Known Concepts: Decay of superstar + Princess Diana + Reality and Fantasy + Changing the Music Industry
Progress: Gaga's favourite album so far. Gaga has the name and concept and is undergoing a 'musical rebirth' by shutting herself off from the press and taking 'the journey'.
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1. *PRINCESS DIANA SONG (Producer Unknown / Track Length Unknown):
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[V Magazine Interview (November 2011)]: "Gaga went to the piano to play us a new song she was working on about Princess Diana--a song about fame and celebrity death. Even in its rough stages, it has her trademark catchy chorus, and she sang the sad slightly bitter lyrics in full voice."
[Access Hollywood 2011]: I'm fascinated with the decay of the blonde pop icon and how culture loves to build and give birth to fantasies and then destroy them and what that means. It's something I want to explore on my next album.
2. *ELTON JOHN DUET (Producer Unknown / Track Length Unknown):
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[Ryan Seacrest Show (December 2011)]: Well it’s written, I’ve written his [Elton John’s] lyrics for him but if he wants to change them I’m not going to tell him “no.”
[Alan Carr Show (November 2011)]: Lady Gaga confirms duet with Elton John on next studio album
Gaga and Elton have a strong artistic relationship and friendship. They worked together on Gaga's opening performance at the 2010 Grammys and also wrote and sang on the track 'Hello Hello' for Disney's 'Gnomeo and Juliet' movie. Gaga is also Elton's son's Godmother.
Some people think we're sick, but we just love pop music - [KISS FM Jingle Ball (December 2011)] + I think we are sick - [Gaga's Twitter (14 March 2012)]
I've got no friends
I'm my own queen
But I'm living on, living on the the radio
That's my dream
Stone river eyes
And lonely a heart
If I'm living on the radio
They won't tell me apart
Ten steps and roses on the tree
Ten steps and lonely nights
But you've still got me
On the road
Road paved in gold
Baby you must believe
Baby you must be free
Keep living on, living on the radio
That's your dream
Baby you've gotta friend
And so many little monsters, yeah
Keep living on, living on the radio
And when there's nowhere to go
And your friends are gone
And you only got your daddy to call
Your gon be all right, honey
'Cause your songs are on the radio
'Cause the showbiz, all the caviar
The champagne and the sold out shows
But it will be all right honey
'Cause your songs are on the radio
I ate his heart then I swallowed his brain, if you don’t love me back I’l do it again - [Gaga's Tumblr Picture]
'Sex Bruises' - [Gaga stated it would be a good song title on The Ellen Degeneres Show (November 2011)]
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Howard Stern Show (July 2011)
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Living on the Radio - Monster Ball (August 2010)
♕ FAN RUMORS/THEORIES/DISCUSSION
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PERFORMANCE ART THEORIES:
Gaga started talking about the album and mentioning the word 'Gypsy' a lot starting from December. This was after she had announced to MTV that the album had a name and was flourishing. This coincided with a time she was dressing like iconic female blonde pop stars from the past [SOURCE].
Gaga also spoke about life as a superstar on the Ellen Degeneres Show [December 2011] saying ''I'm a gypsy, you know. I can’t plan my life out like that so much. Then I think, well, gosh. What a waste of money to buy a house and I'm on the road.' - which is sort of reflective about the struggles of her life at the top.
These could potentially give hints at the life-performance art aspect of the next era. She may start dressing like the typical iconic blonde pop star as she also wants to tackle the idea of reality/fantasy (who is she - is she this icon, what do people expect from her) and the decay of the blonde pop star
ALBUM TITLE THEORIES:
The album will be called (or will have a track) names "Private in Public", Gaga has stated this phrase on a picture on her Tumblr and in her V Magazine Memorandum 2. Gaga has stated that all facets of her art (her wigs, her hats etc.) have come part of her - she cannot tell the difference/refuses to tell the difference between the reality of her life and the escapism or fantasy of her art. Both are real to her - hence art has become the most poignant and truth of her life - becoming the and core and most personal part of who she is - private in public. It also links to the idea of fame - Gaga is ALWAYS in the public eye but through her "attention directing" art, [Excerpt - From 6:50 onwards - 60 Minutes Interview (February 2011)] she is able to maintain a level of privacy in public which counteracts but cannot altogether prevent the 'decay of the blonde superstar'.
The album will be called (or will have a track) named "Element of Crime" - On Gaga's Tumblr picture she said - "In Pop, you know you have succeeded when there is an ELEMENT OF CRIME" - this links to the idea of fame in pop where the blonde female is the star but people sort of her destroy her for things she does - there is an element of crime to everything she does.
FAN RUMORED TITLES:
Decadence
Peroxide Princess
Killed Her Heart
Pride and Prejudice
Never Let Me Go
Tonight I'm Leaving
Element of Crime
Sexy and Twisted
Lethal Royalty
Martyr of Fame
ALBUM CONCEPT THEORIES:
The concept of the next album surrounds the typical blonde pop star according to fans that have met Gaga recently. This is the reason why she has been dressing like she does lately. CLICK HERE for an example (January 2012).
The album may be a throwback to idea of The Fame but concentrating more on the relationship with the media and the destruction of the pop star once fame has now been achieved. (Fan Rumor)
ALBUM TRACK NUMBER THEORIES:
The album will be an EP as Gaga just released Born This Way and also must go on tour this year
It's perfectly feasible that she'll have a new album out by Christmas.
I'd be somewhat surprised if she waited till after the BTW tour to launch any new music. That may make the most sense at face value, but we're talking about a year and a half away at least (assuming they don't add any more legs) and Gaga will already have been working on the material for about a year as it is by the time she embarks on the tour. Bearing in mind that she said she'd put it out "when it's ready", and by the sounds of it she has most of the concept in place and some songs written already - it wouldn't be rushed to have the album out in 9 odd months time (a year and a half or so since her last album). She can launch the era with the lead singles months beforehand remember, she was still finishing the album after BTW was released.
I just think at the rate she writes music and evolves ideas, if she waited till mid/late 2013 to launch the new era she'd have enough time to have finished album #4 and be starting on #5 already, and if she had the album coming out post-tour but the lead single launching earlier on in the year (at the Grammys 2013, for example) - that's interrupting the BTW tour with new material anyway, so it clearly wouldn't make a whole lot of difference to do the same in 2012.
I still stand by;
- BTW tour launch (summer)
- 1st single (Jul/Aug) - perform at VMAs + add to setlist
- 2nd single (Nov) - perform at XF UK/US/AMAs (+ add to setlist)
- Album #4 (Nov/Dec)
- 3rd single (Feb) - perform at Grammys (+ add to setlist)
- 4th single (May)
- End the BTW tour with Glastonbury "best of" set with singles from TF, TFM, BTW and #4 (summer)
Then launch the next instalment of the tour later that year which is, obviously, centred around album #4.
The BTW tour is relatively short for her, which I find interesting because you'd think their inevitable goal would be to spectacularly top TMB...so I think they're either planning on getting it done and out of the way before the next era in 2013 or they're planning on doing two tours, one for BTW and one for #4, rather than drastically altering the setlist half way through a mega-tour when new music is released.
This plan works for the Grammys too. If she gets the first single out and slaying a few months before the entry deadline, she can earn herself ROTY/SOTY/Pop Vocal Performance/Short Form Video nominations for it and in the following months of voting the success of the song will be fresh in the academies minds. Even if she doesn't win, she'll then have the 2014 Grammys for a second shot with singles #2, #3 and #4, alongside the album being up for AOTY/Pop Vocal Album. Plus, if she has a Beyonce/whoever collaboration, she'll be nominated for that in 2014. She could even score a Best Collaboration nomination in 2013 for her duet with Cher if that ever surfaces this year.
That potentially gives the era 10-12 Grammy nominations.
The album will be released in mid 2012 as Gaga's label have reportedly stopped promoting "Marry The Night" as the current single.
FAN THEORIED/RUMORED MUSICAL STYLE:
Throwback to TF+TFM style
Electro-Jazz
Rock
Inspired by Def Leppard [Gaga said this about Born This Way so article may be out of date]
♕ ALBUM CONTENT/RELEASE/PROCESS INFO --- Reverse Chronological Order
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♕ CONTENT ♕ REALITY AND FANTASY
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[Gaga foreshadowing in BTW era+VEVO Interview (December 2011)]: Gaga constantly foreshadows her future work in her current work. It could be said that the video of “Marry The Night” was already foreshadowing the theme of her future work. Just like the “Paparazzi”-video was foreshadowing “The Fame Monster”. She relived a moment from her past. But in her fantasy she made the nurses wear next season Calvin Klein. Is it a fantasy because her memory may have changed some facts? Reality and fantasy has been a topic Gaga has talked about with conviction during this whole era.
She continues to discuss this in the VEVO Interview (December 2011): I generally loathe reality, but I don't believe that this moment between us is real. I believe this [interview] is a performance. There's 7 microphones and I'm microphoned and there's a camera, but through all the mediums in my work I am now, even working on my next record, pushing further and further in my mind - How can I more intensely and more perversely challenge myself to honor what is a real stage and what isn't:
-Are they all real?
-Can you exist in a real moment if someone is photographing you? Can you not?
-If the camera is on and it captures something, is it only real if its voyeuristic with (e.g.) a cellphone? If its a professional camera, if it was expensive and you hired someone like Darius Khondji who is my Director of Photography who did "Se7en" - does that mean that it wasn't real because he is so professional? But if I had my sister photograph me back then in that moment or rather my best friend, would that have been more real rather because it would have been in the actual moment?
I just find it interesting how we perceive what is artifice and what is reality, I believe that I relived that moment (in my supposed room after being dropped in the Marry The Night video) of that day with Darius and Gideon watching...The truth of it is that I don't necessarily believe that I didn't relive that moment, I believe that I did and now it's captured. I think to myself, it if wasn't real, why didn't I stop after the music was over or why didn't someone yell cut? Why didn't say that's enough we've got it?
RELATED: [Excerpt - From 12:10 onwards - 60 Minutes Interview (February 2011)]:You know when people heard I did an interview with you [Lady Gaga], everyone asked the same question - what is she really like?
Lady Gaga: Photographers say this to me, "I want to photograph the RE-ALL you," I'm like what the hell are you looking for, I'm right here! You've seen me with no make-up, you've asked me about my drug history and my parents, my bank account! - I mean how much more real can I be?
People obviously think that you are not being who you are because you are wearing a lot of make-up and always presenting yourself in a different way?This is what I'm really like, this is exactly what I'm really like.Yes, [I think] people take me both way too seriously and not seriously enough.
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RELATED: [V Magazine Memorandum 2 (July 2011)]: THE TRANSFORMATIVE POP STAR ON MAKING FANTASY A REALITY Art is a lie. And every day I kill to make it true. It is my destiny to exist halfway between reality and fantasy at all times. They call me “theatrical,” but I posit profusely that I am theatre, and that theatre is me. I am a show with no intermission. It is this thing that summons me from the depths of reality and reminds me that the power of transformation is endless.
That I (we) possess something magical and transformative inside — a uniqueness and specialness waiting to be exiled from the depths of our identity. I have said before that I am a master of escapism, which many attribute to my wigs, performances, and my natural inclination to be grand, but perhaps that is also a lie. Maybe I am not escaping. Maybe I am just being. Being myself.
The arrival at this revelation revises my previous escapist philosophies, as my entire being, thus far, as wholly artist and wholly human, has been propelled by the idea that I must effortlessly vacillate between two worlds: out of the real and into the surreal. Out of the ordinary, into the extraordinary.
“I DON’T SPEAK GERMAN BUT I CAN IF YOU LIKE.”
But as I delved quite deeply into this topic for my current album, I’ve reckoned that perhaps there is no pendulum. No need to distinguish between artifice and consciousness. The “notion” of escapism may be a lie, but for some of us this lie is our truth. You must desire the reality of fantasy so profusely that it becomes necessity, not accessory.The lines for myself have become so blurred now, I know not the difference between a moment of performance and a moment of honesty.
If you were to ask me to remove my Philip Treacy hat at a party, in truth it is the emotional and physical equivalent of requesting I remove my liver. Talk about giving “clutching her pearls” a new meaning! I know not the difference between the hair that grows from my head and the teal wigs that grow from my imagination. They are the same. They are both honest, and always have been. So maybe I know nothing of “the art of escapism.” I was just Born This Way. I revere the dream to be real. I am always, and shall forever be, private in public.
NOTE this phrase - private in public - links to what Gaga said in her 60 minutes interview below - related to the decay of the blonde pop star/maintaining fame - that is:The sociology of fame and how to maintain a certain privacy without feeling like you're withholding anything from your fans. My philosophy is that if I am open with them with everything and yet I art-direct every moment of my life, I can maintain a sort of privacy - in a way I maintain a certain soulfulness that I have yet to give. This also links to Gaga's SHOWSTUDIO interview (May 2010): GAGA:In many ways I believe as an artist that being private in public is at the core of the aesthetic, or the message. However, I profusely lie about my personal relationships in an effort to protect that aesthetic, and that message, because today people are distracted by unimportant things. Like, for example: what my diet is, or who I’m ****ing.I do quite often feel like I’m on stage all the time. And I also persistently believe that life is a stage and that life is my stage on which to be an artist. When I’m sleeping, it is an art. When I’m dancing, when I’m singing, when I’m making breakfast.. but there is a moment of freedom where somehow the stage, disappears.
ALEX:And what is that moment? GAGA: When I cry. Whether I’m on stage or offstage, or alone or with someone. Almost instantly when I cry the stage disappears. Even when I cry onstage with my fans, somehow it becomes.. a living room. And it’s not a stage anymore. - [V Magazine Memorandum 2 Continued]In this lies one of many books in the Bible of Fashion: in order for the FANTASY OF YOU to become the REALITY OF YOU, you must commit to the fantasy as wholeheartedly as you commit to your humanness. Wear out your vision. Proclaim your mission. Amen, Fashion! Style can transform and release your internal superstar.
Whether it be one pair of shoes, some vintage sunglasses, a family heirloom, or a hair color that makes you feel as electric on the outside as you do on the inside. Acknowledge that this choice is a manifestation of an internal magic and the potential of your spirit. You are fan-tas-tic. And this fantasy is part of the real and honest you. It is a lie inside, waiting to be unlocked to become true. Scheiße. I just spoke some German.
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RELATED: [Excerpt - V Magazine Memorandum 4 (November 2011)]:As I began to reckon with Jo, I found it important to excavate what he didn’t like about me, or rather, what I struggle with liking about myself. Concurrently, I felt it necessary to imagine what the public expects of me during a performance of this magnitude — the opening of the VMAs — and how I might destroy this expectation in a variety of ways. On a stage, the laws of fantasy are meant to be broken, but I have always found it difficult to bring my real ***** out there with me. (Or do I bring it out there and just don’t know it?) I have always feared that the reality of love, if brought into the spotlight, has the potential to destroy creativity.
Needless to say, the line between fantasy and reality is blurred in my life, as this psychobabble may indicate, so I drew upon my personal experiences to initiate a deeper parallel. Do my lovers feel like an extension of my audience? Because I refuse to draw a distinction between what’s real and what is artifice, do they feel a part of the show? How can Jo become more relatable and lovable than I am?During my performance and the three days I spent as him, I felt permission through him to confess things about myself as a woman, things I would normally keep hidden. In a way, it seemed that he could get away with a lot more than I can. He talked about his feelings, wore Brooks Brothers, smoked Marlboro Lights, drank beer on stage, and talked about what I refuse to discuss publicly: my relationships.
[MTV News (September 2011):"I'm actually already working on my next album...I have lots of things to do, but in truth, I feel like I'm the most alive when I'm onstage."
DECAY OF THE BLONDE POP STAR/CHANGING THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
[Access Hollywood (November 2011)]:I'm fascinated with the decay of the blonde pop icon and how culture loves to build and give birth to fantasies and then destroy them and what that means. It's something I want to explore on my next album.
RELATED: [Excerpt - From 6:50 onwards - 60 Minutes Interview (February 2011)]:Lady Gaga: As part of my mastering of the art of fame, part of it is to getting people to pay attention to what you want them to pat attention and not pay attention to the things you don't want them to pay attention to.
You studied the fame of other people; how they got it, how they kept it and how they lost it? The sociology of fame and how to maintain a certain privacy without feeling like you're withholding anything from your fans. My philosophy is that if I am open with them with everything and yet I art-direct every moment of my life, I can maintain a sort of privacy - in a way I maintain a certain soulfulness that I have yet to give.
On a blonde icon dying before the world's eyes:That's what everyone wants to know; "what she's going to look like when she dies, what's she going to look like when she's overdosed on whatever they think I'm overdosing on?" Everyone wants to see the decay of the superstar. Of course [people want to see my decay], they want to see me fail, they want to see me fall on stage, they want to see me vomiting out of a night club - isn't that the age that we live in - that we want to see people who have it all lose it all - I mean it's dramatic...it's a movie. And yet I'm just not like that...I'm not a vomit in a club kind of girl.
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Relating to the decay of the blonde superstar: in TF/TFM - she was built up as a new blonde superstar - the fantasy was built - and in BTW, music culture somewhat destroyed this fantasy - it's the nature of the industry.
RELATED: [Ryan Seacrest Show (December 2011)]: [Gaga recognises she tried too hard to do grand things with Born This Way] - Gaga: I wanted to overachieve, I wanted to be an overachiever [with Born This Way]…yes [I was bitten by that bug] for this album.
BUT HOW DOES GAGA NOW SEE SUCCESS? How does Gaga see the 'success' of Born This Way? Is it quantified through airplay/sales etc. and should she be afraid to be kicked in the front teeth in terms of backlash/performance when following her artistic vision in the future? Her answer is NO - making a lasting change in the music industry is her idea of success.
RELATED: [V Magazine Memorandum 6 (February 2012)]: 2011 was one of the most exciting and difficult years of my life. I made this internal pact with myself when I put out “Born This Way.” This time, when I “win,” I want it to mean something. How can every “win” be a force? Not a tiara, a pat on the back, or the cashing of a check, but how can I look out into the sea of fans and know that our “win” changed the industry and changed each other?...
...By the end of the film, we discover the truth about winning from our hero. It only matters if you’ve changed the game. Being kicked in the teeth [phrase mentioned previously on Twitter (January 2012)] is par for the course for this kind of win, a win that not only pisses off the team you’ve beat, but every other team, their coaches, owners, and even some of the greatest baseball players of all time.
You’ve made your own set of rules and gone so far on your own talent, no one can possibly crack the truth behind your wins. You were either lucky or were cheating. Nobody likes the game that they’ve won over and over again to change...
...The thing about music is you’re not in competition with anyone else. You’re in competition with the psychology of the industry as a whole. You’re in competition with you. You must delve deeper and deeper into your creativity, history, and modernity to change not just this moment, but every moment that came before it. How can I hit a home run that will make every player question every run that was ever scored? How can I round third to home plate and bewilder some of the greatest players of all time? How can I change the game, until 30 years goes by and someone changes it again?
Sometimes my face is buried so deep in the work I forget to look up. Sometimes I don’t even realize I’ve won, because the stadium is either cheering or screaming so loud it doesn’t even matter... ...we all deserve...a moment of revelation to remember that we are timeless, we all matter, and every win like this is as important as the next. When you are changing the way people think, your life achievements are working toward the greatest accessory of all time: nerve...
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When Gaga talks about being most alive on stage - is the hinting to the idea about perception in the VEVO interview - where does she feel most alive? - behind the camera, not in the public eye or on stage? This connects to the idea of the blonde pop icon as well - where does she feel most alive? And where do people perceive her to be most real? Is she real at all or is her whole life a performance? “I live halfway between reality and fantasy at all time.” "We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult." "It's not that I've been dishonest, it's just that I loathe reality." When you take into account the transition between all her eras, her work seems rather progressive now:
In 'The Fame', she tackled the positive side of fame and it's liberating/glamorous side, but people attacked her for being the plastic/party girl who didn't have meaning to her music.
So in 'The Fame Monster', she responded by tackling the meaningful/dark side of 'The Fame'.
During both these eras she gained many fans (a lot of which were disenfranchised/outcasted), with whom she resonated with - During this time, a lot of her fans were struggling with social injustice and in response Gaga added another layer to the idea of who she is - this is why while dealing with the meaning/struggle of her own life in 'The Fame Monster', she came to deal with meaning/struggle of her and her fans' lives in 'Born This Way' and begin to act in social justice which was an undercurrent of her work since she started - 'Born This Way' this is who the **** I we are!
But during 'Born This Way', people called her fake, saying she was a plagiarist - how can you be born with wigs/horns on your face etc.? She clearly stuck to the message of Born This Way, but she is now intrigued by the idea that people perceive the real/fake her differently in different situations. It seems like the artifice of who she is fills the public perception of her the bigger and bigger she gets.
There were also calls for her to go back to 'The Fame' era fun Gaga and be more theatrical - in this sense she may progress back to being commercial/this image but not at the cost of the serious artist she portrays herself to be now - this would undermine her integrity
This is why the blonde pop icon (and her decay) is relevant in the next album. People perceive a superstar in different ways (e.g. live, music video, in real life - on the street, on the radio etc.). Sometimes they see her as real, sometimes as partially real and sometimes as completely fake - what effects this? And why do people make these assumptions for a period of time and destroy them later? - what changes? what happens to make this change?
She also believes that people perceive to have 'lost' during the BTW era in relation to competing artists - but for Gaga, winning is changing the music industry and the lives of herself and her fans while remaining true to her artistic vision
There was so much negative press about Born This Way - Gaga may feel as if she was influenced too much by the public when writing music. This is why she is shutting herself off from the music world completely to experience a musical rebirth. Look down to process.
It seems she sort of conforms slightly to what the public expect subconsciously expect from her, or rather the public's reaction to each era intrigues her.
♕ PROCESS ♕
[Jeff {Jeff1317 via Twitter} Credible Gaga Insider (March 2012)]: Confirms that Lady Gaga is still working with RedOne - SOURCE
[Oprah's Next Chapter (March 2012)]: OPRAH: Is it difficult now with the pressure? I would feel or think that there would be pressure to continue to outdo yourself, or to continue to express yourself?
GAGA:There’s always that pressure, but the best thing about it is that it’s only a door away. It’s like I’ve got the first album door – it was open, it’s great, and the door stays open and you walk. I see it as a hallway…with wooden doors, the first door is open – that’s that album, you walk down, there’s another door, that’s the next album and then there’s one more door and it’s coming up right and I’m banging on the door and I’m looking for hammers, I’m trying to figure out where the machine guns are. I just want to get to the freaking door. I know it’s there but can I open it?
It’s not the same as just writing a song. It’s writing ‘the next’. It’s writing he next chapter of whatever lobe is in my brain that waiting to be unlocked and people think I sound narcissistic, but it’s fine because, Oprah, it’s all I’ve got – my creativity. So I walked down that hallway and it happened recently – the door opened. The door opened. It opened. It blast open and once it opens the light shoots right through and I’m in and then I can relax because I know I broke through the door.
OPRAH: So is that when the words flow, the lyrics, the harmony, everything?
GAGA:It’s the journey; it's the new journey of all of us.
OPRAH: Is there something you can do to help the creative process – the doors open more readily?
GAGA:I have a couple of things that I do. The newest thing I do – I don’t read a damn thing. No press, no television, no…if my mum calls and says “did you hear about…?” [I hang up]. I don’t want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music; obviously I want to know about the world. I shut it all off. Other than this interview, Oprah, I do not intend to speak to anyone for a very long time. This is my moment for me to experience a rebirth with my own music – I have to shut it all out. The noise, you know the noise, the noise is loud – you have to cancel out the noise and remember that it’s your thoughts that matter.
[MTV News (December 2011)]:I've started writing it and I have the name for it and all the concepts are beginning to flourish and take place," Gaga said. "I'm excited to put it out, but it's not done yet. So I'll put it out when it's done." Producer Fernando Garibay added: "I get a little bit of anxiety thinking about that right now. I wanna just always try to outdo ourselves, our songs."
Fernando Garibay: "They're already incredible songs. But I feel like she's so young," he said, adding that the record is in its early stages and that "there's a lot of room to grow."While Gaga will hit the road on the Born This Way Tour next year, Garibay said that won't halt the recording process. "The last record we made in bus stops and hotel rooms," he said. "Wherever she's at, we'll make it."
[Digital Spy (November 2011)]: DJ White Shadow also revealed that he is looking forward to receiving the call to inform him that it's time to head back into the studio with Lady Gaga.
[MTV News (September 2011)]:"I'm actually already working on my next album," she said. "So I've been working on that. I've been planning the next tour, which keeps me very excited and busy because I have lots of new ideas, and I know exactly how I want it to look. I'm also planning my next music video. I have lots of things to do, but in truth, I feel like I'm the most alive when I'm onstage." And while there's still no release date (or any concrete information) on Gaga's next album, her manager, Troy Carter, recently suggested that, if he has his way, Gaga might give the record away for free.
[Rolling Stone Magazine (February 2012)]: Gaga: "I'll probably put out out an album again while I'm on tour. I'm always writing new music." Rolling Stone: Gaga may well have a new LP, too, by the time the tour hits the U.S. - at which point Born This Way will be 20 months old.
[THE INSIDER (January 2012)]: Interviewer: What do you want to do in 2012? Lady Gaga: I just want to keep going. I'm not as goal-obsessed as I am process-obsessed. I just want to keep writing music. I'm looking forward to putting out another album and going on tour.
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