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Celeb News: Rob Fusari PRAISES GaGa; bought ARTPOP
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Rob Fusari PRAISES GaGa; bought ARTPOP
GaGaDaily mod ChicaSkas did an interview with Rob Fusari, GaGa's producer before she was famous and who also did Paparazzi. There's a lot of discussion about his own career but of course GaGa was brought up. I cut out the GaGa related questions and bolded the major parts, but it's worth reading the unbolded parts also since there's a lot of talk about how they worked together before she was famous.
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It *is* important to make peace in life, in general.
That's all I want. Whether she loves me, or hates me, it doesn't matter. I'm still gonna love her. And let me say this: I'm no different from you [all], in that I love Lady Gaga, too. I love her music, I love her whole project. We aren't all that different.
You are right. We need to celebrate the positive. Paparazzi, for example, was huge. Huge in late '08, early '09...
Absolutely. And you know what? She gave a lot of hope to a lot of people. She changed a lot of people's lives, just through her personality, through her music, through her character, through her words and wisdom. So it's all good... just let it be, and acknowledge it. Everything was just a great thing.
Is it okay to ask for the interview, if you guys are still in touch, if you are still friends?
We're not... We are not.... I don't really know why we aren't... but we aren't. I would never say anything to badmouth her. I only have positive things to say. And you know how it is, this business is just so crazy. There's just so much that happened, and it was all so quick, and.... look -- Did I make some mistakes? ABSOLUTELY. But I'm human. If I say to you, "I'm sorry, forgive me...?", and... I have so many people in my life that have messed up, so to speak. But if they come to me and say, "Rob, [I messed up], I'm sorry." I would be like, "You know what? Get in here. Give me a hug." We're human. And that's what friends are. You can mess up. You could f*cking screw up. And I'm gonna be like, "Okay, so maybe let's work on it, and in time just call me, just talk to me." It's communication. We're not in contact... but... who knows.
I remember at one time, I want to say, like a year or two ago, there was a rumor going around, that you and Stefani had worked on somewhere between 30 to 35 tracks. That sounds like a really prolific time for you guys. What were they intended for?
We started off very much in this Beatles-esque, Led Zeppelin, 'rock and roll girl' direction, and we probably recorded a dozen or so songs in that vein. And then when we switched gears, those 12-15 songs kinda got pushed aside, because they just didn't fit the new direction. The new direction started with "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich". When we had first recorded that, it was almost like everything else didn't fit. It was almost like we started over when we hit "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich" and we started writing a whole new record, a whole new direction. We knew at that point we had found something. Prior till, we we'ren't getting great feedback on the earlier stuff, obviously, women in rock is always an uphill battle. She wanted to fight it, and I was willing to fight it with her, but I figured, let's have a little fun, and change up for a couple of weeks to see what happens. And that's when we did "Dirty Rich". So basically, all the songs, 15 or so songs, got pushed aside, and we started -- you have to understand, we working every day. And when I say every day, I mean Saturday and Sunday, too. So we were doing a song a day, sometimes. It was really a very prolific time. I don't remember seeing a time like that, now on Cary Nokey, yes, there's some of that. But I haven't seen it since. It was just unbelieveable. She would come in, with an idea, and we would start playing around with the idea, we would finish writing the song, and then she would go home, and I would start working on the production, she would come back the next morning and do the vocal, and then we'd start another one.
Of those 30-odd tracks, was there any particular unreleased title that you felt was the very best of all or that stood out to you, as like, "Ah, this could have been really good!"?
Oh, that's a good question! Um.... (thinks) That's a really good question. Yeah, I would say ... I was huge fan of this song we'd written, it did leak out there somehow, I don't know how these songs leak out there! But it was the song called "Oh Well." I don't know if you'd ever heard that.
'Oh Well'? Yes, I have heard that one.
I think 'Oh Well' sounds like it was penned by, just a classic, it sounds like it came out of the hand and mind of John Lennon. Almost Sargent Pepper-era. When I hear things like that, they sound classic to me. Everytime I listen to that song, I just am floored by her songwriting.
It's a gorgeous song.
It really is. I don't think it ever got the right treatment. We basically demo'd it, a rough kind of idea, just to put it down, and then I don't think we ever went back to it, to really produce it and touch it up. The demo was literally just like in one day, a couple hours on it. We never really refined it or did anything to it, but I go back to it, and I'm like, "Whoa. This song is... whoa." And you really feel the heart, you really feel her heart in it. There's something, there's something painful, there's something hopeful, there's a lot of emotion in her lyric, in the way she's singing that song, for me.
Do you think there is any chance, someday, that these unreleased tracks can see the light of day?
I don't know... I mean, it's a good question.... (thinks) It's a shame that they possibly won't... I think that, it has to come from her. It has to come from her control, so to speak, her hand. And if it ever did, I'd be fine, completely fine with it. But it would never come from me. I just wouldn't do that. I wouldn't disrespect the relationship that way. It's a shame, but what are you gonna do? It is what it is.
Did you buy ARTPOP?
Of course I did!
She took a turn, I think, producing on her own with Venus. What did you think of that? Was there any particular song on ARTPOP that stood out to you?
I didn't know that she did. Did she produce that by herself, the Venus track?
I believe Venus was. I remember reading about it at the time.
Wow, that's amazing. For me, it was one of my favorites. Of course I love Applause, it feels like essential Gaga. I gotta say, I like the one with R. Kelly! I'm a sucker for an R & B groove, and I just love it. Dope was another one. And Gypsy was another favorite of mine. I was a fan of the album, I thought it was really good work. I would have recorded any of those songs! Like, "give me one of those songs, I'll record it!" (laughs)
Yeah, Volume 2, man! (I start laughing)
(cracks up)(laughs)I love it! I thought it was great to work with her. And I'm always astonished, she always comes up with something magical.
Yes, she does. I've often said, I feel like she's this generation's Michael Jackson.
Oh hell yeah. I know what you mean. When she walked in the room, when we first met, it was like meeting David Bowie. For the first time. Before Bowie was Bowie. That's what it felt like for me.
So she had that much charisma when she walked in the room?
Yeah. I'll tell you what she had -- it was more when she sat at the piano, was when it hit me over the head. When she came in, and I had met her, I was looking to do this Strokes kind of thing, I was looking for a chick, a girl, and she'd really fit that. And I was like, let's give it a shot. But then she sat down at the piano. I was like... "WHOA...... Whoa...waittaminute... stop the presses... " That's when it really hit me over the head.
Wow. So she had it... Let me ask you, how did you find out about her? I read somewhere that you had some talent scouts who attended the NYU performance of Captivated and Electric Kiss and it was there at that point that they referred her to you. Was that how it went down, or did it happen a different way?
No, it was a different way. What happened was, I was looking for this particular Strokes type of girl. Somebody who could fit this direction that I had already started writing and recording music for, writing the songs, doing the tracks. I had a certain image in my head, in my mind of a particular [girl]. A just-rolled-out-of-bed, but somewhat model-esque girl. So basically I'd met a few girls [by then]. I had met a girl by the name of Wendy Starland, who came to me for that reason, she thought, or I thought, maybe that she could be that Strokes girl. So Wendy came to me, and she wasn't that girl. When I had met with Wendy, we had written a couple songs, but there really wasn't a creative marriage there. So, in my kind of way of saying, 'let's stay in touch', to Wendy, I said, "Look, I'm gonna be doing this project for the Strokes girl, when I find her, I'll give you a buzz, and maybe she could come in, and we'd take it from that. Right now I'm just kinda busy, so lets stay in touch. " So we stayed in touch, and she called me one night, because she had seen Gaga perform, while she was still Stefani. And she said, "You know that Strokes girl you were talking about? I just saw this girl you should check out." That was how I had got into contact with Stefani.
I saw her for the first time at my studio. What happened was, I talked to her that night, the same night, on the phone, and as I was talking to her, she told me what she had. She had a PureVolume page, so I was checking out the music a little bit, you know, seeing what she was doing. It kinda piqued my curiousity a little bit, just to meet her, and so I invited her to the studio the next week, for that Monday. And it was her birthday. And she came up to the studio in Jersey on her birthday, about 8 o'clock, and that was the first time I had seen her, in person.
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I'm glad to see he's not bitter over them parting ways. He even bought ARTPOP 
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I read this, it's an interesting interview
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loves it
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I like BDR. Underrated around here.
Didn't they spike some drama last year or so? I think Rob sued her for millions because of creative usages right?...
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Rob Fusari has good taste (minus Gypsy).
And wow @ him evolving in looks just as much as Gaga!
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I forgot he looked like this now 
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Of course he did , it's an interview with Gagadaily
I don't trust him
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They did an interview?  Oh well, good to see he's not pressed. Guess that means those court documents she doesn't want leaked are related to something else.
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Very nice interview, nice to see some positive media coverage on Gaga
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Originally posted by Jezang Looz
Very nice interview, nice to see some positive media coverage on Gaga |
It's an interview conducted by a Gaga fan site
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Gaga should also head in the direction they aimed for, that 70s ballads type. Fooled Me Again was a great song but now her piano skills and renditions have gotten so bland (Applause and DWUW acoustic anyone?) when we used to have Paparazzi and PF acoustic.. Like where did that go lol
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I knew I would find this photo in here the moment I saw the title 
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Yes, she does. I've often said, I feel like she's this generation's Michael Jackson.
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omg always doing the mosT
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Very interesting.
If he and Gaga ever make up, I'd love to see full release of the Team Love Child catalogue and perhaps new material.
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Good taste for these ARTPOP favorites.
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Originally posted by Jezang Looz
Very nice interview, nice to see some positive media coverage on Gaga |
These are found everywhere. Each and every coverage of her tour is positive.
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oh my god work with him again pls
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They should really put their history and past behind them and work together again.
And I completely agree with him. Oh Well is one of the best songs she's done. I wish she'd go in that direction again tbh
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