Friends

Mar 2009

Upper West Side of Manhattan, in New York City

Haus of GaGa

http://profiles.friendster.com/joannestefanigermanotta

Attended private school at Convent of the Sacred Heart and later studied at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Singer-songwriter, musician, DJ

Lady Gaga

Recording songs, Concerts, Meeting fans.

Pisces

Hey guys my name is Joanne Stefani Germanotta also known me as Lady Gaga in stage and I had relocated to Los Angeles, working closely with my record label to finalize my debut album The Fame. "The Fame is about how anyone can feel famous", I explains. "Pop culture is art. It doesn’t make you cool to hate pop culture, so I embraced it and you hear it all over The Fame. But, it’s a sharable fame. I want to invite you all to the party. I want people to feel a part of this lifestyle." To this album, I also stated "married" a lot of different genres – "from Def Leppard drums and handclaps to metal drums on urban tracks".

I started to work with a collective called the "Haus of GaGa", who collaborate with their muse on clothing, stage sets and sounds. "In this industry, you get a lot of stylists and producers thrown at you, but this is my own creative team, modelled on Warhol’s Factory. Everyone is under 26 and we do everything together."

The Fame received mostly positive reviews from critics, according to the music review aggregation of Metacritic, it has received an average score of 72 out of 100. Times Online described the album as "a fantastic mix of Bowie-esque ballads, dramatic, Queen-inspired midtempo numbers and synth-based dance tracks that poke fun at celebrity-chasing rich kids".

The album's lead single, "Just Dance", was released on April 8, 2008 and had reached number one in five countries. One of those countries was the US, where "Just Dance" started to receive radio airplay in October, and hit number one in 2009, becoming GaGa's first US number-one single. I stated that my debut single is about "being totally wasted at a party [...] in that situation we never really want to stop the party so we just dance through it." The second single, "Poker Face", was released on September 29, 2008 and has reached number one in six countries – one more than the previous single. Meanwhile in the US "Poker Face" peaked at number 32.

"Very in to fashion" and that it is "everything". "When I'm writing music, I'm thinking about the clothes I want to wear on stage. It's all about everything altogether — performance art, pop performance art, fashion. For me, it's everything coming together and being a real story that will bring back the super-fan. I want to bring that back. I want the imagery to be so strong that fans will want to eat and taste and lick every part of us."I had also said channels Versace in everything I do and considers Donatella Versace as my muse in many ways. "I iconic and powerful, yet people throw darts at me. Definitely provocative." Melissa Magsaysay of Los Angeles Times reported that GaGa me could be Donatella's doppelgänger. Magsaysay stated "My aversion to wearing a top and bottom at the same time...swigging champagne and being fanned by oily men in Speedos (is) very Donatella-esque".

Towards the end of 2008, similarities were made between the fashion sense of "GaGa" and American singer-songwriter Christina Aguilera—these similarities included styling, hair and make-up.

MY INCREDIBLE BEAUTIFUL FANS!