Lady Gaga talks celebrity hate, being compared to Madonna, and bringing the art world to the MTV Video Music Awards in the new issue of Newsweek.
The “Love Game” singer promises that her performance at next weekend’s VMAs in her hometown of New York City will be a moment to remember.
“I know it will,” she told magazine. “I sort of have this philosophy about things: there’s never a reason to do something unless it’s going to be memorable, unless it’s going to change things, unless it’s going to inspire a movement. With the song and with the performance, I hope to say something very grave about fame and the price of it.”
“It’s less of me singing the song, and more of an art installation. A performance-art piece. We’ve been working on it for months and months,” she added. Read the rest of this entry »
Lady Gaga dishes on everything from style to copycat rumors in a new interview with the Fall issue of V Magazine.
“Mario [Testino] wanted me naked all day long,” the 23-year-old nine-time MTV VMA nominee says of her V cover photoshoot with the acclaimed photog. “It was my stylist, Nicola, who kept sneaking in the designer stuff. He was like, ‘Put this Fendi belt on right now!’ We love clothes. But Mario, he really understands me, and he said, ‘I want this to be about you. I don’t want it to be about the clothes.’”
On Saturday, we told you all about eccentric pop sensation Lady Gaga’s recent partnership with crooner Michael Bolton. The “Poker Face” star volunteered her writing services for a few tunes on the respected singer’s new album, One World One Love, debuting next month.
Today, we’re getting our first sample of one of the tracks the unorthodox duo collaborated on.
Rock It Or Drop It: Michael Bolton & Lady Gaga — “Murder My Heart”
Lady Gaga isn’t having an trouble hopping back into the “Love Game” after the recent bust-up of her romance with Los Angeles nightclub owner “Speedy,” 31.
Eccentric pop princess Lady Gaga promises a more subdued version of her provocative image as she visits the “sacred and holy” Jerusalem on a tour of Israel.
The “Poker Face” singer has called her visit to Jerusalem “an emotional and spiritual experience” and is looking forward to take a dip in the Dead Sea, CBS News reports.
Lady Gaga will take the stage in Tel Aviv on Wednesday for the last show of her Fame Ball Tour.
The always outrageous Lady Gaga appears nude in her debut on the cover of gay-interest publication Out Magazine.
Pop music’s newest innovator channeled a series of B-horror movies to create a portfolio of images that are just as campy as the woman herself. Ellen von Unwerth, the lenswoman who brought Gaga to the pages of Out, says she the shoot was inspired by her desire to transform Gaga into “a kind of Frankenstein’s bride who gets attacked by a sexy vampire and becomes one herself.” Read the rest of this entry »
“D.O.A.” rapper Jay-Z and nine-time VMA nominee Lady Gaga will join Green Day, Pink, Taylor Swift, and Muse as performers at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, airing live Sunday, Sept. 12 @ 9PM, the network revealed in a statement Wednesday.
Lady Gaga is “delighted” to be battling it out with Beyonce for nine moonmen at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards.
The pop vocalists are up for a whooping nine nominations each at next month’s ceremony in New York. Both ladies are up against fellow divas Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson, Pink, and Taylor Swift in the “Best Female Video” category. They’ll go head-to-head with Eminem, Britney Spears, and hip-hop heavyweight Kanye West for the coveted “Video Of The Year” prize.
She says: “So excited! I can’t believe it. I’m delighted to be in Beyonce’s company, and I can’t wait to go to the awards show and hopefully kick some ass.”
The 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, hosted by Russell Brand, will air live from Radio Music Hall in New York City on September 12.
