if she is nominated for the VMAS this year monsters we know what to do.......
Wasn't it us that got her an extra nom? When Monsters went crazy about how she wasn't given enough Nominations and then they gave her Best video with a message
I never ever thought I'd live away
from everybody that I love and say goodbye
now I'm the princess of a downtown train where everybody here they know my game
but when I walk down the street I hear them say
"there she goes, that crazy girl
she thinks she's something in this world"
So I just close my eyes and dream
'cause life is never really what it seems
in every mystery, there's a truth
you know I'm tellin', I'm tellin' you oh oh oh oh
no matter lightning or thunder,
buckets of rainwater
you can't flood this town
in a world unknown
you've gotta hold your own
and you can't stop me
you're never ever, ever gonna stop me now
I never ever thought I'd live away
from everybody that I love and say goodbye
now I'm the princess of a downtown train
where everybody here they know my game
but when I walk down the street I hear them say
"there she goes, that crazy girl
she thinks she's something in this world"
So I just close my eyes and dream
'cause life is never really what it seems
in every mystery, there's a truth
you know I'm tellin', I'm tellin' you oh oh oh oh
no matter lightning or thunder,
buckets of rainwater
you can't flood this town
in a world unknown
you've gotta hold your own
and you can't stop me
you're never ever, ever gonna stop me now
[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):
[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.
'Sex Bruises' - [Gaga stated it would be a good song title on The Ellen Degeneres Show (November 2011)]
∇ ALBUM CONTENT/PROCESS INFO
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∇ CONTENT ∇
[Gaga foreshadowing in BTW era+VEVO Interview (December 2011)]: Gaga constantly foreshadows her future work in her current work. The video of “Marry The Night” was already foreshadowing that theme. 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?
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.
[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.
[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."
INTERPRETATION: -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?
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 ∇
[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.
[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."
[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.
[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.
∇POTENTIAL MEDIA SNIPPETS
-- Grey denoting unconfirmed
Quote:
Howard Stern Show (July 2011)
2:00-2:17
∇RUMORS and FAN THEORIES
--- All information below is unconfirmed/with little basis
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ALBUM TITLE THEORIES:
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.
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
ALBUM RELEASE DATE THEORIES:
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]
FAN THEORIED/RUMORED COLLABORATIONS:
Nicki Minaj
Justin Bieber
Britney Spears
David Guetta
FAN THEORIED/RUMORED PRODUCERS:
Redone (Just Dance, Poker Face, Bad Romance, Judas, Hair, Scheiße)
∇ ALBUM CONTENT/PROCESS INFO
--- Reverse Chronological Order
∇POTENTIAL MEDIA SNIPPETS
-- Grey denoting unconfirmed
∇RUMORS and FAN THEORIES
--- All information below is unconfirmed/with little basis
I love it! Did you make this yourself?
If I'd offer any criticism it would be to change some of the graphics/colors as more information on the theme is revealed ( like the triangles are more associated with the BTW era)