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!

Thanks to Edelman from Starbucks!

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.

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s pop’s current queen just a cowgirl at heart?

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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The new Vogue cover featuring Lady Gaga had its official unveiling today, but most of us have already seen it, thanks to a little leak earlier in the week by the pop sensation herself.

Which leaves us with what’s inside the mag’s pages.

While the profile piece covers the usual fare—her music, her unique sense of style, her “little monsters”—it also reveals that, even with all the fame and fortune, Gaga is still, in many ways, the girl formerly known as Stefani Germanotta.

“Funnily enough, I still live in the same apartment, hang out with the same friends, drink at the same bars, and I dance in the same studios with the same dancers,” says the meat dress-loving New York City native. “Really, nothing has changed.”

In fact, Gaga insists the same holds true when it comes to her parents and her relationship with them.

“Nothing has changed since I have become a star,” she points out. “I am a real family girl. When it comes to love and loyalty, I am very old-fashioned. I am quite down-to-earth for such an eccentric person.”

And since a lot of that eccentricity has obviously rubbed off on plenty of her fans, E! has decided to team up with Guiness World Records to attempt to set the record for the largest gathering of Lady Gaga impersonators at one time. It will air during E!’s Live Countdown Show at this weekend’s Grammy Awards.

Of course, all those impersonators will no doubt be even more inspired to get dressed up after hearing Lady Gaga’s new single “Born This Way,” which is scheduled to be released worldwide tomorrow.

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Thank you to Corrie:

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BORN THIS WAY
WRITTEN BY: LADY GAGA
PRODUCED BY: LADY GAGA, FERNANDO GARIBAY, DJ WHITE SHADOW
MIXED AND ENGINEERED BY: DAVID RUSSEL

INTRO:
It doesn’t matter if you love him, or capital H-I-M
Just put your paws up
’cause you were Born This Way, Baby

VERSE:
MY MAMA TOLD ME WHEN I WAS YOUNG
WE ARE ALL BORN SUPERSTARS

SHE ROLLED MY HAIR AND PUT MY LIPSTICK ON
IN THE GLASS OF HER BOUDOIR

“THERE’S NOTHIN WRONG WITH LOVIN WHO YOU ARE”
SHE SAID, “‘CAUSE HE MADE YOU PERFECT, BABE”

“SO HOLD YOUR HEAD UP GIRL AND YOU’LL GO FAR,
LISTEN TO ME WHEN I SAY”

CHORUS:
I’M BEAUTIFUL IN MY WAY
‘CAUSE GOD MAKES NO MISTAKES
I’M ON THE RIGHT TRACK BABY
I WAS BORN THIS WAY

DON’T HIDE YOURSELF IN REGRET
JUST LOVE YOURSELF AND YOU’RE SET
I’M ON THE RIGHT TRACK BABY
I WAS BORN THIS WAY

POST-CHORUS:
OOO THERE AIN’T NO OTHER WAY
BABY I WAS BORN THIS WAY
BABY I WAS BORN THIS WAY
OOO THERE AIN’T NO OTHER WAY
BABY I WAS BORN-
I’M ON THE RIGHT TRACK BABY
I WAS BORN THIS WAY

DON’T BE A DRAG -JUST BE A QUEEN
DON’T BE A DRAG -JUST BE A QUEEN
DON’T BE A DRAG -JUST BE A QUEEN
DON’T BE!

VERSE:
GIVE YOURSELF PRUDENCE
AND LOVE YOUR FRIENDS
SUBWAY KID, REJOICE YOUR TRUTH

IN THE RELIGION OF THE INSECURE
I MUST BE MYSELF, RESPECT MY YOUTH

A DIFFERENT LOVER IS NOT A SIN
BELIEVE CAPITAL H-I-M (HEY HEY HEY)
I LOVE MY LIFE I LOVE THIS RECORD AND
MI AMORE VOLE FE YAH (LOVE NEEDS FAITH)

REPEAT CHORUS + POST-CHORUS

BRIDGE:

DON’T BE A DRAG, JUST BE A QUEEN
WHETHER YOU’RE BROKE OR EVERGREEN
YOU’RE BLACK, WHITE, BEIGE, CHOLA DESCENT
YOU’RE LEBANESE, YOU’RE ORIENT
WHETHER LIFE’S DISABILITIES
LEFT YOU OUTCAST, BULLIED, OR TEASED
REJOICE AND LOVE YOURSELF TODAY
‘CAUSE BABY YOU WERE BORN THIS WAY

NO MATTER GAY, STRAIGHT, OR BI,
LESBIAN, TRANSGENDERED LIFE
I’M ON THE RIGHT TRACK BABY
I WAS BORN TO SURVIVE
NO MATTER BLACK, WHITE OR BEIGE
CHOLA OR ORIENT MADE
I’M ON THE RIGHT TRACK BABY
I WAS BORN TO BE BRAVE

REPEAT CHORUS

OUTRO/REFRAIN:

I WAS BORN THIS WAY HEY!
I WAS BORN THIS WAY HEY!
I’M ON THE RIGHT TRACK BABY
I WAS BORN THIS WAY HEY!

I WAS BORN THIS WAY HEY!
I WAS BORN THIS WAY HEY!
I’M ON THE RIGHT TRACK BABY
I WAS BORN THIS WAY HEY!

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