Lady Gaga's
"Marry the Night" video has yet to arrive, but Mother Mother graced
her fans with its prelude's opening two minutes on Thursday.
The
new clip features a dark-haired Gaga lying motionless in a hospital
gurney, being pulled through what appears to be a hospital as her
inner monologue offers a voice-over.
"When I
look back on my life, it's not that I don't want to see things
exactly as they happened," she says in a calm monotone. "It's just
that I prefer to remember them in an artistic way. And truthfully,
the lie of it all is much more honest because I invented it."
But
the suspenseful speech wouldn't be Gaga without a fashion nod: "For
example, those nurses. They're wearing next-season Calvin Klein.
And so am I," she says, pointing out their mint-green caps.
The
clip closes with a bit of dark humor, as Gaga ogles a nurse and
wishes off-hand that she'd been given gummy bears like a fellow
patient.
The two-minute clip, dubbed "The
Prelude Pathétique," is just part of the full prelude, which Gaga
tweeted will be seven-and-a-half minutes -- with the "Marry the
Night" video to follow. The video will mark Gaga's first effort as a
director, in addition to her upcoming holiday special, "A Very Gaga
Thanksgiving."
Lady Gaga has added a performance clip of “Yoü and I,” from the concert film Lady Gaga Presents The Monster Ball Tour at Madison Square Garden,
to her YouTube channel, along with a brand new remix of “Bloody Mary”
from UK rockers The Horrors from her upcoming release Born This Way The
Remix. Preview all 14 tracks from Born This Way The Remix on iTunes.
Gaga’s tribe of little monsters decided to take revenge on Adele Adkins after she knocked their idol off the chart’s top spot.
The mini monsters took to tweeter to advertise a series of vicious
remarks regarding the soul queens weight and insinuated Adeles recent
concert tour cancellations were due to her not selling enough tickets
not the actual fact of her vocal cord haemorrhage.. ouch
One of the original and most re-tweeted jokes reads: Confirmed: “Gaga
will not be wearing her meat dress because she is afraid Adele will eat
it.”
Other crazed fans took their abuse to higher levels, creating parody
videos with ‘Adele’ singing “I’m bootyful in my own way because
[American restaurant chain] Arby’s makes nooo mistakes, I’ve got the
right order, baby, I was born this weight.”
Gaga released a statement earlier on today saying-“’Lady Gaga does
not approve of bullying anyone for their physical appearance, it goes
against everything she stands for. A tiny handful of fans may be letting
her down.” She Soft!
President Obama shared the stage with Lady Gaga at the Human Rights Campaign dinner on Saturday night in Washington.
The banquet supports the National Equality March, in which thousands are set to protest Monday for gay rights. The president took the podium first and joked, "It is a privilege to be here tonight to open for Lady Gaga ... I've made it." Obama told the audience he would end the "don't ask, don't tell" policy of the military regarding gays in the service.
Afterward, Lady Gaga appeared on stage in a formal black dress and played John Lennon's "Imagine" on a white piano, according to the Washington Post. The 23-year-old pop star said to Obama, "We will continue to push your administration to bring your promise to reality."
The singer born Stefani Germanotta has toned down her typically skimpy stage attire before. In August, she made her first trip to the Holy Land and arrived in a black leather jacket with a Star of David made of silver spikes on the back. She said she went to Jerusalem looking for "an emotional and spiritual experience" and to swim in the Dead Sea.
The chart-topping singing sensation scored nine MTV Video Music Award nominations earlier this month. She tied with Beyonce for the most nominations, including video of the year and best female video for Beyonce's "Single Ladies" and Lady Gaga's "Just Dance."
Nearby rally-goers screeched her name. She had marched with the crowds from her hotel after shrugging off security concerns, and had just finished a short speech to an enraptured throng of tens of thousands on the West Lawn. Glittery signs reading "Gay for Gaga" and "Lady Gaga {heart} Equality, U Should 2" poked up from the rainbowed masses. "ARE YOU LISTENING?" the pop star screamed out to President Obama. "We will continue to push your administration to bring your promise to reality." The singer had stepped up from her concert soapbox to a bigger platform. Was this just part of her elaborate performance art, another special effect from an entertainer (born Stefani Germanotta in New York) who only has one album and less than two years of mainstream exposure? If you challenge her on this, she'll squeeze your arm to assure you she's for real.
"I will never turn my back on my friends," said Lady Gaga, before disappearing from the rally. "Today is not a one-off performance."
The gays surged toward her at the HRC dinner Saturday. They went nuts when she appeared, like some modern-day Evita, in the window of the elevated VIP booth at the 9:30 club hours later. She's freaky-deaky, like a female drag queen, a hot mess yet super-savvy, fierce and fab, a prodigious pianist, dressed like a vamp but almost childlike in her sincerity. All of this was on display Saturday night.
She sat front-and-center at the black-tie Human Rights Campaign gala in the ballroom of the Washington Convention Center, where 3,000 gay advocates and allies clinked glasses and liberally exercised the right to give standing ovations (she got two). HRC President Joe Solmonese says she was an obvious invite -- "She pushes boundaries and brings people along" -- and credited her for the dinner's rapid sellout. Even the president of the United States knows his place.
"It is a privilege to be here tonight to open for Lady Gaga," Obama said during his remarks.
Gaga sat at Table 77, looking slightly embalmed, in her version of formalwear: fishnet stockings and a bunchy black dress made of layered mesh below the waist and crushed velvet above. She hid her eyes behind large, circular sunglasses, part circus act, part savior of the moment. Some can't help hyperbolizing.
"It's almost like Martin Luther King and the civil rights speeches," said gala attendee Daniel Campbell, 23, who works at a downtown CVS and at Reagan National Airport. "We have a voice."
People say she's perfect for her time and place. Her music, which she writes herself, is an infectious blend of pop and electronic. The sexual shell game "Poker Face," the club anthem "Just Dance" or "Paparazzi," a self-aware cry for help from within the fortress of fame, will play at least once in any gay club on any given night. Her performance style is raw despite relying on over-the-top production values. She sort of makes fame into an art, and she sounds fervent about gay rights. "Get your [rear end] to D.C.," she demanded in a video released last week.
Lady Gaga isn't letting her ill-fated tour with Kanye West keep her from her fans.
A day after her joint tour with the rapper was canceled, the pop star said Friday she'll be hitting the road solo.
The West and Lady Gaga tour was supposed to kick off Nov. 10 in Phoenix. Lady Gaga said the two "mutually decided to cancel the tour." She said that West is "going to take some time off, but I'm not."
Gaga made the comments before accepting the Rising Star honor at Billboard's annual Women in Music event in New York, where Beyoncé was honored as woman of the year.
In announcing the cancellation of the Fame Kills tour Thursday, Live Nation offered no explanation. The tour was to have hit Anaheim on Nov. 15 and Los Angeles on Nov. 16. The company said that refunds would be available at the point of purchase and that tickets purchased online or over the phone "will be refunded automatically."
Gaga said her tour will start in mid-November, but there were no immediate details on dates and locations.
The Fame Kills tour had been problematic from the start, especially after West's appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 13, where he took the microphone from teenage singer Taylor Swift as she was about to begin an acceptance speech. He subsequently apologized and told Jay Leno the next day he planned to take some time off.
The "Poker Face" chanteuse—who's hitting the road808s & Heartbreak rapper Kanye West later this year—says that people need to cut West some slack for interrupting country singer Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards earlier this month. with
Opines the Pantsless One,
"I can tell you that he's very sorry, and he made a mistake, and he knows it...But at the end of the day, he is a pioneer in hip-hop music, and he changed what hip-hop music means. And I think that it's time for everyone to kind of take their heads out of the newspapers and remember that, in truth, Kanye's making most of the music we hear on the radio today...He has a tremendous effect on everybody's lives and I think it's unfair to judge a person by one thing that they said."
Alright, then; being prolific is an excuse for rudeness. So what was GaGa's reaction when she saw Kanye's "I'ma let you finish" moment? "It was, 'Oh, jeez," GaGa recalls.
Kanye West and Lady Gaga are taking their show on the road.
Tour dates were announced today for their Fame Kills North American tour. Kayne and Gaga will be making 34 stops across the continent. The tour kicks off November 10th in Phoenix, AZ and ends January 24th in Dallas, TX.
has dismissed rumors of a feud with tour mates the Pussycat Dolls, insisting the girl group didn't feel upstaged by the stellar reviews the opening act received.
The singer got her start in the music industry writing songs for the burlesque-inspired band before carving out her own solo career. And now she has come full circle - she opened for the Pussycat Dolls on a worldwide tour earlier this year.
But some critics have suggested she was the main draw - as she consistently outshone the headliners.
Gaga suggests the reports are aimed at driving a wedge between all the girls, and she insists she'll always remain great friends with her Dolls. She says, "It's something that never really came to my attention until interviews...We had such a wonderful time on the road and I'm just grateful to travel and reach lots of my fans at once. Because of them (Pussycat Dolls), I can now come back and play the area by myself, so I'm very grateful."
