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?

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Rob Fusari on pre-fame Lady GaGa “She used to be anti club beats and performance art”

The Knowles family aren’t the only people that producer Rob Fusari is dishing on in his recent Billboard interview, with the “Paprazzi” hitmaker also discussing his time working with pop megastar Lady GaGa who he worked with quite a bit on her record-breaking debut album The Fame.

The story of how they met and GaGa’s transition is quite a long one, but if you read through it all you’ll see that Rob gives an interesting glimpse into the makings of one of pops biggest stars.

“In 2006, I got a call late one evening from a songwriter named Wendy Starland. I was into the Strokes at that time, and I’d told Wendy I was looking for a female artist to make a Strokes-type record. I answered the phone, and Wendy said, “I may have found your girl.” She was at a club in New York, where this girl, Stefani Germanotta, had just performed a showcase…”

After being blown away by the GaGa’s talent (he described her as looking like a “guidette” from “Jersey Shore”) the pair started a company together and got to work on making music.

How would you describe her musical identity at this point?

“She had a big Gwen Stefani/No Doubt thing going on. Some Fiona Apple, some Beatles.”

No club beats, no disco performance art?

She kicked and screamed: “No! No! I love what we’re doing. We’re not changing it.” I’m like, “Stef, just try this. Let’s at least abandon the live drums and some of the guitars.” I finally got her to agree, and that day we did “Beautiful, Dirty, Rich,” which was me sitting at an MPC drum machine and Stef playing her piano riff.
Then, one day, I read an article in the New York Times about Nelly Furtado and how she’d abandoned her folk-rock thing and made a dance record with Timbaland. My antenna went up. I said, “Stef, take a look at this. I’m really an R&B guy. I never produced a rock record in my life. I don’t know, you think maybe we should shift gears?”

“Beautiful, Dirty, Rich” caught the attention of labels and eventually led to Stefani being signed by L.A. Reid at Def Jam, but according to Rob after signing Stefani the music mogul ignored her requests to discuss her music and album, and then eventually he dropped her a few months later leaving her distraught.

After that Rob helped introduce Stefani to the man who would soon become her partner in crime, RedOne, and then after a lot of hard work and a few phonecalls Rob helped Stefani get a meeting with Jimmy Iovine, which eventually lead to her scoring a record deal with Interscope.

Unfortunately though since then it seems that the pair have drifted apart, as Rob cryptically tells Billboard below:

Are you and Stefani still friends?
I don’t know. I feel like I may have been demoted to . . . what would be one level beneath friend?

Professional acquaintance?

Yeah, there you go. That’s it.

What do you think happened?

I don’t know. I can’t figure it out and I won’t ask. I don’t know if I said something or did something. I don’t know.

Will you be involved in her next record?
I don’t believe so. {source}

And there you have it. Do you think that Lady GaGa changed her sound for commercial reasons, or was it just a natural evolution? Personally I enjoyed her music much more when she was just Stefani on the piano, but I love Lady GaGa’s flashy performances so I can appreciate both sides of the coin.

Maybe the underlying messages behind GaGa’s lyrics and the constant stripped-back versions of her songs that she insists on performing at every chance she gets are her way of doing the music she truly loves away from the formulaic top 40 dance-pop that sent her to the top of the charts. It’s just a thought. 

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Marry The Night Download Day FLOP!!

Last week, Lady Gaga’s “Marry The Night” creaked up three positions to #29 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart. To date, Mother Monster’s nocturnal tune is her 12th single, and, so far, it’s looking to be her first to miss the Top 10 altogether. So how did that Marry The Night Download Day Facebook campaign turn out, then? The date Little Monsters were to mobilize was yesterday (December 20).

“On Tuesday, December 20th (4 p.m. local time) fans around the world will download the song on their country’s iTunes,” reads the Facebook page for the fan movement. “If you already have a copy, you can gift another one to your friend.” Alas, only 7,154 Facebook users “liked” the campaign’s page — not really enough to make much of a blip on the radar.

We pretty much kept our hawk eyes trained on iTunes’ Top Songs chart throughout the day yesterday, and the highest we saw “Marry The Night” climb to was #39. As of today, the tune has dropped back down to #42.

Allow us to quote from Gaga fan Cris Sanchez, who wrote the following on the Facebook wall of the campaign today: “guess Marry The Night is going to be Gaga’s first single to not make the top 10….”

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LADY GAGA MARRY THE NIGHT OFFICIAL VEVO has left a new comment on your post "Another Gaga Fan Bites The Dust":

LADY GAGA is the most viewed ARTIST on YOUTUBE the BIGGEST music site in HISTORY!!!! BIGGER and BETTER then BIEBER and just face it BETTER then Adele who will get boring soon!! But after embracing her prior work, the MUSIC INDUSTRY is turning there backs on GAGA by playing GAMES with GAGA now and THERE FIXING THE VIEWS on YOUTUBE and MESSING with her actual ALBUM sales in an attempt to destroy LADY GAGA. MARRY THE NIGHT has been out for WEEKS and only has 20 million views theere is something wrong with there heads to DO THIS to GAGA!!! PLEASE stop hating GAGA and spread the word about the REAL PROBLEM these POWER HUNGRY evil record men who are manipulating GAGAS YOUTUBE VIEW COUNTS and RECORD SALES! EVEN if you really HATE her you should STAND up for what is right because they do this for she is a woman and ALL WOMEN ON THIS BLOG should think of her as themself and PLEASE spread the news about what they done to LADY GAGA its really not fair and you should agree!!! PLEASE FIGHT BACK NOW and view MARRY THE NIGHT and if you have an extra dollar and change you can get MARRY THE NIGHT at itunes. It's less then a cup of coffee guys so it is no big deal. We gotta stand up for STRONG POWERFUL women especially when they are being VICTIMIZED by power hungry men! 

                                                                                                                                                                    

This didn't come from me, FYI, but from a commenter on this blog.  I'd love to hear your thoughts because I do believe that the men behind the music business are scum sucking trash.

My dearest readers,

I know I've been a little slow with updates.  I'm on holidays right now until December 30th.  I'm in Los Angeles visiting friends and I'm a Godmother to my little sweetheart Sofie so I've been pretty busy!  I'll try to stay as updated as I can but it will be more frequent once I get back from my trip.  

xxoo
Miss Stef

P.S. Marry the Night is #30 on iTunes as of 11:33 Pacific time on Dec 20.  Not that iTunes means anything despite what Lil'Monsters tried to do on Marry the Night download day.