Lady Gaga (July 2011 - May 2012)

[Melly5525]

So many great covers and edit recently great way for her to end another amazing year, love the Vanity Fair cover in the red, and both Elle covers are fab, love the orange mcqueen, it was an amazing collection Im sure she'll be all over that.

 

[Anet]

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[Anet]

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[Anet]

I love all the diamonds!

zimbio

 

[Libra Skye18]

Thanks for the pics, Anet. Gaga looked fabulous and the award she received is so very well deserved.

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Dec 04 - The Trevor Experience








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[Libra Skye18]

Lady Gaga Talks w/ "On Air with Ryan Seacrest"

 

[Boomer]

This is so sweet, how connected she is to her family... Sounds like a must see during NY Fashion Week since it is only a few blocks away!

http://www.capitalfm.com/artists/lady-gaga/news/restaurant-father/

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[Libra Skye18]

Video Review: Lady Gaga, "Marry the Night"

by Oscar Moralde



I've argued in the past that Lady Gaga has been the driving visual force behind her videos, regardless of who sits in the director's chair, but "Marry the Night" marks the first time she's officially claimed full credit. Fittingly, she contemplates the role of the director as one of her major themes here; the video is one of her biggest epics not merely by length (a weighty 14 minutes), but by the breadth of its modes of expression. Despite its exploding cars and frenetic choreography, the video is an utterly personal one, moving beyond a visual explication of the track toward a poetic memoir.

Consider the opening monologue, as Gaga is being wheeled into the main hall of an asylum. Here she's self-conscious about the role of her artistic intervention, ascribing the same qualities to direction—shaping and controlling the visual world and the depiction of events—as to the distortions of selective memory. She guides our gaze with a long tracking shot down a winding corridor while also guiding us verbally, telling us to check out the "great a**" on one of the nurses; when the nurse bends over to open a door, Gaga says "bam" with the pleasure of a director watching an actor hit her mark perfectly.

In the monologue, Gaga announces that "memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics," and her delivery combines the flat affect of sedation with the rhythmic, contemplative cadence of poetry. Poetics is all about the parsimony of imagery, of saying a lot with a little, and Gaga reminds us of that every time she prominently displays the Rilke quote tattooed on her arm. In the loose, jumpy chronology of "Marry the Night" we're presented with the breakdown and rebirth of an artist, and its shots are like those atoms—iconic encapsulations of all the moments along that arc. We get a brief glimpse of Gaga sitting naked at her piano, her head slung low and her wild wig obscuring her face as her fingers dance across the keys; it's a snapshot of talent driving artistic obsession.

And this is all before the song even begins; when it does, the thumping, insistent beat drives a visual barrage of a life in fragments, something that could pass for the trailer to an artist's biopic. The centerpiece is an energetic dance rehearsal sequence where Gaga is the center of attention even when she's off to the side, a scene that touches on the core of the Gaga phenomenon. Yes, she may be visible among our current pop-culture constellations because of her outrageous style and performance-art antics, but if she can make a claim for the iconic it's because that style is allied with a talent that can roll off Beethoven when she sits at the piano, or dance an entire routine in stiletto Louboutins, or put together a video like this one.

The video has the texture and style of the early '80s, with its eight-track tapes and the rattling of film projectors; of course, this isn't Gaga's era, but she makes it her own. The story of Gaga's artistic development doesn't revolve around exploding cars or dance sequences channeled from Fame, but as she admits, "Truthfully, the lie of it all is much more honest, because I invented it." Amid all the artifice and construction, there's a real honesty on display here, the story of a brunette-turned-blonde who moves from New York to Hollywood in search of success, and who suffers setbacks, but is driven by singular obsession.

The honesty comes from the quiet, poignant elements that Gaga is able to locate among the grandiose and the frenetic, such as with the brief snippets with an unexplained, faceless father figure who helps a struggling Gaga carry her keyboard down the stairs. But perhaps the most telling moment is a quiet sequence in which Gaga sits in her bathtub coloring her hair and softly sings the tune that will become "Marry the Night." As director, she's asking herself to be more than the vengeance monster of "Paparazzi" or the fame monster of "Bad Romance" or the mother monster of "Born This Way." She's challenging herself to be a real human being—and in this video, she is.


Link: http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2011/12/video-review-lady-gaga-marry-the-night/

 

[educo]

I love that review!

 

[emailme.]

that was really beautifully written and encapsulate my thoughts on Marry The Night.

 

[Libra Skye18]

Lady Gaga - VEVO Interview

 

[Anet]

Thank you for the video
Jingle Ball - NYC - December 9, 2011

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[Anet]

zimbio

 

[Anet]

very glam

zimbio

 

[Libra Skye18]

You're welcome, Anet & thank you for the wonderful pics. I do wish that we could see her ensemble in the latest set. Perhaps something will pop up.

 

[Mirik]

Grazia No.50 12th December 2011 ebook30

 

[Fashionturnip]

love the look at Jingle bell ball. I miss the 'fame' era Gaga.

 

[Libra Skye18]

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Lady Gaga with Shah Rukh Khan in India Interview

 

[Deleted member 1957]

apparently she made $90m!

 

[Boomer]

Add yet another name to the endless list of people who invented/named/gave the first break to etc Lady Gaga... Must be several hundred people by now...

Donald Trump Takes Credit For Discovering Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga has become one of the world’s biggest pop powerhouses, earning recognition, awards, and lots of money in the little time that she’s been on the music scene. Now, well-respected business man Donald Trump is taking credit for Gaga’s rise to fame.
In his latest book, Time To Get Tough: Making America #1Again, he discussed his role in owning the Miss Universe pageant, and his encounter with an aspiring artist by the name of Lady Gaga. He gave her the opportunity to be the headlining act at the 2008 Miss Universe Pageant.
He says, “I own the Miss Universe Pageant. And about four years ago, during what you call half-time, we always have an entertainer. We've had a lot of great people, and you don't pay them anything because it's one of the biggest audiences and my people told me, 'Nobody knows who she is but there's this woman with good talent named Lady Gaga.'"

Mr. Trump continues, “I said, 'I don't care ... if you like her, put her on.' "So we put her on ... it was live all over the United States and all over the world and the next day, nobody was talking about [the winner of] Miss Universe, everybody was talking, 'Who was the woman, who was the entertainer? She was unbelievable.'"

He insists that she acknowledges his role in her success and is grateful to him, "She's been very gracious about it ... I don't want to say we made Lady Gaga, but she was incredible and that was her break."
Well, Donald is all about success and appearances so it’s not all that surprising that he’d be taking credit for her success. It’s nice that he gave her a chance to shine. Maybe that’s just what she needed to get her career in motion.

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