‘HLN’ host Joy Behar talked with Charo about why she thinks Lady Gaga is copying Madonna’s act, comparing the ‘Poker Face’ singer to “Madonna with diarrhea”. Asked to explain what that meant, Charo said, “Because she doesn’t copy exactly. It’s like when you have got perfection, there will be another Madonna. But when something is missing, is when you’ve got diarrhea. You got it?” Um, no. Watch the interview below.
Lady Gaga is out with the music video to her new single ‘Born This Way’, the first release and title track from the American pop singer’s second studio album, out May 23rd on Interscope Records. Watch the Nick Knight and Haus of Gaga directed video via Vevo below.
Maria Aragon received a call during a radio appearance in Winnipeg talking about her cover of ‘Born This Way’ from Lady Gaga herself. “Every once in a while, whether people believe it or not, I have a very bad day. And I was not having such a good day… and when Perez sent me the video of you singing ‘Born This Way’, I was so overjoyed that I began to cry. I was so happy,” Gaga told the 10-year-old on Hot 103 last week. The pop star even invited Maria to join her on stage to perform the song during her show in Toronto next month. Watch the conversation between the pair below and the cover that Maria did that caught Lady Gaga’s attention after the cut.
Lady Gaga was on the phone with “On Air with Ryan Seacrest” on Tuesday (February 15) to talk about her appearance at the Grammys, arriving in an egg shaped vessel, her shout out to Whitney Houston upon winning a Grammy, and her upcoming album ‘Born This Way’, out May 23rd. “I can’t tell you how much I listened to her growing up,” Gaga said in regards to Whitney. “She was my vocal idol for so many years. I thought of her voice when I wrote ['Born This Way'] because she’s just such an incredible singer. I sort of planned to thank her a long time ago at some point, I said ‘if I ever win a Grammy, I’m going to thank Whitney’.” Listen to the interview below.
Destinee and Paris Monroe of Destinee & Paris (formerly Clique Girlz) performed a cover of Lady Gaga’s new single ‘Born This Way’, with Destinee on piano. Watch the black and white video via their YouTube channel below.
Lady Gaga has released the artwork and lyrics for her upcoming single ‘Born This Way’, which she is set to perform at the Grammy Awards. Watch a report from ITN below.
Lady Gaga tells ITN her fans were the inspiration for the products she helped design for Polaroid. “I wanted to create products I knew they would love to use,” Gaga said of her Little Monsters. “Create cameras and a printer and glasses that I knew would work into their lifestyle as music fans, as concertgoers, as wild party kids.” Watch the comments via DailyMotion below.
CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo caught up with Lady Gaga at CES in Las Vegas on Friday (January 7), talking with the pop star about lending her creativity to Polaroid as the company’s creative director. “I was really driving everyone crazy at Polaroid because they were saying, ‘What’s the camera of the future Gaga?’, and I [held up a smartphone],” the singer explained. “I said everyone takes pictures with their camera phones and nobody uses cameras anymore. The best thing we could do as a company is to combine instant film with something that is digital that’s almost never printed. You almost never print your camera phone pictures.” Watch the interview via CNBC.com below.
Some pop artists are reacting to news that the U.S. Senate passed a repeal of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” earlier today in a 65-31 vote. The policy restricts the U.S. military from efforts to discover or reveal closeted gay, lesbian, and bisexual servicemembers or applicants, while barring those who are openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual from military service. President Obama is expected to sign the measure into law next week. Lady Gaga, who was urging her 7 million followers to contact Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other senators got a Tweet from Reid after the repeal was passed.
Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid): @ladygaga We did it! #DADT is a thing of the past.
Lady Gaga (@ladygaga): Can’t hold back the tears+pride. We did it!i Our voice was heard + today the Senate REPEALED DADT. A triumph for equality after 17 YEARS. Today I am so proud to be American. I wish I was home so I could throw a Parade. We are on the way…to full equality.
Lauren Pritchard (@GrlCalledLauren): “Don’t ask, Don’t tell” is forever gone! Thank goodness for that!! No American has to lie anymore!!!!!
Ricky Martin (@ricky_martin): One step closer to #equality!! #DADT is gone!Historical! #lgbt
Natasha Bedingfield appeared on Rob Shuter’s HD Net show ‘Naughty But Nice With Rob’, where the British singer songwriter talked about once having Lady Gaga as her warm-up act and what she thinks of the ‘Poker Face’ singer’s fast rise. “She’s amazing,” Natasha said. “It was obvious to everyone even back them that she was going to be a huge star because she is so talented.” Read more and watch a preview at PopEater.