Lady GaGa
For starters, she won two Grammy's: “Poker Face” was best dance recording and “The Fame” earned the award for best electronic-dance album.
She wore three different outfits — each 更多 bizarre than the previous, from a risque, heart-shaped stunner to a spiky silver headdress with matching gown.
And she wowed the audience 由 segueing from a powerful “Poker Face” to a duet with Elton John, with both looking like orphans out of a Dickens novel, and John tweaking the lyrics of “Your Song:” “How wonderful life is, with Gaga in the world.”
“It’s amazing, but not surprising that people have gravitated to her,” says Jeff Rabhan, a 音乐 industry executive who has worked with Jermaine Dupri and J.Lo, and heads NYU’s Clive Davis department of recorded music.
“Artists have not done a lot to differentiate themselves recently. If 你 look at Beyoncé 或者 Alicia Keys, they’ve been very traditional in their approach. People are looking for something different.”
Lady Gaga certainly is different: a contradiction whose lyrics are X-rated, but who’s also a sweet Italian-American girl from the West Side who adores her parents.
She’s met 皇后乐队 Elizabeth and been interviewed 由 Oprah, but says she misses the days when she played lower East Side dives and 俱乐部 like the 苦 End.
She coos on stage and on her records like a traditional sex kitten, but revels in her bisexuality and does nothing to dispel rumors she is a hermaphrodite.
Lady Gaga leans heavily on her influences — Madonna, Gwen Stefani, Grace Jones, David Bowie, 皇后乐队 — but blends the past into something fresh and exciting.
“What makes Gaga different from 麦当娜 is that she’s a performance artist operating in the mainstream,” says celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton. “She takes Grace Jones and Yoko Ono and makes it pop.”
In a world full of meteoric-rise stories, Gaga’s seems one of the most improbable.
It began in 2006, when New Jersey-based record producer Rob Fusari was looking for a sexy rock ‘n’ roll heroine with tousled hair, sleepy eyes and 车库 band chops to front a female version of the rock band The Strokes.
Instead, he got a chunky girl named Stefani Germanotta with a bouffant, dark eyeliner and a look 更多 guido than grunge. She had taken a 40-minute bus ride to his studio in Parsippany, and he wanted to let her down easy.
“I’m thinking, ‘How can I cut this short and still make her feel like it was worth coming all the way out here?’ ” says Fusari, who has worked with Beyoncé, Will Smith and Whitney Houston. “She was bubbly and nice, but not what I was looking for at all.”
Lady GaGa
