Fake or Fail?

Get the news on the new leak...

ok, ok, so it may not be a fail, but as with most gaga songs, they come off as too much typical pop at fiiiirrrssst and then draw you in to the addiction. so i'll listen to it about 15 times and then the number with jump dramatically to 75

PureVolume Account

And apparently we're behind in the times, but here is her PureVolume Account. Pretty sure this is the first place I listened to her music....how nostalgic.

http://www.purevolume.com/stefanilive

Highlights from StefaniLive

In case the last post was too long, or you arent quite as obsessed yet, here are some clips:

- I’ve been composing ever since I was four, when I first touched the keys of my dad’s old piano and I still remember the first song I heard. My dad was listening to what I now know was Pink Floyd’s “Money,” and understanding only the sounds of the cash register in the intro, I wrote a song called “Dollar Bills” on my Mickey Mouse staff paper.

- I met Don Lawrence when I was fourteen...I am nineteen now, and have been staring at the platinum records on his studio walls for years. Doing my vocal exercises over, and over, eyes glued to the records.

- JANUARY 2006 Stefani rocks The Bitterend and sells out her 5 song demo "Words".

- 9/05 Stefani became a featured vocalist and co-writer with 3 time Grammy winner Grandmaster Melle Mel, known from Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, for a hip-hop children’s book album, “Scott and the Secret Dimension.” Scheduled for release in March 2006.

StefaniLive Hits the Web

LadyGarland discovered snippets of Gaga's old promo website...with pics and demos clips and everything else you could want except how to contact old Stefani in 2006.
Here's the copy/paste of the thread beginning:

Gaga's old website!! stefanimusic.com
So, Glozell posted a photo in the Unusual Pictures thread that had stefanimusic.com written on it. I tried to go to the link - but no such luck, it was taken down. So then I went to archive.org and put in the address and it shows up!

You will WANT to check this out - her biography is so adorable!

http://web.archive.org/web/200608110....com/home.html

Some of the links don't work, but I did find this interesting bit under the News tab:

The Lion's Den December 17, 2005
Here is what you heard:

When Your Not Around (this is probably Something Crazy)
Hollywood
Master Heartbreaker
Wish You Were Here
No Floods
John's Song
Walk the Road
Captivated
Red& Blue
Words

Looks like she had a few more songs up her sleeve that we've never heard about!

EDITS:

The demos sound a tad different to me - some of them aren't showing up for other people, so here are links that should work (wait a few seconds before pressing play - they should play automatically):

Red & Blue http://web.archive.org/web/200608131...DMOredblue.mp3

No Floods http://web.archive.org/web/200608131...MOnofloods.mp3

Something Crazy http://web.archive.org/web/200608131...thingcrazy.mp3

Wish You Were Here http://web.archive.org/web/200608131...huwerehere.mp3

Words http://web.archive.org/web/200608131...c/DMOwords.mp3

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so! there you go! can't wait til the 16th after gaga's demos have sold on GottaHaveRocknRoll.com. Then we'll be bathing in Gaga glory.

GagaBono

New photo emerged with Bono and Gaga. ADORBS!
via GagaDaily.

Make Up Gaga

Drooping Boobs and Yoko Ono

I can't complain if GG brings free-boobing in to style...pic
In other news, she parties it up with Ono onstage.

What We Know

via gagaface:

CD title: "Born This Way"
The premiere release of the album: Between 18 and 21 January 2011
CD cover Premiere: December 31, 2010 at 00:00 (24:00) at the official website of LG
Producers: Red One, Fernando Garibay
First single: In mid-December 2010
The video and single: the end of December, early January
Number of tracks: Apparently 20th Interscope Records, says "every song will hit a brick."
At the moment we know the two official titles of the songs: "You and I" and "Born This Way"
Planned number of singles: About 6 or 7 singles to promote the album, "Born This Way"
Lady GaGa on CD: "This album is the greatest work of my life"

Stefani Germanotta, Hipster Politician

Courtney Love Fucks Up #1 Pop Song

on a separate note, hiatus needed because of school work. guess if anyone reads this, they figured that out already.

Gaga's New Tatt!

Still looking for more fabulous pics to show you!

Fresh, Fun, our new Gaga?

AHHH! LOVE Gaga's newest fashion: glasses. Our girl looks so pretty just being fresh and having fun! I hope we see more of her like this.

Another Comic Tribute Fail

If you werent offended enough by Bluewater's The Fame, here are two more comics to balk at.



Of the first, Idolator reviews: "It’s not too terribly offensive, except her hair looks like a mushroom. (Not a far cry from how it looked in the video, though.) Did they really need to outline the entire shape of her body in thick black ink?"

And the second: "So according to this cover, Drag Queen Gaga discusses little more than sunglasses, crosses, teacups and hairbows while speaking on the phone. In Bluewater’s defense, we bet that’s what an actual telephone conversation with Lady Gaga is like."

Gaga Debuts Livin on the Radio!!

I have a feeling this is a acoustic version of a pop song to be on her next album...do we think this is worth being a title song?

Studded Corset, Southern Belle Hair

Gaga wows at the Vancouver airport, having to submit to a personal pat-down due to her unwillingness to remove her metal studded corset. Note how she keeps her heels high, despite being told to remove her shoes!

Twitter Love

LucCarl

God save the Queen. I'm taking her to see KISS

ladygaga


KISS the Queen. #GagaTwitterQueen

LucCarl

Don't know which was better, Gene saying He's really good looking, hold on to him. Or Paul saying "You would be the tallest member of KISS"


ladygaga

I see Love in Black and White. Passion in shades of "Gris". But when it comes to You and I, Color is all I see.

LucCarl

I see love in gas and tires. Put the pedal to the metal baby, come on light my fire.

Jo Calderone, Again?

So maybe I'm a convert...
Read on.

Gaga's Kiss of Death

Sorry for the hiatus.
Our favorite popstress has made it to the big leagues! Backstage at Kiss, that is...

Gaga Talks Crowd Surfing And Creativity

Gaga admits to Ryan Seacrest she had no idea how many hits the youtube video of her crowd surfing with rocker Justin from Semi Precious Weapons received.
Ryan: "It was the biggest thing on the web for 24 hours. You were wearing next to nothing, were you worried?"
"I don't know what came over me, I just got so excited and I remember playing that stage and what it felt like. And they were doing a great job and I was standing there with Lady Starlight and she was like, ' can you imagine if you jumped right now?' and I said, 'Fuck it.' And I jumped."

When asked about Prop 8 being overturned she responds, "Oh my gosh, I feel like it's a revolution, like a gunshot went off. Like it set us all into rotation...It's been so important for us for so long. I wrote a song called Future Love a long time ago and it's about free love and gay marriage. I keep writing!"
Ryan: "So many of those things you write about have meaning and message so it's hard to stop."
On writing more music, "I never stop writing."
Ryan: "It sounds like you've still got that cumulo-nibus cloud of creativity."
"Well, I get to see my fans every day and they are just electrifying...It's amazing because they are their own movement now...It was exciting to go home and see perhaps what my friend was telling, was the effect that my music was having on my old neighborhood."

More on Next Album

To ID: "The new album is my absolute greatest work I've ever done, and I'm so excited about it. The message, the melodies, the direction, the meaning, what it will mean to my fans and what it will mean to me in my own life – it's utter liberation. I'm on the quest to create the anthem for my generation for the next decade, so that's what I've done."

To Ryan Seacrest: "Really when I started writing this album I wanted to put the album together in an innovative way because I wanted to music to be innovative and I wanted the message to be innovative. I already had the 'sonic' idea and the 'message' idea."

To ID: "I will never tell [who the producers are] because as soon as I tell, everyone starts working with them. So all I can say is that nobody knows who they are. They're all new."

To Ryan Seacrest: "I basically just asked friends of mine to produce the record for me, and we created a name for ourselves. We're called The Banditos. (I get overruled in the crew because it's three guys.)

Another Dual Album for G

Gaga reports to MTV News that she's writing so much music, her album (due for mid-2011) might just have a B-Side.

"I know I told everyone my album was done, but I can't stop writing. I might have to put out two records. I never stop writing. I'm always in the studio and always writing."

Ryan asked if her next album will be a "reinvention," or if she thinks she's changed for her next gig.

She told him, "Well I do think I will be... I am Gaga. It's kind of like if your parents have nicknames for you. My nickname is Gaga. But I am ever reinventing. I am ever changing. I don't know. I don't reinvent from album to album, I reinvent from day to day, to song to song, from video to video. It's quite chaotic! But my fans understand that because they relate to that chaos in themselves."

I hope for another Fame/Monster revamp with an album now and an album later. Let's release now, Loo.

Huge Leak, Continued

speculation on the song titles via GagaDaily discussion board:

Hooker On a Church Corner must be the one she wrote in Cleveland! She tweeted a day after with a picture of her recording a song. I met her that day, right after she recorded, and was wearing that exact outfit! Hooker must be the song that she thinks will be number 1!!!!

This may just be fabricated by someone who looked at the same clues we're now using as corroboration - the rose pictures in Sydney, the Hooker on Church Street tweet, etc. We have no way of knowing if Gaga intentionally gave us those hints or if somebody has too much free time on their hands. I'll hold off passing judgment for now.

HMMMMMM...

WEATHER GIRL (Legal Title)
BMI Work #10969580
Songwriter/Composer Current Affiliation CAE/IPI #
BARRETT MARIO BMI 513518084
GERMANOTTA STEFANI BMI 519338442
JERKINS RODNEY ROY BMI 185579812

Publishers
HOUSE OF GAGA PUBLISHING INC BMI 557166038
SONY/ATV SONGS LLC BMI 187062752
Additional Non-BMI Publishers

HUGE LEAK (if true)

According to Celebrity Cafe, details on Ms G's third album have leaked, and leaked hard.

Lady Gaga has been busy working on her untitled third studio album. In a past interview, she said that she was inspired by politics, such as the Don’t ask don’t tell policy. A member of the Lady Gaga fan site “Gagadaily” has produced a few official looking scans of documents that tell us more about her third album.

The songs that she has recorded are titled, Born This Way, Far From Me, You and I, Vinyl, Someone Save Me Tonight, Hooker on a Church Corner, and Scream Loud. There are also two demos entitled Ink and Rose Thorns.

"I can't believe she got hold of this! She tells me she has only heard "Far From Me", "You & I" and "Hooker" and the demos, and that Far From Me is a really epic song about a break up and sounds like Poker Face on steroids, You & I is a great ballad about love and Hooker is a really sexy dance track and also really addictive and dark. The two demos were recorded in Australia and Ink is about tattoos or something and I don't know about the other."

Gaga is working with Redone, who produced Poker Face, Rodney Jerkins Telephone and also David Bowie, who she says is one of her biggest inspirations.

GagaDaily has already removed the original picture (seen on discussion page 32), hailing it as a fake.
But,if true, that would have to answer the question of the album name...Born This Way.

One fan on GagaDaily discusses:
i don't know if this has already been said or not, but I think she is going to call her next album born this way. Now, this is just me guessing, i could be completely wrong, but it seems like a good possibility. during her showstudio interview they asked her what she would call a movie based on her life and she hesitated for a few seconds. the guy interviewing her was like, "its a difficult question" and she said " no, i know what it is, i just... Born this way. i would call it born this way." the hesitation seems a little suspicious ;) and when asked about tattoos, she said she was considering getting either free bitch or born this way. then a few weeks later, in rolling stone, she said that she was going to release the title of her new album on new years, by getting the title tattooed on her and then posting the picture. born this way perhaps? i have also noticed that recently on the tour she has been saying "you were born this way" a lot... i don't know... this is just speculation but i thought i would share my ideas with you guys

Gaga's mentioned the phrase Born This Way on three different occasions about four different things...
Show Studio: Next tattoo
Show Studio: Phrase to sum up her life
Monster Ball: During speech about Arizona
Vanity Fair: Film title

Other bloggers argue she's referencing Valentino and would never title her work something that has so obviously been done:
Valentino:Born This Way
I think that they mean that she is referencing this song by Valentino,"Born This Way".It's an early gay liberation song from Motown.This is very interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNo8gUheg3I
and here is a later released disco version of the song by Carl Bean,both are great....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ciws_dgs7K0
and here is a link to the history on the song:
http://www.queermusicheritage.us/jun2002v.html
It does seem like she was referencing this in the later concert video.

LOL-apalooza

Terrible pun. But what else am I supposed to come up with at 8:50?
Pics from Lollapalooza, featuring Gagi in her Monster Ball costumes. New hair tho.
According to reviews, she didn't try to win over her old crowd with some rock ballads and a blast from her past (with the exception of the infamous disco bra). It's too bad. I guess we had to expect Gaga to fail once in a while.
According to Idolator, though, "the pop firebrand stunned the crowd by showing up to play drums briefly for glam-rockers Semi-Precious Weapons, the opening act on her Monster Ball tour)."

Live Review:
Lady Gaga may have been ready for her diva moment at Lollapalooza, but Lolla wasn’t quite ready for her.
In an indulgent, two-hour set that left crowds retreating to the Strokes in steady droves, Gaga made it clear that she’d come a long way since her last Lolla gig, an unremarkable stint on the BMI stage in 2007. Bringing back the disco bra and panties she wore for that set, Gaga reaffirmed her awesomeness while we all listened in, “ The BMI Stage was a fucking train wreck. You were born a superstar!” Her rambling bordered on therapy at times, as she repeatedly referenced how mean everyone was to her in high school. “No one fucking believed in me, but we did it. And look at all of us now.”





Leisure Blogs:
8:30 p.m.
Lady Gaga (above) has been onstage for nearly 30 minutes, and the set is still having trouble getting untracked. Her pacing is terrible. The stage is as elaborate as advertised, a tri-level monstrosity that features a stalled car and a simulation of a subway train amid glittering neon and a tenement-like staircase. But the singer isn’t interested in a strictly choreographed, arrive-and-conquer sensory assault in the Madonna mold. She’s got issues, and she wants to share. The cold remove or canned patter of many pop divas can be a drag, but Gaga overcompensates by engaging in long monologues that come off as speeches. What gives the night a fascinating spin is her vivid recall of her 2007 set on a much smaller stage at the same festival. That memory of being ignored and misunderstood even as she played many of the same songs that would later become huge worldwide hits fuels her set. And so this becomes something of a live therapy session, positively fierce in moments, but an absolute drag in others. Strolling through the audience, the restlessness is apparent as Gaga vents, meanders and takes her time setting up songs early in the set. But once she focuses on the music instead of the psychotherapy, her talents as a singer, musician and provocateur take over and she finishes strong. Will she sacrifice spontaneity for a more focused show next time? She’ll need to if she wants to keep playing in front of audiences this size. (GK)



As previously mentioned, though, Gaga's highlight of the day was her stint with SPW.
Piece of Mind:
GaGa invaded the stage when the band sang "Magnetic Baby" hours prior to her own full set. "If anyone calls Lady GaGa a pop star I'll f*cking kill them," Tranter said in an accompanying message of the picture taken by Last Nights Party from Chicago where the gig took place. "She is a rock star, and she is helping, Semi Precious Weapons, bring rockNroll back. RockNRoll is back bitches!"
Tranter also told MTV News that this wouldn't be the last you would see of Gaga collaborating with the band. "Gaga herself has plans to collaborate with us, both artistically and sexually," he teased.

Reading Between the Lines

Excerpts from the Vanity Fair article:

But comparisons made to other female pop stars are simply beside the point. Gaga has a much better voice than Madonna, and she's got all those serious Rachmaninoff and Beethoven piano chops...Unlike Cher, Whitney, or Britney, Gaga writes all of her own catchy, catchy, can't-get-them-out-of-your-head songs. She swears she doesn't lip-synch in concert.
The Gaga has been influenced by Grace Jones (who called her a copycat), Isabella Blow, Leigh Bowery, Freddie Mercury, Daphne Guinnes, Klaus Nomi, Led Zepplin, Patti smith, Boy George, Carole King...the New York Dolls, Prince, John Lennon, Andy Warhol, and David Bowie.

I was probably more dysfunctional than [anyone] in our family--I dated a 28-year-old when I was 16; I dated a 38-year-old when I was 19. Actually, I don't even know that I would use the word "dated."..I was living in a delusional world; I wanted to know what the real world was all about. And I used to pray every night that God would make me crazy. I prayed that God would teach me something, that he would instill in me a creativity and strangeness that all of those people that I loved and respected had.
(About Joanne, her aunt that died at 19 of Lupus...)
She was a poet and a real Renaissance woman, pure of heart--just a beautiful person. She died a virgin. And one of [my guides] told me he can feel that I have two hearts in my chest, and I believe that about myself.

My manager Troy and my A&R guy Vincent bought me a 1990 red Rolls-Royse Corniche. Her name is Bloody Mary.

I've said that if there was a movie about my life I would title it "Born This Way."