perjantai 28. tammikuuta 2011

How Lady Gaga get Her name, and what does Gaga really mean?

How Stefani became Lady Gaga?
Before Lady Gaga was Lady Gaga, She used Her real first name Stefani as Her artistic name. The story behind the name Lady Gaga was following: Stefanis then producer and boyfriend Robert "Rob" Fusari started to sung the song Radio Ga Ga by British rock band Queen every day when Stefani entered the recording studio. That was his incoming fanfare for Her. One day in 2004 Fusari wrote "Radio Ga Ga" in a text massage, but his cellphone autocorrected the words to "lady gaga". Fusari texted Stefani and told that he just invented a suitable stage name for Her, and Stefani was very excited. She loved the name, because She had always admired Queen and the name was exactly suitable for Her imago, a little bit funny and crazy, also memorable and simply beautiful. She fell in love with that name so much, that She instantly said that She would never answer to Stefani again. She was 19 of age at that time.

What is the origin of "Gaga"?
Lady Gaga wouldn't probably be Gaga without the Queen song Radio Ga Ga. That song was written by Roger Taylor, the bands drummer. Taylor originally planned to name the song "Radio caca", but fortunately didn't. "Caca" first came to his mind, because his baby son once said something like that. He thought "Radio caca", because he wrote the song to be a commentary against television overtaking radios popularity, and caca would have been suited for this purpose, since Latin verb cacare means "to defecate". But he ended up with the name Radio Ga Ga. Because of that character appearance, Lady Gagas name was at first written "Lady GaGa", but later the second upper case "G" has been changed to lower case. Sometimes "GaGa" still can be seen, especially in non-professional and fake products.

What meanings the word "gaga" has?
In English "gaga" is an old informal word which could mean crazy, infatuated or senile.
In Turkish "gaga" means beak.
In Russian "gága" (гага) means eider (a bird species)
In Hebrew "gaga" (געגע) is a verb meaning to long, to yearn
In the Native american language of the people know as Ho-Chunk (or Winnebago), "gaga" means grandmother.
In Javanese "gaga" means rice.
In Ayatal (a language in Taiwan) "gaga" means "love towars humanity, fellow people and environment".

Why is the name Lady Gaga so good?
Lady Gaga is a perfect name for Lady Gaga! "Gaga", or "ga-ga" are the first words a baby can create when trying to talk. Gaga also means crazy, like when someone is intensely enthusiastic on something, he/she is gaga on it. That works fine with Lady Gagas crazy enthusiastic imago. Gaga-word is also close to go-go, a not-so-sophisticated dancing style Stefani used to do before becoming famous. And Gaga is also similar to "Dada", of neo-classical Dadaism art faction, which Lady Gaga likes very much, with its avant-garde style.
"Lady" is a female equivalent title of "Sir" (in two highest ranks, other female titles are "Dame"), which is granted to knights, by royalties of the worlds monarchies, best known example being the Queen of United Kingdom. And in british monarchy, when someone is knighted, the sir or lady title is used with first name, so Lady Gagas first name would be Gaga, if She would be granted with damehood.
"Lady Gaga" is a lovely, soft sounding word couple, that fits perfectly together giving a little crazy, bizarre and lovable image of the artist. Both the words also have four letters, which makes them very easy to stylish to fine looking logos and other graphically designed things.

Lady Gagas symbol animal?
Gagata gagata, a catfish from Gagata family. Lives in Indian rivers.

Lady Gagas symbol plant?
Carex gagaensis, a species of sedges (family Cyperaceae). Lives probably in Australia. The name is actually incorrect, since it's a synonym for Carex jacksonii.

Lady Gagas symbol mineral/jewel?
Jet is a minor gemstone, shiny and black. In many different languages its name is similar to Gaga.
Czech: Gagát
Esperanto: Gagato
Finnish: Gagaatti
German: Gagat
Polish: Gagat
Russian: Gagat (Гагат)
Lady Gagas symbol chemical element?
Gallium, which symbol is Ga. Two parts of gallium is GaGa. Gallium is a silver-white metal which melts in handwarm temperature.

Lady Gagas symbol geographic region?
Gaga. In south coast of Madagascar.
Gaga Island. In coast of Mozambique.
Gaga, Madagascar: http://www.maps11.com/full.php?q=Gaga
Gaga Island: http://www.maps11.com/map_g/Gaga+Island.html
Gaga. In Indonesia, near Jakarta.
Gaga, Indonesia: http://maps.google.fi/maps?hl=fi&q=gaga%20indonesia&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1311&bih=646&wrapid=tlif130989568596010&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=il

Lady Gagas symbol language?
Gaga. A dialect of the Franco-Provençal language spoken in the region around Saint-Étienne, France.
Title page of a Franco-Provençal dictionary from Saint-Étienne, France (1896): "The Key to the Gaga Dialect":

Lady Gagas symbol video game character?
Gaga. A male non-player character in Korean 2D side-scrolling massively multiplayer online role-playing game "MapleStory". He is located in Ellinia, Lith Harbore, Henesys and other towns if you want to find him in the game.

Lady Gagas symbol food?
GaGa, ice cream or dessert of some kind: http://www.gonegaga.net/

Lady Gagas symbol dance?
Gaga. A dancing technique created by Ohad Naharin, an Israeli artistic diretor of Tel Avivi dance school.

Lady Gagas symbol sport?
Ga-ga (געגע). An Israelic form of dodgeball played in octagonal pit.

Lady Gagas symbol god?
Gaga. Ancient Babylonian minor deity featured in the Enûma Eliš. She is sent by Anshar to the forces of Tiamat with the formal announcement of Marduk's readiness to battle Tiamat.

maanantai 24. tammikuuta 2011

Lady Gaga comics

Fame
Comic album series about Lady Gaga, named Fame, published by Bluewater productions.
Book 1
Several covers in which the first is a photo of Her, but they ruined it by posterising it with too many levels:
But the comic is drawn ugly! I can't stand it! Lady Gaga can't look ugly in Her own comic album!She doesn't look like Herself at all!
Book 2
 Two covers, first look ugly, second is good:
Another drawer, far better in drawing than the last one, but She still doesn't look like Herself at all! How is it that hard to draw Her look like Herself? I don't want these general pretty looking comic girls, that has no persona, I want Lady Gaga!
 I could've drawn better comic, but they didn't asked me to. And the story tells about some latino-looking middle aged man, who became a Gaga fan... yeah, very interesting :|
And they got a lawsuit, because they forgot to ask a permission for the stories, so much about it!


Lady Saga
Comic book creator Brian Einersen has created a small press comic book, Lady Saga, based on the life, times and public image of Lady Gaga, in the manner of a saint. But I don't like the drawing style very much at this time either. It's so simple and the characters are unrecognizable stylished.


Lady Gaga in Donald Duck (Finnish version)
I was waiting this, since we order Donald Duck (Aku Ankka in Finland) and in 4th of August, in number 31 of year 2010, there it finally was: Lady Gaga's Disneyfied equivalent in Donald Duck comic! In Finland Donald Duck magazines translators have a habit of wring names, which is really funny. All the famous persons got their names wringled in Duckburg style. Lady Gaga has begun Baby Giga! Nice.
And here She is, but what a shame, She looks like ordinary pop star, with red hair(!)
Drawn by Rodrigues:

On another number of Donald Duck (37/2010, 15.9.) Donald was under effect of Gyro Gearlooses (non-working) bravery pill and he walks right to the lion cage with mutton covered outfit, I couldn't be thinking Lady Gagas meat dress! Quite funny.
Drawn by Arild Midthun:

Cartoons
In New Yorker:

In Wulffmorgenthaler comic:
It says in Norwegian at the top: informative diagram, at the left: storage of your brain, at the bottom: enthusiasm for Lady Gaga. That is just right!

tiistai 18. tammikuuta 2011

Table-top Lady Gaga games

Just Dance, UK promo finger dance mat
USB-finger dance mat
Promo-only and very rare. While the single plays you follow the dance mat's light display with your Lady Gaga finger puppet. It even keeps your score on a LED counter, allowing you to play against others. The one shown was given away by website PopJustice in a competition. Nobody who won one appears to have been tempted to sell theirs yet, but there are enough collectors out there (like me) that will probably push it to the £200 value.



Love Game
Board game
Simply Love Game. Someone had to make this sooner or later! Nice looking board game came only with the Colombian version of The Fame album. The game is in Spanish. It is probably unofficial, since the "Lady Gaga"-font in game box cover is wrong. It's Times New Roman, when it should be Bauer Bodoni.

The Fame Playing Cards
Card game
Ordinary playing cards with vector Gagas in the court cards. Came with Malaysian version of The Fame album. Looks funny so it's hard to keep your Poker Face.



lauantai 8. tammikuuta 2011

Proposed Lady Gaga games

Lady Gaga in Street Fighter

That would be so cool! Lady Gaga character in Street Fighter or in any combat/fighting game. Illustrator and animator Patrick from UK drew this picture:
She could have special strikes like:
Monster Claw
Vampire Teeth
Pyro Bra
Gun Bra
Poison
Disco Stick
Disco Torch

Lady Gaga video game?

I don't think that will ever finish, since the Facebook group has just planners and not actual game makers. So just some plans are ready. In the game you could play as one of Gagas fans. Why not Gaga Herself? That would be much cooler! The cover looks so unprofessional:
This later one is better, but they should make something ready for the game and not just new covers.

Facebook site of the game:

Lady Gaga game music

First I heard them, I liked to make a game of Her. Awesome chiptuned, 8-bit and 16-bit remixes of Gagas songs. Would be great in the background of some platform/fighting Gaga game.
Just Dance 8-bit
Poker Face 8-bit
Eh, Eh 8-bit
LoveGame 8-bit
Paparazzi 8-bit
Beautiful Dirty Rich 8-bit
The Fame 8-bit
Paper Gangsta 8-bit
Fashion 8-bit
 Disco Heaven 8-bit
Bad Romance 8-bit
Telephone 8-bit
Telephone 16-bit
Alejandro 8-bit
Dance in the Dark 8-bit
Monster 8-bit
So Happy I Could Die 8-bit
Teeth 8-bit

My favorite is Telephone 16-bit remix, other favorites are Disco Heaven and Dance in the Dark. I would like to make a platform game or a game video with the Telephone 16-bit music. I made the cover already:

Commercial Lady Gaga Games

SingStar
Playstation 2, Playstation 3
★★★★★
SingStar have a downloadable song pack of Lady Gaga. The song pack includes:
Poker Face
Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)
Just Dance
LoveGame
Bad Romance
You can also download the songs separately from SingStore. I tried SingStar with downloaded Poker Face on Playstation 3. Singstar is a funny game, and you don't have to be very good singer to get points in it. I can't say is it a good thing or not, but the singing itself was fun. And easy, easier than karaoke, because you can hear the song playing at the background. Although Poker Face had one misspelling at the lyrics, which really annoyed me. The lyrics in Singstar said: "Luck and intuition", when they really should be: "Lovegame, intuition". That's a common mistake in Poker Face lyrics. And at the chorus when I sung: "pa pa pa Poker Face, pa pa Poker Face" (which is more correct spelling), it gave me less points than if I would sing: "po po po Poker Face, po po Poker Face". Anyway good game.

SingStar Dance
Playstation 3 with Playstation Move
★★★★☆
SingStar Dance-game features Poker Face. The songs can also be sung, or dance. The movement capture is made by moving the Playstation Move controllers. This method allows little cheating, you just have to move the controllers and nothing is following your legs for example. The movement capture is not as sharp as in Microsofts Kinect system, but fun it is anyway.

Dance Central
Xbox 360 with Kinect
★★★★★
The movement capture is more accurate than with Playstation Move and the best thing is you don't have to use any controllers! The Kinect system films your actual body movements by camera which is incredibly cool invention and lots of fun! Just Dance and Poker Face is featured in Dance Central, but unfortunately the dance moves aren't real ones from the music videos (at least in the easy level).



Dance Paradise
Xbox 360 with Kinect
★★★★
Kinect movement is great, you don't need controllers just yourself, but this is not as good gae as dance central after all. It features Bad Romance and Poker Face from Gaga. Music video is playing on the back wall, but the playing screen is full of more or less important stuff. Some of them should have been taken off.


DJ Hero
Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Wii
☆☆
DJ Hero is a spin-off of Guitar Hero. In DJ Hero you can mix tow songs together and scratch the discs. Funny, I don't think so. Stupid, absolutely. But the downloadable content has Just Dance and Poker Face. Unfortunately you have to mix them with two non-Gaga songs, and not even good songs.
Great! So many buttons to press.

DJ Hero 2
Playstation 2, Playstation3, Xbox 360, Wii
☆☆

The same as DJ Hero. Just Dance and Lovegame are featured in the game. I didn't liked playing with the toy guitar in Guitar Hero and probably even less with this "mixing table" toy. But the trailer looks fun:


Guiter Hero 3
Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii
★★★☆☆
Guitar Hero 3 finally has few Gaga songs as downloadable content. At least Just Dance, Poker Face and Lovegame are featured. The game is too rock in my mind, I would like some pop theme in it. But guitaring is averagely fun, even with the toy guitar. It doesn't beat the singing or dancing games though. But it more a game than DJ Hero.
Gagas songs are featured in Pop 1 Track Pack.
It costs 440 Microsoft Points on the Xbox 360,
$5.49 on the PlayStation Store
and 550 Wii Points.


Rock Band series
Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii
★★★☆☆
Downloadable content in Rock Band Music Store has Lady Gaga 01 pack with four songs:
Bad Romance
Monster
Poker Face
Just Dance
The songs can be bought separately too.
Playing with toy guitar is averagely fun, but not as much as singing or dancing, because it doesn't resemble real guitar one bit. And there is just rock band instruments like said in the game series name. I would very much like a piano or a keytar with Lady Gagas songs! How cool would that be.
Price:
$1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per track

$6.99, £3.49 UK, €5.29 EU (560 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) for
“Lady Gaga Pack 01”

$2.00 USD (200 Wii Points™) per track


Tap Tap Revenge
iPhone App
★★★★☆
Tap Tap Revenge is an iPhone application which can be downloaded from App Store. It's like other music games, guitar hero and rock band, but finger version. Much easier, but very funny and can be played anywhere, which his really good. The game itself is free, but the song packs cost. It has two packs of Gagas songs:

Lady Gaga Revenge, $4.99
Song list:
Paparazzi
Starstruck
Poker Face
LoveGame
Boys Boys Boys
LoveGame (Robots to Mars Remix)
Money Honey
Poker Face (Space Cowboy Remix)
The Fame
Just Dance
I Like It Rough
Beautiful, Dirty, Rich
Just Dance (Glam As You Club Mix)
Poker Face (Glam As You Club Mix)
Lady Gaga Revenge 2, $4.99
Song list:
Alejandro
Bad Romance
Dance in the Dark (Monarchy "Stylites" Remix)
Fashion
LoveGame (Chew Fu Gettohouse Fix)
Monster
So Happy I Could Die
Speechless
Teeth
Paper Gangsta

Born This Way Revenge (Lady Gaga Revenge 3), $4.99
Born This Way Revenge includes 17 tracks from the special edition of "Born This Way" - that’s more than ANY OTHER Tap Tap Revenge premium app EVER! Plus in-app access to Gagavision webisodes and connect to Facebook to see all the Little Monsters putting their paws up to Born This Way Revenge!

Also includes:
- Keep up with Mother Monster with an in-game Twitter feed
- Know about all events happening in the Haus of Gaga
- Tap on four UNLOCKED boss tracks
- Three exclusive chat rooms
- In-app artist bio
- And official lyrics of all 17 tracks!

Full track list includes:
Government Hooker
Judas
Bloody Mary
Electric Chapel
The Queen
Fashion of His Love
Born This Way
Hair
Marry The Night
Yoü and I
The Edge of Glory
Black Jesus + Amen Fashion
Americano
Bad Kids
Scheiße
Highway Unicorn (Road To Love)
Heavy Metal Lover
Gameplay video. Now you can tap with your fingers on a table and pretend you own iPhone and the game. I got my fingers hurt.
Buy it here:

Lady Gaga iOKi Karaoke
iPhone App
★★★★
Lady Gaga iOKi Karaoke is an iPhone app that features five Gagas songs as karaoke versions, that means real studio instrumentals. The application records your perform on the instrumental track and you can send it to your friends. It can be sent to Twitter also. Very funny app, better than karaoke ever before.
Song list:
Bad Romance
Poker Face
Paparazzi
Just Dance
LoveGame
Buy it here: