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Lady Gaga Dangles the Big Banana!

"Wanna have dinner with me? Well now you can! Just give me your money first!".  Ok Lady Gaga didn't really say that but she might as well.  The Born This Way Foundation, a venture Gaga started with her mother Cynthia, partnered up with Prizeo to give her fans the chance at having dinner with her and her family in NYC at guess where? Joanne Trattoria! Holy promo Batman!  There's a catch though.  You have to donate to her foundation to be considered.  Your donation is basically an entry into the sweepstakes extravaganza.

The contest is set up in a tier structure.  The lowest tier is $10.00 and the highest is $2000.  The more money you give, the bigger and better a fan you are.  According to Gaga and her mother that is.

Let's not forget the contest tagline.

But what is the impact?  What exactly does The Born This Way Foundation do?  Sure, the words they use are warm and cozy. Just like a politician telling you what you want to hear to ensure their election victory, but has no real plan.

"BTWF’s revolutionary initiative, the Born Brave Bus Tour, is an educational ‘tailgate’ experience that connects young people to the resources, skills and opportunities they need to make a difference in their communities, and to one another".  

Again, what resources, skills and opportunities?  This is what I'm talking about.  A lot of talk but no real plan.  The Born Brave Bus accompanies her on her tour and sets up shop in the parking lot, where deviants like Terry Richardson join in on the fun.  What does the foundation do when Gaga isn't on tour?  Oh right.  It designs cute post-it notes, pens and other stationery to sell at Office Depot to help cure you of your emotional and mental ails. 

What else?  Help me out guys.  What does this foundation do when Gaga isn't on the road?  Are they in schools giving lectures?  Or is there an actual location or shelter that kids in emotional distress can go to?  Do they operate a self help line like Kid's Help Phone? Or is this charity simply another way for Stefani to prop herself up to Messiah-like status while getting a huge tax break?  Is this another way for her to revel in the worship she gets from her fans?  Just like her Little Monsters website.  Have you been on that site?  It's basically a shrine to Gaga.  All she has to do when she feels a little down is log on, read and her ego will be fulfilled beyond capacity.  

Fun fact, there is no capacity when it comes to Stefani's ego.  With all the recent competition and fame-blocking from another no talent attention whore that goes by the name of Cyrus, no doubt Gaga is worried and will pull out all the stops.  Including copying the fellow fur wearing daughter of the Achy Breaky Heart one-hit wonder singer. Right down to the all white clothing and matching shoes.  It's just a matter of time before Gaga starts sticking her white coated tongue out at every photo-op possible.

How can anyone take this foundation, it's aims and it's CEO seriously?  Especially when she works with sexual deviants and rapists like R.Kelly and Terry Richardson?  Paint me confused, but how does exposing her fans to these vile men inspire creativity and promote kindness, bravery and individuality?  How does giving them a pass help create a kinder and braver world?  

Anyone that truly cared about contributing to a kinder and braver world would extend that kindness and compassion to the Earth's basic creatures.  But the Queen of Kindness and Compassion has a wardrobe full of fur coats.  Not to defend meat eaters but when was the last time you saw a mink, fox or sable in your grocery store for you to consume after it's skin was removed for fashion?  How about never.  So the animal is skinned in the most atrocious way possible simply for fashion and the meat discarded and wasted.  All to satisfy her selfish, materialistic and shallow need for fashion.   From day one, Gaga has always been the prime example and perfect spokesperson for the "Do As I Say, Not As I Do" club.  Maybe that should have been the name of her foundation.

I'm not buying what she's selling.   Are you?

This Week in Gaga News

Billboard and Caca are both living in the past and celebrating Gaga's last No.1 hit.

Happy 3 yr b-day to Born This Way going #1! It'll always be my most important song to me. For it's message and how it brought us together.
— Goddess of Love (@ladygaga) February 25, 2014

Her most important song.  A song that she ripped off and tried to pass off as her own.  A pandering song with basic lyrics a three year old would understand.   Can't you picture it?  Circle time at a pre-school with the kids holding hands singing "My mama told me when I was young, we're all born superstars".  That's how basic this song is. Except now Humpty Dumpty seems like a more appropriate soundtrack to Gaga's career.

She hasn't had a No.1 hit since Born This Way. Every single since flopped like a fish out of water struggling to breathe and her latest CD ARTPOP is a massive failure that didn't reach even the lowest of expectations.  I guess she could always go back to pole dancing on the Lower East Side.  I heard Luc Carl's bar is hiring.

                                                                                                                                                                   

In other news, Gaga finally admitted to wearing real fur.  Her fans that wanted to believe so badly that their cult leader would never, ever wear real fur have nothing to defend her with anymore. Miss Breed Compassion (unless you're a fox, mink, sable or rabbit) has hit yet another nail in the fraud coffin. While talking to Harper's Bazaar about her space trip (which hopefully is a one way journey) the topic of Gaga's home came up.  For some delusional reason, Gaga thinks the topic is controversial when in reality no one gives a crap if she owns a home or not; nor is it at the forefront of their thoughts when they wake up in the morning.

"Honey?"  "Yes dear?"  "What are you thinking about?"  "Oh the usual. You know. Whether Lady Gaga owns a house or not? I can't get it off my mind.  It's all I ever think about". Said no one EVER!

It was during that conversation with the magazine that Gaga admitted to owning real fur.

Punk wear?  Please stop! Make it stop!  It hurts SO BAD!!  MAKE THE PAIN STOP!  MY INTESTINES ARE BLEEDING AND COMING UP OUT OF MY MOUTH FROM LAUGHING SO HARD!!  ARGH!!! MAKE IT STOP!  So there you have it. Gaga owns a sable. A real punk rocker would never own a sable, diamonds or Mikimoto Pearls. 

Perhaps a career at the Copenhagen Zoo would be a good alternative for Caca. I'm sure there's a few baby giraffes or tigers she could kill and make coats out of.

                                                                                                                                                                   

And this post wouldn't be complete unless I congratulated Lady Gaga on her latest ARTPOP achievement this era. Don't worry about not being nominated for a Grammy.  Who needs that when you've been nominated for a Nickelodeon Kid's Choices Award!  It must be bittersweet because although she got a nomination, she can't win here either.  Katy Perry and One Direction are leading this prestigious award honour. 

                                                                                                                                                                   

And in hate mail, here's one that makes total sense.  

This genius took the time to cyber spank me for my views on Gaga, tells me I'm contributing to her alleged cutting, calls it cyber bulling which leads to suicide but also tells me to direct it at Bieber instead.  Because he's more deserving of it?  Why is it bad to do to Gaga but OK to do to Bieber? 

Gaga on Jimmy Fallon

I guess she's going to promote this annoying ARTPOP thing for the next two years like it's some kind of monumental pop culture shift maker.  It's as if she doesn't know what single will be her next Bad Romance so she's going to test drive each one on every single talk show on this massive planet, to gauge the audience.  Throw a stack of quarters in the air and hope one is heads, right?  Yawn. Check out Caca on Fallon. What do you guys think?

               

Le Figaro questions Lady Gaga's popularity

As life would have it, anti-Gaga sites like mine and Paws Down aren't the only ones questioning Gaga's popularity, or rather the decline of it.  French newspaper Le Figaro is catching on as well. The French paper is scratching their head wondering why just a mere two years ago, Lady Gaga performed in the Stade de France; a venue that seats up to 81,338 people.  Now as she makes her way back with the ARTRAVE: ARTPOP Ball, she's playing The Zenith, with a seating capacity of 6000 maximum, over two nights.  The article is in French and you can read it here.  Here's a Google translation.  Please excuse any grammatical mistakes.

                                                                                                                                                                   

The pop singer will perform twice in a room less than its previous passages in France standing. Programming that is a blow to the pretensions gagaïennes.

Megalomania has she left Lady Gaga ? The tour artrave American diva will stage 30 and 31 October at the Zenith in Paris . An enclosure that can accommodate about 6000 people. There are two years old, she gathered 70,617 spectators at Stade de France , the largest space dedicated to such events in France. A disappointment which generates several questions about the popularity of the artist.

In a career, international stars the likes of Lady Gaga are generally used to make their first visit to France in rooms the size of Zenith Paris or the Palais Omnisport de Bercy (17,000 seats), then concatenate the complex Saint-Denis. Logic dictates that musicians have tasted dyonisienne arena are then taken to occur only on the scene, as is the case for Eminem and Bruce Springsteen. Rather than climb the steps one by one, the interpreter Poker Face tumbles down the stairs.

Live Nation, the producer of the tour has surely seen its ambitions down after the commercial failure of the album Artpop , released on November 11. While its label included a loss of $ 25 million due to a promotional campaign too expensive and poor sales, the disc has sold 1.5 million copies, against 8,000,000 for the previous Born This Way. A decline of public interest that goes along with a few rave reviews received on the artistic content .
Bercy also too ambitious

The choice of Zenith can be seen as a strategy of producer. Stade de France rather than half empty (a mishap known Prince and Paul McCartney ), better fill twice the Zenith, leaving it to some fans, unable to dig sesame on the tile. In terms of image, this limits the damage. Lady Gaga can always be argued, of course used to prefer smaller to be closer to its public room. In financial terms, the maneuver is however not as profitable. In addition to the decrease in revenues from the ticket must provide logistical expenses greater inherent in the presence of two days in the same city as an artist Lady Gaga.

The star could have bet on INTERMEDIATE solution with room Bercy. Bercy Arena The project , aimed at providing 3,000 places suppémentaire pregnant, a closing force as early as next March to be finished in October 2015. The room will reopen its doors to welcome including two concerts Stromae (17 and 29 November) and that 's Elton John (November 19). A schedule that would have suited the tour Lady Gaga, before moving to Paris in late October.

If the "Mother Monster" continues to see its rating devalue that we have to wait for a future tour?Lady Gaga may have to consider proposing a benefit acoustics in a room capacity Bataclan or Trianon. Disturbing.

                                                                                                                                                                   

Gaga speaks French right?  Putain de bordel de merde is a perfect expression to describe her career at this critical juncture in 2014.  Time to open that box of cheerios!