Lady Gaga (July 2011 - May 2012)

[Libra Skye18]

T4P...I love the latest pics, Gaga looks terrific.

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Oh and you're welcome Anet & HappyCandadian.

 

[Libra Skye18]

Twitter Pics:


Me posing as INEZ with her husband VINOODH. We look so much alike! GAGINEZ!


Just another day in England having tea and hats with my darling friend Philip Treacy. Mint Blonde at Jonathan Ross


-LG's Twitter

 

[Anet]

celebrity-gossip.net

 

[Boomer]

The 'Marry The Night' video was shot yesterday in Staten Island (NYC) but security was very tight... B)

http://guestofaguest.com/music/lady-gaga-does-staten-island/

 

[emailme.]

i kinda like that she admittedly spends good money on security.

 

[Libra Skye18]

Nicola Formichetti joins M·A·C Viva Glam Movement



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Lady Gaga reflects on sex, service for MAC

NEW YORK – Behind the wild get-ups, changing hair color and performance-art schtick, there lives a sensitive, articulate young woman who is passionate about sex.

Safe sex, that is.

"It's always been important to me, as it's for my generation, a most relevant consideration when you're growing up. Sex doesn't mean nothing; sex means so much," Lady Gaga, 25, says between sips of tea inside a studio at Chelsea Piers. "I hope that young women know that sex is still a big deal, and they don't have to put out soon. If they want someone to court them for a while before they give it up, that's wonderful and beautiful, and a man will only respect you more for honoring your body. I am that way."

Gaga is not just talking the talk about attitudes toward sex. She is walking the walk with help from MAC Cosmetics and its Viva Glam campaign, which kicked off in 1994 with spokesman RuPaul and has included icons such as Elton John, Cyndi Lauper and Mary J. Blige. It will bring in Nicki Minaj and Ricky Martin in February.

"What I hope to do with this campaign is to not only raise awareness for AIDS and HIV but raise the awareness that it's OK and wonderful and beautiful to love yourself and be happy and to honor your body and to use a condom or say no," she says.

Since becoming the latest face of Viva Glam in 2009, Gaga has helped raise $55 million for the MAC AIDS Fund through the sale of exclusive MAC Viva Glam lipsticks. She hopes to meet the lifetime goal of $250 million for the campaign.

"I'm from New York City, and there was a MAC store around the corner from my house growing up, and I always felt that MAC Cosmetics was so much more forward-thinking and so much more 'street' and accepting than any other line," Gaga says. "I never felt like there was an ideal type of beauty or particular kind of woman or man that was being impressed upon me."

With her dedication to the underdogs and outcasts who make up her millions of fans, whom she calls "Little Monsters," it's no wonder Gaga is on board with Viva Glam lipstick, which is designed to flatter every skin tone and has sold 16.5 million units since its inception.

"When I was looking at the different taupes, because I am an olive-toned skin, I wanted something a bit more orange to get that contrast, but ultimately, I decided I didn't want to do that because I knew it wouldn't suit every skin color. So we drew it back, and we made it something that would work for every woman."

Gaga also got her Little Monsters involved, soliciting online submissions of their photographs and artwork over seven months to be used in a dress that her friend and stylist Nicola Formichetti designed exclusively for the Viva Glam campaign.

Formichetti, who is also the creative director of Thierry Mugler, printed fans' images on fabric the color of the Viva Glam lipstick. In typical Gaga fashion, the fabric was wrapped around foot-tall platform heels so daunting the singer needed help getting up from her seat.

"The conversation is the most important aspect of it, and it was Nicola's initial prerogative for this project to create something that was really, really interactive with the fans so they would feel a part of the conversation from an artistic level," she says.

And, like a proud mom, she gushes about her fans, hazel eyes sparkling as she exclaims, "Think of how famous they are!"

Yet fame is not what she's after, she says. "People won't always love your work and they won't always love the causes that you fight for, but at the end of the day, I think I could be OK with it all if I knew deep down in my spirit that I was always brave and I was always doing the hardest thing."


- USA Today
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[Anet]

Daily Mail

 

[Teja]

Marry the Night leaked photo

DANNYRCASTRO TUMBLR

 

[MrFalconer]

Here are another two...

Source: trash-love.tumblr.com

 

[Boomer]

^ Thanks! Even with her fit body, that outfit isn't very flattering...

 

[Anet]

Gorgeous! so excited for the video!


zimbio

 

[Boomer]

I can't wait to see this video!! And, once again, it is so good to hear how nice she is with everyone- how often do you hear that over and over again about celebs at her level!

More video details from MTV...

Lady Gaga is keeping the wedding reception going for a little bit longer. The singer has once again been spotted in New York filming scenes for her "Marry the Night" video.

In footage posted online, Gaga dances on the roof of a car as she sings the bridge from the song. She then slides down the car and begins rolling around on the hood as the chorus kicks in. She's dressed in black, with a blond bob wig and black heels. It's visibly raining out as she shoots, but in the footage she appears unfazed by the weather.
In some photos posted on Hypable, the singer is sporting a very goth look, including a black bra top, hot pants and over-the-knee boots.
A photo posted on Aceshowbiz.com is reportedly from a set-up in Harlem earlier in the day on Thursday. In it, the star wears bright blue lipstick and a leather romper. The website reports that at the Harlem shoot she performed with male dancers and was also spotted in a long-sleeve red dress with padded shoulders.
Earlier this week Lady Gaga was in Staten Island shooting parts of the video at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, and MTV News spoke to the Center's CEO, Lynn Kelly, who was very excited that Gaga decided to film there.
"We found both her and her crew to be easy to work with and low-key," Kelly told us. "I think we would have expected a lot of drama, and the truth is, she is probably the most down-to-earth person. It was endearing. She was friendly and kind.
"I think, for us, we're so excited to have someone of her talent, and to have somebody like that shoot here is a sheer honor," she continued. "What her music does for music is so much more than entertainment. It's connecting to the arts on a much deeper level, and that's what I hope we can do here."

 

[educo]

WOW!!! I can't wait for this!!

 

[Anet]

Thanks for the details Boomer

 

[Libra Skye18]

Thanks for the pics, Teja, MrFalconer & Anet also thanks for the info Boomer. Everything seems to be coming along so well. Honestly, I have yet to be disappointed with one of Gaga's videos (even if some song choices *ahem* aren't my favorites) and I have no doubt that this one will also be enjoyable. B)

 

[Libra Skye18]

V Magazine Gaga Memorandum No. 4



V MAGAZINE GAGA memorandum No. 4

Re: REMODELING THE MODEL

From: M†SS.GAGA
To: STEPHEN GAN

Copy to: Ms. Vreeland
Haus of Gaga
Nicola Formichetti
V Collective
Little Monsters
The world
Art historians
Intellectuals
Jo Calderone

My study of gender manipulation, though not a new endeavor in the fields of art and fashion, has been both revealing and terrifying — perhaps my most emotionally challenging performance to date. Beginning as an invention of my mind, Jo Calderone was created with Nick Knight as a mischievous experiment. After working together tirelessly and passionately for years, eating bovine hearts, throwing up on ourselves, giving birth to an alien nation and an AK-47, Nick and I began to wonder: how much exactly can we get away with? Given the nature of this V Magazine issue, an exploration of “the model,” I felt it appropriate to investigate, in diary form, how the past few months of my work have been a deliberate attack on the “idea” of the “modern model,” or, in my case, the “modern pop singer.” How can we remodel the model? In a culture that attempts to quantify beauty with a visual paradigm and almost mathematical standard, how can we f**k with the malleable minds of onlookers and shift the world’s perspective on what’s beautiful? I asked myself this question. And the answer? Drag.

Nick and I photographed Jo, omitted his biological sex, and shopped the photographs around to men’s fashion magazines. The cover of Vogue Hommes Japan, a major Japanese men’s publication, was a coup to say the least, exciting mostly because we had convinced the editors that Jo Calderone was a male model and had sold his look as the next big thing. Nick Knight, a photographer with intuition that borders on godly, wondered immediately if they would be able to feel my spirit in the photograph. He wondered, knowing good and well his photographs were marvelous and utterly masculine, if there was still no way to mask my intensity as a performer. What an interesting venture it was, because, in truth, really brilliant models have the chameleonic ability to transform into new creatures all the time. So why should I be any different? Was our experimentation devious? Or is it nobody’s business whether or not Jo has a **** in his pants? It was a few weeks later, after the cover was printed, that Nick said to me, sweetly, “Gaga, I believe Jo has to sing.”

I wrestled with this idea. Would it be convincing? What was the purpose of the piece? And if I were to do it, what would its significance be in relation to my work as Lady Gaga? Yes, this is me, but in the fantasy of performance I imagined (or hoped) the world would weigh both individuals against one another as real people, not as one person playing two. Lady Gaga versus Jo Calderone, not Lady Gaga “as.” That would be the intention of the process, to co-exist with an alternate version of myself — in the same universe. So I reasoned, how could remodeling my current image ignite a statement or revelation about me as an artist? What is the new model of the performer and how can I push the boundaries? The answer was that Jo would not just make a statement about me as performer, but would reveal things about me as a woman. I decided then that there was only one way to execute this piece: Jo and Gaga had to argue.

As I began to reckon with Jo, I found it important to excavate what he didn’t like about me, or rather, what I struggle with liking about myself. Concurrently, I felt it necessary to imagine what the public expects of me during a performance of this magnitude — the opening of the VMAs — and how I might destroy this expectation in a variety of ways. On a stage, the laws of fantasy are meant to be broken, but I have always found it difficult to bring my real ***** out there with me. (Or do I bring it out there and just don’t know it?) I have always feared that the reality of love, if brought into the spotlight, has the potential to destroy creativity. Needless to say, the line between fantasy and reality is blurred in my life, as this psychobabble may indicate, so I drew upon my personal experiences to initiate a deeper parallel. Do my lovers feel like an extension of my audience? Because I refuse to draw a distinction between what’s real and what is artifice, do they feel a part of the show? How can Jo become more relatable and lovable than I am?

During my performance and the three days I spent as him, I felt permission through him to confess things about myself as a woman, things I would normally keep hidden. In a way, it seemed that he could get away with a lot more than I can. He talked about his feelings, wore Brooks Brothers, smoked Marlboro Lights, drank beer on stage, and talked about what I refuse to discuss publicly: my relationships. It was by remodeling myself into something completely foreign, and in some ways crafting the anti-pop performance, that the complexities of “the model” began to unfold. For someone known as much for her image as for her music — and this has become my model — the presence of Jo in no way eradicated my spirit from the stage. I was still ever-present, and, in fact, more myself than ever. Jo had a clean slate. Jo had no past or future to answer to. Jo existed only in that moment, as I chose for him to.

By remodeling the “model artist,” “model citizen,” or “supermodel,” we can liberate the present. The transformation detaches the model from any universal paradigm and allows him or her to reinvent perspective in a pure, unattached moment. Within the different archetypes of our psychology, which part of ourselves can tackle an obstacle with more honesty or strength? Is it a farce to transform? Or is it an injustice to “the model” to treat him or her as a prototype? How will you remodel yourself and discover which model is best for today? Use every ounce of potential you have, raise revolution against what people expect of you, and tell the world this is not a rehearsal. This is the real me. And listen up, ‘cause it could be the most honest incarnation yet.



VMagazine

 

[Anet]

^she is so intelligent

 

[Anet]

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[Boomer]

^ Isn't she? I get so annoyed when people dismiss her based on, well, not knowing what they are talking about! She is intelligent, articulate, literate in the true sense of the word and has a vast knowledge of the history of many different forms of music and entertainment....Bravo Gagaloo!!

 

[Libra Skye18]

#prezclinton meeting #ladygaga back stage at the Hollywood bowl last night. @ladygaga was amazing.. What a show. ~ Lauren W. Sanchez's Twitter

Lady Gaga - Bill Clinton Foundation Performance Part 1


Lady Gaga - Bill Clinton Foundation Performance Part 2



Lady Gaga - Bill Clinton Foundation Performance Part 3