Lady GaGa Pays Tribute To Beyonce

MTV.com – Monday night was the premiere of Lady Gaga and Beyoncé’s sexy, Hype Williams-directed “Video Phone” video, featuring the two pop stars dancing and posing pin-up style with massive toy guns and matching leotards.

The clip is charged with energy, and the cynics out there might wonder if putting two sizzling divas in a room together created any kind of rivalry. But Gaga says there was no such thing.

“What I was excited about is with B, I had no ego,” Gaga told MTV News about the collaboration. “Neither of us had an ego. It wasn’t about competition. It was about, like, ‘Man let’s give the world what they want. Let’s do a real girl-power collaboration where we support one other.’ ”

For the Day-Glo-tinged video, Gaga ditched her typical avant-garde look and styled herself more like Beyoncé. “I said, ‘I want to do you in your video, and I want to tribute you. I want to dress up like you,’ ” she recalled telling her co-star. “And Hype Williams … was so excited. He was like, ‘Gaga I want no makeup on your face.’ It was really stripped down — real Beyoncé hair, and we wore the same outfit in the video, and I [paid tribute to] her.”

Gaga, whose own gothic-pop aesthetic has grown more elaborate as her popularity has risen, said she wanted to honor B for creating her own style. “I wanted to [work with her] because this was an era for her in her career where she defined herself aesthetically,” she said. “And that should be applauded that a woman did that. She’s so great at what she does.”

Lady GaGa Covers Flare Magazine

Lady Gaga is featured in the December issue of Flare Magazine. Pick the magazine on newsstands in November! Here are some highlights:

Training for the Monster Ball:
"I've been training for two hours a day to get ready for this. I sing on the treadmill! I do cardio and weights on top of my rehearsals. I want to get my whole body in prime condition so I can carry the show."

On what the world of la mode did for her:
"Fashion saved my life. It was complete liberation… it made me feel powerful, ambitious and much more resilient."

On her version of beauty:
"We all need an image that screams, 'I'm an individual!' I think Jennifer Aniston is beautiful — she’s gorgeous — but I prefer to look interesting rather than pretty.

The stunning photos were taken by Max Abadian.

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Lady Gaga Interviewed On The Elvis Duran Show

Lady Gaga was interviewed on the Elvis Duran AM show on Z100 this morning. She talked about everything: her album, her tour, her fans, her family, the collaborations with Beyonce and Madonna and much more! She has also announced that there will be at least four singles off The Fame Monster. Listen to the interview below:

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Lady GaGa Interviewed By 106.1 Kiss FM

Lady Gaga was once again interviewed by a Dallas radio station 1061 Kiss FM this morning. She talked about her upcoming tour and album, her father and her collaboration with Adam Lambert.

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Lady GaGa Reveals Plans For 'The Monster Ball'

Can you talk about the songs on The Fame Monster?
This is a new album. It's eight songs, I could have put more songs on it, but I just decided not to because I thought they fit beautifully together. I'm really excited about all my new work, and I've been going through some really wonderful times and some really rough times all at once, so it's been really good for my artistry. On the re-release, I wrote this song called "Speechless," which I think is the best song I've ever written. It's about my dad, it's a really beautiful ballad. It's piano-driven, and there's no beat on it, it's all live instruments. I produced it with Ron Fair, so we did a full live orchestra, recorded everything with live drums, live guitar and bass with me playing piano. We got that really organic, delicious feeling.

What was the thinking behind The Monster Ball?
I wanted to really put together a show that would be the most beautiful, expensive-looking, delicious show, but that my fans wouldn't have to pay a ton of money to come see. So we're playing a few nights in a row. I've got super loyal fans, so I feel this tremendous obligation to take care of them.

You said it was a pop-electro opera.
Yeah. It's the first ever, so it's really whatever I want it to be. The theatrics and story elements are in the style of an opera. Imagine if you could take the sets of an opera, which are very grand and very beautiful, and put them through a pop-electro lens. The design of the show is very, very forward, very, very innovative. I've been thinking about ways to play with the shape of this stage and change the way that we watch things. So what I've done is I've designed a stage with Haus of Gaga that is essentially a frame with forced perspective, and the frame is put inside the stage.

It's got kind of a triangular inset, like a diamond, and everywhere we're playing, the dimensions fit this box that I'm bringing, so it's this giant box that fits into every show. So no matter where I go, my fans get the same experience. So often you go into theaters and there's ambient light flying in from all sorts of places, and the audience is in different spots, and the stage is in different shapes and lengths and widths and depths, so this is a way for me to control all the light and all of the different elements of the show. The theme of the show is evolution.

How will that theme express itself?
Each one of these songs on my album represents a different demon that I've faced in myself, so the music is much more personal. I don't write about fame or money at all on this new record. So we talked about monsters and how, I believe, that innately we're all born with the monsters already inside of us — I guess in Christianity they call it original sin — the prospect that we will, at some point, sin in our lives, and we will, at some point, have to face our own demons, and they're already inside of us. So we talked about growth, and that led us into this kind of scientific space, and we started talking about evolution and the evolution of humanity and how we begin as one thing, and we become another.

This is the first time you've had the resources to do a tour the way you wanted. You've visualized ambitious things before, but you probably weren't able to do it to this extent.
No, I couldn't, but there was one major ingredient that was missing, and that's my fans. Now, I have the inspiration of my fans, and I know what they want. I think there's a lot of artists that are very self-serving, but I'm not one of them. When I create and make music, I make music that my fans want to hear. My record label didn't want to put out that photo that's my album cover, with the brown hair.

They found it too confusing?
It was World War III. They were like, "It's confusing, it's too dark, you look gothic, it's not pop," and I said, "You don't know what pop is, because everyone was telling me I wasn't pop last year, and now look — so don't tell me what pop is, I know what pop is." It's funny, because I fought and fought and fought, and I actually ended up having two covers, because I wanted to do this yin and yang presentation with the covers. When I go to see what my fans are saying, I go onto GagaDaily — they see the cover and say, "I don't really like the blonde one, but the brown one is fucking sick". They love it, and I know what they love, so I make it for them, I don't care what anybody else wants.

Were there elements of the Fame Kills Tour with Kanye West that were going to be in The Monster Ball?
I'm certainly inspired by what we were doing, but I made a decision based on integrity not to use any of the things that we had designed together.

So it's the great lost tour, then.
Yeah, probably. I guess that's kind of perfectly epic, isn't it, though? Isn't that exactly what's supposed to happen? It just wasn't the right timing. I don't want to embellish on it too much, because I want to respect Kanye's privacy. But we just had our own reasons. We're real friends, real friends can make decisions like that, and we wanted to keep the momentum going in terms of pop music staying innovative with hip-hop and R&B, and we really wanted to do it, and it just wasn't the right time. But who's to say what will happen in the future?

Is this tour going to include the band and dancers we saw on SNL?
It's going to be much bigger, but I love my guys. My dancers that are with me now have been with me for two years. I just shot a music video for "Bad Romance" and the Haus of Gaga did the whole art direction for it. We worked with Francis Lawrence, he's a movie director, and he almost never does music videos anymore, and I'm really impressed, even with myself — it's so amazing. That's another thing that keeps me going, when you have moments of adversity and challenge in your life, you have to dig deep. It's my music and my sadness that runs into one another and mutates and gives me the ability to make new things.

Have you already begun to plan the show's fashion?
The fashion, certainly, is going to be another exploration and another level from where we were with the Fame Ball. The theme of monsters is certainly going to be an influence, as well as the theme of evolution and change. It's going to be a truly artistic experience that is going to take the form of the greatest post-apocalyptic house party that you've ever been to.

Source: RollingStone.com

Lady GaGa's Equailty March Interview

Lady Gaga spoke exclusively to OURsceneTV Saturday night at the Equality March on Washington. They caught up with Gaga backstage at the The Imperial Court of New York and the International Court System's fundraiser, "Marching for Equality in Heels," for The Matthew Shepard Foundation.

Gaga, fresh off the HRC gala, said that she has faith President Obama will follow through on his promises to the LGBT community.

The Imperial Court honored Lady Gaga for her work on behalf of the community. While there, she not only accepted the award, she strutted her stuff as the "Supreme Diva of the Americas."

New Information About The Fame: Monster

Lady Gaga announced today that she will release The Fame Monster, a re-package of her 4 million-selling album The Fame. The album will include the entire breakthrough album The Fame, along with eight entirely new songs. The Fame Monster, deals with the seamier side of fame, as experienced by Gaga over the course of her last history-making year. The new version will be released on November 24, 2009.

Says Lady Gaga, "On my re-release The Fame Monster, I wrote about everything I didn't write on The Fame. While traveling the world for two years, I've encountered several monsters, each represented by a different song on the new record: my 'Fear of Sex Monster,' my 'Fear of Alcohol Monster,' my 'Fear of Love Monster,' my 'Fear of Death Monster,' my 'Fear of Loneliness Monster,' etc."

"I spent a lot of nights in Eastern Europe, and this album is a pop experimentation with industrial/Goth beats, 90's dance melodies, an obsession with the lyrical genius of 80's melancholic pop, and the runway. I wrote while watching muted fashion shows and I am compelled to say my music was scored for them. I also composed a ballad for the album, 'Speechless,' a song for my father, and it's my favorite work of all. I wrote every piece on the road – no songs about money, no songs about fame. I wrote it for my fans, so I wrote everything in between."

The first club-banging single, the RedOne-produced "Bad Romance," will be released in early November. Other collaborators on the new tracks include Teddy Riley, Rodney Jerkins, Ron Fair and Fernando Garibay.

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Lady GaGa's Billboard 'Rising Star' Acceptance Speech

Check out the video below of Lady GaGa accepting her Billoard 'Rising Star' award and her interview afterward.

Lady GaGa Takes Us Behind the Scenes in Interview Magazine

This past summer, while winding down her Fame Ball world tour in Japan, Lady Gaga, a.k.a. 23-year-old -Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, gave us an exclusive look at a side of the Haus of Gaga that most fans never get to see: her life offstage, which, unsurprisingly, is just as wildly insane as her life on stage. Here, we present Gaga (with handwritten notes by the Lady herself), as she takes Tokyo and Osaka, gets inked (twice) and then prepares for an S&M scene with the legendary Japanese photographer Araki. The Gaga epidemic has clearly gone global.

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Lady GaGa Talks About New Tour & 50 Cent's Comments With MTV

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GaGa Reveals MORE Info On Upcoming Projects

Kanye West can rest assured that new tourmate Lady Gaga has got his back.

Gaga said on Monday that it was unfair for fans to judge West for his onstage confrontation with Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards earlier this month.

"I can tell you that he's very sorry, and he made a mistake, and he knows it," Gaga told The Canadian Press over the telephone from Virginia, where the personable pop star munched on a bowl of cereal.

"But at the end of the day, he is a pioneer in hip-hop music, and he changed what hip-hop music means. And I think that it's time for everyone to kind of take their heads out of the newspapers and remember that, in truth, Kanye's making most of the music we hear on the radio today. "

"He has a tremendous effect on everybody's lives and I think it's unfair to judge a person by one thing that they said."

Though Gaga has offered her support to West now, what was her reaction in the moment when West wrested the mike away?

"It was: 'Oh jeez,"' she said.

The platinum-blond electro singer says she's not worried that fans who attend their co-headlining tour this fall will harbour ill will toward West, though she conceded that "you can never really tell what kind of response or what effect it will have on anything."

Meantime, she and West are hard at work designing their tour, which begins in November and has scheduled stops in Saskatoon, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal.

Gaga says they will use a new stage that stretches from one side of the arena to the other - "imagine an in-the-round experience, but larger," Gaga said.

Gaga also provided a look inside the notion behind the show - and, for fans of the flamboyantly bizarre singer, the high-concept show sounds as though it will be unlikely to disappoint.

"The storyline is that Kanye is on one end of the stage and I'm on the other, and the whole show, we are trying to get to where each other is," she said. "I want something that he has, which is the fame, and he wants something that I have, which is home, and my humble beginnings. So we battle each other throughout the entire performance to steal each other's spaces."

"So I'm essentially on a quest to kill Kanye West to steal his fame."

Gaga's debut CD "The Fame" has reached No. 1 on the albums chart in Canada, where the record has been certified three-times platinum since its release last year. She says she'll "probably" release a new record next year, but in the meantime, she's coming out with a double-disc version of her debut that will feature almost a full album's worth of new material.

She also says that her "SNL" performance this weekend will be more, um, restrained than past performances.

"I've got a couple things and ideas that we're working on, but truthfully I didn't want to do kind of any overproduction on 'SNL' because it's a very iconic performance in itself, the 'SNL' performance," she said.

"So it's way more about other things. It's way more about the choreography, it's about the songs, and I feel like I'm transitioning into a space where people are really recognizing me as a musician and I'm exploring that too."

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Gaga Talks SNL Appearance & The Fame Monster

After her fake-blood-and-drama-filled performance at the Video Music Awards, it seems that Lady Gaga won't be taking a break any time soon. She's appearing on "Saturday Night Live" on Saturday, is re-releasing her hit debut with several bonus tracks as The Fame: Monster on November 24, and she launches her co-headlining "Fame Kills" tour with Kanye West next month — and she said she'll be launching her own headlining tour in March. She talked about all of the above in recent interviews with Las Vegas radio station KLUC and San Diego's Star 94.1.

"I have a new single that I'm actually going to be performing on 'Saturday Night Live,' [along] with 'Paparazzi,' and then I'm going to put out a kind of new body of work," Gaga told Star 94; the single she's referring to may be a new song fans have been calling "New York." "It's kind of a re-release but [with] more songs than you usually get on a re-release. It's called The Fame: Monster and that's [coming out] in November.

"I wrote almost a full album's worth of material and right now I'm kind of spending my time sifting through it all and doctoring it and making it perfect and deciding what I want everyone to hear," she continued. "But I'm really proud of it. It's definitely life after The Fame."

Asked whether she'll be performing the new material on the "Fame Kills" tour, Gaga told KLUC, "You'll see all of it!"

She also revealed that she'll be embarking on a solo headlining world tour next year. "When I come back from my world tour, I'm doing another world tour after this, which is going to be in March of next year," she told Star 94.1.

At press time, a rep for Gaga had not granted MTV News' request for details on the singer's statements.

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Lady GaGa Reveals New Details About the 'Fame Kills' Tour

Check out the video below of Lady Gaga's interview with a Las Vegas radio station KLUC-FM. You can listen to it above: she talks about her upcoming tours, the VMAs scandal and how well Kermit kisses!

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Lady GaGa Interview/Performance at NRJ Radio

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Lady GaGa: "My Beautiful Vagina Is Very Offended."

Lady GaGa was once again asked about the hermaphrodite rumor in an interview to a Brisbane radio station.

Her reply:

"My beautiful vagina is very offended. I'm not offended — my vagina is offended. I've sold four million records in six months. I'm not embarrassed about anything."

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Lady GaGa Talks About Her Performance at the VMAs

Lady Gaga spoke to Newsweek's Ramin Setoodeh about the VMAs and her life as an artist so far. Excerpts:

Congratulations on your nine nominations. Have you always been a fan of the VMAs?
When I was younger, I used to wrap a big blanket around myself, an afghan my grandmother knitted, and I would wear it like a gown. I would run around the basement with popcorn and I would scream in excitement waiting for them to come on. I used to love the big pop acts. I remember Alicia Keys gave a beautiful performance and Michael Jackson with 'N Sync.

Have you figured out what you're going to perform?
I'm going to be performing one of the most recent singles off my album. But it's going to be a different and more dramatic interpretation. And it is most certainly rooted in New York-style performance art.

Do you think it will be one of those defining moments people will remember at the VMAs?
I know it will. I sort of have this philosophy about things: there's never a reason to do something unless it's going to be memorable, unless it's going to change things, unless it's going to inspire a movement. With the song and with the performance, I hope to say something very grave about fame and the price of it.

Do you watch yourself on YouTube?
I like to watch my performances sometimes. I'm always trying to improve on choreography and the stage shows. I like to watch the lighting. I often argue with my lighting designer on the show; as much as I like to light the show for the room, it's important to light the show and design the sound for YouTube. In truth, lots of my fans can't make it to my shows in Israel or Germany or in Paris, so they go online to watch them.

Everybody knows you now, but if somebody didn't, how would you describe your music?
It's New York pop. The music reflects the lifestyle of me and my friends living in downtown New York, with no money but a dream and fervor for fame and to be a star. And it was through a constant devotion to our work, as well as a relentless pursuit of our dream, that we are here today. For myself, the Haus of Gaga is not a marketing tool. It's a group of friends and young designers that I wish to use my fame to propel them forward. So it's music in tandem with art.

How old were you when you first wanted to be famous?
I think I was in my mother's womb. But it's not about fame, you see. It's about "The Fame." It's about a life of glamour. I believe in a glamorous life.

What's the difference?
Fame today, the stereotypical idea that we have about fame, is that cameras follow you everywhere and everybody is talking about you and you can't go anywhere. The "it" girl. [With] The Fame, I'm talking about the inner sense of confidence.

So you can be a non-famous person and still have The Fame.
I prefer non-famous people who have The Fame. I myself don't like celebrities. It's the idea that you can be whoever you want to be. You don't have to be a victim of your environment. You can become the image of yourself you project, [that] you could become in the future.

Why don't you like celebrities?
I just haven't had an excellent personal experience with celebrities. But I'm sure there are a few lovely ones. I have made a few friends, of course.

You wore a jacket made entirely of Kermit the Frogs. Were you a fan of the Muppets?
I do love the Muppets. It is a wonderful childhood memory I share. That particular jacket, we had no idea it would make such a splash. That jacket is very famous now. We're excited that it's famous. It's by a designer we wanted to support. I thought it was comical because I don't wear fur. But there was something morbid and hilarious and wearing a jacket made of lots of Kermits. Dead, dead Kermits.

Did you still have the jacket?
I sent it back to [the designer]. I imagine he would like to have it. Maybe some amazing fashion model will wear it on the cover of Italian Vogue.

I read on your Twitter they tried to arrest you in Russia.
They did. I was wearing my outfit from my performance at this nightclub in the middle of Moscow. I was in the car going back to the hotel. I asked them to pull over in Red Square so I could take a picture. I was out there for about five minutes, and I guess they thought my clothing was inappropriate.

You Tweet in German a lot. Do you speak it fluently?
I don't speak German, but my favorite writer is German, Rainer Maria Rilke. I just got a tattoo of this book he's very famous for, Letters to a Young Poet. I got the tattoo on my bicep.

How many tattoos do you have?
Six.

You recently wrote a song for Michael Bolton?
I love Michael Bolton, and I always have. The record label called me and said, "Michael is doing a new album, and who better to write an '80s love song than Lady Gaga?" I said, "You're absolutely right." I looked at it as an exciting opportunity, especially after I wrote "Just Dance" and I was writing for other artists, everybody wanted me to write them the next "Just Dance." It was always dance music. It was an exciting opportunity to work with someone as timeless as Michael and do a ballad. Do something that I'm really good at that I don't get to show very much. Or that I haven't shown on this record. But I will be showing on the rerelease, which is coming out this fall.