The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles gala—complete with Lady Gaga performing the world premiere of her new song, “Speechless,” with dancers from the Bolshoi Ballet—goes off tomorrow for about 900 guests, but an online auction will continue the fund-raising efforts through November 30. The museum will auction a Damien Hirst-created Steinway & Sons grand piano live at the 30th anniversary event, which will kick off an online auction of artwork created for Francesco Vezzoli’s Ballets Russes Italian Style (The Shortest Musical You Will Never See Again), a one-time performance work commissioned by MOCA for the gala.
Online bidding for the works, which include costumes by artists and designers Frank Gehry, Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Miuccia Prada, and Vezzoli, will run through the end of the month, with proceeds benefitting MOCA’s exhibition and education programs. Specifically, the hat worn by Gaga and designed by Gehry, masks worn by Gaga and Vezzoli and designed by Luhrmann and Martin, and costumes worn by Gaga and the dancers and designed by Prada and Vezzoli are among the one-of-a-kind offerings.
“The MOCA 30th anniversary gala will allow the winning bidders to take home a piece of living art history from Francesco Vezzoli’s one-night-only performance conceived and created by the artist specifically for the… gala,” said Maria Bell, MOCA board of trustees co-chair and gala co-chair in an announcement.
Earlier this year, MOCA and its longtime event chief, Vanessa Gonzalez, parted ways.
here’s a video for the new song!
- Entertainment Weekly: “This video is AHHHHHMAZING. There are more wardrobe changes than a Mariah Carey-episode of Cribs. The choreography incorporates elements of “Thriller” and the Twist. And I don’t think Gaga has ever looked prettier than in the close-ups where she’s more stripped down. On the flip side, I love those crazy dilated pupils she sports for much of the video.”
- E!: “In the past, we’ve found her relentless ploys for attention pretty exhausting, but this music video really makes us appreciate everything Gaga actually brings to pop music. She’s exciting to watch, plain and simple. Sure, her theatrics might cause a few eye-rolls, and she definitely isn’t breaking any pop music conventions, but while Britney’s out there making the same old boring video, we need someone like Gaga to really bring it. To put actual thought and care into her product so that it feels alive.”
- MTV: “So what’s so great about this video? Well, of course there’s the costuming and the choreography, the sly nods to Anubis Airlines from “True Blood”, but aside from that, there are the scenes where we get to see the real Gaga: stripped of her makeup (and her clothes), she sings directly to the camera, a single tear trickling down her face. It’s a disarming moment, a glimpse at the woman shed of her outer layers … a Gaga we rarely get to see.”
- Rolling Stone: “Just one album into her career, Lady Gaga has established herself as someone impervious to predictions — especially in the music video department. And the video for her first Fame Monster single, “Bad Romance,” has Gaga providing fans with perhaps her craziest, brightest canvas yet. A collaboration between director Frances Lawrence and the Haus of Gaga “Bad Romance” finds Gaga simultaneously paying homage visually to Kubrick and lyrically to Hitchcock, all while dressed in some of the most outrageous outfits she’s ever worn (and that’s saying a lot).”
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Lady gaga answers questions about being number 1, success, Beyoncé and her new Monster Ball tour…
She talks about the “Bad Romance” music video, working with Beyonce, her Monster Ball Tour, and her fans…
Lady Gaga has been cementing herself into the pop music world as she cranks out hit after hit, costume after costume and leaves viewers and fans wondering what in the world she will come up with next.
While her interesting attire has contributed to her rising fame, her music has taken the world by storm. Having sold already 4 million copies worldwide of her debut album The Fame, she will capitalize on the success and re-release the album later this month. Before the release, she will get to celebrate breaking a Billboard record, having the most No. 1 pop songs from a debut album.
As Gaga’s latest single “Paparazzi” rises to No. 1 on the Pop Songs chart, she becomes the first artist in Billboard history to snag four No. 1 Pop Songs from a debut album. The Fame started off with the slow catching, 22-week rise “Just Dance” before the world exploded into Gaga mania. All of a sudden, the song was being played everywhere all the time and everyone seemed to enjoy it for its hard club stomping beats. The song sold 420,000 copies for the second week of January and to date has sold 4.5 million copies in the U.S. legally.
It wasn’t until “Poker Face” that the media really took notice of Lady Gaga and her musical styling. It topped the charts in 17 countries, nearly every country the record was released to. The song explored sexuality and musically was infectious, once again another big beat song with a large chorus. “Poker Face” is Gaga’s second song to hit the 4 million digital downloads mark, and the only artist so far to do so with 2 songs. It also was the first time a debut artist had hit No. 1 on the Hot 100 chart consecutively with two singles since Christina Aguilera’s debut in 1999.
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