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Lady Gaga avoids queries on NDP song

INSPIRING CITY
'This is one of my favourite cities in the whole world... I was inspired by each and every city that I went to and the fans from each and every city. The album is about being yourself and loving who you are and being proud.'
Lady Gaga, in one of the few sentences she uttered during the brief media conference
-- ST PHOTO: RAJ NADARAJAN

AMERICAN pop star Lady Gaga pointedly evaded media queries about the changing of the lyrics to one of her songs for the National Day Parade (NDP) at a press conference yesterday.

At the ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands, a reporter picked to ask the singer a question was gagged just as he was about to ask about the controversy over NDP organisers converting Bad Romance into the Fun Pack Song.

The emcee quickly interrupted the reporter and had his microphone taken away.

It was the first time the Singapore media had had a chance to meet the singer since it was revealed that NDP organisers had failed to get permission from Lady Gaga and her record company to change the lyrics of Bad Romance. The organisers had obtained the rights to perform the song in public but not the rights to change its words.

The chairman of the NDP show segment, Colonel Ong Tze-Ch'in, told the media on Wednesday that his team is working to secure the rights to change the lyrics.

Yesterday's press conference, which was attended by more than 100 representatives from the local and international media, appeared to be tightly controlled by Lady Gaga's management to avoid commenting on the issue.

Lady Gaga Day

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A city in Taiwan declared on Sunday 'Lady Gaga Day' as the pop diva's first visit to the island sparked a frenzy among dedicated fans and local media. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

TAICHUNG - A CITY in Taiwan declared on Sunday 'Lady Gaga Day' as the pop diva's first visit to the island sparked a frenzy among dedicated fans and local media.

Lady Gaga, sporting a black and white wig, red trousers and a red dress with leopard-print sleeves, was given a key to Taichung city by the mayor at a ceremony attended by hundreds of enthusiastic supporters.

'On behalf of Taichung, I now declare today 'Lady Gaga Day'...which also belongs to all of her fans,' mayor Jason Hu said.

Earlier in the day, hundreds of her fans - known as 'Little Monsters' - defied summer heat to parade on the street dressed in costumes and wigs.

One man wore a raw pig's head, the TVBS cable news network reported, in apparent homage to an outfit made of raw meat that Lady Gaga wore to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards.

'My father is a butcher. I try to link Lady Gaga's creativity with my family's business,' he said. -- AFP

International pop diva Lady Gaga poses as she leaves a yoga studio in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, July 2, 2011. Gaga is in Taiwan for five days on a promotional tour for her new album 'Born This Way'. -- PHOTO: AP

Fans pose for media as they wait for international pop diva Lady Gaga to arrive at her hotel in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, July 1, 2011. Lady Gaga slipped into the hotel unbeknownst to the waiting crowd of fans. -- PHOTO: AP

Fans of international pop sensation Lady Gaga dresses in costume during 'Lady Gaga Day' parade before her evening mini concert in Taichung, Taiwan, Sunday, July 3, 2011. -- PHOTO: AP

Lady Gaga is godmother to Elton John's son

Lady Gaga is godmother to Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John. -- PHOTO: AP

LOS ANGELES - BRITISH music superstar Elton John has revealed that he and his partner have chosen pop diva Lady Gaga to be their baby boy's godmother, as he spoke of his joy at being a father.

'Yes, yes she is,' John told ABC's Babara Walters when she asked him if the outlandish singer was the godmother of his son, Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, in an interview broadcast late Friday.

'When you get to the real person underneath, there's a very simple New York girl who loves her parents. I love her to death and a lot of people said, 'oh, you know, that's crazy,' but they don't know her and we do.'

Zachary was born December 25 to a surrogate for John, 64, and his partner 48-year-old Canadian filmmaker David Furnish, and the couple told ABC of their delight in having a son, and their determination not to spoil him.

'I knew I'd feel joy but it was the most relaxing thing that's ever happened to me,' John said. 'We change him, we bath him, we feed him and we read him a story every night,' said John of the couple's routine. 'And we take him to lunch.' But the millionaire singer said he was determined his four-month-old would learn about values, even though he was being brought up in the lap of luxury.

'The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon,' John said. 'Being the child of a famous person is very difficult and we're very well aware of the pitfalls of that.' -- AFP

Lady Gaga leads MTV's O Music Award nominations

Lady Gaga (above) leads MTV's newly inaugurated O Music Awards with three nominations. -- PHOTO: AP

NEW YORK - LADY Gaga and Tyler the Creator lead MTV's newly inaugurated O Music Awards with three nominations each.

MTV announced on Tuesday the categories and nominees for its new Web-based awards show, a celebration of digital music. Categories include best fan cover, most viral dance and best music hashtag meme.

Lady Gaga and rapper Tyler the Creator are among the nominees for most innovative artist and must-follow artist on Twitter. Lady Gaga is also nominated for favorite animated GIF, a kind of avatar. Tyler the Creator, of the much buzzed-about hip-hop group Odd Future, is also nominated for his remix of Lykke Li's Follow Rivers.

Winners will be decided by fan voting in social media, with the results shown in real-time. The awards will be presented in a live hour-long webcast April 28 on MTV websites and mobile apps.

MTV, which is part of the Viacom-owned MTV Networks, hopes the show will do for digital music what its Video Music Awards, launched in 1984, did for the music video. As a reference to the rapidly shifting online world, even the 'O' in the OMAs is being left undefined and open to interpretation by viewers.

'Some elements of this will be experimental,' said Dermot McCormack, head of digital media at MTV Music Group. 'If there is such a thing as a beta award show, this is it.' -- AP

Lady Gaga yet to finish You And I

Lady Gaga had earlier stated on her Twitter page that she has completed the production work of her latest album Born This Way, but she has taken back her words. She revealed that she is yet to complete her piano ballad "You and I.”

“I can't tell you who yet, but someone legendary is producing this next song. I’m so excited,” a source informed MTV of Gaga’s revelation to the crowd at her tour stop in Anaheim, California. The new producer will join producers RedOne, Fernando Garibay and DJ White Shadow, who have contributed tracks to her new album.

Lady Gaga also gave a hint of her singles “Judas”. “It's no surprise, I'm sure, to many of you, that Judas is a man of the biblical senses, so expect to see some symbolism in this video,” she said, “You have to look into what is haunting you, and you need to look into forgiving yourself in order to move on. And it's really fun to dance to and sounds like it could be a pop priest record,” she added.

Britney is back, but can she compete with Gaga?

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LONDON - AS BRITNEY Spears prepares to launch her seventh studio album Femme Fatale on Tuesday, the pop star faces keen competition from Lady Gaga, Katie Perry and Rihanna, who reign atop Billboard's Hot 100 singles ranking.

Her younger rivals' dominance this week may be coincidental - indeed, Spears also topped the ranking recently with Hold It Against Me. - but the chart is a reminder of how crowded the pop diva market has become since Spears rose to fame as a teenager.

There is little doubt her fans will ensure brisk sales - Spears has sold nearly 70 million albums, according to label Jive Record - and her music is making headlines again instead of personal meltdowns, a custody battle and rehab stints.

Spears kicked off a string of promotions for the album on Friday with a performance at a Las Vegas nightclub. On Sunday in San Francisco she will record a sold-out mini-concert to be aired on ABC's Good Morning America TV show on Tuesday.

Yet after more than 10 years in the music business, Spears, now 29, may have to do more to remain relevant in the era of Gaga, critics say.

'As far as novelty goes, her natural demographic now has an icon as quirky and characterful as Lady Gaga to fascinate and fuss over,' said Andy Gill of Britain's Independent newspaper. 'Gaga's music, let's be frank, is not that much better than, or even different to, that on Femme Fatale, but she knows the lingering appeal of playing dress up,' he added in a two-out-of-five star review of Spears' record. -- REUTERS

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Lady Gaga: 'Born This Way' Video Debut!

Check out the video for Lady Gaga’s newest single, “Born This Way”!

Lady Gaga - ‘Born This Way’

The video was directed by Nick Knight and features choreography by Laurie Ann Gibson.

Lady Gaga breaks iTunes records

Lady Gaga's Born This Way has become the fastest-selling single ever on Apple's iTunes store worldwide, racking up more than one million downloads in five days. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

LOS ANGELES - LADY Gaga's Born This Way has become the fastest-selling single ever on Apple's iTunes store worldwide, racking up more than one million downloads in five days, Apple said on Friday.

Apple said the song - a Madonna-influenced dance track that the 24 year-old singer performed after 'hatching' from a giant egg at the Grammy Awards - had hit the No. 1 spot on iTunes in 23 countries.

Born This Way, the title track of a new album to be released in May, also went straight to the top of the US Billboard Hot 100 singles charts earlier this week.

The flamboyant performance artist also revealed her secret for staying so thin, and how she gets her creative juices flowing.

'I am on the drunk diet,' she told Sirius XM radio on Friday.

'I live my life as I want to, creatively. I like to drink whiskey and stuff while I am working. But the deal is I've got to work out every day, and I work out hung over if I am hung over. And it's about the cross-training and keeping yourself inspired. I have to say, I do a ton of yoga,' she added. The singer said in a television interview last weekend that she also smoked marijuana while writing her songs. -- REUTERS

Lady Gaga arrives at Grammys in giant egg

Lady Gaga, being carried in an egg-shaped vessel, arrives at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

LOS ANGELES - FLAMBOYANT pop star Lady Gaga made her entrance to the Grammy Awards on Sunday encased in a giant egg.

Gaga, 24, who was competing for five Grammy Awards, arrived on the red carpet inside an alien-like egg carried aloft by attendants dressed in gold.

The singer and performance artist could barely be seen inside the enclosure, apart from the occasional wave of a black-gloved hand.

It was the latest in a series of increasingly bizarre outfits from Lady Gaga, including a headline-grabbing dress made entirely of raw meat that she wore to the MTV Music Video Awards in September.

In a Twitter message sent shortly after her red-carpet arrival, Lady Gaga said: 'This is Nicola, Haus of Gaga: Gaga is in incubation. Tonight's performance is in collaboration with Hussein Chalayan and House of Mugler. X'

Lady Gaga was expected to perform her new single Born This Way live on the Grammy stage later on Sunday.

Gaga writes song for Lambert

Lady Gaga has announced a new headline tour, written a song for American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert and has a new single out. -- PHOTOS: AP, REUTERS

NEW YORK - AMERICAN singer Lady Gaga has announced a new headline tour, written a song for American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert and has a new single out, reported entertainment media on Thursday.

Lady Gaga's tour, Monster Ball, is a replacement for her previously planned tour with now disgraced hip-hop star, Kanye West. She will not be touring in Aisa or Australia. Whatcha Say singer Jason Derulo has been added to rapper Kid Cudi as support acts.

Lambert, who is currently recording his first album For Your Entertainment, announced on his Twitter account that Lady Gaga had given him a song.

'Gaga wrote the song a while ago and she thought it would be a good fit for me,' he tweeted. 'It's a solo track. I feel so honoured and lucky to be asked. Gaga just gets it, you know?'

Lady Gaga has also said that The Fame Monster, an enhanced version of her debut album will be released on November 23rd and will include new tracks including Bad Romance, her new single.

Lady GaGa Goes Sexy in Her Skimpy Outfits

Lady GaGa, real name Stefani Germanotta, previously said she likes to see women in their underwear. Besides, the singer herself apparently also loves to wear undies during her performance.

Lady GaGa goes sexy in her skimpy outfits while performing at Koko Camden in London on Thursday, February 5. The "Just Dance" hitmaker performs on stage wearing customary bejeweled panties, bra and opera gloves.

And with Valentine's Day just around the corner, Lady GaGa has revealed her sexy plans. "A good f**k and some carbohydrates. Some good spaghetti and some good sex," said the 22-year-old singer.



Birth Name :
Stefania Gabriella Germanotta

Birth Date :
March 07, 1986

Birth Place :
New York, New York, USA

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