Lady Gaga is the stage name of American singer, songwriter, and actress Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, who was born on March 28, 1986. She is a major player in the world of popular music, and she is famous for her ability to reinvent herself and her flexibility in the entertainment sector.
The following was inspired by a story on Variety.com
Lady Gaga performed the last song of the historic Los Angeles event, "All I Need Is Time," a bouncy ballad she wrote with her boyfriend Michael Polansky, and proclaimed to be "just for tonight." The performance came to a close after over six hours of FireAid.
Gaga performed with a backup band and stayed behind the piano, opting for a low-key approach after a night full of extravaganza. "Shallow," a hit from her 2018 film "A Star Is Born," was the first song she sang. She paused to speak to the audience, explaining that the destruction in Los Angeles had brought them together.
"I am grateful, and I adore you," she murmured. I believe that people unite and realize how much they rely on one another during times like this, even if this has been a terrible and terrifying moment. I would love to hold this memory of us forever.
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Her introduction of "All I Need Is Time" followed a piano cover of "Always Remember Us This Way." She went on to say that she and Polansky composed the song especially for FireAid. "So, I was trying to decide what to sing tonight—I was hoping to do something upbeat for you—but as I considered my song choices, nothing felt quite right," she explained. So, my fiance, my love, and my best buddy Michael composed this song especially for you. Tonight, it's all for you. Right now, I think we could all use a lot of things, but maybe the most important thing is time. Healing comes with time.
After that, there was a joyful song with a positive message: "Wish that God would find a different way to remind me what it's like to pray / Wish that I could turn this storm around and I cannot find a different way," she says before the chorus. "All I require is the passage of time, all I require is the passage of time / To mend my wounded wings and then I will soar / To set everything in motion in motion and continue on my journey."
With the release of her new album "Mayhem" on March 7, Gaga is getting ready to rock the world. Sting, Stevie Wonder, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, Peso Pluma, and Red Hot Chili Peppers were among the performers that she joined at FireAid. Green Day, No Doubt, Graham Nash, Dawes, and many more performed at the Intuit Dome and Kia Forum.
After the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles swept across parts of Malibu, Pacific Palisades, and Altadena, FireAid helped fund relief operations for the affected communities. The Annenberg Foundation used the funds for various projects.
End of Variety inspired story
Following her 2007 agreement with Interscope Records, Gaga's first studio album The Fame (2008) and its reissue The Fame Monster (2009) brought her worldwide renown. "Just Dance," "Poker Face," "Bad Romance," "Telephone," and "Alejandro" are among the project's many hit singles. Her 2011 sophomore studio album, Born This Way, which delved into techno-pop and electronic rock, had a first-week sales of over a million copies. With nearly a million downloads in less than seven days, the title tune surpassed all other songs in the iTunes Store in terms of fastest-selling status. She moved on from Artpop (2013), her third album influenced by electronic dance music, to Cheek to Cheek (2014), her jazz album with Tony Bennett, and Joanne (2016), her soft rock album.
The miniseries American Horror Story: Hotel (2015–2016) was Gaga's acting debut, and she went on to garner accolades for her performances in A Star Is Born (2018), House of Gucci (2021), and other films. She became the first woman to ever win four major awards in the same year for her work on the soundtrack of the film A Star Is Born, which included the song "Shallow" that topped the charts. On her sixth studio album Chromatica (2020), Gaga made a triumphant return to dance-pop with the single "Rain on Me" that reached number one. On their final joint album, Love for Sale (2021), she and Bennett reteamed, and the song "Die with a Smile" (2024) was another hit.
Lady Gaga is the first female artist in history to have four singles sell 10 million copies worldwide, and she has an estimated 170 million albums sold, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Her albums have topped the US Billboard 200 with five of them. In addition to her many accolades from organizations like as the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Council of Fashion Designers of America, she has received thirteen Grammy Awards, twenty-two Golden Globe Awards, eighteen MTV Video Music Awards, and more. In 2010 and 2019, she was named one of Time magazine's 100 most important people in the world. Several magazines have placed her among the greatest artists of all time. Mental health awareness and LGBTQ rights are at the center of Gaga's advocacy and philanthropy. The Born This Way Foundation, her own charitable organization, promotes youth health. In 2019, she created the vegan cosmetics company Haus Labs as one of her business initiatives.
What a life and a career!
From 1986 until 2004: My formative years
On March 28, 1986, in Manhattan, New York City, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta entered this world at Lenox Hill Hospital into a Catholic family from the top middle class. Her parents' families are from Italy. Natali is her younger sister, and her parents are the Internet entrepreneur Joseph Germanotta and the philanthropist Cynthia Louise (née Bissett). Gaga remarked in an interview that her parents were from lower-class backgrounds and worked hard for everything, despite growing up on Manhattan's Upper West Side. She started her education at the elite Roman Catholic Convent of the Sacred Heart when she was eleven years old. Gaga has spoken about how she was "a bit insecure" and "very dedicated, very studious, very disciplined" while she was in high school. Jokes about her "being either too provocative or too eccentric" made her feel like an outcast, and she hated it.
When Gaga was four years old, her mother urged her to become "a cultured young woman" and began teaching her piano. From the time she was a little girl, she studied the piano. Gaga learned to compose music more easily by ear than by reading sheet music, which she found to be a significant improvement. They sent her to Creative Arts Camp and said it would be a great choice for her future career in music. She was a regular at open mic evenings when she was a youngster. Adele in Guys and Dolls and Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum were the leading parts that Gaga portrayed at Regis High School. During her 10 years of study, she was also a method actor at the Lee Strasberg Institute for Theatre and Film. Her first appearance on film was a cameo in the music video for "Stiff Upper Lip" by AC/DC in the year 2000. On the other hand, Gaga had a brief cameo as a high school student in an episode of The Sopranos in 2001 called "The Telltale Moozadell," but her auditions for New York plays were unsuccessful. Regarding her musical leanings, she subsequently stated:
Although I can't put my finger on it, music has always been the one thing that has always come naturally to me. My mom has this incredibly humiliating tale about when I was a little girl—maybe even younger—and I would raise myself up on a stool to play the piano because I was too little and too short to reach the top keys. On the bass side of the keyboard, just play this way... Although I may not have had a natural talent for dancing, I have always had an innate talent for music, and my initial inclination was to devote a great deal of time to honing my piano skills. I consider that to be my strongest suit.
Living in a dorm at New York University (NYU) during 2003, Gaga was able to get early entry to Collaborative Arts Project 21, a music program at NYU's Tisch program of the Arts. She wrote articles on art, religion, social concerns, politics, and pop artists like Spencer Tunick and Damien Hirst for her music degree, which helped her become a better songwriter. Gaga dropped out of college in 2005 during her sophomore year so she could concentrate on her singing career. In the same year, she appeared on the hoax reality show Boiling Points, which aired on MTV, playing the role of an unsuspecting restaurant customer.
Gaga spoke about her experience with mental and physical rehabilitation following the 2014 interview in which she revealed that her producer had raped her when she was 19 years old. She was able to overcome her post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with the aid of her loved ones and medical professionals after the occurrence. "The person who raped me dropped me off pregnant on a corner at my parents' house because I was vomiting and sick. Because I'd been abusing. I was locked away in a studio for months," Gaga added later when asked about the rape.
2005–2007: The start of my professional journey
For the 2005 audiobook version of The Portal in the Park, a children's book by Cricket Casey, Gaga collaborated with rapper Melle Mel on two tracks. Along with a few buddies at NYU, she established a band named the SGBand. As time went on, they became regulars in the Lower East Side club scene as well as venues across New York City. Wendy Starland, a talent scout, suggested her to Rob Fusari, a music producer, during the June 2006 Songwriters Hall of Fame New Songwriters Showcase at the Cutting Room. Fusari worked with Gaga, who made daily trips to New Jersey to produce new music and contribute to the development of her existing songs. They started dating in May 2006, according to the producer, who also claimed credit for coining the nickname "Lady Gaga" (a play on Queen's "Radio Ga Ga"). His story goes like this: once, when texting her, he tried to say "Radio Ga Ga," but the spell check made it seem like "Lady." That's when the name came to him. Their romance continued all the way into 2007.
"Team Lovechild, LLC" was the business name Fusari and Gaga used to promote her career. They sent their electropop tunes to record label heads after recording and producing them. Responding favorably, Def Jam Recordings' head of Artists and repertoire (A&R) Joshua Sarubin signed Lady Gaga in September 2006, after greenlight from Sarubin's supervisor Antonio "L.A." Reid. Her three-month hiatus from the label coincided with her Christmas visit home to her family. Lady Gaga started performing at neo-burlesque events, which she described as a sort of liberation. At this period, she crossed paths with Lady Starlight, a performance artist who would later influence her stage character. The two started playing at several downtown nightclubs, including the Bitter End, the Mercury Lounge, and the Rockwood Music Hall. "Lady Gaga and the Starlight Revue"—also known as "The Ultimate Pop Burlesque Rockshow"—was their live performance art work that paying homage to variety shows of the 1970s. Lollapalooza 2007 was where they made their performance debut.
Pop melodies and the glam rock style of David Bowie and Queen started to make their way into Gaga's work after she first concentrated on avant-garde electronic dance music. During Gaga and Starlight's performance, Fusari sent the songs they had written together to record executive and producer Vincent Herbert for further development. Herbert brought Gaga on board in November 2007 when he launched his label Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope Records. Afterwards, Gaga acknowledged Herbert as the one who found her. After interning as a songwriting apprentice at Famous Music Publishing, Gaga signed a publishing agreement with Sony/ATV representing her music. Britney Spears, Fergie, New Kids on the Block, and the Pussycat Dolls were among the artists that engaged her to compose songs after that. Her studio performance as a reference vocalist for one of Interscope artist Akon's songs left him pleased. Gaga became Akon's "franchise player" after he persuaded Jimmy Iovine, chairman and CEO of Def Jam's sibling firm Interscope Geffen A&M Records, to sign her to both his label, KonLive, and Gaga's own, Interscope Geffen.
Gaga met with RedOne, a composer and producer, in late 2007. Martin Kierszenbaum is an Interscope imprint, and she signed with Cherrytree Records, which he founded. She worked with him in the studio for a week to make her debut album, and the two of them wrote four songs together. This is what's next. My name is Lady Gaga. I've been on the music scene for years. Some radio stations considered my music too "racy," "dance-oriented," and "underground" for the general market. I'm telling you, this is what's next, even though I had a record contract.
Between 2008 and 2010, The Fame and The Fame Monster achieved breakthrough status.
Moving to Los Angeles in 2008, Gaga collaborated closely with her record company to finish her debut album, The Fame, and established her own creative team, the Haus of Gaga, inspired by Andy Warhol's The Factory. After its August 19, 2008, release, The Fame topped the charts in a number of countries, including the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Germany, and Austria. It also reached number five in the United States and Australia. Among its first two singles, "Just Dance" and "Poker Face" were top hits in the US, AU, CAN, and UK. With 9.8 million copies sold in 2009, the latter was also the most popular track in the world. It also stood for a record-breaking 83 weeks on Billboard magazine's Digital Songs list. The album also featured three more singles: "LoveGame," "Paparazzi," and "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)." The most recent of them, "Paparazzi," peaked at number one in Germany. With the exception of "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)", Hitmixes from August 2009 featured remixes of all of The Fame's hits. "Poker Face" took home the trophy for Best Dance Recording and "The Fame" took home the trophy for Best Dance/Electronica Album at the 52nd Annual Grammys.
From March 2009 to September 2009, Gaga led her world tour The Fame Ball, after her role as an opening act on the Pussycat Dolls' 2009 Doll Domination Tour in Europe and Oceania. While on the road, she composed eight songs for the release of The Fame, The Fame Monster. Also published on November 18, 2009, was an EP consisting of those new tracks. With its release a month prior, "Bad Romance" topped the charts in Canada and the UK and reached number two in the US, Australia, and New Zealand. As the second single from the EP, "Telephone" featuring Beyoncé became Gaga's fourth number one in the UK. With their third single "Alejandro" reaching number one in Finland, the band sparked controversy because the Catholic League ruled the music video blasphemous. In the United States, both songs peaked at number five. After Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" video surpassed one billion views in October of 2010, she became the first individual in YouTube history to achieve this feat in April of the same year. Her 2010 MTV Video Music Awards performance, "Bad Romance," garnered eight wins out of thirteen nominees. At the same presentation, she became the first woman to gain two nominations for Video of the Year, and she also held the record for most nominated artist for a single year. "Bad Romance" took home two Grammys at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards—Best Short Form Music Video and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance—joining "The Fame Monster" in winning Best Pop Vocal Album.
Gaga earned a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2009 for her record-breaking 150-week run on the UK Singles Chart. She also became the most downloaded female artist in the US that year, with 11.1 million downloads sold. With over 15 million copies sold, The Fame and The Fame Monster are the best-selling albums of 2010 together. The Monster Ball Tour, Gaga's second global concert tour, and The Remix, her last album with Cherrytree Records and one of the best-selling remix albums ever, were both made possible by its popularity. The Monster Ball Tour, which began in November 2009 and ended in May 2011, was the most lucrative concert tour ever for a first-time headliner, with an impressive $227.4 million. Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: in Madison Square Garden is an HBO concert program that captures performances in New York City's Madison Square Garden. At the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, the Brit Awards in 2010, and the Royal Variety Performance in 2009, Gaga also sang songs from her albums. Gaga was supposed to perform at the O2 Arena in the United Kingdom as part of Michael Jackson's postponed This Is It concert series before he passed away.
During this time, Gaga dabbled in commerce, teaming up with consumer electronics manufacturer Monster Cable Products to design Heartbeats by Lady Gaga, a line of in-ear headphones adorned with jewels. In January 2010, she unveiled a line of photo-capture goods called Grey Label and worked with Polaroid as their creative director. Although Gaga was borderline positive for lupus at the time, she insisted she was unaffected by the symptoms and sought to lead a healthy lifestyle. This led to a lawsuit against her production firm, Mermaid Music LLC, which she had co-founded with her ex-boyfriend and record producer Rob Fusari.
Years 2011–2014: Cheek to Cheek, Artpop, and Born This Way
From her 2011 studio album of the same name, "Born This Way" served as the lead single for Gaga's 2011 comeback. In just five days, the song broke the Guinness World Record for fastest-selling single on iTunes, selling over a million downloads. It became the 1,000th number one song in Billboard Hot 100 history when it debuted at the top of the charts. "Judas" was the album's second single, released two months later, and "The Edge of Glory" was the album's third single. In both the US and the UK, they both made it into the top ten. Unlike her earlier music videos, the one for "The Edge of Glory" features her dancing and strolling alone on a deserted street and fire escape, with no elaborate choreography or backup dancers.
With 1.1 million copies sold in its first week of release, Born This Way soared to the top of the Billboard 200. It garnered three Grammy nominations, including Gaga's third consecutive Album of the Year award, and sold eight million copies globally. In 2020, the album was named one of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" by Rolling Stone. "You and I" peaked at number six in the US and "Marry the Night" at number thirty-nine were the subsequent singles from Born This Way. After its 2022 single release, the cut "Bloody Mary" saw a renaissance in popularity. Filming the music video for "You and I" brought Gaga into contact with actor Taylor Kinney, who played her love interest, and the two began dating in July 2011. As for her Born This Way Ball tour, which began in April 2012 and was supposed to end in March of 2013—but it ended a month early when Gaga postponed the rest of the concerts because she had to have surgery to repair a labral tear in her right hip. Despite an estimated $25 million in reimbursements due to cancellations, the tour made $183.9 million worldwide.
Some of Gaga's 2011 collaborations include a jazz rendition of "The Lady Is a Tramp" with Tony Bennett, "Hello Hello" for the animated feature film Gnomeo & Juliet with Elton John, and "3-Way (The Golden Rule)" with Justin Timberlake and The Lonely Island. In the same year, she promoted Born This Way and celebrated the 65th birthday of former US President Bill Clinton with a concert at Australia's Sydney Town Hall. Her fourth extended play, A Very Gaga Holiday, was born out of her November appearance in a Thanksgiving television special called A Very Gaga Thanksgiving, which drew 5.7 million American viewers. The Simpsons episode "Lisa Goes Gaga" featured Gaga as an animated guest star in 2012, and in 2014, she launched Eau de Gaga, her second fragrance, and in 2012, Lady Gaga Fame, her first scent.
Artpop was Gaga's third studio album; she started recording it in early 2012 while on tour for Born This Way Ball. With "a night at the club" as her inspiration, she assembled an album. "Applause," the lead song from Gaga's 2013 album, peaked at number one in Hungary, number four in the US, and number five in the UK after its release in August. In October, she appeared in a music video for the Artpop song "Aura" set to Robert Rodriguez's film Machete Kills, in which she played the role of La Chameleon, an outlaw. The film's earnings fell short of its $33 million budget, and reviews were mostly negative. "Do What U Want" was the second Artpop hit and featured R. Kelly, which debuted later that month, topped the Hungarian charts and peaked to number thirteen in the United States. When Artpop came out on November 6, 2013, opinions were all over the map. The Daily Telegraph's Helen Brown panned Gaga's new album, believing it was "great for dancing" but criticizing her for releasing another one about her celebrity and doubting the album's originality. With over 2.5 million copies sold globally as of July 2014, the album made its debut at the top of the Billboard 200 list. With its March 2014 release as the third single, "G.U.Y." reached a US high of number 76.
In November 2013, Gaga joined Saturday Night Live as a host. On the fifth season of the American reality talent competition The Voice, she and Christina Aguilera performed a special version of "Do What U Want" after her second Thanksgiving Day television special on ABC, Lady Gaga and the Muppets Holiday Spectacular. As a tribute to the final show at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City before it closed, Gaga had a seven-day residency in March 2014. Expanding on themes introduced at her ArtRave promotional event, she set off on the Artpop Ball tour two months later. With cities that weren't part of the Born This Way Ball tour, this one made $83 million. While this was going on, Gaga's old manager Troy Carter and her new manager Bobby Campbell were both signed to Artist Nation, a part of Live Nation Entertainment, after their break due to "creative differences" in June 2014. In addition to her confirmation as Versace's spring/summer 2014 ambassador through the "Lady Gaga For Versace" campaign, she made a brief appearance in Rodriguez's Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.
Gaga and Tony Bennett's Cheek to Cheek was a jazz CD that was out in September 2014. Her longtime relationship with Bennett and her lifelong love of jazz served as inspiration for the record. "The most talented artist I have ever met" is how he put it about Gaga. "Anything Goes" and "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" were the lead singles from the album before its release. Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian lauded Gaga's vocals in Cheek to Cheek, and Howard Reich of the Chicago Tribune stated, "Cheek to Cheek serves up the real thing, start to finish." The album was generally well-received. The album went on to win the Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album, and it was Lady Gaga's third album to reach number one on the Billboard 200 in a row. Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett: Cheek to Cheek Live! was a concert special that the two taped together.From December 2014 until August 2015, they went on the Cheek to Cheek Tour.
Taylor Kinney and Lady Gaga were engaged in February 2015. Gaga started to reimagine herself after Artpop's lackluster reception. The 87th Academy Awards, when she paid tribute to Julie Andrews with a medley of songs from The Sound of Music, and the publication of Cheek to Cheek, according to Billboard, marked the beginning of this change. Billboard named it one of her top performances, and Facebook users across the world engaged with it at a rate of almost 214,000 interactions per minute. When she and Diane Warren collaborated on the song "Til It Happens to You" for the documentary The Hunting Ground, they not only received an Oscar nomination for best original song, but they also won the Satellite Award for best song. At the 2015 Annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards, Gaga took up two trophies: Billboard Woman of the Year and the Contemporary Icon Award.
After wishing to be an actor for a long time, Gaga finally got her chance in American Horror Story: Hotel. Gaga portrayed Elizabeth, a hotel owner, in American Horror Story's fifth season, Hotel, which ran from October 2015 to January 2016. Lady Gaga's performance in the season earned her the Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film accolade at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards. She was a guest editor for V's 99th issue in January 2016, which included sixteen different covers, and she was in Nick Knight's 2015 fashion film for Tom Ford's 2016 spring campaign. On the night of the Fashion Los Angeles Awards, she was named Editor of the Year.
In February 2016, Gaga had the honor of singing the US national anthem at Super Bowl 50. She also collaborated with Intel and Nile Rodgers for a tribute performance honoring the late David Bowie at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards. At the 88th Academy Awards, she performed "Til It Happens to You," with Joe Biden introducing her and fifty survivors of sexual assault joining her onstage. The Grammy Museum presented her with the Artist Award at the Jane Ortner Education Awards that April. The award honors musicians who have shown a commitment to enhancing learning through the arts. She broke off her engagement to Taylor Kinney in July, citing difficulties in her professional life as the reason.
American Horror Story: Roanoke, the sixth season, which aired from September to November 2016, starred Lady Gaga as the witch Scathach. Her performance in Season 5 of the program had a lasting impact on her, leading her to incorporate elements of "the art of darkness" into her subsequent compositions. She achieved French chart supremacy and US number fifteen with the release of "Perfect Illusion" in September 2016, the first single from her fifth album. The late aunt of Lady Gaga served as musical inspiration for the album, which was called Joanne, in her honor. After its release on October 21, 2016, Gaga became the first woman in the 2010s to have four albums top the Billboard 200. This album marked her fourth number one on the list. Second single "Million Reasons" from the album debuted the following month and peaked at #4 on the US charts. She went on to win a Grammy for Best Pop Solo Performance in 2018 for her piano rendition of the album's title tune, which she released later that year. Gaga went on the Dive Bar Tour, which included three dates, to promote the album.
Halftime during Super Bowl LII on February 5, 2017, Gaga was the featured performer. For the first-ever appearance of robotic aircraft in a Super Bowl broadcast, her performance included a swarm of illuminated drones taking flight over Houston's NRG Stadium in a variety of configurations. With an audience of 117.5 million, it was the third most-watched Super Bowl halftime show of all time in the US, surpassing the game's 111.3 million viewers. Gaga received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Special Class Program, and the performance sparked 410,000 downloads of her songs in the US. She gave the second-best performance of any Super Bowl halftime show in CBS Sports' history. The Coachella Music and Arts Festival was Gaga's April headline performance. Additionally, her solo track "The Cure" was a top 10 hit in her home country of Australia. After announcing the Joanne World Tour during her halftime performance at Super Bowl LI, Gaga waited four months before it began. In September, Gaga's documentary Gaga: Five Foot Two debuted on Netflix. It chronicled her journey to become Joanne and how she prepared for her halftime performance. Her persistent discomfort, which was subsequently determined to be fibromyalgia, was a recurring theme throughout the film. After 842,000 people bought tickets to her Joanne World Tour in February 2018, Gaga decided to postpone the final 10 performances due to the issue. The tour made $95 million.
From 2018 to 2019, I was a resident at A Star Is Born in Las Vegas.
Gaga recorded a rendition of "Your Song" by Elton John for his tribute album Revamp in March 2018, and she also showed her support for the March for Our Lives gun-control event in Washington, D.C. Playing the role of Ally, a struggling singer, in Bradley Cooper's A Star Is Born, a musical love drama based on the 1937 classic, she had a busy year. In the film, Ally and Jackson Maine's (Cooper) relationship deteriorates as her success starts to eclipse his. All critics agreed that the film featured "appealing leads, deft direction, and an affecting love story," and the reviews were positive. Following Gaga's performance at a cancer fundraiser, Cooper approached her. Gaga agreed to participate because she admires Cooper's depiction of addiction and sadness in his work. The 2018 October global release of A Star Is Born followed its 2018 Venice Film Festival premiere. Cinema critics were unanimous in their praise for Gaga's performance. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called the film "outrageously watchable" and said, "Gaga's ability to be part ordinary person, part extraterrestrial celebrity empress functions at the highest level." Time magazine's Stephanie Zacharek echoed these sentiments, praising Gaga for her "knockout performance" and calling her "charismatic" when she stepped out of her typical costumes, wigs, and makeup. Gaga received Best Actress nods from the Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and National Board of Review for the part, and she also won the Critics' Choice and National Board of Review awards for the performance.
Gaga requested that Cooper and she perform live in the film A Star Is Born, and the two of them created and produced the majority of the soundtrack's songs. Their collaboration on the lead song "Shallow" reached the top of the charts in many nations upon its release on September 27, 2018, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. The Washington Post's Mark Kennedy hailed the 34-track soundtrack as a "five-star marvel," while The Guardian's Ben Beaumont-Thomas hailed it as "instant classics full of Gaga's emotional might." The soundtrack has 17 original songs. Reviews for the album were mostly good. Gaga broke Taylor Swift's record for most number-one albums by a female artist in the 2010s when the soundtrack debuted at number one in the US commercially. Swift re-tied with her in 2019, but Gaga became the first woman to have five US number-one albums in the 2010s. It was also number one in the UK, Ireland, Switzerland, Canada, and New Zealand. Worldwide, the soundtrack had sold more than six million copies as of June 2019. Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, and Best Song Written for Visual Media (for "Shallow" and "I'll Never Love Again" respectively) were among the four Grammys that went to Gaga for this album. She also took home a BAFTA for Best Film Music. In addition to her Oscar, Golden Globe, Critics' Choice, and Satellite Awards for Best Original Song, "Shallow" brought her many more accolades. At both the 91st Academy Awards and the 61st Annual Grammys, Gaga performed live versions of the song.
After meeting Christian Carino in early 2017, Gaga confirmed their engagement in October. February 2019 marked the end of their engagement. Lady Gaga Enigma + Jazz & Piano was the name of Gaga's performance residency at Las Vegas's MGM Park Theater. There are two kinds of performances that make up the residency: Enigma, which is more dramatic and has Gaga's biggest hits, and Jazz & Piano, which is more minimalist and features Gaga's songs with tunes from the Great American Songbook. In December 2018, the Enigma show debuted, and in January 2019, the Jazz & Piano show followed. In September 2019, Gaga debuted Haus Laboratories, her vegan cosmetics collection, exclusively on Amazon. The 40-item set topped Amazon's lipstick sales chart and also included liquid eyeliners, lip glosses, and a face mask sticker.
Introducing Chromatica, Love for Sale, and House of Gucci for 2020–2023.
Positive reviews greeted the May 29, 2020, release of Chromatica, Gaga's sixth studio album. It became her sixth straight number-one album in the United States upon its release, and it went on to top the charts in over a dozen additional countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, France, and Italy. Released on February 28, 2020, "Stupid Love" was the lead single from Chromatica. It peaked at number five on the US and UK charts. May 22nd saw the release of the second single, "Rain on Me," which featured Ariana Grande. With its number one US debut and Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, it made Gaga the third artist to reign supreme in the US in the 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s. Gaga took up five trophies at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, including the first-ever Tricon Award, which goes to performers that have made a mark in more than one field. To promote Valentino's Voce Viva fragrance in September 2020, she and a number of models sang a stripped-down rendition of Chromatica's "Sine from Above" in a music video.
On January 20, 2021, at Joe Biden's inauguration as the 46th President of the United States, Gaga sung the US national song. Hollywood gunshot victim Ryan Fischer, her dog walker, was in the hospital in February 2021. The police later found Miss Asia, one of her fugitive French Bulldogs, and apprehended Koji and Gustav, two of her other dogs. Puppies went missing after Gaga offered a $500,000 bounty to get them back. On February 26, two days after, a lady took the canines to a Los Angeles police station. Neither one fell victim. On April 29, she was one of five individuals charged with the gunshot and theft; at first, the Los Angeles Police Department said the lady who left the dogs was unrelated to the incident. The shooter of Fischer, James Howard Jackson, received a 21-year jail term in December 2022.
Nick Knight photographed Gaga's April 2021 ad for the Champagne company Dom Pérignon. Launching on September 3rd, Dawn of Chromatica was her third remix album. On September 30, she released Love for Sale, her second album with Tony Bennett. The album debuted at number eight in the US and was generally well-received. Among the promotional materials for the record was a November 2021 CBS television special titled "One Last Time: An Evening with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga." The event comprised excerpts from the two artists' August 3 and August 5 concerts at Radio City Music Hall. In December of that year, the pair released yet another live performance they had recorded for MTV Unplugged. Love for Sale, the album by Gaga and Bennett, was named Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards.
Gaga next appeared in House of Gucci, a biographical crime film directed by Ridley Scott. In the special, she sang "Smelly Cat" alongside Lisa Kudrow. Her role was inspired by the real-life story of Patrizia Reggiani, who was found guilty of hiring a hitman to kill her ex-husband, Maurizio Gucci, the former head of the Gucci fashion house. Adam Driver played the lead role. Gaga studied Italian accents in preparation for the role. Additionally, she maintained her role for a full 18 months, during which time she spoke with an accent for nine of those months. The emotional toll of her method acting was so great that she eventually needed the assistance of a psychiatric nurse as filming wrapped. Many critics hailed Lady Gaga's performance as "note-perfect" when the film premiered on November 24, 2021, but audiences were divided. Nominated for several awards, including Best Actress at the Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globe, Critics' Choice, and the New York Film Critics Circle, she won the award herself.
For the 2022 film Top Gun: Maverick, Gaga collaborated with Hans Zimmer and Harold Faltermeyer to write the song "Hold My Hand" and also composed the music. With a Best Original Song nomination, she gave a live performance of "Hold My Hand" at the 95th Academy Awards. Gaga won the Satellite Award for Best Original Song for the third time with this single. Her stadium tour, The Chromatica Ball, began in July of 2022 and ended in September of the same year. It resulted in an HBO performance special called Gaga Chromatica Ball and raked in $112.4 million from 834,000 tickets sold over twenty dates. By year's end, she had surpassed all female touring artists in terms of earnings. While President Joe Biden selected Gaga to co-chair the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities in April 2023, the Rolling Stones included her on the track "Sweet Sounds of Heaven" (which included Stevie Wonder) from their album Hackney Diamonds.
Joker: Folie à Deux and Mayhem will be available from 2024 forward.
From February to April of 2024, Gaga performed as a featured artist on the second season of Fortnite Festival, a spin-off of the popular online video game Fortnite. In April of that year, after dating for four years, she became engaged to businessman Michael Polansky. At the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in July, she sang "Mon truc en plumes" by Zizi Jeanmaire. On August 16, 2024, Gaga and Bruno Mars dropped their duet "Die with a Smile" as a single. For eight weeks, the song was at the top of the Billboard Global 200 and hit number one in the US.
Joker: Folie à Deux, the musical psychological thriller sequel to Todd Phillips's 2019 film Joker, featured Joaquin Phoenix and Gaga as Harleen "Lee" Quinzel. The 81st Venice International Film Festival was the site of its premiere, and October 2024 saw its wide release. Even though the picture bombed at the box office and among reviewers, Lady Gaga's performance was well-received. There was a soundtrack CD that came out with the film that had songs that she and Phoenix recorded. On September 27, 2024, Gaga also released her Harlequin album, which served as a complement to the film. Polansky and she collaborated on four of the tunes.
On March 7, 2025, Gaga will release Mayhem, her eighth studio album. Polansky suggested that she write a pop song, and that's exactly what she did. Prior to its release on October 25, 2024, its lead song "Disease" peaked at number seven in the UK. Addition of "Die with a Smile" to the set list came later. In April of 2025, Gaga will headline the Coachella music festival once more. Wednesday, the Netflix sitcom, will return for a second season, and she will also be appearing in it.
* Craftsmanship*
What are the effects?
Influential musicians that Gaga listened to as a child include Blondie, Michael Jackson, the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Whitney Houston, Elton John, Prince, En Vogue, TLC, Christina Aguilera, Janet Jackson, and Bruce Springsteen. Gaga draws from a wide range of musical influences, including glam rockers like David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, dance-pop singers like Michael Jackson and Madonna, Andy Warhol's theatrical pop music, and her own performing background in musical theater. Some have even drawn parallels between Gaga and Madonna, who has stated that Gaga is an extension of herself. Like Madonna, Gaga wants to change the face of pop music. Iron Maiden, Marilyn Manson, and Black Sabbath are among the heavy metal bands that Gaga has named as an influence. Beyoncé had a major influence on her decision to become a musician, she says.
Her mother sparked Gaga's interest in fashion, which would grow to be an integral part of her music career. Many have drawn comparisons between Gaga's style and that of Leigh Bowery, Isabella Blow, and Cher. Gaga herself has said that she adopted Cher's sense of style when she was younger. Alexander McQueen, a British fashion designer who tragically took his own life in 2010, became a friend of Lady Gaga's. Gaga became famous for donning McQueen's creations, especially his towering armadillo shoes. "The fresh Donatella" was the nickname that fashion designer Donatella Versace gave to Lady Gaga, who she claimed as her inspiration. Gaga has looked up to Princess Diana since she was a little girl, and she has been an inspiration to her.
Beside quoting Creativity from Indian guru Osho's book, Gaga has referred to alternative medicine advocate Deepak Chopra as a "true inspiration" on Twitter. Gaga has stated that Osho's approach, which elevates defiance via equality and creativity, had an impact on her.
Themes and musical styles ===
Since Gaga has always been one to try out different concepts and pictures in her songs, critics have been very critical of her performance and musical styles. She has felt a pull toward and has referred to the constant reinvention as "liberating" since she was a little girl. Among Gaga's many musical influences are rock, which she often incorporates into her pop and dance songs. Additionally, she has explored jazz and other non-pop musical styles. The vocal range of Lady Gaga, who is known for her performances, is said to be that of a contralto.Two through five. Born This Way was "much more vocally up to par with what I've always been capable of," according to her, who frequently switches up her singing approach. In a review of her voice, Entertainment Weekly said: "There's an immense emotional intelligence behind the way she uses her voice. Almost never does she overwhelm a song with her vocal ability, recognizing instead that artistry is to be found in nuance rather than lung power."
Gaga "took you moving and grooving at an almost effortless pace" on The Fame, says PopMatters' Evan Sawdey. Lady "all good music can be played on a piano and still sound like a hit" is something Lady Gaga has stated clearly. In 2010, Simon Reynolds said: "Everything about Gaga came from electroclash, except the music, which wasn't particularly 1980s, just ruthlessly catchy naughties pop glazed with Auto-Tune and undergirded with R&B-ish beats."
The Fame explores the desire for celebrity, whereas The Fame Monster, Gaga's follow-up, uses monster analogies to portray the evil side of fame. The singer's song catalog covers a wide range of topics. While Gaga's electropop and dance-pop album The Fame draws from Europop of the '90s and pop of the '80s, her pastiche album The Fame Monster showcases her penchant for the '70s,'sexy ABBA disco, and "seventies arena glam" (Stacey Q). Themes prevalent to Lady Gaga's contentious songwriting include sex, love, religion, money, narcotics, identity, liberty, sexuality, freedom, and individuality; the lyrics of Born This Way are available in four languages: English, French, German, and Spanish. The record delves into uncharted musical territory, including techno and electronic rock.
Fame, love, sex, feminism, self-empowerment, recovering from addiction, and reactions to media criticism are some of the themes that run through Artpop, which is Gaga's personal album. "Coherently channeling R&B, techno, disco and rock music" was how Billboard put it when describing Artpop. Cheek to Cheek was Gaga's foray into jazz. Life experiences informed Joanne's musical explorations across many styles, including folk, electronic, pop, dance, and funk. Some of the musical styles heard in A Star Is Born include bubblegum pop, blues rock, and country. Chromatica saw Gaga return to her dance-pop roots while discussing her struggles with mental health; Billboard described the music as "timeless, emotional, gritty and earnest." The lyrics, according to Billboard, are about wanting change, its struggle, love, romance, and bonding. Love for Sale, her second jazz album, is a Cole Porter homage. The character that Gaga played in Joker: Folie à Deux served as an inspiration for Harlequin, which builds upon her foray into jazz.
**Stage and videos**
Many consider Gaga's music videos to be short films due to the frequent outfit changes and controversial imagery. Breaking the Guinness World Record for Most Product Placement in a Video, Gaga's "Telephone" music video set a new standard. She brings attention to common feminist concerns while delving into bondage and sadomasochism, claims author Curtis Fogel. Themes of power, aggression, and sex dominate her music videos. A self-proclaimed "sexually empowering women" and self-proclaimed "a little bit of a feminist" this is her. With the statement that "the name 'Lady Gaga' will forever be synonymous with culture-shifting music videos,'" Billboard placed her at number six on their list of "The 100 Greatest Music Video Artists of All Time" (2010).
Rolling Stone dubbed Gaga "one of the greatest living musical performers" and the singer has claimed that her lavish performances are the result of her obsession with perfection. Some have praised her performances as "highly entertaining and innovative"; for example, MTV News called her "eye-popping" for her "Paparazzi" performance at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, and some publications have placed it among the greatest MTV VMA performances of all time. During The Monster Ball Tour, she carried on with the blood-soaked motif, which sparked protests in England from fan groups and family groups following the Cumbria killings, where a cab driver killed 12 people before taking his own life. Performer Lady Gaga gave a monologue on being in love before performing "You and I" at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards while dressed as her male alter ego, Jo Calderone. After Laurieann Gibson served as Lady Gaga's creative director and choreographer for four years, her assistant Richard Jackson succeeded her in 2014.
For Billboard's October 2018 issue, Rebecca Schiller tracked Lady Gaga's videography career from "Just Dance" until the debut of A Star Is Born. Schiller made the observation that after the Artpop era, Gaga's stripped-down style became apparent in the music videos for Joanne's singles. For instance, in the video for the lead single "Perfect Illusion," she ditched "the elaborate outfits for shorts and a tee-shirt as she performed the song at a desert party." She used this as an example. It persisted in her onstage presence and her cinematic roles. "Could have further played the authenticity card for all it's worth" following the success of Joanne and A Star Is Born, but instead, Gaga "has determined to keep herself weird — or just weird enough to provide necessarily ballast to her more earnest inclinations," according to Variety reviewer Chris Willman, who wrote about The Chromatica Ball in 2022.
Her songs, style, and demeanor have divided the public. Sociologist Mathieu Deflem of the University of South Carolina has been offering a course called "Lady Gaga and the Sociology of the Fame" since early 2011. The course aims to explore "some of the sociologically relevant dimensions of the fame of Lady Gaga" and examines how Gaga has impacted modern culture and her meteoric rise to global fame. At a Human Rights Campaign fundraiser, Gaga met briefly with then-president Barack Obama, who found the conversation "intimidating" due to her towering 16-inch (40 cm) heels. For the 2009 ABC News show 10 Most Fascinating People, Gaga denied being intersex and called the rumor an urban legend during an interview with Barbara Walters. She spoke about her love of androgyny in response to an inquiry about this.
Part of what makes Gaga who she is is her outrageous sense of style. The media often made comparisons between her and Christina Aguilera's style when she was just starting out. At the 2011 Grammy Awards, 121 ladies set a new record for the biggest gathering of Lady Gaga impersonators by dressing like the pop star. Lady Gaga's signature "no pants" came in third place, while "Lady Gaga" was crowned Top Fashion Buzzword by the Global Language Monitor. Entertainment Weekly included her dresses in its "best-of" list for the decade, stating that she "brought performance art into the mainstream" with her clothes. Atop People's "Best Dressed Stars of 2021" list was Lady Gaga, who "strutted the streets in high-fashion designs, from a sculptural seersucker number to a black lace corseted gown—accessorizing each with elegant updos, sky-high heels and retro shades—like it was no sweat."
In their All-Time 100 Fashion Icons list, Time noted that Gaga is "just as notorious for her outrageous style as she is for her pop hits," citing her outfits that have been "made from plastic bubbles, Kermit the Frog dolls, and raw meat." Gaga sported a dress, boots, purse, and hat crafted entirely from raw beef at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. The outfit was a contributing factor in her being selected one of Vogue's Best Dressed People of 2010 and Time's Fashion Statement of the year. It was objectionable to the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), which drew the attention of media outlets throughout the world. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees include the meat dress, which had its 2012 debut at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Fans of Lady Gaga refer to her as "Mother Monster," and she frequently calls them "Little Monsters," a term she has tattooed on herself as a form of devotion. According to Jake Hall's essay "Lady Gaga Pioneered Online Fandom Culture As We Know It" published in Vice, Gaga served as an inspiration for several fan-brandings that followed, including those of Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, and Gaga herself. Gaga co-founded the fan-focused social media platform LittleMonsters.com in July 2012. Polaroid CEO Scott Hardy lauded Gaga for her ability to connect with her audience on a personal level and for motivating them.
The Malaysian broadcaster AMP Radio Networks restricted Lady Gaga's 2011 song "Born This Way" because the government had banned songs that would be considered "indecent or offensive to public feeling" or because they had lyrics that referenced homosexuality or LGBTQ themes. In the same year, six tracks from Gaga's Born This Way album could not be shared on any Chinese music website. This was allegedly implemented as part of an order to address "poor taste and vulgar content" by the People's Republic of China's Ministry of Culture.
Released in China in 2014, her album Artpop came with some stipulations, such as renaming the song "X Dreams" from "Sexxx Dreams" and hiding her nearly nude body in the album artwork. The Chinese authorities blacklisted her in 2016 after her encounter with the Dalai Lama, and they told Chinese media outlets to cease playing her music online. The Chinese Communist Party's Publicity Department also instructed state-run media to denounce the gathering. After receiving anger from Chinese fans, Mango TV and other streaming services in China withdrew footage of Gaga's performance at the 91st Academy Awards in 2019, and Friends: The Reunion in 2021 also eliminated her presence.
== Protesting
Gaga gave the cash from her January 2010 performance at Radio City Music Hall to Haiti's relief fund for rebuilding after turning down an offer to feature on the song "We Are the World 25 for Haiti"—a fundraiser for victims of the 2010 Haitian earthquake—due to tour rehearsals. By the end of the day, Gaga had contributed half a million dollars from her online store alone. The 2011 T? Was it hours later?Post-Tsunami Japan, Gaga sent a link to prayer bracelets for the country on Twitter. A bracelet she created in collaboration with the firm generated $1.5 million, all of which went toward relief operations. Taking place in Makuhari Messe in June 2011, Gaga's performance was a benefit for the Japanese Red Cross at MTV Japan's charity concert.
Gaga became a member of Artists Against Fracking in 2012. Gaga was one of five activists presented with the LennonOno Grant for Peace by Yoko Ono in Reykjavík, Iceland that October by Yoko Ono. After Hurricane Sandy, Gaga promised the American Red Cross that she would provide $1 million to aid the victims. By raising awareness among young women about the dangers of HIV/AIDS, Gaga has thus helped in the battle against the illness. As part of their Viva Glam supplemental cosmetics line, Gaga teamed up with Cyndi Lauper and MAC Cosmetics to release a lipstick collection. The proceeds from these sales have given about $202 million to the HIV/AIDS cause.
While Vice President Joe Biden was touring universities in favor of It's On Us, Gaga was at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in April 2016 to show her support. The organization has had 250,000 students from over 530 colleges sign a pledge of solidarity and activity. Two months down the road, Gaga made an appearance at the 84th Annual US Conference of Mayors in Indianapolis, where she and the Dalai Lama shared a platform to discuss the transformative power of kindness and our responsibility for creating a more compassionate global community.
Gaga collaborated with Global Citizen to produce the 2020 April televised benefit performance One World: Together at Home, which benefited the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund of the World Health Organization. In January 2021, Gaga received the Yolanda Denise King High Ground Award from the King Center’s Beloved Community Awards for her contributions to the Black Lives Matter movement. The special raised $127 million, which Forbes claims "puts it on par with the other legendary fundraiser, Live Aid, as the highest grossing charity concert in history." As a prominent white lady and artist, she addressed her societal responsibilities in her acceptance speech by denouncing racism and white supremacy.
Foundation for the Born This Way
Gaga established the youth-oriented nonprofit Born This Way Foundation (BTWF) in 2012. Her 2011 album and song served as inspiration for the name. During the inaugural ceremony at Harvard University, authors Deepak Chopra and Oprah Winfrey as well as US Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius gave speeches. Original contributors to the foundation's funding were Gaga ($1.2 million), the MacArthur Foundation ($500,000), and Barneys New York ($850,000). The BTWF and Office Depot collaborated in July 2012 on a line of special back-to-school items, with a promise to donate $1 million (or 25% of sales) to the BTWF. As part of its anti-bullying efforts, the foundation's "Born Brave Bus" served as a youth drop-in center when Gaga was on tour.
At the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence in October 2015, Gaga was one of two hundred high school students, politicians, and academics (including Peter Salovey) who met to talk about how to identify and use emotions for good. As part of its 2016 anti-harassment campaign, the foundation collaborated with Intel, Vox Media, and Recode. The 99th edition of V magazine, which featured Gaga and Kinney, donated the sales income to the nonprofit. Love Bravery, a clothing and accessory brand by Gaga and Elton John, debuted at Macy's in May 2016. Both BTWF and the Elton John AIDS Foundation received 25% of every purchase. For one week in June 2017, Gaga collaborated with Starbucks on the "Cups of Kindness" initiative, during which the coffee giant gave 25 cents from certain drinks sold to the organization. Not only that, but she was in a video that Staples Inc. made to benefit the foundation and DonorsChoose.org.
Wildfires in California prompted many to flee their homes, and on 2018's World Kindness Day, Gaga and the foundation worked together to provide food and aid to a Red Cross shelter. To further express gratitude to the California firemen who helped during the disaster, the charity teamed up with SoulCycle and Starbucks. When the Woolsey Fire swept across Malibu, Gaga had to leave her own house. She announced the beginning of a new pilot program for a mental health first aid initiative for teenagers with the National Council for Behavioral Health in a letter she wrote to BTWF supporters in March 2019. During her letter, Gaga opened up about her own battles with mental health and the life-saving support she received: "I know what it means to have someone support me and understand what I'm going through, and every young person in the world should have someone to turn to when they're hurting. It saved my life, and it will save theirs."
Channel generosity: Stories of Kindness and Community, assembled by the BTWF and presented by Gaga herself, is an anthology book that debuted in September 2020. It has fifty-one tales of generosity, courage, and perseverance submitted by youth from across the world. She spread the word by posting a "BeKind21" challenge encouraging others to be more generous for 21 days. Dom Pérignon, a Champagne company, and Lady Gaga worked together in 2021 to release a limited edition of Rosé Vintage 2005 bottles and a sculpture that Gaga had created to support the BTWF. The organization received $570,000 from the private sales of the 110 unique artworks. The Power of Kindness was a 30-minute special that Gaga released as part of the foundation's Channel Kindness initiative on 2021 World Kindness Day. In the special, she discussed the link between kindness and mental health with a mental health professional and a group of eleven youths.
LGBTQ+ rights movement
Gaga, who identifies as bisexual, has been a vocal advocate for LGBTQ rights on a global scale. She is a homosexual icon and has said that her LGBT followers are largely responsible for her early success in the music industry. Gaga acknowledged in the liner notes of The Fame that she had trouble receiving radio playing early in her career and said, "The turning point for me was the gay community." She went on to credit FlyLife, an LGBTQ marketing organization located in Manhattan that collaborated with her label Interscope at the time. May 2008 saw her make her broadcast debut at Logo's NewNowNext Awards, an awards program for the LGBTQ community.
In 2009, Gaga gave a speech in favor of the LGBTQ rights movement at the National Equality March in Washington, D.C. Four out gay and lesbian veterans of the US military who were unable to serve openly due to the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which outlawed open homosexuality in the military, were with her at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. To try to have the regulation reversed, Gaga asked her YouTube audience to call their lawmakers. She made an appearance at a Portland, Maine, demonstration for the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network in September of 2010. The champion went on to call her a "fierce advocate" for the LGBT community after this incident.
Gaga made an appearance in Rome in June 2011 during Europride, a global LGBTQ pride festival. She called homosexual people "revolutionaries of love" and bemoaned the lack of LGBT rights in most European nations. Jamey Rodemeyer, a teenager, tweeted "@ladygaga bye mother monster, thank you for all you have done, paws up forever" in the hours leading up to his death later that year, mentioning her. Gaga met with then-President Obama to discuss anti-gay bullying in American schools after Rodemeyer's suicide. The Universal Life Church Monastery consecrated her as a minister in 2011, allowing her to preside over the wedding ceremonies of two female acquaintances.
At a memorial in Los Angeles in June 2016 for the victims of the Orlando gay nightclub Pulse tragedy, Gaga read out the names of the 49 fatalities and delivered a speech. Not only did Gaga join Joan Jett and over 200 other singers and music industry executives in signing Billboard's Open Letter on Gun Violence, but she also demanded that Congress implement background checks for all gun purchases. The Human Rights Campaign hosted a memorial film honoring the attack's victims, and Gaga was a featured performer. She was against Trump's transgender ban in the military and his presidency. During the 2016 presidential campaign, she backed Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state. The Trump administration sought to alter the legal definition of sex in 2018 to exclude transgender Americans, according to a leaked letter from the president's office. Several famous people, including Gaga, condemned him and encouraged her Twitter followers to join the #WontBeErased movement. She called Vice President Mike Pence "the worst representation of what it means to be a Christian" in January 2019 on one of her Enigma episodes since his wife Karen works at an evangelical Christian school that rejects LGBTQ people. The singer added: "I am a Christian woman, and what I do know about Christianity is that we bear no prejudice, and everybody is welcome" . At WorldPride NYC 2019, held outside the Stonewall Inn—the site of the contemporary gay rights movement's birth—Gaga delivered a congratulations address honoring the LGBTQ community's achievements and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.
Rolling Stone ranked Gaga as the "Queen of Pop" in 2011 using factors related to album sales and social media. The Elevated, a traveling exhibition, featured her in 2012, and she was named #4 on VH1's Greatest Women in Music list. This exhibition celebrated the 150th anniversary of Warsaw's National Museum and ranged from the Pharaohs to Lady Gaga.
Many have lauded Gaga for drawing attention to important causes with her controversial music videos. The Independent's Frankie Graddon claims that Gaga influenced protest attire on the red carpet with her meat dress, which she donned to draw attention to her dislike of the US military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. According to Billboard, she was named "the Greatest Pop Star of 2009" and her meteoric rise from rookie to MVP wasn't just successful—it was game-changing—thanks to her voracious appetite for reinvention. Gaga was also credited with popularizing synth-pop in the late 2000s and early 2010s due to the success of The Fame, which was listed as one of the 100 Greatest Debut Albums of All-Time by Rolling Stone in 2013.
"Lady Gaga blazed a trail for truculent pop stars by treating her own celebrity as an evolving art project," writes Kelefa Sanneh of The New Yorker. Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield thinks it's "hard to remember a world where we didn't have Gaga, although we're pretty sure it was a lot more boring." The article also lists Born This Way among the 50 best female albums of all time. Time magazine said in 2015 that Gaga had "practically invented the current era of pop music as spectacle." Among the most memorable songs ever recorded, "Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga came in first, followed by "Alejandro" at number eight, and "Poker Face" at number nine, according to a 2017 publication by the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts journal that examined the structural patterns in earworm melodies. The study included 3,000 participants. With her status as "one of the first big artists of the 'Internet age'," she was ranked the second most important female artist of the 21st century by NPR in 2018. Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, Ellie Goulding, Halsey, Jennifer Lopez, Beyoncé, Nick Jonas, Sam Smith, Noah Cyrus, Katherine Langford, MGMT, Allie X, Greyson Chance, Cardi B, Rina Sawayama, Blackpink, Madison Beer, Ren of NU'EST, Slayyyter, Bebe Rexha, Bree Runway, Celeste, Kim Petras, JoJo Siwa, Pabllo Vittar, Ava Max, Doja Cat, Chaeyoung of Twice, Kanye West, Rachel Zegler, SZA, Raye, Grace Gaustad, Laufey, and Chappell Roan are among the artists who have been influenced by Gaga and her music.
Gaga is an entirely new fern genus, with its three species—G. Gregorio, G. Several species, including monstraparva and Kaikaia gaga, bear her name. Their emblem, the outstretched "monster claw" hand, is reminiscent of a tightly curled young fern leaf just before it unfurls, hence the name monstraparva was an homage to Gaga's Little Monsters. Aleiodes gaga, a parasitic wasp, and Gagadon minimonstrum, an extinct animal, are both named after Lady Gaga.
On July 3, Taichung, Taiwan celebrates "Lady Gaga Day" in honor of the first day of Gaga's 2011 visit to the nation. West Hollywood mayor Lindsey P. Horvath gave Lady Gaga a key to the city and announced May 23, 2021, as "Born This Way Day" to commemorate the cultural influence and tenth anniversary of Born This Way. Robertson Boulevard also saw the unveiling of a street painting on the album's title by Daniel Quasar, which pays homage to the work and the ways in which it has empowered the LGBTQ community.
* Accomplishments*
Among Gaga's many accolades are sixteen Guinness World Records, thirteen Grammys, one Oscar, two Golden Globes, one BAFTA, three Brit Awards, and the first Songwriters Hall of Fame's Contemporary Icon Award. Two of the "Big Four" film critics' awards—a National Board of Review Award in 2018 and a New York Film Critics Circle Award in 2021—joined with the 2016 Jane Ortner Artist Award from the Grammy Museum and the National Arts Awards' Young Artist Award, which recognizes individuals who have demonstrated accomplishments and leadership in their early careers. The CFDA (Council of Fashion Designers of America) has also presented Gaga with the Fashion Icon accolade. For her work on the score for A Star Is Born, she became the first woman in 2019 to get four major awards in the same year: the Oscar, the BAFTA, the Golden Globe, and the Grammy. She received the first-ever Tricon Award, which recognizes excellence in three or more entertainment industries, at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards.
Gaga has had many appearances on Billboard's Artists of the Year and Greatest of All Time Artists charts, and was named the Greatest Pop Star by the magazine in 2009. With a 2015 Woman of the Year award and a 2024 ranking of the Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century, she was quite the honoree. Gaga had spent 211 weeks at the top of Billboard's Dance/Electronic Albums chart as of 2021, surpassing the previous record-holder, The Fame (2008), who had spent 142 non-consecutive weeks at the top. Rolling Stone included her 2011 album Born This Way in their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2020, and in 2021, they included the song "Bad Romance" and its music video among their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and 100 Greatest Music Videos of All Time, respectively. Gaga was named one of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time in 2023 by the magazine.
Gaga is among the most successful musicians of all time, having written and performed on some of the most popular songs of all time and amassing record sales of 170 million albums as of 2018. With 6.3 million attendees at her concerts and residencies as of 2022, she has earned over $689.5 million, making her the fifth woman to do so according to Billboard Boxscore. She was also named Pop Touring Artist of the Decade for the 2010s by Pollstar. Not only that, she's one of the few artists with three Diamond certified songs ("Bad Romance," "Poker Face," and "Just Dance"), the first and only artist to have two songs pass seven million downloads ("Poker Face" and "Just Dance"), and she's among the top digital singles artists in the US with 87.5 million equivalent units certified according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). With six singles ("Just Dance," "Poker Face," "Bad Romance," "Telephone," "Born This Way," and "Shallow") that reached the Top 10 on the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry's yearly Global Singles list by 2020, she had more entries than any female artist before or after. With the release of "Just Dance," "Poker Face," "Bad Romance," and "Shallow" in 2020, Gaga also made history as the first female artist to achieve four songs that sold 10 million copies worldwide.
She held the titles of most-followed Twitter user from 2011–2013, most-famous celebrity in 2013, and most-powerful popstar in 2014, all according to Guinness World Records. She topped Forbes' Celebrity 100 in 2011 with $90 million and remained on the list from 2010–2015, 2018–2020, and 2020–present. Between 2010 and 2014, Gaga was also named one of the World's Most Powerful Women. Time magazine rated her second in its readers' poll of the most important persons of the past decade in 2013, and in 2010 and 2019 it named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Billboard listed Gaga as the fourth biggest earner of 2011 with $25 million, which she achieved from the sales of Born This Way and her Monster Ball Tour. This occurred in March 2012. She was named number one on Forbes' list of highest-earning celebs under 30 the year after her 2011 and 2016 debuts, and the magazine put her net worth at $275 million in February 2016. Forbes ranked Gaga as the tenth highest-paid musician of the 2010s, based on her $500 million in earnings over that decade (as of December 2019). Among female musicians, she earned the fourth most.
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