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Lady Gaga is naturally compared to legendary singer Madonna. She has the blonde locks, the powerful voice, sexy dance numbers, a rebellious persona, and even Madge’s facial features.
Gaga, who said Madonna has been a good friend, accepts the comparison. She revealed on Larry King Live that her mom looks like Madonna and that she looks more like her mom as she gets older.
But Gaga, the newly crowned Queen of Pop, also notices parallels between her life and King of Pop Michael Jackson, who died June 25 of last year.

Like Michael, she is considered a “freak”. Born Stefani Germanotta, Gaga was a social outcast and didn’t have many friends. It’s well known that Michael missed out on a childhood while travelling with his older brothers in the Jackson Five.
Like Mike, Gaga has a compassionate heart for underdogs. For Gaga, it’s the gay community. For Michael, it was poor or sick children. So while Gaga has her Little Monster fans who she hangs out with back stage and in bars during her world tour. Michael entertained thousands of little poor, sick and sometimes celebrity kids at his Peter Pan-inspired Neverland Ranch in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Like Michael, Gaga’s music videos are highly anticipated by the general public, and she has used her “Paparazzi” video to parody the media’s sensationalism while MJ sent the media a message with his 1988 “Leave Me Alone” video.

Then, there’s Gaga’s ever-changing hair, makeup and costumes. Of course, Michael dressed flamboyantly and his appearance changed drastically with every album while he masked his vitiligo skin condition and recovered from his hair catching afire during a 1984 Pepsi commercial shoot.
Gaga and Michael each have their imitators. Men and women wearing glittery gloves and moonwalking are staples of the Hollywood Boulevard scene. A long list of singers, including Usher, Chris Brown, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Beyonce, are inspired by the King of Pop. Over the years, many groups have re-inacted MJ’s “Thriller” dance, including actress Jennifer Garner and clubgoers in the movie 13 Going on 30.

While it’s speculated that Gaga has impacted Christina Aguilera’s style, she has influenced young boys to frat boys to sing renditions of her songs and mimic her dance routines on youTube. However, some of Gaga’s moves in “Bad Romance” are similar to MJ’s movies on “Thriller”.

Gaga, 24, confirmed to Larry King that MJ wanted her to open for him during his anticipated 50-show comeback tour at the O2 Arena in London. She said Michael’s death at age 50 forced her to think about her mortality. She noticed that many of the stars she admires, such as Michael and Queen’s Freddie Mercury, self-destructed and died prematurely. Michael often talked about dying, said his ex-wife and Elvis Presley’s daughter Lisa Marie Presley.

Hopefully, Gaga hangs around for many years to come to prove she can produce hits for decades as MJ and Madonna managed to do.

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I don’t blame Lady Gaga for being upset with American Idol for the hack job the production team did editing her recent appearance on the show.
American Idol’s edited version of Gaga’s performance was a ball of confusion, but the uncut version was a well-orchestrated production. AI producers cut 1.5 minutes out of the performance to save time, but gossip blogger Perez Hilted posted the entire performance on his blog.

Meanwhile, the University of Oregon’s male a cappella ensemble filmed a group song and dance routine for Gaga’s “Bad Romance” and “Poker Face”.

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Despite her skimpy, sexy stage clothes and songs about obsessessive romance, Lady Gaga likes being single and she has announced that she is celibate and is encouraging her fans to obstain from sex.
She said that it was cool for girls to have sex when she was growing up, but she said it’s no longer proper and she wants girls to be proud of being celibate and independent.
But it’s a little contradictory for Lady Gaga to also announce that she is giving away free condoms at all of her concerts if fans want to have sex.
Here’s a list of other stars who have decided to be celibate.

Meanwhile, Grammy Award winning singer Christina Aguilera feels threatened by the younger and more talented bleache-blonde’s success and has tried to alter her style to compete with Gaga, who recently won her first two Grammys after making five No. 1 hits and two top albums.

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Bill O’Reilly, a Republican and host of The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel, had Republican strategist Margaret Hoover and former Miss America Gretchen Carlson critique Lady Gaga’s infamous new video featuring Beyonce in their collaboration for “Telephone”.
O’Reilly said, “If my daughter looks like Lady Gaga, she doesn’t get out of the basement.”
Carlson, co-host of Fox & Friends, acknowledged Gaga, who turned 24 years old today, is a great singer and dancer, but the “video is embarrassing.” She criticized the video for being 10 minutes long and going three minutes before any singing. So I guess the former Miss America doesn’t approve of Michael Jackson’s hour-long “Thriller” video, which revolutioned music videos.
Carlson said Gaga put a big burden on parents to keep the video out of their children’s sight, and she had a long list of dislikes of “Telephone”, such as “woman on woman kissing, the porn, the brutal fight scenes, people dying, the fact that Beyonce would put herself in this video.”
But Hoover said the video displayed Gaga’s artistic talent and parents should explain that “it’s art”. She added that kids are not going to say,”Oh, they’re poisoning people. I’m going to go poison people”.

While I agree the video was artistic, it was very suggestive by Gaga looking directly into the camera and holding up the poison before pouring it on the food in a cafe’s kitchen. Beyonce poisoned her boyfriend, portrayed by actor and singer Tyrese, and Lady Gaga came by to finish him off with more poison.
It seems Lady Gaga has a fascination with death and poisoning. She “poisoned” her boyfriend on her “Paparazzi” video and she burned her man to the bone during her “Bad Romance” video.
Maybe she’s sending a message to her real-life ex boyfriend, songwriter and music producer Rob Fusari. He filed a $30 million lawsuit against Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta.

Fusari claims that he came up with Stephani’s stage name, helped her write some of her songs and advised her to add dance tunes to her rock vocals.

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Lady Gaga and Beyonce have teamed up again for another fun and sexy video.
A few months ago, Lady Gaga appeared on Beyonce’s “Video Phone” video.
Now, Beyonce is featured on Lady Gaga’s new “Telephone” video. The ladies recorded “Telephone” and “Video Phone” for re-releases of their individual albums.

Read this great review of Lady Gaga’s new “Telephone” video.

In case you missed it, here is Beyonce’s and Lady Gaga’s last video for “Video Phone”.

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Lady Gaga was a songwriter for other artists at Interscope Records and was about to be dropped as an artist — her fourth release from a label — when Akon recognized her unique fashion and her incredible vocal abilities and signed her as an artist on his new record label, Kon Live Distribution.
Akon, who was raised in former slave-trading African country Senegal, said Lady Gaga, who was born Stefani Germanotta in Brooklyn to her Italian-American parents, has made him so rich that he can retire from singing.
Yet, Akon soon will release an album of his own. He is the only artist to ever have the No. 1 and No. 2 song on Billboard’s 100 chart twice.
See what he has to say about Lady Gaga, who boasts five No. 1 hit songs in the last 12 months.

Lady Gaga, who beat out Britney Spears for two Grammy Awards last month, is the hottest name in music today. My Blackberry ringtone has featured a Lady Gaga song since last June.
Since her debut a year and a half ago, Lady Gaga has sold eight million copies of her debut album, The Fame, and the re-release, Fame Monster and 35 million singles worldwide.
Akon appeared in the music video for Lady Gaga’s first release, “Just Dance”. The song was nominated for a Grammy last year, which kept her from consideration for Best New Artist this year.
Take a look at one of Lady Gaga’s first interviews with Akon by her side.

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While Lady Gaga walked the Grammys’ red carpet in a head-turning Giorgio Armani original on Sunday, Britney Spears showed up in a fish-net outfit that looked like it was pulled out of her closet.

Before opening for the 52nd Annual Grammys, Lady Gaga beat out Britney in the Grammys’ pre-telecast to win Best Dance Recording with “Poker Face” and Best Electronic/Dance Album, for her debut album The Fame. Gaga’s two Grammys are the first of her less than two-year career. She received five nominations this year and one nomination last year.
The newly crowned Grammy Award winner opened the show singing and dancing to “Poker Face”, the song that skyrocketed her career, and she sat down for a piano duet with legendary singer Elton John. They sang his classic hit, “Your Song”, and “Speechless”, which the classical piano-trained Gaga wrote and composed.

Before singing “Speechless”, Gaga yelled, “Take my picture, Hollywood. I want to be a star”.

Gaga doesn’t have to wish to be a star. She already is and is outshining one of the biggest female stars in the last decade.

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The Recording Academy that chooses the nominees for the Grammy Awards have screwed up big time.
Lady Gaga isn’t eligible for the Grammys’ Best New Artist, an award she deserves to win for being an outstanding songwriter, singer, composer and performer and producing 5 No. 1 hits on her debut album and the re-released version.
Gaga is ineligible because her first single “Just Dance”, a No. 1 hit, received a Grammy nomination (Best Dance Recording) last year. However, the bulk of her The Fame debut album, including three more No. 1 hits, wasn’t released until months after last year’s Grammys. She produced her fifth No. 1 hit with “Bad Romance”, which was released at the end of 2009 with seven more new songs on The Fame Monster, a re-release of her debut album.
The artists who are up for the award didn’t have nearly the success of Lady Gaga. Nominees for Best New Artist are The Zac Brown Band, Keri Hilson, MGMT, Silversun Pickups and The Ting Tings.
Grammy president Neil Portnow recognizes the injustice for Lady Gaga and said the Recording Academy may change the rule to allow the year’s hottest new artist to compete for Best New Artist next year.
Nevertheless, Lady Gaga received five Grammy nominations, including Album, Record and Song of the Year which Beyonce and Taylor Swift were also nominated for.

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Lady Gaga released her first album 15 months ago, but her talent is so extraordinary that she has re-released her debut album with eight new amazing songs, most notably “Bad Romance”, “Speechless” and “Telephone” to satisfy the cravings of her growing legion of “little monsters”, the rising star’s nickname for her fans, like me.
Lady Gaga, 23, is one of those rare entertainers that comes around only a few times in our lifetime that has a talent that stands out from the pack. She’s an extremely gifted singer, pianist, songwriter, composer, dancer and costume designer.
Watch out Madonna.
Lady Gaga will be up for five Grammy Awards during the 52nd annual show on Jan. 31, and her debut album, The Fame, and re-released album, The Fame Monster, have combined for 8 million sales.
Celebrities paid $25,000 to see Lady Gaga’s private New Year’s Eve performance in Miami. And now Oprah Winfrey is singing Lady Gaga’s praises.
Before sitting down for a one-on-one with the singer, Oprah sang along with other Lady Gaga’s “little monsters” in the audience as the singer performed three of her new songs, “Monster”, “Bad Romance” and “Speechless” for the Friday edition of The Oprah Show.
During the Oprah interview, Lady Gaga, who is famous for her outlandish attire and on-stage antics, said she wanted to paint herself blue for one of her performances before the movie Avatar came out. She revealed that she prefers to be called Gaga because “it feels so weird to be called a lady”. But why does she say, “don’t call me Gaga” to begin her new song, “Monster”?
Add that to the mystery of Lady Gaga.
The “Poker Face” singer also revealed to Oprah that the one thing people don’t know about her is that she loves to experiment with cooking gourmet dishes.
She used her Oprah Show platform to turn attention to the victims of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. The singer will donate all of her earnings from her Jan. 24 concert in New York and all purchases on her web site, www.ladygaga.com, that day toward relief efforts in Haiti, where an estimated 100,000 are dead or missing. The New York native said she relates to the plight of Haitians because she suffered in New York on 9-11 and during the aftermath, and said her 9-11 experience pales in comparison to what is happening in Haiti.
Although she gets a lot of bad press for her antics, Gaga said she makes her music to exploit the sensational media and to encourage her fans to “free themselves” to “be yourself”, to “be proud of who they are” and to “celebrate all the things that they don’t like about themselves.”
And she urged her “little monsters” to “always be good to your parents” and keep “good solid relationships” with them. I talk to my mother multiples times every day, and I can’t wait to show the interview to my teenage son, who is also one of Lady Gaga’s “little monsters”.
If you missed Friday’s airing of Oprah, watch Lady Gaga’s performance and interview here.

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Most people I talk to look at me like I’m crazy when I say I’m a huge Lady Gaga fan because they say she’s weird or gothic.
I guess they base their opinions on her insanely spectacular stage antics. At the MTV Video Music Awards in September, she pretended to stab herself at her piano and finished the routine with “blood” spilling from her midsection before being “hung” from a chandelier.

Then, there’s the glass wall she broke and the glass bottles she shattered while playing a flaming piano and singing her latest hit song, “Speechless”, during her performance at the American Music Awards in November.

So maybe New Year’s organizers didn’t feel Lady Gaga was appropriate for ABC and NBC’s family-oriented New Year’s Eve broadcasts.
Well, they made a mistake, and Miami residents and visitors, including a bunch of young celebrities, were able to have Lady Gaga to themselves on New Year’s Eve as she performed four songs in front of the pool at Fontainebleu Hotel to help fans ring in New Year’s. She sold $1 million in tickets with tables selling for as much as $25,000
Lady Gaga is a musical genius with powerful vocal range, catchy dance steps and extraordinary skills as a pianist, songwriter and composer.
She was born Stephani Germanotta. Before bleaching her hair blonde, her long brunette locks, powerful vocals and magnificent piano skills drew comparisons to Nora Jones and Amy Winehouse.
Stephani dropped out of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Before she dropped out, she drew a lot of attention with her performance at a 2005 NYU talent show.

Stephani changed her name to Lady Gaga after one of her early producer’s nicknamed her Gaga because her vocal style was similar to late Queen rock band member Freddie Mercury, who sang “Radio Ga Ga”. Of course, gaga also means crazy.
Now that the lady has gone gaga, she has created her own name by combining the talents of Nora, Amy, Madonna, Cindy Lauper, Christina Aguilera and Britney in addition to being inspired by Queen, David Bowie and Michael Jackson.
Lady Gaga is sure to rake in Grammy Awards on Jan 31. She has five Grammy nominations, including album of the year, song of the year and record of the year.
Hopefully, then the masses can see Lady Gaga isn’t weird. She knows exactly what she’s doing, and she’s a musical genius.

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