In just over a week Gossip Girl will go Gaga when the singer performs a special rendition of her new single “Bad Romance” on the November 16th episode, fittingly titled “The Last Days of Disco Stick.” “She was amazing,” one of the show’s executive producers, Stephanie Savage, tells Rolling Stone. “She was willing to stay on set and perform silently in the background of all of our shots so that she could stay a part of the scene and integrated into the action.” Gaga’s performance of “Bad Romance” incorporated a few Gossip Girl-specific lyrics, but Savage says there are no plans to release the revised version, so fans will have to tune in to catch it.
Savage notes that the show’s staffers have always been big on Gaga — they used “Paparazzi” on the Season Two premiere, which was taped in the summer of 2008 — but feared scheduling difficulties would prevent the singer from appearing on the show. When a storyline involving Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley), a writer applying to NYU’s Tisch program, and his actress girlfriend Olivia Burke (Hilary Duff) developed this season, Savage realized it could mean Gaga, a Tisch alumna herself, would finally set foot on the Gossip Girl set.
Gaga filmed her cameo in mid-October at New York’s Angel Orensanz, a downtown synagogue-turned-performance space, and Savage estimates the star was there for at least a half-day of production with Badgley, Duff, Jessica Szhor (Vanessa Abrams) and aspiring pop star Leighton Meester (Blair Waldorf), even though her role lasts only one scene.
Gossip Girl has had a few other high-profile musical cameos: No Doubt guested as Snowed Out on an ’80s-flashback episode last spring and Savage’s favorite band, Sonic Youth, performed at an onscreen wedding last month. Both acts also reworked material for their Gossip Girl gigs. No Doubt covered Adam and the Ants’ “Stand and Deliver” while Sonic Youth transformed “Star Power” from an aggressive rock song into more subtle acoustic tune. Next week will find dance rockers the Plasticines performing “Bitch” at a cotillion for the show’s newest queen bee, Jenny Humphrey. Savage says more live acts are planned for the second half of the season, but isn’t naming names. “I’m keeping that under my hat for now!”
Singer, fashionista, and now make-up maven, the multi-talented Lady Gaga has added yet another string to her bow, signing up as the new face of beauty giant MAC.
The outlandish singer, who received a Stylemaker award this week, joins a star-studded line-up of A-listers who have posed for the brand, including the likes of Fergie and Mary J Blige.
Gaga will front the ‘From Our Lips’ campaign set to launch next February, which will see her design her very own lipstick for the line.
The MAC Viva Glam Gaga Lipstick will be available from early next year, with 100 per cent of profits going to charity.
Also joining the MAC celebrity stable is Cindi Lauper, who will design a lip colour and star in the shoot alongside Gaga.
The beauty brand – a firm celebrity favourite – has seen huge success with its Aids Fund, which has raised over $100 million since it was founded in 1994.
Eminem and Lady GaGa reportedly have been added to the line-up of 2009 American Music Awards. If the rumor is true, the rapper and dance queen will take the stage of Los Angeles’ Nokia Theatre on November 22.
Lady GaGa has hinted that she might collaborate with Madonna.
The 51-year-old recently praised GaGa, saying that she ’saw herself’ in the ‘LoveGame’ star, to which the latter has now responded.
“Madonna is great,” Angry Ape quotes her as saying. “And I guess I could say we are friends. I love her daughter Lourdes. She is such a lovely young girl. She came to my show with her mum and we got along famously.
“We got along fine and we did the skit together on SNL and helped the writers. So who knows [about a collaboration]?”
Detroit is getting a second date with pop superstar Lady Gaga.
Her previously announced Jan. 12 show at the Fox Theatre show sold out in less than an hour, so Live Nation announced Monday that a second show will be added at the Fox on Jan. 13.
The shows will feature opening sets by laid-back hip-hopper Kid Cudi and R&B rising star Jason Derulo.
Reserved seats ($45, $35) for the Jan. 13 show will go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday through livenation.com, the Fox Theatre box office and Ticketmaster locations.
On Nov. 23, Gaga will rerelease her album — renamed “The Fame Monster” and featuring eight new songs — just before kicking off the tour in Montreal.
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