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Aug 18 2011 03:25 PM ET

Lady Gaga and Cher duet 'The Greatest Thing' coming in September: Sample Gaga's demo here!

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The release of a much-anticipated collaboration between Lady Gaga and Cher—a song titled “The Greatest Thing,” written by Gaga and producer RedOne—is just around the corner: Yesterday, in response to a follower’s query about when the song would be out, Cher tweeted simply, “SEPTEMBER.” Here’s an appropriate response: Praise divas!

“The Greatest Thing” is set to be the lead single from Cher’s 26th studio album, which has been in the works for quite some time now. Last year, the superstar told EW that she was working with Diane Warren, the legendary songwriter behind Celine Dion’s “Because You Loved Me” and two tunes from Burlesque, including Cher’s power ballad “You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me.”

“It really won’t be ‘Believe’-ish,” she said of the album at that early stage. “It will be more…I don’t know how to say it. I can’t put a genre to it. It’s a little bit more real instruments, like guitars and stuff like that.” As recently as June, Cher tweeted that her new, still untitled album will be “WAY DANCE.” (Could that be the title? Ha.)

No official release date has been set for the album or the single yet, but you can sleep soundly knowing that a sure-to-be-delicious diva collaboration—and a diva comeback!—is coming soon. Consider it your gift for being so good this summer.

Curious about “The Greatest Thing” and what it might sound like? You’re in luck, since a demo version of the song, sung in full by only Gaga, is on the nets. It sounds sort of “Believe”-ish, if you ask me. Enjoy it here:

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Aug 18 2011 01:15 PM ET

Lady Gaga gets topless, jazzy, chatty for MTV VMA promos: Watch them here

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The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards are only 10 days away, and up until now the buzz surrounding this year’s show has been pretty quiet.

There’s no host, and while Adele and Lil Wayne are both entertaining as performers, they don’t exactly make for can’t-miss television. In fact, up until recently, the biggest thing the VMA show had going for it was the planned tribute to Britney Spears.

But Lady Gaga hopes to change that. MTV announced yesterday that the woman with the biggest album sales week of the year will be performing at the show, which will take place Sunday, August 28, at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles.

What’s more, MTV unveiled a trio of promos starring Her Ladyship, all of which feature her sitting at a piano playing a jazzed-up version of “Yoü and I” (which, in unplugged form, borrows a bit from 4 Non Blondes’ “What’s Up,” doesn’t it?).

In one of those promos, she’s playing topless and lets her hair do a poor job of being her bra. Check out all the promos after the jump: READ FULL STORY »

Aug 16 2011 04:06 PM ET

Lady Gaga's 'You and I' video, featuring hot Calderone-on-Germanotta action: Watch it here!

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Lady Gaga’s music video career has had some spectacular highs (the multiple VMA-winning “Bad Romance,” the more epic than epic “Telephone”) and confusing lows (the ill-advised Madonna homage “Alejandro,” whatever was going on in the “Eh Eh” clip).

So far, the videos from the sold-a-million-in-a-week Born This Way have fallen somewhere in between, but her latest “Yoü and I”—which just premiered on Perez Hilton even though it was supposed to be unveiled on MTV on Thursday night—might finally be the epic that everybody has been waiting for this time around.

In the six-minute clip for one of Born This Way‘s best songs, Gaga appears in a number of different guises: In the opening set-up, she’s a cyborg on her way to a funeral. In another, she’s a mermaid (which Bette Midler is probably still not cool with, even though she says otherwise). She also shows up as her male alter-ego Jo Calderone, who is either channeling Serge Gainsbourg or Cate Blanchett’s version of Bob Dylan in Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There.

Strangely, the most compelling version of Gaga is Calderone’s love interest, also played by Gaga. But rather than come up with a different costume or persona, she doesn’t wear any makeup or crazy outfits. She’s just Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, playing a piano in the middle of a corn field—with a little making out on the side, of course.

Think there’s a lot going on? You’re right! Watch the whole thing after the jump. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 9 2011 09:00 AM ET

U2, Britney Spears, Eminem, Justin Bieber, hundreds more throw their support behind Bob Marley-affiliated Save The Children campaign for East Africa: Learn how you can also give

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Save the Children works all over the world to combat hunger, sickness and abuse among the world’s underprivileged children, and starting today they are launching a massive outreach program to aid East Africa—and dozens of the biggest music acts in the world have pledged to drum up support for the program on their Facebook pages and Twitter accounts.

Among the names: Lady Gaga, U2, Justin Bieber, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Eminem, Avril Lavigne, Rihanna, Madonna, and Beyoncé. (If you see a star send out a message with the hash tag #beafriend, that’s them throwing their support behind STC.)

The name of the social media campaign is I’m Gonna Be Your Friend, which takes its title from a lyric in Bob Marley & the Wailers’ 1973 song “High Tide or Low Tide,” and their goal is to get in front of hundreds of millions eyes to encourage people to donate to Save the Children and help the million suffering children in Somalia and the rest of East Africa.

The proceeds from download sales of “High Tide or Low Tide” will go directly to Save the Children, and filmmaker Kevin MacDonald (director of The Last Kind of Scotland and the forthcoming Bob Marley documentary Marley) has put together a video that features footage from Somalia with “Tide” laid over it, which you can watch here:
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Aug 8 2011 01:12 PM ET

The Music Mix Lady Gaga Monitor: The best of times and the worst of times?

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It’s been an eventful week for Lady Gaga. In fact, there’s so much going on that we’re bringing you a special catching-up-with-Lady-Gaga rap sheet, chronicling the good, the bad and the downright weird in the life and times of Her Ladyship.

High point: Lady Gaga appears to have casually dropped in for Britney Spears’ Femme Fatale tour stop in Atlantic City on Saturday night. Spears gave her a shout-out from the stage, and Gaga popped up above the masses to greet fans in her as-per-usual uniform of leather newsboy cap and black bustier. Watch Gaga’s cameo after the jump. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 1 2011 02:23 PM ET

Lady Gaga co-hosts 'The View,' talks Amy Winehouse, Clarence Clemons, and her own history of drug use

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Lady Gaga took a little time to enjoy The View today, serving as a guest co-host on the estrogen-fueled chat-show.

This may make her the first person to weigh in on “hot topics” who also has merchandise for sale at, you know, Hot Topic. Needless to say, the potential deal to raise the debt ceiling wasn’t on the conversation docket, but pop’s reigning queen did bring her own Gagafied version of The View’s trademark Bill Geddie-demanded note cards, color coordinated to match her black-and-white houndstooth—“I don’t have a love life because I spent all night making these cards,” she said.

Though she left before interviews with Danielle Steel and Dana Delany to prepare for her show-capping performance of “Yoü and I”—and who didn’t want to hear Gaga weigh in on the new season of Body of Proof?—she did give her thoughts on Amy Winehouse’s death, her own history of drug abuse, and her relationship with her late, great “Edge of Glory” collaborator, Clarence Clemons.

Check out her thoughts after the break: READ FULL STORY »

Jul 29 2011 09:31 AM ET

Perry Farrell's favorite Lollapalooza memories: Lady Gaga dives, Pearl Jam flies, and Patti Smith frightens the children

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Next weekend, Perry Farrell will once again take over Chicago’s massive Grant Park and welcome some of the biggest names in music, including Eminem, Coldplay, Muse, Foo Fighters and My Morning Jacket, to Lollapalooza.

The long-running festival celebrates its 20th anniversary this year (the very first Lolla, in 1991, traveled across the country and featured Jane’s Addiction, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Nine Inch Nails, Living Colour, Ice-T & Body Count, Butthole Surfers, Rollins Band, Violent Femmes and Fishbone), and in honor of all those epic sets and crazy tales, here are Farrell’s five favorite Lollapalooza memories.

Ice-T & Body Count (1991)
“On the first Lollapalooza, Ice-T used to come out during the Jane’s set and we would perform [Sly Stone's] ‘Don’t Call Me N—–, Whitey.’ It was always a real heavy experience. [To start] I would tell a ‘n—a’ joke to the audience and everybody would laugh, and as they’re laughing, out Ice-T would come from the shadow. He’d slip right behind me and he’d go ‘Don’t call me n—a, whitey!’ That’s how we’d get into it. Then we would end up doing a square dance together.”

Pearl Jam (1992)
“Pearl Jam played the second Lollapalooza. Eddie Vedder is just the consummate showman and gives you every last bit of sweat and blood and guts in his performances. I remember him jumping into the crowd off a speaker stack that was really high. I couldn’t actually believe he did it. The crowd carrying him away will stay in my memory as one of the moments when I knew that Lollapalooza was really an important component to modern music.” READ FULL STORY »

Jul 18 2011 07:17 PM ET

Lady Gaga opens up to Howard Stern in exhaustive 90-minute interview, performs acoustic version of 'The Edge of Glory'-Listen here

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After months of skeptics calling for Lady Gaga to brave an appearance on The Howard Stern Show, this morning she did just that.

The 90-minute conversation was by far the most detailed interview she’s ever granted, sharing her thoughts on money, fame, the L.A. lifestyle, and her history of drug use. Of course, Stern was in his usual irreverent form, asking trademark questions about Gaga’s sexual history (which we can’t print here, though you can listen to the entire interview below).

But much of it revealed less prurient details, like the fact that the chorus for “Born This Way” came to her in the shower, and that she often vocalizes melodies that come to her into her BlackBerry; she even proceeded to play some raw, early cell-phone versions incarnations of “Judas” and “Highway Unicorn (Road to Love).”

Stern didn’t hide the fact that he was chagrined it took so long for her to make an appearance on his show—“I felt I was more important than The Gayle King Show”—and that he’d received some threatening Little Monster-penned missives warning him to go easy on Her Ladyship. But by the end he seemed easily won over to the Cult of Gaga and declared her soaring acoustic rendition of “The Edge of Glory” to be “one of the best performances we’ve ever had on the show.”

Listen to the interview after the break and read some highlights we’ve transcribed below: READ FULL STORY »

Jul 18 2011 05:41 PM ET

Lady Gaga and Bette Midler's mermaid-wheelchair beef: Over before it began?

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Lady Gaga has had some well-documented ups and downs since the release of Born This Way, and for every victory (one million sold!) there seems to be a half dozen slights (Rihanna is now more popular than Gaga on Facebook).

Gaga’s latest opponent? None other than Bette Midler, who saw her Ladyship take the stage in Australia in a wheelchair while dressed like a mermaid and thought it looked awfully familiar.

It turns out Midler crafted just such a character way back in the ’80s, and she named her Delores DeLago (who sounds less like a handicapped fish-woman and more like a broadly drawn John Leguizamo character, but we’ll let that slide for now).

To drive her point home, Midler took to Twitter to let Ms. Gaga know that she felt slighted: READ FULL STORY »

Jul 14 2011 04:56 PM ET

Lady Gaga upsets activists with wheelchair prop, gets egged Down Under

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Just when you thought Lady Gaga had retreated into her giant egg for a post-Born This Way-release hibernation, she’s making headlines and ruffling feathers across the Pacific Rim.

This time, though, she was the glittery target for ova of the ballistic kind. After leaving a gay bar in Sydney, Australia, pranksters threw eggs at her. Before you can say “Vegemite!” she dodged them with bullet-time finesse like some latex-clad Trinity. Which is to say, like Trinity.

Whether this was in response to an earlier outcry she provoked from disability advocates upon performing “Yoü and I” in a wheelchair while dressed as a mermaid at the Sydney Town Hall or a performance-art follow-up to her egg-themed “Born This Way” Grammy set piece couldn’t be ascertained at press time. The latter could be likely, since a few days earlier on the Taiwanese talk show Channel V, she referred to her new fish-tailed alter ego Yuyi the Mermaid as being in “incubation.” READ FULL STORY »

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