Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta dite Lady Gaga, est une auteure-compositrice-interprète et actrice américaine née le 28 mars 1986 dans le quartier de Manhattan à New York, aux États-Unis.
Élevée à New York, elle étudie au couvent du Sacré-Cœur et fréquente brièvement la Tisch School of the Arts de l’université de New York avant de quitter le milieu scolaire pour se concentrer sur sa carrière musicale. Elle commence alors à se faire un nom sur la scène musicale rock du Lower East Side, et signe ensuite une entente chez Streamline Records vers la fin de 2007. Au cours de l’exécution de son contrat en tant qu’auteur-compositrice, ses capacités vocales sont remarquées par l’artiste Akon, qui la signe alors sur son label, Kon Live Distribution.
Gaga attire l’attention médiatique en tant que chanteuse à la suite de la sortie de son premier album, The Fame , qui est, en plus d’être un succès commercial, applaudit par la critique, trônant sur les palmarès à travers le monde et incluant les numéros-un Just Dance et Poker Face. D'autres singles promouvant le premier opus de la chanteuse sont sortis : Eh, Eh , LoveGame et Paparazzi, ainsi que Beautiful, Dirty, Rich comme single promotionnel.
Son second album studio se nomme The Fame Monster . Il s'agit de la réédition du premier opus de la chanteuse, contenant huit pistes de plus. L'album dispose également d'une édition où les morceaux de The Fame n'apparaissent pas. L'album contient les succès internationaux Bad Romance, Telephone avec Beyoncé Knowles et Alejandro, ainsi que le single promotionnel Dance in the Dark. La réussite commerciale de l’album encourage la création d’une tournée internationale de plus de dix-huit mois, The Monster Ball Tour, qui devient plus tard l’un des spectacles les plus lucratifs de tous les temps.
Son troisième album studio, Born This Way , atteint le sommet de la plupart des palmarès et génère de nouveau de nombreux succès internationaux : Born This Way, Judas, The Edge of Glory, Yoü and I et Marry the Night, ainsi que le discret Hair, sorti en tant que single promotionnel.
Son quatrième album, intitulé Artpop, stylisé ARTPOP contient les singles Applause, Do What U Want avec le chanteur R. Kelly et G.U.Y., ainsi que les singles promotionnels Venus et Dope. Ce nouvel opus se classe no 1 dans plus de 80 pays sur la plateforme de téléchargement digital iTunes, ainsi que dans les bacs des États-Unis, du Royaume-Uni, du Japon, du Brésil, du Canada, et d'autres pays, malgré des critiques mitigées. Durant cette période, la chanteuse fait une dépression après avoir été trahie par son équipe. L'album connaît une promotion laborieuse, du fait de l'abandon de certains singles en devenir et des clip-vidéo de Do What U Want et de Venus.
Son premier album en duo, Cheek to Cheek , réunit Gaga et le chanteur Tony Bennett. Il s'agit du premier album de jazz de la chanteuse. Celui-ci, vendu à plus d'un million d'exemplaires et acclamé par la critique, est soutenu par les singles Anything Goes et I Can't Give You Anything But Love. Cet album s'est classé no 1 aux États-Unis.
Son cinquième album s'intitule Joanne. Pour le moment, les singles Perfect Illusion et Million Reasons, ainsi que le single promotionnel A-YO soutiennent l'album. Celui-ci marque un changement radical dans le registre musical de la chanteuse, allant du country au pop, toujours accompagné d'une voix naturelle, libérée et déchirante, sans aucune retouche.
Outre sa carrière musicale, Gaga est également actrice. Elle joue ainsi de petits rôles dans Les Soprano, Men in Black 3, Machete Kills et dans Sin City : J'ai tué pour elle, avant d'interpréter des personnages plus importants dans les saisons 5 et 6 de la série d'anthologie horrifique American Horror Story, ainsi que dans le remake du film de 1937, A Star is Born, prévu pour septembre 2018.
Influencée par David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Madonna et Queen, Gaga est reconnue pour ses excentricités flamboyantes qu’elle transmet à l’industrie de la musique à travers la mode, ses performances et ses vidéoclips. Ses ventes de disques à travers le monde sont estimées à 180 millions, soit environ 30 millions d'albums, et près de 150 millions de singles selon Billboard. Ses récompenses incluent six Grammy Awards et 13 MTV Video Music Awards, ainsi qu'un Golden Globe. Elle a été nommée « artiste de l'année » en 2010 par le magazine Billboard, s’est classée quatrième dans la compilation de VH1 des « 100 meilleures femmes de l’histoire de la musique », est apparue à plusieurs reprises dans différentes listes réalisées par Forbes et a été nommée « la personne la plus influente du monde » par le magazine Time. Elle est ensuite classée 2e personne la plus influente de ces 10 dernières années, derrière Aung San Suu Kyi, toujours par le Time. En 2013, elle est élue « femme de l'année » par le magazine Glamour. Deux ans plus tard, en 2015, c'est Billboard qui lui accorde ce titre.
“Je veux ton amour et ta vengeance
Toi et moi pourrions écrire une mauvaise romance.”
I want your love and I want your revenge
You and me could write a bad romance
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Chansons, Bad Romance
“Le préjudice est une maladie. Ainsi est la mode. Mais je ne vais pas porter préjudice.”
Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.
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I’ve learned love is like a brick, you can build a house or sink a dead body.
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I think that fashion and music go hand-in-hand, and they always should. It ’s the artist ’s job to create imagery that matches the music… I think they ’re very intertwined.
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Contexte: Grace Jones said this to me when I met her. I washed her feet, and I looked up at her and she said, "No matter what you do in your life, don’t you ever let anybody take your creative people away from you." And what my creative friends always remind me of is they say, "Only value the opinion of those that you respect. And anyone that you don’t respect, pay no mind to their opinion about you or anything else." And that’s how I live my life. If I worried about everything that everyone said, I would not be a good artist.
“That’s the most Warholian thing about what I do… I embrace pop culture.”
Lady Gaga Gives CNN Her Unique Recipe for Success http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFGchzvu41k
Contexte: That’s the most Warholian thing about what I do... I embrace pop culture. The very thing that everybody says is poisonous and ostentatious and shallow, it’s like my chemistry book... and I make what I believe to be art out of it.
Contexte: Grace Jones said this to me when I met her. I washed her feet, and I looked up at her and she said, "No matter what you do in your life, don’t you ever let anybody take your creative people away from you." And what my creative friends always remind me of is they say, "Only value the opinion of those that you respect. And anyone that you don’t respect, pay no mind to their opinion about you or anything else." And that’s how I live my life. If I worried about everything that everyone said, I would not be a good artist.
“I've had enough, this is my prayer.
That I'll die living just as free as my hair.”
Hair, written by Lady Gaga and RedOne
Song lyrics, Born This Way (2011)
SHOWstudio Interview. In Camera with Lady Gaga 30 May 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmcxdZQCnT4&feature=PlayList&p=6DB0E6483F09B62E&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1.
“If I worried about everything that everyone said, I would not be a good artist.”
Contexte: Grace Jones said this to me when I met her. I washed her feet, and I looked up at her and she said, "No matter what you do in your life, don’t you ever let anybody take your creative people away from you." And what my creative friends always remind me of is they say, "Only value the opinion of those that you respect. And anyone that you don’t respect, pay no mind to their opinion about you or anything else." And that’s how I live my life. If I worried about everything that everyone said, I would not be a good artist.
“I've got a hundred million reasons to walk away,
But baby, I just need one good one to stay.”
Million Reasons
Song lyrics, Joanne (2016)
. "The Rise of Lady Gaga." by Brian Hiatt, in Rolling Stone (11 June 2009): 57-61.
“Everybody wants me to show my vagina to the world. And the truth is, I don’t have to.”
Interview for Maxim Magazine.
The world goes crazy for Lady Gaga (2009)
Contexte: My ideas about fame and art are not brand new … We could watch Paris is Burning, we could read The Warhol Diaries, we could go to a party in New York in 1973 and these same things would be being talked about. I guess you could say that I'm a bit of a Warholian copycat. Some people say everything has been done before, and to an extent they are right. I think the trick is to honour your vision and reference and put together things that have never been put together before. I like to be unpredictable, and I think it's very unpredictable to promote pop music as a highbrow medium.
Source: The world goes crazy for Lady Gaga (2009)
Contexte: I have found that my work has to be both deep and shallow … All of my songs have meaning, all of my clothing has iconography buried into it. But by the same token, it's just as special if you look at it in its shallowest form. A quick moment of melody, a beautiful dress. People think, "Gaga's so sweet", or "Gaga sucks". The point is that it's memorable. For commercial art to be taken seriously as fine art is a very unusual and difficult task. I think that a lot of people don't get it and a lot of people don't know what to make of me. And, you know what? I'm OK with that.
The world goes crazy for Lady Gaga (2009)
Contexte: I don't want to see Bowie in a tracksuit. He never let anyone see him that way. The outlet for my work is not just the music and the videos, it's every breathing moment of my life. I'm always saying something about art and music and fame. That's why you don't ever catch me in sweatpants.
“The point is that it's memorable.”
The world goes crazy for Lady Gaga (2009)
Contexte: I have found that my work has to be both deep and shallow … All of my songs have meaning, all of my clothing has iconography buried into it. But by the same token, it's just as special if you look at it in its shallowest form. A quick moment of melody, a beautiful dress. People think, "Gaga's so sweet", or "Gaga sucks". The point is that it's memorable. For commercial art to be taken seriously as fine art is a very unusual and difficult task. I think that a lot of people don't get it and a lot of people don't know what to make of me. And, you know what? I'm OK with that.
Telephone, written by Lady Gaga, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, LaShawn Daniels, Lazonate Franklin, and Beyoncé
Song lyrics, The Fame Monster (2009)
Lady Gaga, in V Magazine http://www.vmagazine.com/fashion_article.php?n=13327.
The world goes crazy for Lady Gaga (2009)
“People think I'm unusual but it's just that we haven't had anyone like this since the Seventies.”
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/showbiz/xs/334051/Lady-GaGa-breaks-up-with-LA-entrepreneur-Speedy.html, May 30, 2009.
Applause, written by Lady Gaga, Paul Blair, Dino Zisis, Nick Monson, Nicolas Mercier, Julien Arias, and William Grigahcine
Song lyrics, Artpop (2013)
The world goes crazy for Lady Gaga (2009)
G.U.Y., written by Lady Gaga and Anton Zaslavski
Song lyrics, Artpop (2013)
Million Reasons, written by Lady Gaga, Hillary Lindsey, and Mark Ronson
Song lyrics, Joanne (2016)
“They bring my music to life.”
On her fans.
Lady Gaga Interview: Part 3 of 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psGfRELcoQY
Speechless
Song lyrics, The Fame Monster (2009)
Lady Gaga Interview with ARTISTdirect http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/news/article/0,,4931544,00.html.
Judas, written by Lady Gaga and RedOne
Song lyrics, Born This Way (2011)
On Madonna
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/showbiz/xs/334051/Lady-GaGa-breaks-up-with-LA-entrepreneur-Speedy.html, May 30, 2009.
