Lady Gaga - Born This Way (May 23)

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Jun 27, 2011 18:06:54 GMT -5 Fat Ass Kelly Price said:

Teh Gaga now has a tumblr: amenfashion.tumblr.com/

Oh... nice. Will definitely look at this often. :)

[jazzyskye10²]

Thank you to Hello Kitty for sending me special designed Gagasan Airport Kitty! Kawaii!

[when the pawn...]

So as DiscoSchtick posted in the CHR forum, it looks like "You And I" may be single #4.

outfrontcolorado.com/ofcblog/entertainment/lady-gaga-tells-all/

[discoloser]

We will see. I'm not sure filming a video means next single. But who knows?

[God]

I don't know if I like it following 'TEOG'

[kilt]

Y&I will flop or follow Judas' fate

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Jun 28, 2011 15:06:09 GMT -5 kilt said:

Y&I will flop or follow Judas' fate

You said the same thing twice.

[bibliotheque]

The album is back to #1 in the UK and saw a sales increase in Japan :)

UK

01 215,639
01 67,615
03 33,325
03 42,837
01 47,184

Total: 406,628

Japan

01 183,845
04 064,802
04 034,783
05 027,004
05 035,745

Total: 346,179

[libri]

'You & I' and 'Hair' are the only obvious singles left on the album, and like TEOG, they're pop-rock leaning songs that should do well on Hot AC. I think Y&I, with its adult and heartfelt lyrics and the familiar beat of 'We Will Rock U', could be her biggest single on Hot AC and stay forever there and thus is the perfect song to close the era. I'm still hoping they'll release a pop/dance leaning single next to give TEOG the chance to live up to its full potential and have longevity on Hot AC. I think 'Scheisse', 'Electric Chapel', 'Heavy Metal Lover' and 'Bloody Mary' are the only options for a dance single. BM is the most instant, but it's a bit too slow. Scheisse is catchy but too risky with the title and the gibberish parts. HML is sonically fantastic but has too few lyrics. So my personal choice would be EC. It's fast, merry and light-hearted -- I think it would be a good single for the fall + the Xmas season. After that: 'Hair', another dance single, and then close with Y&I.

[kmbgs]

Scheisse has to be released--and that is a fact.

[bibliotheque]

[bibliotheque]

The Hair performance was amazing.

[When I Ruled the World]

Jun 28, 2011 17:55:14 GMT -5 bibliotheque said:

The Hair performance was amazing.

It was! It must be released before the end of the era. It is too amazing to leave behind.

[Acid Eyes]

Are there any other songs from this album that she has performed?

You and I
Born This Way
Judas
The Edge of Glory
Hair
Scheiße

Clues to future single? Wishful thinking?

[nightshade]

She did Americano at the Monster Ball dates in Mexico.
She has also done a bit of Marry the Night at the NYC Monster Ball well...when she was about to go onstage. S
She did a bit of Government Hooker in the beginning of her MTV Video Music Aid Japan performance.

[Santo]

I'd be content with Marry the Night or Scheibe as the next single. Sh*t, even Hair. But You & I .. meh.

[Black Jesus]

VEVO Music Video view counts

Judas - 70 million
Born This Way - 64 million
Edge of Glory - 11 million

Surprised to see Judas at #1 :O

[Love Plastic Love]

Judas was such a great video and really got people thinking more positively about Gaga again.


Edited so people won't hate me

[jazzyskye10²]

Introducing the Queen of Pop

The last half-decade of popular music has been an era of female dominance: Britney. Gaga. Beyoncé. Katy. Rihanna. But who, we wondered, is the undisputed Queen of Pop?

Here is the first Rolling Stone Queen of Pop Index. We ranked 16 solo female artists, looking at album and digital song sales, Hot 100 rankings, radio airplay, YouTube views, social media, concert grosses, industry awards and critics' ratings. In alphabetical order, they are: Adele, Christina Aguilera, Beyoncé, Kelly Clarkson, Miley Cyrus, Ke$ha, Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, P!nk, Rihanna, Robyn, Shakira, Britney Spears, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood.

In selecting a time period to cover, we decided to focus on the very recent past: 2009 to mid-2011. (And thus artists like Fergie and Gwen Stefani were not considered, because they haven't released solo albums during that time period.)

You can probably guess who wound up on top if you've wandered past a newsstand or watched an awards show anytime in the last three years. But the breakdown is enlightening – even our lowest-ranked contender overall came within a false eyelash of topping one of the lists.


Link (To View All Categories) ://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/introducing-the-queen-of-pop-20110629


MASTER RANKING



Time for the moment of truth. Let's bake together all of these data points into one master list.

Surprised? Not likely. Lady Gaga as Queen of Pop makes a lot of intuitive sense.

No matter how we cut the numbers, Gaga was bound to crush the competition. Even if we'd stuck to data from 2010 and 2011, her massive album and singles sales swamp her competitors' – although that period might have given a boost to later career-starters like Ke$ha and Nicki Minaj. It might also have given an even bigger lift to Rihanna and especially Katy Perry, who were both on fire in 2010.

Conversely, if we'd widened our scope to five years instead of three, Taylor Swift could well have threatened for the top slot. And Beyoncé – with her string of 2007 and 2008 hits – would have made a much stronger run for Gaga's money.

Don't judge Beyoncé too harshly for her modest fifth-place ranking. Her I Am…Sasha Fierce album was already aging when 2009 started, and she's been between album cycles ever since. (We're confident that when we revisit this survey in a few months, her just-released 4 will propel her higher on the chart.) Named by Billboard as "Artist of the Decade" in 2010, Beyoncé has had so many hits since the turn of the millennium, she'd be anyone's first choice for Queen of Pop. Besides, an artist who kicked off the Obama Pop Era by singing to the Obamas at the 2009 inaugural ball has reached a whole other echelon of pop success.

Still: Our goal here was to crown the current tiara-wearer. And the hard-working, culture-dominating Gaga more than earned the title. Maybe a year from now, after 4 has spun off a year of radio, digital and video hits, Lady G and Honey B will be more evenly matched, tugging on either end of the Queen of Pop scepter like the demigods they are.

[darko95]

That article is absolutely ridiculous. They only counted the past few years. Let's talk in ten or fifteen years about then queen...In 2003 they claimed that Justin Timberlake was the new King of Pop...Completely bogus.

[jazzyskye10²]

Ehh...One can make an argument about the span of time they chose to use but considering that they were upfront about it, not so much.

[Black Jesus]

Very nice article!

[Oprah]

Jun 30, 2011 4:40:02 GMT -5 darko95 said:

That article is absolutely ridiculous. They only counted the past few years. Let's talk in ten or fifteen years about then queen...In 2003 they claimed that Justin Timberlake was the new King of Pop...Completely bogus.

It's worth noting that the intent of things like this is just to conglomerate data on which pop stars have been most successful over the past couple of years. The King/Queen titles are not some sort of proclamation that whoever's big at the moment has surpassed the legacy/accomplishments of Michael or Madonna, especially since those are really more nicknames associated with the two than actual positions.

[when the pawn...]

Impressive that even if it was just '10/'11 Gaga would still be #1. AND that she'd still be #1 if it included '07/'08, before she released anything (well...JD hit Fall '08, right?).

[Kishi KCM]

"Just Dance" released in April 2008. It started snatching wigs in summer 2008 and winter 2009.

[jazzyskye10²]

Lady Gaga at Haneda Airport



Gaga arriving at TaoYuan airport in Taiwan

[mc54]

She needs to cut the acoustic/self-indulgent performances of "Hair" and perform it like it's produced on the record. it would get such a better reaction. she's known for dance pop - cut the theatrics.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Jul 2, 2011 22:40:09 GMT -5 mc54 said:

She needs to cut the acoustic/self-indulgent performances of "Hair" and perform it like it's produced on the record. it would get such a better reaction. she's known for dance pop - cut the theatrics.

This is so backwards. Cut the theatrics? By...having none?

Personally, I think it's good that she's showing the side of her that can pull off a full performance without any of the extras. But I don't think she should be doing only those. Definitely mix it up. Appearances that allow at least two songs performed could have one with the full deal, dancers, etc and then the other just her and the piano. She's versatile. She's showing it.

[Love Plastic Love]

I have seen more positive reactions to the Hair acoustic than I have seen to anything Gaga has done for awhile. I would like to see the studio version performed soon, but I will NEVER criticize Gaga for slaying just sitting behind a piano and singing.

[₫anny Jerz ♔]

The stripped down performances of "Hair" are what helped the song to grow on me. The heart in the lyrics really kind of comes out in a way they don't in the studio version.