Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga (born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) is an American recording artist. She began performing in the rock music scene of New York City's Lower East Side. She soon signed with Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope Records, upon its establishment in 2007. During her early time at Interscope, she worked as a songwriter for fellow label artists and captured the attention of Senegalese R&B singer Akon, who recognized her vocal abilities, and had her also sign to his own label, Kon Live Distribution.
Her debut album, The Fame, was released on August 19, 2008. In addition to receiving generally positive reviews, it reached number-one in Canada, Austria, Germany, and Ireland and topped the Billboard Top Electronic Albums chart. Its first two singles,"Just Dance" and "Poker Face", co-written and co-produced with RedOne, became international number-one hits, topping the Hot 100 in The United States as well as other countries. The album later earned a total of six Grammy Award nominations and won awards for Best Electronic/Dance Album and Best Dance Recording. In early 2009, after having opened for New Kids on the Block and the Pussycat Dolls, she embarked on her first headlining tour, The Fame Ball Tour. By the fourth quarter of 2009, she released her second studio album The Fame Monster, with the global chart-topping lead single "Bad Romance", as well as having embarked on her second headlining tour of the year, The Monster Ball Tour.
Lady Gaga has also stated fashion is a source of inspiration for her songwriting and performances. To date, she has sold over eight million albums and 35 million singles digitally worldwide.
“Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.”
“My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.”
“I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me.”
“As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.”
“This is who the fuck I am.”
“How can I protect something so perfect without evil...”
“Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away.”
“cause it's a hard life, with love in the world. and i'm a hard girl, loving me is like chewing on pearls.”
“Don't be a drag.Just be a queen.”
“I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me.”
“I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything.”
“Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.”
“just remember: i love you, and love yourselves. 'cause, little monsters, you were born that way baby.”
“live your eyeliner, breathe your lipstick, and kill for each other-Lady Gaga via twitter”
“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”
“Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection.”
“Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger”
“I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.”
“This is the Manifesto of Little MonsterThere is something heroic about the way my fans operate their cameras. So precisely, so intricately and so proudly. Like Kings writing the history of their people, is their prolific nature that both creates and procures what will later be percieved as the kingdom. So the real truth about Lady Gaga fans, my little monsters, lies in this sentiment: They are the Kings. They are the Queens. They write the hisory of the kingdom and I am something of a devoted Jester. It is in the theory of perception that we have established our bond, or the lie I should say, for which we kill. We are nothing without our image. Without our projection. Without the spiritual hologram of who we percieve ourselves to be or rather to become, in the future.When you are lonely,I will be lonely too.And this is the fame.”
“When I wake up in the morning, I feel like any other insecure 24-year-old girl. Then I say,'Bitch, you're Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today.”
“Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.”
“I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet.”
“Sexuality is half poison and half liberation. What’s the line? I don’t have a line. ”
“I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.”
“I would rather die than have my fans see me without a pair of heels on. And that's show business.”
“Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner, you want to be like yourself. I want my fans to know it's okay.”
“For all my love little monsters i am your mom you are my child in my hand i protect you like my eyes but dont worry ill cacth you if you fall.”
“I want the deepest, darkest, sickest parts of you that you are afraid to share with anyone because I love you that much.”
“They can't scare me, if I scare them first.”
“I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish.”
“So basically I did this whole show carrying 100lbs, looking out of one eye, dancing – and then my tits explode at the end. It's not as easy as it looks!”
“I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, "It's OK to be sad." I've been trained to love my darkness.”
“Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?”
“I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.”
“We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10”
“I'm a free bitch baby”
“You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way.”
“I'm a little bit naked, but that's okay.”
“I just I felt like a freak, I guess what I'm trying to say is I want to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can create their own space in the world”