July 5, 2014

Lady Gaga tries to pass Metallica concert photo as her own

Gaga bragged about the attendance at the Festival d'été de Québec (Québec City Summer Festival) on her Instagram last night, but instead of posting her own photo... she added a filter to a photo of a Metallica concert from 2011!

Lady Gaga's Instagram photo
Original photo

Source for original photo HERE
Lady Gaga's Instagram post HERE (which will probably get deleted any time now)


Wow! Was she hoping no one would notice? Or hoping that no one would care? 

Don't worry, Gaga. This won't affect you too much. If you can get away with making a music video that's "literally an ad for rape", you can get away with this too!

UPDATE:


Aww, someone's upset that they were called out on their lie!


Naturally, baby has to do what she always does when she's upset: whine, stamp her feet, and attempt to drag someone else into it.

July 3, 2014

Is Gaga taking her career in a new direction?

And no, I don't mean "up".

(Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
One of these things is not like the other
For the past few weeks, Lady Gaga has desperately been trying to get press for Cheek to Cheek - the upcoming jazz album that she's recording with Tony Bennett. She's making public appearances with him, constantly tweeting about him, getting a tattoo designed by him, wearing a wedding dress in a performance with him...(stalker, much?)

After being pushed back twice already (from January 1st, 2014, to sometime in March 2014) their duet album is now set for a September release date, just in time for the Grammy deadline of September 30th.

Roger Friedman from Showbiz 411 is quoted as saying: "I wouldn’t be surprised if it wins Album of the Year in February 2015. Big, big stuff this fall for this duo. PS I am told she will be dressed “elegantly” with Bennett on tour, no eggs, no meat dresses. It’s going to be about her Voice."

What about it? Is it suited for jazz?

On July 1st, Gaga made a "surprise" appearance at the Montreal Jazz Festival during Tony Bennett's set, and sang two jazz standards with him. One was "Lush Life" which you can listen to below, and decide for yourself:

 
My favourite part was when she continually tried to talk over him


Gaga reportedly told fans in Chicago, "Cheek To Cheek will be the end of the beginning of my career and artRAVE is a goodbye celebration to my past."

What does she mean by that? Is Gaga giving up on pop for good? Will her new jazz album take her back to the top? Will this be a smart career move, or will it be another flop?

June 26, 2014

She's baaaack!

Lady Gaga is back on the road today after nearly 3 weeks off, and despite doing all she could to stay in the news...

DWUW clip leak,
numerous attention seeking outfits,
news of a new album,
news of a new opening act for her show,
getting criticized by PETA for using her dog as a prop,
getting a new tattoo on her right arm (didn't she promise her dad to never tattoo her right side? Guess she lies to her family as much as she lies to the rest of the world),
having Perez talk about her all over social media and live interviews

(Did I forget anything?)

...she still can't sell a show out to it's full capacity.

I was able to buy out an entire row of "official" tickets on Ticketmaster

Second hand ticket resellers struggling to sell tickets



As we've seen through most of the artRAVE, second hand ticket resellers are struggling to sell their tickets to her shows, even though some of them have the prices set below cost (ticket prices on Ticketmaster for this show range from $51.70 - $121.25)

The good news for Gaga is that the several hundred tickets the resellers are stuck with are considered officially sold, since they had to be purchased in order to resell for profit. The empty seats may be disheartening for her though.

Oh well.

Better luck next tour, Gaga.

June 24, 2014

Did Perez Hilton reignite his feud with Lady Gaga?

From OK! Celeb News:

"Perez Hilton and Lady Gaga infamously fell out in August after the Artpop singer accused the Internet blogger of stalking her.

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Remember this?
                                       
"Perez Hilton stay away from me (and) my family. You are sick trying to rent an apartment in my building to stalk me. Leave me alone! I have confirmation from the building he was there," the 28-year-old tweeted at the time.

Having refuted the claims Perez openly spoke about the pair's broken friendship on the Howard Stern Show today.

"She's clearly talented, clearly ambitious, clearly fame hungry and clearly smart, but I feel used. I feel like the whole time she was pretending to be my friend and befriending me so I would write positive things about her."

Perez then admitted he felt "really sad and hurt" and described how he called Gaga to smooth things over.
"I was on the phone crying with her – she thought I'd set her up. I said 'why would you even think that? I'm your friend, I would never f****** set you up. I'm only here to put you in a positive light – you're my friend'.
"I'm cuban, I'm loyal. I don't have many friends – I thought she was a friend and a real one."

The 36-year-old then said after Gaga parted ways with her manager, she become the "meanest person".
"She had this album called The Fame Monster and she kind of became a victim of that herself and became consumed by it and became a monster," he said.

Asked if he wanted to be friends again, he admitted: "I have zero desire to patch it up and I don't think she does either.

"I would maybe one day like to sit in a room and have her look into my eyes and for me to reiterate 'I never was out to get you, I really viewed you as my friend'.

"I was her friend before she was famous and I would've been her friend even if she didn't become famous."

Over to you, Gaga."


 END ARTICLE


June 19, 2014

Gaga's "Do What U Want" video was scrapped due to "controversies"

   Lady Gaga scrapped R. Kelly duet video after controversies

From Page Six:

"Gaga scrapped the video for her duet with R. Kelly, “Do What U Want,” earlier this year, blaming time constraints and “those who have betrayed me.” But she may have dodged a bullet by not releasing the sexually charged clip.

The raunchy video starring Gaga and Kelly was directed by controversial photographer Terry Richardson and depicts racy scenes between the singers. Its release would have coincided with heated attention focused on scandals involving both Richardson and Kelly.

According to our source, Kelly plays a doctor in the video, with Gaga acting as his patient in scenes that riff on her real-life hip injury last year.

Gaga asks Kelly, “Will I ever be able to walk again?” The singer replies, “Yes, if you let me do whatever I want with your body.” The not-so-good doctor then adds, “I’m putting you under, and when you wake up, you’re going to be pregnant.” Alrighty, then!

We’re told the video was shot in September for a December release. After weeks of delays, it was mysteriously scrapped, and in January, Gaga posted an angry message on her Web site, blaming bad management and a tight schedule.

But we’re told there were other factors. Around the same time, Richardson was accused of sexual misconduct on his sets by several models, and an online petition asking big brands to stop hiring him was launched on change.org. (Richardson denies the allegations against him in a New York magazine cover story this week.)

Kelly, meantime, in December faced backlash over an in-depth Village Voice interview with veteran Chicago writer Jim DeRogatis, in which he chronicled “stomach-churning” sexual assault suits against Kelly in the 1990s, saying there were “dozens of girls — not one, not two, dozens — with harrowing lawsuits.”

A source told us, “Gaga had a video directed by an alleged sexual predator, starring another sexual predator. With the theme, ‘I’m going to do whatever I want with your body?’ It was literally an ad for rape.” A rep for Gaga and Richardson didn’t comment. Kelly’s rep didn’t get back to us."

End Article



Thanks for the link, Spyro.

UPDATE


Here's a snippet of the revolting video from TMZ.




From TMZ: "The NY Post now reports ... sources claim Gaga was in the dark over claims that famed director Terry Richardson sexually assaulted or harassed models -- claims that have now surfaced because the models have spoken out.  The Post says the models' allegations have shaken Gaga's people and triggered her change of heart over releasing the video."

Lady Gaga, feigning innocence and ignorance yet again.

Does she really expect anyone to believe that she didn't know about these claims, when she had him following her around and documenting her every move for ten months?

Here are some of her quotes, regarding her collaboration with Terry for their photo book Lady Gaga X Terry Richardson :
   "Terry was with me for [almost] a whole year, and, gosh, I didn’t hold anything back from Terry … he was with me every minute, every moment.”
   "It’s completely unfiltered. He has photographs of me waking up in the morning, brushing my teeth, in the bathroom, in the bathtub, the shower."
   "And then he’d film me, like, peeing in a cup and, like, ridiculous things.”

They've been working together since 2010, which is exactly when allegations really began to surface.