tiistai 19. maaliskuuta 2013

Frequently asked questions about Sire Sasa

I've got probably thousands, if not tens of thousands of questions. I have now 23 745 comments on my videos altogether, of approximately half are written by me, since I always answer questions and thank for praise. So about 11 872 and a half comments I've got from my viewers. They are not all questions, but there's also my channel comments, which Youtube has hid behind a useless tab, so their use is significantly decreased, but I have approximately two thousand channel comments, if not more and many of them are questions also.
So, quite many questions to answer. Hopefully, or annoyingly, most of the questions deal with the same subjects every time. I made this FAQ, so I wouldn't have to answer these questions ever anymore, sadly I know that I still have to answer them many times.

Anyway, here's the 60 most asked questions and comments:

Q: What's your real name?
A: I'm not going to tell you. Ever. I'm Sire Sasa now.

Q: Where do you live?
A: In Finland.

Q: How old are you/when is your birthday?
A: I'm born at April 6 1989.

Q: Are you a boy or a girl?
A: Yes I am.

Q: Are you gay?
A: No I'm not. Sorry to disappoint you.

C: But you look like gay!
A: No, I don't. Gays look like gay, I look like me (or sometimes Gaga).

Q: Are you rich?
A: No, I'm most certainly not rich!

C: But you make money from Youtube!
A: The little money I get from ads is about one-hundredth of the money I've put into making things for you.

Q: Do you belong to the Haus of Gaga?
A: Unfortunately not.

Q: Have you met Lady Gaga?
A: No I haven't met Her personally, yet.

Q: Which languages you speak?
A: Finnish, English, Swedish, German, and a bit of Spanish, French, Latin and Japan. But it would be nice that instead of Spanish, you would try to speak English to me, since yo habla poco Español.

Q: Can you make videos in other languages than English?
A: In Finnish I can, if you want? But I will not start to make videos in many languages, I will not make any video again with different subtitles and I don't have time to make subtitles for many languages. Use Google Translate.

Q: Why can't I see this video?
A: Some of my videos are blocked by Youtube, because they contain copyrighted background music. There's nothing I can do to change that. They are mainly blocked in Germany and Japan, because those countries have more strickt copyright laws. The only thing you can do, is try to fool Youtube to think you are using it from some other country. I don't know how to do it, or is it even possible.

Q: Why can't I see this video on my cellphone/tablet?
A: Because of copyright infringement some videos maybe blocked from viewing in portable devices by Youtube. There's nothing I can do about it, but you can probably see them just fine on a computer.

Q: What is your next video?
A: If I just uploaded a new video, I probably don't yet know what the next video will be. Patience!

Q: When is your next video coming?
A: If I just uploaded a new video, I probably don't yet know when the next video will come. Patience!!! Not in a week, probably in a month.

Q: When is the template coming
A: If there will be a template, it will come when I make it. Patience.

Q: Why there is no template?
A: The prop is probably the kind which cannot be made templates of, i.e. convex, concave, other difficult three-dimensional form or then the template would be so big that it couldn't be printed.

Q: Where is the template?
If there is a template, there's a link to it in the videos description.

Q: What is this background music?
A: Check the videos description.

Q: Where can I get it for free?
A: Probably nowhere legally. Buy CDs.

Q: What is this font you used in your video?
A: Ask in specific video, and I'll tell you. All the fonts I've used are the same Gaga has used in Her products, I want to make things accurate.

Q: Where can I get it for free?
A: If it's a free font, you can probably find it by searching it's name on Google.

Q: What program you use to edit your videos?
A: I have used Pinnacle Studio 12 plus for over hundred videos and just recently I updated to Pinnacle Studio 16 Ultimate.

Q: Where can I get it for free?
A: Nowhere, it costs about 120 dollars.

Q: What program you use to edit photos?
A: Photoshop Elements 8.

Q: Where can I get it for free?
A: Nowhere, it costs about 90 dollars.

Q: How do you make your video effects?
A: I won't show you that, it's my secret. Everything else I teach you already.

Q: Where do you buy the Gaga records for your collection?
A: Ladygaga.com, Ebay.com, Amazon.com.

Q: How much you paid for this record?
A: Read the subtitles of the video, please! If it's not there, read the videos description.

Q: Do you have some record/thing in your collection?
A: Possibly I do, if it's not super rare and expensive. If I don't, maybe I will have it in the future and show it in a video. But don't ask me to buy certain things, it's stupid. I will buy what I want.

Q: Can you make this Gaga prop?
A: Please don't send anymore requests, since I have hands full of them already. I will make all the things I like enough to make.

Q: Can you make this other-than-Gaga prop?
A: No, I only make Gaga props in this channel.

Q: When you will make some prop?
A: I will make props when I have time, and the more complicated prop, more time it will need for planning and constructing.

Q: Can you make these Gaga shoes?
A: No, I'm not a shoemaker. It requires different kinds of materials, tools and techniques than other props.

Q: Can you make this Gaga dress?
A: Probably not, since I'm a craftsman, not a tailor. I like the most to make props: masks, sunglasses, headpieces etc.

Q: What is your easiest prop to make?
A: Pink Eye Stickers.

Q: What is your hardest prop to make?
A: Polar Bear Robe.

Q: What is your favorite prop?
A: Blue Telephone Hat.

Q: I can't make this, can you help me?
A: Start with something easier, ask help from your parents, watch the video as many times necessary and pause it if needed, read the subtitles. And practise a lot so you become better at crafting.

Q: Where can I find the materials for the prop?
A: Crafts store, hardware store, scale model store, fabric store, haberdashery store, bookstore, department store, general store, rock/biker/heavy clothing store, garbage bin, the Internet.

Q: What is Finnfoam?
A: Polyurethane foam, plastic foam, expanded plastic, foamed plastic, cellular plastic, almost like Styrofoam, but without the grains. It's an insulating material which is probably sold in hardware stores, and it can usually be found on construction yards and their waste containers.

Q: Can I buy something from you?
A: Maybe you can, depending on the prop. I will keep one copy of everything for myself, and I don't want to make duplicates for the most complex props, so not everything can be bought.

Q: How can I buy something from you?
A: You need to have an Ebay account, and for that you need a Paypal account, and for that you need a credit card, and for that you have to be an adult. So if you're not, ask your parents about it.

Q: How much some prop costs?
A: Probably more than you would expect. From 50 dollars to 300 dollars mainly. It takes very much time, effort, patience, skills, designing, materials and tools to make a prop. You must understand that selling a prop under 50 dollars is worth nothing to me. If I make a prop in five ours, that makes 10 dollars per hour, minus the materials of course. If I make a prop in ten hours, I would like to get more than 50 dollars for it.

Q: To which countries do you sell props?
A: All over the World, except Antarctica and International Space Station.

Q: Can I send you something via mail?
A: Probably you can't. I don't have a mailbox and don't want to share my address to everyone.

Q: What is your Little Monsters account?
A: Sire Sasa

Q: What is your Facebook?

Q: What is your Twitter?
A: I don't use Twitter.

Q: What is your E-mail?
A: I'm not going to tell it.

Q: Can you send me something via E-mail?
A: No, you see everything on Youtube, Facebook and my blogs.

Q: Can I use your art in my video/project?
A: Rather not, since what I get form it? Nothing.

Q: Can you subscribe/follow/like/advertise/feature/link/share/comment/favorite my video/channel/account/facebook/twitter/post/picture/page?
A: No, I will not do that, because then everyone would ask me to do it, and I can't subscribe to everyone.

Q: Can I make a video of your prop?
A: Yes you can, if you tell that I taught you to make it, provide a link to me video/channel and put it as a video response to the original video. But please don't make a tutorial video of a prop I have already made a tutorial about, if you make it like I did.

Q: Can I be your friend?
A: You can be my internet friend, but that is not like a real friend, because we can't hang out or even talk face to face. And I don't know your real name, and you don't know mine. So, actually we are not friends, but if it's nice for you to think that, go ahead.

C: You are my best friend!
A: Oh no, I hope not! Try to get some real-life friends too.

Q: I'm your best fan!
A: Maybe you are. But so are everybody else.

C: You are so talented!
A: Thank you, but it's really just the matter of practise and patience.

C: I love you!
A: If you are a girl, thank you very much! If you are a boy (which unfortunately tends to be more likely), don't say that! In either case, you don't really love me, you just think so.

Q: Can I marry you?
A: If you are a girl, over 16, under 24, pretty, not fat, not stupid, you will move to Finland, learn Finnish language and culture, yes you can.

Then the most asked props and will I make them:
Government Hooker Alien Headpiece from Born This Way Ball. No.
Lobster Shoes from Bad Romance. Yes.
Living Dress from Monster Ball. No.
Orbit Dress from Bad Romance. Yes.
Pyro Bra from Bad Romance. Yes.
Meat Dress from VMA. Maybe.

sunnuntai 20. tammikuuta 2013

List of people who own The Fame USB edition


Besides in CD and LP, Lady Gaga's first album The Fame was also released in USB form. A fact not known to even all Little Monsters. This little piece of art is a USB stick formed into shape of Lady Gaga. It's really fun, containing the album songs, music videos and digital single cover pictures etc.
It's also hyper rare collectable object.
No one knows for sure how many of these are made, and it's not sure where they were sold, or if they were sold at all. It's possible that it's a promo item, made only a bunch, and somehow spread through internet auctions when people who got them at first wanted money out of them, since Gaga became hyper famous.
It does have a barcode though, 602527035529, and it's released either May 7, July 7 or November 6 2009, so possibly it has been sold, but to how many? And for what price?
To know the amount of copies produced and the original selling price would help to define the value of this object. And I would very much like to know it, since I have it myself, although I'm not selling it. There is one comment saying that 63 € was the price of it, but that was possibly referring to Ebay.
Gagavision says there was a competition arranged in 2009 by Universal Music Mexico, in which The Fame USB was the prize, but it was only in held Mexico and Argentina.

I'm very interested about how many of these exist, and I've collected some info I could find on the internet. From somewhere I read that The Fame USB albums could range between tens and hundreds. I had the idea that there were 100 of them, but I can't remember where I got that info. Youtube user "IagoGermanotta" says there's 100 of them. "MyGagaGraphy" says in his blog that there is 250 of them. So between tens and 250 perhaps, but most probably one hundred.
"KayJay" says it was sold out in 24 hours of it's release, which seems easy to believe.

People who own The Fame USB album:

Sire Sasa Helsinki, Finland
Mathieu Deflem USA
Nick UK
Kevin Germany, possibly Berlin
Stéphanie Belgium. She had it but sold it to someone for 440 €.
GagaMania UK. Signed by Gaga
LadyGagaItalianCollector Italy, possibly Rome
Some Mexican Guadalajara, Mexico, selling it for $1200
xtaticboyz Madrid, Spain
Gaga Collector BR Brazil
IagoGermanotta Brazil
neta-lee Israel
KayJay may have it

18 members of Discogs have this:
andorepa
bigoudin Paris, France
Chipeur-30 Nîmes, France
dimitriam2010
DjangoSG93
glennv1w1
JUDY87
justilicious Justin aka Camille Towe, Los Angeles/Hollywood, USA
lamoreox1
morganmorison
MrGermanotta
Pyanga
retro-dance-freak
ric21000
ron92
stephaniemusic probably the same Stéphanie as above
vince_martin888
1 private

Ebay user gevsgarage818 sells these, he has many of them, even though he puts only one at a time in Ebay. I bought mine from him, and hi's still selling them. The price has grown to sick $600!
The last ones he's sold are in October 24 for $415, and November 26 for $455.

Also Ebayer kyliekrazy sells one. Her price is $550, but the listing of the item is ended, since no one has bought it yet. But I'm sure the item will be relisted until it's sold.

So, at least 34 The Fame USB albums exist. If you know more, please let me know.

lauantai 19. tammikuuta 2013

List of people who own The Fame Monster Super Deluxe Edition


Exactly what the title says. There are 10 000 copies of The Fame Monster Super Deluxe Edition made, all numbered. I've collected all the people which I know to own this collector's item, and with numbers they have. Including myself of course.

In numerical order. The lower the number, the more valuable the object, at least in theory. Unknown number of the copies have Lady Gaga's signature inside them. I guess there's 100 to 1000 copies with the autograph, the lower number seaming more reasonable. All the Super Deluxe Editions also have a small piece of hair, said to be from Lady Gaga's own hair. This is unfortunately not true, they are from Her Candy Warhol wig. And that is not entirely true either, they can't be all from one single wig. There's about 100 strands of hair in each set, and a human head has about 100 000 single hairs. If the wig has as much hair as a real human head, then there has had to be 10 wigs. So they could not even all be from a wig which Lady Gaga have used. Sorry to disappoint you. But you can't know which hair are from a wig She has used, so you can always think the strands you have are from it. Or maybe She has ten of each wig, She's Gaga for Her sake!

There's also fake versions sold around internet. Fake ones are made in China, sold probably with a cheaper price than the real ones, and their real value is worthless, since they are not authentic. Collectors should only collect authentic, official releases and try to avoid pirate copies, unofficial releases, bootlegs etc. But if you don't care about the value, only the thing that you have it, then you could get this with a lower price than the real one. But beware, the quality can be lower, I've seen pages falling of the book of the fake version. Also you should never give money to fake product sellers. The Fame Monster Super Deluxe fake copies can be identified by two things. They have misspelled Lovegame in the back cover listing the songs, it's written "Lovegane". The other thing is that they all have the same number, since they are made after one original copy, the number is 8688. It is fairly certain that all copies with this number are fakes, since the original number 8688 is owned by someone who makes the copies in China.

There's still another version, unnumbered promo edition. These are probably made only 100 copies, since they are not meant for sale, only for testing. That's why their barcode is strikethrough with black marker. This, and the thing that they don't have a number at all, can be used to detect a promo edition. They also have the pictures of the book in different order than the numbered edition. These are really hard to find, because they are 100 times more rare than the numbered product, and probably people will ask much higher price of them in internet auctions. Although the value of the promo edition is not certain, since they are not meant for sale at first place, and the promo editions sold in internet could be stolen. Also they are not part of the official "collection" of 10 000 copies made of The Fame Monster Super Deluxe Edition, which should make them less valuable. And they can't have Lady Gaga's signature in them.

I've included to this list of people links to their Youtube channels, blogs or Ebay accounts. Also added are prices what they paid for their copy of the product, when this is known.

Owners of the fake version, #8688:

Alex Youngblood-Germanotta
Cody Butler
Youwereborntobebrave £250
ladygagaaddict1
gagafan212
elliott28lg £30
Mathieu Deflem

Owners of the promo version (probably 100 copies), unnumbered:

dbarranc $133
littlemonstertyrese $200
danielthevampire93
Mathieu Deflem
Dimitri
coolcman1 $100

Owners of The Fame Monster Super Deluxe Edition, 10 000 copies:

TheGaGaProject #00001, surprisingly not signed by Gaga, located in New Zealand
Joseph N. #00069
Mathieu Deflem #00089
GaGaFan00011 #00155
StephGaGax3 #00350
PepeSpiceBoy #01579
DingziUndPumzi #02287
Cornelis Sales (littlecookiemonster) #02520, #07265
Yússef Adlany #02632
Dylan Groundland #02773
Clarinha980 #03051
yongjie1997 #03602, $109
lesleyluvsjoe #03716
MyPainLoveHeart #04073
SireSasa #04656, $190
Discoboy #04793
BloggingNickster Nickster #05060
Allison Koner #05601
Axel #05682
TheJLTv #05983, $90
XSims3LoliFreakzX #06288
CanetaHidrocor #06881
iamthefamemonsterr #06931
Nick #07054
Reno #07077, signed by Gaga, but on the cover, so not originally signed
Reno unknown number
diamante12355 #07287
ElectricChapel18 #07509
ohsnapitszach #07570, $63
Amykinga01 #08001
Stéphanie #08016
ConnorWubbenhorst #08756

#08846
TheFatherFame #08848
GovermentHookerTV #08979
86Artproject #09011, $150
WLOVideos #09048
LadyGagaIsGod318 #09886
Johrel Mowen #09917
CirqueDeEliaoko #09999

sunnuntai 2. syyskuuta 2012

The Born This Way Ball

I was at the Born This Way Ball in Helsinki 27.8.2012. Gaga's third show in Finland was in Helsinki Arena (Hartwall Arena) which has 11 000 seats. It was sold out in that day and on the second it was pretty much full too. This was the first time I bought my ticket from official ticket supplier, since at the Fame Ball and at the Monster Ball I didn't get the tickets early enough. Now I was queueing in front of the ticket sales place from early morning, so I got mine. The tickets ran out in four minutes, and a floor ticket cost me 100 € ($140), which is the same price I paid for the two last Gaga show tickets, but them I bought from internet auction so their price was doubled there. I don't like the expensive ticket costs, which are only growing higher every time. There were still some more expensive tickets (140€), but I don't know what's the point of buying them, since I already got floor ticket (best place) with forty euros less!
At the morning of Monday when the concert was my mother drove me to Espoo (a city next to Helsinki, where the concert was) to an electronics store to buy some stuff. Since I couldn't find any other place to buy LED light I had to go there. I bought LEDs for my Alejandro Crown and when I got back home I installed them to the crown in a hurry. It still took me five hours to get everything ready. I have never mae anything with LEDs so I had to do with half an hour of electricity training. It went well, although I burned one LED, so instead of ten, I then used eight lights. Anyway the crown turned out really great and it got many looks at the concert.
Some liked it hot, and me likes too!
I arrived to the arena some two hours before the gates opened. I was sad since I thought I was too late, that I couldn't get to the Mosnter Pit anymore, because there were a long queue already. Some people started at six o'clock at the mornign, which is crazy, they had to wait 12 hours before even getting inside. They only let people to queue from 8 at morning onwards at the arena area, but people waited on some bridege before that. I don't like queueing at all, it don't prove anything about fan-ness, and I was really greatly reliefed and happy when I asked from a security woman could I still fit in Mosnter Pit. She responded that there were still 18 places left so I went to the end of the line. There came some other people to fill the line soon, so I was just at the right time at the right place. For once. Which was weird, was that many people didn't even know what the Monster Pit was, since they asked from security what that line was were I was standing, they told that it was a Monster Pit line, and told that it would be an auiditorium whic would be pretty crowded. Then some people didn't want to come there, I wonder if they regretted their desicion, when they finally figured out where the Monster Pit really was. At the middle of the stage!
Queueing for the Monster Pit, all those people are going elsewhere than the Pit
At the queue there were some reporters looking around for a story. They found me of course since I was wearing Alejandro Robe and Crown and those could be hard to miss. Not many people were dressed very much Gagastyle, I ahd to most outrageous outfit there, most of them who had something ,wore denim vests with "Born This Way" on their backs. Then there were skulls painted on people's faces, and a few Judas costumes. And leather jackets. Anyway a reporter and a photographer from Hufvudstadsbladet, HBL, "capital city news" in Swedish, the biggest Swedish newspaper in Finland (maybe the only one too, I'm not sure) cought me. They took some questions and photographs. I answered in English, since the reporter didn't speak Finnish and I wasn't in the mood of talking Swedish. I got into the newspaper article and my picture was shown in the web version of the article, but not in the print version. Very nice anyway.
Photo of me from HBL newspaper web article
Then I saw a familiar headpiece amongst the queuers. That was my Blue Telephone Hat which one girl was wearing. She had recreated it using my tutorial as help. It was a nice costume. It's always nice to teach people.
Familiar looking Blue Telephone Hat there
I got to the Monster Pit, which was absolutely fantastic place to watch the concert, but I didn't get to the very first line. That was because when I came inside the arena building, some reporter and camera crew stopped me for a quick interview. That took five minutes which was the reason I didn't get to the first line, or second, or third in the Monster Pit. The reporter asked me some questions in Finnish, the cameraman was an outlander, and they made the interview from Skype News. Weird enough, later at home I couldn't find anything about Skype News from internet.
Skype News interviewed me, now you see the Crown with lights on
The concert started with Lady Starlights weird performance, this time she was a mummy. Then played The Darkness, glam rock band from Great Britain. I'm not a fan of them, so that's for that. Finally, an hour late, like usual, Gaga started, and the starting was extraordinarily amazing! That was the most unexpected and awesome starting I've seen! Gaga rode to the stage on a horse (or was it a black unicorn, I couldn't see). First I though that the horse was real, but it wasn't really. It was just so well made and the dancers carried it around while Gaga was riding it. Some viewers thought the whole time that it was a real animal. Gaga's dancers followed in a military style parade carrying flags of G.O.A.T. The animatronic head of Gaga floating in the air and telling the Manifesto of Mother Mosnter was incredible too, creepy and fantastic. Of course I loved the whole castle on the stage, as well as the meatgrinders at Poker Face and the rotating cloth rack with some of Gaga's famous costumes at Fashion of His Love.

The set list was:

Act I
  1. Space (intro)
  2. Highway Unicorn (Road to Love)
  3. Operation: Kill the Bitch (interlude)
  4. Government Hooker
  5. Birth (interlude)
  6. Born This Way
  7. Black Jesus † Amen Fashion
  8. Emerging (interlude)
  9. Bloody Mary
  10. Mother G.O.A.T. Manifesto I (interlude)
  11. Bad Romance
  12. G.O.A.T Briefing (interlude)
  13. Judas
Act II
  1. Fashion of His Love
  2. Just Dance
  3. LoveGame
  4. Telephone
Act III
  1. Mother G.O.A.T. Manifesto II (interlude)
  2. Heavy Metal Lover
  3. Speech
  4. Bad Kids
  5. Hair (acoustic)
  6. Princess Die (acoustic)
  7. Yoü and I (acoustic)
  8. Electric Chapel
Act IV
  1. Interlude
  2. Americano
  3. Poker Face
  4. Alejandro
  5. Paparazzi
Act V
  1. Scheiße
  2. The Edge of Glory (acoustic + album)
  3. Marry the Night
Sadly many older songs were dropped out due to capacity issues, much more material from Born This Way album was present. I would have liked to hear Dance in the Dark, Beautiful, Dirty, Rich, The Fame, Boys Boys Boys, Money Honey, So Happy I Could Die, Monster and Teeth, which were in Monster Ball, but were dropped out now. Also I would have liked different order with the songs more, now Bad Romance, which was last in Monster Ball, and which is Gaga's best song, came way too early at the concert, in the end of the first act. Luckily Poker Face-Alejandro-Paparazzi combo was saved for the second last act.

Finally my video of the concert:

lauantai 1. syyskuuta 2012

Supporters and Enemies of Gaga

There are many more or less significant people who are supporters of Gaga, who have worked with Her or are fans of Hers. There are also many people who are offended by Gaga because they like to be offended about aeveryhting and many not-so-famous-(anymore)-people who claim without any proof that She stole their style or something. In this list I have compiled some of them who has at least some importance (perhaps). Some names remain controversial since they may have been supporters of Gaga before, but then turned their jackets ignobly, and for some people just can't be sure are their behavior on behalf of or against Gaga.
Gaga's supporters in green, Gaga's enemies in red and Gaga's former supporters, who became turncoats are in green and strikethrough.

Rob Fusari, producer of many great Gaga songs, like Paparazzi, and had an affair with Her, but later sued Gaga in hope to get his hands into the millions.
Speedy, a model, Gaga's one time boyfriend
Lüc Carl, a bartender from Nebraska, inspiration of most Gaga's love songs, Her on-and-off boyfriend, currently off, who treated Her badly
Taylor Kinney, an actor and Gaga's current boyfriend who told that Stefani has gone too far with the whole "Gaga-thing".
Joseph Kahn, director of Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say) and Lovegame music videos, who was supposed to direct also The Edge of Glory, but because of artistic disagreements, left the project and caused that the video wasn't finished properly.
Elton John, singer, father of a child whos godmother Gaga is.
Beyoncé Knowles, Gaga made a single and music video with them.
Pussycat Dolls, a band which Gaga has wrote songs to and performed as a warm up, but they didn't understand Her.
New Kids on the Block, a band which Gaga has wrote songs to and performed as a warm up, but they didn't understand Her.
Semi Precious Weapons a band to which Gaga performed as a warm up and which performed as a warm up for Gaga later, also both have appeared in music videos of each other.
The Darkness a band which performed as a warm up for Gaga.
Lady Starlight, a DJ and go-go dancer, one of Gaga's best friends, who has had a show together with Gaga for a long time.
Marilyn Manson, singer who fell in love with Gaga and has made a remix single with Her.
Brian May, guitarist of the band Queen, who suggested Gaga in the band to replace the late Freddie Mercury. Instead they chose...
Adam Lambert, singer who recorded a song Gaga has written, but was later thrown out of Gaga's Birthday party, since he rampaged drunk and broke things.
Perez Hilton, talentless but persistent climber, who helped Gaga to get famous in the gay community.
Bill Clinton, former president of the United States of America, who had Gaga to perform in his birthday party.
Barack Obama, current president of the United States of America who said it's an honor to him to warm up Lady Gaga.
Cyndi Lauper, singer who made the Viva Glam MAC campaign against aids with Gaga.
Ellen DeGeneres, tv-personality, who loves to have Gaga on her show.
Oprah Winfrey, tv-personality, who has had Gaga on her show.
Barbara Broccoli, Dana Wilson Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson, current producers of the James Bond films, who are big Gaga fans and would like to have Her perform a Bond theme song.
Bradley Manning, Wikileaks informant, former military person and current political prisoner, who used Gaga music to help him spy.
Quentin Tarantino, movie director who is Gagas friend and who offered the Pussy Wagon from his Kill Bill movie for use in Telephone music video.
Robert Rodriguez, movie director who made a film Machete Kills, in which Lady Gaga acts as La Chameleón.
Skrillex, musician who has remixed Gaga's songs.
Giorgia Armani has designed clothes for Gaga.
Karl Lagerfeld has designed clothers for Gaga.
Late Alexander McQueen, was Gaga's favorite fashion designer and Her supporter.
Christina Aguilera, singer who didn't know if Gaga was a man or a woman, thus causing a certain malicious debate.
Madonna, singer who was an inspiration to Gaga and they both respected each other, but later Madonna suggested that Gaga ripped of her song(s).
Nina Hagen, German punk singer who can't stand Gaga, and claims she's blasphemous.
Nicky Minaj, singer who stole Gaga's style and can't stand people comparing them.
Katy Perry, singer who stole Gaga's style.
Rihanna, singer who stole Gaga's style.
Grace Jones, singer who claims Gaga stole her style.
Roisin Murphy, singer who claims Gaga stole her style.
Bai Ling, actress who claims Gaga stole her style.
Lil Kim, rapper who claims Gaga stole her style.
Timbaland, producer who claims Gaga stole his style (?!?)
Alex Stebbins, actress who claims Gaga stole her boyfriend, which She actually did, 'cos She can, Lüc Carl was that.
Bette Midler, singer who claims Gaga stole her mermaid-in-a-wheelchair style.
Rebecca Francescatti, musician who claims Gaga stole her song.
David Guetta, musician who claimed that he could have made Born This Way album better.
Disabled people, who claim Gaga offended them performing in a wheelchair (!)
Retarded people, who claim Gaga offended them by using the word retarded (!)
PETA, which is against Gaga using fur and meat dress.
Conspiracy theorists, who claim Gaga is part of Illuminati (!)
The catholic church, which claims Gaga to be blasphemous.
Indonesian jihadists, who wants to kill Gaga (!?!)
Hu Jintao, Chinese president who claims the western countries are invading China with Gaga's music.
Yana Morgana, mother who claims that Gaga stole the style and the soul of her daughter Lina Morgana, a singer to whom Gaga wrote a song and who committed suicide at the age of 19.
Justin Bieber, corporate media mascot, who don't understand Gaga and Her art at all.
Selena Gomez, girlfriend of the previous, who mocked Gaga and Her art.
Eminem, rapper, who mocked Gaga in his lyrics, and reportedly will be ruining a song called Street Lights in Gaga's next album, ARTPOP (!)
Die Antwoord, South African rap band which made fun of Gaga, mocked Her art, and refused to perform as an opening act for Her.

The list is not complete and the names are not in any particular order.

Born This Way Ball concert review in Helsingin Sanomat

Gaga paid a tit for tat 


The new superstar of pop teases with the religion, sex and violence in the imagery, just like Madonna.


Published: 8.29.2012 in the Culture section of the paper 





Lady Gaga was photographed last week in Tallinn. It wasn't allowed to photograph the concert so the photo is taken from a building next to it.
Lady Gaga is, as her paragon and current rival Madonna, fixated up to her ears to religious symbolism, sexual imagery and manifestations of violence and their different combinations.
 Immediately at the second scene of Gaga's third concert in Finland included simulated sex after which Gaga shot her parter of the act. After this, she moved to birth new life out of giant, inflatable woman's lower body, on which was projected a face for a moment, which seemed quite like Madonna.
Lady Gaga paid back with interest the Gaga-mockery which her "big sister" performed two weeks ago at her Olympic stadium show.

The major differencies between the queen of pop and the crown princess were highlighted at the show's musical offering, and  in Gaga's even more close interact with her fans.
 As a talented interpreter Gaga did not rely on backing tapes, instead sang most of the songs live. She also accompanied herself with electric piano on a solo number, which offered a taste of the upcoming album, The Artpopbuilt on a simple melody, Princess Die was not over-energetic dance pop, but a beautiful ballad.

Unlike most superstars, Lady Gaga climbed down to the "audience level" on a number of occasions of her show. For example, she sat down on the edge of the stage and took up stuff fans in the front row throwed her.
From a wallet flown in her lap, she grabbed a credit card, slipped it into a pocket of her biker-vest and said she was going to go shopping, a moment later bursting into a hysterical make-up dripping laughter: "I don't need your money, I just want your soul and your love!"
 We were in the heart of role model and brand building: go over to your audience, do not turn yourself into something unrecognizable.

For the fashion freaks the show offered such a load of eye candy that it would be enough to digest even if the show had been performed mute. If she wanted Gaga would have a chance to spring up the careers of even a couple of local designers during one concert by only flashing in their clothing, but reportedly on Born This Way tour the star has been seen mainly in Giorgio Armani's creations.
These were in their fantasticality in the league of their own: during the Bloody Mary song Gaga appeared like a mutant dropped from space and wrapped in haute couture, in Government Hooker like a giant insects.

It would be interesting to see how Stefani Germanotta could match the conditions of a concert without profusely dispensed sexual provocation. Would it drift a product called Lady Gaga into an identity crisis?
Probably not, because merely in musical gifts and acting skills Gaga has more than enough to spare. Because she's soon made two world tours every couple of years based on the same spiritual essence of imagery and megalomania, the question is: what next?
 A third as pompous and underlining provocative world tour would be repeating herself, and would begin to brittle the power and glamor of the Gaga-fantasy character.

The song Electric Chapel, played with a rock band between glowing crosses showed that it could be natural for Gaga to do a rock band tour. In her case, it would not be conservative, but surprising, and after all the role-play and props it would be a truly bold move. But above all, it would be something which Madonna would hardly ever dare to go.

Born This Way Ball konserttiarvostelu Helsingin Sanomissa

Gaga maksoi potut pottuina 
 

Popin uusi supertähti leikittelee Madonnan tavoin uskonnon, seksin ja väkivallan kuvastolla.

Julkaistu: 29.8.2012  lehdessä osastolla Kulttuuri
 

Lady Gaga kuvattiin viime viikolla Tallinnassa. Konserttia ei saanut kuvata, joten kuva on otettu vieressä olevasta rakennuksesta. Kuva: KARLI SAUL SCANPIX


Lady Gaga on esikuvansa ja nykyisen kilpailijansa Madonnan tavoin fiksoitunut korviaan myöten uskonnollisen symboliikan, seksuaalisen kuvaston ja väkivallan ilmenemismuotojen erilaisiin yhdistelmiin.
Heti Gagan kolmannen Suomen-konsertin toisessa kohtauksessa simuloitiin seksiä, jonka jälkeen Gaga ampui aktin toisen osapuolen. Tämän jälkeen hän siirtyi synnyttämään uutta elämää jättimäisestä, puhallettavasta naisen alavartalosta, johon heijastuivat hetkeksi kasvot, jotka näyttivät aivan Madonnalta.
Lady Gaga maksoi ”isosiskon” kaksi viikkoa sitten olympiastadionilla nähdessä show’ssa syytämät Gaga-pilkat takaisin korkojen kera.

Popin kuningattaren ja ensimmäisen perintöprinsessan suurimmat erot puolestaan korostuivat show’n musiikillisessa annissa sekä Gagan entistäkin tiiviimmässä vuorovaikutussuhteessa faneihin.
Kyvykkäänä tulkitsijana Gaga ei tukeutunut taustanauhoihin, vaan lauloi livenä suurimman osan kappaleista. Hän myös säesti sähköpianolla itseään soolonumerossa, joka tarjosi esimakua tulevalta The Artpop -albumilta: simppelin melodian varaan rakennettu Princess Die ei ollut ylienergistä tanssipoppia, vaan kaunis balladi.

Toisin kuin useimmat supertähdet, Lady Gaga laskeutui show’ssaan useaan otteeseen ”yleisönsä tasolle”. Hän esimerkiksi istahti lavan reunalle ja otti vastaan fanien eturivistä heittämää tavaraa.
Syliinsä lentäneestä lompakosta hän nappasi luottokortin, sujautti sen biker-liiviensä taskuun ja totesi lähtevänsä shoppailemaan, purskahtaakseen hetkeä myöhemmin meikit valuen hysteeriseen huutoon: ”en minä teidän rahojanne tarvitse, haluan vain sielunne ja rakkautenne!”
Oltiin roolimallin ja brändinrakennuksen ytimessä: mene yleisösi luokse, älä korota itseäsi tunnistamattomaksi.

Muotifriikeille show tarjosi sellaisen lastin silmäkarkkia, että sulateltavaa riittäisi vaikka show olisi esitetty mykkänä. Gagalla olisi halutessaan mahdollisuus ponkaista yhden konsertin aikana vaikka parinkin paikallisen suunnittelijan ura lentoon pelkästään vilahtamalla näiden vaatteissa, mutta tiettävästi Born This Way -kiertueella tähden päällä on nähty lähinnä Giorgio Armanin luomuksia.
Nämä olivatkin mielikuvituksellisuudessaan aivan omaa luokkaansa: Bloody Mary -kappaleen aikana Gaga näytti avaruudesta tipahtaneelta, haute coutureen kätkeytyneeltä mutantilta, Government Hookerissa jättimäiseltä hyönteiseltä.

Olisi kiinnostavaa nähdä, kuinka Stefani Germanotta pärjäisi konserttiolosuhteissa ilman ylenpalttisesti annosteltua seksuaalista provosointia. Ajautuisiko tuote nimeltä Lady Gaga identiteettikriisiin?
Todennäköisesti ei, sillä pelkästään musiikillisissa lahjoissa ja näyttelijänkyvyissä Gagalla löytyy vaikka muille jakaa. Koska hän on kohta vetänyt parin vuoden välein kaksi maailmankiertuetta pohjimmiltaan samanhenkisellä kuvastolla ja suuruudenhulluudella, kysymys kuuluu: mitä seuraavaksi?
Kolmas yhtä pompöösi ja alleviivaavan provokatorinen maailmankiertue olisi itsensä toistamista ja alkaisi hapertaa Gaga-mielikuvitushahmon tehoa ja tenhoa.

Hehkuvien ristien keskellä Electric Chapel -kappaleen aikana bändin kanssa esitetty rokkituokio osoitti, että Gagalle voisi olla luontevaa tehdä rockbändi-kiertue. Hänen tapauksessaan se ei olisi vanhoillista vaan yllättävää, ja kaikkien rooli- ja lavasteleikkien jälkeen myös aidosti rohkea veto. Mutta ennen kaikkea se olisi jotain, mihin Madonna tuskin koskaan rohkenisi.