Lady Gaga-The Lady of the Year

Each year brings about new results and happenings. Lady Gaga, a singer and songwriter, turned out to have a very lucrative 2008. She received a good number of nominations and awards apart from having one great album “The Fame” under her belt. She is said to be working on another album with Michael Bolton and Neyo.

Lady GaGa shows her versatility at being able to belt out different kinds of songs. She does not only stick to the usual song from the pop genre. But she also comes up with her own Christmas songs. In fact she produced a great holiday song entitled “Christmas Tree”.

This singer is just made of sheer brilliance. She can put together a great quirky outfit and yet belt out a song with mellow and even tones. But her brilliance is not the only thing that makes her successful. She is extremely hard working. She puts in a lot of time to finish one song. It is not enough that she comes up with a song. She needs to feel the song. When it comes to her productions, a lot of effort can be seen in the costumes and choreography.

Because of the dedication she puts in all that she does, everything she produces is excellent. She can learn to play the piano by ear. She can compose her own lyrics. She can perform in clubs with great ease. And she can even write songs for other artists and make it a hit. She is so at ease with her talent and ability that she can perform just about anywhere she is.

Last year, Lady GaGa signed in with Akon’s Kon Live. Her first single entitled “Just Dance” first played the airwaves last May and sat at the top 3rd spot. “The Fame”, her debut album came out last October and was well accepted by the music industry. Her album which has songs from the electronic, pop, rock and hip hop genres make people sit up and listen to her music.

Many people comment on her clothes and fashion style as it is rather different. But she just takes their comments into stride. She just feels like wearing anything that is trendy and continues experimenting on different outfits. Her zest for life is seen in her innovative ways. And this will definitely make her a success.

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Lady Gaga-Style Icon of 2009

Being named a ‘Style Icon’ of 2009, and getting wild reviews from all that features her, Lady GaGa is surely one lucky star. Nothing Lady GaGa does is petite –with exceptions to her figure of course. Everything in her world is a huge production. She’s never caught without the perfect pair of humongous sunglasses, not even one strand of her platinum blonde hair is ever out of place, and her striking stage costumes are always so crisp. So much attention is paid to her image that it’s not hard to overlook her music. Lucky for GaGa, her music makes just as big a statement as her feral image. Not one to back down from taking chances, Lady GaGa’s clothing choice ranges from the most bizarre outfits to the casual ones like a pair of flashing leotard shorts in her music video “Just Dance”.

Lady Gaga's style is heavily influenced by the 80's era. But do not doubt her originality, for this is one chick that can play around with a variety of style genre –imagine ancient style clashing with futuristic wardrobe. Plus this songstress not only writes her most of her songs, but also designs most of her performance attire. With her single “Just Dance!” hitting the Number 1 spot on the Official Charts this week, Lady GaGa proves that nothing is out of reach. During the recent Puma's 60th birthday celebration at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, the fashion Lady rocked her performance in a daring outfit. Gaga keeps true to her space-age chic artistic with a prismatic prom gown. Only she can show off in something as absurd as this. It's very Gareth Pugh in Toyland. Then she gets comfortable in what appears to be sporadic bathing suit-inspired outfit for her performance with her bandit-eyed army of dancers.

And speaking of proms? In Gaga's recent video, she showcases her wild, ultramodern style in "Poker Face" with an acrylic shoulder piece bought from Academy of Art University student, Mike Feeney. Mike Feeney created this piece of attire for Academy of Art University's April 2008 Spring Show and the diva works it really well. Really, really well because it isn’t easy to walk around let alone perform in something that people only can appreciate but never wear. That’s definitely not GaGa. Not only is she unafraid to experiment, Lady GaGA shows that she is a true supporter of young budding designers waiting to embrace the fashion industry when they step out of school.

“Just dance” made top ten where ever it’s touched; number 1 in Canada and Australia. “Poker face” got number 1 in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. That's some hot stuff. Soon, everyone is going to be wearing like her, since people are already bobbing their heads to her infectious songs. And some celebrities seem to be already following the path parallel as GaGa –or rather, on her path itself! Just take a look at Christina Aguilera’s recent fashion choice and Britney Spears latest video “Womenizer” and you’ll get the picture. It's all success for her and she’s probably the best thing to come out all year and for a long time!

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Lady Gaga and Her Fashion

If a fashion icon like Christina Aguilera remodels herself on you and looks strikingly closer to your total appearance, you can understand that you have arrived on the fashion scene and that too in no small a way.

Lady gaga looks to subtly morph her style associations into a unique gender-bending fashion statement. It is futuristic, very non-traditional. You can see a scantily clad lady gaga in the raunchy videos of just dance and there itself it will strike you that this girl is a little different with her fashion meter. Her fashion was manifest even in the early days when she simply put hairspray cans on fire on stage and came out dancing in her bikini and hot pants.

Lady gaga has perfectly exemplified what loads of self-confident fashion can do. Yes, it can make the purists come sniffing for you but at the same time it is enough to let you make your own style statement. Lady gaga fashion is all about understanding the need of human self-expression. This is something she enjoys in her art, in her life and in her fashion.

She confesses Peggy Bundy and Donatella Versace to be her icons. She feels that music as an art form can always be combined with fashion, attitude and abstract expression. This is where lady gaga fashion becomes universal while being perfectly individual.

Lady gaga has herself designed most of her stage outfits. Her dressing and her make-up is loud yet delicately subtle in parts. Imaging the huge shoulder pads, platinum blond make-up and well sketched out eyelashes.

Lady gaga is reminiscent of Gwen Stefani in the way that she has created her own unique style. There is no hint of moderation yet every thing seems like falling in place for lady gaga fashion. Her fab ensembles are being touted very highly and arguably her onstage clothing is simply the best.

Lady gaga recently revealed her fashion intentions claiming that fashion was everything for her. Even when she wrote a song, she conceptualized a vision associated with the song. This vision was of clothes she was going to wear so in a way, for her, performance art and pop art matched strides with on-stage fashion.

Lady gaga was a brunette till she found that being blonde in the white Andy Warhol mold was something that came more naturally to her.

Lady gaga's fashion may turn a different feather in some time. The girl is way too dynamic to stick to a single statement.

What do you think?

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Lady Gaga-The Future of Disco?

Flashy sunglasses, neon colored tights and animal printed dresses. Hard-partying, heavy drinking and high pumping music vibes. Poker and unconditional body contact (a lot of body contact!). And let’s not forget the famous disco ball. Has the disco era been revived? It certainly seems so especially in Lady Gaga’s new video, “Just Dance”. Featuring Colby O’Donis and Akon, this hype new video has a combination of undying disco with a dash of modern pop culture. It is impossible to pull of something this big –the emergence of music genres- but not for the 22 year old crazy retro dance freak.

She has ears made of classic-rock, a voice of the 60s, and the moves of a Brit-Disco queen. If she had it her way, retro would be a noun, and pop just a cute name for soda--not a dirty word. She's a tiny person with a big voice and a lot of love to spread as she ushers in a whole new era of music coated old-day music.  Madonna would certainly be proud of her; Lady GaGa is provoking and daring in the way she appears in her videos and on stage. In terms of her style in fashion, she is definitely crossing borders between past and future. Almost all of her on-stage outfits are self-made. Clothing fashions both sprang from and had influence on the various youth culture groups of the time which diverged and evolved as the decade progressed.

“Just Dance” and “Poker Face” welcomes the society of people who live in this generation but are not living beneath toadstools. Meaning that they are open to possibilities. People are so hooked on the material world that many tend to drift away from their culture. In a way Lady GaGa provides listeners with a sense of closure to the era that they never would engage with. Disco as we see it gave birth to many other musical genres: soul /jazz rock/funk and even to heavy metal and punk rock. Disco transcended these other forms of music by turning into universal appeal. Disco arouses the public with its music. The public determines what is good for them, not the critics.

The public's complete acceptance of this style of music gives it the power to call itself art. Lady GaGa’s music seems to be flooding with this style and she is most definitely an icon of the precedent.  She represents the Godfathers –and Godmothers- of the Age of Disco. Disco has been felt by all walks of live and its longevity has made its mark on music as determined by the artists/producers and the industry itself who keep reinventing itself and satisfying the public and their thirst for such music. Today Disco is everywhere and as Lady GaGa puts it…”Just Dance!”

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