Lady Gaga becomes a ‘billion-hit’ artist

If you have watched any of Lady Gaga's online videos, you are part of this story.

The controversial, and for some too racy, artist's online videos have recorded one billion hits making her a record breaker.

The three videos on YouTube and Vevo that helped Lady Gaga set the record were Just Dance, Bad Romance and Poker Face with Poker Face alone recording around 375 million hits.

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GaGa has a monstrous new tattoo!

GaGa tweets: look what i did last night. little monsters forever, on the arm that holds my mic. xx

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Vote for GaGa on Billboard’s ‘Sexiest Person in Music’ Poll!

Billboard — Who’s the sexiest person in music? Very tough call, we know. You can imagine how much arguing took place at the Billboard offices as we tried to come to an agreement. The truth is, we couldn’t! So we’re leaving it up to our readers to decide.

Lady GaGa is nominated! You can vote here.

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Lady Gaga Is Poised To Conquer The World

The amateur videos would be captivating enough on their own. In one, a dignified young brunette is onstage with a piano and a jazzy ballad, performing for a university audience. In another, the girl and her blue-jeaned band gamely make their way through a Led Zeppelin cover tune.

But there’s a bonus layer of intrigue to those old YouTube clips, which have piled up tens of thousands of views. They’re a peek at a pop phenomenon in its infancy: Lady Gaga in the making. And they help document one of the most successful self-reinventions in recent pop history.

The world is now well-acquainted with the 23-year-old New Yorker born Stefani Germanotta, whose infectious dance-pop and edgy presence have brought her to the cusp of global superstardom. She was a college student and aspiring songwriter when that camcorder footage was shot. Now she heads into 2010 with momentum from five Top 10 singles and several show-stopping performances, and it’s a good bet that by 2020 we’ll view her as one of the decade’s cultural icons.

By transforming herself into a fabulous glam queen, Lady Gaga joins an elite clique of artists who have made careers out of reinvention. The obvious comparisons are the ones Gaga has cited herself: Madonna, David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Bette Midler. They’re musicians who empowered themselves to craft new personas — sometimes over and over again — and to use public image as its own artistic statement.

For most artists, pop spectacle is a kind of showbiz façade. For Lady Gaga, it’s a form of self-expression.

And making it click is no small feat: In an era saturated with colorful characters, when outrageousness is always just a mouse click away, Gaga’s panache has managed to stand out.

Talk to fans and industry pros about the appeal, and one word pops up a lot: authentic. There’s something organic in the synthesized sounds of “Paparazzi,” something honest in the eccentric couture fashion, even something serene in the visual razzle-dazzle.

“Lady Gaga has the real goods. You could see that very early. You saw her and just said, ‘Whoa, this is something special,’ ” says Live Nation’s Rick Franks, a three-decade industry veteran who booked Gaga for a pair of Detroit shows this week. “Talent shows itself every time. You’ve either got it or don’t, and she’s got it. She’s got star power as large as anyone, and right now it’s all working.”

She’s been happy to flex that star power, raising the stakes as she goes. This week’s Detroit stand, originally scheduled for the Fox Theatre, was moved to Joe Louis Arena as Gaga continued to beef up her production — expanding from a theater set into what Franks calls a “major Broadway spectacular” that will arrive in eight semi-trailers.

Easily dismissed at a casual glance as just another prefab pop concoction, Gaga has won over fans with a smart, self-aware approach. Behind the Kermit the Frog dresses, there seems to be an implicit message: Yes, this is performance art. Yes, I’m refashioning myself on the fly. Yes, this is my adventure, and you can dive in if you want.

That attitude — and the realization that genuine musical talent is at work — has earned Gaga the trust of even skeptical listeners.

“That’s what ended up selling me on her,” says Kelly Stanaj of Grand Blanc, a mother and former art teacher whose tastes lean to classic rock. “I’m not so keen on electronic dance-pop. When I first started hearing her — hearing ‘Poker Face’ nine times a day at the gym — I was kind of annoyed.

“And then I saw her perform live on TV. I realized this isn’t just some Auto-Tuned, keyboard dance thing. This was real. She is dedicated to her music down to the core.”

Stanaj, now a diehard Gaga aficionado, will attend Wednesday’s show with her police-officer husband, also a converted Gaga believer. She’s been startled by her own giddiness, harking back to her high-school days in the late ’80s.

“Gaga just strikes every chord with me,” she says. “It’s exciting. And she’s going to keep redesigning herself — she seems driven by that artistic expression.”

The Stanajes are part of a growing, diverse fan base, one well beyond the young females and gay men who were her audience early on. In just 10 months, says radio executive Michael McCoy, Gaga has secured the sort of broad following that often takes years to cultivate.

“She wasn’t so far out there that people couldn’t understand what she was doing,” says McCoy, program director at WKQI-FM (95.5). “There was a sense of seminormalcy in there. It was organic and accessible.”

The hype was already buzzing when Gaga played Royal Oak Music Theatre last March, a glittery, high-energy show for 1,700 curious concertgoers. Natalie Sugarman, then the venue’s marketing assistant, was impressed by the set, but amazed by what followed.

“She came into the lobby and signed everything for every single person waiting in line,” recounts Sugarman, who watched for 1 1/2 hours as Gaga attended to her fans. “She was making a personal connection with people. For an artist to take that time, at any level, is something rare.”

That’s something that should serve her well over the long haul. And a long haul does seem likely: Even in this speedy pop era, with its frantic churn rate, Lady Gaga appears equipped to keep writing her own script. Because even a frantic pop era has room for that timeless, intangible it.

“It’s that X factor that draws us to certain personalities and keeps our attention,” says Stanaj. “It just might be indescribable — if we could describe it, everybody would be fabricating it. We have that with Gaga, and we haven’t had it in a long time.”

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Lady Gaga’s new role: creative director of Polaroid

British pop star Lady Gaga has now donned the cap of creative director of Polaroid corporation to revive the popularity of the instant cameras made by them.

"I am so proud to announce my new partnership with Polaroid as the creative director and inventor of speciality projects. I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and as my father puts it - finally have a real job," dailystar.co.uk. quoted Gaga as saying.

Lady Gaga will officially unveil the partnership with an appearance at the consumer electronic show in Las Vegas.

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Lady Gaga “Barbara Walters Interview”

Lady Gaga - Barbara Walters Interview!

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GaGa about women

Lady GaGa has had sex with women but has only ever been in love with men, she revealed in a new interview.

The pop icon appeared on US TV as a guest of Barbara Walters this week, where she asked about her private life.

She confirmed that international chart smash "Poker Face" was inspired by her fascination with same sex relationships.

"That's really what the song was all about - why when I was with my boyfriend was I fantasising about women?!", she told the chat show host.

When asked by Walters about her lesbian flings, she explained: "I've certainly had sexual relationships with women, yeah".

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Lady GaGa’s Royal Variety Performance!

Her Ladyship met Her Majesty last night, as Lady Gaga was politely asked “what do you do?” by Queen Elizabeth at this year’s Royal Variety Performance in Blackpool. In a surreal fashionista nod to the monarch’s ancestor and namesake – but in a less flesh-flashing manner than is her norm of late.

Lady Gaga wore a red PVC dress complete with enormous ruff and puffed sleeves, together with some bizarre jewelled red eye shadow. Maintaining whatever dignity you can when playing piano suspended 20 feet above the ground, Gaga was ultra-careful in offering the Queen the deepest curtsey her outfit would allow, both after her performance and during the traditional face-to-face meeting all performers have with Her Majesty – she was also well-versed in knowing not to speak until spoken to and to address the Queen as “Ma’am.”

However, the US singer-songwriter, aka Steffani Germanotta, was specifically banned from performing in front of the Queen her now standard ’suicide’ stage routine of stabbing herself and releasing fake blood.

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The Fame Monster

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Lady Gaga “Bad Romance” Music Video

Lady Gaga - Bad Romance Official Music Video!

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