Lady Gaga

[Jinadaze]

It is confirmed that she broke up with Taylor.

 

[atlantis]

good for her. maybe her career will really take off once again now. i had already written her off because i thought she would become an italian mamma.

 

[Jinadaze]

^ I hope you are not being serious.

 

[atlantis]

yeah i was being sarcastic… because actually i was dying to see how her wedding dress would look like.

i'm still rooting for her to put out a great album this year.

 

[jexxica]

NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 13: Lady Gaga poses backstage before Brandon Maxwell's show during New York Fashion Week at Russian Tea Room on September 13, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images)

 

[URBAN]

I understand what atlantis was saying in that usually the best music comes from heartbreak. So I'm kinda happy to see some good music looming in the near future.

 

[style_savy]

Bud Light x Lady Gaga Dive Bar Tour - Nashville (Oct. 05, 2016)

 

[style_savy]

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LADY GAGA in Cut Off Jeans Out in New York 09/24/2016

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The songstress dares to bare in daisy dukes and a silver jacket while out in LA.

 

[jexxica]

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 21: Lady Gaga seen on the streets of Manhattan on October 21, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by James Devaney/GC Images)

 

[happycanadian]

Listened to the full album today. Four times in a row (I work from home, so it was just playing in the background the whole time - I'm not that obsessive a fan. hahaha).

I think it's fantastic! It's an album that Elton John would have been proud to record. It's very much an album that's "showgirl rockstar" at heart. Some really great songwriting, beautiful melodies and lush production. It sounds very English, if that makes sense.

The biggest standout is her VOICE. She sounds incredible. Raw and powerful and dramatic. Her vocal style has changed so much over the past few years - she's definitely evoking much more of an old-school delivery on this record (think Judy Garland old-school). I'm not sure that it'll work for mainstream success, to be honest - the radio doesn't seem to go for that Broadway vocal performance style. But, I also think that Gaga doesn't have to chase a radio hit. That's not who she is. And, really - it's not who she ever was going to be.

Yeah, sure she EXPLODED into some kind of instantaneous Icon in a way that we hadn't really seen in a long long time. But she was always in it for life. This is a long game for Gaga. She's not a flash in the pan, she's an artist who is going to evolve and experiment throughout her entire career. In that sense she's much more like a David Bowie -- sure, there will be hits. But, there will also be plenty of work that's incredible that adds to her catalogue and status as an Icon but doesn't resonate with the masses on a commercial level.

I'm not sure if that's what "Joanne" will be. There are certainly plenty of songs on here that I think could be hits for her. Particularly "A-Yo" or "Hey Girl" or even "Joanne" (such a gorgeous song - probably my favourite on the album). I love the chill country vibe of "Grigio Girls", too.

We shall see what happens. But I personally consider this an incredibly solid album from Gaga. Much improved - for my taste - over ArtPop.

 

[zzzyao76]

^Yes she is a very good songwriter, that emotions from Joanne is everything. I love it so much!


T Magazine October 23th, 2016 The Greats Issue



Photographer: Collier Schorr
Stylist: Jason Rider


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[zzzyao76]

NME Magazine October 21, 2016


NME Digital Edition

On September 9, Lady Gaga hopped onto the stage at London’s Moth Club, a sweaty Hackney venue with gold-painted walls and a shimmering Quality-Street-wrapper stage curtain. Wearing a grey jersey crop top and silver shorts, she debuted ‘Perfect Illusion’, the rocky new single from her new album ‘Joanne’, which is out today. On it, Gaga does country, rock, disco, pop and all points in between. There’s a duet with Florence Welch that sounds like Elton John’s ‘Bennie And The Jets’, a love song dedicated to John Wayne and a weirdo pop track with Beck in which all the lyrics seem to be thin euphemisms for masturbation. On the cover: Lady Gaga in side profile, hardly any make-up. It’s a face that should be recognisable but somehow isn’t.

For the people crammed into Moth Club it must have felt like an alien encounter – seeing a true, untouchable superstar in the flesh in a club that looks like Del Boy Trotter’s boudoir. But that’s key to the ‘Joanne’ experience. While it’s an album that heads in many directions, all of them are populist and accessible – fodder for the jukebox in a your local dive bar, or to soundtrack your hot dogs during next year’s Super Bowl half-time show. Gaga’s back and she wants to go for a beer with you. Except, she insists, it’s not that cynical.

“None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life,” she says, on the phone from an “undisclosed location” in the desert. “My intention was to, you know, connect with people that would not normally connect with someone like me.”

Interesting phrase, because what, exactly, is Lady Gaga like? On her 2008 debut, things were simple: she sang about ‘The Fame’ and became famous as a result – monstrously, massively famous, with 15 million albums sold and a 203-date arena spectacular tour that grossed more than $200m. Off the back of that, second album ‘Born This Way’ celebrated individuality and ramped up the Gaga-ness to the point where one edition depicted her as a part-human, part-motorbike hybrid. Then came 2013’s high concept third album ‘ArtPop’, the artist as an art object. Its singles failed to chime and its conceit tested listeners, preaching more to her hardcore of Little Monsters – the faithful fan group who refer to her as ‘Mother Monster’ and look up to her as their guru.

Gaga sidesteps the notion that the album misfired (“I felt, to be honest, more connected to my fans than ever doing ‘ArtPop’ – especially during the [ArtRave] tour,” she insists), but she admits that all was not rosy. Soon after its release, she contemplated quitting music for good. Or, rather, quitting the fame game.

“I was just having a really depressed time in my life where I wasn’t able to see my own ability or my own talent,” she says. “And when you lose grasp of those sorts of things, you can just spiral. But you know, to the world ‘quitting music’ means one thing and to me it means another. I meant giving up putting out music, as opposed to just doing it for myself, which is what makes me really and truly happy.

“When you become famous or you become a star, there’s all these other things that begin to happen, and you have to work the system – especially in the music industry today, which is so different. You’re dealing with this streaming war and it’s an absolute nightmare to witness as an artist because it’s not about music and it’s all about business – and that’s just not who I am at all. At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

“So once you start putting that little girl into the system, she starts to get kind of… well, why am I doing this? What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.” So that’s what she did.

For Gaga, the healing process seemed to involve wearing as many masks as possible, spinning existing strands of her art into bigger projects that challenged fans further. In 2014, Gaga the jazzer released the ‘Cheek To Cheek’ album with crooner Tony Bennett. In 2015, Gaga the Broadway kid performed a medley of The Sound Of Music songs at the Oscars. That autumn, Gaga the actress took on a recurring role in TV’s American Horror Story, for which she won a Golden Globe. Her last high-profile public appearance was at February’s Grammy Awards, where she turned in a heartfelt but divisive tribute to the late David Bowie. Bowie’s son, film director Duncan Jones, called it “mentally confused” on Twitter.

“I really did not want to do it when they first called me because it was so soon after [Bowie’s death] and I felt very uncomfortable, but I did my very best to put together something that I hoped would be the showstopper of the night,” she says now. Did Jones’ comments hurt? “Yeah. It did. It did hurt,” she says slowly. “But what are you going to do? I can’t… it’s his father, you know?”

A fair question, amid all the ch-ch-changes, was this: where had the fun, outrageous, bulletproof popstar gone? And today, Gaga credits the late Joanne Germanotta for pulling her out of that “spiral” and bringing that person back.

Joanne was Gaga’s aunt, who died of the autoimmune disease lupus eight years before Gaga was born. The singer takes one of her names – Stefani Joanne Angelina – from her dad’s sister, and feels she lives on in her.

“I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide,” she says. “An angel hovering somewhere, who was going to help lead the way.”

Embracing the idea that her aunt was looking out for her led Gaga to delve into her relationship with her father.

“I think I’ve realised that for many years I felt it my responsibility to heal him, but in truth it’s maybe not my responsibility at all,” she says. “I never understood the rage and anger of my father, but understanding his loss of his sister in Joanne, this helped me understand more where his pain came from – and where my pain came from, because it came from him. I am who I am because of my family and I carried a lot of shame for a long time about being rebellious. But what I’ve realised is that the toughness in me is something that comes from what came before me, and everything my family and their family before them went through.”

It might, I suggest, surprise people to hear she feels shameful about anything. Gaga proudly stands against bullying and intolerance – her charitable Born This Way Foundation works for that cause – but she also stands for an overbearing confidence in the self. You don’t just pull a meat dress out of your wardrobe of an evening.

“Well, I say [shame] because I’m a Catholic,” she says. “Even in the Bible, it says that if you sing you’re a harlot. These sorts of things get ingrained in you at a young age. So as I grew up and was the way that I was – very different, very unique – whether it was people at school making fun of me or my father telling me that I was defiant or a ‘bad girl’, those things stay with you and they creep back in when the loop of negativity comes back into your life.”

The teenage Gaga, she says, was “a real Jersey girl” – crop tops, voluminous hair, plenty of make-up. “I was a fun young woman who was looking for herself, but growing up in an Italian-American household doing things like that, it’s not taken very well.”

It’s a feeling that continued when she started performing, but it began in puberty. “Growing up, somehow there was a shame in your womanhood, like as soon as you get breasts or as soon as you look like a woman – this can create conflict in the house,” she says.

A sense of looking back at Gaga’s past is ever-present in ‘Joanne’. The track ‘Diamond Heart’ tells the story of a girl working as a go-go dancer to make ends meet, lyrically the kind of broken American dream Bruce Springsteen sings about. That girl, Gaga confirms, is her. “It’s completely autobiographical,” she says. “When I moved downtown [New York] at 17 I became a go-go dancer. I remember looking at the men and thinking to myself: ‘Lay it on me. I know that you think you know what I am, but the truth is I may not be perfect – yeah, Dad! – and I might not be flawless – Dad! World! – but I have a diamond heart. I have a good and strong spirit within me.’ Life is a dog fight for a lot of people. When you find the pitbull within yourself, that’s Joanne.”

For an album fuelled by the complexities of the father-daughter relationship, Gaga’s commune of ‘Joanne’ collaborators makes for interesting reading. She assembled a kind of hipster-rock biker gang – comprising crooning lothario Father John Misty, totemic Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, pop oddball Beck, ‘Sorry’ songwriter Bloodpop, Tame Impala frontman Kevin Parker and mega-voiced Brit Florence Welch – and took them off to the California desert to work with super-producer Mark Ronson. It sounds, it must be said, a very male environment.

“It was a lot of dudes, but what’s great is there was a boys’ club and they let me in it. To embrace me as a musician was such a healing moment for me in my life – to not be treated as just any other pop star.”

That, really, is key: Gaga is not just any other pop star, and ‘Joanne’ is not just any album. At the point of writing, four days before its release, the record is still totally under wraps to all but us privileged few who’ve been permitted to listen to it on an iPod in the offices of her label Polydor. But ‘Perfect Illusion’ – which is already out – hasn’t been the comeback smash you might expect, peaking at Number 12 in the UK and Number 15 in the US. Outside of the Little Monster faithful, some are questioning whether Gaga still has it. Gaga’s not to be shaken.

“Opinions are like *******s; everybody has one,” she says. “Definitely I did not make this album with the opinion of the world being thrust at me constantly through the toilet of the internet. I used the opinions of Mark Ronson and my collaborators – and my own opinion. Because I have to trust my own opinion. Not to sound arrogant, because I truly don’t believe I’m an arrogant person, but after selling 80 million records, you gotta kinda go: ‘OK, why the f**k right now would I throw in the towel and worry what everybody thinks of me?’”

She has a point. But you suspect there’s one other opinion she wanted: that of her father, who inspired so much of the project. So does he like it?

“I’ll never forget it,” she says. “We were mastering the album in New York and my father was going, ‘You know, my god, MY GOD, you’ve made a lot of great records but this one, this one is REALLY a great record!’ So my father loves it. But he’s my dad, so…”

That’s the new Gaga then; more likely to be found in New York’s Joanne Trattoria, the restaurant she runs with her family, than in the club; more likely to wear denim shorts than a dress made of Kermits. Is it the true Gaga or a ‘Perfect Illusion’? Happily, we may never really know.

nme

 

[URBAN]

I think my favorite is Hey Girl. Her and Florence's voice works together like milk and honey. It was amazing. I always thought that Diamond Heart should've been her first single instead of Perfect Illusion. It's much catchier and isn't as repetitive. It would be great as a single period.

 

[happycanadian]

Yeah - DIamond Heart would've been a better lead single in my opinion too.

 

[style_savy]

OCTOBER 22, 2016 In a Versace out in New York.
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Lady Gaga Heading To 'SNL' In New York City (22 October)
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Lady Gaga performs on "Saturday Night Live"
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October 23, 2016 - Lady Gaga in Purple after performing on ‘Saturday Night Live’ in NYC
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OCTOBER 24 , 2016 Lady Gaga visit “Imagine” mosaic located at Strawberry Fields in Central Park in New York City.
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OCTOBER 24 , 2016 The "Perfect Illusion" singer was spotted strutting her stuff in New York City this morning, and she grabbed everyone's attention in a cowgirl-inspired outfit.
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Lady Gaga Returns to the Bar Where She Began Her Career for New York City Concert
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[happycanadian]

She was incredible on SNL. Particularly "Million Reasons".

But she was even more impressive on Howard Stern. This is just audio, no video. But she sounds spectacular. So emotive and passionate. And she cries at the end. Plus, what she says during the interview is deeply moving.

 

[HighMaintenance]

Lady Gaga was spotted leaving a secret concert that she held in Los Angeles, California on October 27, 2016



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[zzzyao76]

US Harper's Bazaar December 2016 / January 2017

Gaga: The Portrait of a Lady
Model: Lady Gaga
Photographed by Inez & Vinoodh
Styled by Mel Ottenberg
Make-up by Sarah Tarino
Hair by Frederic Aspiras
Nails by Naomi Yasuda


US Harper's Bazaar Digital edition

 

[HighMaintenance]

Lady Gaga arrives for the 2016 American Music Awards, November 20, 2016 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California



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[atlantis]

gaga bores me to death now. she used to be the most exciting and most intriguing artist of our times and now she's gone all country or whatever, doesn't wear anything that's extravagant and plays the guitar and does nothing else performance-wise. i used to stay up all night for her live performances, new videos and whatnot but now i didn't even buy her new record! so sad.