Lady Gaga and Janet Jackson have been confirmed to perform on The X Factor.
In her only UK performance of the year, Velvet Rope star Janet – whose greatest hits compilation The Best is available now – will be flexing her vocal chords to perform live on the competition on December 6.
Also singing on the penultimate show is Lady Gaga, who will be performing her latest hit, Bad Romance, for the first time ever on UK television.
Five-time Grammy award-winning Janet and Lady Gaga – who’s been promoting her latest album The Fame Monster – are the latest stars to join the bill for the ITV show.
Other musicians who have appeared on The X Factor include Mariah Carey, Susan Boyle, Whitney Houston, Bon Jovi and Westlife.
Rihanna and Alicia Keys will be performing hits from their new albums on Sunday.
Outcasts, misfits and the forgotten of society, rejoice: Lady Gaga is doing it all for you.
“I didn’t fit in in high school and I felt like a freak,” she tells Ellen DeGeneres in an interview to air Friday. “So I like to create this atmosphere for my fans where they feel like they have a freak in me to hang out with and they don’t feel alone.”
“The whole point of what I do – The Monster Ball, the music, the performance aspect of it – I want to create a space for my fans where they can feel free and they can celebrate,” the singer, 23, says.
It’s all about letting people who don’t fit in know that someone out there is fine with who they are – and that other people have gone through the same thing, the fan-loving musician says.
“This is really who I am, and it took a long time to be okay with that,” she says. “Maybe in high school you, Ellen, you feel discriminated against. Like you don’t fit in and you want to be like everyone else, but not really, and in the inside you want to be like Boy George – well, I did anyway. So I want my fans to know that it’s okay. Sometimes in life you don’t always feel like a winner, but that doesn’t mean you’re not a winner, you want to be like yourself. I want my fans to know it’s okay.”
‘[I fear] never being able to enjoy myself,’ Gaga says of the song’s theme.
Two of today’s biggest divas, Lady Gaga and Beyoncé, got sexy in the latter’s “Video Phone” clip, with Gaga even embracing her inner B for the shoot. But the duo conquer a slightly more serious theme — Lady Gaga’s fear of suffocation — on her song “Telephone,” off her new LP, The Fame Monster.
Gaga, despite her penchant for making dance-floor-friendly pop, said she actually has a hard time just letting loose and having fun. Why? “Fear of suffocation — something that I have or fear is never being able to enjoy myself,” she told MTV News. ” ‘Cause I love my work so much, I find it really hard to go out and have a good time.”
Although it may be hard to believe because of her glitzy persona, the singer insists her life does not consist of jumping from nightclub to nightclub. “I don’t go to nightclubs,” she said. “You don’t see pictures of me falling out of a club drunk. I don’t go — and that’s because I usually go and then, you know, a whiskey and a half into it, I got to get back to work.”
And she told us the phone on the song isn’t just a physical phone, but also that person in her head telling her to keep working harder and harder. “That’s my fear — that the phone’s ringing and my head’s ringing,” she explained. “Whether it’s a telephone or it’s just the thoughts in your head, that’s another fear.”
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