[271] The album explores new genres, such as electronic rock and techno. [61] Its first single, "Bad Romance", was released one month earlier[62] and went number one in Canada[50] and the UK,[51] and number two in the US,[48] Australia[63] and New Zealand. [272], The themes in Artpop revolve around Gaga's personal views of fame, love, sex, feminism, self-empowerment, overcoming addiction, and reactions to media scrutiny. She studied at Collaborative Arts Project 21, through New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, before dropping out to pursue a career in music. [298] Partly awarded in recognition of the dress, Vogue named her one of the Best Dressed people of 2010 and Time named the dress the Fashion Statement of the year. i prefer the live version, so deal with it. Her achievements include various Guinness World Records, 12 Grammy Awards, awards from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Council of Fashion Designers of America, and recognition as Billboard's Artist of the Year and Woman of the Year. [215] They ended the engagement in February 2019. In September 2010, she spoke at a Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's rally in Portland, Maine. "[277] On Chromatica, Gaga returned to her dance-pop roots, and discussed her struggles with mental health. [75][76] The Fame and The Fame Monster together have since sold more than 15 million copies worldwide. It won Best Art Direction and Best Special Effects. [365][366] In January 2019, during one of her Enigma shows, she criticized Vice President Mike Pence for his wife Karen Pence working at an evangelical Christian school where LGBTQ people are turned away, calling him "the worst representation of what it means to be a Christian". She studied music there, and improved her songwriting skills by writing essays on art, religion, social issues and politics, including a thesis on pop artists Spencer Tunick and Damien Hirst. [86] She also partnered with Polaroid in January 2010 as their creative director and announced a suite of photo-capture products called Grey Label. Lady Gaga appears as two alter egos. Lady Gaga performs "Born This Way" live At the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards. Gaga's business ventures include Haus Laboratories, a vegan cosmetics brand that launched in 2019. heti Single (track) Top 40 lista", "R. Kelly Called Lady Gaga 'Not Professional' for Removing Their Duet Amid Sexual Abuse Controversy", "Lady Gaga Scores Second No. The lessons taught her to create music by ear, which she preferred over reading sheet music. [33], Having initially focused on avant-garde electronic dance music, Gaga began to incorporate pop melodies and the glam rock style of David Bowie and Queen into her songs. [280] According to author Curtis Fogel, she explores bondage and sadomasochism and highlights prevalent feminist themes. Gaga began performing at neo-burlesque shows, which according to her represented freedom. Full-body tattoo model Rick Genest, aka "Zombie Boy," appears in the clip. [296], Time placed Gaga on their All-Time 100 Fashion Icons List, stating: "Lady Gaga is just as notorious for her outrageous style as she is for her pop hits ... [Gaga] has sported outfits made from plastic bubbles, Kermit the Frog dolls, and raw meat. Academy Award, Golden Globe and Grammy-winner Lady Gaga is a one-of-a kind artist and performer. Following the narrative of Lady Gaga's album "Joanne," the music video shows Gaga's friends and team helping her heal after the emotional and physical pain she experienced earlier in her career. [174][177] She later released a piano version of the album's title track in 2018,[178] which won a Grammy for Best Pop Solo Performance. [273] Billboard describes Artpop as "coherently channeling R&B, techno, disco and rock music". [334] The foundation's original funding included $1.2 million from Gaga, $500,000 from the MacArthur Foundation, and $850,000 from Barneys New York. [283] Her performances have been described as "highly entertaining and innovative";[284] the blood-spurting performance of "Paparazzi" at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards was described as "eye-popping" by MTV News. According to Billboard, this shift started with the release of Cheek to Cheek and the attention she received for her performance at the 87th Academy Awards, where she sang a medley of songs from The Sound of Music in a tribute to Julie Andrews. Joshua Sarubin, the head of Artists and repertoire (A&R) at Def Jam Recordings, responded positively and, after approval from Sarubin's boss Antonio "L.A." Reid, Gaga was signed to Def Jam in September 2006. [318] All profits from her online store that day were also donated, and Gaga announced that $500,000 was collected for the fund. [339] In 2016, the foundation partnered with Intel, Vox Media, and Re/code to fight online harassment. [35] In November 2007, Herbert signed Gaga to his label Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope Records, established that month. [5][6] From age 11, she attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private all-girls Roman Catholic school. [229] In September 2020, she appeared in the video campaign for Valentino's Voce Viva fragrance, singing a stripped-down version of Chromatica track "Sine from Above", along with a group of models. That blue lightning bolt beneath Lady Gaga's right eye is a tribute to her idol David Bowie. [74], In 2009, Gaga spent a record 150 weeks on the UK Singles Chart and became the most downloaded female act in a year in the US, with 11.1 million downloads sold, earning an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records. Fortunately, the dogs were returned, the dog walker survived, and everyone had a happy ending – well, almost everyone. [a] At this time, Gaga was tested borderline positive for lupus, but claimed not to be affected by the symptoms and hoped to maintain a healthy lifestyle. [347] She had been promoting it with a 21 days of kindness challenge on her social media, using the "BeKind21" hashtag. [335] In July 2012, the BTWF partnered with Office Depot, which donated 25% of the sales, a minimum of $1 million of a series of limited edition back-to-school products. 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Lady Gaga connected with celebrated Swedish music video director Jonas Akerlund for "Paparazzi." As a result, she was hired to write songs for Britney Spears, New Kids on the Block, Fergie, and The Pussycat Dolls. was released as the third single in March 2014 and peaked at number 76 in the US. [111] In November, she was featured in a Thanksgiving television special titled A Very Gaga Thanksgiving, which attracted 5.7 million American viewers and spawned the release of her fourth EP, A Very Gaga Holiday. Co-written and produced by Gaga and Nadir "RedOne" Khayat, it was inspired by her "Fear of Men Monster".The singer bids farewell to her lovers over mid-tempo synth-pop music with a Europop beat.. [340] The sales revenue of the 99th issue of the V magazine, which featured Gaga and Kinney, was donated to the foundation. [217] The residency consisted of two types of shows: Enigma, which focused on theatricality and included Gaga's biggest hits,[218] and Jazz and Piano, which involved tracks from the Great American Songbook and stripped-down versions of Gaga's songs. [167], Gaga played a witch named Scathach in American Horror Story: Roanoke, the series' sixth season,[168] which ran from September to November 2016. Famed fashion photographer Steven Klein directed Lady Gaga's music video for "Alejandro." Critics praised the disturbing scenes depicted and Lady Gaga's fearlessness in bringing the issue to the attention of the general public. [10] Gaga played the lead roles of Adelaide in the play Guys and Dolls and Philia in the play A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at Regis High School. In 2012, she ranked fourth in VH1's Greatest Women in Music[368][369] and became a feature of the temporary exhibition The Elevated. Katy Perry said on Twitter, "Using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling fart jokes.". Her parents encouraged her to pursue music, and enrolled her in Creative Arts Camp. Featured Video Lady Gaga. Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film, Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media, Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, List of awards and nominations received by Lady Gaga, Recording Industry Association of America, Artists with the most number-ones on the U.S. Dance Club Songs chart, List of actors with Academy Award nominations, List of self-identified LGBTQ New Yorkers, "It's Lady Gaga's 27th Birthday! The music video for Lady Gaga's #1 smash hit "Born This Way" is a conceptual piece about the birth of good and evil and their eternal battle. [96] Both reached the top 10 in the US and the UK. The dramatic imagery helped "Poker Face" become Lady Gaga's second #1 pop hit single. She said, "The video is quite complex in the way that the story unfolds, and it's meant to be slightly linear and slightly twisted and confusing, which is the way that love is." [d] She was the first woman to receive the Digital Diamond Award certification from RIAA, one of three artists with at least two Diamond certified songs ("Bad Romance" and "Poker Face"),[413][414] and the first and only artist to have two songs pass seven million downloads ("Poker Face" and "Just Dance"). [219] Gaga launched her first, vegan makeup line, Haus Laboratories, in September 2019 exclusively on Amazon. [355] She attended the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards accompanied by four gay and lesbian former members of the United States Armed Forces who had been unable to serve openly under the US military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which banned open homosexuality in the military. It received 10 MTV Video Music Awards nominations and won seven of those. [397][398] Gaga also has an extinct mammal, Gagadon minimonstrum,[399] and a parasitic wasp, Aleiodes gaga, named for her. "[345][346] On September 22, 2020, Gaga released an anthology book, Channel Kindness: Stories of Kindness and Community, featuring fifty-one stories about kindness, bravery, and resilience from young people all over the world collected by the Born This Way Foundation, and introduced by herself. [249], Gaga was inspired by her mother to be interested in fashion, which she now says is a major influence and integrated with her music. Gaga also contributes in the fight against HIV and AIDS, focusing on educating young women about the risks of the disease. The inspiration behind the album came from her friendship with Bennett, and fascination with jazz music since her childhood. "Glasgow (No Place Like Home)" – Music & Lyrics: "I Feel Love" Lyrics by Betty Box, Music by, This page was last edited on 19 March 2021, at 18:35. [221], Gaga's sixth studio album, Chromatica, was released on May 29, 2020, to positive reviews. The music video received four MTV Video Awards nominations and won Best New Artist. [226] The latter won the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, and debuted at number one in the US, making Gaga the third person to top the country's chart in the 2000s, 2010s and 2020s. [186] She also released a standalone-single, "The Cure", which reached the top 10 in Australia. Some explained that might be because Steven Klein often worked closely with Madonna. [344], In March 2019, she penned a letter to supporters of the Born This Way Foundation, announcing the launch of a new pilot program for a teen mental health first aid project with the National Council for Behavioral Health. [19], In a 2014 interview, Gaga said she had been raped at age 19, for which she later underwent mental and physical therapy. [190] Throughout the film, she was seen suffering from chronic pain, which was later revealed to be the effect of a long-term condition called fibromyalgia. [244] Gaga has also cited heavy metal bands as an influence, specifically Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and Marilyn Manson. The foundation also partnered with Starbucks and SoulCycle to thank California firefighters for their relief work during the crisis. All revenue from a bracelet she designed in conjunction with the company was donated to relief efforts;[320] these raised $1.5 million. Among them are sunglasses made out of half-smoked cigarettes, an outfit made out of yellow caution tape, and a hat made out of a telephone folded into an origami project. [165] She was honored that April with the Artist Award at the Jane Ortner Education Awards by The Grammy Museum, which recognizes artists who have demonstrated passion and dedication to education through the arts. She later encountered controversy directing clips for hits by Rihanna. [133] After holding her second Thanksgiving Day television special on ABC, Lady Gaga and the Muppets Holiday Spectacular, she performed a special rendition of "Do What U Want" with Christina Aguilera on the fifth season of the American reality talent show The Voice. The main themes of her music videos are sex, violence, and power. Both were unharmed. One is the male Jo Calderone, and the other is the mermaid Yuyi. [210] It additionally topped the charts in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland and the UK. [91][92], In February 2011, Gaga released "Born This Way", the lead single from her studio album of the same name. around March 19th, 2021* * rough estimate based on current trend . [305] In July 2012, Gaga also co-founded the social networking service LittleMonsters.com, devoted to her fans. [20] She has posttraumatic stress disorder that she attributes to the incident, and says that support from doctors, family and friends has helped her. She saw the clip as a "celebration and admiration of gay love." [183][184] CBS Sports included her performance as the second best in the history of Super Bowl halftime shows. [323] That October, Yoko Ono gave Gaga and four other activists the LennonOno Grant for Peace in Reykjavík, Iceland. These are the 10 most memorable Lady Gaga music videos. Among his previous efforts were Aerosmith's "I Don't Want To Miss a Thing," the Black Eyed Peas' "Pump It," and Britney Spears' "Circus." [36] Gaga later credited Herbert as the man who discovered her. [175] It was released on October 21, 2016, and became Gaga's fourth number one album on the Billboard 200, making her the first woman to reach the US chart's summit four times in the 2010s. [285] She continued the blood-soaked theme during The Monster Ball Tour, causing protests in England from family groups and fans in the aftermath of the Cumbria shootings, in which a taxi driver had killed 12 people, then himself. As a blonde dance-pop performer with a penchant for provocation, Lady Gaga had often earned comparisons to the singer Madonna, and on the album’s first two singles the similarities were especially pronounced.The title track was a self-empowerment … Gaga says she was influenced by Osho's work in valuing rebellion through creativity and equality. [69] Both tracks reached the top five in the US. Top directors working in the art form created the often powerful clips. [166] Gaga has also been recognized by the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) with the Fashion Icon award,[404] and was a finalist for The Advocate's Person of the Year in 2016. The Fame is an electropop and dance-pop album that has influences of 1980s pop and 1990s Europop,[269] whereas The Fame Monster displays Gaga's taste for pastiche, drawing on "Seventies arena glam, perky ABBA disco, and sugary throwbacks like Stacey Q". [73] The Fame Monster won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album, and "Bad Romance" won Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Best Short Form Music Video at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards. [60] Those new songs were also released as a standalone EP on November 18, 2009. In her acceptance speech, she denounced racism and white supremacy, and addressed her social responsibility as a high-profile artist and white woman. [406], Gaga is one of the world's best-selling music artists, with estimated sales of 124 million records as of 2014,[407] and has produced some of the best-selling singles of all time. [337][338], In October 2015, at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, Gaga joined 200 high school students, policy makers, and academic officials, including Peter Salovey, to discuss ways to recognize and channel emotions for positive outcomes. Filmed in Springfield, Nebraska, the music video for "You and I" is one of Lady Gaga's most complex. [410][411] Named Woman of the Year in 2015,[155] she is the eighth top digital singles artist in the US, with 85 million equivalent units certified according to Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Its title track became the fastest-selling song on the iTunes Store, with over one million downloads in less than one week. What Is the Meaning of Lady Gaga's Song 'Alejandro'? [176] The album's second single, "Million Reasons", followed the next month and reached number four in the US. She took piano lessons and practiced through her childhood. [408] She has grossed more than $512.3 million in revenue from concert tours and residencies, becoming the fifth woman to pass the half-billion total as reported to Billboard Boxscore. Key inspirations for the music video are the surrealistic work of painters Salvador Dali and Francis Bacon. M.L.S, Library Science, Indiana University. [51] The latter was also the world's best-selling single of 2009, with 9.8 million copies sold that year, and spent a record 83 weeks on Billboard magazine's Digital Songs chart. [37] Having served as an apprentice songwriter during an internship at Famous Music Publishing, Gaga struck a music publishing deal with Sony/ATV. [301] The meat dress was displayed at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in 2012,[302] and entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in September 2015. 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[93][307] Forbes included Gaga on its Celebrity 100 from 2010 to 2015 and then from 2018 to 2020 and its list of the World's Most Powerful Women from 2010 to 2014. [137] In the meantime, Gaga split from longtime manager Troy Carter over "creative differences",[138] and by June 2014, she and new manager Bobby Campbell joined Artist Nation, the artist management division of Live Nation Entertainment. [205] The soundtrack contains 34 tracks, including 17 original songs, and received generally positive reviews;[206] Mark Kennedy of The Washington Post called it a "five-star marvel" and Ben Beaumont-Thomas of The Guardian termed it an "instant classics full of Gaga's emotional might". Contemporary critics predominantly gave "Alejandro" positive reviews and noted that … As of March 2021, Gaga has had cumulative single certifications of 80 million digital downloads and on-demand streaming as a solo artist, and 5 million with Bradley Cooper. Following this event, The Advocate named her a "fierce advocate" for gays and lesbians. [259][260][261] She has changed her vocal style regularly, and considers Born This Way "much more vocally up to par with what I've always been capable of". [45][46] Its first two singles, "Just Dance" and "Poker Face",[47] reached number one in the United States,[48] Australia,[49] Canada[50] and the UK. [12] Gaga unsuccessfully auditioned for New York shows, though she did appear in a small role as a high school student in a 2001 episode of The Sopranos titled "The Telltale Moozadell". A portion of proceeds from the sale of the song will be donated to organizations helping survivors of sexual assault. [128] The album debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart, and sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide as of July 2014. [316] In December 2019, Gaga placed 10th on Forbes' list of Top-Earning Musicians of the Decade with earnings of $500 million in the 2010s; she was the fourth highest-earning female musician on the list. A shower of high fashion clothes and jewelry included pieces by Thierry Mugler, Alexis Bittar, and Petra Storrs among others. Lady Gaga worked with her choreographer Laurieann Gibson to improve her dancing for the clip. Lady Gaga co-wrote the song "Til It Happens to You" with Diane Warren for the 2015 documentary film "The Hunting Ground" about the epidemic of college campus rape in the U.S. Item 22 of 120. "[7], By 2008, Gaga had relocated to Los Angeles to work extensively with her record label to complete her debut album, The Fame, and to set up her own creative team called the Haus of Gaga, modeled on Andy Warhol's Factory. Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, prominent American recording artists; first met backstage in 2011 after Gaga had performed a rendition of Nat King Cole's "Orange Colored Sky", at the Robin Hood Foundation gala in New York City, New York, United States.Thereafter Bennett asked Gaga to sing a duet with him on his upcoming album. Schiller noted how, following the Artpop era, Gaga's stripped-down approach to music was reflected in the clips for the singles from Joanne, taking the example of the music video of lead single "Perfect Illusion" where the singer "[ditched] the elaborate outfits for shorts and a tee-shirt as she performed the song at a desert party". 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[237], Gaga grew up listening to artists such as Michael Jackson, the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Queen, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Mariah Carey, the Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Whitney Houston, Elton John, Blondie and Garbage,[238][239] who have all influenced her music. [38] Despite securing a record deal, she said that some radio stations found her music too "racy", "dance-oriented", and "underground" for the mainstream market, to which she replied: "My name is Lady Gaga, I've been on the music scene for years, and I'm telling you, this is what's next. Blackness matters. He went on to gain even greater acclaim as the director of "The Hunger Games" trilogy of films. It won Best Collaboration but lost Video of the Year to "Bad Romance.". [11] After the 2006 Songwriters Hall of Fame New Songwriters Showcase at The Cutting Room in June, talent scout Wendy Starland recommended her to music producer Rob Fusari. [32] The pair began performing at downtown club venues like the Mercury Lounge, The Bitter End, and the Rockwood Music Hall. [97], Born This Way was released on May 23, 2011,[95] and debuted atop the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 1.1 million copies. The song sold more than one million copies within five days, earning the Guinness World Record for the fastest selling single on iTunes. The music video received five MTV Video Music Award nominations. [396], A new genus of ferns, Gaga, and three species, G. germanotta, G. monstraparva and Kaikaia gaga, have been named in her honor. Although it only reached #95 on the pop singles chart, "Til It Happens to You" became Lady Gaga's first #1 dance hit in more than two years. [48] The video for "Bad Romance" became the most watched on YouTube in April 2010, and that October, Gaga became the first person with more than one billion combined views. However, those ideas evaporated due to budget concerns. Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (/ ˈ s t ɛ f ən i ˌ dʒ ɜːr m ə ˈ n ɒ t ə / STEF-ən-ee JUR-mə-NOT-ə; born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.She is known for her image reinventions and musical versatility. Homages to Quentin Tarantino and Madonna appear. [267] Simon Reynolds wrote in 2010, "Everything about Gaga came from electroclash, except the music, which wasn't particularly 1980s, just ruthlessly catchy naughties pop glazed with Auto-Tune and undergirded with R&B-ish beats. [51][48][120] A lyric video for Artpop track "Aura" followed in October to accompany Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills, where she plays an assassin named La Chameleon. [182] The performance led to a surge of 410,000 song downloads in the United States for Gaga and earned her an Emmy nomination in the Outstanding Special Class Program category. 22 / 120. [211] As of June 2019, the soundtrack had sold over six million copies worldwide.