In a somewhat bizarre combination of video and short film, Mother Monster Lady Gaga has released an extended video to her “Marry The Night” music video.
It starts with what sounds like the ramblings of an insane person, but maybe that’s just what she wants us to think.
With tears streaming down her face, Gaga is seen in a hospital bed being checked by a nurse. Gaga tells her “I’m going to be famous one day” and “I have nothing left to lose.”
It is truly a strange, bizarre, weird video. Things then transition to the music portion, and if you close your eyes and listen you can almost see Madonna in your head.
“Marry The Night” is a strange video indeed and we’re not sure why she felt the need to go to these lengths of bizarre to get her point across.
But then again, she IS Lady Gaga.
Who would have thought that the words Lady Gaga and Quantum Physics would ever be uttered in the same sentence?
Strange stuff indeed. The song and music seems ok but it doesn't seem that different from her usual music. It almost seems unremarkable compared with the strange introduction.
But hey, what do we know about what goes on deep inside that monster brain of hers!
Not a lot of people in the United Sates know who Ronan Parke is.
He came in second place in the “Britain’s Got Talent” television show last year and, much like our own United States AGT runner-up Jackie Evancho, seems to be doing pretty well for himself.
Ronan, who was only 12-years-old when he competed on BGT, has already been signed to a record label and is preparing his first studio album.
During the Britain’s Got Talent competition he and Simon Cowell were accused of rigging the competition.
Parke was accused of training in secret for two years under the care of Simon – who was also accused of paying for his vocal couch and buying his cloths and sitting him with a fashion coach.
In fact, the day before the final show Cowell actually called the police to try and stop the rumors.
Watch Ronan Parke Talk about BGT Scandal
Ronan started singing when he was only three and has been taking singing lessons the last two years. After singing at a few birthday parties he decided to enter the BGT auditions.
He blew away the judges and audience, and was booked for the show and made it all the way to second place.
Watch Ronan Parke Sing on Britain's Got Talent
But now the show is over and Ronan has been in the studio after being signed by Simon Cowell’s record label.
He has also been performing live shows and has appeared at the Manchester Opera House, The True Loves Academy in London, The Edge Festival in Edinburgh, and at The Kazimier in Liverpool.
Not bad for the now 13-year-old.
His upcoming album will release on October 24, 2011 and will consist of remixes of popular cover songs.
In preparation for the new album release, Parke has been giving his fans a sneak peek at the various tracks.
One that caught our eye was an acoustic version of Lady Gaga’s “Edge of Glory”.
Ronan says that music is in his blood and it is all he wants to do in life. His parents are behind him 100 percent and it seems he is off to a good start.
Remember in the 1980’s when Madonna released her controversial book of scandalous photos?
The press condemned the move as a blatant attempt to use sex to sell a book of photos, and book stores around the country covered it with black plastic that only increased the desire to see what was on the inside.
Classic Madonna marketing.
Now, true to form, Madonna Lady Gaga is following in her footsteps, which seems to be her mode of operation these days.
Lady Gaga is partnering with famous fashion photographer Terry Richardson to release a book of photos said to contain almost 350 pictures of Queen Gaga herself – in both color and black and white.
“Terry followed her around for almost a year during her Monster Ball tour and the subsequent recording of her ‘Born This Way’ album. He has collected the best of the best photos and they will be displayed throughout the book with comments from Gaga herself.”
The singer also wrote an extended forward to introduce her little monsters to her book smarts and meat dresses.
If this sounds familiar it is – Madonna already did it.
We can only imagine what kind of photos to expect as Ms. Queen Lady has quite an extensive collection of fashion accessories – think meat dress and plastic eggs.
But we do know that Lady Gaga actually has a softer side to her bizarre public persona that she rarely displays.
In fact, last week as a guest judge on “So You Think You Can Dance” she broke down in tears while on camera.
Releasing a book only seems fitting for the Platinum recording artist and concert touring Queen.
She is the Queen Bee of social media having amassed over 12 million Twitter followers – behind only teen pop sensation Justin Bieber.
And if these Lady Gaga fan tattoos inked by her devoted fans are any indication, then she has definitely penetrated the world’s popular music culture.
She also knows how to push the edge with controversy.
Earlier this month she performed in a wheelchair and mermaid outfit pulled directly from Bette Midler’s bag of tricks from decades ago indicating she may be running out of Madonna tactics to steal.
Wow, what an emotional night on “So You Think You Can Dance”.
Not only was the dance emotional, but SYTYCD guest judge Lady Gaga actually broke down in tears – sobbing as she voiced her feelings.
In an amazing dance by Marko Germar and Allison to Jeff Buckley‘s passionate tune “I Know It’s Over”, they stunned the judges and the audience as they moved fluidly across the stage.
It really was very impressive and they got a standing ovation from the judges.
By the time the dance was over and the cameras panned to the judges it was clear that Lady Gaga had been moved to tears.
“I’m just so proud of you. There are so, so many things I did wrong when I was younger. And so many things I wish I could take back and I felt every moment of that through your dance tonight.”
After Gaga’s tearful critique of his performance, Marko pointed out his mother in the audience and said this was the first time she had ever had the chance to see him dance live and apologized for not being the best kid as he was growing up.
It moved his mother to tears.
Marko told his mom,
“This is the first time my Mom has got to see me dance live, I dedicate this dance to her. I wasn’t the best kid, I was a bit if a brat and I said some things that I shouldn’t and I want to say I’m sorry and I love you.”
Originally from the South Pacific island of Guam, Marko Germar moved to Los Angeles in 2008 to pursue a career in performance dance.
Watch Marko German Dance and Lady Gaga Cry
He has worked at Disneyland as a dancer for the show "Aladdin - The Musical Spectacular” for almost two years.
When Marko was only ten years old he started taking professional dance lessons in a studio in Guam called DANZJAZZ and continued there for nine years training in Jazz, Ballet, Tap, Hip-Hop, Ballroom and Gymnastics.
Last night his hard work paid off.
You can catch SYTYCD on the Fox Network at 8:00 pm.
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Now she has found another way to draw attention to herself while at the same time angering a whole lot of good people, disability groups, disabled American advocacy organizations, and spinal injury groups.
Last night, Lady Gaga appeared on stage during a special concert at the Sydney Town Hall in Australia in a wheelchair.
That’s right. She performed a song while rolling around in a wheelchair.
About two-thirds of the way through her shortened set she emerged on stage to perform “You and I” not only wheeling herself around in a wheelchair – but wearing a rubber mermaid tail.
After the show, several organizations representing people in wheelchairs, and patients suffering from paralysis and spinal cord injuries took to the airwaves to slam Madonna Ms. Gaga.
The Roman Reed Foundation took to twitter to say,
"Dear @ladygaga how about using your celebrity status 2 try 2 get us out of wheelchairs instead of cruising in one. Cool?!"
The Foundation later released an official response saying,
"Since this isn't the first time Lady Gaga has used a wheelchair in her performances, I invite her to learn more about the 5.6 million Americans who live with paralysis. They, like me, unfortunately, don't use a wheelchair for shock value. I extend a personal invitation to Lady Gaga to attend one of our Life Rolls On events where quadriplegics and paraplegics surf, skate, and snowboard, so she can see how much is possible beyond a wheelchair. Maybe that will be most shocking to her of all".
People, you have to realize she knows exactly what she is doing. She knows that by appearing in a wheelchair there will be an outcry and her name will be in the news for days. It’s the oldest trick in the book.
While some are slamming her for her bad taste, others are slamming her for once again ripping of another artist.
After repeated complaints that the singer has turned into Madonna, now people are yelling at her for the mermaid and wheelchair stunt – not because it’s in bad taste, but because Bette Midler already did it.
But you can’t deny Gaga’s hoards of ‘lil Monster fans and their dedication to their idol.
With 11.6 million twitter followers, and millions of Facebook fans, we suspect this is just another cry for attention that will only leave her looking for that next plateau of bizarreness – maybe she could amputate a body part and wear it as a hat?
After all, when you have fans who have extremely detailed tattoos of the singer inked to their body you know you have a dedicated fan following.
So the world will just have to let her slip by while we await her next big move. But she better hurry because I think she is running out of people to offend.
You know you have really hit the big time when your fans start emulating your hairstyle or fashion chic.
But when fans start to get tattoos all over their body with your mug - then you know you have penetrated popular culture.
And so it is with Lady Gaga fans.
Gaga, and her band of Lil Monsters, have found the most permanent way on earth to show their devotion for the “Born This Way” singer.
Fans all around the World are getting Gaga tattoos and aren’t afraid to show them off.
Some are small, and some are big, but they all scream Lady Gaga!
Below is InfoStar’s pick of the best ever.
Kind of scary huh?
We would love to follow up with some of these devoted fans in about 25 years and ask them if they still feel like they made a wise decision, or if it was a “Bad Romance”.
Her sales of “Born This Way” are down 80% over the last two weeks.
She is being compared to Madonna at every turn.
Her “over the top” persona seems to be getting old.
So what do you do to turn things around?
Release another video of course!
Today, Madonna Lady Gaga released her “Edge of Glory” video off her “Born this Way” album – and reviews are not good.
“It looks like she shot it on a Universal Studio back lot street scene. There is nothing new or exciting about this video and it looks and sounds like another Madonna rip-off.”
Indeed, other than her dancing around on a fake looking set billowing with stage fog there is nothing new here.
We’re not really sure what her message is except she thinks she looks sexy and acts like this is the best new song ever to grace the planet.
It really just falls flat and looks like every other video that artists are putting out these days.
“They crank them out like they are commodities – they all look the same and all sound the same. Her Judas video had 100 times more personality”
True. And with album sales of “Born This Way” crashing down, some say Ms. Gaga’s days may be coming to an end if she can’t come up with something new and original.
“How does she top what she’s already done? The meat dress? The egg? The outfits? She may have rolled all those things out too fast and too early.”
Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the richest of them all?
Forbes' annual list of the “Best-Paid Celebrities under Thirty” is out for the period of May 2010 through May 2011 – and the results will probably not surprise you.
The list covers the best paid singers, musicians, athletes, and movie stars during the twelve month period – not what they grossed, but what they put in their pocket.
Out of the twenty young celebrities, they cumulatively raked in almost $700 million dollars in paychecks during the year.
Topping the list this year is Lady Gaga with $90 million in paychecks. Most of that came from album sales and proceeds from her “Monster Ball” concerts – and maybe a few bucks from selling her translucent egg.
Justin Bieber came in second with $53 million worth of paychecks – mostly from his 150 “My World” concerts and his $100 million 3D movie “Never Say Never”. Bieber also had proceeds from fingernail polish, calendars, wrist bands, earphones, perfume, and other merchandise.
Coming in third place was NBA star LeBron James. His team may have lost last Sunday’s championship game, but his payday for the year was a modest $48 million dollars.
Looks like you don’t want to anger Lady Gaga’s Little Monsters.
In light of the fact that Gaga seems to me morphing more and more into Madonna, her fans have started to take revenge.
Several months ago, Gaga took some heat after she released her single “Born This Way” after it appeared to some that it was a knock off of Madonna’s “Express Yourself.”
Even after vigorously denying any connection to Madonna’s image and style, Ms. Gaga has continued to take heat for the similarities.
Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney took to twitter to ‘express himself’ on the subject, and has repeatedly referred to Gaga as “Madonna” in his tweets.
Carney said last June after the Grammy Awards program,
"I still can't get over Madonna’s performance at the Grammy’s this year! She was born that way!"
And last month he tweeted during Gaga’s gig on SNL saying,
"Madonna is killing it!"
Well, needless to say, her “Little Monsters” have not taken all this criticism of their star lying down.
Since last June, Carney’s twitter timeline has been slammed with obscene and threatening comments about his feelings towards our Lady.
Patrick is not letting all the fuss bother him, and has been re-tweeting many of the nasty comments, and letting Gaga know her fans seem to be “Bullying” him.
This is a direct swipe against Gaga as she is a big supporter of anti-gay and anti-bullying groups.
And to add insult to injury, Gaga's album sales of "Born This Way" are down 85% in its second week - not good.
Even Lady Gaga started as a ‘lil Monster at some point.
But when 11-year-old Jeffery Sewell was invited to belt out Lady Gaga’s “Born this way” at Joes Pub in New York City last month, he turned a few heads.
“Everybody just thought it was going to be some cute kid getting up on stage trying to sing Gaga. Nobody had any idea that he could actually sing and would have a great stage presence. He really had the crowd going at the end”.
Forbes is known for having its own unique type of clout and power.
They rank not only celebrities, but also powerful business and political figures on their respective top lists.
But this week their focus was on celebrities.
The Celebrity 100, which includes actors, Television personalities, models, athletes, authors, musicians and comedians, is a measure of showbiz related income and media visibility over the last twelve months.
Forbes also measures social media power by looking at each celebrity's presence on Facebook and Twitter. The criteria for being included on the list do NOT fall solely on money.
Today they released their “World’s 100 Most Powerful Celebrity” list and the results… well, aren’t as surprising as you might think - at least for the top 10.
But how powerful are the top 100? The combined earning power of celebs on this elite list tops $4.5 billion in earnings from record sales, concert tours, movies, endorsements, advertising, product sales, playing sports, and modeling.
Lady Gaga came in at #1 with $90 million in earnings and bumped Oprah Winfrey into the #2 spot. But don’t feel bad for Winfrey – she made over $250 million the last 12 months.
Teen pop sensation Justin Bieber came in #3 earning well over $50 million over the last twelve months and an estimated $150 million over the last three years. Bieber’s command of social media like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube pushed him onto the list for the first time in the 17-year-old’s career.
U2 came in as #4. The Bono centric band is well known for their worldwide social awareness and charity work. Singer and AIDS activist Sir Elton John came in #5.
A summary of the top 10 spots is below and you can see the entire list on the Forbes web site.
1 – Lady Gaga - $90 M 2 – Oprah Winfrey - $250 M 3 – Justin Bieber - $53 M 4 – U2 - $195 M 5 – Sir Elton John - $100 M 6 – Tiger Woods - $75 M 7 – Taylor Swift - $45 M 8 – Bon Jovi - $135 M 9 – Simon Cowell - $90 10 – LeBron James - $48 m
There were a few surprises this year including Glenn Beck, Adam Sandler, and Jay Leno. I guess we don’t see exactly how they are among the most powerful, but who are we to argue with Forbes?
It seems the farther down the list you go things become a bit more of a popularity contest, but we congratulate all of them for their efforts and input into the industry.
Is it time to bring in some new blood to the mentoring mix?
Big news this week for Lady Gaga and American Idol fans as Miss Gaga herself is scheduled to mentor the remaining four Idols during this week’s May 11th show.
James Durbin, Scotty McCreery, Lauren Alaina and Haley Reinhart are the sole remaining 4 contestants after Jacob Lusk was voted off last week.
And when I heard Haley sing Gaga’s unreleased single “You and I” last week I suspected it was not a coincidence. And I think some folks are getting tired of listening to Jimmy Iovine week after week.
Lusk is tired of him – and even blamed Jimmy for his poor performance last week that ultimately sent him packing.
Gaga is riding high with her just released music video “Judas”, but is coming under fire from some fans that her hit “Born this way” is a knock-off of Madonna’s “Express Yourself”. We have to admit, they do sound almost identical.
But we don’t really want to see Scotty McCreery emerge from some type of country style giant egg contraption, or watch James Durbin rock out wearing a tuxedo made of meat.
So we hope Gaga is gentle with our last four contestants as the stakes this year could not be greater.
But you can tell that an hour show is way more than necessary for simply revealing the voting results, and producers are having to fill the time with other performances.
Last week each contestant sang TWO songs and Jennifer Lopez graced us with a performance.
This Thursday, Steven Tyler will belt out his new single “It Feels So Good” and word has leaked out that Aerosmith will be performing during finale week.
The theme this week is songs by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who wrote most of Elvis Presley’s hit songs.
Really? Lady Gaga and Elvis?
Please Miss Gaga, no meat dresses, giant eggs, crown of thorns, nun outfits, or lesbian kisses – let’s keep things civil. After all, this is family hour. At least they didn’t go with Justin Bieber as mentor.
There have been rumors, and we have seen snippets.
We have all heard the song a hundred times already, and yesterday the official Lady Gaga music video for her latest single “Judas” was released on YouTube and Vevo.
The traffic was initially too much for YouTube to handle and there were times when the video was unavailable or ran slow. In just 24 hours it has been viewed almost 3 million times. The video site Vevo was also overwhelmed for the first 12 hours after the release.
And for good reason. It is awesome.
While less bizarre than “Born This Way”, it does hold on to that religious overtones that Gaga herself has been putting out there for the last month.
It has crowns of thorns, bikers named John and Peter, crosses, a huge cast of dancers, lots of weird makeup, guys kissing, and an interesting part where Miss Gaga explores her fetish of water.
Or only criticism is that you can clearly tell she is lip-syncing through some parts of it due to the extreme camera angles and close-ups.
We also still think it sounds a lot like Madonna's "Express Yourself". So much in fact, we think the allegations of plagiarism may hold some merit.
But overall we love it.
Watch Lady Gaga Official “Judas” Music Video
Gaga also visited with Ellen DeGeneres last week for her first live performance of “Judas” that gave us a sneak peek of what to expect with the new video.
Lady Gaga is once again coming under pressure for copying Madonna.
This time the criticism comes in the form of a visual mashup between Gaga’s “Born this way” and Madonna’s “Express Yourself” music videos.
I have to say, the first time I heard “Born this way” it made me think of “Express Yourself” so I was not surprised to hear all the news and speculation of theft and plagiarism.
But it wasn’t until we saw this YouTube video putting the two songs side by side that it really started to sink in.
I would like to believe Gaga when she says this is all just a big coincidence, but the two songs are almost identical – even down to the dance moves, costumes and body language.
I can’t believe that someone in the Gaga camp did not pull her aside and say, “Look – it’s a little too close for comfort.”
The criticism has moved Gaga to tears and she denies she tried to copy Madonna – but the video tells a different story.
But all is fair in love and music I guess, because as Gaga was taking heat for copying Madonna, Weird Al Yankovic was taking money for copying Lady Gaga in his latest parody.
NME magazine sure knows how to put Lady Gaga on the spot.
In fact, they know how to bring her to tears.
It all went down during an interview with NME Magazine when Gaga was asked about the similarities between her song “Born This Way” and Madonna’s song “Express Yourself”
First, I have to say the first thing I thought after hearing “Born This Way” was that it sounded like Madonna.
The press hears it, her fans hear it, the blogosphere hears it, I hear it, and even Madonna has heard it. But Lady Gaga? Not so much.
Gaga responded by saying,
“I don’t think… I swear to you. I am not stupid enough to put out a record and be that moronic.”
Well, it’s not like they were accusing her of plagiarism – even though that seems to be the way she took it. As if she had heard the criticism before.
But it was too late. Gaga lashed out at the interviewer saying,
“No. Listen to me. Why the f##k…? I’m a songwriter. I’ve written loads of music. Why would I try to put out a song and think I’m getting one over on everybody?
That’s retarded. What a completely ridiculous thing to even question me about. I will look you in your eyes and tell you that I am not dumb enough or moronic enough to think that you are dumb enough or moronic enough not to see that I would have stolen a melody.”
Of course after using the word “retarded” everybody had to pile on.
The mental health charity Mencap criticized the singer over her use of the “R” word and started a big stink about how irresponsible it was. Gaga has since apologized saying it was "furiously unintentional".
Gaga continued to attack the magazine with,
“If you put the songs next to each other, side by side, the only similarities are the chord progression. It’s the same one that’s been in disco music for the last 50 years. Just because I’m the first f##king artist in 25 years to think of putting it on Top 40 radio, it doesn’t mean I’m a plagiarist, it means that I’m f##king smart. Sorry.”
When the topic turned to her new single “Judas” she started to break down and cry when considering what her fans think of the new song.
This entire mess has been clearly uncomfortable for Lady Gaga, but on a bright note – Weird Al Yankovic released his parody of “Born This Way” today.
Weird Al has proven you can be successful by covering some of the most influential songs of our times – in parody.
But now he has truly shown us just how weird, and boring he really is.
After a public dispute where Al accused Gaga’s camp of denying permission to parody her tune “Born this Way”, he has taken his talents to YouTube with a parody titled “Perform this way”.
We now understand that Al has received permission and the whole thing was a misunderstanding - or marketing ploy?
Anyway, we’ve heard a lot of Weird Al stuff in the past and have to say – Al, you phoned this one in.
Yea, it’s a parody of Lady Gaga “Born this Way” – but Yankovic is unable to bring any of the Gaga emotion and it just sounds flat. Not anything new, or close to the days of his Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” spoof.
Al plans the use the Gaga single on his new album due in June.
Watch/Listen to Weird Al Cover Lady Gaga “Born This Way”
Really? Do we really need another Weird Al Yankovic album? There is only so much Al that I can take.
Funny Or Die on the other hand knows how to produce parody. The video below is a movie trailer for the "Weird: The Al Yankovic Story"
Over-the-top singing sensation Lady Gaga has graced us with the premier of her new song “Judas”.
Loosely based on the story of Jesus, Judas and his betrayal in the Bible, the new song has the very familiar sound of “Bad Romance”, and some parts sound like a “Paparazzi” knock-off.
We have to say, it’s not the most original Lady Gaga song we have ever heard, and now she introduces the element of God, Jesus, Judas, love, and religion.
Here are some of the lyrics,
When he comes to me, i am ready. I’ll wash his feet with my hair if he needs. Forgive him when his tongue lies through his brain. Even after three times he betrays me. I’ll bring him down, a king with no crown.
Judas look what have you done My heart bleeds and you think it’s fun? Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, Jealousy, Envy, Insanity, Misery, Rosary, Sunday, Trinity, Infinite, Judas, i love you baby! Signed mother monsteriety.
Oh brother, that’s all we need is to have Lady Gaga starting to preach to us as she sings to us. I suppose the next award show she’ll have a costume fashioned out of a cross?
That would certainly get her a little attention. Mark my words.
