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LADY GAGA WAS A LITTLE GIRL

WHEN LADY GAGA WAS A LITTLE GIRL, SHE WOULD SING ALONG ON HER MINI PLASTIC TAPE RECORDER TO MICHAEL JACKSON AND CYNDI LAUPER HITS AND GET TWIRLED IN THE AIR IN DADDY’S ARMS TO THE SOUNDS OF THE ROLLING STONES AND THE BEATLES. THE PRECOCIOUS CHILD WOULD DANCE AROUND THE TABLE AT FANCY UPPER WEST SIDE RESTAURANTS USING THE BREADSTICKS AS A BATON. AND, SHE WOULD INNOCENTLY GREET A NEW BABYSITTER IN NOTHING BUT HER BIRTHDAY SUIT.
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IT’S NO WONDER THAT LITTLE GIRL FROM A GOOD ITALIAN NEW YORK FAMILY, TURNED INTO THE EXHIBITIONIST, MULTI-TALENTED SINGER-SONGWRITER WITH A FLAIR FOR THEATRICS THAT SHE IS TODAY: LADY GAGA.

“I WAS ALWAYS AN ENTERTAINER. I WAS A HAM AS A LITTLE GIRL AND I’M A HAM TODAY,” SAYS LADY GAGA, 23, WHO MADE A NAME FOR HERSELF ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE CLUB SCENE WITH THE INFECTIOUS DANCE-POP PARTY SONG “BEAUTIFUL DIRTY RICH,” AND WILD, THEATRICAL, AND OFTEN TONGUE-IN-CHEEK “SHOCK ART” PERFORMANCES WHERE GAGA – WHO DESIGNS AND MAKES MANY OF HER STAGE OUTFITS -- WOULD STRIP DOWN TO HER HAND-CRAFTED HOT PANTS AND BIKINI TOP, LIGHT CANS OF HAIRSPRAY ON FIRE, AND STRIKE A POSE AS A DISCO BALL LOWERED FROM THE CEILING TO THE ORCHESTRAL SOUNDS OF A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.

“I ALWAYS LOVED ROCK AND POP AND THEATER. WHEN I DISCOVERED QUEEN AND DAVID BOWIE IS WHEN IT REALLY CAME TOGETHER FOR ME AND I REALIZED I COULD DO ALL THREE,” SAYS GAGA, WHO NICKED HER NAME FROM QUEEN’S SONG “RADIO GAGA” AND WHO CITES ROCK STAR GIRLFRIENDS, PEGGY BUNDY, AND DONATELLA VERSACE AS HER FASHION ICONS. “I LOOK AT THOSE ARTISTS AS ICONS IN ART. IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT THE MUSIC. IT’S ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE, THE ATTITUDE, THE LOOK; IT’S EVERYTHING. AND, THAT IS WHERE I LIVE AS AN ARTIST AND THAT IS WHAT I WANT TO ACCOMPLISH.”



THAT GOAL MIGHT SEEM LOFTY, BUT CONSIDER THE ARTIST: GAGA IS THE GIRL WHO AT AGE 4 LEARNED PIANO BY EAR. BY AGE 13, SHE HAD WRITTEN HER FIRST PIANO BALLAD. AT 14, SHE PLAYED OPEN MIKE NIGHTS AT CLUBS SUCH AS NEW YORK’S THE BITTER END BY NIGHT AND WAS TEASED FOR HER QUIRKY, ECCENTRIC STYLE BY HER CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART SCHOOL (THE MANHATTAN PRIVATE SCHOOL NICKY AND PARIS HILTON ATTENDED) CLASSMATES BY DAY. AT AGE 17, SHE BECAME WAS ONE OF 20 KIDS IN THE WORLD TO GET EARLY ADMISSION TO TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS AT NYU. SIGNED BY HER 20TH BIRTHDAY AND WRITING SONGS FOR OTHER ARTISTS (SUCH AS THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS, AND HAS BEEN ASKED TO WRITE FOR A SERIES OF INTERSCOPE ARTISTS) BEFORE HER DEBUT ALBUM WAS EVEN RELEASED, LADY GAGA HAS EARNED THE RIGHT TO REACH FOR THE SKY.

“MY GOAL AS AN ARTIST IS TO FUNNEL A POP RECORD TO A WORLD IN A VERY INTERESTING WAY,” SAYS GAGA, WHO WROTE ALL OF HER LYRICS, ALL OF HER MELODIES, AND PLAYED MOST OF THE SYNTH WORK ON HER ALBUM, THE FAME (STREAMLINE/KONLIVE/CHERRYTREE/INTERSCOPE). “I ALMOST WANT TO TRICK PEOPLE INTO HANGING WITH SOMETHING THAT IS REALLY COOL WITH A POP SONG. IT’S ALMOST LIKE THE SPOONFUL OF SUGAR AND I’M THE MEDICINE.”

ON THE FAME, IT’S AS IF GAGA TOOK TWO PARTS DANCE-POP, ONE PART ELECTRO-POP, AND ONE PART ROCK WITH A SPLASH OF DISCO AND BURLESQUE AND GENEROUSLY POURED IT INTO THE FIGURATIVE MARTINI GLASSES OF THE WORLD IN AN EFFORT TO GET EVERYONE DRUNK WITH HER FAME. “THE FAME IS ABOUT HOW ANYONE CAN FEEL FAMOUS,” SHE EXPLAINS. “POP CULTURE IS ART. IT DOESN’T MAKE YOU COOL TO HATE POP CULTURE, SO I EMBRACED IT AND YOU HEAR IT ALL OVER THE FAME. BUT, IT’S A SHARABLE FAME. I WANT TO INVITE YOU ALL TO THE PARTY. I WANT PEOPLE TO FEEL A PART OF THIS LIFESTYLE.”

THE CD’S OPENER AND FIRST SINGLE, “JUST DANCE,” GETS THE DANCE FLOOR ROCKING WITH IT’S “FUN, L.A., CELEBRATORY VIBE.” AS FOR THE EQUALLY CATCHY, “BOYS BOYS BOYS,” GAGA DOESN’T MIND WEARING HER INFLUENCES ON HER SLEEVE. “I WANTED TO WRITE THE FEMALE VERSION OF MOTLEY CRUE’S ‘GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS,’ BUT WITH MY OWN TWIST. I WANTED TO WRITE A POP SONG THAT ROCKERS WOULD LIKE.”

“BEAUTIFUL DIRTY RICH” SUMS UP HER TIME OF SELF-DISCOVERY, LIVING IN THE LOWER EAST SIDE AND DABBLING IN DRUGS AND THE PARTY SCENE. “THAT TIME, AND THAT SONG, WAS JUST ME TRYING TO FIGURE THINGS OUT,” SAYS GAGA. “ONCE I GRABBED THE REIGNS OF MY ARTISTRY, I FELL IN LOVE WITH THAT MORE THAN I DID WITH THE PARTY LIFE.” ON FIRST LISTEN, “PAPARAZZI” MIGHT COME OFF AS A LOVE SONG TO CAMERAS, AND IN ALL HONESTLY, GAGA JOKES “ON ONE LEVEL IT IS ABOUT WOOING THE PAPARAZZI AND WANTING FAME. BUT, IT’S NOT TO BE TAKEN COMPLETELY SERIOUSLY. IT’S ABOUT EVERYONE’S OBSESSION WITH THAT IDEA. BUT, IT’S ALSO ABOUT WANTING A GUY TO LOVE YOU AND THE STRUGGLE OF WHETHER YOU CAN HAVE SUCCESS OR LOVE OR BOTH.”



GAGA SHOWS HER PASSION FOR LOVE SONGS ON SUCH SOFTER TRACKS AS THE QUEEN-INFLUENCED “BROWN EYES” AND THE SWEET KISS-OFF BREAK-UP SONG “NOTHING I CAN SAY (EH EH).” “‘BROWN EYES’ IS THE MOST VULNERABLE SONG ON THE ALBUM,” SHE EXPLAINS. “‘EH EH’ IS MY SIMPLE POP SONG ABOUT FINDING SOMEONE NEW AND BREAKING UP WITH THE OLD BOYFRIEND.”

FOR THE NEW TOUR FOR THIS ALBUM, FANS WILL BE TREATED TO A MORE POLISHED VERSION OF WHAT THEY SAW (AND LOVED) AT HER CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED LOLLAPALOOZA SHOW IN AUGUST 2007 AND WINTER MUSIC CONFERENCE PERFORMANCE IN MARCH 2008. “THIS NEW SHOW IS THE COUTURE VERSION OF MY HANDMADE DOWNTOWN PERFORMANCE OF THE PAST FEW YEARS. IT’S MORE FINE-TUNED, BUT SOME OF MY FAVORITE ELEMENTS TO MY PAST SHOWS – THE DISCO BALLS, HOT PANTS, SEQUIN, AND STILETTOS – WILL STILL BE THERE. JUST MORE FIERCE AND MORE OF A CONCEPTUAL SHOW WITH A VISION FOR POP PERFORMANCE ART.”

IT’S BEEN A WHILE SINCE A NEW POP ARTIST HAS MADE HER WAY IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY THE OLD-FASHIONED/GRASS ROOTS WAY BY PAYING HER DUES WITH SEEDY CLUB GIGS AND SELF-PROMOTION. THIS IS ONE RISING POP STAR WHO HASN’T BEEN PLUCKED FROM A MODEL CASTING CALL, BORN INTO A FAMOUS FAMILY, WON A REALITY TV SINGING CONTEST, OR EMERGED FROM A TEEN CABLE TV SITCOM. “I DID THIS THE WAY YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO. I PLAYED EVERY CLUB IN NEW YORK CITY AND I BOMBED IN EVERY CLUB AND THEN KILLED IT IN EVERY CLUB AND I FOUND MYSELF AS AN ARTIST. I LEARNED HOW TO SURVIVE AS AN ARTIST, GET REAL, AND HOW TO FAIL AND THEN FIGURE OUT WHO I WAS AS SINGER AND



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GAGA ADDS WITH A WINK IN HER EYE, “AND, NOW, I’M JUST TRYING TO CHANGE THE WORLD ONE SEQUIN AT A TIME.”

Lady Gaga is a theatrical dance

Lady Gaga is a theatrical dance............





Lady Gaga is a theatrical dance-pop performer whose debut single, the international chart-topping hit "Just Dance," established her as an up-and-coming superstar upon its release in 2008. Born Stefani Germanotta on March 28, 1986, the New York native attended Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private all-girl Catholic school in Manhattan, before proceeding to study music at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts at age 17. Influenced by flamboyant glam rockers such as David Bowie and Freddie Mercury (she would later draw her stage name from the Queen song "Radio Ga-Ga") as well as '80s dance-poppers such as Madonna and Michael Jackson, she began playing the piano at a young age and started writing original material as a teenager. In 2007, she began to make a name for herself on the downtown Manhattan club scene with a performance art show billed as Lady Gaga and the Starlight Revue (co-featuring Lady Starlight; born Colleen Martin, a DJ and makeup professional), and music industry insiders began to take note. While Lady Gaga was initially signed to Def Jam in 2007, nothing came of that association, and ultimately it was pop-rap superstar Akon who took her under his wing, signing her to his vanity label Kon Live in association with Interscope Records.




In addition to working for Interscope as an in-house songwriter, Lady Gaga began preparing the launch of her solo career. Her debut single, "Just Dance," was released to radio in April 2008, and her full-length album debut, The Fame, followed in August. Featuring fellow Akon affiliate Colby O'Donis, "Just Dance" slowly gathered momentum throughout 2008's latter half. The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in August, at which time it had already become a massive club hit, but it didn't reach number one until January 2009. Internationally, the song proved similarly popular, reaching the Top Ten throughout much of Western Europe and beyond. In the wake of Lady Gaga's international breakthrough success with "Just Dance," the follow-up single "Poker Face" was an even larger hit, topping singles charts across the board with its combination of pop melodicism and club-worthy production. Two additional tracks -- "LoveGame" and "Paparrazi" -- also cracked the Top Ten, and The Fame was still enjoying a spot on the Billboard Top 40 when its follow-up, The Fame Monster, appeared in November 2009. Although originally planned as a bonus disc (to be packaged alongside The Fame in a deluxe edition of Lady Gaga's debut), The Fame Monster was quickly expanded to eight tracks, thus warranting its own release. Meanwhile, the leadoff single "Bad Romance" became Gaga's fifth consecutive Top Ten single. ~ Jason Birchmeier, Rovi

GaGa Polaroid Camera... COMING SOON?


Since Lady Gaga became a creative director at Polaroid Imaging Products the world - or at least the teenage one - has been waiting to see what the pop princess will come up with. Well, that moment is just around the corner with the first Gaga Polaroid camera coming in Q1 2011, or any time from January in human speak.
At Polaroid's xmas in July event, UK MD Graeme Chapman gave Pocket-lint an insight into what to expect, he said:
"Obviously, the design's pretty wacky but it'll definitely appeal to her fans, and with over 10 million of them on Facebook, we're pretty sure this will do well."
The, as yet, unnamed Gaga Polaroid will be one of the company's analogue range in the style of the recently released Polaroid 300 which harks back to the old instant cameras. It won't produce the much loved 4 x 4 prints the world knows so well, but instead will expose an ink-made 3 x 4 size with the traditional white border, the like of which can also be printed out from any camera using the most recent sized PoGo which will be available this Christmas.
No word on pricing as yet for the Gaga Polaroid, but with the Polaroid 300 retailing at £79.99, we'd expect something in the region of £100.

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EDIT: This has caused a bit of contraversy so I thought I'd get the record straight... This is NOT official, I never said it was. I made this and there's more on the way.

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