I'm liking it. Sorry for those I insulted on a previous thread.

I love "Paparazzi"!

Matronik said:

how and where did you get a copy of it???

dancerella said:

It's out in Canada.

http://prince.org/msg/8/279402

Now that it's actually out, I hope people are actually going to listen to it and give it a chance. It's excellent.
[Edited 8/19/08 12:22pm]

'Love Games' is my jam!

Boys Boys Boys is so catchy.

Poker Face is amazing. Here are the lyrics:


Mum mum mum mah
Mum mum mum mah

I wanna hold 'em like they do in Texas please
Fold 'em let 'em hit me raise it baby stay with me
(I love it)
Love Game intuition play the cards with space to start
And after he's been hooked I'll play the one that's on his heart

Oh, oh, oh, oh, ohhh, ohh-oh-e-ohh-oh-oh
I'll get him hot, show him what I've got
Oh, oh, oh, oh, ohhh, ohh-oh-e-ohh-oh-oh
I'll get him hot, show him what I've got

Can't read my,
Can't read my,
No he can't read my poker face
(She's got me like nobody) ["got" is misspelled as "goy" lol]
Can't read my,
Can't read my,
No he can't read my poker face
(She's got me like nobody)

P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)
P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)

I wanna roll with him a hard pair we will be
A little gambling is fun when you're with me
(I love it)
Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun
And baby when it's love if it's not rough it isn't fun, fun

Oh, oh, oh, oh, ohhh, ohh-oh-e-ohh-oh-oh
I'll get him hot, show him what I've got
Oh, oh, oh, oh, ohhh, ohh-oh-e-ohh-oh-oh
I'll get him hot, show him what I've got

I won't tell you that I love you
Kiss or hug you
Cause I'm bluffin' with my muffin
I'm not lying, I'm just stunnin' with my love-glue-gunning
Just like a chick in the casino
Take your bank before I pay you out
I promise this, promise this
Check this hand cause I'm marvelous
[Edited 8/19/08 15:50pm]

So I just picked up the album.

Lady GaGa cowrote every song on the record, and has solo writing credit on Brown Eyes. The booket photos are HOT! Lady GaGa in black leather with her disco stick hanging from the ceiling in an hommage to Kylie's "Fever" album cover.

RS: So where does the name Lady Gaga come from?
Lady Gaga: Queen's song "Radio Ga-Ga."

RS: You are coining all kinds of great words. Tell us about retrosexual.
Lady Gaga: Retrosexual – I came out with that a long time ago. Me and my buddy Tom were hanging out one day in the studio and we were talking about metrosexuals, because he had bought a pair of boots and I said 'Those are very metrosexual.' And he was like 'I don't know, I think they're kind of retro.' And I said 'So you're retrosexual.' It was kind of a joke. The more I thought about it – I'm so obsessed with all things retro, the 70s and 80s. I don't know, that word just kind of flew out of my mouth one day, and it stuck with me. I often do that – if I coin terms, they'll become like the centerfold of my entire project or an entire record.

RS: Very cool. What was it like filming the video for "Just Dance?"
Lady Gaga: Oh it was so fun, it was amazing. For me it was like being on a Martin Scorsese set. I've been so low budget for so long, and to have this incredibly amazing video was really very humbling. It was really fun, but you'll see if you ever come to a video shoot of mine one day – I'm very private about those things, I don't really talk to everybody. I'm not like the party girl running around. I might even seem to be a bit of a diva. I'm sort of with myself, in my work head space worrying about costumes, and if extras look right, and placement. I don't just show up for things, you know. That video was a vision of mine. It was Molina the director who wanted to do something, to have a performance art aspect that was so pop but it was still commercial, but that felt like lifestyle. It was all those things, I love it.

RS: I heard you say this quote I loved, and I'd love for you to explain it – you 'make music for the dress.'
Lady Gaga: Yes, absolutely. I mean I don't write records and then decide what the video will look like. I instantaneously write things at the same time so it's a complete vision, the song and the visual, the way that I would perform it on the stage. It's something that all comes to me at once. So when I say I make the music for the dress, the dress is a bit of a metaphor for 'I make the music for everything,' for the entire performance vision.

RS: What's the story behind the song "Paparazzi," because there's been a few interpretations of it?
Lady Gaga: Well I'm so glad there are a few different interpretations, that was the idea. The song is about a few different things – it's about my struggles, do I want fame or do I want love? It's also about wooing the paparazzi to fall in love with me. It's about the media whoring, if you will, watching ersatzes make fools of themselves to their station. It's a love song for the cameras, but it's also a love song about fame or love – can you have both, or can you only have one?

RS: I read somewhere that you went to school with the Hilton sisters?
Lady Gaga: I did.

RS: Did they have any affect on you?
Lady Gaga: They're very pretty, and very clean. Very, very clean. You know, I never saw Paris, she was older than me, and it's funny that the press always write that I went to school with the Hilton sisters, but I actually only went with Nicky. Paris, I believe, left and went to Dwight. But, you know, it's impressive to be that perfect all the time, these girls. I was always a weird girl in school, who did theatre and came to school with lots of red lipstick on or my hair perfectly curled, or whatever I was doing to get attention. It's funny as it's almost like they were there to make me aware, because so much of what I do now is that I try to twist my world into the commercial community. So I guess they've been quite an influence on me. Not them in particular, but the idea of the self-proclaimed artist.

RS: You're making dance music, but you're signed to a more hip-hop artist program. There's often been a lot of conflict between hip-hop and dance.
Lady Gaga: Right.

RS: How are you bridging the two?
Lady Gaga: Oh, I actually wouldn't consider myself a dance artist. I think I'm bridging the gap in a few different ways, and it's mostly from a music conceptual standpoint, mixing the dance beats one second. Mixing retro dance beats with more urban melodies, and a certainly pop chorus. It's really about, in a very methodic way, almost choosing exactly what pieces of what I want to have in the record, and then watching it cross over, with my fingers crossed.

RS: What's the story behind "Dirty Rich?" I love that song.
Lady Gaga: I was doing a lot of drugs when I wrote "Dirty Rich." It was about two years ago, and it was about a few different things. First and foremost the record is about – whoever you are or where you live – you can self-proclaim this inner fame based on your personal style, and your opinions about art and the world, despite being conscious of it. But it's also about how on the Lower East side, there was a lot of rich kids who did drugs and said that they were poor artists, so it's also a knock at that. 'Daddy I'm so sorry, I'm so, so sorry, yes, we just like to party.' I used to hear my friends on the phone with their parents, asking for money before they would go buy drugs. So, that was an interesting time for me, but it's funny that what came out of that record – because it's about many different things – but ultimately what I want people to take from it is "Bang-bang." No matter who you are and where you come from, you can feel beautiful and dirty rich.

RS: I saw some performances online of you at Lollapalooza. What was it like playing there?
Lady Gaga: It was a blast. I mean, it was a bit nerve-wracking; we had tremendous technical difficulties on the stage. That was not a performance that I choose to really remember so fondly. But if anything, what I loved the most about it was that the sea of hippies and so forth that were there were not expecting what they saw and I loved the shock art aspect of it. Actually I'm hoping to incorporate some pretty interesting things into the show that capture their reactions and stuff. You'll see more of that in the future.

RS: OK. Lady Gaga, what would you like to say to all of your new fans out there?
Lady Gaga: I would just want to say thank you, I love you, I appreciate so much the support that you all give me. You listeners, the ones who found me first are, I believe, the future of great art thinkers. Because anyone that's found me now I really think is grabbing on to the ideas that I have, more than anything. It's about the music but it's also about the story. So thank you guys for loving and reading the story and being as into it and as passionate as I am.