Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She is known for her unconventionality and provocative work as well as visual experimentation.

Gaga began her musical career performing songs at open mic nights and school plays. She studied at Collaborative Arts Project 21 (CAP21) through New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before dropping out to become a professional musician. After Def Jam Recordings canceled her contract, Gaga worked as a songwriter for Sony/ATV Music Publishing, where Akon helped her sign a joint deal with Interscope Records and his own label KonLive Distribution in 2007. She rose to prominence the following year with her debut album, a dance-pop and electropop record titled The Fame, and its chart-topping singles "Just Dance" and "Poker Face". A follow-up EP, The Fame Monster (2009), featuring the singles "Bad Romance", "Telephone", and "Alejandro", also proved successful.

Gaga's second full-length album Born This Way (2011) explored electronic rock and techno. The album topped the US Billboard 200 and sold more than one million copies in the country during its first week. Its title track became the fastest selling song on the iTunes Store with over a million downloads in less than a week. Gaga ventured into R&B and disco with her third album Artpop (2013), which topped the US charts and included the single "Applause". In 2014, she released a jazz album with Tony Bennett titled Cheek to Cheek, her third consecutive number one album in the US. For her acting work in the television series American Horror Story: Hotel (2015–2016), Gaga won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 2016. Her fifth studio album, Joanne (2016), incorporated genres such as country and pop, and she became the first woman to have four US number one albums in the 2010s when it topped the country's charts. In February 2017, Gaga performed the Super Bowl LI halftime show, which was met with critical acclaim.

Having sold 27 million albums and 146 million singles as of January 2016, Gaga is one of the best-selling music artists in history. Her achievements include several Guinness World Records, three Brit Awards, six Grammy Awards, and awards from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Gaga has been declared Billboard's Artist of the Year and included among Forbes's power and earnings rankings. She was ranked at number four on VH1's Greatest Women in Music in 2012, finished second on Time's 2011 readers' poll of the most influential people of the past ten years, and was named Billboard's Woman of the Year in 2015. She is known for her philanthropic work and social activism, including LGBT rights, and for her non-profit organization, the Born This Way Foundation, which focuses on promoting youth empowerment and combating bullying.

Albums/Movies/TV Shows


2016

Joanne

Joanne is the fifth studio album by American singer Lady Gaga. It was released on October 21, 2016, by Streamline and Interscope Records. The album's production was led by Mark Ronson, Gaga herself and BloodPop, alongside a variety of collaborators including Kevin Parker, Emile Haynie, Jeff Bhasker and Josh Homme. The music of Joanne features "stripped-down" soft rock and dance-pop styles in order to emphasize the singer's vocal abilities. Lyrically, the album delves on the theme of family and life's emotions, with the death of her aunt, Joanne Stefani Germanotta, having a deep influence on the record.

Genre: Soft rock, dance-pop

Release date: Oct 21, 2016

Joanne Tracks
1 Diamond Heart 3:28
2 A-Yo 3:19
3 Joanne 3:9
4 John Wayne 3:22
5 Dancin' In Circles 3:40
6 Perfect Illusion 3:51
7 Million Reasons 3:41
8 Sinner's Prayer 3:28
9 Come To Mama 3:2
10 Hey Girl 3:45
11 Angel Down 3:13
12 Grigio Girls 3:51
13 Just Another Day 3:34
14 Angel Down (Work Tape) 3:49
15 Million Reasons (Work Tape) 3:58

2014

Cheek To Cheek

Cheek to Cheek is a collaborative album by American singers Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga. It was released on September 19, 2014, through Interscope Records and Columbia Records. Bennett and Gaga first met in 2011 at the Robin Hood Foundation gala in New York City. After the two later recorded a rendition of "The Lady Is a Tramp", they began discussing plans for working on a jazz project. Cheek to Cheek consists of jazz standards by popular jazz composers, such as George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, and Irving Berlin. The album was inspired by Bennett and Gaga's desire to introduce the songs to a younger generation, since they believed that the tracks had universal appeal.

Genre: Jazz, traditional pop

Release date: Sep 19, 2014

Cheek To Cheek Tracks
1 Don't Wait Too Long 2:36
2 Sophisticated Lady 3:51
3 On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever) 3:41
4 The Lady's In Love With You 3:20
5 But Beautiful 4:04 Lyrics
6 Let's Face The Music And Dance 2:06 Lyrics
7 The Lady Is A Tramp 3:21 Lyrics
8 Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered 3:20 Lyrics
9 Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) 4:30 Lyrics
10 It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) 2:18 Lyrics
11 Lush Life 4:16 Lyrics
12 They All Laughed 1:51 Lyrics
13 I Won't Dance 3:56 Lyrics
14 Firefly 1:56 Lyrics
15 Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye 4:44 Lyrics
16 Goody Goody 2:19 Lyrics
17 Nature Boy 4:09 Lyrics
18 I Can't Give You Anything But Love 2:40 Lyrics
19 Cheek To Cheek 3:20 Lyrics
20 Anything Goes 2:03 Lyrics

2013

Artpop

Artpop (stylized as ARTPOP) is the third studio album by American singer Lady Gaga. It was released on November 6, 2013, by Streamline and Interscope Records. She began planning the project in 2011, shortly after the launch of her second studio album, Born This Way. Work continued into 2012 and 2013, during which time Gaga was travelling for her headlining Born This Way Ball and recovering from surgery for an injury that she sustained while touring.

Release date: Nov 6, 2013

Artpop Tracks
1 Aura 3:57
2 Sexxx Dreams 3:35
3 Jewels N' Drugs 3:49
4 Applause 3:35 Lyrics
5 Gypsy 4:10 Lyrics
6 Dope 3:45 Lyrics
7 Mary Jane Holland 4:41 Lyrics
8 Fashion! 2:50 Lyrics
9 Donatella 4:31 Lyrics
10 Swine 4:47 Lyrics
11 Artpop 4:08 Lyrics
12 Do What U Want 3:48 Lyrics
13 Manicure 3:24 Lyrics
14 G.U.Y. 4:11 Lyrics
15 Venus 3:55 Lyrics

2011

Born This Way

Born This Way is the second studio album by American singer Lady Gaga, released by Interscope Records on May 23, 2011. It is a follow-up to her internationally successful album The Fame (2008) and EP The Fame Monster (2009). As co-producer of every track on the album, Gaga collaborated with several producers, including RedOne and Fernando Garibay, with whom she had previously worked. She also worked with artists such as E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons and Queen guitarist Brian May.

Genre: Dance-pop

Release date: May 23, 2011

Born This Way Tracks
1 Scheiße 3:46 Lyrics
2 Americano 4:07 Lyrics
3 Judas 5:35 Lyrics
4 Government Hooker 4:15 Lyrics
5 Hair 5:09 Lyrics
6 The Queen 5:17 Lyrics
7 Fashion Of His Love 3:40 Lyrics
8 Black Jesus + Amen Fashion 3:37 Lyrics
9 Born This Way (Jost & Naaf Remix) 5:53 Lyrics
10 The Edge Of Glory 5:28 Lyrics
11 You And I 6:22 Lyrics
12 Electric Chapel 4:13 Lyrics
13 Heavy Metal Lover 4:13 Lyrics
14 Highway Unicorn (Road To Love) 4:16 Lyrics
15 Bad Kids 3:52 Lyrics
16 Bloody Mary 4:05 Lyrics
17 Born This Way 7:20 Lyrics
18 Marry The Night 4:25 Lyrics

2011

A Very Gaga Holiday

A Very Gaga Holiday is a live EP released by Lady Gaga, containing songs performed at the ABC Christmas special A Very Gaga Thanksgiving. It was made available for purchase in the US on November 22, 2011, exclusively on the iTunes Store and Amazon, and on November 26 in the rest of the world. The EP is made up of jazz covers of the songs "Orange Colored Sky" and "White Christmas", the latter featuring an extra verse, and acoustic versions of "You and I" and "The Edge of Glory", both songs originally from the singer's second studio album, Born This Way (2011). A recurring theme on the EP is Gaga stopping midway through singing to engage in conversations with the listeners.

Genre: Jazz pop

Release date: Nov 22, 2011

A Very Gaga Holiday Tracks
1 The Edge Of Glory 5:28 Lyrics
2 You And I 6:22 Lyrics
3 Orange Colored Sky 2:32 Lyrics
4 White Christmas 3:23 Lyrics

2009

The Fame Monster

The Fame Monster is a reissue of American singer Lady Gaga's debut studio album, The Fame (2008), and was released on November 18, 2009, through Interscope Records. Initially planned solely as a deluxe reissue of The Fame, it was later decided that the release's eight new tracks would also be released as a standalone EP in some territories, as Gaga thought the re-release was too expensive and that the albums were each conceptually different, describing them as yin and yang. A super deluxe edition of The Fame Monster including The Fame and additional merchandise, including a lock of her wig, was released on December 15, 2009.

Release date: Nov 18, 2009

The Fame Monster Tracks
1 Monster 4:11 Lyrics
2 Alejandro 8:44 Lyrics
3 Teeth 3:45 Lyrics
4 So Happy I Could Die 3:56 Lyrics
5 Telephone 9:31 Lyrics
6 Dance In The Dark 4:52 Lyrics
7 Speechless 4:33 Lyrics
8 Bad Romance 5:08 Lyrics

2008

The Fame

The Fame is the debut studio album by American singer Lady Gaga. It was released on August 19, 2008 through Interscope Records. After joining Kon Live Distribution and Cherrytree Records in 2008, Gaga began working on the album with different producers, primarily RedOne, Martin Kierszenbaum and Rob Fusari. Musically, The Fame is a synthpop and dance-pop album that has influences of pop music from the 1980s. Lyrically, the album visualizes Gaga's love of fame in general while also dealing with subjects such as love, sex, money, drugs and sexual identity. Promotion was primarily through The Fame Ball Tour and multiple television appearances. The Fame was included as a bonus disc on the deluxe edition of the extended play, The Fame Monster (2009).

Genre: Synthpop, dance-pop

Release date: Aug 19, 2008

The Fame Tracks
1 Retro Dance Freak 3:24 Lyrics
2 I Like It Rough 4:00 Lyrics
3 Summerboy 4:14 Lyrics
4 Brown Eyes 4:05 Lyrics
5 Boys Boys Boys 3:14 Lyrics
6 Again Again 3:06 Lyrics
7 Money Honey 3:12 Lyrics
8 The Fame 4:07 Lyrics
9 Poker Face 3:36 Lyrics
10 Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say) 2:57 Lyrics
11 Beautiful, Dirty, Rich 2:48 Lyrics
12 Paparazzi 7:11 Lyrics
13 Love Game 3:38 Lyrics
14 Just Dance 4:07 Lyrics

2006

Red And Blue

Red And Blue Tracks
1 Something Crazy 3:0
2 Wish You Were Here 3:5
3 No Floods 3:34
4 Red And Blue 3:10
5 Words 3:36


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