Due to request and because of the flood of gaga..... This thread will now be used to have a gaga about Lady Gaga.

Other threads will be and redirected to this temp sticky. - luv4u

Other thread http://prince.org/msg/8/359167

Is this really necessary?

Ain't nobody talking about it anymore...

This thread has pretty much ran its course and her talked about on here has as well (which is a good thing imo). Sadly the album get’s old pretty fast hopefully her next album will be executed better I’m sure when she puts out another video someone will post it on here but a whole new thread for the album is not needed.

I did find this interview she did with pop justice which had some interesting parts in it I’ll post it and that will be the last thing I’ll post. It’s long though so I’m not posting the whole thing.

Part one

What sort of thing are people writing for you? What do they think Lady Gaga should sing about?
Boys and dicks. Cocks. Pussy. 'I'm in the club'. It's funny because there's not really one song on this album that's about any of that. There's no songs about getting drunk in a nightclub. 'Electric Chapel' is the closest. 'Government Hooker' is very filthy and sexual...But..There are no songs that are all 'ooh I want you in my bed', although they do feel very sexy. Very soulful, but not in a 'soul music' kind of way. I think people are now becoming slightly blind to the outfits and they're asking what the fuck's underneath it. And that's where this album comes in.

If you feel people are becoming blind to the outfits, does that make you want to make the outfits even bigger and more attention-grabbing, or do you see it as a signal that you can move away from the outfits?
It's more that I'm always a performance artist trying to more articulately relate my costume choices to my music. And that's what I'm really excited about. It's as if, well, 'Bad Romance' was great, 'Poker Face' was great, 'Love Game' was great, all these songs were great, but it wasn't until I wrote 'Born This Way' that I realised how culturally unrelatable my music had been before. I learned something so very valuable about myself putting that record [the 'Born This Way' single] out, and it's that I've done absolutely nothing to change the world - zero - until now. It made me realise I had so much to do, but that's wonderful for me. I don't know how to explain it any other way than to say that it felt like I'd opened a door to myself that I didn't know was there. I thought I'd already shaken the world up and I only realised when I put out 'Born This Way' that I hadn't started to shake the world up at all. It was like resetting my...Does this make any sense?

Well I understand how you might say that you think 'Born This Way' is lyrically the most important thing you've done. But what about beyond the lyrics? So does the importance you feel in the lyrics, does that importance win out over the melody of 'Bad Romance'? Do the lyrics being 'important' make it a better pop song?
No, it's completely different. 'Bad Romance' as a song was amazing and is amazing and had this giant cultural impact where it was big on YouTube and everyone learned the dance moves and made the costumes and everything. Right? 'Bad Romance' didn't piss anybody off, at al. Maybe it pissed off a couple of [other] artists, but it didn't piss off any actual people. It was just a really great pop song. This ['Born This Way'] was the first time that an outfit wasn't what pissed people off about me. Do you know how exciting that is for someone like me? The only thing that made me controversial before was the fact that my show had no heel. Suddenly, I put out 'Born This Way', the lyrics were really literal, and there was a huge backlash in the United States. Suddenly I'm not controversial because of my shoes, or controversial because of my clothes. I'm controversial because of my music.

But why did you want to piss people off?
It's not about pissing them off, it's about shaking them UP. It's the cultural shitstorm. There's a difference between being a cultural shitstorm based on artistry and style, and being a cultural shitstorm based on the message you're conveying. 'Born This Way' created a cultural shitstorm that is completely different from the cultural shitstorm 'Bad Romance' created. And what I didn't want to do is give you 'Bad Romance 2.0'. 'Judas' might be 'Bad Romance 7.0', yes, but I'm not going to give that to you first. First, I'm going to show you I'm capable of creating a different sort of shitstorm. But even I didn't know that [before 'Born This Way' came out]. I thought it was going to part of the same shitstorm. Until I saw what occurred. 'Who does she think she is?' I mean the gay community was like 'who does she think she is speaking for us'. (Starting to shout a bit) The shitstorm that occurred was so massive and it was the first time that I was viewed controversially because of my music.

Well one way of looking at that is that you doing something right, because you got a reaction out of people. If you've done a song about equal rights and right wing people don't like it then perhaps you've done your job. But if the gay community is also going 'piss off', then has it still done its job?
Of course it has. I had an eleven-year-old boy come up to me after the show yesterday, crying. And he said, "'Born This Way' is my favourite song'. It's a triumph. It's a song that asks people to look inside themselves, even if they don't like it: 'why am I angry about this song?'. If you're already free, what's the problem? Is it because you don't want me to define your freedom? Is it because you don't want me to represent you? Is it because you don't believe that the kids who are eleven years old aren't still dealing with the social situations you dealt with in the 70s? I have twelve and sixteen-year-olds going, 'free me - when I go to school I'm being bullied. Help'. And I'm like, 'okay, this record's for you'. And that's it.

Did 'Born This Way' have to sell in order to be a success? Usually artists insisted that it's wrong to gauge a song based on its sales but if the point of 'Born This Way' was to spread a message then it needed to be huge in order to culturally important, right?
What you're saying is absolutely true...I want you to know how I think about music. Help me help myself when I'm explaining this to you. There's a lot of really shitty songs that are Number One for long periods of time in lots of countries. But I know that Gaga fans who are 11 year olds now will remember 'Born This Way' in thirty years.

The logic at the heart of the 'God makes no mistakes' line in 'Born This Way' was, of course, infuriating to anti-gay religious groups...
Oh please of COURSE it is! If you don't believe in anything it's massively annoying because it's like, 'who the fuck are you to press your religious beliefs on me?', but anyone who believes - and this is mostly in America...Well there are a lot of people who believe that when God is mad he shakes the earth, and I don't believe that. Well to say God makes no mistakes, it takes the knife away from all those who are prejudiced and religious. And that's why I did it.

Did you worry about the repercussions of that sort of line?
There were a lot of people who came into this room [the recording studio] who said, 'are you sure you want the word "God" in the song?'. And I said, 'yes'. The point is not for me to say what God is, the point is the make you look into yourself and to ask yourself, 'if there is a being in the sky or wherever who you believe created all of this, does he make mistakes?'. You can either believe or not believe, either way the song frees you. If you were born this way and are atheist, you were still born this way.


It seems like you feel you've cracked the code to get to the next level of your career. I mean if you didn't feel that you were moving on, well, we'd probably still be sitting here talking about your new album, but I wonder what you'd be saying instead?
If I'd released any song other than 'Born This Way' first, everyone would have said, 'oh, she gave us another "Bad Romance" and lots of shiny clothes and dance moves in the video'. I had to do something that reflected the growth of the fan base and the inspiration of the fans. And we got way more than we bargained for. We exposed the cultural situation that is so important...I can't even begin to tell you - Don't Ask Don't Tell being repealed just as the album was being made, Obama's anti bullying campaign...All this stuff is happening, in America that's all centred on saving young people's lives because of how they're treated in school. And that was the absolute whole point of the song.

There's another song about Mary on the album, isn't there?
Yes, 'Bloody Mary'. I'm very fascinated by her.

Why?
Because when I was young and I went to Catholic school - an all girls school - we were told to pray to God and pray to Jesus, but I always prayed to women. I guess I always worshipped a more feminine force in my life and I didn't view God as having a particular gender. I always either prayed to Mother Mary or Mary Magdelene, or to my father's sister Joanne who had died when he was a kid because I viewed her as an angel in the sky in the house of the Kingdom working alongside God. You know, watching over me. It must be so big up there. A lot of people. So I always prayed to women and that's the thing that I look to now to make me strong in this very unique situation that is being a pop signer. I always pray to Mary and to Joanne. It's very sad that in those [Biblical] times women were stoned for adultery or for doing inappropriate things. Women were always the target, so I guess I looked to my past and my faith to find bravery in myself. So on this record I thought a lot about my faith and tried to channel a lot of that into myself, and so make myself brave.

So the lyrics are Mary sort of talking...If you listen to the lyrics and the way the cadence goes, the way I'm actually singing, I start quite sweetly then I go into these quite demonic tones, then I come back to sweetness, and then the chorus is me ultimately, publicly singing, 'I won't cry for you, I won't crucify the things you do, I won't cry for you when you're gone I'll still be Bloody Mary'. I'll still bleed, is what I'm trying to say. I guess I'm fascinated by her - like I said, I worshipped women in my religion as a young girl - and in my belief Mary was in it all along. I think she knew what was going to happen. But I also believe that she loved him, and I believe there was a moment when she cried. So she says 'I won't cry for you' but in the rest of the song, in the way that it feels, it's sad and quite...Dirgic? Is that the right word? Like a death dirge...There's that kind of quality to it. It's about me having to be a superstar.

It feels like the 'Hair' / 'Road to Love' / 'The Edge of Glory' sound is like the heart or the blueprint or whatever of the album and the rest of it is draped around it...It feels like the experience of listening to this album is completely different to the experience of listening to the 'The Fame Monster', just like 'The Fame Monster' was different to 'The Fame'.
Well, isn't it nice to play 'Abbey Road' next to 'Sergeant Pepper'? You know, when you go back - not to liken myself to The Beatles but if I'm going to try to become anything then I should go for the most legendary band of all time - The Beatles sound completely different between those two albums, but if it wasn't for those two being different, 'Sergeant Pepper' being completely revolutionary and everyone hating it when it first came out, we wouldn't love The Beatles like we love them today. The took a tremendous risk with that album. Anyway, my point is, I think it's the evolution of me as an artist that people will be able to believe in me more as a true artist. And it's that evolution which will also secure my longevity. (Pauses) I wanted to say something else! You say that 'Hair' is the blueprint, the hall mark of your exploration of the album, right? However, how disappointing would it be if every song was exactly the same? I could go through every song and have all of those specific elements, but I very specifically have not done that because I want the album to be a journey and I want the whole experience of the journey to be like this. So there will be moments when it will peak - like with 'Edge of Glory' which is a major techno rock moment, and with 'Hair' but there will also be moments like 'Bloody Mary'.

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Part two

On the basis of the first single it seemed like the album would all be about sexuality and freedom, and 'Americano' backs that up to an extent, but of course the other side of the 'Born This Way' single was the religious aspect, and the religious side is the one that resonates equally through the album.
Yes. And rites of passage. Even with 'The Edge Of Glory' the time of death is seen as being a quite religious experience, to a lot of people. There are a lot of things like that on the record. There are also a lot of fun things that have nothing to do with any of that. Shall we do one of those now?

['Government Hooker' is blasted out.]

I had a couple of notes that I made during that which I want to say...Because I, in jest said, 'let's play a record that doesn't address anything spiritual' before I played that, but actually it has a lot of meaning to all of us in the room. This is specifically called ' Government Hooker' for a reason and I think the humour in the record is that I'm being told by a machine what to do and I'm happily doing it as long as I can continue to get fucked.

Where were you when you knew you wanted to write a song about that?
We were in New York. White Shadow had this crazy beat then we threw it in the computer and Fernando started making Gregorian pop chants and then I wrote it pretty quickly. I mean I wrote it in fifteen minutes! Actually all the songs on the album were written in fifteen minutes! (Laughs) It's just the process of putting it all together takes much longer. But the lyrics and the melodies come to me very quickly and if they don't I usually move on. But I love that record. Sonically, lyrically, it's very simple but it has this huge massive meaning. He says 'back up and turn around'. Besides it having tonnes of relation to the fact that we allow our Government to continually fuck us over and over again, I think it also makes fun of the plastic popstar. 'I'm willing to do anything as long as you continue to fuck me and pay me.' So it's also a commentary on pop culture.



How do you want people to take it? As a political song, as something about other popstars? What's it actually about?
Take it either way, as long as you fuck me and pay me after. That's kind of the point of the song. The point is I don't care how you take it. If you'd like to remove the word 'Government' from the title of the song it doesn't make it any less exciting.

Is there a particular politician you have in mind?
No...I don't want to say that. But I want to say that the Government in America right now is truly, truly disenfranchising so many people. The economy is so terrible. In terms of immigration law, gay rights, the whole madness that happened in Arizona this year...All these things happened while I was writing this album so they all became part of this music because I have suddenly become a woman of the world now, where I wasn't when I wrote 'The Fame' and 'The Fame Monster'. Right now I have all these fans, I have this tremendous duty to write music that no only sounds great and has hit potential but also recognises that everyone is listening.

Okay. How does the fact that 'everyone is listening' change the way you approach writing a song?
So I could either just write pop songs, or I could do something that actually is though provoking that makes people think about what the fuck is going on. And in America it is a nightmare. So [talking about 'Government Hooker'] who is the hooker, is it the Government or is it us? That's the ultimate question I'm asking. Are we just allowing it to go on? How many of you actually call your senators? When was the last time you sent your senator an email because you were unhappy about something that was going on in your district? You can campaign for democracy all you want but are we actually functioning as a democracy? The song itself doesn't genuinely address any of those things quite as literally as 'Born This Way' does, but it starts the conversation. Or, it's a fun dance record, and I quite like the idea of seeding something political into a sugary sweet dance song.

When you said you can do a pop song or you can do something thought provoking, surely it shouldn't really be an either/or situation? The third option being something that takes in both.
Well that's the Holy Grail. I love pop music so much. So that's the question - how revolutionary or avant-garde can I be while also having a massive hook and tugging on your heartstrings after hearing just the first four seconds? The Holy Grail of pop music is when you create a song that means something and is a hit at the same time. I LOVE pop music.


What should people be calling their senators about now? What are the big issues you think need addressing?
Right now?

Yes. What are the big issues?
Full equality. They should be calling their senators about allowing people who live in this country, whose families have been here over twenty years, immigrants being allowed to go to school or into the army. The fact that kids were being taken away from their families in Arizona in the middle of the day randomly because of what Senator McCain was a part of. All the things that are happening are anti everything America once stood for. (Sarcastically) 'The land of the free.' 'Come in, we have jobs for you, come in and be part of what we do.' 'We will give you work, we will help you be free.' And now we're saying, 'get the fuck the out and give us your money because we're broke.' I think 'Government Hooker' would be an amazing single, I just don't know if it would get played on the radio at all. I mean, it's not really a question of who'd play it and who wouldn't, it's whether it would get played at all. I would not be interested in censoring it.

But wouldn't there be a power in the statement of going, 'this is my new single, if your radio station isn't playing it ask them why'? Like 'Born This Way' is very radio friendly, for example, so in a sense it doesn't challenge...
You think 'Born This Way' is radio friendly?

Yes.
(Surprised) Well thank you.

Is that a surprise? Why is that a surprise?
It's a big surprise. Only because the idea was to make very radio friendly and to seed a lot of ideas that are not very radio friendly into it. So...It is the first Number One ever to have the words gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender in one song. Ever. It's the first one. Let's listen to 'Marry the Night'

Do you know yet what the singles from the album will be?
The label really loves about nine different songs as singles so I have spoken with them about wanting to put them all out because I want to show the breadth of the record and just keep going with it. I believe the album will reach so many people but I don't think any one particular song is indicative of what the whole album sounds like. You could keep on putting out singles and it would keep changing and being exciting. 'Hair' is really great. To explain why there's saxophone in it - I didn't just use the saxophone in that and 'The Edge Of Glory' for the sake of using the saxophone - it's an instrument that means something to me and my childhood.

Was your school actually that strict, or was it just strict in the way Catholic schools generally are?
It was a particularly strict Catholic school. I mean your skirt had to be a certain length, shoes could only be two inches tall, even down to your fingernails. I had some wonderful teachers who bridled my creativity over the years, but...I hate when people say, 'you're the way you are now as a rebellion against all that'. NO. I'm not the way I am now as a rebellion, I was always this way, I just wasn't given the tools to be who I am now at a young age.

When you say you didn't have the tools to be who you are now...Do you mean tools as in the truckload of wigs or the emotional tools?
I mean even the access to those references [that would aid] creativity. You're taught certain things in school, you go home, you do your homework, then you go back to school...I didn't have the social outlet of meeting all sorts of different people from different cultures and learning all sorts of things. It was very rigid, white, Catholic school. So it was when I went to camp after school or I'd take music lessons outside school or acting that I started to meet all kinds of different people from different backgrounds and different economic situations, and I started to figure out who the fuck I was. Otherwise it's like a sausage factory, with every one coming out the fucking same. And I never wanted to be one of those links in your sausage.

Perhaps, although the first time I heard that song the lyrics seemed unusually descriptive of a night out. It seems like a long time ago now, but there was a directness about the lyrics that wasn't common in 2008. But anyway...
That's part of the reason I was so excited to put 'Born This Way' out. If it had been hidden in a bunch of metaphors it would have been atrocious and boring and it would have mean nothing. I want to create a truly amazing song that...(Sigh, long pause) That refuted the trendiness that has become being yourself.

Can you explain?
It's become trendy now - and it's my fault - or cool, to be avant-garde. Or be daring in everything you do. I'm speaking specifically about pop music here. I wanted to make something that - although the track is quite forward - I didn't want it to feel trendy. The minute you start hiding the message of the track, or use stupid metaphors, well then all you get is 'Just Dance' with a soul, and it already has a soul.

You've said that you wanted to put something out that people weren't expecting. Surely putting something out that you want to surprise people is basing your actions on what expectations are? You've said that you can't run from or to expectations, but if you want to surprise people then you're not completely independent of outside influence?
No, it is. I believe that my fans and I share the same interests. My fans all want me to do something that I haven't already done.

Well I'd like to hear another 'Bad Romance'...Did you feel that 'Born This Way', opening the campaign, had to perform a certain function?
When I wrote 'The Fame' I had to hit people over the head with a sledgehammer in order to get it played on the radio. With 'Born This Way' the idea was to bring the sledgehammer out again. What will keep not only me excited artistically, but my fans excited too, is that I will always have to fight for my spot. ALWAYS. I'm always defending my championship. I can't redefine pop music if I recreate something I've already done before.

There's always the question of what happens if or when one day it is all suddenly boring. What if you just run out of things to say? And that's the point where journalists just...
Well let me put it to you this way. Like you said that you would love another 'Bad Romance', right? But the reality of it is that 'Bad Romance' already exists. And will never go away. and if I were to give you a bunch more 'Bad Romance's, perhaps you would have less and less to write about: Some artists concentrate on releasing a better version of what they've done before. That's not what I want to do. If I create a better version of 'Bad Romance' that's new and sounds different but also has industrial influences like 'Bad Romance' did then that's okay, but I just...(Thinks for a bit) I find it to be very strange the way pop music is right now. And I also want to encourage my fans and people all over the world to stop seeing music as singles. Because 'Bad Romance' isn't evaporating into the air and going away. Neither is 'Poker Face' or 'Just Dance'. They are still here. I will be playing them for the rest of my life. Contrary to certain other artists you might review on your site, I have arena tours that I do. So I have this huge tour that I put on and 20,000 people come to party. When I write this album I'm not just thinking about the album as it's sold on the internet or in stores on CD, I'm thinking about how theatrically this music will fit into the party that is my show. If I was to create things that I've already done before then the show would be quite boring and I'm quite certain that people would stop buying tickets. What's so exciting now is that with this album I believe we have an incredibly dynamic and amazing pop-techno-rock-opera.


Do you think people have unfair expectations of you, or are they just responding to expectations you've created? Like if people are disappointed, is that your fault?
Everyone speaks to me as if I've been releasing for twenty years. So the expectations for me as an artist are based on that. But I've only been alive for about twenty years! The reality is that I've only done one arena tour, a club tour and a theatre tour...The expectation for me when...Well, for example they asked me to play stadiums on the next tour and I don't want to. I need to use my energy to be great at what I do - I can't run from other artists, just like I can't run to them.

Let's see...Adele is Number One at the moment. What about her?
(Instantly) I LOVE Adele. I love her. She's herself. I love that you can tell she's singing the sort of music she wants to sing. And she's very sweet. I always feel like that when people seem like good people. I'm sure you meet a lot of people but I'm also sure that people put on quite an act for you when you meet them. It's very rare that you meet a truly lovely person in this business.

Okay. So which of your actual songs don't you like? What would you listen to and think, 'that's pretty shit'?
What would I like, skip over? Nothing on 'The Fame Monster'. I think that's pretty great. 'The Fame'? I would probably skip over 'Money Honey'.


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Gaga performing a mini concert in Taiwan.

Born This Way

Just Dance

Telephone

Alejandro

Hair

You and I

Bad Romance

Edge of Glory

Judas/Government Hooker

As much as I love Gaga, she is starting to give me Thriller era MJ...She's everywhere! I love it, but it seems like the hype over the album went down.

^^^ I didn’t even bother to post that lol and It did go down and plus she not doing much here in the U.S so nothing to talk about. I think eventually she will end up like Beyonce but I’m hoping she will end up like Kanye if you get what I’m saying lol.

babybugz said:

^^^ I didn’t even bother to post that lol and It did go down and plus she not doing much here in the U.S so nothing to talk about. I think eventually she will end up like Beyonce but I’m hoping she will end up like Kanye if you get what I’m saying lol.

Please make sure to keep your comments your own. Just because you feel disinterested doesn't mean any other soul on the planet does. Bear that in mind. LG is doing great right now. Right now. As we speak.

Spinlight said:

babybugz said:

^^^ I didn’t even bother to post that lol and It did go down and plus she not doing much here in the U.S so nothing to talk about. I think eventually she will end up like Beyonce but I’m hoping she will end up like Kanye if you get what I’m saying lol.

Please make sure to keep your comments your own. Just because you feel disinterested doesn't mean any other soul on the planet does. Bear that in mind. LG is doing great right now. Right now. As we speak.

Please make sure not to be offended because I’m giving a comment that is my opinion not YOURS OR ANYONE ELSE. This a message board where we share our opinions right? Thank you very much.

I wasn’t going to post anymore news but I saw on my twitter feed Gaga said she’s working on the next video now but won’t say the single. Scheiße won the fan poll but don’t know yet if that’s the single.(for those that care lol)

[Edited 7/6/11 17:55pm]

Born This Way's fallen out of the Top 10 already - unless there's one more miraculous single on this thing (Marry the Night is the only potential one I hear) - I'm guessing it's going to fall fast.

babybugz said:

Spinlight said:

Please make sure to keep your comments your own. Just because you feel disinterested doesn't mean any other soul on the planet does. Bear that in mind. LG is doing great right now. Right now. As we speak.

Please make sure not to be offended because I’m giving a comment that is my opinion not YOURS OR ANYONE ELSE. This a message board where we share our opinions right? Thank you very much.

Typically opinions are said with qualifiers indicating they are opinions.

MendesCity said:

Born This Way's fallen out of the Top 10 already - unless there's one more miraculous single on this thing (Marry the Night is the only potential one I hear) - I'm guessing it's going to fall fast.

Rumor swirl that it's going to be "You & I"...I hope NOT! That song has been worn out and I don't wanna see a video for it. She's been performing that song a year before the album was even released...Songs I think could revive the album promo

Bad Kids

Black Jesus

Bloody Mary

Fashion of His Love

Scheiße

ViintageJunkiie said:

MendesCity said:

Born This Way's fallen out of the Top 10 already - unless there's one more miraculous single on this thing (Marry the Night is the only potential one I hear) - I'm guessing it's going to fall fast.

Rumor swirl that it's going to be "You & I"...I hope NOT! That song has been worn out and I don't wanna see a video for it. She's been performing that song a year before the album was even released...Songs I think could revive the album promo

Bad Kids

Black Jesus

Bloody Mary

Fashion of His Love

Scheiße

All have what it takes to be a single! I agree with you...lastly those are the highest played songs on the album for me...(with Heavy Metal Lover too)

[Edited 7/7/11 13:16pm]

ViintageJunkiie said:

MendesCity said:

Born This Way's fallen out of the Top 10 already - unless there's one more miraculous single on this thing (Marry the Night is the only potential one I hear) - I'm guessing it's going to fall fast.

Rumor swirl that it's going to be "You & I"...I hope NOT! That song has been worn out and I don't wanna see a video for it. She's been performing that song a year before the album was even released...Songs I think could revive the album promo

Bad Kids

Black Jesus

Bloody Mary

Fashion of His Love

Scheiße

Bloody Mary's the only one of those that has a real radio hook to my ears - but I think, going by the failure of Judas, the mass audience doesn't really dig her biblical dalliances.

You and I is probably her safest bet now that I think about it - I can totally see Blake Shelton Tweeting about it

This, sadly, says it all:

"Actually all the songs on the album were written in fifteen minutes! (Laughs) It's just the process of putting it all together takes much longer. But the lyrics and the melodies come to me very quickly and if they don't I usually move on."

Once again the posted interviews prove though that she's a smart, fascinating, caring person - hope next album she isn't afraid to get some songwriting help.