Lady Gaga performs at "Oak Room" in New York City

On Wednesday 29th September, Lady Gaga visited the Oak Room in New York City, where she also performed with Brian Newman. Check out the photos from the performance below:

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Rob Halford is a little monster

Rob Halford, a.k.a. the Metal God, fronts one of the most influential heavy-metal bands on the scene. Along with his Judas Priest bandmates, the leather-favoring singer spends most of his time on the road fraternizing with metal legends like Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe and Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister. Halford even runs a clothing line that specializes in badass-looking T-shirts. But what fans might not know is that he also keeps a finger on the pulse of the pop world, and one of his latest heroes is Lady Gaga.
“She’s exactly what we need right now in that area of music,” Halford told MTV News. “There has been a vacuum that’s been created in that area as the wonderful Saint Madonna has gotten older, and we really need somebody like Lady Gaga to shake things up again.”
Halford said he admires Lady Gaga’s irreverence, but also her colorful fashion sense (“That costume of meat she wore at the MTV Music Awards was just fantastic”), her outspokenness and her willingness to deliver politically charged messages. He was especially moved by Gaga’s speech at a Portland, Maine, rally organized by the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network as part of the movement to repeal the U.S. military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
“I thought that was very admirable,” Halford said. “Madonna went a little bit in the activist vein, but she did that later on in her career. What you’re finding in Lady Gaga, I feel, is a microcosm of the speed of life we’re living in now. Things happen so quickly. She took off like a rocket. [Interscope Chairman] Jimmy Iovine put the whole label behind her and wrote the checks for those multimillion-dollar videos because he has this incredible foresight, and it was absolutely the right move. She’s incredible and provocative and I admire her as the person she is and all the great things she does.”
Still, like many Gaga fans, he’s occasionally surprised by his pop heroine. Halford, whose Halford IV — Made of Metal hit stores this week, admitted he was somewhat taken aback by the ‘Fame” singer’s wardrobe choice in Maine. The Lady wore a conservative blue pantsuit, white collared shirt and patterned men’s tie, but what really caught Halford’s attention were Gaga’s massively oversize Coke-bottle glasses.
“I don’t know if she’s got really bad eyesight or if it was just another moment,” Halford said. “But I love that she believes all people are beautiful, which they are. How dare you call somebody ugly. That’s just abhorrent to me. She sends this message out to her fans and the world that’s really positive and I just wish her a long life, which is going to be difficult in today’s speed-of-light culture.”

Source: MTV.com

New Statesman Magazine: This is Gaga’s trick

When does a star become an icon? The moment she passes the six million mark on Twitter? The day she is nominated for six Grammy Awards? Or the month (August 2010) in which it is calculated she has sold more than 15 million albums and 51 million singles worldwide? Lady Gaga has done all these things.
But that’s not it. In her own words: “God put me on earth for three reasons: to make loud music, gay videos and cause a damn ruckus.” Ah, the ruckus. It has become the Gaga art form, most recently seen in the shape of a dress made of raw meat that she wore to the MTV Video Music Awards, provoking outrage and uproar in equal measure (“What does Lady Gaga’s meat dress mean?” asked the BBC).
Gaga is used to such reactions: the world attends her every theatrical move, from the live routine that left her blood-soaked and ailing onstage to the red leather Elizabeth I dress that she wore to meet the Queen at the Royal Variety Show last year. And yet, while some say she redefines empty exhibitionism, her army of obsessed fans – whom she calls her “Little Monsters” – surge to her defence.
This is Gaga’s trick. While she is mainstream enough to sell huge quantities of records and duet with Beyoncé (on the nine-minute song “Telephone”, whose video features prison bondage and lesbian kisses), she has established herself as an ambassador for the marginalised, the lonely, the misunderstood. It’s a lucrative market.
There’s a limitless supply of alienated teenagers willing to sign up to a life of Gaga worship, especially since she tattooed her love for them on her arm (near another of her tattoos, from Rilke: “In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself: must I write?”) But she was not always Gaga.

Born in New York City in 1986, Stefani Germanotta went to a private Catholic school on the Upper East Side, although she says her parents were from “lower-class families”. She was always, she says, an outsider, but a dorm-mate at New York University remembers her as “a very suburban, preppy, friendly, social party girl”.
The name “Lady Gaga” was born of a misspelt text by her then collaborator and producer, Rob Fusari (who tried to sue Gaga, saying she failed to pay him royalties for songs that he had co-written) – yet a New York Post profile claimed it was concocted by music industry executives.
This, too, is Gaga: a myth. The comparison is often made with Madonna – Gaga has inherited her mantle of Catholic-girl-turned-provocatrice. The feminist author Camille Paglia calls it “theft”, an image of an icon repurposed for modern times, but Gaga has morphed the brand with her own uncompromising, outlandish, androgynous style.
And for her millions of Little Monsters, she is not just an artist, a singer, or a wearer of impossible clothes, but their champion and heroine: the ultimate “self-professed freak”.

Source: New Statesman Magazine

Jason DeRulo appreciates Lady Gaga

Adam Lambert Gets Advice From Gaga

Adam Lambert is on a fast track to becoming a pop icon. While the former “American Idol” singer already has natural talents that have rocketed his career, he admits that he had a great pep talk from the biggest pop icon today, Lady Gaga.

“She told me about the previous three years. She worked really, really hard before she made it. e told me there’s no glamour, you don’t get a lot of sleep, you don’t get a lot of stability in your social life – you just have to count on yourself and go for it. It was a good pep talk. And she was right,” he said in an interview with MTV UK.

If anyone knows best, it’s Gaga.

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Lady Gaga and Giorgio Armani sign a partnership

Expect to see Lady Gaga in a lot more Armani from here on out. She has entered into a multimillion dollar partnership with the Italian designer who provided her Grammy outfits and "Alejandro" music video costumes.

Normally, celebrities who wish to be clad in Armani choose from the designer's runway collections. The designer's sleek style isn't exactly up Gaga's alley, however. His niece, Roberta, says:
It wouldn't be possible to give Gaga a look from the collection because she wears pieces of art. It's theatrical. The collaboration began last year when Giorgio's niece Roberta got in touch with Gaga's stylist Nicola Formichetti to ask about the singer's interest in wearing Armani for the Grammy Awards. Giorgio created three outfits for Gaga to wear, and instead of picking just one, she wore all three! The rest is history.
According to the WSJ, Gaga and Giorgio have yet to meet. There was little elaboration on what the multimillion-dollar deal entails, and Armani will be designing the costumes for Lady Gaga's next tour in December.