April 14, 2012

Lady Gaga fans irked as £80 UK gig tickets go for £1100

Wanna know why Gaga's tickets sold out in the UK in 60 seconds.  Read on.  When fans tried to buy tickets on Ticketmaster's website for £80, they were quickly disappointed to learn that the tickets were sold out.  They were then directed to Ticketmaster's sister site Get Me In where the tickets are being sold for a whopping £1100.  Holy smokes!! 

I see a clear case of consumer manipulation here.  What if the tickets were never really available on Ticketmaster and were planned ahead of time to be allegedly "sold out" so that fans were forced to buy them for the highly inflated price instead?  I think it's very likely.

Get Me In is a site for people to resell tickets they already purchased.  Sort of like a Craigslist but Ticketmaster receives a cut from the selling price since they own Get Me In.  The fact that tickets were already listed on Get Me In immediately after the supposed 60 second sell out sale is highly suspect.  Even if it were scalpers that bought all the Ticketmaster tickets and listed the tickets on Get Me In, it's very unethical for Ticketmaster to get rich from crooks. Then again corporations are crooks so if it walks like a duck.....

I personally do not believe it was scalpers.  I think it was Ticketmaster's intent from the start to sell most of the tickets through Get Me In and only a small number were allocated under the Ticketmaster umbrella thus resulting in a quick sell out.

Looks good for Gaga and she also gets a much higher profit for herself.

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Then watch this.

           

April 11, 2012

Lady Gaga's Dieting Wars and the Art of Hypocrisy

The setting, Brentwood High School in Los Angeles.  The event, the It's Our Turn women's conference.  The surprise guest, Lady Gaga.  Conference co-organizer Jade Iovine calls Lady Gaga to the stage where she sat with Maria Shriver for a 30 minute candid conversation about her struggles growing up. 

Maria Shriver began the conversation by stating that Stefani is an incredible example of being brave and having an authentic voice but that she wasn't always that way.  Stefani talked about her bullying but she also went on to talk about her poor body image when a female student approached the microphone and said, "I struggle with body issues, and I know you're so confident in the way you dress. And I am wondering how you deal with such issues?"

Stefani composed her thoughts for a moment then went on to admit  "I used to throw up all the time in high school. So I'm not that confident. And maybe it's easier for me to talk about it now because I don't do it anymore."

"I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night," Lady Gaga revealed. "I used to come home and say, 'Dad, why do you always give us this food? I need to be thin.' And he'd say, 'Eat your spaghetti.'"

"It's really hard," she continued. "But ... you've got to talk to somebody about it. And the fact that you stood up in front of this whole room and said that is so incredible."

"Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect," Lady Gaga said. "It's not real life. I'm gonna say this about girls: The dieting wars have got to stop. Everyone just knock it off. Because at the end of the day, it's affecting kids your age. And it's making girls sick."

This was just a mere two months ago.  She's right.  The pressure on young girls to be thin and to look a certain way is a cancer in their minds.  It's causing so many girls to strive by using any means necessary to live up to what society, the fashion world and magazines say they ought to be.  

Then, just yesterday, the founder of the Born This Way Foundation tweeted this.


I found this to be a very irresponsible thing to say.  For someone who demands that the dieting wars need to stop, she certainly isn't trying to be a true beacon of change.  Sure, she talks the good talk but her walk is crippled.  One has to question what the purpose of tweeting this is?  Pop singers don't eat? I was born this way?  Is this something she's wearing like a badge of honor?  

A more appropriate name for her foundation would be the Do As I Say, Not As I Do Foundation.  Stefani is very good at giving out advice but why doesn't she take her own? 

But that's not all she tweeted.  Stefani also bragged about her use of prescription drugs.


OK Princess Xena....I have to admit, I'm not sure if she's talking about the actual pill Xanax or her music having a Xanax like effect on people within ear shot. 

Either way, it's becoming more clear that Lady Gaga is not the appropriate person to spearhead the self esteem campaign when at the same time, she's advocating extreme dieting and pill popping.  It's her choice if she wants to take a Xanax but again why tweet about it?  It's irresponsible especially when most of her fans are teenagers themselves and I think it's about time media outlets and interviewers called her out on her hypocrisy and lies.

Here's an awesome comment from Oh No They Didn't.














P.S. I got linked to The Arts and Craft Daily.  :)


April 9, 2012

Money Hating Lady Gaga Buys $200,000 Car


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April 5, 2012

Lady Gaga is not as nice as she seems

Madonna finally got a Twitter account and last night fans got the chance to ask her anything.  Katy Perry was one.  Check out Katy's question and Madonna's reply.





Make no question, Lady Xerox was creeping in on the Q&A because not long after she tweets.....



First allow me to point out that Stefani can't even spell the title to her own song.  #dumb

Obviously this tweet was directed to Madonna and suggests that anyone in the front row watching her would kill themselves. Since Stefani is such an advocate against bullying and EVEN started her own foundation to combat the problem, she's just engaged in a little online bullying herself and it's very irresponsible for her to tweet this considering several of her fans have committed suicide.  Suicide has now become a joke when it suits her.  This further proves that all the sweet, niceties that Lady Gaga tries to shine upon the masses is just a ruse.  No one is that nice, especially in a cut throat business like the music industry.  If she were really that nice, the suits would have had her for lunch and spit her out a long time ago.
Secondly, this dumb bitch would not be where she is without Madonna.  Her entire career has been lifted from Madonna.  Everything she's done has been in unison with Madonna's career ala stalker style.  Her shows are like Madonna shows.  It's like she bought the Madonna career mold and poured herself into it.  Preheat to 350, bake for 1 hour and done.  Lady Gaga is a knife wielding, back stabbing, phony, lying, hypocritical sack of shit.  

Gags, if you read this, you are not and will never be as culturally important as Madonna nor have the impact she's had, ever. Enjoy the remaining time you have left because whether you choose to acknowledge it or not, people are sick of you. You've over stayed your welcome.  Hurry up and leave.

Have you ever known that one person that is "so nice"?  That everyone says all the time how "nice" they are?  Doesn't that make you a little bit suspicious?  Doesn't it seem fake to you?  It's a highly manipulative tactic.  Eventually people will see through it and in Gaga's case, it's already happening.

I love my fans.  I miss my monsters, can't wait to see you at the ball. My fans are the best. I love Whitney, she's my idol.  I love Madonna, she's a huge inspiration. etc, etc, etc. 

Pandering, pandering, pandering.  Transparent, transparent, transparent.
Guess who was nice enough to wish the witch Happy Birthday?  Katy Perry



Guess who didn't?  Madonna.

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April 4, 2012

Underage in Korea Banned from Lady Gaga's Born This Way Ball

The Korea Media Rating Board, a watchdog group in South Korea has branded the upcoming Born This Way Ball tour unsuitable for minors.  Anyone under the age of 18 will not be allowed to attend the show.  Their reasons?  Apparently it has to do with Stefani's advocacy of homosexuality, glorifying drinking and partying (Just Dance) and pseudo religious sacrilege.  

A few in South Korea have spoken up and Stefani later tweeting her thanks.




Nothing wrong with that.  Pretty harmless.  What about the next tweet?


Ok, this is what I shake my head at every time.  While I agree that it's up to the parents to decide what is appropriate for their children and not some crazy Christian group or ratings board, what the hell does this issue have to do with her ticket sales?  Why even bother mentioning that her sales aren't affected?  What is the point to even bring this up?  Stefani has to constantly stroke her own ego and somehow turn the spotlight of the true issue at hand onto herself.  

The true issue is whether her show is appropriate for minors and who should be deciding.  Parents or an organization. NOT how many tickets she's selling or whether tickets are still being sold despite the age restriction. 

Yet another example of her narcissism.  It never ends.   But you just know she's secretly proud of herself because it feeds her ego to know she's so bad ass like other controversial artists.


 Lady Gaga:  Whaaaaat?  South Korea won't let my prepubescent little monsters come to my show! Blasphemy! That's OK.  I'm still selling tickets there because I'm sooooooooooooooooo popular. I'm Lady Gaga. Time to tweet this shiz out!  What's even more cool about it is that I'm even more like Madonna!  Madonna banned and given a spanking by Rome and the Vatican and I got the same but from Korea!  Yay me!









April 3, 2012

Madonna Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200, Lionel Richie at No. 2







What's that about "flop" again?


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Oh...and this too.




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April 2, 2012

Lady Gaga Doesn't Want To Be Noticed Since Oprah Interview


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Gaga in West Hollywood on her birthday

Please don't look at me.   Stop taking my picture!  Can't you see I want to be left alone! That's why I forgot to put my pants on!