Lady GaGa | "The Fame Monster" |

[JayBoozer]

Some photos from the red carpet at the Brit Awards:





LOVE IT.

[worldwide]

www.mirror.co.uk/2010/02/16/lady-gaga-s-brits-performance-at-risk-as-chreyl-cole-takes-her-slot-115875-22045551/

grrr

[bigbluenote]

LMAO!!!! I love this woman!

[ashley]

Her performance at the Brits was amazing. It was like something from the future beamed via early 90s Madonna. And the best part, loads of people just won't get it.

[picklerclarkson]

I wasn't impressed.

[JayBoozer]

Loved the second part of the performance... The acoustic telephone was terrible though because it ripped off PF acoustic and just sounded strange with the lyrics.

[Legoman]

I loved the whole performance

[neverduplicated]

Feb 17, 2010 1:36:40 GMT -5 JayBoozer said:

Loved the second part of the performance... The acoustic telephone was terrible though because it ripped off PF acoustic and just sounded strange with the lyrics.

I think in general she needs to either stop doing and change the way she does her acoustic takes on dance-pop songs. It was cute and interesting the first few times, but now it just sounds like a tired attempt at artistic credibility, which she has enough of as it is. I really don't like the style of her acoustic transformations. If she could actually compose an interesting piano part to go along with it, it might be alright, but she just plays a chord and then sings an unmelodic line of a great song, then plays another chord, then sings another line, and so on. Not only that but I'd much rather hear her do a full song than a half of one song and a half of another song. I wouldn't call that performance bad at the Brit awards bad, just unfulfilling. (I'm not bashing Gaga cause I love her, just offering some criticism).

[HEADOFTHEPACK]

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't - I understand her performance was reflective of her mood, but Telephone in particular really has no place on a piano - it hasn't even got that strong a melody. Dance in the Dark was also a little underwhelming. As has been said, it wasn't necessarily bad... just not particularly good either.

[starr]

news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100217/music_nm/us_lollapalooza_1

Lady Gaga, Soundgarden tipped for Lollapalooza

By Monica Herrera – Tue Feb 16

NEW YORK (Billboard) – Lady Gaga, Green Day and recently reunited rockers Soundgarden were widely tipped Tuesday as headliners for the annual Lollapalooza music festival set for August 6-8 in Chicago.

Arcade Fire and the Strokes are also rumored to be joining the lineup.

The news first surfaced on The Daily Swarm, which cited "multiple industry sources" as confirming the Gaga-Green Day-Soundgarden configuration. The music news Web site also reported that three additional headliners would be confirmed when the full Lollapalooza lineup is officially announced, which in past years has typically occurred in April.

Lady Gaga is set to begin a run of dates in the U.K. on February 18, followed by shows in Australia, New Zealand and Japan. She is expected to play North American arenas in the summer. She previously played Lollapalooza as a virtual unknown on a side stage in 2007.

Soundgarden's Lollapalooza appearance could possibly be the first by the Seattle rock quartet -- frontman Chris Cornell, guitarist Kim Thayil, bassist Ben Shepherd and drummer Matt Cameron -- since splitting up in 1997. But a Soundgarden tour routing is still a work in progress, due to Cameron's prior commitments with Pearl Jam in the spring and summer. The band played Lollapalooza in 1992 and 1996.

The Chicago Tribune, meanwhile, reported that the aforementioned three headliners are "nearing confirmation" along with the Arcade Fire and the Strokes, who themselves are returning from a long hiatus and recording their first album since 2006's "First Impressions of Earth."

A representative from C3, Lollapalooza's promoter, declined to comment on any of the rumored headlining acts.

Last year's Lollapalooza, headlined by Depeche Mode, Tool and the Killers, was the third highest grossing music festival of 2009, according to Billboard Boxscore. The festival grossed $14 million and was attended by 225,000 people over three sold-out days.

[Legoman]

Lady Gaga Reveals Details Of Revamped Monster Ball Tour For 2010

By James Montgomery (MTV.com)

If you've been meaning to check out Lady Gaga's Monster Ball Tour, but haven't found the time yet, get thee to a Stub Hub, stat. Because after she wraps the U.S. leg of the jaw-dropping jaunt in January, Gaga is planning on scrapping the entire thing in favor of a brand-new show, which she'll unveil during her run of U.K. arena shows the following month.

It may sound crazy - and certainly, those close to the singer maintain it is - but, as Gaga sees it, re-vamping the Monster Ball Tour is just something she has to do, especially since the current version of the tour came together at the very last second.

"It's kind of funny because, after Kanye and I split up for this tour, I was really unsure if I could get a show together in time for my fans," Gaga told MTV News on Saturday, hours before her Monster Ball stop in San Diego. "But I didn't want to disappoint them and not tour over Christmas, and I had a new record coming out, so ... what's exciting about this show is that I was able to put together something that, in truth, I never would have done if I had a longer amount of time.

"So, I put together a show that is so perfectly an avant-garde-performance-art-fashion installation, put in a blender and vomited on as a pop show. It's kind of this amazing theme of evolution, but it's in a garage, and me and all my friends are kind of exploring the music," she continued. "But it's a very vacuous space. It's a box, it's a runway, and we have to transform that space to feel like eight different acts throughout the entire show. But for the next version of the Monster Ball, which is going to be in February when I begin in the U.K. with my arena tour, I'm throwing out the stage. My team thinks I'm completely psychotic. But I don't f---ing care what they think."

Gaga wouldn't divulge too many secrets of the new Monster Ball, but she did say that Danish pop act Alphabeat will serve as the opening act. And she also hinted that her fans will be in for a very big show, in just about every conceivable way.

"Well, just to give you an idea, the stage is about four times the size of the one we're on now and conceptually, it's completely different," Gaga said. "One thing that has been lost over the past 10-15 years, in pop music, is the idea of showbiz. And this is definitely going to bring that back."

[gin]

Random blip here, just getting this on the record for when I'm proven right several months down the road, but when "Speechless" is released as a single it WILL go #1 CHR/Pop.

[Deleted]

the outfit is awesome....oh my gaga,she just wont stop amaze me in her invention.....but if one day she wore normal clothes with normal looks,i dont know how her fans will accept that.

[Legoman]

^^
Wrong gin.

[Mike]

So how did the release work for other countries? Is "The Fame Monster" charting separately like in the U.S. or do they just combine everything into "The Fame"?

[radicaltheory]

Feb 19, 2010 1:42:20 GMT -5 gin said:

Random blip here, just getting this on the record for when I'm proven right several months down the road, but when "Speechless" is released as a single it WILL go #1 CHR/Pop.

It definitely will.

[Choco]

Feb 19, 2010 12:46:37 GMT -5 Mike said:

So how did the release work for other countries? Is "The Fame Monster" charting separately like in the U.S. or do they just combine everything into "The Fame"?

It depends on the country, but mostly, TFM charted aside from TF. It was a re-release on France, the UK, Germany and Ireland.

[Black Jesus]

'The Fame' has officially sold over 10 million units worldwide. Best selling album since Kelly Clarkson's 'Breakaway', right?

[Mic Technique]

Feb 26, 2010 16:21:37 GMT -5 Black Jesus said:

'The Fame' has officially sold over 10 million units worldwide. Best selling album since Kelly Clarkson's 'Breakaway', right?

Amy Winehouse's Back To Black, rather.

Surely the TFM sales play into this?

[bibliotheque]

The 10,000,000 = The Fame & The Fame Monster (Deluxe)

That was the version released in msot countries as a rerelease, only some countries got the EP which counts seperately.

And this is shipments.

amazing in this day and age

[Mic Technique]

Re-release or not, it is quite the feat. I believe the only other American female popstars to have crossed the 10 million threshold in the past 10 years are Spears with OIDIA, Clarkson with Breakaway, Pink with Missundaztood, Madonna with COADF and possibly Carey with TEOM, though I could be off the mark. This certainly solidifies & confirms her status as the predominant popstar of today.

[Black Jesus]

Feb 26, 2010 16:44:49 GMT -5 Mic Technique said:

Re-release or not, it is quite the feat. I believe the only other American female popstars to have crossed the 10 million threshold in the past 10 years are Spears with OIDIA, Clarkson with Breakaway, Pink with Missundaztood, Madonna with COADF and possibly Carey with TEOM, though I could be off the mark. This certainly solidifies & confirms her status as the predominant popstar of today.

Clarkson sold the 10 million+ without a re-release. Just sayin' haha

[Love Plastic Love]

Kelly also did it 4 years ago before cd sales dropped Yes, the re-release helped, but it is still a huge feat to me and difficult to compare to cds released years upon years ago. In 2010, crossing 10 million worldwide is one massive ass cd.

[repentyourself]

So... she soldshipped(?) two million albums in two months? I remember right before Christmas she found out it sold eight million at one of her concerts. That seems a bit... unrealistic. I could be understand something wrong, though.

Also, TEOM did actually sell ten million worldwide, as well.

[picklerclarkson]

I don't find it that impressive since its two albums...

[Love Plastic Love]

Feb 26, 2010 17:11:37 GMT -5 repentyourself said:

So... she soldshipped(?) two million albums in two months? I remember right before Christmas she found out it sold eight million at one of her concerts. That seems a bit... unrealistic. I could be understand something wrong, though.

Also, TEOM did actually sell ten million worldwide, as well.

They ship in installments. It has sold 7-8 million already and is still selling 150k plus per week worldwide. Shipping 2 million ahead worldwide is not strange or unheard of especially since the album is still selling tons per week.

[Love Plastic Love]

Feb 26, 2010 17:19:43 GMT -5 picklerclarkson said:

I don't find it that impressive since its two albums...

Most artists don't even sell 10 million with two proper studio releases nowadays. Even the biggest albums are coming short of 5 million. Seems fairly impressive to me to do it with one re-release and not even two proper studio releases and full eras. I guess what is impressive to one is not impressive to others though. I know some people hate re-releases though and would discredit TEOM with Mariah, Rihanna's last one, Taylor's Fearless, Beyonce, and other albums that have seen a re-release though.

I say good for Gaga-she worked insanely, insanely hard to get a deal, tour, get noticed, etc. She definitely deserves it.

[Mike]

Feb 26, 2010 16:44:49 GMT -5 Mic Technique said:

Re-release or not, it is quite the feat. I believe the only other American female popstars to have crossed the 10 million threshold in the past 10 years are Spears with OIDIA, Clarkson with Breakaway, Pink with Missundaztood, Madonna with COADF and possibly Carey with TEOM, though I could be off the mark. This certainly solidifies & confirms her status as the predominant popstar of today.

Christina did it with "Stripped" as well!

[bibliotheque]

& I think Bey will have done it with her debut

So basically, GaGa has joined the who's who of 21st Century Pop :)

[Mic Technique]

Feb 26, 2010 17:19:43 GMT -5 picklerclarkson said:

I don't find it that impressive since its two albums...

Even amongst her contemporaries, whom all have acquainted themselves with re-issues & a variety of repackaging tactics, GaGa pulled off 10 million before any of them have. The Fame's nearest competitor is Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad, which sold short of 8 million internationally.

Feb 26, 2010 17:11:37 GMT -5 repentyourself said:

Also, TEOM did actually sell ten million worldwide, as well.

It did, Teej. But you've got to political around these parts just so that you don't ruffle any feathers. Speaking of, Madonna's Music also exceeded the 10 million.

Feb 26, 2010 17:48:22 GMT -5 Mike said:

Christina did it with "Stripped" as well!

Feb 26, 2010 18:23:03 GMT -5 bibliotheque said:

& I think Bey will have done it with her debut

Each maxed out, for the time being, at nine & eight million respectively. There was a number of misleading press releases issued back in 2003 & 2004 that gave way to a heap of confusion, understandably.