Growing up Gaga! This is a very interesting article!
Growing Up Gaga
The self-invented, manufactured, accidental, totally on-purpose New York creation of the world’s biggest pop star.
By Vanessa Grigoriadis
Published Mar 28, 2010
One year ago this month, Lady Gaga arrived for an interview in the dark, oak-paneled lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel, a massive Spanish-style place in the tourist district of Hollywood that was supposed to make the area chic but has largely failed. Just Dance, the lead single off her first album, The Fame, had reached No. 1 in Australia, Sweden, and Canada in early 2008, but in March 2009, she was still an up-and-coming artist in America: a few thousand MySpace plays, a generic website, and a short tour as the opening act for New Kids on the Block. Gaga had a video, though. My colleagues at radio in those three countries agreed to support her if I made a video, says Martin Kierszenbaum, the president of A&R at her label, Interscope. The Just Dance video, shot a few miles from the Roosevelt, features Gaga shimmying with a disco ball in her hands while her friends drape themselves on a couch nearby though most of those people were extras, not real friends. She didn’t know many people on the West Coast. I don’t like Los Angeles, she told me. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need. (Read More)
