Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American pop singer-songwriter. She began performing in the rock music scene of New York City's Lower East Side in 2003 and enrolled at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She soon signed with Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope Records. During her early time at Interscope, she worked as a songwriter for fellow label artists and captured the attention of Akon, who recognized her vocal abilities, and signed her to his own label, Kon Live Distribution.
Gaga came to prominence following the release of her debut studio album The Fame (2008), which was a...Read More
Gaga and E! teaming up for the world premiere of "Judas," hugely anticipated new video from the recording powerhouse. The video debuts uncut and in its entirety Thursday at 7 p.m. ET/PT on E! News. But with the yet-to-be seen, seven-minute opus already stirring controversy for its subject matter, Gaga exclusively tells us that she doesn't mean to attack the religion she grew up in...
"I don't view the video as a religious statement," she tells our Giuliana Rancic in a revealing, wide-ranging interview. "I view it as social statement. I view it as a cultural statement.
"It's a metaphor. It's not meant to be a biblical lesson."
Then come back to E! Online Friday for Gaga's complete interview, in which she doesn't hold back on her life, her music and the uproar already surrounding "Judas."
Singer Lady Gaga has defended Glee's 90-minute Born This Way episode from criticism that the show celebrates being gay.
Dan Gainor, vice president of conservative media watchdog Media Research Center, fumed to ABC News: “This is [creator] Ryan Murphy's latest depraved initiative to promote his gay agenda.”
Bryan Fischer of the Christian conservative American Family Association (AFA) called the show “product placement” in an appearance on Houston's Fox affiliate: “We should not glamorize it [gay relationships] anymore than we would glamorize intravenous drug use,” Fischer said.
Fox News commentator Glenn Beck called the show “a horror show” and a “nightmare,” after the Born This Way broadcast.
And ambiguously gay American Psycho writer Bret Easton Ellis tweeted that the episode had pushed him back in the closet, though he's never been out.
Tuesday's most incendiary moment came when gay student Kurt Hummel zips open his hoodie to reveal a t-shirt that says “LIKES BOYS” before the cast sings Lady Gaga's Born This Way.
On Friday, gay media watchdog GLAAD defended the show, saying critics were “out-of-touch with the majority.”
Lady Gaga tweeted her support for the show to her nearly 10 million followers: “I really loved Glee's Born This Way episode. I admire the show for being brave+fighting for such modern social messaging. Never back down.”
Lady Gaga has revealed she feels 'like a loser' and lives 'halfway between fantasy and reality'.
The singer told Ellen DeGeneres: “Do I feel like a loser sometimes? Yes, of course I do. We all feel like losers sometimes. I feel misunderstood and I think we all feel misunderstood sometimes.
'I really celebrate my identity and urge you to feel impassioned by what is magical inside of you.
'I live halfway between reality and fantasy, and that is who I am and that is what inspires me.'
Gaga also revealed that she often falls asleep in her zany outfits, revealing that her friends 'always call me a beauty queen disaster'.
'I wake up and my wig's falling off my head. My mole is on the other side of my face,' she laughed. 'My fake mole, it's not fake, it's surreal.'