BORN THIS WAY 02.11.11

Lady GaGa covers Vogue, talks ‘Born this Way’ and confirms next single.

2011-02-10T03:53:00.001-08:00

Vogue.com

BORN THIS WAY Official Artwork

2011-02-08T15:56:00.000-08:00

BORN THIS WAY 02.11.11

2011-02-07T14:30:00.000-08:00

May 8 - Lady Gaga leaving Stureplan club in Stockholm

2010-05-09T19:02:00.000-07:00

Also See this amazing Picture of GaGa in the MET Gala! LOVE IT

Bad Romance Make History Is the first video with more that 200,000,000 Views in the Internet! #BadRomance200Mill Congrart LADY GAGA. We did it MONSTES

2010-05-09T12:45:00.000-07:00

200.000.000 views = EPIC+ICONIC+HISTORY

LadyGaGa.com UPDATE with Alejandro News. Video COMING SOON

2010-05-09T12:00:00.000-07:00

Also Alejandro is #5 in iTunes Right Now and GaGa score 7 consecutive Top 5 Singles. See the peak for every song monsters:

# 1 Just Dance

# 1 Poker Face

# 3 LoveGame

# 2 Paparazzi

# 1 Bad Romance

# 4 Telephone

# 5 Alejandro

Lady GaGa in Sweden! PAPARAZZI over GaGa

2010-05-09T11:59:00.000-07:00

Lady GaGa - The Ultimate Chart! Weekend Update. Alejandro is IMPACT the charts Right Now

2010-05-09T11:13:00.000-07:00

Lady GaGa - The Ultimate Chart! Weekend Update

iTUNES DIGITAL SALES

ALBUMS:

USA:

The Fame Monster (Deluxe): Nº7
The Fame: Nº26
The Fame Monster (Explicit): Nº30
UK:
The Fame: Nº9

SINGLES: WHOLE WORLD

USA:

Alejandro Nº5/Telephone Nº14

Bad Romance Nº39/Poker Face Nº55

Paparazzi Nº 85/Just Dance Nº66

UK:

Telephone Nº15

Bad Romance Nº48

CANADA: Alejandro Nº3

FRANCE: Telephone Nº7

GERMANY: Telephone Nº12

AUSTRALIA: Alejandro Nº6

AUSTRIA: Telephone Nº9

BELGIUM: Telephone Nº3

FINLAND: Telephone Nº7/Bad Romance Nº9

DENMARK: Telephone Nº7

GREECE: Telephone Nº6

IRELAND: Telephone Nº15

ITALY: Telephone Nº5

JAPAN: Telephone Nº7

LUXEMBOURG: Telephone Nº12

NETHERLANDS: Telephone Nº9

NEW ZELAND: Telephone Nº12

NORWAY: Telephone Nº7

SWEDEN: Telephone Nº1

SWITZERLAND: Telephone Nº7

SPAIN: Telephone Nº3

PORTUGAL: Bad Romance Nº10

LADY GAGA iTUNES VIDEO:

USA:

Bad Romance/Alejandro (A. Idol Perfom) Nº1

Telephone Nº4/Bad Romance Nº7

Poker Face Nº11/Paparazzi Nº34

Just Dance Nº32/Paparazzi Nº36

UK:

Telephone Nº1/Bad Romance Nº9

Paparazzi Nº17/Poker Face Nº24

LADY GAGA: AMAZON USA

ALBUMS:

The Fame Monster (Deluxe): Nº25 (168 Days in the Top 100)

The Fame Monster (Explict): Nº46 (100 Days in the Top 100)

The Fame: Nº54 (534 Days in the Top 100)

SINGLES:

Telephone Nº10

Alejandro Nº14

Bad Romance Nº15

Poker Face Nº25

Paparazzi Nº51

Just Dance Nº52

LADY GAGA: MEDIABASE RADIO CHART (US)

Alejandro Nº10 (+6.4 Million Aud.)

Telephone Nº11 (-9.1 Million Aud.)

MEDIATRAFIC: GLOBAL CHART

ALBUMS:

The Fame Nº4 - 121.000 copies

SINGLES:

Telephone Nº3 (267.000 points)

Bad Romance Nº11 (156.000 points)

Alejandro Nº20 (110.000 points)

Billboard:

ALBUMS: Billboard 200

The Fame Nº11

The Fame Monster Nº21

SINGLES: Billboard Hot 100

Telephone Nº13

Alejandro Nº16

Bad Romance Nº25

U.K Chart:

ALBUMS:

The Fame (Monster) Nº5

SINGLES:

Telephone Nº15

Lady GaGa is the Artist Most Successful of 2010! Till now Have 2 song in the TOP 5 End-Year

2010-04-18T22:03:00.000-07:00

Also Alejandro is the 3th Song with More Spins Add in the US Radio

The World in a "Bad Romance" with Lady GaGa.

2010-04-18T18:06:00.000-07:00

Bad Romance "A Icon of The Digital Era"

Lady Gaga is breaking records. If your last job, Telephone, which he recorded with his girlfriend Beyoncé, swept the Internet, the video clip of one of his previous successes has the honor of being the most watched video in the history of YouTube. With nearly 180 million visits, the Bad Romance clip, blending extravagant choreography wearing coral and a touch sinister, has achieved first place in the ranking of most viewed. The second most watched video is one entitled ‘Charlie bite my finger’ (‘Charlie bit me finger’), a recording home where he sees two playing and how the lesser of two bites her finger at the other , thus ending in laughter tears from the two children. These data are made public to mark the fifth anniversary of the site, which opened on April 23, 2005 with a video of one of its founders, Jawed Karim, during a visit to the zoo. Source: DAILY HOT NEWS

5 Reasons Why Lady Gaga's Bad Romance Became YouTube's Biggest Video

1. Lady Gaga is an established pop star.

While some bands like OK Go enjoy a vibrant internet fanbase, only a pop sensation who had previously conquered radio could have achieved such overwhelming popularity on YouTube.

2. The music sounds strange

In terms of what's played on TV or radio, at least. While Robyn, Peaches, Roisin Murphey, Bjork and others have been crafting unpredictable electro pop for over a decade, Lady Gaga is the first to reach an exclusively radio/MTV-listening audience with artsy dance music. Call it good timing.

3. It's unadulterated blog fodder

'Bad Romance' got people talking in a way that I've never witnessed. Every armchair psycho-therapist wrote a thousand-word blog post about what this video means for society today, tossing off half-baked feminist theory and Madonna comparisons while trying to find meaning in the wacky imagery.

4. It's spectacle

Can you think of another music video that consistently delights the senses for so long? It inspired more people to create parody videos than ever before. It begs for repeated viewings.There are so many "Did you see that? What was that" moments in the video that we all watched it at least four or five times.

5. It's creepy

From her gnarled, twitching fingers to her anime eyeballs, the video is Nightmare Town from start to finish. Assuming most of Middle America has never seen the Cremaster Cycle, this unsettling art house imagery shocked most of its viewers. What is the next weirdest thing most people from Peoria have seen? Bonnie Tyler's 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' video?

Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” Becomes Most Viewed YouTube Video Of All Time

Lady Gaga is a YouTube phenom, her videos have received well over 1 billion views and now we’ve learned that her “Bad Romance” music video has surpassed “Charlie Bit My Finger” as the most viewed video on the popular video sharing website. “Bad Romance” has surpassed Charlie’s finger biting antics by over 400,000 views at last look, bringing it ever closer to the 180 million views mark. Just in case you haven’t managed to catch the video or if you’re too lazy to head over to YouTube we’ve attached the video for your viewing pleasure. It’s a whole lot of strange, then again so is Lady Gaga.

'Bad Romance' is most watched on YouTube

Lady GaGa's 'Bad Romance' video has been revealed as the most watched clip on YouTube ever. The promo, which sees the singer kidnapped by supermodels and sold to the Russian mafia, has amassed almost 179,000,000 views, only marginally ahead of film showing a baby biting another child's finger. The video was celebrated as the most-watched clip as part of YouTube's upcoming fifth birthday celebrations. The website began in April 23, 2005, when a clip was posted of YouTube founder Jawed Karim at the zoo. Source: Digital Spy

The music video, directed by Francis Lawrence and art-directed by the Haus of Gaga, has got loads of good critics.

The Wall Street Journal noted:

“Gaga seems to be one of the few pop stars these days who really understands spectacle, fashion, shock, choreography—all the things Madonna and Michael Jackson were masters of in the 1980s.”

Jennifer Cady from E! talked on the video:

“This music video really makes us appreciate everything Gaga actually brings to pop music. She’s exciting to watch, plain and simple. We need someone like Gaga to really bring it. To put actual thought and care into her product so that it feels alive.”

April 17 - Lady Gaga and Terence Koh in Tokyo

2010-04-18T16:01:00.000-07:00

Alejandro Is Coming Soon Monsters! R U Exited?

2010-04-18T14:49:00.001-07:00

The Ultimate Chart! All GaGa's Charts in World. UPDATE: 18/4/2010

2010-04-18T11:32:00.000-07:00

iTUNES DIGITAL SALES

ALBUMS:

USA:

The Fame Monster (Deluxe): Nº10
The Fame: Nº18
The Fame Monster (Explicit): Nº31
UK:
The Fame: Nº6

SINGLES: WHOLE WORLD

USA:

Telephone Nº15/Alejandro Nº20

Bad Romance Nº37/Poker Face Nº59

Paparazzi Nº 81/Just Dance Nº70

UK:

Telephone Nº10

Bad Romance Nº47

CANADA: Telephone Nº11

FRANCE: Telephone Nº3

GERMANY: Telephone Nº9

AUSTRALIA: Alejandro Nº3

AUSTRIA: Telephone Nº7

BELGIUM: Telephone Nº1

FINLAND: Telephone Nº8

DENMARK: Telephone Nº4

GREECE: Telephone Nº5

IRELAND: Telephone Nº8

ITALY: Telephone Nº4

JAPAN: Telephone Nº3/Bad Romance Nº9

LUXEMBOURG: Telephone Nº2/Bad Romance Nº7

NETHERLANDS: Telephone Nº8

NEW ZELAND: Telephone Nº12

NORWAY: Telephone Nº4

SWEDEN: Telephone Nº5

SWITZERLAND: Telephone Nº4

SPAIN: Telephone Nº15

PORTUGAL: Bad Romance Nº12

LADY GAGA iTUNES VIDEO:

USA:

Telephone Nº1/Bad Romance Nº5

Poker Face Nº23/Paparazzi Nº34

Video Phone ft. Beyonce Nº52

LoveGame Nº56/Just Dance Nº59

UK:

Telephone Nº1/Bad Romance Nº7

Paparazzi Nº9/Poker Face Nº24

Video Phone ft. Beyonce Nº25

LADY GAGA: AMAZON USA

ALBUMS:

The Fame Monster (Deluxe): Nº42 (147 Days in the Top 100)

The Fame: Nº50 (500 Days in the Top 100)

SINGLES:

Bad Romance Nº12

Telephone Nº14

Poker Face Nº24

Just Dance Nº35

Paparazzi Nº45

MEDIABASE RADIO CHART (US)

Telephone Nº4 (-5.8 Million Aud.)

Bad Romance Nº8 (-3.7 Million Aud.)

Alejandro Nº19 (+8.2 Million Aud.)

MEDIATRAFIC: GLOBAL CHART

ALBUMS:

The Fame Nº3 - 128.000 copies

SINGLES:

Telephone Nº1 (340.000 points)

Bad Romance Nº9 (180.000 points)

Billboard:

ALBUMS: Billboard 200

The Fame Nº7

The Fame Monster Nº18

SINGLES: Billboard Hot 100

Telephone Nº7

Bad Romance Nº21

Alejandro Nº50

U.K Chart: BBC-Radio 1

ALBUMS:

The Fame (Monster) Nº3

SINGLES:

Telephone Nº6

Bad Romance Nº24

OMG! Lady GaGa is Kills the iTunes Store in Japan. She Dominate ALL the Charts Albums, Videos and Singles this is Amazing

2010-04-18T10:02:00.000-07:00

Lady GaGa - Telephone Live in MusicStation Japan. Download EXCLUSIVE iPod/Avi

2010-04-18T09:48:00.000-07:00

Lady GaGa - Telephone Music Station (MonsterEmancipation Exclusive) iPod (20 MB)

Lady GaGa - Telephone MusicStation MonsterEmancipation EXCLUSIVE AVI (73 MB)

Lady GaGa in American Idol

2010-04-18T08:42:00.000-07:00

Lady Gaga has just confirmed via Twitter a performance on American Idol on Wednesday, May 5! She will sing her newest single “Alejandro” Source: GaGadaily.com.

Lady GaGa In Music Station. Interview+Performance

2010-04-18T08:38:00.000-07:00

Lady GaGa Chart News!

2010-04-18T08:32:00.000-07:00

– Lady Gaga’s newest single “Alejandro” moves up 22 spots to No. 50 on this week’s Billboard Hot 100. Three songs from The Fame Monster are listed in the Top 50. This Is Amazing! Monsters! Gaga is kills the charts.

– Lady Gaga scores a double on Billboard’s European charts, as “Telephone” featuring Beyoncé tops the European Hot 100 chart and “The Fame” returns to the number one spot of the Top 100 European Albums list.

– “Telephone” also becomes Lady Gaga’s fourth worldwide number one single, as it climbes to the top of the United World Singles chart.

Sources: Billboard / United World Chart

Lady Gaga will perform on The Today Show

2010-04-18T08:09:00.000-07:00

LadyGaga.com – Lady Gaga will perform on The Today Show this summer as part of the Toyota Concert Series! Gaga takes the stage on July 9, and little monsters can show up to the studio at 49th Street & Rockefeller Plaza in NYC around 6 AM to catch the live performance!

And the Video Most Viewed in the Youtube History is...BAD ROMANCE! OMG We did it Monster!

2010-04-18T07:57:00.000-07:00

1. Lady GaGa - Bad Romance; 183.000.000 views

2. Charlie bit my finger - again !; 180.000.000 views

3. Evolution of Dance; 140.000.000 views

4. Miley Cyrus - 7 Things - Official Music Video (HQ); 114.000.000 views

5. Hahaha - Small daring boy; 112.000.000 views

6. Jeff Dunham - Achmed the Dead Terrorist; 109.000.000 views

7. Lo que tú Quieras Oír; 100.000.000 views

8. Pitbull - I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho); 111.000.000 views

9. Lady GaGa - Just Dance; 107.000.000 views

10. Susan Boyle - Singer - Britains Got Talent 2009; 90.000.000 views

Ryan Tedder : "Nobody works harder than Lady Gaga"

2010-04-18T07:52:00.000-07:00

OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder was asked by MTV News to clarify his statement about Lady Gaga’s health — turns out he never said that:

“I’ve had two or three people ask me about that, and I had friends who picked up People magazine last week or the week before, and they’re like, ‘You’re in People, someone asked you about Lady Gaga.’ I don’t even remember saying that. To be honest, I don’t even know that I did.”

He also said some nice words about Lady Gaga and described meeting her before she rose to fame in 2008:

“I’ve only met her once, but I had, like, a two-hour conversation with her nonstop the first time that I hung out with her, right before ‘Just Dance’ came out, and thought she was the coolest, smartest [person]. I was like, ‘God, she’s got her crap together.’ She was legit. “So I don’t know her, I don’t pretend like I know her, but the fact that I, for a moment, connected with her humanity, and I know how hard we work, and I know the schedule after ‘Apologize’ blew up… the longest stretch of time we were home in a row, for about 13 months, was two and a half days. And that can push you to a brink, where your job becomes who you are, and you end up reaching a breaking point, where all of a sudden you hate it, and you just want to quit. “Or you get sick — we pushed it so hard earlier this year, we were touring with Rob Thomas, and every single day was ’show, promo/press during the day, show that night,’ and I lost my voice and got swine flu. And the doctor was like, ‘Look, I’ve dealt with a lot of you artists. I’ve had Kanye in here, I’ve had R. Kelly, I’ve had all these different people come through my office. …If you don’t slow down, your body will shut you down completely.’ And so, if you’re collapsing onstage, I don’t care how much money [you have] or how much you love your ‘Little Monsters,’ you gotta take care of your health first. For anybody. For us. I mean, we’ve had to slow down. “My hat goes off to her. Nobody works harder than Lady Gaga. Nobody. She is unbelievable. I don’t know how she sleeps, or when or if. But I know people who work with her, and they’re like, ‘She is the most dedicated, committed, hardworking person around.’” Source: MTV News

LADY GAGA: “I’M CELIBATE AND PROUD OF IT”

2010-04-11T13:18:00.000-07:00

Lady Gaga has revealed that she is celibate while recently discussing her role in Mac’s Viva Glam campaign, which supports global HIV and AIDS projects, she told London’s Daily Mail she wants her fans not to have sex, either. “I can’t believe I’m saying this – don’t have sex. I’m single right now and I’ve chosen to be single because I don’t have the time to get to know anybody,” she said. “So it’s OK not to have sex, it’s OK to get to know people. I’m celibate, celibacy’s fine.” She said her celibacy is something she wants “to celebrate” with her fans. “It’s OK to be whomever it is that you want to be,” she said. “You don’t have to have sex to feel good about yourself, and if you’re not ready, don’t do it. And if you are ready, there are free condoms given away at my concerts when you’re leaving!” The important thing, she said, is for her fans to stay true to themselves. “I remember the cool girls when I was growing up. Everyone started to have sex,” she said. “But it’s not really cool any more to have sex all the time. It’s cooler to be strong and independent.’ She added that she is proud to be a role model. “When you’re in the public eye, you’re a role model whether you want to be or not. And I want to be,” she said. “I’m not one of those self-obsessed artists who don’t care about their fans. It’s not just about the music.” She said she has a “responsibility” to her fans and that “and you’re an idiot if you don’t know that.” Source: US Magazine

Glee Goes GaGa. Behind the scenes

2010-04-11T12:54:00.000-07:00

Check out these amazing backstage pictures from the upcoming Lady Gaga ‘Glee’ episode.

Chris Colfer, who plays Kurt Hummel on the hit showGlee, has his makeup touched up before the start of filming of scene for an episode featuring the music of Lady Gaga.

Colfer and Dianna Agron, who plays Quinn, look over the script for a scene.

The crew engineers Tina’s (Jenna Ushkowitz) bubble dress before the filming of a scene for the Lady Gaga episode.

Colfer and Ushkowitz, all decked out, wait to rehearse a scene. Mark Salling, who plays Puck, stands at the far left.

Tina and Kurt stand up to a couple of McKinley High jocks during rehearsal of a scene in the high school hallway.

GLEE returns to FOX on April 13, 2010 at 9:30pm. It was revealed that Poker Face and Bad Romance would get the ‘Glee’ treatment, are you excited for this episode? I know we are

Image Source: USA Today

Lady GaGa Top the UK Chart Again with "TFM"! and down on #4 in the Singles Chart with "Telephone"

2010-04-11T12:49:00.000-07:00

Lady Gaga Boards Private Jet (Sydney, Australia) April 9

2010-04-11T12:32:00.000-07:00

The Monster Ball Tour Europe >>> PERTH 04/01/2010. Thx LadyGaGaAr

2010-04-04T14:00:00.000-07:00

Lady GaGa Nominated for 5 VMA Japan 2010

2010-04-04T11:51:00.000-07:00

Best Video Of the Year - Poker Face

Best Female Video - Poker Face

Best Dance Video - Poker Face

Best Collaboration Video - Video Phone ft. Beyonce

Best Karaokee! Song - Poker Face

VMAJ 5/30/2010

UPDATE: VOTE NOW

http://www.mtvjapan.com/vmaj/vote/

The ULtimate Chart! All GaGa's Charts . UPDATE: 4/4/2010

2010-04-04T10:56:00.000-07:00

iTUNES DIGITAL SALES

ALBUMS:

USA:

The Fame Monster (Deluxe): Nº12

The Fame Monster: Nº19

The Fame: Nº21

UK:

The Fame: Nº3

SINGLES: WHOLE WORLD

USA:

Telephone Nº7/Bad Romance Nº36

Poker Face Nº62/Alejandro Nº64

Paparazzi Nº 82/Just Dance Nº85

UK:

Telephone Nº3

Bad Romance Nº35

Poker Face Nº77

CANADA: Telephone Nº6

FRANCE: Telephone Nº2

GERMANY: Telephone Nº5

AUSTRALIA: Telephone Nº7

AUSTRIA: Telephone Nº7

BELGIUM: Telephone Nº1

FINLAND: Telephone Nº4/Bad Romance Nº9

DENMARK: Telephone Nº7

GREECE: Telephone Nº3

IRELAND: Telephone Nº1

ITALY: Telephone Nº6

JAPAN: Telephone Nº12

LUXEMBOURG: Telephone Nº4

NETHERLANDS: Telephone Nº6

NEW ZELAND: Telephone Nº3

NORWAY: Telephone Nº2

SWEDEN: Telephone Nº4

SWITZERLAND: Bad Romance Nº2

SPAIN: Telephone Nº7

PORTUGAL: Bad Romance Nº4

LADY GAGA iTUNES VIDEO:

USA:

Telephone Nº1/Bad Romance Nº12

Poker Face Nº31/Paparazzi Nº34

Video Phone ft. Beyonce Nº41

Just Dance Nº48/LoveGame Nº62

UK:

Telephone Nº1/Paparazzi Nº5

Bad Romance Nº7/Poker Face Nº24

Video Phone ft. Beyonce Nº25

LADY GAGA: AMAZON USA

ALBUMS:

The Fame Monster (Deluxe): Nº26

The Fame Monster (Explicit): Nº29

The Fame: Nº38

SINGLES:

Bad Romance Nº9

Telephone Nº10

Poker Face Nº22

Just Dance Nº44

Paparazzi Nº49

LADY GAGA: MEDIABASE RADIO CHART (US)

Telephone Nº1 (+2 Million Aud.)

Bad Romance Nº8 (-7.6 Million Aud.)

Alejandro Nº40 (+7 Million Aud.)

MEDIATRAFIC: GLOBAL CHART

ALBUMS:

The Fame Nº3 - 171.000 copies

The Fame Monster EP Nº35 - 29.000 c0pies

SINGLES:

Telephone Nº2 (330.000 points)

Bad Romance Nº7 (205.000 points)

Billboard:

ALBUMS: Billboard 200

The Fame Nº8

The Fame Monster Nº15

SINGLES: Billboard Hot 100

Telephone Nº5

Bad Romance Nº14

Billboard Pop Songs

Telephone Nº1

U.K Chart:

ALBUMS:

The Fame (Monster) Nº2

SINGLES:

Telephone Nº2

Bad Romance Nº24

Also GaGa is #1 in:

Irish Singles Chart

1. "Telephone" Lady Gaga Feat. Beyoncé

2. "Gave It All Away" Boyzone

3. "Rude Boy" Rihanna

4. "Parachute" Cheryl Cole

5. "If We Ever Meet Again" Timbaland Feat. Katy Perry

Norwegian Singles Chart

1. "Telephone" Lady Gaga Feat. Beyoncé

2. "Yes Man" Bjørn Johan Muri

3. "The Brothel" Susanne Sundfør

4. "Rude Boy" Rihanna

5. "Baby" Justin Bieber

Belgian Singles Chart

1. "Telephone" Lady Gaga Feat. Beyoncé

2. "Memories" David Guetta Feat. Kid Cudi

3. "Me And My Guitar" Tom Dice

4. "Feels Like A Prayer" Meck Feat. Dino

5. "Replay" Iyaz

New Zealand Albums Chart

1. "The Fame: Monster" Lady Gaga

2. "Holy Smoke" Gin

3. "Humour And The Misfortune Of Others" Hollie Smith

4. "Valleys Of Neptune" Jimi Hendrix

5. "I Dreamed A Dream" Susan Boyle

GaGa New USB Album

2010-04-02T12:04:00.000-07:00

According to several sources, including Universal Music and other Lady GaGa fansites, a new version of “The Fame Monster” will be released this May. It is called “The Fame Monster Tour Edition”. It includes a special 2 Gb USB Key (800mb used for the content). Included inside the USB is “The Fame Monster”, eight remixes, one live performance (Cherrytree Sessions), and all the music videos released before May. The USB Key is 70 mm x 48.5mm and 11mm thick.

Bonus also on the USB Key:

The Fame Monster (Digital Booklet)

Single covers and Photo gallery

Websites

Tracklisting:

1. “Bad Romance” (Explicit Version) 04:55

2. “Alejandro” 04:37

3. “Monster” (Explicit Version) 04:09

4. “Speechless” 04:30

5. “Dance in the Dark” (Explicit Version) 04:48

6. “Telephone (feat. Beyoncé)” 03:40

7. “So Happy I Could Die” 03:55

8. “Teeth” 03:40

9. “Bad Romance” (Starsmith Remix) 04:56

10. “Telephone” (Passion Pit Remix) 05:12

11. “Paparazzi” (Demolition Crew Remix) 03:52

12. “Just Dance ” (Deewaan Remix (feat. Ashking, Wedis, Lush and Young Thoro)) 04:16

13. “LoveGame” (Robots to Mars Remix) 03:12

14. “Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)” (FrankMusik “Cut Snare Edit” remix) 03:48

15. “Poker Face” (Live at The Cherrytree House Piano & Voice Version) 03:38

16. “Bad Romance” (Grum Remix) 04:53

17. “Telephone” (Alphabeat Remix Edit) 04:48

18. “Just Dance” (Music Video) 04:08

19. “Poker Face” (Music Video) 03:39

20. “LoveGame” (Music Video) 03:43

21. “Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)” (Music Video) 03:02

22. “Beautiful, Dirty, Rich” (Music Video) 03:02

23. “Paparazzi” (Music Video — Explicit) 07:37

24. “Bad Romance” (Music Video — Explicit) 05:19

25. “Telephone” (Music Video — Explicit) 09:30

GAGA For Time Magazine. "The 2010 TIME 100 Poll" Most Influential People In The World. Now GaGa Is #3 #VoteOrDie

2010-04-02T11:59:00.000-07:00

Lady GaGa is one of the nominees to make the list of Time Magazine’s most influential people of 2010 poll! However, she needs your vote!

The 2010 TIME 100 Poll

EXCLUSIVE Wallpapers. Enjoy Lil Monsters! All for You

2010-04-01T14:41:00.000-07:00

DOWNLOAD: WallpapersExclusive MonsterEmancipation.rar HQ

Janet Jackson Thinks Lady Gaga Is 'A Sweetheart'

2010-04-01T10:07:00.000-07:00

Everyone knows who Justin Bieber is, right? Not quite. But when director Tyler Perry admitted his ignorance, Janet Jackson was on hand to fill him in on Bieber fever. And while promoting their new film, "Why Did I Get Married Too?," Jackson had some thoughts to share about the newest pop superstars on the scene. "Who's Justin Bieber?" Perry asked. Jackson, slightly surprised by Perry's answer, explained that Bieber is from Atlanta and is "one of Usher's kids." Eager to prove that he knows something about current music, Perry mentioned Jackson's love for Lady Gaga. "I really love Gaga, yeah, and she's a sweetheart," Jackson agreed, saying she was particularly pleased to see Gaga's lovable side because, "it's not always the case when you meet them. You can enjoy their work, but it's not always such a — so pleasant when you get to know their personality, and she truly is a sweetheart." "Sweet" might not be the first word you'd use to describe Gaga's performances and fashion, but Jackson was still packed with praise for Gaga's unconventional style. "She's definitely doing something different and I love that." The sole negative thing Jackson had to say about Gaga is actually a compliment. "She works so hard, and I told her, I think she needs to slow down just a little bit, take some time out for herself," Jackson recalled. Source: MtvNews.com

'Sex And The City 2' Stars Ask: Is Lady Gaga The Real-Life Carrie Bradshaw?

2010-03-31T10:46:00.000-07:00

'She breaks all the rules; she's unconventional,' Sarah Jessica Parker says, seeing the similarities.

LAS VEGAS — With "Sex and the City 2" coming to theaters May 27, fictional fashionista Carrie Bradshaw is ready to once again rule the box-office. Meanwhile, Lady Gaga continues ruling the music charts, similarly inspiring gawkers and grins with her always unpredictable looks. Recently, when we caught up with the "SATC" girls, we had to ask: Is Gaga the real-life Carrie Bradshaw? "She breaks all the rules; she's unconventional," Sarah Jessica Parker said of the comparison, seeing the similarities. "Well, that's extremely flattering." Sarah Jessica is always ahead," added Kristin Davis, insisting that the 10-time Emmy-nominated actress (and two-time winner) is a lot like the chameleonesque pop star. "We love Lady Gaga!" "I have met Lady Gaga," revealed Cynthia Nixon, who plays Miranda Hobbes in the TV/film franchise. "And she is a big fan of our show." "I didn't know that!" responded an enthusiastic Parker. "I want to say one thing about Lady Gaga, which is, a year and a half ago, I was in an editing room working on a project and had already downloaded as much music of hers as I could onto my iPod. And she was not in the mainstream yet, and people [made dismissive comments when I'd play it], but I loved her." Nowadays, everybody claims to have been Gaga fans since she was just starting out — but Parker insisted she's always been a supporter. "The thing that I loved best about her recently was when she sat down at the piano at the Grammys and sang, and just played the piano," SJP marveled. "And you could hear how lyrical her voice is. I really hope she does an album just of singing with the piano." In case you haven't figured it out yet, Parker, Davis and Nixon (fourth musketeer Kim Cattrall wasn't able to make our interview) are as close in real life as their characters onscreen. And when we brought up the Carrie/Gaga comparison, we had no idea we would unleash such a torrent of super-fan gushing. "She's so musically gifted," Parker said. "It's not just the fact that she's an incredible performer and is shocking. She's got a beautiful ear." "Absolutely!" Davis agreed. "Also, 'Bad Romance' is a really good song to work out to!" "My son sang 'Bad Romance' for a singing contest," Parker said of her 7-year-old with husband Matthew Broderick. "James Wilkie sang 'Bad Romance' for a singing contest." "We need to see!" Davis said. "I tried [to tape it], but the sound didn't work," Parker sighed. "We could loop it," Davis said. "Yeah, we could dub Lady Gaga doing it the whole time," Nixon added. SOURCE: Mtv News

How Lady GaGa Become the World's Biggest Pop Star

2010-03-30T21:29:00.000-07:00

Growing Up Gaga

The self-invented, manufactured, accidental, totally on-purpose New York creation of the world’s biggest pop star.

O ne year ago this month, Lady Gaga arrived for an interview in the dark, oak-paneled lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel, a massive Spanish-style place in the tourist district of Hollywood that was supposed to make the area chic but has largely failed. “Just Dance,” the lead single off her first album, The Fame, had reached No. 1 in Australia, Sweden, and Canada in early 2008, but in March 2009, she was still an up-and-coming artist in America: a few thousand MySpace plays, a generic website, and a short tour as the opening act for New Kids on the Block. Gaga had a video, though. “My colleagues at radio in those three countries agreed to support her if I made a video,” says Martin Kierszenbaum, the president of A&R at her label, Interscope. The “Just Dance” video, shot a few miles from the Roosevelt, features Gaga shimmying with a disco ball in her hands while her friends drape themselves on a couch nearby—though most of those people were extras, not real friends. She didn’t know many people on the West Coast. “I don’t like Los Angeles,” she told me. “The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.”

Before the meeting, I assumed that someone with a stage name like “Lady” (her given name is Stefani Joanne Germanotta) was going to be a bit standoffish—that’s the strategy employed by most nervous young musicians on the occasion of their first real interview, in any case. But I never thought she was going to actually be Lady Gaga. These days, very few artists play the media like Bob Dylan, or stay in character as Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh did in his early career. In the age of VH1’s Behind the Music, tabloid culture, and reality television, musicians are aware that they should show themselves to journalists in as much mundane detail as they can muster. “But Lady Gaga is my name,” she said, amazed that I would have thought otherwise. “If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.”

Gaga eased into a brown leather couch with as much grace as possible given her outfit, a stiff white jumpsuit with a jacket cut from a Martin Margiela pattern, the enormous shoulder pads stuffed underneath the fabric extending toward her ears. At five-two and 100 pounds, with her hair styled into a mod blonde bob, she looked flush from a strict diet of starvation: “Pop stars should not eat,” she pronounced. She was young, skinny, and blonde, but she had a prominent Italian nose, the kind of nose that rarely survives on a starlet. (This was during Gaga’s “hair-bow” phase—that would be pre-hair-hat and pre-hair-telephone—and when I asked about the bow’s whereabouts, she rested her head on a pillow of her hands and said, “She’s sleeping.”) In the hallway near her table, families of tourists took pictures of one another with cameras, unaware of her presence, and she recoiled dramatically at every flash. “Oh, cameras,” she said, shielding her eyes. “I cannot bear the cameras.”

As we began the conversation, Gaga spoke carefully in a very odd accent—some combination of Madonna as Madge and a robot, an affect enhanced by the fact that she refused to remove her lightly tinted sunglasses over the course of two hours. “What I’ve discovered,” said robo-Gaga, with a photo-ready tilt of her head, “is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth—and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.”

Gaga was very taken with her new “bubble dress” at this point, and we talked about its unreality, the beauty of the imaginary. Everyone wanted that dress, but it wasn’t a dress at all—it was a bunch of plastic balls. “On my tour,” she declared, “I’m going to be in my bubble dress on a piano made of bubbles, singing about love and art and the future. I should like to make one person believe in that moment, and it would be worth every salt of a No. 1 record.” She dropped the accent for a moment now—the real girl, unartificed, was right underneath—and leaned in. “I can have hit records all day, but who fucking cares?” she explained. “A year from now, I could go away, and people might say, ‘Gosh, what ever happened to that girl who never wore pants?’ But how wonderfully memorable 30 years from now, when they say, ‘Do you remember Gaga and her bubbles?’ Because, for a minute, everybody in that room will forget every sad, painful thing in their lives, and they’ll just live in my bubble world.” SOURCE: nymag.com

COMPLETE POST: Next: How a pop star is manufactured.

GaGa Make History On Youtube - Top 10 YouTube Videos of All Time

2010-03-30T20:09:00.000-07:00

YouTube has come to define the era of online video, so let's take a look at their most popular videos of all time. We first did this list in August 2007, at which point Evolution of Dance by comedian Judson Laipply was number 1 with nearly 56 million views. The next update was September 2008, when Avril Lavigne's Girlfriend pop music video was number 1 with 103 million page views (although commenters argued it may have gamed the system). How is Evolution of Dance doing now, given the influx of pop music and movie videos into YouTube? Not to mention all of those goofy comedic routines by teenagers and cutesy baby or animal videos. Let's check out the top YouTube videos of all time, as it stands today...

1. Charlie bit my finger - again !; 173.000.000 views

2. Lady GaGa - Bad Romance; 167.000.000 views

3. Evolution of Dance; 140.000.000 views

4. Miley Cyrus - 7 Things - Official Music Video (HQ); 114.000.000 views

5. Hahaha - Small daring boy; 112.000.000 views

6. Jeff Dunham - Achmed the Dead Terrorist; 109.000.000 views

7. Lo que tú Quieras Oír; 100.000.000 views

8. Pitbull - I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho); 111.000.000 views

9. Lady GaGa - Just Dance; 104.000.000 views

10. Susan Boyle - Singer - Britains Got Talent 2009; 90.000.000 views

Also Bad Romance is the Music Video Most Viewed in the Youtube history! AMAZING

10 MILLION VIEWS MORE MONSTERS! AND BAD ROMANCE WILL BE BECOME IN THE VIDEO MOST FUCKIN VIEW IN YOUTUBE HISTORY!

Lady GaGa Quick News

2010-03-29T15:50:00.000-07:00

Michael Bolton About GaGa "She is the epitome of an artist"

Michael Bolton is gaga over one of his recent collaborators. “I love her … I adore her,” gushes the 57-year-old crooner about pop phenom Lady Gaga, who cowrote the song Murder My Heart on his new CD One World One Love. “I didn’t know who Gaga was because her record hadn’t come out yet,” he says. “I had heard she was an excellent songwriter, but I didn’t know what it was going to be like working with her until I got to the studio and we hit it off. We became friends immediately and had a lot in common immediately … and the more I got to know her, the more I liked her.” On working with Lady Gaga: When I met her and she started singing these melodies and lyrics to me, I realized I had a real artist in front of me. Someone who can actually sing and doesn’t need to be AutoTuned to sound good. She was the real thing. And she was so excited about what we were going to work on. I said, ‘It’s got to be something that’s going to kill people when they hear it.’ She said, ‘I have this idea for a title called Murder My Heart.’ So that’s how it began. We worked from 8 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. the first night, so there’s no question about her work ethic. And we did the same thing the next night. Then we finished the lyrics in London. Her mom was in London too, so I took the two of them out to dinner. I remember her mother was a bit concerned whether her daughter was being hyped; whether the company was getting her too concerned about her career before her album came out. It’s funny; cut from that moment to four months later, when she obviously surpassed her mother’s expectations and became huge. That’s great. I love to see someone that focused who already has that vision of her career. People compare her to a new Madonna, a young Madonna, but I think she has the reins of her career more than when Madonna started out. She’s in on every aspect, from songwriting production to what the next video’s going to look like. She’s the epitome of an artist.

Lady Gaga's Early Career Analyzed In New York Profile

'She wasn't a diva at all,' one high school classmate says.

Aside from her meteoric rise to worldwide fame from seemingly nowhere, one of the most fascinating aspects of Lady Gaga's ascension to the pop stratosphere is how formerly unknown New York rock-club singer Stefani Germanotta seems to have known all along that this was her destiny. A just-published profile in New York magazine, written by Vanessa Grigoriadis and including an interview conducted in March 2009 — supplemented by recent quotes from people she knew during her early days, including songwriter/producer Rob Fusari, who sued Gaga earlier this month — the self-assured singer is depicted as already carrying herself like the pop icon she would soon become. "I don't like Los Angeles," she told the reporter, insisting that she be addressed by her stage name and recoiling from the camera flashes of tourists taking pictures of each other that she assumed were meant for her. "The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need." Though her path to six #1 singles, millions of album sales and a massive stage show appears to have happened in a blink of an eye, Gaga, 24, said the process took longer than it appears. "I went through a great deal of creative and artistic revelation, learning, and marination to become who I am," she said in the article. "Tiny little lie? I wanted to become the artist I am today, and it took years."

It began on the Upper West Side of New York, where she grew up in a duplex with her dad, whose company installed Wi-Fi systems in hotels, her mother, who was a vice president at Verizon for a time and younger sister Natali, now 18, who has a cameo in the "Telephone" video. The sisters attended the small Sacred Heart Catholic girls school near the Guggenheim museum, where the Germanottas were a solidly middle-class pair mixed in with the outrageously wealthy and those attending on scholarships. She began taking day-long acting classes on Saturdays at age 11 and by eighth grade was landing the leads in shows such as "Guys and Dolls" and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" at Sacred Heart's brother school, Regis High. Friends told New York that she insisted on being called by her characters' names even then, refusing to answer to Stefani backstage during rehearsals and performances.

Gaga also held down a job as a waitress at a diner on the Upper West Side during her school years, using one of her first paychecks to guy a $600 Gucci purse, a preview of her later dive into high fashion. Though some jealous older girls sometimes referred to her as "the Germ," the article says, most classmates remember her as being popular and not the awkward outcast she has painted herself to be in interviews. In addition to being a theater nerd, Gaga began her musical experimentation, starting a classic-rock cover band, performing at open-mic songwriter nights and cutting a demo tape of love ballads that her parents gave out as party favors at her sweet-16 party at a New York club.

"Everyone was playing her demo, like, 'Whoa, she's going to be a star,' " Justin Rodriguez, who attended Regis, told the magazine. "She was by far the most talented person in high school, but she'd do so many random acts of kindness, like saying, 'Your singing has gotten so much better, you're working hard and I've noticed.' She wasn't a diva at all." Like many of her peers, the article says Gaga had obtained a fake ID by the time she was 15, around the time she started dating a 26-year-old waiter and got her first tattoo, a musical G clef on her lower back. About 15-20 pounds heavier at the time, Gaga would often get into trouble at school for wearing inappropriately low-cut shirts, which reportedly earned her the high school nickname "Big Boobs McGee." After graduation, she briefly attended New York University, but feeling she was more advanced than the other students, she dropped out during her second semester to pursue her dreams of rock stardom. Her dad agreed to pay her rent for a year if she promised to go back to school if things didn't work out. "I left my entire family, got the cheapest apartment I could find, and ate sh-- until somebody would listen," she told the magazine of her early days. An EP of ballads as the Stefani Germanotta Band soon followed, with a dedicated fanbase of 15-20 people showing up at her shows.

A week before her one-year deal with Dad was up, Gaga performed on a bill with Wendy Starland, who introduced Germanotta to producer Rob Fusari, an early collaborator who recently filed a $30.5 million lawsuit against Gaga over claims he hasn't been properly compensated for the work he did establishing the Gaga sound and persona. After feeling uninspired by her rock-singer direction, Fusari said he decided to re-invent Gaga as a dance-pop artist and encouraged her to ditch her leggings and sweatshirt look in favor of something flashier. So Gaga began studying how to be a star by reading a biography of Prince, shopping at American Apparel, reading the new age-y self-help bible "The Secret" and cutting her skirts shorter and shorter until they basically disappeared.

A short-lived, $850,000 deal with the Island Def Jam label followed in 2006, after which she went back to square one and performing in small New York venues and go-go dancing at the club Pianos while wearing a bikini and fingerless gloves and opening for the band that is now her opening act, Semi-Precious Weapons. By the spring of 2007 she auditioned for Interscope boss Jimmy Iovine, who signed her, and after a makeover that resulted in her signature blonde hair and space-age-disco-diva look, the Gaga we now know was born.

"I believe that everyone can do what I'm doing," she said as things were starting to heat up. "Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all. Rule the world! What's life worth living if you don't rule it?"

Paramore's Hayley Williams Sings Lady Gaga's 'Bad Romance' On Twitter

'Most fun I've ever had in ever,' she tweets about performing the cover.

Paramore singer Hayley Williams has one of the most entertaining Twitter feeds of any musician on the Internet. She regularly tweets her reviews of movies she has seen (she recently saw and loved "Hot Tub Time Machine"), rants about UFC events and exchanges inside jokes with her own band members, Nashville friends and boyfriend Chad Gilbert of New Found Glory. Though she drops the occasional Twitpic, her Twitter has been mostly a word-based experience. Until now. Over the weekend, Williams posted a video to her Twitter feed. "Feel a bit crazy posting this ... but you asked for it!" the 21-year-old frontwoman wrote. "My apologies to Miss Gaga. Love, your friend, Lady Haha." The link revealed a video of Williams sitting at a piano, adusting her hair and then singing and playing Gaga's "Bad Romance." Williams gave Gaga's hit a nice little remix, making the solo piano version into a cabaret shuffle. She seemed to take extra pleasure in the "Ooh la la" portions of the tune, rolling the R's and belting out the notes. The video came as a result of a tweet she sent only a few hours before. "Playing 'Bad Romance' on the piano and pretending to be Lady Gaga," she wrote. "Why haven't I ever done this before? Most fun I've ever had in ever." Williams is just the latest star from the rock world to take on a Lady Gaga song. She joins the ranks of Chris Daughtry, Weezer, Maximo Park, We the Kings and, of course, Eric Cartman of "South Park" fame. Could "Bad Romance" sneak into Paramore sets in the future? We'll find out when the group kicks off the latest stretch of tour dates on April 26 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Lady Gaga Brought To Tears By Fans' Birthday Video

'I've never cried so hard in 24 years, from pure joy and unconditional love,' Gaga tweets.

When MTV News spoke to director Ryan James Yezak earlier this month, he told us all about the making of his totally excellent "Telephone" tribute vid and then, in passing, mentioned that he was also working on a special birthday present for his muse, Lady Gaga. Yezak was asking for "Happy Birthday" messages from his fellow Gaga enthusiasts, which he hoped to edit together into one singing, strutting birthday card for Lady G. At the time, it seemed like a pretty nice — if not slightly fanatical — gesture, but that was about it. Only on Sunday — her actual birthday — Gaga watched the video then tweeted about it, writing, "I've never cried so hard in 24 years, from pure joy and unconditional love. Tears still streaming." And suddenly, Yezak's birthday video became a very big thing. Which is good, because he clearly spent an inordinate amount of time working on it. He received submissions from nearly 150 of Gaga's biggest fans from all around the world (England, Malaysia, Germany, Brazil, Spain and Italy, to name just a few), then edited them together into one epic, nine-plus-minute message, filled with a whole lot of tears, some outrageous costumes and genuinely touching messages too. In the clip, Gaga fans thank her for inspiring them, for giving them courage to be themselves and, in the case of one fan, giving him the strength to come out of the closet. There is also plenty of singing and dancing, a whole lot of makeup and even a few special birthday wishes. It's a pretty touching thing and it's no wonder Gaga was moved when she saw it. And as for Yezak, well, he still can't believe that Gaga saw the video, writing in an e-mail to MTV News that the whole experience has been "pretty amazing," and writing on his Twitter account that "anything is possible."

Viral video: The rebirth of the music video

From Lady Gaga's edgy epic Telephone to OK Go's recent Heath Robinson-inspired effort, Larry Ryan rewinds the online virals of the moment

Ten months ago Ross Ching was a new graduate from film school in San Diego. "The economy had tanked, nobody was hiring and I had nothing to do," he says. "I had this idea for a music video. So I made something and put it on the internet." The video was for "Little Bribes" by the alt-rock band Death Cab for Cutie. He chose, in his own words, to "blatantly infringe upon Death Cab's copyright" and make the video without any endorsement. There are home-made efforts for famous songs all over YouTube, most are best avoided, but Ching's effort was a small delight: using time-lapse photography techniques, he shot visual representations of all 211 words used in the song's lyrics and interspersed them with images of LA. It took Ching 50 hours to make and cost about $100. In May, he put it on his website, Rossching.com, under the banner "looking for work". It quickly got attention. The music site Stereogum.com ran the video declaring, "We rarely post fan-made videos, but this is too good... Hire him!" Within days Ching was contacted by Atlantic Records, Death Cab's label. They had no truck with his copyright infringement; in fact, they wanted to buy Ching's work and make it the official video. By September he had been signed as a director at a production company in LA. The domino effect of Ching's efforts wasn't just serendipitous: allied to a good idea and some luck was a savvy understanding of the web. Before posting it online, he contacted people on Twitter who had large amounts of followers. He gave them a preview of the video; they in turn tweeted about it to their followers, creating a chain reaction. Alongside this low-level marketing he developed a template for videomaking based on endlessly watching YouTube, all aligned around reducing the temptation for viewers to move on to other online distractions. First, the video should have "something within the first ten seconds that will make you want to watch it past the first ten seconds," he explains. "A lot of people just look at the first ten seconds and then just click away." Next, he looked at ways to sustain interest throughout, as "you're bound to hit boring parts in a video." Finally, he used a song that came in at the three-minute mark – the shorter the video, the greater chance that people will watch it to the end. On a higher budget than Ching, but still at the smaller end of the spectrum, is the video for Hot Chip's latest single, "I Feel Better", directed by the comedian Peter Serafinowicz. In the first ten seconds, the electropop group are humorously re-imagined as a JLS-like boyband. Over the next three minutes, the video takes numerous strange and surreal turns. Like Ching, Serafinowicz, who has over 300,000 followers on Twitter, was able to create a swift online buzz for the video. Previously he had also utilised Twitter while shooting the video to recruit extras for the crowd scenes. On the day it was released in mid March, there was an instant receptive audience. It also received glowing attention from the likes of Pitchfork.com, Stereogum and New York Magazine. The video has been viewed half-a-million times on YouTube alone. "It's very difficult to succeed in going viral, so we're frequently seeing cool bands team up with provocative comedic directors like Tim & Eric and Peter Serafinowicz," says Scott Lapatine, editor-in-chief of Stereogum. "Music discovery now happens online, and we live in a meme culture, so a clever video is one effective way to break an act." The US pop-rock band OK Go know their way around a clever video. In 2006, for their single "Here It Goes Again", they created an ingenious promo featuring the band in a meticulously choreographed dance on treadmills. It has been viewed 50 million times on the band's official YouTube channel. There's even been a wan imitation in an ad for Berocca vitamin supplements. This year the band attempted the trick again with two videos for their single "This Too Shall Pass" off their third album, Of the Blue Colour of the Sky. The second of these videos has really captured attention. In the month it's been online, the video has been viewed 10 million times. It is yet another triumph of planning and coordination. In it, a grand Rube Goldberg Machine is enacted – a domino/mouse-trap contraption is set in motion in time to the music, incorporating the band who mime along to the lyrics while taking part in the colourful mess of unfolding events. It's an impressive feat, perfectly designed to be passed around the internet, but it also highlighted a flaw: OK Go's visuals are memorable, but their music is unremarkable. Indeed, the electro musician Max Tundra wrote on Twitter, "OK Go should record an innovative, exciting piece of music – and make a plodding, nondescript video to go with it." Despite all of OK Go's viral exposure, they haven't sold many records. The band recently split from EMI to set up their own independent label, Paracadute Recordings; it's been suggested that disagreements with EMI on how to distribute their videos was a major factor, but perhaps also poor sales for their third LP played their part.

"The thing about OK Go is that they outdo what they have done before. And that is a hard thing to do. Give them credit for that," says Lana Kim, head of music videos at the Directors Bureau in LA. Kim also hosts a web music show at Thelanashow.com. Increasingly for producers like Kim, whose company represents several high-profile directors, record labels are naturally seeking conceits that will create online word of mouth. "Often the brief comes in with, 'we want this to be viral, just like such-and-such video'," she says. "You can't force a video to be passed around, so you can't base a successful concept around that. It happens organically, and if something is good, people will share it." Towering above them all is Lady Gaga. Last week it was reported that with just three videos, "Bad Romance", "Just Dance" and "Poker Face", she had become the first artist to be viewed one billion times online. This figure doesn't include her latest juggernaut, "Telephone", which, since its release several weeks ago, has been watched almost 30 million times on YouTube. The importance of the visual elements makes Lady Gaga interesting: her music doesn't seem complete until you see the outrageous costumes and watch the daring videos and performances. This might explain the high numbers watching her work; though monumental hype helps too.

"What I appreciate in Lady Gaga's videos is that spectacle that we often don't see nowadays," says Kim. "But you can see the formula: insane costumes, plus almost nude Gaga, plus dancers, plus bright lights, plus saturated colours, plus product placement, plus someone dying." "Telephone", a lurid tale of Gaga as an inmate in a women's prison turned killer on the run, conforms perfectly to her formula, with the bonus of an appearance by Beyoncé. It also seems specifically designed to create cartoon controversy, much like Lady Gaga's entire career. With that controversy, its celebrity cameos and an extended nine-minute length, "Telephone" recalls an earlier MTV age when pop stars made grand "event" videos: epic affairs with lavish budgets intended to get people talking, long before they could email links to each other. With most record labels on their knees, such garish events are now rare, and paid for in more roundabout ways. "Major label artists finance flashy mini-movies via increasingly obnoxious product placements," says Scott Lapatine. Lady Gaga claims that "Telephone" is a commentary on contemporary American culture. However, its biggest statement seems to be about the artist herself: an assertion of the power of her brand that also displays her ear for a pop tune and head for a well-timed web event. No doubt, many are combing Lady Gaga's videos to try to replicate her success, just as Ross Ching created a formula from watching videos online. But the one constant, as it always has been for the best music videos, is an arresting visual idea. "Interesting concepts are interesting concepts, regardless of where technology has gone," says Lana Kim. "It is amazing how a good video, as dated as it might be, would still hold up today. Mediocre videos get lost in the mess of the internet. No one wants to forward a link of a boring video to friends."

Lady GaGa Top the List of "Most Important People in the World" According with WIPlalista

2010-03-29T15:28:00.002-07:00

Via ListaWip

LADY GAGA: I CAN MENTALLY GIVE MYSELF AN ORGASM

2010-03-29T15:05:00.000-07:00

Lady Gaga has revealed she can give herself an orgasm — just by thinking about it!. “I remember the first time that I drank out of an imaginary coffee cup,” GaGa told New York magazine. “That’s the very first thing they teach you. I can feel the rain, too, when it’s not raining. “I don’t know if this is too much for your magazine, but I can actually mentally give myself an orgasm. You know, sense memory is quite powerful.” Gaga also revealed her nickname at her posh convent high school was “Big Boobs McGee” “At that time, my breasts were much bigger, and firm, and delicious,” she said. “I was 15 to 20 pounds heavier than I am now. “I would wear shirts that were low-cut and the teachers would tell me that I couldn’t wear them, and I’d point to another girl who was wearing the same thing, [and they would say] ‘Well, it looks different on her.’ It wasn’t fair.” Source: ShowbizSpy

Lady GaGa In GaGaDaily ChatBox

2010-03-29T09:22:00.000-07:00

On Sunday evening Lady Gaga logged in to Gaga Daily to post a few messages for the fans in the chat box. Her username wass ‘GAGAREAL’ and she later confirmed on Twitter that it was really her.

LITTLE MONSTERS! THIS IS GAGA! I JUST SAW YOUR VIDEOS, IM VERY EMOTIONAL. GOD BLESSED ME WHEN HE MADE YOU.

I SAW THIS LITTLE BOX OF MESSAGES, AND I THOUGHT I WOULD SAY HELLO AND I LOVE YOU

I PROMISE ITS ME

I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH

I WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU AND GIVE YOU A PRESENT

I’VE ALREADY WRITTEN THE FIRST SINGLE FOR THE NEW ALBUM

AND I PROMISE YOU, THAT THIS ALBUM IS THE GREATEST OF MY CAREER. IT IS THE ANTHEM FOR OUR GENERATION

I WROTE IT FOR YOU

BECAUSE OF YOU, WHEN I WAS IN LIVERPOOL, I WROTE THE GREATEST MUSIC I’VE EVER WRITTEN

I LOVE YOU, I HAVE TO GO NOW

YOU ARE MY LITTLE MONSTER ANGELS

YOUR LOVE IS MY INSPIRATION, AND THE NEW ALBUM IS FOR YOU

ILL COME BACK SOON AND ANNOUNCE THE ALBUM TITLE, I DONT WANT TO SPOIL IT YET!

i love you, bye! xoxo

(I promise ill come back here again, little monsters need me now in AUSTRALIA) X

Thank you so much, Gaga, for being so close to your fans! We love you and we can’t wait to hear new music from you! Source: GaGaDaily.com

Bad Romance Covers. Source: GaGaNews.com

2010-03-29T08:58:00.000-07:00

Paramore lead singer Hayley Williams, 21, who shot a piano-based take on “Bad Romance” and posted the clip via Twitter yesterday. Not bad at all. “Playing ‘Bad Romance’ on the piano and pretending to be @LadyGaga,” Williams tweetedbefore liberating the video. ”Why haven’t I ever done this before? Most fun I’ve had in ever.” And, later: “feel a bit crazy posting this… but you asked for it! my apologies to miss gaga. love, your friend, lady haha.”

Also check out a cover of Lady GaGa’s ‘Bad Romance’ (above) that 30 Seconds To Mars did on BBC Radio One Live Lounge with Fearne Cotton today.

The Ultimate Chart! All GaGa's Charts in the World

2010-03-28T14:12:00.000-07:00

Lady GaGa - The Ultimate Chart! Daily Update

iTUNES DIGITAL SALES

ALBUMS:

USA:

The Fame Monster (Deluxe): Nº8
The Fame Monster: Nº13
The Fame: Nº22

SINGLES: WHOLE WORLD

USA:

Telephone Nº5/Bad Romance Nº24

Poker Face Nº49/Paparazzi Nº60

Just Dance Nº63/Alejandro Nº108

CANADA: Telephone Nº5

UK: Telephone Nº1

FRANCE: Telephone Nº2

GERMANY: Telephone Nº8

AUSTRALIA: Telephone Nº4

AUSTRIA: Telephone Nº6

BELGIUM: Telephone Nº1

FINLAND: Telephone Nº4/Bad Romance Nº5

DENMARK: Telephone Nº9

GREECE: Telephone Nº1

IRELAND: Telephone Nº1

ITALY: Telephone Nº5

JAPAN: Telephone Nº8

LUXEMBOURG: Telephone Nº6

NETHERLANDS: Telephone Nº6

NEW ZELAND: Telephone Nº3

NORWAY: Telephone Nº2

SWEDEN: Telephone Nº4

SWITZERLAND: Bad Romance Nº8

SPAIN: Telephone Nº9

PORTUGAL: Bad Romance Nº6

LADY GAGA iTUNES VIDEO:

USA:

Telephone Nº1/Bad Romance Nº7

Poker Face Nº21/Paparazzi Nº26

Video Phone ft. Beyonce Nº36

Just Dance Nº38/LoveGame Nº55

UK:

Telephone Nº1/Paparazzi Nº2

Bad Romance Nº7

LADY GAGA: AMAZON USA

ALBUMS:

The Fame Monster (Deluxe): Nº22

The Fame: Nº48

SINGLES:

Telephone Nº9

Bad Romance Nº11

Poker Face Nº20

Paparazzi Nº35

Just Dance Nº36

MEDIABASE RADIO CHART (US)

Telephone Nº1 (+0.8 Million Aud)

Bad Romance Nº8 (-5.7 Million Aud.)

MEDIATRAFIC: GLOBAL CHART

ALBUMS:

The Fame Nº1 - 166.000 copies

The Fame Monster EP Nº30 - 29.000 copies

SINGLES:

Telephone Nº2 (290.000 points)

Bad Romance Nº5 (227.000 points)

Billboard:

ALBUMS: Billboard 200

The Fame Nº5

The Fame Monster Nº13

SINGLES: Billboard Hot 100

Telephone Nº3

Bad Romance Nº14

Billboard Pop Songs

Telephone Nº1

U.K Chart:

ALBUMS:

The Fame (Monster) Nº2

SINGLES:

Telephone Nº1

Bad Romance Nº28

Poker Face Nº63

Just Dance Nº93

Paparazzi Nº88

Also GaGa is #1 in:

Australian Albums Chart

1."The Fame Monster" Lady Gaga

2. "Down The Way" Angus & Julia Stone

3. "Sigh No More" Mumford & Sons

4. "Jason Derulo" Jason Derulo

5. "I Dreamed A Dream" Susan Boyle

Irish Singles Chart

1. "Telephone" Lady Gaga Feat. Beyoncé

2. "Gave It All Away" Boyzone

3. "Rude Boy" Rihanna

4. "Starry Eyed" Ellie Goulding

5. "Under Pressure (ice Ice Baby)" Jedward Feat. Vanilla Ice

Brazilian Singles Chart

1. "Video Phone ***2 wks @ #1***" Beyoncé & Lady Gaga

2. "Imma Be" The Black Eyed Peas

3. "Pode Ir Embora" Bruno & Marrone

4. "TiK ToK" Ke$ha

5. "Rebolation" Parangolé

Lady GaGa Quick News. Source: MtvNews.com

2010-03-27T17:02:00.000-07:00

Lady Gaga Rumored To Be Designing Sunglasses Line

Singer is reportedly teaming up with British eyewear company Linda Farrow.

Lady Gaga is a creative director for Polaroid and has created her own pair of Heartbeats headphones. Now there's a rumor that she is in talks to design her own line of sunglasses for British eyewear company Linda Farrow. Fans of Gaga know that she isn't new to the world of sunglasses. Most of her videos have included some Gaga take on them. And now, WWD.com reports that Gaga could be the latest person to collaborate with the company, which has been creating eyewear for 40 years and has worked with a number of designers, including Alexander Wang, Matthew Williamson, Dries Van Noten and singer Róisín Murphy. A rep for Farrow hadn't responded to MTV News' call for comment at press time to confirm the report. In Gaga's latest video, for "Telephone," she wears a pair of sunglasses made of burning cigarettes. She's also debuted new and fresh eyewear looks in her videos for "Poker Face" and "Bad Romance." "We design a pair of sunglasses in every video," she's said of the Haus of Gaga, explaining her inspiration for the looks, including the razor-blade sunglasses in "Bad Romance." "I wanted to design a pair for some of the toughest chicks and some of my girlfriends — don't do this at home!" She may be designing sunglasses for the company, but she has said in the past that she isn't interested in designing a clothing line with her Haus of Gaga. "They're my best friends," she said. "I'm not really sure what the world thinks ... but I do hear things like, 'Who is the Haus of Gaga?' and 'Are you putting out a fashion line?' And no one gets it. It's not a commodity. It's not something that's meant to be sold."

Lady Gaga Has Made Dance Music Mainstream, DJ Tommie Sunshine Says

At WMC 2010, the house DJ says success of Gaga and Black Eyed Peas is inspiring new artists.

MIAMI — There is something special in the air in South Beach. You'd expect the mood to be euphoric on day three of the Winter Music Conference, the annual dance music conclave that brings together fans, artists and event promoters from around the world. But this year, people seem to be in an even more delighted mood than usual.House DJ and rock-remix impresario Tommie Sunshine, who's been attending WMC for the past 14 years, attributes the extra happiness to the increasing relevance of dance music today. "Recently, David Guetta played Pacha in New York on a Wednesday night," Sunshine told MTV News when we caught up with him poolside on Wednesday at the Raleigh Hotel. "And he and Will.I.Am went two for two all night long. When they played one of the songs Will sang, he sang it live. Three in the morning, Fergie shows up, starts singing all the Black Eyed Peas stuff live. Then Estelle shows, and they do 'One Love' together. I mean it was a rock concert in Pacha in New York City. People going absolutely mental on a Wednesday night till 5 o'clock in the morning. It was incredible." Indeed, the success of the Black Eyed Peas and recent Billboard magazine cover boy David Guetta is the talk of WMC 2010. Virtually, every artist MTV News interviewed on Wednesday spoke reverently of what they have done for making dance music popular. But Brooklyn-based Sunshine wants to remind folks that credit is also due to Lady Gaga. "Anybody that is in South Beach right now that discredits Lady Gaga for what she has done for electronic music is out of their mind," Sunshine said. "I mean [Gaga producer] Red One and Space Cowboy and her, in collaboration, have done so much for making dance music mainstream. I'm sorry, but there wouldn't be a David Guetta top 10 hit ... there wouldn't be this Black Eyed Peas record, if it wasn't for The Fame. The influence of that record is epic, and we are hearing talking about all of this because of that." And for Sunshine, the blockbuster scale of Gaga's music videos is also helping the scene regain the prominence it held a few decades ago. "You see the video for 'Telephone,' and you're like, 'This is real stuff here,' " he marveled. "I mean, this is mega serious money being spent to put together amazing videos, using real film directors, for a dance record. That's a dance track! That is the 'Thriller' of our time, you know. And there is all this hubbub about it. I haven't seen that kind of [excitement] over a video in 20 years. I mean, MTV did that all the time back in the '80s ... and now it's back. And it's back with dance music." Sunshine — who has gained attention through notable remixes of Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco and Good Charlotte — said he thinks that the industry is encouraged, and talent from around the world is coming out of the woodwork. "I've been a DJ for 18 years, and I've been making music for over a decade," he said. "I've never been this excited about making music. I'm starting a record label because I feel like there is such a wealth of talent now. It's called Brooklyn Fire, and I've found guys from all over the world. Some of these guys I'm working with, they are in New Zealand. They are all over Europe. They are in Jakarta, Indonesia. With the Internet and Soundcloud and all of these other things that connect us all, Twitter — I've found most of the artists on my label over Twitter. It sounds crazy, but this is how we are all doing business now."

Lady Gaga Breaks Records In Sales, Video Viewings

Gaga's videos have exceeded 1 billion views online.

Lady Gaga is having quite a week. After the announcement that she's about to start work on her next music video for her "Alejandro" track comes news that she's broken two records, one for video views and one for music sales. First off, the singer is now the only digital-era artist to top the 5 million sales mark with her first two hits, according to Yahoo Music. Gaga broke the record when her single "Poker Face" reached 5 million in sales after her debut single, "Just Dance," accomplished that feat last year. The only other act with two songs at or above 5 million is the Black Eyed Peas, according to Yahoo. And if selling millions of records weren't enough, Gaga also reached the 1 billion mark in video views. According to Mashable, with numbers and analytics compiled by Visible Measures, Gaga is the first artist to have her videos reach 1 billion views. Three of her music videos hold spots in the 100 Million Club, including "Poker Face" (374,606,128), "Just Dance" (272,941,674) and "Bad Romance" (360,020,327). Most of the streams are through Vevo and YouTube. Following close behind Gaga's record are "Twilight" (980 million) and Soulja Boy Tell'em (860 million). Last weekend, Gaga celebrated her 24th birthday and showed off one of her gifts online. In a photo posted on Twitter, she held up a red teacup and wrote, "Nothing like a communist-red teacup to make for the perfect Birthday gift. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."

Lady Gaga Says 'Alejandro' Video Won't Be 'Telephone' Sequel

Third video from Fame Monster rumored to be directed by fashion photographer Steven Klein.

After the enormous attention Lady Gaga's elaborate "Telephone" video has received, expectations are very high for her next one. The singer, who is currently on tour in Australia, talked with radio station Nova 96.9 FM and dished a bit about what she has in store for "Alejandro," the third clip from her Fame Monster LP. "I'm so excited about the 'Alejandro' video," she told the station. "Actually, we're shooting it very soon and I don't want to say who the director is yet because it's going to give a lot away." When asked if she could reveal anything more, it was evident that she intends on keeping the music video's concept secret. "Are you absolutely mad? I would never, ever tell you!" she laughed. "I would be more likely to lie through my teeth to you what the video's about so that you could all be surprised. But I will tell you it's not the sequel to the 'Telephone' video." WWD reported on Tuesday that fashion photographer Steven Klein will helm the clip, but that information had not been confirmed at press time; reps for Gaga and Klein had not confirmed or provided MTV News with details about the video. For the moment, Gaga is enjoying touring Australia. "What mayhem in Melbourne tonight. Some kids just understand what it means live your eyeliner, breathe your lipstick, and kill for each other." she tweeted on Tuesday. "Writing music, leopard tights, monster varsity jacket I'm grateful to have fans that continue to inspire me Ready to sweat tonight Melbourne," she Gaga tweeted a few hours later.

Lady Gaga - Happy Birthday - Brisbane 27-03-2010

2010-03-27T16:30:00.000-07:00

Lady Gaga First Artist with One Billion Online Video Views

2010-03-27T14:07:00.000-07:00

Video analytics company Visible Measures — the one we work with to put out our monthly top 10 webisodes chart — curates a list of videos called the “100 Million Club.” It includes all the web videos that have exceeded 100 million views. Lady Gaga has long been a staple of the chart, but now she’s essentially in a club all her own: She’s the first franchise to reach one billion views. Gaga’s music videos hold three spots in the 65-video 100 Million Club — one for “Poker Face” (374,606,128), one for “Just Dance” (272,941,674) and one for “Bad Romance” (360,020,327). Add them up and you get just over one billion views. She won’t occupy the club alone for long, though; the Twilight saga is close behind with 980 million and Soulja Boy is at 860 million. Gaga is primarily a hit on Vevo and YouTube; 25% of Vevo’s visitors only have eyes for her. The pop star has attracted Internet attention elsewhere, too. A Facebook group of more than 100,000 people initiated National Lady Gaga Day about a month ago, and her latest Internet hit is her “Telephone” music video with Beyoncé. The point is, you can’t escape Gaga on the Internet. She’s everywhere right now. We welcome speculation as to exactly why the web loves her so, so let us know in the comments if you have any ideas. In the meantime, here are Gaga’s three 100 Million Club hits.

Billboard Hot 100 this Week! GaGa Up on #3 with Telephone and Bad Romance Up on #14

2010-03-27T13:34:00.000-07:00

Billboard 200 this Week, GaGa Goes for 3xPlatinum with "The Fame"

2010-03-27T13:29:00.001-07:00

Chart Week: 4/3/10
#1. Lady Antebellum- Need You Now

(Sales this week // Total sales)
93,061 // 1,482,714
#2. Marvin Sapp- Here I Am
75,534 // 69,834
#3. Ludacris- Battle of the Sexes
61,198 // 198,470
#4. Various Artists- Edge
53,141 // 55,156
#5. Lady GaGa- The Fame
48,210 // 3,058,492
#6. Sade- Soldier of Love
40,274 // 991,684
#7. Jimi Hendrix- Valleys of Neptune
39,370 // 135,390
#8. The Black Eyed Peas- The E.N.D.
38,821 // 2,309,468
#9. Gorillaz- Plastic Beach
37,869 // 150,186
#10. Justin Bieber- My World
33,440 // 1,059,338

Happy Birthday Lady Gaga Biggest Fan Made Video Ever. Thanks a lot @RyanJamesYezak

2010-03-27T11:48:00.000-07:00

To tweet this video to Lady Gaga, click here: http://tinyurl.com/yk62da7

Happy Birthday Lady Gaga! 150 little monsters wishing her a happy birthday from around the world.

On March 28, please join all of us in tweeting @LadyGaga on Twitter with the hashtag #GagaBdayVid

Or you can just click here: http://tinyurl.com/yk62da7

The UK Goes GaGa. "Telephone" & "The Fame" are #1

2010-03-21T10:58:00.000-07:00

Lady Gaga scores her fourth number one hit on the UK Singles Chart, as her latest song “Telephone” featuring Beyoncé rises 12-1! Her previous chart-toppers are “Just Dance”, “Poker Face” and “Bad Romance”. Not only is Lady Gaga on the top of the Singles Chart, but her debut album The Fame also climbes 5-1 on the Albums Chart, topping it for a sixth non-consecutive week. Congratulations! Source: GaGaDaily.com

GaGa's New Tweet

2010-03-21T08:12:00.000-07:00

GaGa Tweet: RUSSIAN ROSE GOLD VAMPIRE GRILLZ early birthday present from the haus, gravediggaz! i've been begging for these

Telephone Fan-Version. The dance is the Killed me! OMG this is Amazing

2010-03-20T18:50:00.000-07:00

Lady GaGa Make History On YouTube

2010-03-20T17:38:00.000-07:00

Lady Gaga - Just Dance ft. Colby O'Donis - 102.975.674 Views

Lady Gaga - Poker Face - 25.024.987 Views

Lady Gaga - LoveGame - 35.972.557 Views

Lady Gaga - Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say) - 17.438.466 Views

Lady Gaga - Beautiful, Dirty, Rich - 5.548.764 Views

Lady Gaga - Paparazzi - 11.431.501Views

Lady Gaga - Bad Romance - 155.336.541 Views

(Is the GaGa's Video Most View in the Web. Also is the Music Video Most View in the history of YouTube)

Lady Gaga - Telephone - 21.674.590 Views

(Only in 1 Week, maybe this video will be Break the Bad Romance's Record. Also is the Music Video Most View in 1 Week on YouTube)

Lady Gaga - Alejandro - TBD

GaGa Have Almost 376.000.000 Million Views only On Vevo!

Ugly Betty Goes GaGa! OMG hahaha love it lol

2010-03-20T17:10:00.000-07:00

The Ultimate Chart! All GaGa's Charts

2010-03-20T16:53:00.000-07:00

Lady GaGa - The Ultimate Chart! Daily Update
iTUNES DIGITAL SALES
ALBUMS:
USA:
The Fame Monster (Deluxe): Nº5
The Fame Monster: Nº14
The Fame: Nº19
SINGLES: WHOLE WORLD
USA:
Telephone Nº4/Bad Romance Nº22
Poker Face Nº46/Paparazzi Nº62
Just Dance Nº58

CANADA: Telephone Nº10
UK: Telephone Nº2
FRANCE: Telephone Nº4
GERMANY: Telephone Nº12
AUSTRALIA: Telephone Nº3
AUSTRIA: Telephone Nº13
BELGIUM: Telephone Nº1
FINLAND: Telephone Nº4/Bad Romance Nº5
DENMARK: Telephone Nº5
GREECE: Telephone Nº6/Bad Romance Nº8
IRELAND: Telephone Nº1
ITALY: Telephone Nº7
JAPAN: Telephone Nº7
LUXEMBOURG: Telephone Nº5
NETHERLANDS: Telephone Nº7
NEW ZELAND: Telephone Nº4
NORWAY: Telephone Nº4
SWEDEN: Telephone Nº6
SWITZERLAND: Bad Romance Nº9
SPAIN: Telephone Nº3
PORTUGAL: Bad Romance Nº4/Telephone Nº10

LADY GAGA iTUNES VIDEO:
USA:
Telephone Nº1/Bad Romance Nº5
Poker Face Nº16/Paparazzi Nº17
Video Phone ft. Beyonce Nº18
Just Dance Nº38/LoveGame Nº40
UK:
Telephone Nº1/Paparazzi Nº2
Bad Romance Nº7

LADY GAGA: AMAZON USA
BEST SELLERS: Music Artist:
Lady GaGa: Nº2
ALBUMS:
The Fame Monster (Deluxe): Nº20
The Fame: Nº29
SINGLES:
Bad Romance Nº7
Telephone Nº10
Poker Face Nº19
Paparazzi Nº30
Just Dance Nº33

LADY GAGA: MEDIABASE USA
Telephone Nº1 (+2.7 Million Aud)
Bad Romance Nº8 (-7 Million Aud.)

MEDIATRAFIC: GLOBAL CHART
ALBUMS:
The Fame Nº3 - 154.000 copies
SINGLES:
Bad Romance Nº3 (242.000 points)
Telephone Nº5 (209.000 points)

Billboard:
ALBUMS: Billboard 200
The Fame Nº8
The Fame Monster Nº19
SINGLES: Billboard Hot 100
Telephone Nº9
Bad Romance Nº15

U.K Chart:
ALBUMS:
The Fame (Monster) Nº5
SINGLES:
Telephone Nº12
Bad Romance Nº24
Poker Face Nº63
Just Dance Nº93
Paparazzi Nº88

Lady GaGa #1 in others Charts
New Zealand Albums Chart
1. "The Fame: Monster" Lady Gaga
2. "Holy Smoke" Gin
3. "Valleys Of Neptune" Jimi Hendrix
4. "Plastic Beach" Gorillaz
5. "I Dreamed A Dream" Susan Boyle

FoxNewsChannel: Singer sued by ex-boyfriend

2010-03-20T15:16:00.000-07:00

Lady Gaga 'Telephone' Tribute Video Director Looking For His Big Break

2010-03-20T14:21:00.000-07:00

'Filmmaking is a passion. It's what I want to do with my career,' said 23-year-old Ryan James Yezak.

By James Montgomery

It's been called the "Citizen Kane" of "Telephone" tribute videos (OK, so we were the ones who called it that, but that doesn't make it any less true), a rollicking four-plus minutes of over-the-top costumes and choreography, supremely dedicated performances and bargain-bin special effects. But the man responsible for the greatest Lady Gaga vid not actually made by Lady Gaga is still waiting for his big break. Like, he's waiting even as you read this. "I actually just came from a job interview," 23-year-old director Ryan James Yezak said, laughing. "It's a pretty entry-level position, so I didn't bring up the Gaga video I did. They didn't know who I was either." Yet, that could all change. At the time of this writing, Yezak's "Telephone" video has been viewed more than 3 million times, and thanks to Gaga's recently released clip, he's getting more views by the minute. Yezak hopes to turn the attention into some paying gigs (he's got tons of ideas for music videos), and while nothing has happened just yet, he feels like fame is tantalizingly close. At last. "Filmmaking is a passion. It's what I want to do with my career. I feel like nobody will let me do it yet," he said. "[This video] has definitely opened a few doors though. I feel like doors are cracking open. None have actually opened, but they're starting to crack. I know lots of people have seen it. Perez [Hilton] tweeted it directly to Lady Gaga, so I'm assuming she's seen it too. I'd love to hear from her. It would be incredible." Shot over one very long day in January — "the same week Gaga shot her video," Yezak enthused — in and around Kansas (mostly Lawrence and Kansas City), Yezak employed a team of his friends to make the video. Actor Scott Nelson turns in the performance of a lifetime as Gaga, and Julian Riviera plays Beyoncé and is also responsible for the choreography, wardrobe and makeup. "I couldn't have done this without their help ... the toughest challenge for me as a director is getting the images in my head to appear in the video. And Julian helped so much. He knows choreography, the eight-count and the steps," Yezak said. "Scott is just amazing in the video too. And my family in Texas overnighted telephones to my house in California so I could use them in the video. We had to do a lot with a little, because we don't have any money." Yezak said that regardless of what opportunities present themselves in the wake of his "Telephone" tribute video, he plans to continue making YouTube productions with his friends. He's already kicking around an idea for Ke$ha's "Take It Off," should she choose to release the track as a single. Yezak is also compiling fan-made videos as a birthday present for Gaga. And to that end, he'll always remain loyal to Gaga's work, and not just because he's a huge fan. "I look at her almost as a colleague, because we both have messages that we want to get across," Yezak said. "With this video, I wanted to let people know that they can do whatever they want. In this day and age, there's a lot of discouragement out there, but everyone has the resources to do whatever you want to do, right at your fingertips. You can achieve your dreams, even if you're not getting paid." MtvNews.com

Lady Gaga Sued For $30.5 Million By Producer

2010-03-20T13:50:00.000-07:00

Rob Fusari claims he hasn't been compensated for co-writing songs, coming up with her stage name and helping her get a record deal.

A songwriter and music producer who claims he helped launch Lady Gaga's career filed a $30.5 million lawsuit against the pop superstar, The Associated Press reported Thursday (March 18). Rob Fusari says he was squeezed out of Gaga's lucrative career after he co-wrote some of her songs, came up with her stage name and helped her get a record deal. Fusari's lawyer hadn't returned MTV News' calls for comment by press time; Gaga's rep also hadn't commented on the suit. The producer said Gaga is his protégé and former girlfriend, and she ditched him as her career took off. "All business is personal," said the lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Manhattan. Fusari, who had worked on Will Smith's "Wild, Wild West" and Destiny's Child's "Bootylicious" when he teamed up with the singer back in March 2006, said he persuaded her to trade in her rock music for dance beats. As they co-wrote songs such as "Paparazzi" and "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich," which would appear on her debut album, The Fame, he transformed Stefani Germanotta into Lady Gaga, a name adapted from Queen's "Radio Ga Ga," the lawsuit claimed. Lady Gaga told the AP in a 2009 interview that her "realization of Gaga was five years ago, but Gaga's always been who I am." "I was Gaga from the time that I was 19 through my first record deal," the 23-year-old said of her over-the-top style. "I always dressed like that before people knew me as Lady Gaga. I was always that way. ... I stuck out like a sore thumb." Per the lawsuit, Lady Gaga and Fusari's relationship turned romantic and then became a business partnership in May 2006, when they created a joint venture called Team Love Child LLC to promote her career. Fusari's share was 20 percent, it said. Fusari says he introduced Lady Gaga to a record executive who ultimately shepherded her to Universal Music Group's Interscope Records, which released The Fame in 2008. While Fusari has a producing credit on the album, he said he has been denied a 20 percent song-royalties share and 15 percent of merchandising revenue. He acknowledges getting checks for about $611,000 but said that isn't his full share. MtvNews.com

Lady Gaga/ Rob Fusari Lawsuit: A Closer Look

2010-03-20T13:45:00.000-07:00

MTV Shows

Lawsuit provides details on Fusari's version of Gaga's early career.

The introduction to the $30.5 million lawsuit lodged by producer/songwriter Rob Fusari against his former collaborator and girlfriend Lady Gaga opens with the most famous quote from English playwright and poet William Congreve. "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned/ Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned," reads the intro, which includes another lyrical flourish with the added emotional argument, "All business is personal. When those personal relationships evolve into romantic entanglements, any corresponding business relationship usually follows the same trajectory so that when one crashes they all burn. That is what happened here." What follows is page-upon-page of legal argument from Fusari's lawyer detailing the producer's claims of having discovered and nurtured Gaga (then an unknown singer by the name of Stefani Germanotta, spelled "Stephani" in the complaint), only to have her abandon him and cut him out of her lucrative recording career once she made it big. At press time, a spokesperson for Gaga had not responded to MTV News' requests for comment on the suit, but a deeper look at the legal document provides interesting details on Fusari's version of Gaga's early career. The suit claims that on March 23, 2006, Gaga performed at a New Writers' Showcase at New York's Cutting Room club, where she met a songwriter friend of Fusari's named Wendy Starland. Germanotta asked Starland if she remembered her from Germanotta's days working as an intern at the Famous Music publishing company, and the two bonded. "Starland knew that Fusari had been searching for months for a dynamic female rock-n-roller with garage band chops to front an all-girl version of the Strokes," the suit reads. "Starland was blown away by Germanotta's performance and immediately called Fusari and told him she had found him his girl." The document says that the aspiring singer took a bus the next day to Fusari's 150 Studios in Parsippany, New Jersey, hiking the last quarter-mile. "Fusari was expecting someone a little more grunge-rocker than the young Italian girl 'guidette' that arrived at his doorstep and was worried that he had made a mistake," the document continues. "Fusari then asked her to play one of her songs on the studio piano and within seconds realized that Germanotta had star potential. The trick would be coaxing it out of her. Before long, Germanotta was riding the bus to Jersey every day to work with Fusari at his studio. Fusari thought Germanotta's songs were brilliant but lacked commercial appeal. He pushed her to explore different musical genres. Over the course of the next several months, Germanotta commuted from New York to Jersey seven days a week, radically reshaping her approach. They put their focus on writing music and finding a sound for her." Soon enough, Fusari says he convinced Gaga to give up on rock and focus on dance beats, showing her how a drum machine would not impact the integrity of her sound on the day they finished collaborating on "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich," a song that would ultimately be released in 2008 on her multiplatinum debut, The Fame. He says they then went on to write several other songs together, including the smash hit "Paparazzi," as well as "Brown Eyes" and "Disco Heaven." In a 2008 interview with MTV's Buzzworthy blog before The Fame's release, Gaga credited Fusari with the origin of her stage name. "My name, Lady Gaga, comes from the first producer that I worked with, Rob Fusari," she said. "I was playing a record for him one day in the studio called 'Again Again,' which is actually a B-side for the album, it's like this super-Beatles/Queen theatrical ballad. He said, 'God, you're so "Radio Gaga," ' and I thought that was funny. And every time I'd come into the studio he'd say, 'Gaga is here, Gaga is here! Gaga Gaga!' So it sort of stuck, and I tacked on the 'Lady' as a sort of ironic contrast to the crazy of the Gaga." Gaga has said in interviews that her moniker derived from the Queen song but was a nickname among family and friends. The "close emotional quarters" the two purportedly shared during this period grew into a romantic relationship, with Gaga sleeping over at Fusari's home and he, in turn, socializing with her family and dining at their Manhattan home. Fusari began shopping the CD of songs they worked on together to record companies, including Island Def Jam, which reportedly signed Gaga on the spot after president L.A. Reid heard her performing from his office. Though her IDJ debut was set for release in May 2007, Gaga was "inexplicably" dropped after three months, according to the suit, just after she had renegotiated her deal with Fusari, which awarded him merchandising rights and some compensation as a producer on the album. The loss of the deal allegedly coincided with the end of the couple's personal relationship in January 2007, though Fusari said he encouraged Gaga to keep writing and recording. Around this time, Fusari's manager, Laurent Besencon — who had also taken on Gaga as a client — introduced her to producer RedOne, who would go on to co-write such hits as "Poker Face," "Just Dance" and "Boys, Boys, Boys" with the singer, while relegating Fusari to the sidelines, the suit claims. In the documents, Fusari claims he then talked with a friend, Vince Herbert, who worked with Interscope Records, who sent Gaga's music to company chairman Jimmy Iovine. The legendary record man was impressed and eventually signed the singer at the same time that Fusari claims Gaga and her father cut off all contact with him. Additionally, the suit claims that Besencon froze Fusari out of the Interscope negotiations and began protecting the interests of Gaga over his own, even allegedly sharing confidential information with her that compromised Fusari's negotiating posture. Gaga signed a deal with Interscope in May 2007, and the label released The Fame in August 2008, an album Fusari claims he co-produced and which included songs he is credited with co-writing and producing, "Paparazzi", "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich" and "Brown Eyes," along with bonus tracks on various incarnations of the album: "Disco Heaven," "Retro, Dance, Freak" and "Again Again." To date, the suit claims Fusari has received two checks totaling $203,000 and $394,965 (both in 2009) representing his 20 percent commission, with the second featuring the words "endorsed in accord and satisfaction of all sums due to undersigned" on the back. "By adding this endorsement to the back of the check, defendants had attempted to trick plaintiff into depositing said check and thereby settle all outstanding debts due him by defendants under the [contract] and to bar plaintiff from seeking any additional payments," the suit reads. In the documents, Fusari says he has not endorsed or deposited the second check. He also says he has not received his 15 percent share of merchandising revenue that was agreed upon in the contract. MtvNews.com

'The Runaways' Director Would Love To Make 'Surreal' Lady Gaga Video

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'She'd be fun. She's quite theatrical,' says prolific music-video director Floria Sigismondi.

"The Runaways" is Floria Sigismondi's feature-film directorial debut, but she has been directing music videos since 1993's "A Certain Slant of Light" by the Tea Party. In the nearly two decades since, she's helmed a number of influential and high-profile videos for everyone from Marilyn Manson ("Beautiful People") to the White Stripes ("Blue Orchid") to Christina Aguilera ("Fighter), just to name a few. Most recently, the prolific director shot the video for "Let It Rain" for the Living Things, the band fronted by her husband, Lillian Berlin. While she's currently trying to figure out what her next film project might be, Sigismondi said that she wouldn't mind shooting a music video for Lady Gaga. The pop star's nearly 10-minute clip for "Telephone," which references everything from prison films to Madonna to Andy Warhol, finally has people talking about videos again. "She'd be fun. She's quite theatrical," Sigismondi told MTV News on the red carpet of the New York premiere for "The Runaways." "I don't know, but I kind of grew up with costumes all my life, so I would go in there and do something kind of surreal maybe." And while she would love to concoct a treatment for Gaga, Sigismondi is also looking to follow up her rock biopic with something different. "I think I'll probably go into some fiction," she explained. "A little, kind of, made-up worlds and a little more fantastical." MtvNews,com

New HEARTBEATS Comercial! LOVE

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Boy George On GaGa part. 2. Video Interview, Love it

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OMG! Check Back Soon For TELEPHONE The Director's Cut SOURCE; Virgin Mobile

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George Want GaGa

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LADY GAGA is being lined up for a duet with Boy George, who has confirmed his interest in performing with the Telephone singer. “I’d be very interested,” said the former Culture Club front man. George has even pinpointed the kind of track he’d like to record with Gaga. “When I went to see her live, my favourite bit was she just sits down and does the piano and vocal thing,” he told The Sun. “Certainly if we were going to do something like that – something quite emotional – I’d be very interested.” Talks have yet to open on the Lady/Boy link, but the pair have already been in contact. “We’ve met and it wasn’t discussed, but it was very brief,” said George, adding that he “signed a hat for her” which at least suggests she is a fan of his. In the meantime, Boy George has a comeback single – Amazing Grace – out next week. Source: LondonNet

Madonna who? Lady Gaga is Sydney's new queen of vogue

2010-03-20T11:57:00.000-07:00

HEY Madonna, we don't miss you anymore. Your heiress apparent Lady Gaga has more than ably filled the void you left in our pop heart and we honestly don't care if you ever tour here again. Sure, she has borrowed some of your schtick - the corsets, the titillation, the gyration - but she does it all oh-so-well that it's difficult to remember it was ever your act. Gaga opened her Australian tour at the Sydney Entertainment Centre last night behind a floor-to-ceiling screen, teasing us with her Dance in the Dark strike-a-pose as the music pulsed so hard and so loud our eyeballs vibrated in their sockets and our teeth chattered. You could tell she was giving it her all even after the second song, Glitter And Grease, because we could hear her laboured breathing in her head mic - this was definitely a lipsynch-free zone. By the time she got to the third song, Just Dance, her first worldwide No 1 hit, Gaga had the capacity crowd roaring. The high concept show, designed around Gaga's quest to get her friends to the Monster Ball, also borrowed a hell of a lot from The Wizard of Oz. Her 16 costume changes and the relentless pace of the hit-packed set - not one second of the two-hour show was wasted - unfolded in front and behind an impressive set which was part West Side Story, part Oz's evil forest. A burning piano, a broken-down car on which the bonnet revealed a keyboard, a subway carriage and the most elaborate and elegant keytar to grace a pop stage were just a handful of her impressive props. While her proclamations of love for her Australian audience and a brief moment of crocodile tears during Speechless were a tad overdone, her professionalism and devotion to being the ultimate pop star could not be questioned. Lady Gaga performs at the Entertainment Centre tonight, with limited tickets remaining. By Kathy McCabe From: The Daily Telegraph

Chamillionaire say: GaGa's Telephone is EPIC

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Once Lady Gaga and “Honey B” Beyoncé joined forces as a team of femme fatales in the video for their pop smash “Telephone,” it was only natural for their music industry peers, namely Chamillionaire, to form an opinion about the nine-and-a-half-minute visuals. The Houston rapper was mesmerized by the cinematic piece upon initially viewing it. “I thought it was genius, from a directorial standpoint and an iconic standpoint,” he reveals to Rap-Up.com. “When I saw that video, I saw so many racy images.” That daring display of imagery lead Chamillionaire to compare Gaga to a pop superstar who is no stranger to pushing the envelope. “Lady Gaga has always been big, but before her there was Madonna,” he states. “[The video] reminded me of Madonna. It also reminded me of the fact that [Lady Gaga] is so big that people are gonna be like, ‘Oh my goodness, I can’t believe you’re doing that. What the heck?’” With many artists’ creativity being stifled by record labels’ decreasing budgets, the Grammy-winning artist applauded the platinum-haired singer’s ability to do as she pleased when it came to the clip’s concept. “The freedom to be able to do whatever you want is an incredible thing in the music industry,” he admits. “I appreciate that because nowadays man, most people want to do that but can’t.” As for his favorite “Telephone” moments, the “Ridin’ Dirty” rhymer couldn’t pinpoint just one. “[There] was so much weird stuff that was really weird but really dope,” adds Cham. “There was a lot of originality in it—she had the glasses and they were smoking. It’s definitely something that you will go back and look at the video 20 times and pick up something different every time.” Source: RapUp

Kristen Stewart told MTV News about Gaga. “She’s got a look.”

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Lady Gaga’s pop-culture-suffused “Telephone” video has garnered millions of views across the Web, birthed a rush of graduate-level study to pick out every movie and music reference and touched off a public backlash when people mistakenly thought the footage had been banned from MTV. Everyone has taken notice, it seems, including the stars of ’70s rock biopic “The Runaways.” “She’s really hot,” Kristen Stewart told MTV News about Gaga. “She’s got a look.” Co-star Dakota Fanning concurred: “I am a fan of Lady Gaga because I think she’s a really good singer and a really great entertainer and when you watch her perform, you know it’s going to be a show. I think that’s really cool.” Source: MTV

Telephone Frame by Frame

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In our continuing efforts to take you, the loyal music lover, deeper into the minds of today’s artists, MTV News presents “Frame by Frame.” Each week, we’ll get a musician to give you the inside scoop on their latest music video. The 2010 MTV Video Music Awards are still six months away, but you can certainly pencil in one early contender for a slew of Moonman trophies when the show rolls around. Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” has taken the music world by storm with its killer dancing, epic length, melodramatic story, envelope-pushing fashion and wanton violence. The tag-team with Beyoncé was directed by Jonas Akerlund, who sat down with MTV News for a guided tour through one of the most impressive clips in recent memory. Akerlund was complimentary of Gaga (who he said was “full of ideas”) but had just as many lovely things to say about Ms. Knowles. “We only had one day with Beyoncé, but she’s such a professional,” he explained. “In the big dance scene with her, she rehearsed it on her own the day before. Lady Gaga and her dancers had rehearsed a lot together, but Beyoncé stepped into it and pretty much nailed it.” The director also took a lot of pride in the run-up to the first appearance of Beyoncé in the video. “The idea was always to not really know who she was until we see here, but we did add her name on the speaker at the beginning,” he said. “But the reveal of Beyoncé with the hat is pretty cool.” In fact, the whole thing is pretty cool, and it’s slowly morphing into something more. “It’s actually supposed to be attached to the other video we did last year for ‘Paparazzi,’ which was six minutes long and this is almost 10 minutes,” Akerlund explained. “So it’s already become something of a short film.” Though he claimed the “To Be Continued” note at the end of the video is meaningless, here’s hoping Akerlund’s Gaga-based saga continues. Source: MTV

Quick News

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GAGA for Glee

Lady GaGa will make a guest appearance in the second season of Glee. The ‘Telephone’ star signed up to play a cameo role in the Fox drama series following a request from show bosses. WENN quotes show creator Ryan Murphy as saying: “We reached out to Lady GaGa and she said, ‘Yes, I’d love to be a part of it’. So we will be doing Lady GaGa this season.” Murphy also praised Madonna for “[cooperating] in every way possible” by allowing the programme to use ten of her songs in a special tribute episode.

ULTRAVOX Want GaGa

Former ULTRAVOX frontman MIDGE URE has lavished praise on LADY GAGA for refusing to lip-sync at her shows – insisting her Monster Ball tour should encourage other artists to sing live. The veteran rocker admits he was astounded by the singer’s performance when he attended one of her recent concerts in the U.K. – and he hopes other pop acts will follow her example by putting on a “real” show for fans. He says, “I’m sick of acts cheating on stage, either lip-syncing or not totally playing live. It was like a breath of fresh air seeing Lady Gaga. In a sea of similar-type acts, who just go on and do the dance routines, it was nice to hear somebody actually sing live. “Isn’t that what you go to a concert for, to hear the music interpreted in a live fashion? Be real about it. There are no overdubs or fancy studio techniques. You can fix anything on a computer. So what if the vocals are a wee (little) bit flat here and there? That’s how it was on the night.” Source: ContactMusic

Suze Orman; "I am a total Lady Gaga freak"

During a television segment called “Can I Afford It?” TV show host Suze Orman admitted her love for Lady Gaga, telling a viewer who called into the show: “I don’t know if you know this, but I am a total Lady Gaga freak. I love Lady Gaga.” Orman goes on to tell the viewer the story of how she tried to go backstage at a Gaga concert in Miami, to no avail. “That’s the first time I’ve ever been denied. It was like, ‘What do you mean? I’m Suze Orman, everybody lets me come backstage.’” Source: ABC News

Dakota On GAGA

Runaways star Dakota Fanning has revealed that she is a fan of Lady GaGa. The actress, who stars as Cherie Curry in the upcoming rock biopic, told MTV News that she admires GaGa’s stage presence. “I am a fan of Lady GaGa because I think she’s a really great singer and a really great entertainer and when you watch her perform, you know it’s going to be a show. I think that’s really cool,” she explained. Co-star Kristen Stewart, who plays Joan Jett in the movie, was also asked her opinion on GaGa. She replied: “I don’t even know what’s on the radio, but I know she’s really hot. She’s got a look.” The Runaways opens in the US later this month. Source: DigitalSpy

Miley On GAGA

What she thinks of music’s latest sensation, Lady Gaga. “I love her. She’s really smart. I caught her on ‘Oprah’ and she was really chill. I used to be like, yeah, I guess she’s talented but how much is she really singing. But I’ve become a convert. She has to be smart to come up with all her gags and the stuff she comes up with. She gets it. She knows exactly what she’s doing. It’s like Dolly Parton. Dolly plays up that I’m-a-cute-dumb-blonde but, believe me, she’s not dumb. She’s sitting on a ba-jillion dollars.” Source: Yahoo Blogs

Lady GaGa has explained the concept behind the video for ‘Telephone’

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Lady GaGa has explained the concept behind the video for ‘Telephone’.

The promo premiered last night and GaGa has now revealed that she wanted to surprise the public with the film. “There’s certainly always a hidden message in my music videos,” she told E! News. “But I would say, most predominantly, I’m always trying to convolute everyone’s idea of what a pop music video should be.” She continued: “There was this really amazing quality in ‘Paparazzi’, where it kind of had this pop music quality but at the same time it was a commentary on fame culture. In its own way, even at certain points working with [director] Jonas [Åkerlund] really achieved this high art quality in the way that it was shot. “I wanted to do the same thing with this video – take a decidedly pop song, which on the surface has quite a shallow meaning, and turn it into something deeper.” GaGa added that she had been interested in the idea of communication in the video. “[I wanted to take] the idea that America is full of young people that are inundated with information and technology and turn it into something that was more of a commentary on the kind of country that we are,” she said. She also revealed that director Quentin Tarantino had been involved in the promo, saying: “There certainly is a Tarantino-inspired quality in the video. I mostly love the way he uses different forms to create something new. “His direct involvement in the video came from him lending me the Pussy Wagon [from Kill Bill]. We were having lunch one day in Los Angeles and I was telling him about my concept for the video and he loved it so much he said, ‘You gotta use the Pussy Wagon’.” Source: DigitalSpy