Lady Gaga Stinks Like FAME: An Extremely Detailed Breakdown

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Lady Gaga is tormented by something. And it might be all this attention she's getting.

The heavy burden of being famous has been a running theme throughout her career, evidenced by the video for "Paparazzi" as well as album titles like The Fame and The Fame Monster.

Now she invites us into the creepiest hollows of her tortured-artist's soul with her black-liquid perfume, FAME, and a seriously unnerving five-and-a-half-minute promotional mini-film.

Directed by Steven Klein, also behind the video for "Alejandro," we've only got one question after watching this creepy clip: "So, when do you think Gaga is going to kill herself?"

0:00 - 0:34
It begins with a non-descript warning, followed by title credits, a roaming eye and a chilling scream. This whole mini-film is a warning to everyone out there who thinks stardom is all glitz and glamour. Gaga wants you to know there's a dark side. Oh, and buy her new perfume, in stores now for anywhere from $55 to $80.

0:35 - 1:01
We see a masked, golden goddess, lying naked and holding the eau de toilette's voluptuous bottle. Some slave boys stand in line around the deity. The statuette is larger than life and very beautiful. Some alien mechanics come poking around, inspecting the object of lust with cold, unloving light. The music is like the score of a horror movie.

1:02 - 1:39
Black goop emerges, with a black-latex figure dancing all sinister and in reverse motion between the goop's oily jaws. Gaga is this figure, seductively putting on her dark costume. Her hat is amazing. She's about to do some evil magic. She's in a room the shape of a face, and does a surreal H.R. Giger nightmare walk.

1:40 - 2:22
She walks to the mirror of doom in her dark and sterile existence chamber. What lies on the other side? Only something you can't ever come back from, but the perks are to die for. She's a little freaked out by what she's begun, but it's too late. She best just walk into her fate like a model on the runway.

2:23 - 2:53
We don't speak German, but the language gives the red club atmosphere a stoic and overbearing hardness. The sound of marching boots is heard as Gaga replaces the golden goddess from before. She walks emphatically between the boy slaves and the domineering red hooded figures as if practicing her stage persona. It has begun.

2:54 - 4:03
Is that eggs and caviar? Gaga finds love dark and hollow these days, something like a dark massacre. All the boys are beautiful and faceless. The cheers come closer as the tension in the score heightens. All her egos are struggling with something and suddenly, there are a lot of gun barrels.

4:04 - 5:00
BANG! She's done it to herself now. She's covered in the ooey-gooey fame, and there's no escaping it. Everything is covered in the black goop, which smells like "dripping honey, saffron, and apricot nectar" with hints of "Tiger Orchid and Jasmine Sambac." Gaga is reborn from the mass of it, forever changed.

5:01 - 5:31
And here she is! Lady Gaga, our golden goddess to trample and stand on for the rest of her trapped existence. This promotional video should probably scare people away, but that's just like fame isn't it? Everyone ignores the warnings and would sell their soul to be famous. The Marilyn Monroes, the Elvises and Michael Jacksons will always be there, and they'll always be very publically tragic in the end.

So, who wants to go to Macy's?

Lady Gaga's Born This Way Ball Tour. Saturday, March 16, 2013. American Airlines Arena, 601 Biscayne Blvd., Miami. Call 786-777-1000 or visit aaarena.com.

Madonna Now Loves Lady Gaga, Says They'll Share Stage "Very Soon"

Now here are two people that seem to never get tired of talking about each other.
Madonna and Lady Gaga's back-and-forth over the past year hasn't slowed down, but instead of taking digs at each other, Madonna offers up some nice words in reference to Mother Monster.

At least, we think they came from a good, genuine place.

What was the last thing Lady Gaga had to say about Madonna? Find out here!

"I'm going to dedicate this next song…to Lady Gaga," Madonna announced before performing her song "Masterpiece" at an Atlantic City concert on Saturday. "You wanna know something? I love her. I love her. I do love her. Imitation is the highest form of flattery. But one day, very soon, we're going to be on stage together. Just you wait. You think I'm kidding? I love Lady Gaga."

Whatever you say, Madonna.

Do you think this famous feud has finally come to an end? Sound off in the comments below.

Lady Gaga opens Philip Treacy's LFW show

Lady Gaga opened Philip Treacy's show wearing a flower-inspired hat at London Fashion Week yesterday (16.09.12).

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The singer - who did not perform at the spectacle - stunned onlookers as she took to the catwalk at London's Royal Courts of Justice in a floral-adorned, helmet-style headpiece. She then paid tribute to the hat designer by describing him as the "greatest milliner in the world".

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Gaga watched the rest of the Michael Jackson-inspired show from the front row of the catwalk alongside model Kelly Brook and 'Sex and the City' actress Kim Cattrall.

Treacy used his first show in the capital in more than a decade to pay tribute to the late 'Thriller' singer, and one hat even featured a mini fairground based on the one the musician - who died in June 2009 - used to have at his Neverland ranch.

The milliner - who is well known for his unconventional designs including the "pretzel" hat worn by Princess Beatrice for Prince William and Duchess Catherine's wedding last year - used only black models, such as Jourdon Dunne and Alek Wek, to showcase his latest headgear designs.

Following his show, Philip celebrated his return to the London Fashion Week schedule by attending an after party at The Maddox Club in London, where guests - who included Grace Jones, Dita von Teese and One Direction's Niall Horan - were treated to bespoke cocktails including Ciroc Rocks, consisting of Ciroc, Elderflower and Soda.

Grace - who attended the catwalk show earlier in the day - was one of the last to leave the venue and spent the last hour showing the young models, including Alex, her vast array of dance moves.

Lady Gaga, FAME and The Age of Aquarius

Lady Gaga and her new scent, FAME, turned the tables during a night of masquerade at the Guggenheim museum in New York. While there, guests were asked to wear masks while observing the performance.

Delusions of artistic grandeur: Lady Gaga tweeted: "I've arrived to the Guggenheim!" for her FAME launch; photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Scaaaary Move!!" Lindsay Lohan was tempted, but then refused to have her photo taken for Heide Hatry's "Schrodinger's Cat" performance, above, at Lady Gaga's FAME launch; Photo by Steven K.

"Mirroring Fame" photo by Heide Hatry

Gaga attempted to personify the inner beauty of the Aquarian "water bearer." Yet, according to reports, her gorgeously made up face dissolved into the merely ordinary the longer she spent in a glass house.

...getting a tell-tale Aquarian winged angel tattooed on the back of her head. AP photo by Mesfin Fekadu.

Indeed, this mysterious public branding of an Aquarian symbol is perhaps a superficial attempt at balance. The Twitter Queen has so triumphantly made her famous image synonymous with the radioactive Aquarian shadow by mirroring her "little monster" fans who would do nothing to get some of that little fame elixir for themselves.

This attention grabbing only serves to obscure the authentic artists who have been doing the inner work to embody the Aquarian Age icon.

Heide Hatry, here holding an Ouroboros for her "Schrodinger's Cat" performance at the Guggenheim FAME event, is at the forefront of contemporary artists pioneering new hermetic forms. The Ouroboros is the symbol for the self-devouring of the artist who dares to go inward. Photo by Steven K.

Finding the balance between the newly arising, long repressed feminine (which lacked not only an image but a language in Western culture) and the masculine has been the task of pioneering artists for over a century.

Heide Hatry, right, performing Schrodinger's Cat with Aquarian Paris Hilton at the Guggenheim as a reaction to Lady Gaga's FAME. Photo by Steven K.

This brings us to a crucial question regarding the "radioactive" shadow of fame mongering personified by Lady Gaga and her new scent that only the hieros games can heal:

Lady Gaga performing at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art is the defining image of the West Coast museum's demise. Does the image of Lady Gaga arriving at the Guggenheim for the publicity spectacle of her "radioactive" scent point to this East Coast cultural institution as the next to fall?

Stay tuned for an upcoming posting of a discussion about radioactivity and the newly emerged archetype of the hieros gamos with Dr. Remo Roth.

Lisa Paul Streitfeld is an art critic and curator dedicated to tracking the emergence of the hierosgamos in 21st century art.

Lady Gaga, Westwood top London fashion shows

LONDON: London Fashion Week kicked into high gear Sunday, with a hectic day of shows that culminated in Lady Gaga taking a starring turn on celebrity milliner Philip Treacy’s catwalk.

Earlier in the day, punk queen Vivienne Westwood upstaged her own models in a finale that saw her strutting down the runway with a climate change slogan T-shirt.

Fashion doesn’t get more theatrical than this.

Day Three of London’s twice-a-year style extravaganza was packed with runway previews by some of the capital’s most popular designers: Westwood, Paul Smith, Jonathan Saunders, Mary Katrantzou and Alice Temperley.

But Lady Gaga, in a hot pink, floor-length shroud, stole the show when she opened her friend Treacy’s Michael Jackson-themed comeback show. Treacy, who has designed fanciful hats for Gaga as well as countless royals and celebrities, has not shown at the fashion week for a decade.

Raising her arms and looking up, the pop icon announced: “Ladies and gentlemen, the greatest milliner in the world: Philip Treacy.”

She was joined by fellow celebrities Kim Cattrall, Grace Jones, and Nick Cave in the front row at the show, which featured Jackson’s legendary stage costumes paired with Treacy’s headgear.

The outfits, which included the original red “Thriller” jacket — were lent from a collection held by the King of Pop’s costume designers. They are set to be auctioned in California in December.

The spectacle topped a long day of shows that featured onetime punk priestess Westwood, who championed her favorite cause – climate change – as she closed her runway preview.

The orange-haired designer used two models to unfurl a banner proclaiming a climate revolution, then strutted down the catwalk herself in a “Climate Revolution” T-shirt, shorts and makeup that looked as if she had a giant black eye.

“I loved it,” former model Jo Wood said. “There was so much there that I wanted. And I love Vivienne as a person. She’s the one show I won’t miss.”

Some of Westwood’s severe outfits looked like they were from just before the “Mad Men” era, when U.S. first lady Mamie Eisenhower helped set conservative fashion trends.

Some outfits looked silly, others – evoking the Jackie Kennedy era that came a few years later – appeared wonderfully retro and chic.

Did the ensembles work? Westwood, ever the iconoclast, claimed she simply didn’t care, insisting she was only interested in using fashion as a way to air her views on the environment.

ALICE TEMPERLEY

Westwood wasn’t the only person looking to the ’50s and ’60s for sizzle and spice. Sophia Loren was the inspiration behind Alice Temperley’s London catwalk show Sunday, an elegant concoction of ’50s full skirts fit for a royal garden party.

Temperley, a favorite of Kate and Pippa Middleton, said she wanted to update the 1950s couture look and make it accessible.

The designer said the conical hats the models wore exemplified the classic couture feel of the spring collection, which was set in a grand chandeliered hall.

“I wanted to create something modern and sleek, something that gives the feeling of the dream of couture,” she said of the hats, which were similar to the style worn by Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”

Working from a soft palette dominated by powder blue and ivory, Temperley showed off flirty, tea-length circle skirts and dresses that accentuated a tiny waist. A theme was skirts with semi-sheer horizontal organza stripes, which Temperley said was to show a bit of leg and make the retro look more fun.

Textures were luxurious and soft with lace, silk, brocade and tulle with flower appliques.

Temperley is best known for her romantic evening and bridal gowns, and is launching a more affordable line at British department store John Lewis.

On Friday, Kate Middleton, now known as the Duchess of Cambridge, wore a Temperley ice blue dress with white lace sleeves to a tea party in Malaysia.

JONATHAN SAUNDERS

Loud clashing colors, full-on sequins, holographic stripes – Jonathan Saunders’ catwalk show Sunday had it all. These aren’t clothes for the shy woman.

Saunders, who chose to stage his spring collection in the industrial underbelly of the Tate Modern museum, opened with a series of silver and gold separates with a holographic sheen.

Skirts and dresses made of a plastic-like material with large circle discs came next, the discs glimmering like fish scales in the spotlight.

But the star of the show was stripes, stripes and more stripes. There were bright lime trouser suits and dresses in thick horizontal stripes, a black and white dress in a chevron stripe, and dresses with flowing stripes of a clashing color that cleverly followed the bias cut of the garment.

To end, Saunders upped the ’70s disco fever feel with a series of fully sequined dresses in bright stripes of color: Black with blue and silver, and black with red and green. On another designer it could have looked tacky, but on Saunders, it somehow all worked.

MARIOS SCHWAB

While other designers work summery watercolor hues and bold prints, Marios Schwab’s catwalk show Sunday was a darkly seductive affair of shredded leather, smoldering midnight tones and tribal detailing.

Drawing inspiration from an idea of the Amazon warrior, Schwab opened his show with a series of dresses in sheer layers of black and oxblood, decorated with leather tassels.

These tassels appeared throughout the show – adorning high heels or flat lace-up gladiator sandals, on lapels, in short parallel rows down the bodice, or strategically shielding the body on sheer gowns.

Schwab also created texture with pleating, which was used first on leather dresses in fuchsia and inky blue, then later on chiffon skirts paired with lace tops in the same hue.

Schwab’s designs always play on seduction and have a mysterious femme fatale element to them, and his spring collection was no exception. Models’ bare bodies were just visible under the layers of light material, and at times high slits on the pleated leather skirts revealed flesh-toned mesh layers beneath.

The final evening pieces – nude or sheer black high-collared column gowns embellished with tassels and beading – were dramatic showstoppers.

The Greco-Austrian designer’s show was packed, with front row guests including Japanese Vogue’s editor Anna Dello Russo.

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Lady Gaga - Lady Gaga Invites Fan To Join Art Team

Lady Gaga has made one talented fan's dream come true by inviting the British student to join her creative team.

The Bad Romance hitmaker was impressed after seeing Helen Green's Gaga portraits online and she asked her millions of Twitter.com followers to help track down the young artist.

Green was introduced to her idol backstage at the singer's concert in London on Sunday (09Sep12) and was thrilled when the meeting resulted in an offer to join the Haus of Gaga, which creates the star's props, outfits and album artwork.

Gaga took to Twitter to announce Green's new role, writing, "Welcome to the Haus of Gaga my angel of an artist. The first Little Monster (fan) to become part of Haus collective. See u (you) soon!"

The 20 year old tweeted, "I didn't think my work would eventually create impact like this... I am seriously honoured. Lady Gaga, thank you so much."