_Two Door Cinema Club – “Poker Face” (Lady Gaga Cover)

Oh wow, this is more than a week late, I forgot to post this (it was saved as a draft).

Two Door Cinema Club covered “Poker Face” by Lady Gaga for Fluctat.net. While this might not sound the most original (there are tons of videos on YouTube like this), I like listening to this knowing that it’s Two Door Cinema Club singing this, and they tried. Download the song over at PMA.

_Lady Gaga’s ‘Telephone’ Video Blows Us Away

I usually schedule my posts for the next day, but this is too good to wait. Some of you have seen it already, but for those who haven’t: you should.

_Album Review: Lady Gaga – The Fame Monster

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The Fame Monster

[Released November 23rd via Interscope]

Lady Gaga’s sophomore effort reads like a true project. The Fame Monster delves even deeper in theme both sonically and conceptually than its predecessor, and the translation is even brassier and bossier pop deftness. Lyrically, the new tracks may lack in catchiness where The Fame did not, but after several spins this is sure to catch on at another level.

It’s a sound that is so unmistakably “Gaga,” and at that, a sound that has come to full fruition with a more conscious recognition of who, as an artist, she really is. Where, in the past, she needed to rely on sunglasses, spectacle, and superficial content in her lyrics to stake a claim, this new approach seems a much more liberating expression of what it really is that she’s trying to do. Her constant push to raise the bar is evident and triumphantly executed.

It’s not a bad thing that the album is such an obviously influenced piece of work (for those who are keyed in well enough to catch the references). While other pop production rides the wave of cyclic change, this album guides it. Her influences are unabashed and a futuristic restyling of what would otherwise be considered retro, and some of the instrumentation, themes and chords are hard to mistake. There’s classic 90’s dance (the birth of electro pop), Ace of Base, written all over “Alejandro,” a track that received early buzz when it leaked on the internet along with “Dance in the Dark.” (more…)

_Beyonce x Lady Gaga – Video Phone (Music Video)

WOW.

Beyonce and Lady Gaga did a collaboration to “Video Phone”, and the result of the music video is what you would think would imagine: a diva hot mess. The video leans more towards a Beyonce type of video than Lady Gaga would, with bright bubblegum pop colors and tight, ghetto clothes. Guess Beyonce can’t really pull off that Gaga look that well. It’s tight, though.

_Lady Gaga – Bad Romance (Music Video)

Words can’t even describe how good the music video to “Bad Romance” by Lady Gaga is. She’s got Alexander McQueen all over her, and she’s just genious. Every video gets better and better.

_Lady Gaga – Dance In The Dark

2 Lady Gaga singles will be released on November 23rd to promote The Fame Monster, including “Made In The Dark” and “Alejandro”. We’ve already heard the demo version of “Alejandro”, and now the other single has just leaked.

I basically almost love anything that Lady Gaga makes. Popjustice had the chance to review The Fame Monster weeks before it was released, and gave this song a perfect 8/8 score. I will have to disagree on this. Even though I can see this becoming her next hit single, it just sounds too mainstream for my liking. I feel like Gaga lost her originality a bit on this track.

Dance In The Dark IS a good song though, but I expected something better.

Also, watch the preview for her new music video “Bad Romance” after the cut. (more…)

_Lady GaGa is Dazed and Confused

Well, not literally!

Lady Gaga is featured in Dazed and Confused, and they shot this amazing, beautiful short film of her wearing exquisite pieces from amazing designers such as the rising David Koma.

Dazed Digital exclusively premieres an inspiring collaboration between Lady Gaga and fashion filmmaker Kathryn Ferguson, displaying a very different side to this year’s most exhilarating pop phenomenon. Shot during rehearsals for her London shows, this intimate short film showcases Gaga’s love of some of fashion’s most pioneering names, as well as a show-stopping piano composition created by Gaga uniquely for this collaboration.

Watch the video after the jump, the video starts immediately so I didn’t want to annoy everyone by putting it on the homepage and letting it play everytime. (more…)

_Lady Gaga – Bad Romance

The first official single off Lady Gaga’s re-release, The Fame Monster, made its world premiere this morning on BBC’s Radio 1. “Bad Romance,” was leaked several weeks ago in an un-mastered form,  but the world got a taste when the final version was featured as the finale soundtrack at Alexander McQueen’s Spring/Summer ’10 runway show two weeks ago. Since then, fans have waited with baited breath – and the Lady definitely delivered.

The Fame Monster, set for release, November 24th, features 8 brand-new tracks from Gaga (each one representative of a different country she’s been to over her worldwide sweep of Fame). With a stylized chant of the artist’s signature “ma-ma-ma’s” alongside a few “ooh la la’s”, it seems clear that “Bad Romance” is her ode to France.

If what we’re hearing so far continues – the pop star is tapping further into her more standard pop songwriting skills. The track feels much more melodic than the very rhythm-heavy dance hits off The Fame, but it still maintains that unmistakable Gaga flair. Along with a subject that provides more thought than the superficial, it’s a synth powerhouse that aggressively out-shouts the competition (*cough*Cascada*cough*) and, on the Lady’s behalf, unforgivably forces us to continue to do nothing other than just dance. Vive le pop musique!

Lady Gaga – Bad RomanceStream