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In the past stars have been studied as cogs in a mass entertainment industry selling desires and ideologies. But since the 1970s, new approaches have reopened debate, as film and cultural studies try to account for the active role of the star in producing meanings, pleasures, and identites for a diversity of audiences.

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Beyoncé - Video Phone (Extended Remix featuring Lady Gaga) (2009)

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Beyoncé - Video Phone (Extended Remix featuring Lady Gaga) (2009)

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Beyoncé - Video Phone (Extended Remix featuring Lady Gaga)

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Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper - I'll Never Love Again (2019)

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Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper - I'll Never Love Again (2019)

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I'll Never Love Again (from A Star Is Born) (Official Music Video)

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Lady Gaga - Joanne (Where Do You Think You’re Goin’?) (Piano Version)(

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Lady Gaga - Joanne (Where Do You Think You’re Goin’?) (Piano Version)

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Lady Gaga - Perfect Illusion (Official Music Video)

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Lady Gaga - John Wayne (Official Music Video)

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Lady Gaga - G.U.Y. - An ARTPOP Film (G.U.Y.-Only Version)

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Lady Gaga - G.U.Y. - An ARTPOP Film (G.U.Y.-Only Version)

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Lady Gaga - G.U.Y. (An ARTPOP Film) (Broadcast Edit)

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Lady Gaga Interview in 2009 (Magyar Fordítás)

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The Consequences of the " Male Gaze " and Sexual Objectification Written by: Gina Miller Rhetorical Theories and Professional Communication

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The Consequences of the " Male Gaze " and Sexual Objectification Written by: Gina Miller Rhetorical Theories and Professional Communication

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Interview Bradley Cooper  & Lady Gaga A STAR IS BORN

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How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words.

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This new edition of Laura Mulvey's first collection of essays contains a new introduction in which she re-assesses her essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema."

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Benedict Anderson - Imagined Communities (1983)

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The definitive, bestselling book on the origins of nationalism, and the processes that have shaped it.Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson's brilliant book on nationalism, forged a new field of study when it first appeared in 1983. Since then it has sold over a quarter of a million copies and is widely considered the most important book on the subject.

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​Black Panther

BlacKkKlansman

Bohemian Rhapsody

The Favourite
WINNER - Green Book

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Roma

A Star Is Born

Vice
​Best actor:
​Christian Bale, Vice

Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born

Willem Dafoe, At Eternity's Gate
WINNER - Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
Viggo Mortensen, Green Book
Best actress:
​Yalitza Aparicio, Roma

Glenn Close, The Wife
WINNER - Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Lady Gaga, A Star is Born

Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Best director:
​Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman

Pavel Pawlikowski, Cold War

Yorgos Lanthimos The Favourite
WINNER - Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
Adam McKay, Vice
Best supporting actor: WINNER - ​Mahershala Ali, Green Book
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Sam Eliott, A Star Is Born

Sam Rockwell, Vice

Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman
Best supporting actress:
Amy Adams, Vice

Marina de Tavira, Roma

WINNER - Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk

Emma Stone, The Favourite

Rachel Weisz, The Favourite
Best animated:
​Incredibles 2

Isle of Dogs

Mirai

Ralph Breaks the Internet
WINNER - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Best costume design:
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
WINNER - Ruth E. Carter, Black Panther
The Favourite

Mary Poppins Returns

Mary Queen of Scots
Best sound mixing:
​Black Panther
WINNER - Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin, John Casali, Bohemian Rhapsody
First Man

Roma

A Star Is Born
Best sound editing:
​Black Panther
WINNER - Nina Harstone, John Warhurst - Bohemian Rhapsody
First Man

A Quiet Place

Roma
Best animated short:
​Animal Behaviour
WINNER - Becky Neiman, Domee Shi, Bao
Late Afternoon

One Small Step

Weekends
​Best live action short:
​Detainment

Fauve

Marguerite

Mother
WINNER - Skin Best original score: WINNER - Ludwig Göransson, ​Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman

If Beale Street Could Talk

Isle of Dogs

Mary Poppins Returns
Best film editing:
​BlacKkKlansman
WINNER - John Ottman, Bohemian Rhapsody
The Favourite

Green Book

Vice
Best original song:
​All the Stars, Black Panther

I'll Fight, RBG

The Place Where Lost Things Go, Mary Poppins Returns
WINNER - Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, Anthony Rossum, Shallow, A Star Is Born
When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Best adapted screenplay:
​The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
WINNER - Spike Lee BlacKkKlansman
Can You Ever Forgive Me?

If Beale Street Could Talk

A Star Is Born
Best original screenplay:
​The Favourite

First Reformed
WINNER - Nick Vallelonga, Peter Farrelly, Brian Hayes Currie, Green Book
Roma

Vice
Best foreign language film:
​Capernaum

Cold War

Never Look Away
WINNER - Roma
Shoplifters
Best documentary (short):
​Black Sheep

End Game

Lifeboat

A Night at the Garden
WINNER - Period. End of Sentence Best documentary feature: WINNER - ​Free Solo
Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Minding The Gap

Of Fathers and Sons

RBG
​Best production design: WINNER - ​Hannah Beachler and Jay Hart, Black Panther
The Favourite

First Man

Mary Poppins Returns

Roma
Best cinematography:
​Cold War

The Favourite

Never Look Away
WINNER - Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
A Star is Born
​Best visual effects:
​Avengers: Infinity War

Christopher Robin
WINNER - Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles, and J. D. Schwalm, First Man
Ready Player One

Solo: A Star Wars Story
​Best make-up and hair:
​Border

Mary Queen of Scots
WINNER - Greg Cannon, Vice

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Lady Gaga makes history with Oscar win as she continues to own 2019

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Lady Gaga owns 2019 as she becomes first person in history to win Oscar, Grammy, Bafta and Golden Globe in one year.

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Lady Gaga in American Horror Story: She Wants Revenge - Tear You Apart (legendado)

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In a historical investigation of the pleasures of cinema, Star Gazing puts female spectators back into theories of spectatorship. Combining film theory with a rich body of ethnographic research, Jackie Stacey investigates how female spectators understood Hollywood stars in the 1940's and 1950's.

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"Acts as a concise introduction to the study of both contemporary and historical stardom and celebrity. Collecting together in one source companion an easily accessible range of readings surrounding stardom and celebrity culture, this book is a worthwhile addition to any library." - Kerry Gough, Birmingham City University "Absolutely wonderful.

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"Get a life" William Shatner told Star Trek fans. Yet, as Textual Poachersargues, fans already have a "life," a complex subculture which draws its resources from commercial culture while also reworking them to serve alternative interests.

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Like her chart-breaking musical success, Lady Gaga's relationship with fans, built by her messages of self-acceptance and by her intense engagement with fans through social media, is unprecedented. Through one-on-one interviews with an international sample of 45 self-described Little Monsters, we explored this unusual fan-celebrity relationship and found that Lady Gaga's re-articulation of the negative connotations of "monster" enabled fans to use her as a mirror to reflect upon and embrace their differences from mainstream culture. We argue that social media amplify fan identification and raise questions about the changing nature of fan-celebrity relationships in a digital environment.

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Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga - Love For Sale

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Lady Gaga: Fame Has Made Me A Sex Symbol

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Assuming that Lady Gaga is indeed a lady has her fame made her more attractive to men? The answer is "HELL NO!" When dudes are asked to name the hottest female celebs they will mention Angelina Joline, Megan Fox, Kim Kardashian, Lindsay Lohan, Lauren Conrad, Katy Perry, Britney Spears, Emily

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Lady Gaga, the pop sensation who took home a shelf-load of awards at the 2010 VMAs last night, has clearly taken style inspiration from Madonna and Marlene Dietrich, says Camille Paglia in The Sunday Times (UK). But, despite being a "ruthless recycler" of these noted sex symbols' fashions, Gaga is ultimately asexual. In fact, the use of sex in her videos and fashion spreads is "creepy and coercive." Her "over-conceptualized and claustrophobic" erotic persona represents "the exhausted end of the sexual revolution." Here's an excerpt:

Despite showing acres of pallid flesh in the fetish-bondage garb of urban prostitution, Gaga isn't sexy at all - she's like a gangly marionette or plasticised android. How could a figure so calculated and artificial, so clinical and strangely antiseptic, so stripped of genuine eroticism have become the icon of her generation?...

For Gaga, sex is mainly decor and surface; she's like a laminated piece of ersatz rococo furniture. Alarmingly, Generation Gaga can't tell the difference. Is it the death of sex? Perhaps the symbolic status that sex had for a century has gone kaput; that blazing trajectory is over...

Read the entire article at The Sunday Times.

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Lady Gaga, the pop sensation who took home a shelf-load of awards at the 2010 VMAs last night, has clearly taken style inspiration from Madonna and Marlene Dietrich, says Camille Paglia in The Sunday Times (UK). But, despite being a "ruthless recycler" of these noted sex symbols' fashions, Gaga is ultimately asexual.

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Dyer's illuminating study is based around case studies of three major stars: Marilyn Monroe, Paul Robeson and Judy Garland. He draws on a wide range of sources, including the films in which each star appeared, to illustrate how each star's persona was constructed, and goes on to examine each within the context of particular issues in fan culture and stardom.

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Lady Gaga Cries After Winning Oscar For Best Original Song Shallow In A Star Is Born

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Lady Gaga can't shake her character from " A Star Is Born." And she doesn't want to. "I feel Ally inside of me," Gaga says of the rising musical icon she plays in the film. "I wonder how long she'll stay. Or if she'll be in there forever."

This symbiotic relationship is evident at her Variety photo shoot at her home in Malibu, a week before she had to evacuate due to the Woolsey Fire. Gaga isn't sure what she'll wear at first. Inspiration strikes after she slips on a taupe men's collared shirt. It is the same shirt, she reveals, worn in several key scenes by her co-star Bradley Cooper as the singing heartthrob Jackson Maine in " A Star Is Born." Later in the film, Ally inherits the garment. Like her character, Gaga keeps the memento in her closet, but she never dreamed of putting it on again - until now.

Over the next hour, Gaga poses with the shirt's sleeves rolled up, its untucked edges falling just above her knees, revealing a tattoo of a unicorn on her left thigh. At one point, she balances on a wobbly stool in black suede knee-high boots with stiletto heels, performing a series of jaw-dropping acrobatic maneuvers. She even re-creates a moment from the film where her character traces the shape of her too-big nose. At the end of the shoot, Gaga makes a surprising confession. As she looks at the shots on a computer screen, she can't recall the last time she saw a photograph of herself and didn't see sadness in her eyes. These pictures are different. "And that makes me happy," she says, tearing up.

Gaga, 32, is still processing the overwhelming success of her first movie. Seated on the deck of her sprawling estate in Malibu, with an adjoining barn for her horses and guard dogs, she speaks candidly about this period in her life. "This has been a very transformative time for me," says Gaga about "A Star Is Born," a life-changing journey punctuated by bursts of excitement and doubt. "As an artist, there's always a feeling of 'Am I good enough? Am I making something honest? Am I making something true?' There is a sort of stagnant sadness in me, wondering if I'm enough. Today I did not see that. I saw something different. I saw a clarity. I saw a truth."

Her vulnerable portrait of a fledgling musician has made "A Star Is Born" the movie event of the fall, catapulting Gaga into a new sphere. Musical legends like Cher and Bette Midler used to effortlessly carry their own cinematic vehicles in the '80s and '90s, but few professional singers have recently accomplished the trick. (Just ask Mariah Carey about the bomb that was "Glitter.") Since early October, "A Star Is Born" has grossed more than $300 million at the global box office. Even better, the Warner Bros. release is the rare movie that transcends the big screen. There have been endless Twitter arguments about Ally's musical evolution, Instagram love letters, memes about Gaga's unwavering adoration of Cooper and public recitations from the soundtrack, especially of "Shallow," the catchiest movie anthem since Céline Dion warbled about Kate and Leo's lost love aboard the Titanic.

Now Gaga and the film are poised to storm the awards circuit as this year's Oscars front-runner. "The business is changing so much," says Cooper, who made his directorial debut with "Star" and spent four years producing the film on a modest $38 million budget. "I know it feels good for the industry that a movie like this, which is about relationships and how we need each other, is doing well financially." It could finally mean some good news for the Academy Awards, which has been fighting charges of irrelevance as viewership dipped 20% in March, to a new low of 26 million. If "A Star Is Born" clinches the top prize, it will be the most successful best picture winner, in terms of domestic ticket sales, since "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" 15 years ago. (Back then, the show attracted 44 million viewers.)

And if "Shallow" is nominated for an Oscar for best song, Gaga says she'll perform it at the ceremony. "One hundred percent," she says. In fact, Cooper reveals that he has plans to sing the duet live with Gaga. "We talked about that actually, because I'm such a maniac," Cooper says. "I started texting her the whole pitch of how we should do it. So we'll see. There might be a cool, unorthodox way we could perform it."

Gaga perhaps is perfectly suited to the rigors of modern-day Oscars campaigning, which favors bigger personalities over less-is-more. She's been a devoted viewer for most of her life. "I used to wrap myself in an Afghan or my grandmother's knitted blanket and stand on a podium while I watched the Oscars," says Gaga, who grew up in Manhattan as Stefani Germanotta. "I had big dreams as a child." Of course, she had no idea that her first movie - a remake of the 1937 film starring Janet Gaynor, with updates by Judy Garland (in 1954) and Barbra Streisand (in 1976) - would become such a phenomenon. "Well, give me a few more movies before you call me a success," she says in her throaty voice. Even at her photo session, Gaga instructs the photographer, "Don't shoot me as a movie star."

CREDIT: Art Streiber for Variety

Yes, there have been other film offers. But she hasn't been reading too many scripts. The last few weeks of her life have reminded her of the time after the release of 2009's "The Fame Monster," the album that cemented her status as an artist who could sell out stadiums around the world. "This feels for me very much like that, but in a different way, because I have all the wisdom slash pain and betrayal of the last 10 years," Gaga says. "Look, from the outside in, I think people think it's all champagne and roses for us. 'Us' meaning the collective artists slash celebrities." She pauses for a split second. "I don't like the word 'celebrity,' because to me it negates my artistry. There's a lot of pain you go through. Everything changes. Your whole life changes."

"A Star Is Born" is a meditation on that fame - Gaga relates to a scene at the beginning of the film when Jackson leaves the thundering applause of a stadium to enter the quiet loneliness of his chauffeured car. She estimates that she's watched the movie, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in August, five to 10 times. On the first viewing, Cooper brought a stereo system to a private room, to amplify the sound, and he covered up the windows with garbage bags so "the light from the screen would be crisper," she recalls. "I cried the whole time, because I missed Jackson."

More recently, she bought a ticket to watch the movie at a local multiplex. "Yeah, I snuck in," she says. "I sat through most of it." She left early, but not out of fear of being spotted. "I had to remove myself before the end," she explains. "The film moves me so deeply. I feel so entrenched in the character that the second half of the film - without revealing what happens - is so emotional and tragic. I have to take myself out of it."

For most of her career, Gaga has been a larger-than-life presence, hiding behind masks and motifs tied to her album releases. Like Madonna, her most natural predecessor, she embraces and abandons personas with each new song, from "Bad Romance" (and that meat dress) to "Million Reasons" (with a pink pantsuit and cowgirl hat). But who is Gaga? "A Star Is Born" presents a more intimate look at the artist stripped of her armor.

Like the Garland version of the film, this latest "Star Is Born" succeeds because of the marriage between the ingénue and the icon. Gaga isn't shy about reminding you that she isn't Ally, although they may resemble each other. She worked hard to create the character, co-writing the songs and providing anecdotes about the music business that informed the script. Prior to the 42-day shoot, she trained with the late acting coach Elizabeth Kemp in a workshop in Santa Barbara. She submitted to an exercise where she had to lie on the floor and imagine when "life blasted you so hard you can't remember who you were before it happened," she recalls. "I just broke down in tears and started to cry. Before I knew it, I was talking about feeling like I was my bed and my bed was telling me to get out."

CREDIT: Art Streiber for Variety

In the script, Cooper added touchstones that nodded at the previous iterations of the story. The drag bar where Jackson meets Ally is called the Bleu Bleu, a callback to a club in Garland's version. There was also another, more overt homage that ended up on the cutting room floor. "We did one scene where Jackson gave Ally a pair of ruby slippers," Gaga says. "He was laying underneath the bed, and she's on top, and all you heard him doing was clicking the heels together. And she leans over, and he's laughing, and they are so in love."

Toby Emmerich, the chairman of Warner Bros. Pictures Group, reveals that the original script had a different finale. "The first ending that I read, [Jackson] actually swims out into the ocean, where he commits suicide," Emmerich says. "The script that we had when he started shooting, he rides his motorcycle. It was more like the Kris Kristofferson ending [in the 1976 version] with the Ferrari, but with Jackson with the Harley. But Bradley changed his mind and came to see me and pitched the idea of what he ended up shooting. I think he was right. When I watch the movie now, I can't imagine it ending any other way."

Gaga swiped several souvenirs from the set. She's the owner of Ally's songbook and a bottle of Mr. Bubble from a bathtub love scene, in addition to Jackson's shirt. "I just wanted to have a piece of him with me," says Gaga, who is engaged to talent agent Christian Carino. "This is very precious to me. These are heirlooms, or they will be heirlooms one day. They are things I will want to show my little girl or little boy and say, 'Here they are. You can touch them.' I want them to have a close, tangible, poetic experience with the film the way I have."

On the night before "A Star Is Born" opened in theaters, Gaga was on the edge of her seat. Appearing alongside the other cast members, she answered questions at an Academy screening at MoMA. She spoke lovingly about working with Cooper, which she does whenever she's asked about him. As the event ended, a throng of noisy fans gathered at the entrance, creating an unruly scene. "This is like for Princess Diana," one Oscar voter gasped. Although bodyguards had instructed the fans that Gaga wouldn't be signing autographs, she did anyway. As her car cruised down 53rd Street, taking a right on 6th Avenue, groupies started chasing her vehicle on foot. She rolled down the window at a traffic stop to sign more memorabilia from the back seat.

CREDIT: Art Streiber for Variety

The idea of remaking "A Star Is Born" had been kicked around at Warner Bros. since the '90s. "Anytime a big pop star broke, we would talk about it," says producer Bill Gerber. "Hey, should we do 'A Star Is Born' with Lauryn Hill or Aaliyah? Whitney Houston had been talked about way back when."

In 2011, it looked like there would be some movement. Clint Eastwood was briefly attached to direct, with Beyoncé in talks to star with Cooper. The deal didn't come together, but in 2014, Cooper started eyeing the project as his directorial debut. "I love acting," he says. "I think it's the best way to direct for sure." Still, Cooper initially considered someone else to play Jackson. "I saw this other person that I wanted to do this, who is an actual musician," Cooper says. "But [the studio] wouldn't make the movie with him." A source with knowledge of the talks says that Cooper had met with Jack White, the former lead singer of the White Stripes. But this was all before Gaga came on board.

Gaga and Cooper's chemistry is so natural, it's hard to imagine anyone else playing these parts. Their closeness is on display during a joint interview with Variety in October in New York. Both swear that they haven't read any of the film's mostly glowing reviews. "My manager will sometimes text me little one-liners here and there," Gaga says. "I'll be like, 'Stop it!'" Cooper has only broken the rule once. "I read one review, and it was horrible," he says. "It was from a place I grew up reading my whole life. And I just saw it on a news feed."

They'd like to work together again. "Maybe she'll direct," Cooper says. "No, no, no," Gaga replies. "Let's not get ahead of ourselves or confuse our mediums. I did this because I believed in him and all the people he brought together. I'll stick to directing music videos."

One question that persists about the movie involves Ally's career trajectory. In the middle of the film, at the hands of a smarmy British manager, she dyes her hair orange and starts producing more commercial pop. On "Saturday Night Live," Ally belts out a sexually provocative tune, "Why Did You Do That?," which leads Jackson to believe she's lost her way. Diane Warren, who co-wrote the lyrics, has said it wasn't intended to be a bad song. But Gaga has avoided providing her own interpretation until now. "When we see her on 'Saturday Night Live' and she's singing a song about why do you look so good in those jeans, it's almost the antithesis of where we started," Gaga says. "That is relatively shallow." Cooper doesn't see it that way. "I don't necessarily view her music as superficial," he says. "I think she's performing with all her heart."

CREDIT: Art Streiber for Variety

There's no denying the universal appeal of "Shallow." A few weeks later, at her house, Gaga explains her theory on why it's become such a hit. "We are living in a time where there's so much conversation about women's voices being heard," Gaga says. "Men listening to those voices. And also, men not listening to those voices. Women being silenced in very public ways, like Dr. [Christine Blasey] Ford with Justice [Brett] Kavanaugh. Judge Kavanaugh being appointed is basically like telling every single woman in the country that's been assaulted, 'We don't care. Or we don't believe you.'"

She says what's special about the song is that it's an open dialogue between a man and a woman: "To me, that conversation is what makes the song successful and beautiful and why people cry when they hear it. It's because that man and woman connect, and they are listening to each other."

As Gaga reflects on the cultural impact of "A Star Is Born," she looks at the film through the eyes of her fans. It means a lot to her that they've championed this project. "I only want to win now," she says, speaking metaphorically, "because I want that kid who feels like me, that misfit or outcast that didn't belong, to win. The reward for me is that this movie is a win for them."

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There is a common belief that women hit a glass ceiling later in their careers, whereby a combination of invisible barriers prevent women from advancing to senior leadership roles. But what if women reach the glass ceiling a lot earlier on? To answer this question Accenture conducted a survey of 2,907 young professionals under the age of 30, who have been in the workforce for five years or less. The findings, which are outlined in the September 2018 report Getting To Equal 2018: Young Leaders , reveal that women aged 30 and under will experience several barriers to their advancement within the first five years of working life.

"Typically, the story line goes, as women try to advance in their careers they get to the point where they're hitting the glass ceiling because they are stepping away for families and that is where all the pay gap and promotion challenges are coming in. What we wanted to investigate was how early does this really start for women? Turns out it is a lot earlier than we think", says Mary Hamilton, Silicon Valley Managing Director San Francisco Labs, Accenture.

Here Hamilton outlines the key barriers women starting out in their careers face and what organizations can do to tackle this.
The pay and promotion gap
Young women entering the workforce tend to face immediate discrepancies when it comes to pay and promotions. "Even within the first five years we are seeing young women earning 6 percent less than young men," says Hamilton. This pay gap continues to grow and by the time women reach 30 years of age, men are 8 percent more likely to have become managers, and 22 percent more likely to have reached senior manager.

This in turn, contributes to the pay gap as Hamilton says that within the first three years of their career 67 percent of young men reported receiving pay raises compared to 56 percent of young women. To overcome this Hamilton says companies need to refocus their efforts to address the issue from the beginning of women's careers.
Limited career advice and development
Women experience different challenges throughout their careers compared with men and they are therefore more likely to benefit from mentoring and informal career advice early on. However, only half of the women surveyed have access to a mentor at the start of their careers. "When you think about professional development a core part is understanding how to become an executive. Even in those early years men have greater access to that kind of professional development compared with women. This also extends to regular training as only 38 percent of young women were getting access to training, versus 45 percent with young men," says Hamilton.

A great example of this is the professional training gap in digital technology. Only 62 percent of young women state they have had technology or digital experience since graduating compared with 77 percent of young men. "This is self-reported and includes things like taking a coding or computer class or working with digital technology," says Hamilton. These digital technology gaps exists because of a lack of professional training, which only serves to perpetuate the lack of advancement opportunities for young women.
Inadequate networks and high-profile opportunities
"When you add it all together you start to see that women are not getting the professional development they need - as they don't have access to mentors or training. But more importantly they also don't have access to organizational networks", says Hamilton. Overall the study finds that 55 percent of young women don't have access to a network, which Hamilton says also limits access to high-profile opportunities.

"The onus is being put on the women to go out and find a network, as opposed to creating a culture that supports this. When do you have access to networks and mentors? It's when you're engaged in the truly high value activities within your company or organization," she says. Consequently, Hamilton says women are more likely to be relegated to undertake the 'office housework' or administrative activities that are not recognized in the same way as high profile assignments.
Tackling cultures of inequality
Creating a workplace culture that supports equality is the key to removing the barriers that women at work, especially for women entering the workplace for the first time. These work cultures generally include three factors, namely leaders who are willing to take action, diversity efforts that include men and workplace practices that encourage employees to be themselves. " In organizations with a culture of equality women are six times more likely to rise to senior manager positions than they are in companies without that culture," says Hamilton. The benefits extend beyond career advancement, as women are twice as likely to report job satisfaction and an intention to remain with an organisation that has a culture of equality.

Given the important role that culture plays in women's advancement Hamilton encourages young women to choose their employers wisely. "If you're in a position where the culture of equality is not working I would strongly encourage you to find a place where the culture is one that is supportive of both men and women. It's absolutely critical because that's where you're going to find the most success and the most satisfaction," she says.

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Women Hit A Glass Ceiling Early In Their Careers, Here's How To Break It

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What if women face the glass ceiling the moment they enter the workforce? An Accenture report reveals that women aged 30 and under will experience several barriers to their advancement within the first five years of working. Here is how companies can tackle this. #IfOnlyIKnew

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"Acts as a concise introduction to the study of both contemporary and historical stardom and celebrity. Collecting together in one source companion an easily accessible range of readings surrounding stardom and celebrity culture, this book is a worthwhile addition to any library." - Kerry Gough, Birmingham City University "Absolutely wonderful.

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Fact or fake? Lady Gaga reminisced on old tabloids in her Sept. 13 video with 'Vogue' and revealed the truth on her hypothetical penis. Watch her response, here.

You know you've made it big when fans speculate that you have a penis. Lady Gaga, 32, brought up a rumor that blew up soon after her debut album, The Fame, released in 2008. The pop sensation was asked what's the "strangest rumor" she's ever heard about herself in a 73 Questions video interview with , uploaded on Sept. 13. Gaga barely blinked before answering, "That I have a penis." Well, the question already gives you the answer: It was just a rumor!

The rumor first started after a picture of the "Poker Face" singer surfaced from England's 2009 Glastonbury Festival. The shot was taken at an upwards angle, and you could therefore see up her dress. Many spied what they mistook as a bulge, and hence, the hermaphrodite rumors began. But this isn't the first time Lady Gaga has addressed the rumor, discussing it with none other than Barbara Walters, of all people. "You know, there also is this strange rumor that you're part man, part woman. You've heard that rumor?" the veteran journalist asked Lady Gaga in a televised 2010 interview. She then inquired if it was true, which Lady Gaga responded simply with, "No." But Gaga later added, "At first it was very strange and everyone sorta said, 'That's really quite a story!' But in a sense, I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny."

Later during the Vogue interview, the performer brought up a more important way she'd like to be remembered. "I would like to be remembered for the message behind ' Born This Way,'" she admitted. "I would like to be remembered for believing that people are equal. I would like to be remembered for being courageous and different." Gaga has been a long-time champion and defender of LGBTQ rights, so we believe her wish will come true! And she won't have to worry about being "different" - from the many dramatic gowns she's flaunted to promote her upcoming film A Star Is Born, from wearing a raw meat dress to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, Gaga has always been a pioneer, whether it be by fashion, music, or equality.

Watch the full interview above. And if you want to jump right to the penis question, start at 44 seconds in!

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You know you've made it big when fans speculate that you have a penis. Lady Gaga , 32, brought up a rumor that blew up soon after her debut album, The Fame, released in 2008. The pop sensation was asked what's the "strangest rumor" she's ever heard about herself in a 73 Questions video interview with , uploaded on Sept.

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Lady Gaga is one of the biggest pop stars in the world. As a result, she's also one of the biggest tabloid targets. Here are five recent wrong rumors about the singer.

Last month, Gossip Cop called out The New York Post for wrongly reporting that Gaga wore a $1 million engagement ring to the London premiere of A Star Is Born. The singer certainly wore a flashy piece of jewelry to the event, but one needs to be engaged in order to wear an engagement ring. A rep for Gaga has told us on the record several times that her boyfriend Christian Carino hasn't proposed. Meanwhile, outlets such as The Huffington Post also covered Gaga's appearance on the red carpet , but made no mention of an engagement ring.

Gossip Cop also busted Star last month for making up a story about Jennifer Lawrence being furious at Bradley Cooper for casting Gaga in A Star Is Born instead of her. Not only did the actress's spokesperson dismiss the article as nonsense, but Lawrence herself raved about A Star Is Born during an interview on Marc Maron's "WTF" podcast earlier this year. The actress called the movie "phenomenal" and described Cooper as an "amazing director."

In January, Gossip Cop corrected a RadarOnline article alleging that Gaga got a facelift prior to this year's Grammy Awards. The claim was based on the opinion of a medical professional who never treated the singer, but simply analyzed photos of her posing on the red carpet. A spokesperson qualified to speak on Gaga's behalf denied the story, and told us her look was crafted through contouring, a makeup technique that sculpts the face. As we also noted at the time, Gaga had been on her Joanne World Tour leading up to the Grammys, so it's hard to imagine she had time to pencil in plastic surgery.

Also in January, Gossip Cop debunked a ridiculous Neon Nettle story about Gaga getting caught performing a satanic ritual at a hotel in London. The blog alleged that a hotel worker discovered a bathtub full of blood in the singer's fancy suite. The tall tale was completely ridiculous. In fact, a photo Gaga posted on Twitter around the same time that the article was published indicated she wasn't even in London. Regardless, if a bathtub full of blood had been found in the singer's room, there would have been a police investigation and it would have been worldwide news. It never happened.

And finally, Gossip Cop busted OK! last November for falsely claiming that Gaga was teaming up with Pink to write an "anti-Madonna anthem." It was said the two were penning lyrics that would expose the iconic singer as "superficial and a fraud." When the report emerged last year, a rep for Gaga assured us it was simply "not true." Here's an example of the passage of time disproving a bogus tabloid story. It's nearly a year later, and Gaga and Pink haven't recorded any music together, let alone an "anti-Madonna anthem."

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If there's anyone willing to take a fashion risk, it's Lady Gaga. The singer is the very definition of a style icon, and she's always pushing the boundaries. I mean, who else do you know would wear a dress made out of raw meat? There are so many crazy looks that Gaga has worn throughout the years, but we've taken it upon ourselves to round up her most outlandish outfits...so far.

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Relive All of Lady Gaga's Most Iconic Fashion Moments

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Lady Gaga - Bad Romance (Official Music Video)

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Lady Gaga - Poker Face (Official Music Video)

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There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold . . . Next week Stefani Germanotta will rock Dublin for three sold-out nights at the O2, wowing her little monsters with her exploding breasts and strange piano technique. LEAGUES O'TOOLE climbs the stairway to Gaga heaven

A CONSTELLATION of diamond-cut planets drifts behind her. Her piano is encased in what looks like a jagged chrome- plated ice sculpture. She descends the shimmery silver steps, fists clenched, summoning the power of Freddie. We are the champions, no time for losers. On closer inspection she wears what looks like a tinfoil rain mac with healthy shoulder pads and a headpiece made of cheap plastic lampshades, almost Devo-esque in shape.

She is Katie Something-or-other, X Factor contestant. Tonight Matthew, she is Freddie Mercury, or should we say Lady Gaga as Freddie Mercury, which makes sense because we all know without Freddie there would be no Gaga. Katie knows that. Katie is smart. Although she won't win, Katie is doing well enough in this competition with limited talent and blazing ambition. Katie, though, is merely a molecule of the bigger picture: the Cult of Gaga.

In real life, Gaga wouldn't dream of entering a degrading (albeit brilliantly orchestrated) TV pop contest. Nah, she's the type to wait until she becomes very famous, then make a well-paid guest appearance. In a giant bath tub, if you don't mind. Gaga likes to make a splash.

In fact, Gaga likes to make a splash every time she makes a public appearance, whether it's one of her fantastically grotesque live shows or picking up yet another Grammy, MTV, NME, Brit or Ascap figurine. At the time of writing she has scooped 95 awards from 144 nominations - a serious strike rate. Not too shabby for a lady with just one proper album and a clutch of singles. That's a lot of awards, a lot of shiny mantelpiece ornaments, a lot of speeches. More importantly, that's a lot of costumes.

When we talk about Gaga being on a level with the kings and queens of pop - the Freddies, Jackos, Princes, Bowies, Madonnas of this world - we're not just talking about pop songs. With Gaga we're talking about the theatre of pop and the work that goes into it. We're talking about the team of people behind it, the costumes and set designs, the character creations, the concepts, the references and the commentary, the choreography, the performance, the directors. We're talking about the crazed adoration it inspires and the analytical examination it requires. We're talking about the very dreams that gave birth to it, and the vision and determination to see it through.

But all this inspiration and perspiration has to orbit around someone or something. And in this case the chosen one is 24-year-old Stefani Germanotta, an Italian-American Catholic New Yorker.

Germanotta's ascent has been marked by a series of trial-and-error experiments from the moment she dived headfirst into the New York artistic community. Spells at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, the Lower East Side dive circuit, the burlesque scene, the electronic music scene, experimenting with drugs, short-lived recording and publishing deals, developing shows with downtown performance artist Lady Starlight, writing pop songs for Britney, NKOTB and Pussycat Dolls, and being immersed in the avant-garde fashion scene all seem to have contributed in some way. By projecting all these experiences on to the blank canvas that is Stefani Germanotta she was able to create the monster that is Gaga.

Having reached this point, though, how does one maintain the Cult of Gaga without just becoming another irritating in-your-face pop star?

Perhaps Gaga's most valuable lesson from the underground arts scene was to embrace the ridiculous. And, wow, does she embrace it fearlessly. When admirers compile lists of their favourite Gaga moments, more often than not they refer to her wardrobe rather than her discography. Because when it comes to fashion, Gaga does it all - from the burlesque- and dominatrix-inspired sexual imagery and artistic hair sculptures to flat-out madness: the raw meat outfit donned at the VMAs, the bubble costume and (my personal favourite) a coat made entirely out of Kermit the Frog cuddly toys.

The fearlessness isn't just about dressing up in mental clothes. It's about having a sense of humour, being an entertainer, creating a fantasy and never losing sight of it.

"I'm still latching on to the fact that people think I'm sexy. This is like a new thing for me, because for the first year of my career everyone called me a tranny robot and thought I had a little penis. Now these things, my aesthetic, my way of dressing, my performances, the way I speak and carry myself are now transitioning from this sort of weird place to a mainstream place," commented Gaga last year.

But she is also keen to stress that "the conception that Gaga is kooky for the sake of being kooky is so wrong. We think it's beautiful. We love avant-garde, but we don't do it for the sake of avant-garde."

Sure, there's been a few songs too: the coldly commercial European-styled disco anthems Just Dance and Poker Face, the bizarre Bad Romance, which almost re- imagines Boney M's Serbian folk-disco classic Rasputin into a demonic thumping industrial-pop monstrosity complete with a parody of Madonna's Vogue breakdown. And let's not forget Gaga and Beyoncé's wonderful road trip in Telephone, a sprawling storyboard pop video created with director-collaborator Jonas Åkerlund that manages to cram in references to Kill Bill, Thelma Louise and dozens of women-in-prison sexploitation flicks, Gaga's own bisexuality, mass homicide, the poisoning of Tyrese Gibson, a pair of shades made of smoking cigarettes, and more fashion statements than the Pet Shop Boys' entire videography, all of which is set to some lovely chopped up Auto-Tune, killer Honey B verses and a fancy piano interlude housed in another pumping Euro-club smash.

That said, in terms of songs, Gaga has a long, long way to go to reach the pantheon of icons. What suggests that she might have what it takes though is her sense of the bigger picture - the consummate 21st- century pop star: smart, artistic, versatile, provocative and absolutely sure of who she is and where she's going.

"Fame is both the birth and the death of the artist," she says. "The minute you become famous the very thing that tells the whole world about you is also the thing that shoots your art right in the face. I think when I get my photo taken falling out of a limousine, it does nothing but amplify my celebrity and not my artistry - and I'm not a celebrity. I'm going to do everything I can to protect my work. I want to be around for a long time.

"I'm not interested in being a celebrity. I'm interested in a being an artist. I don't think there's a very fine line. I think it's very clear who is a celebrity and who is an artist. The catch is that when you make pop music you meet people in certain scenarios, people show up, there's cameras everywhere. Of course I get my picture snapped with lots of different people. I'm a nice person, I never say no."

The idea of Gaga not wanting to be a celebrity might seem a little weird given how successful, famous and ubiquitous she already is, but when you examine the tawdry DNA of the average contemporary pop star, the wannabe talent-show lapdogs reliant on red tops, lad mags and gossip glossy inches to leap-frog real stars in that redundant indicator they call the charts, someone like Gaga, steadfast in her beliefs and vision cuts an impressive figure.

Even with a huge lobster stuck to her face.

Lady Gaga plays the O2, Dublin, on October 26, 27 and 29. All shows sold out

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There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold . . . Next week Stefani Germanotta will rock Dublin for three sold-out nights at the O2, wowing her little monsters with her exploding breasts and strange piano technique. LEAGUES O'TOOLE climbs the stairway to Gaga heaven A CONSTELLATION of diamond-cut planets drifts behind her.

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Lady Gaga struck the biggest chord with Oscars viewers Sunday night, capturing the lion's share of chatter related to the 91st Academy Awards on social media.

Gaga's first Oscar win - for the song "Shallow" from "A Star Is Born," which she performed with Bradley Cooper on the ABC telecast - gave her three of the evening's five top moments on Facebook and made her the most-tweeted-about celeb, according to the companies.

Per Facebook, the five most talked-about Oscar moments on Feb. 24 were: "Green Book" winning best picture, followed by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper's intimate performance of "Shallow." Next was Rami Malek's best-actor win for "Bohemian Rhapsody," followed by Gaga's acceptance speech for "Shallow" and Alfonso Cuarón's "Roma" winning foreign language film.

On Twitter, the most-tweeted moments were similar: "Green Book" took the No. 1 spot, followed by "Shallow" winning original song, Malek's win, Gaga-Cooper's performance, and Olivia Colman snagging the best actress trophy for "The Favourite."

Lady Gaga was the most tweeted-about celebrity of the night, followed by Bradley Cooper, Rami Malek, Alfonso Cuarón and Spike Lee. Gaga's star shone brightly as ABC's Oscars broadcast went hostless, after Kevin Hart's controversial exit.

Spike Lee, whose "BlackKklansman" won the Oscar for adapted screenplay, generated the most controversy of the night after he angrily tried to leave the auditorium after "Green Book" picked up the best-picture Oscar and delivering an acceptance speech that drew a Monday-morning response on Twitter from Donald Trump.

Celebs tweeting huzzahs to Lady Gaga for her Oscars win and performance with Cooper included "Shallow" co-writer Mark Ronson:

Watching @ladygaga get the respect she deserves 🥰 ✨👏🏻What a talent.. she acts , sings & writes with her whole heart❤️ #Oscars

- Reese Witherspoon (@RWitherspoon) February 25, 2019

in all seriousness, Gaga is the greatest inspiration in my life. Her and Bradley choosing me for that tiny little scene was an indescribable honor. She makes me want to be better every single day. Her courage and talent and vision are one of a kind. I stan her to my grave.

- h (@halsey) February 25, 2019

On the red carpet, top five most talked-about Oscars fashion looks on Facebook were: Billy Porter wearing a Christian Siriano tuxedo dress; Jason Momoa's pink velvet tux and matching scrunchie; Jennifer Lopez's mirror-mosaic gown; Lady Gaga's 128-carat Tiffany diamond necklace; and Spike Lee's custom metallic-gold Jordan 3 sneakers.

On Twitter, Gaga garnered the most activity from the red carpet, but she didn't herself take to social media over Oscars weekend. The most-retweeted celebrity tweet from this year's Oscars was from Porter, star of FX's "Pose," showing off his billowing black dress:

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Oscars Social Buzz: Lady Gaga Steals the Show

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Lady Gaga struck the biggest chord with Oscars viewers Sunday night, capturing the lion's share of chatter related to the 91st Academy Awards on social media. Gaga's first Oscar win - for the song "Shallow" from "A Star Is Born," which she performed with Bradley Cooper on the ABC telecast - gave her three of the evening's five top moments on Facebook and made her the most-tweeted-about celeb, according to the companies.

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Despite having hustled, stripped and set fire to hairspray cans with her tits out in bars across New York City for years, it wasn't until releasing her debut album in 2008 that Lady Gaga became a household name. Bewildered journalists couldn't make sense of her platinum hair bows, tiny leotards and that purple teacup she used to carry with her wherever she went. But she was an immediate hit among pop fans, who became enthralled by her inherently flamboyant sense of style, increasingly creative music videos and refreshing determination to push boundaries in a pop arena that was actually quite cool at the time, but not particularly weird.

Although Gaga herself was undeniably eccentric, her music - particularly at the start of her career - was broadly palatable. Despite her debut being marketed as a complex Warholian exploration of fame, the tracks were catchy, repetitive and synth-driven. That said, they were also fucking massive. The pulsing synths and hypnotic chorus of " Just Dance" were the ideal accompaniment to WKD-fuelled teen house parties worldwide and the built-for-choreography beats of " Poker Face" had the ability to turn any dingy small town gay club into a euphoric, glittering stampede. Kids across the world ate up her addictive hits, avant-garde outfits and messages of acceptance, propelling her to the status of global icon in just a handful of months.

But it wasn't until the summer of 2009 that these aforementioned kids were given a name: " Little Monsters", which she began calling out to the crowd during her live shows. Giving a whole fandom a nickname of sorts was already commonplace in K-pop, but Gaga was the first to do it on such a grand scale in a western context - using it to describe the way fans would writhe, scream and dance in the pits of her high-octane performances. Naming her fans did two things. First, it created an "us" and "them" narrative. You were either a true Gaga fan, or you weren't. And second, it grouped them all together in a way that made sense online. For a generation of kids who existed on the internet, being a Little Monster meant more than going to a few gigs. It meant having a support network of like-minded people from around the world that you could interact with, like an extended family. Finally, there was a name for all the people who spent their waking hours immersed in the online world of Lady Gaga; one that was getting bigger by the year.

This formation quickly created a new blueprint: Bieber fans dubbed themselves, "Beliebers", Taylor got her "Swifties" and the "Rihanna Navy" formed. But Gaga was the first. Professor Mathieu Deflem - who wrote book Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame and dedicated an entire university course syllabus to her influence - agrees that Gaga's effect on fandom culture in this way is notable: "I would say that Gaga has at least facilitated this process for other pop stars and celebrities," he says. "Other stars now constantly name their fanbases - so much so that the effect is kind of wearing off. That also means that there is only one Lady Gaga, and that the impact of imitating her or adopting her various strategies are limited."

Strangely, as Gaga's fan base multiplied, her personal relationship to them tightened. It was in mid-to-late 2009 - just before the re-release of her debut album, The Fame Monster - that she started using a " Monster Claw" hand symbol. It was a gesture as simple as curling her fingers and raising them in the air, but she did it so frequently online and on-stage that it swiftly caught on. Fans would put their "paws up" at concerts and she eventually got the claw tattooed on her back, which she shared on Instagram like a gift back to the fandom. She would talk about feeling like an outsider, sharing personal stories and preaching about tolerance and the importance of equality, consistently vocalising a system of beliefs that she stood for. And so, the Little Monsters had both a name, an ideology and a universal symbol to unite them. By outlining exactly what a Little Monster should be, and accelerating this sense of community among her fans, Gaga basically created a cult (but, y'know, a fun one rather than the kind that ends in something sinister like mass death). And all of this was able to snowball online.

"Gaga and her team understood the creation of a hardcore fanbase via social networking sites, and her approach to fans has always been very personal and direct," says Deflem, explaining how and why the Little Monsters ultimately thrived on the internet. "She established a culture where it seems there's a symmetry between her and her fans, as they can communicate with one another another. You can tweet Lady Gaga, and who knows? She might respond. That sense of horizontal interaction, however illusory it may be, works to create that sense of community."

Of course, every artist at the time had Twitter because by then it was the norm, but their accounts were often reserved for promotional tweets and banal interactions as opposed to glimpses into the artist's personality that felt genuine. Gaga would intersperse funny tweets with videos of her speaking out against " Don't Ask, Don't Tell", the US' now-abolished toxic policy on LGBTQ+ military service members. She would share news of how she was working to fight cyber-bullying with the Born This Way Foundation, or perhaps an image of her "making a statement" in a meat dress surrounded by discharged soldiers. Gaga offered more than just her music, and when she went one step further by creating her very own social network platform LittleMonsters.com, it felt as if she'd actually woven her very own mini universe for her fans to exist within.

It's also worth noting that, because so much had been invested into creating a standalone social networking site, the star made doubly sure that she shared selfies, short responses and statements to reassure her fans that it was all worth it. It became the online equivalent of a community centre, where people could participate in multilingual chat-rooms, share memes and even join in listening parties. Gaga herself was known to scroll through the forum: it was here that she sought out die-hard fan (and now member of the fabled Haus of Gaga, a close creative network influenced by Warhol's iconic inner circle) Emma, who suffers from scoliosis, and paid for her hip surgery. Here, the star even opened up to fans, sharing inside stories and discussing pain, mental health and her experiences in the industry.

It was in 2013 that things truly began to unravel. It started with a debilitating hip injury and spiralled throughout the ARTPOP release campaign, which kicked off with the star parting ways with her management. To make matters worse, she then enlisted controversial photographer Terry Richardson to film a video in which R Kelly, a star whose career has been plagued by allegations of sexual misconduct, "do what he wants" with her body. The video was then canned, with Gaga citing a lack of quality caused by time restraints as the reason it never saw the light of day.

Gaga dealt with these various missteps by seeking solace on her own website. In public, it looked as if things were going gradually downhill, but nobody could pinpoint why. After she spawned a weird painting of a demonic chicken, one fan wrote a lengthy post about their concern for the star, to which Gaga responded. In the ultimately uplifting but still surprisingly candid post, Gaga wrote that she had felt abandoned throughout her hip surgery and as though she were little more than a cash cow to fickle people and corporations - all themes she later expanded on in an excellent keynote speech at SXSW (you know, the one where Millie Brown puked paint down her outfit). Sure, we may now live in a time where Katy Perry live-streams her therapy, but for Gaga to lay her demons bare in such a way to her fans is an example of how she's interacted with them from the very beginning.

Gaga may not have been the very first pop star to develop such a close bond with her fandom, but she is undoubtedly the first to harness the full potential of the digital age to do so. Of course, her more extravagant experiments with technology don't always hit the mark - remember that bizarre ARTPOP app that never quite materialised? But, when she strips it back to just posting short responses to her fans, sharing drunken selfies and laying bare the issues she's truly passionate about, she manages to create a genuine connection which even now feels kind of rare.

This is precisely why Gaga's blueprint is genius. In weighing in with selfies, memes and the occasional heartfelt post at the same time as being the kind of global icon that can sell out arena tours in seconds, she has molded herself into the ultimate pop star paradox: she can release a self-aware comment on fame like " Paparazzi", yet you can also imagine getting shit-faced on whiskey with her and setting the world to rights on someone's sofa at 3AM. It takes more than a meat dress and a few hair bows to curate a fanbase as rabid yet unwaveringly loyal as Little Monsters. Many stars have tried, but without understanding the sense of extended identity that comes from these fan labels. Nobody does it like Gaga.
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Lady Gaga Pioneered Online Fandom Culture As We Know It

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Telephone ft. Beyoncé (2010)
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With 2018 marking Lady Gaga's tenth year in the business, it's become impossible to deny her colossal presence. Hers is a catalogue that boasts multi-platinum singles, six Grammys, 13 Guinness World Records and the most-watched Superbowl performance of all time. We've seen her as an avant-garde electropop superstar, Tony Bennett's partner in jazz, and one of the most prominent figures in pop culture ever. She's combined the theatrics of David Bowie, the provocative pop of Madonna and the punk spirit of Debbie Harry to create something truly extraordinary.

With A Star is Born, we see Lady Gaga star as the leading lady, alongside first-time director Bradley Cooper, in the fourth adaption of the Hollywood classic. The film currently holds an astonishing 95% on Rotten Tomatoes and is generating some serious Oscars buzz. The accompanying soundtrack also features new, original songs written by Cooper and Gaga herself, making now the perfect time to revisit Gaga's genre-bending discography. Below, we've picked out ten of the very best Gaga bangers.
Words: Kyle Campbell
Why we love it

This haunting orchestral rock ballad was written for the Netflix documentary, The Hunting Ground. The film covers the abundance of sexual assault on college campuses and 'Til It Happens to You' forces the listener to stand in the victim's position and recognise the trauma of sexual violence. The song won an Emmy, as well as being nominated for both a Grammy and an Oscar.

The song's journey begins with soaring strings and a sombre piano, accompanied by a vulnerable sounding Gaga - "You say, I'll pull myself together / pull it together / you'll be fine." It then increasingly gets more chaotic, loud, and filled with fury, as a defiant Gaga cries out, "Tell me, how the hell could you talk? / How could you talk? / 'Cause until you walk where I walk / It's just all talk." Her operatic and emotional vocal delivery commands the song and makes it all the more heart-wrenching.

Behind the bop

Gaga reportedly struggled to record this song, as she had to recall her own past with sexual abuse. As co-writer Diane Warren explained: "It was very emotional for her. She couldn't even talk through it at times." Lady Gaga told : "I feel like what this song accomplishes is women - or men- rising to say, 'You think you can hurt me? You don't know about power. Because after what you did to me, you don't even know how much stronger I am."

Most Gaga moment

The powerful 2016 Oscars performance, where she was joined on stage by over 50 survivors of sexual violence with the words "survivor" and "it's not your fault" written on their bodies.

9. 'Diamond Heart' (2016)

Why we love it

Lady Gaga's last record, 'Joanne', was created in tribute of her poet aunt, whose death at just 19 haunted Gaga's childhood. The album sees her forge an unforeseen fusion of blues, indie-rock, pop and country with 'Diamond Heart' as the perfect opener. The track evolves from a sweet '70s electric piano intro to a fierce indie-rock stomper, featuring roaring drums and chunky, bluesy guitars. The song feels contained underground, until it erupts at the chorus with a gutsy-sounding Gaga unleashing, "I'm not flawless but I got a diamond heart." Her compelling, rockabilly vocals are a driving force here.

'Diamond Heart' impeccably introduces Joanne - Lady Gaga as you had never heard her before; unpolished, gritty and exposed. Although Gaga has used her skillset to create weird and wonderful realities in the past, here she simply welcomes you in to her own.

Behind the bop

'Diamond Heart' was penned by Gaga and Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme, and it also features Father John Misty, and Arctic Monkey's Matt Helders on the drums. The lyrics cover remaining defiant and self-assured when the world feels like a constant battle. The singer told , "I might not be flawless - Dad! World! - but I have a diamond heart. I have a good and strong spirit within me. Life is a dog fight for a lot of people and when you find the pitbull within yourself, that's Joanne."

Most Gaga moment

"Young, wild, American" - homage to David Bowie's 'Young Americans', a major influence on Gaga.

8. 'Paparazzi' (2008)

Why we love it

The fifth and final single from Gaga's colossal debut album, 'Paparazzi' uses a techno beat, UFO-like synthesisers and a killer hook to dissect the often venomous relationship an artist has with the press that gave them their success. Over the top of an electro-synth groove, Gaga alluringly invites the listener into the mind of a fame-obsessed stalker - is it the predatory paparazzi, or is it really the artist?

'Paparazzi' was a huge summer hit, landing Gaga her third top five hit in the UK (after two Number Ones), top 10 spots across the globe and is certified 3x platinum in the US. With its contagious chorus and sultry synth arrangement, 'Paparazzi' still feels innovative and fresh 10 years later.

Behind the bop

Lady Gaga explained the song has multiple meanings to :"It's also about wooing the paparazzi to fall in love with me, the media whoring," she said. "Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Ritchie are shock artists in their own way. They're not necessarily doing fine arts - something they put in a museums - but it's an art form."

Another explanation is the deadly impact of celebrity culture, Gaga explained in her Netflix documentary Five Foot Two: "If I'm gonna be sexy on the VMAs and sing about the paparazzi, I'm gonna do it while I'm bleeding to death and reminding you of what fame did to Marilyn Monroe."

Most Gaga moment

During the 2009 VMA Awards, Gaga bled to death on stage and was hung from a chandelier, amongst other madness. This was when the world realised the Lady was in fact, Gaga.

7. 'Alejandro' (2009)

Why we love it

'Alejandro' sees Gaga bid farewell to past lovers over a stomping synth-pop beat, perfectly balanced with classical production. It draws from europop and disco, and critics have even likened it to ABBA. 'Alejandro' exists in a dimension between banger and ballad, creating a melodramatic masterpiece.

The track opens with a bewitching violin piece from Italian composer Vittoro Monti, as a distressed Gaga states: "I know that we are young, and I know that you may love me / but I just can't be with you like this anymore, Alejandro." There is a sense of longing as Gaga slurs out her words, giving an almost melancholic edge to the song. Yet 'Alejandro' is executed as a seductive and uplifting dance number, which went on to be a double-platinum top 10 hit.

Behind the bop

'The Fame Monster' was a concept album covering the various 'monsters' that plagued Gaga's life. Alejandro tackles her "fear of men" monster. The three protagonists of the song - Alejandro, Fernando and Roberto - are rejected by Gaga: "I'm not your babe Fernando" and "Stop please / just let me go, Alejandro." Gaga is bittersweet in her independence - she yearns for ex-lovers, but gives them the cold shoulder, in fear of commitment amongst a life of celebrity and scrutiny, or perhaps that one day they will reject her too.

The director of the highly-controversial music video, Steven Klein, told : "It is about a woman's desire to resurrect a dead love and who cannot face the brutality of her current situation. The pain of living without your true love."

Most Gaga moment

In the music video Gaga swallows rosary beads in latex nun attire, gets kinky with gender bending German soldiers and wears the iconic machine gun bra.

6. 'Applause' (2013)

Why we love it

2013's 'ARTPOP' sees Gaga at peak avant-garde weirdness, and its lead single, 'Applause' sounds like glam-rock-goes-EDM with a dash of 80's nostalgia. It opens with aggressive pulsating synths, and the techno-inspired chaos only develops from there. 'Applause' reached the Top 10 in over 17 countries, and is certified 3x Platinum in the US.

Lady Gaga's vocal presence could send chills to the spine - she speaks every word with absolute authority while maintaining a disturbing tone. Critics compared the delivery to that of Talking Heads and David Bowie.

Behind the bop

The lyrics are a 'kiss my ass' to critics who debate her artistry - "I stand here waiting for you to bang the gong / To crash the critics saying, 'is it right or is it wrong?'" - though Gaga also analyses the dependant nature an artist has with their admirers.

During the 'Born This Way Ball' tour, she powered through extreme physical pain amnd exhaustion in fear of disappointed fans, resulting in major hip surgery and permanent chronic pain. Gaga told Sirius XM, "I just couldn't cancel because the thought of leaving 50,000 kids in the arena broke my heart. So I went out every night and I played and I played and I played until I couldn't walk one night."
Most Gaga Moment
"I've overheard your theory / 'Nostalgia's for geeks' / I guess sir, if you say so / some of us just like to read" - a response to Maroon 5's Adam Levine calling Gaga an art teacher rather than an artist.

5. 'Bad Romance' (2009)

Why we love it

Released at peak Gaga-mania, this classic wraps up what Lady Gaga is all about in a single song - awe-inspiring aesthetics, risqué performance art, and daring songwriting. 'Bad Romance' mixes Gaga's signature electro-pop with a thumping beat reminiscent of Depeche Mode, while executing a sinister atmosphere. From the ghoulish baroque opening to the legendary "Ra Ra-ah-ah-ah/ Rom roma ma/ Gaga oh la la", this UK Number One received widespread critical acclaim, multiple Grammys, and is one of the best-selling singles of all time, with 12 million copies sold worldwide.

You cannot talk 'Bad Romance' without its unforgettable video, which sees Gaga taken prisoner in a Russian bathhouse and sold as a sex-slave, only for her then to take revenge on her buyer with a blowtorch - all while providing striking visuals, flawless choreography and bizarrely-chic high fashion. The video became the most-viewed video on YouTube, was voted number one by critics on Billboard's 'greatest music videos of the 21 st century' list, and broke the record for most VMA nominations in history.

Behind the bop

The lyrics set the grim tone of 2009's 'The Fame Monster' and cover aspects of a toxic relationship and harmful choices in partners. She uses various references to Alfred Hitchcock movies - "I want your psycho, your Vertigo shtick / Want you in my Rear Window, Baby you're sick." Gaga explained to Alexa Chung: "What I'm really trying to say is, 'I want the deepest, darkest, sickest parts of you that you are afraid to share with anyone, because I love you that much'."

Most Gaga moment
"I'm a free bitch baby!"
4. 'ScheiBe' (2011)

Why we love it

This intense euro-dance anthem took Lady Gaga's fanbase by storm; going on to become one of the most treasured songs of her whole discography. The title, SchieBe, translates from German as 'Shit' and Gaga speaks with a mix of faux-German and English over fizzing synths and a pounding bass. The track was a highlight from 'Born this way' and received remarkable praise from contemporary critics. This song is absurd, artistic and perfect for a rave.

The track begins with Lady Gaga bizarrely growling, "I don't speak German, but I can if you like" - she then lets out a howl, which is followed by duelling, screechy synths. These remain throughout the song in a trance-like loop.

Behind the bop

The lyrical content covers female empowerment and talks about having to deal with life's shit, and how the shit makes you stronger. Lady Gaga hypes up her fellow feminists and encourages bravery and independence in the face of adversity. Notable lines include, "When I'm on a mission / I rebuke my condition / If you're a strong female you don't need permission" and "Blonde, high-heeled feminists, enlisting for this / Express your womankind, fight for your right."

Most Gaga moment

The previously-mentioned major hip injury happened mid-'SchieBe,' but Gaga continued the complex choreography, despite some thinking her screams were a repeat of the opening howl.

3. 'Perfect Illusion' (2016)

Why we love it

This is the lead single from Gaga's last record, 'Joanne', which sees the pop icon take a more down-to-earth vibe. 'Perfect Illusion', however, is a pounding synth-rock number and puts Lady Gaga's uncooked vocal ability on full display. There is a sense of urgency and disorientation to the song, with a building march-like chord progression. Just before the two-minute mark the world's most exhilarating key change is brought on by bashing drums - hungry to scream the truth, Gaga wails out that "it wasn't love" and you're left with goosebumps.

Behind the bop

Tame Impala's Kevin Parker co-wrote and co-produced the track with Gaga, and Josh Homme appears on guitar. The lyrics were brainstormed on Gaga's typewriter and focus on trying to decode what is reality and what is fiction in the modern world. "How do we look through these images that we know are filtered and altered, and decipher what is reality and what is a perfect illusion?" she told the Elvis Duran Show.

Most Gaga moment

This breathtaking acoustic performance.

2. 'Judas' (2011)

Why we love it

It's hard to make a top ten Lady Gaga songs list without feeling the lawless craving to throw in the entirety of 'Born This Way'. Although the heavy metal riffs of 'Electric Chapel' and the eerie elegance of 'Bloody Mary' are monumental moments, 'Judas' was a top 10 hit in over 15 countries and is the true lead single of 'Born This Way'. Judas is by far one of Gaga's most provocative and unparalleled pop numbers, showcasing her one-of-a-kind knack for packaging the gothic avant-garde in to a bankable radio hit.

It features a satanic sledgehammer beat, electro-house of the highest order and a symbolically Gaga "Judas, Juda-ah-ah." The glittery '80s pop melody of the chorus is a surprisingly successful variation from the otherwise demonically dark and dramatic sound of 'Judas'. However, the song reaches its climax with the turbo-charged techno breakdown, which sees Gaga hurl herself into decadent spoken word - the best dance breakdown of Gaga's career, or perhaps of all time.

Behind the bop

Judas is an analogy for how Lady Gaga tries to walk towards the light in her future while peering towards the devil in her past - whether that be choices in men, drug abuse or struggles with mental health. Judas represents the self-destructive vices that Gaga battles to leave behind - "Judas is the demon I cling to."

When talking to she explained, "the song is about washing the feet of both good and evil and understanding and forgiving the demons from your past in order to move into the greatness of your future."

Most Gaga moment

Much like 'Alejandro', 'Judas' was met with vicious criticism from the Catholic church, who cried blasphemy due to the use of religious wordplay and metaphors. In very Gaga fashion the song was released just before Easter, and the music video only exacerbated controversy.

1. 'Poker Face' (2008)

Why we love it

From the instantly recognisable "Mum-mum-mum-mah", the world was introduced to the glam-futurism dimension that Gaga revitalised the music scene with. This unstoppable mega-hit was the best-selling single of 2009, was loved by critics, earned aGrammy, went Number One internationally and is one of the best-selling singles of all time, selling over 14 million.

Gaga uses autotune as an artistic styling that goes well with the electro-pop aesthetic, rather than to disguise weak vocals. 'Poker Face' combines a robotic, dark sound with synth-pop to create an addictive anthem that became one of the most iconic songs of the 2000s.

Behind the bop

The lyrical content features various references to Texas Hold 'Em and is about Lady Gaga's bisexuality. She told Barbara Walters, "That's really what the song was all about - why when I was with my boyfriend was I fantasising about women?!" The chorus repeats two alternating lyrics with "He's got me like nobody", followed by "She's got me like nobody", an often unnoticed ode to Gaga's confusion over her sexual desires.

Biggest Gaga moment
"'Cause I'm bluffing with my muffin."

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