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Lady Gaga was “really devastated” to learn of Amy Winehouse’s death on July 23rd, she told Rolling Stone on Sunday while taking a break from recording a jazz duet of “The Lady is a Tramp” with Tony Bennett at a New York studio.
“It really affected me quite deeply,” she said. “Isn’t it strange to say ‘She is,’ and now I have to say ‘She was?’ I’m just really glad that we got to admire her and tell her how much we loved her when she was alive. I hope she knows now in Heaven, where she is, how much we all loved her.”
Bennett was the last to record with Winehouse, a duet of the 1930 classic “Body and Soul” in March at Abbey Road Studios in London. It will appear on his upcoming Duets II LP, out September 20th. “Everybody was apprehensive as to how it was going to go,” he said. “But she was really the best of all the young artists that I met in the current scene in the last 10 or 15 years. She was really singing true jazz. It’s just too tragic. I wanted to talk to her and tell her that if she doesn’t stop she’s going to die. I wanted to talk her out of the drugs, but unfortunately I never had a chance to talk to her.”
As she continued talking, Gaga’s eyes welled up. “I’m a huge fan,” she said. “She was my only hope when I was up and coming. Nobody knew who I was and I had no fans, no record label and everybody, when they met me, said I wasn’t pretty enough or that my voice was too low or strange. They had nowhere to put me. And then I saw her in Rolling Stone and I saw her live. I just remember thinking ‘Well, they found somewhere to put Amy…’”
Gaga added: “She’s really special. She just gave me a lot of hope and she deserved a lot better than what people gave her. And I hope that the world learns a lesson from this. I really hope they do. Because it’s not her lesson to learn – it’s the world’s.”
We want to thank her for all the love she gives us every day. Let the world know how united little monsters from all over the world are and that nobody will never stop our love.
That why, we’ve thought about your site to spread the word about our project, named #gagavideoworld. We want people to send a picture of them at the most remarkable place in their city (the name of the town must be included) while they’re holding ‘Born This Way’ album in their hands. We accept pictures with groups of people as well.
After that, we’ll edit a video including all the pictures received before August 31st (of course you’ll be included in the credits). People can send all pictures to: gagavideoworld@ladygaga-spain.com.
Spread the word on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube & more!
Today is the debut of “SRCH by Starbucks featuring Lady Gaga,” a digital scavenger hunt that will take Starbucks fans and Lady Gaga fans on a search for clues throughout the web and across Starbucks digital properties.
Customers can activate the scavenger hunt by scanning the QR code posted in participating Starbucks stores, or by visiting Frappuccino.com/game. Once involved in the game, they will solve a series of puzzles for the chance to win Starbucks and Lady Gaga-themed prizes, with an exclusive, experiential grand prize at stake for the first to complete the final level of the digital hunt.
Additionally, Starbucks will offer a special edition of Lady Gaga’s new CD, “Born this Way,” in-store beginning May 23 for a limited time. On that day, customers will be able to stream Lady Gaga’s entire album from the in-store Starbucks Digital Network.
Starbucks is excited to bring together their fans and Lady Gaga’s fans for this unique opportunity – let the games begin!
Alexander McQueen’s untimely death last year shocked the fashion world, and while Lady Gaga mourned alongside the designers and artists he touched, she believes his passing came with a purpose. “I think he planned the whole thing: Right after he died, I wrote ‘Born This Way,’” the singer explains in the May issue of Harper’s Bazaar. “I think he’s up in heaven with fashion strings in his hands, marionetting away, planning this whole thing.”
In fact, in a twist of fate, Gaga’s record label moved the release date of “Born This Way,” dropping it on the one-year anniversary of McQueen’s death. “When I heard that, I knew he planned the whole damn thing,” she continues. “I didn’t even write the f—ing song. He did!” In the interview, Gaga touches on her relationships with designers like Hussein Chalayan, who created her Grammys “vessel,” and Mugler creative director Nicola Formichetti, who tapped her to walk in his Paris runway show last month. But one topic that really stirs up some passion is plastic surgery.
“I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have,” she states. “I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.” So as for the protrusions on her shoulders, cheekbones and temples she’s been sporting lately? Pure art. “I am an artist,” she says of those ‘bones,’ “and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.” For more photos and the full story, go to harpersbazaar.com/ladygaga and pick up a copy of the May issue, on newsstands April 26.
With her second studio album due for release in May, Lady Gaga is crossing genres with a “Country Road Version” of her hit “Born This Way,” which she debuted via Twitter Friday morning.
The remix, co-produced by Gaga with Fernando Garibay, turns a club-ready beat into a more stripped-down, drawled-out ballad, and, in true Gaga fashion, she even takes a break from the usual routine with one new verse: “If we want it make it country, baby, it’s okay/’cause I was born, I was born, I was born this way/from London, Paris, Japan, back to U.S.A/I was born on the road, I was born to be brave.”
With a few harmonica touches, the reborn, country-fied tune goes where Gaga, 24, has never gone before – not an easy feat for the pop star known for her off-the-chart antics. And while pop and country are no strangers in the music industry – think Taylor Swift, LeAnn Rimes – we don’t know if we’ll ever adjust to seeing Gaga sporting cowgirl boots.
Carmen Cacciatore, co-founder of Fly-Life marketing agency, announced this afternoon that the earlier reported deal between Target Corp. and Lady Gaga was dissolved this past week.
Bob Witeck of Witeck-Combs Communications was familiar with the dissolved deal, although he does not represent Gaga or any of the parties, and told Metro Weekly, “Despite the expectation that this was all unfolding as a deal, it has been in a sensitive stage of continued discussion for probably the last three weeks.”
He added, “Quite a few people, even early on, were afraid it was going to dissolve.”
In February, talking to Billboard about the deal, Gaga had said, “[O]ur relationship is hinged upon their reform in the company to support the gay community and to redeem the mistakes they’ve made supporting those groups.” Target had faced criticism in 2010 for donations the company made to groups supporting candidates who oppose LGBT equality.
Of today’s announcement, Witeck said, “They wanted to make it public now. They decided it was important that people know there is no deal.”
Witeck said, speaking only for himself, “I’m very impressed by her.”
Referring to her LGBT fans, he said, “Throughout this whole process, she has remained true to her audience. I think she’s a person of great integrity, and I think people will recognize that.”
The specifics of the reason for the deal being dissolved were not immediately available.
Good news, little monsters: Lady Gaga’s new album, Born This Way, promises to be a club-friendly successor to the pop star’s slew of hits.
Before launching the new North American leg of her Monster Ball tour at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall on Saturday, Gaga previewed her highly anticipated third album, due out May 23, for a small group of music press backstage. And the five-song presentation by Vincent Herbert, an executive producer on both 2008′s The Fame and 2009′s The Fame Monster revealed more of the pumping sounds that will make fans want to just dance all over again.
The empowering, liberating first single “Born This Way,” which has already rocketed to No. 1 while drawing controversial comparisons to Madonna’s 1989 hit “Express Yourself,” was followed by “Judas,” a driving, thumping track that is the likely second single.
“Edge of Glory,” a rock-tinged tune, features Clarence Clemons from Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band on saxophone, while “Hair” is another club-ready anthem.
At one point during the preview, a yellow-haired Gaga, looking about as stripped-down as you’ll ever see her in bodysuit, tights and heels, emerged from her dressing room to playfully prance around to her new tunes. Later, during the sold-out concert, she went on to perform another Born This Way song, the piano-led ballad “You and I.”
Gaga finished her show with a rousing rendition of “Born This Way” – an ending that sent all her little monsters home no doubt counting the days until May 23.
It was no mistake: Lady Gaga’s much-hyped single “Born This Way” premiered on her Web site Friday morning, nearly two weeks after the Grammy nominee self-leaked the lyrics on Twitter.
“I’m beautiful in my way ’cause God makes no mistakes,” she sings on the track. “I’m on the right track, baby/I was born this way.”
And later: “Don’t hide yourself in regret/Just love yourself and you’re set.”
The club-ready anthem, complete with a few a cappella chants and Italian lyrics, shows off Gaga’s powerhouse vocal chords – and knack for powerful songwriting.
The song’s debut comes five months after she teased her Little Monsters at the MTV Video Music Awards with a sampling of the chorus. The album of the same name is set to hit stores May 23, and Gaga, 24, promised fans it would be the “greatest album of this decade.”
The Monster Ball Tour
