December 31, 2011

Anonymous, SOPA and Lady Gaga

December 29th, 2011, the group Anonymous whom I support, has issued a warning to Sony as well as Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian and Taylor Swift over their support of SOPA.  If you don't know what SOPA is, it is the Stop Online Piracy Act which will severely limit the Internet as you know it today.  This joke of an act is been put in motion by the United States Government in a futile attempt to "control piracy".   All those who have eyes and have ears know that this is not to protect us from online pirates, illegal downloading, etc but to control the people through the Internet - a domain that the government has no business being in.  It is our right to have access to information - not a privilege. 

Operation Blackout will commence on January 3rd, 2012. 

Here's a link to Anonymous' PasteBin with instruction on what you can do to stop this.  Click HERE.

If SOPA is passed, you can do THIS!





Here’s a list of all the publicly anti-SOPA tech/Internet companies I could find. Please add other ones you know of in the comments.

December 30, 2011

Billboards 10 Worst Album Covers of 2011




3. Lady Gaga | "Born This Way"

The Concept: Gaga as half-woman, half-motorcycle. Don't blame her -- she was born that way!
What Went Wrong: Gaga's visual artwork is often arresting, but the cover of her best-selling full-length simply couldn't convey the singer's unique vision. Here, she's on the wrong track, baby.

Click HERE for the complete list.

Thank you Chris P for sending this to me. 


December 29, 2011

Bummer, Dude: The 10 Big Musical Disappointments of 2011

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2011 was all set up to be the first year of Lady Gaga's enduring reign as the undisputed heir to the pop throne. While she was certainly everywhere this year, her anticipated coronation never quite achieved critical mass. Born This Way was a big reason why. By far the most anticipated pop album of the year, this overly serious slab of '80s bombast failed to deliver a single track with the earworm staying power of the hits from her monster debut. The song that threatened to come closest was the title track, a pandering would-be gay anthem that borrowed liberally from Madonna's "Express Yourself." If our Lady wishes to sit long on the throne, she'll have to do better. 

Read entire list HERE!

Thank you to an anonymous commenter for posting this link.

Lady Gaga: Role Model or Bad Example?

Essay written by Becci W

Like her, love her, or loath her very existence Lady Gaga is currently one of the world’s most powerful and influential people in the world: with her overly sexual lyrics, borderline pornographic videos and controversial fashion sense, is Lady Gaga the role model to her millions of ‘Little Monster’ fans she claims to be, or is she merely the best example of the worst sort of star? My personal opinion is no: to me Lady Gaga has very little to recommend her as a role model and here are my reasons why.

It is a well known fact amongst fans and critics alike that Lady Gaga has had problems with Cocaine and alcohol in the past, and that she wrote her debut album “The Fame” while high. In an interview with Q Magazine she admitted:

“Using drugs I really figured out the art I wanted to make and was inspired. Some people find inspiration in dark places. I guess I'm one of them. What always made me different is that if I was doing drugs I was also making music. I wasn't just doing drugs." (The Huffington Post, 2010)

To many people (and to myself) this seemed as if she was trying to justify her use of drugs as a means to be creative, that she had a good valid reason to be snorting Cocaine.

But ever since her rise to fame she has insisted that she had dealt with the problem and that those days were long behind her. Yet, in August 2010, in an interview with Vanity Fair the singer admitted she still takes Cocaine:

“I won't lie; it's occasional. And when I say occasional, I mean maybe a couple of times a year." (Vanity Fair, 2010)

This prevents her from being a role model in my opinion as the ‘occasional’ use of Cocaine is still usage, no matter how many times a year you take it. Also, after insisting that those times are over, in light of this declaration, she has lost all credibility, especially since a large majority of her fan base are impressionable pre-teens and young teenagers.

One of the many controversies surrounding Lady Gaga is her rapidly shrinking waist. If rumours from her ex-tour manager, David Ciemny, are to be believed, Lady Gaga goes on a binge/starve ‘diet’ to keep her size zero figure. According to her ex-tour manager she lost twenty pounds between fittings. But the real worry that she doesn’t look after herself stems from a line in an interview for The New York Times Magazine:

“It’s all about starvation: pop stars should not eat.” (Washuta, 2010 )

Also, many people from her past and old production team reveal that she would use diet pills and eat only one meal a day to stay slim.

Again, this is a very powerful, irresponsible message to her fans. And while some reports of this say that she said it in a mocking tone, it is impossible for people to pick that up while reading it on a page or computer screen.

My final main reason for my disapproval of Lady Gaga as a role model is her blunt use of sex and sexually explicit lyrics. I don’t just speak for myself when I say that Lady Gaga’s lyrics and videos can be seen as pressuring to have sex; what with the imitation of sexual intercourse in the lengthy “Alejandro” music video and the euphemistic phrase ‘disco stick’ in the song ‘LoveGame’. However, the most pressuring song from Lady Gaga is an unreleased track from 2008 called ‘Christmas Tree,’ containing the lyrics



“Ho ho ho, under the mistletoe,

yes everybody knows,

we will take off our clothes,” and



“The only place you want to be is

Underneath my Christmas tree,

light me up put me on top, let’s

fa-la-la-la-la la-la, la, la.”



You only have to analyse every song in Lady Gaga’s back catalogue with a critical eye for sexual innuendos and you’ll quickly see that sex is a large part of her music. While she may be trying to portray sex in a more positive light, some people and myself are of the opinion that she is focused too much on sex and highlighting it so sharply that it’s making some of her devoted Little Monsters feel uncomfortable and pressured, especially if they are not sexually active. I defiantly wouldn’t want that for a role model.

December 26, 2011

Gaga Sued By Former Assistant for Overtime Pay - Merry Christmas Gaga!!


Lady Gaga’s former personal assistant has filed a lawsuit against the pop diva claiming that she had to cater to the singer’s every whim, at every hour of the day and night, handling her schedule, finances and food.

Long Islander Jennifer O’Neill endured 13 long months as the domineering diva’s personal aide.

According to court papers, the Garden City girl could barely muster a poker face while ensuring the promptness of a towel following a shower and serving as a personal alarm clock to keep [Gaga] on schedule.

O’Neill said that there were no breaks for meals “or, at times, even sleep,” and she was required to be on hand for anything the Grammy Award-winning singer needed, at her “earliest waking hour” or for “spontaneous, random matters in the middle of the night.”

Part of O’Neill’s 75,000 dollars-a-year job was “ensuring the availability of chosen outfits”, which was no small task considering her ex-boss is best known for wearing a meat dress to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards and dressing like a “human condom” for a appearance on Good Morning America.

O’Neill filed a lawsuit against the pop queen’s Mermaid Touring company in Manhattan federal court last week for $ 380,000 in unpaid overtime, the New York Post reported.

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Just to be clear, Stefani is being sued for overtime pay, not for being a brat.  On that note, can't she reach for her own bloody towel after taking a shower?  Seriously?  Doesn't spoiled daddy's girl realize that buzzing someone at 3 am for whatever is way out of line and totally taking advantage?