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Originally posted by Bibliotheque
What makes it an official single?
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"Beautiful, Dirty, Rich"
Music video
Gaga lying on a table covered with money in the music video for the song.A music video was filmed for the song and directed by Melina Matsoukas. There are two versions of the video - one intercut with clips from the ABC series Dirty Sexy Money and created to promote the show, and another which is the official video. The video is set in a mansion, and starts with Gaga making her way down a hallway with several people who are either walking behind her, holding an umbrella over her, dancing in front of her, or tossing dollar bills around her. Gaga and company are then featured in many repeatedly-changing shots at various locations in the mansion. She is seen lying seductively on a table covered with money, crawling along a black grand piano and striking the keys with her leg several times, dancing around and later making out with a statue, and dancing in an elevator solo. There are also several close-up shots of her burning money and later stuffing it into her mouth. Over the course of the video, she undergoes numerous costume changes. Singer-songwriter Space Cowboy is also shown, most notably in scenes where he climbs a wall.
Live performances
Gaga performing the song on The Fame Ball Tour.Gaga has performed "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich" live at the AOL Sessions, where she also performed "Just Dance," an acoustic version of "Poker Face," "Paparazzi," and "LoveGame." She also performed it at the MTV UK Live Sessions, also singing "Just Dance," "LoveGame," and "Poker Face." She most notably performed the song on her first headlining The Fame Ball Tour. On the tour, it was preceded by the song "Paparazzi," which ended with clicking cameras and a brief medley of "Starstruck" and "LoveGame." The performance of "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich" followed, with Gaga frolicking with her dancers and wearing an "austere" blonde bob wig[14] and a "sculptural bustier with futuristic triangular silver panels, and exaggerated peplum," which was one of her six costumes over the course of the show.[15] The song was the end of the first of four parts of the show, and was followed by a video clip, "The Brain," which featured Gaga as her alter ego, Candy Warhol, brushing her hair.
The performance of the song, along with the rest of the first quarter of the show, was praised by Jim Harrington of Mercury News for giving the show a strong beginning, and Gaga's vocal performance was also complimented.[17] Mikael Wood of Rolling Stone was rather critical of the performance; Wood claimed that it grew tiresome quickly but praised Gaga for her energy.[18] Whitney Pastorek of Entertainment Weekly praised Gaga's "strong" singing voice, adding, "The girl can, and does, sing."
I hope it helps.
I remember that there was one station in Canada or Australia I think that also said that The Fame was a single.
). From 1990 to 1991, the newcomer Mariah Carey scored 5 consecutive #1s on the Billboard Hot 100. That's massive. Scoring top 10 hits has nothing of "massive".
