recalled. "It's this epic music. It's just so big. And I started to cry. He said, 'What's wrong?' And I said, 'I can't believe that you hear me so big.' "

Gaga sat down, and lyrics for what would become the Born This Way track "Marry the Night" just started pouring out: "I'm gonna marry the night/ I won't give up on my life."

"It's like Whitney, but imagine if Bruce Springsteen had a baby with Whitney Houston — that's what it is," she said. "And that was it! We made a baby. Finally. After all that fornication, miserably long and tedious, Fernando and I finally conceived."

When MTV News sat down with Garibay, he told his side of the "Marry the Night" conception. "I just kind of got on the American leg of the tour — this was after Australia — and she goes, 'I want to write another song that can define where I'm at with this album and my life.' "

So Garibay listened again to their first collaboration, "Dance in the Dark," and tried to top that energy. "I remember being backstage and hearing the concert start, so I go out there and hear 'Dance in the Dark' open up the whole concert, and I wanted to outdo that feeling. I wanted to outdo that moment that opens up the show. I'm just that way."

Garibay did his thing while Gaga was onstage doing hers. "I go back to the studio bus; I'm just like working on parts, working on parts, and then, two hours later, she comes offstage, and she goes, 'Do you have something to play me?' " he said. "And I go, 'I do, actually. It's a little different, but I think you'll like it.'

"So I played her the instrumental for 'Marry the Night,' and she goes, 'I love it, but can you change this?' So she starts changing around a few chords, and then she goes, 'Open up a mic.' ... She starts laying down the whole song, like, off the cuff. She didn't have time to live with it. She kind of meditated a few minutes, and then it's like, 'OK, I'm ready. Let's go.' And right offstage, using the energy of that crowd and going into the studio, it was amazing. I can't compare it to anything."

That incomparable feeling was exactly what Gaga was aiming for with Garibay: "I kept saying to him, 'I don't want to do anything I've done before, I don't want to sound like anything I've done before, I don't want to feel like anything I've done before. I want it to be new.' "

Do you think "Marry the Night" tops "Dance in the Dark"? Let us know in the comments!

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1664761/lady-gaga-marry-the-night-fernando-garibay.jhtml

 

[joshBTW]

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Marry the Night has grown on me so much. It's definitely in my top 5 right now.

 

[SexyKev]

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^Mine too!

Here's a Gaga+Whitney mashup that I like...

 

[slipintothefog]

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My top five favos on the new album:
-"Government Hooker"
-"Judas"
-"Hair"
-"Black Jesus"
-"Heavy Metal Lover"

The only song I'm not really feeling is "The Queen" but that was one of the three bonus tracks anyway.

 

[YourDiscoNeedsYou]

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LMAO!!! Get it gurl! Hey! Hey! Hey! Awwwww yeeeah!

Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' Will Sell a Million in Its First Week, Billboard Projects​

Pretty sure amazon was selling the album for 99 cents. The new album isn't that good, I'm disappointed. If i wanted to hear incredibly vapid and shitty dance music I'd Google the 90's.

 

[matt1980111]

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I bought the cd on Amazon for 99cents and what a hassle it was. It took forever to download and 'Bloody Mary' wouldn't download. I then had to pay to download that one track again. For some reason, they wouldn't let me download it with my original purchase.

Oh well, I paid $2 for a good album. I am really enjoying it. I, for one, am really enjoying the retro vibe it has.

'Edge of Glory' is my absolute favorite. But I love almost every track.

 

[MyReply]

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For a mere 99¢ you can....