Showing posts with label Lady Gaga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lady Gaga. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta aka Lady Gaga


I am not fan of Lady Gaga or her music but I have realized that she is absolutely brilliant and very talented. Yes she has crazy music videos and outfits like these:
But that’s how she keeps everyone talking. She is known for her diverse contributions to the music industry via her fashion, live performances, and music videos. She has a net worth of $110 million (as of June 2011) and has developed fan communities like her Little Monsters. She is now setting the standard for creating mesmerizing, memorable experiences. 

“Bad Romance” is one of her eccentric music videos. It’s elaborate sets, dance routines, and costumes make the video mesmerizing. Many people are not on board with the Little Monsters fan community but she still manages to get more than 600 million people to watch this music video.
She is known by most by the name of Lady Gaga. However, before her crazy musical persona emerged she was known as Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta. She began playing the piano at the age of four, wrote her first piano ballad at thirteen, and started to perform at open mic nights by the age of fourteen. At the age of seventeen she was one of twenty student t ogain early admission to the musical theater training conservatory at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. This is one of her performances without all of the eccentric costumes and craziness:
People love her and others hate her, but after watching this performance everyone should agree she’s very talented and an ingenious marketer.

Friday, November 8, 2013

The First YouTube Music Awards Show

YouTube held its first Music Awards Show this past Sunday night and was streamed live on youtube.com. The disheveled show was full of a variety of live performances, presentations, and some comedy sketches. The show drew from popular videos and music with no specific purpose. The nominees for each category were voted on by fans. You can see the winners here.

Spike Jonze was the creative director as well as the director for some segments. Jason Schwartzman and Reggie Watts hosted the hour and half show, which had performances from Lady Gaga, Eminem, M.I.A., Arcade Fire, and more. There was even a weird segment that Lena Dunham wrote to go along with Avicii's performance. It was a "choose-your-own adventure short" directed by Spike Jonze, with Vanessa Hudgens and Michael Shannon. I enjoyed the writing as I normally do with Lena Dunham's work, however, it was a very strange segment that ended with the audience choosing the outcome of the story.

I wouldn't take the time to watch the entire show, however it's worth looking up a few performances. My favorite was Arcade Fire's performance, or "live music video," as they called it, of "Afterlife." The director, Spike Jonze, camera operator and focus puller all did a wonderful job filming this live. Greta Gerwig also does a fantastic job dancing awkwardly but beautifully. Take a look:



Or to watch the whole thing: