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Celeb News: "ARTPOP, this summer, will be an app", Troy C. talks Gaga
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"ARTPOP, this summer, will be an app", Troy C. talks Gaga
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The wealth and access that come with managing Gaga has allowed Carter to hone his entrepreneurial instincts in dramatic ways.
After Gaga saw the Facebook movie The Social Network, she called Carter and asked him why can't they have their own social network just for her fans?
Carter started talking with people in Silicon Valley and they created another start-up, The Backplane, which can provide a platform for a company or artist to build its own "authentic community," what he calls a micro-network.
Last year, Gaga launched www.LittleMonsters.com just for her fans, called little monsters.
Carter says 1.3 million fans have registered.
They can go to the free site and buy music or concert tickets, chat with other fans around the world, see videos or whatever content Gaga and her fans provide.
A recent discovery: Fans were uploading their artwork onto LittleMonsters.com and Gaga fell in love with it. It was her idea, Carter said, to start putting their art on T-shirts, and concert merchandise sales increased 30 percent.
Gaga's next album, this summer, will be an app.
"It will still come out as a CD and a digital file," Carter said, "but the real experience will be built in the app. This is her spending time with app developers, data scientists . . ." Artists can include videos, whatever experiences they want to provide with the app. "That's going to be the future of album," Carter said.
Was releasing the album as an app his idea or hers?
He laughs. "You know," he says, "we geek out."
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Carter says that for him, a Lady Gaga tour is like Groundhog Day, same thing every day - unless something goes wrong.
Two weeks ago, it did.
Gaga was due in Philadelphia for two shows last week, but had to cancel. After a year on tour, a hundred concerts running and dancing and climbing ladders backstage in monster platform shoes, she suffered a hip tear.
"She's pretty tough," said Carter, "so when you get that call from Gaga, you know it's serious."
Gaga canceled the final six weeks of her tour. She had surgery Wednesday in New York.
"Talking to the surgeon yesterday," Carter said on Friday, "it was much more serious than what we thought."
"It's been a bit of a busy week unwinding the tour," he added. "Personnel, vendors, insurance companies, etc."
The focus now, he said, is for Gaga to "take the time to rehabilitate."
Gaga pushed herself, and paid for it, something Carter understands and doesn't want to change.
"The most fun for me," he said, "is watching an artist experience new things for the first time. And if you're pushing it, you never run out of firsts, because you're always trying something new."
He could be speaking about himself.
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The whole article is here: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/na...192922531.html
Sorry if AP.
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AP indeed but at least we now know the complete source.
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Love every bit if this. If the album is coming out in the summer though a May or June release for the single is probably likely.
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ARTPOP's comin' y'all.
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Time to show them haters who's fading.
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how many release dates is this album gonna have
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Originally posted by LadyGagaStan93
Love every bit if this. If the album is coming out in the summer though a May or June release for the single is probably likely.
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Yep, and announcement on her birthday sounds okay, too!
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Originally posted by freebitch26
how many release dates is this album gonna have
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At least two release dates every month since September 2012, and with predictions going as far as November, we have a total of 28.
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Gaga's next album, this summer, will be an app.
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I dont see where it says that Carter said this....
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Originally posted by NaughtyDog
I dont see where it says that Carter said this....
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I never said he said it. I quoted the article, then went on saying Troy talks about Gaga in it.
Although I'm pretty sure they (Philly) wouldn't make up a release date and just put it there.
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Awesome, now Summer has more than 1 reason to wait for
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So innovative, as always
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This app better be on androids as well
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So basically we've had the release date all this time
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I feel bad for her poor fans
I only bought my iPad (I love it) because of this app
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I can't wait for her slay everyone once again.
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