Lady GaGa
The dance sensation of the moment, Lady GaGa is the New York girl with Italian roots who grew up on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Thanks to her energetic performances, she has quickly become the young icon of disco-pop. With her unique sound and her extravagant personality, she’s managed to capture the attention of the international media. Her debut single, “Just Dance”, has reached the top of the worldwide charts, paving the way for her successful “Poker Face”, the famous electro-pop hit.
The new star of dance music talks to The New Yooxer in an exclusive interview.
1. Is there a music genre that has influenced your music style?
Heavy metal.
2. Are there any artists you would like to work with?
Marilyn Manson, because he’s arguably the most iconic pop star / rock star since Kurt Cobain.
3. How do you feel about your success?
I feel extremely grateful!
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4. What’s the first CD you bought?
Green Day “Dookie”.
5. How would you define your fashion style?
I define my fashion style as: avant-garde-New-York!
6. What are your personal aspirations for 2009?
To have the greatest career experience and year of my life. And to inspire as many people as I can.
BIOGRAPHY
When Lady GaGa was a little girl, she would sing along on her mini plastic tape recorder to Michael Jackson and Cyndi Lauper.
“I always loved rock and pop and theater. Discovering Queen and David Bowie is when it really came together for me and I realized I could do all three,” says GaGa, who took her name from Queen’s song “Radio Ga Ga”. At 14, she played open mike nights at clubs such as New York’s “The Bitter End” and was teased for her quirky, eccentric style by her Catholic school classmates by day. (She went to Manhattan’s Convent of the Sacred Heart School, the same that Nicky and Paris Hilton attended). At age 17, she became one of twenty students in the world to obtain early admission to the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Always precocious, by her 20th birthday she was signed by Interscope and writing songs for artists like the Pussycat Dolls, The CD’s opener and first single, “Just Dance,” gets the dance floor rocking with its “fun, L.A., celebratory vibe.” As for the equally catchy “Boys Boys Boys,” GaGa doesn’t mind going public with her musical influences. “I wanted to write the female version of Motley Crue’s ‘Girls Girls Girls,’ but with my own twist. I wanted to write a pop song that rockers would like.”
“Beautiful Dirty Rich” sums up her period of self-discovery, while living in the Lower East Side and dabbling in drugs and the party scene. GaGa shows her passion for love songs on such softer tracks as the Queen-influenced “Brown Eyes” and the sweet kiss-off break-up song “Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)”. “‘Brown Eyes’ is the most vulnerable song on the album,” she explains.
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