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Post by Admin on Sept 18, 2020 19:16:25 GMT
After Lady Gaga’s performance at the Super Bowl LI halftime show on Feb. 5, 2017, she announced that her Joanne World Tour would begin on Aug. 1, 2017. The tour would span five months and include 60 total shows across North and South American and Europe. The show’s stage was “extremely complex and complicated, and “coded with a computer,” Gaga told Entertainment Weekly. “It’s intense, and the cues all have to be met at a particular time. It’s high stress and tense backstage to make sure everything happens at the exact moment it’s supposed to.” http://instagram.com/p/BeucQxHBXou It was also reported that almost 50,000 Swarovski crystals were used to design the costumes and props for the singer-songwriter. There was such high demand for tickets across the world that secondary dates were added. However, Gaga had to cancel 11 of the February 2018 dates due to hospitalization for fibromyalgia. “I used to wake up every day and remember I was Lady Gaga — and then I would get depressed,” Lady Gaga told Billboard. http://instagram.com/p/CFP2gvRMx0m She was afraid to leave the house following the tour. Although she had been famous for a long time, it was the first time Gaga was dealing with her feelings. “I was peeling all the layers of the onion in therapy,” she continued. “So, as you dig deeper, you get closer to the core, and the core of the onion stinks.”
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Post by Admin on Sept 19, 2020 3:37:53 GMT
Lady Gaga surprised Little Monsters the world over on Friday morning (Sept. 18) by dropping the colorful, enchanting video for the Chromatica track "911." The clip was directed by Tarsem, best known for his award-winning, stunning work on R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion" clip, as well as the 2000 Jennifer Lopez film The Cell.
It opens with a masked Gaga laying in the middle of a desert, her face covered by a red cloth and pomegranates spread at her feet. She follows a mysterious figure in black astride a horse to a village, at which point the song's insistent beat kicks in and things get very interesting.
Surrounded by figures in colorful robes -- including one who repeatedly slams their head into a pillow on the ground -- Gaga robotically sings the song's lyrics as a woman in purple robes cradles a mummified figure. The clip is packed with the kind of daring fashion we've come to expect from Gaga, including a blue, gauzy dress topped by a complex golden mask with spikes jutting out of the singer's face.
Later in the video she is flown like a kite by muscled, shirtless man and laid in front of a golden backboard as she cries out in pain, at which point the action shifts to the scene of an urban car crash site where paramedics are trying to save her life. A closer looks reveals that all the characters from earlier are back in different forms, including the kite-flying man, who is now a medic saving Gaga's life, with winking call-backs to the white sands, pomegranates and other visual signposts sprinkled throughout the preceding action.
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Post by Admin on Sept 20, 2020 6:07:31 GMT
London-based Russian-Armenian artist Karina Akopyan designed some of the outfits for Lady Gaga’s latest 911 music video inspired by Armenian filmmaker Sergei Parajanov’s 1969 film The Color of Pomegranates. http://instagr.am/p/CFSjwU5Arhj Karina Akopyan is a Russian born artist and illustrator. According to her website, “Akopyan’s work depicts a world of pain, euphoria, frustration, made up memories and sex fantasies, often a political reference.” The red-hot latex bra and skirt combo and a bodysuit are among the costumes created by the designer. Lady Gaga’s new video is full of references to Parajanov’s classic 1969 art film. When Gaga is first introduced she’s surrounded by actual pomegranates. The poster of the film briefly appears in the video. The word “caution” (զգուշություն) written on a ribbon in Armenian can be seen throughout the short film. The music video was directed by filmmaker Tarsem Singh, who has frequently cited Parajanov as a major influence.
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Post by Admin on Sept 22, 2020 19:18:55 GMT
Lady Gaga recently spilled her soul, opening up about her past struggles with suicidal thoughts during an intimate interview on CBS Sunday Morning this weekend. After an emotional few days - which kicked off with the release of her new 911 music video on Friday - the native New Yorker was ready for a bit of pampering and self love. Gaga, 34, put a casual twist on her typically wild style while heading to a Sephora on the Upper Westside with mom Cynthia on Sunday, rocking a pink sweat-set with a Matrix-chic patent leather jacket. The A Star Is Born actress wowed as she hit the pavement wearing tiny pink shorts with a matching cropped hoodie that flashed just a hint of her abs.
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Post by Admin on Sept 26, 2020 5:59:23 GMT
Out of the nine extravagant costume changes Lady Gaga wore to the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards on Aug. 30, there were two accessories donned by the singer that caused San Francisco fashion followers to recognize some familiar artistry. A distinctive horn-embellished mask worn with a green Christopher John Rogers gown and a silver mask adapted into a headdress paired with a metallic Valentino ensemble both bore the signatures of San Francisco artist and designer Lance Victor Moore, a favorite secret weapon among the city’s red carpet regulars. “My phone lit up like a Christmas tree that night,” says Moore, 38. “I was the only designer she used two pieces from at the VMAs. It’s been extremely exciting, and a little overwhelming.” The VMAs were just the beginning. When the Sept. 15 cover of Billboard magazine was revealed, Gaga graced it in one of Moore’s leather and crystal cuffs. Inside the magazine, she also wore a studded belt by Moore and a blue crystal ring. And, perhaps most fabulously, when Gaga’s “911” music video premiered a few days later, the superstar wore two additional masks by Moore: a spiked facial ornament with gold rosette details, and a silver rosette and spike piece the singer wore in the style of a tiara. One of Gaga’s backup dancers also displayed a leather woven belt by the artist, “as if the masks weren’t enough” Moore jokes.
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