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When Lady Gaga was a little girl, she would sing along on her mini plastic tape recorder to Michael Jackson and Cyndi Lauper hits and get twirled in the air in daddy's arms to the sounds of the Rolling Stones and the Beatles. The precocious child would dance around the table at fancy Upper West Side restaurants using the breadsticks as a baton. And, she would innocently greet a new babysitter in nothing but her birthday suit.
It's no wonder that little girl from a good Italian New York family, turned into the exhibitionist, multi-talented singer-songwriter with a flair for theatrics that she is today: Lady Gaga.
ldquo;I was always an entertainer. I was a ham as a little girl and I'm a ham today," says Lady Gaga, 23, who made a name for herself on the Lower East Side club scene with the infectious dance-pop party song "Beautiful Dirty Rich," and wild, theatrical, and often tongue-in-cheek "shock art" performances where Gaga – who designs and makes many of her stage outfits -- would strip down to her hand-crafted hot pants and bikini top, light cans of hairspray on fire, and strike a pose as a disco ball lowered from the ceiling to the orchestral sounds of A Clockwork Orange.
ldquo;I always loved rock and pop and theater. When I discovered Queen and David Bowie is when it really came together for me and I realized I could do all three," says Gaga, who nicked her name from Queen's song"Radio Gaga" and who cites rock star girlfriends, Peggy Bundy, and Donatella Versace as her fashion icons. "I look at those artists as icons in art. It's not just about the music. It's about the performance, the attitude, the look; it's everything. And, that is where I live as an artist and that is what I want to accomplish."
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Lady Gaga
Monday, Dec 28 (2009) 7:30p
at
Fox Theatre,
Atlanta,
GA
Price: $36.50 - $75.00
Phone: (404) 881-2100
Age Suitability:
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Tags:
rock
Category:
Pop
Creator: AEGLive 
Creator: AEGLive
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Lady Gaga
At 17 she was accepted (early admission) to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied art. Was signed to the Def Jam record label when she was 19, but was dropped soon after. Rap star Akon signed her to his label with Interscope records, and by the time she was 20 she had a record deal....
At 17 she was accepted (early admission) to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied art. Was signed to the Def Jam record label when she was 19, but was dropped soon after. Rap star Akon signed her to his label with Interscope records, and by the time she was 20 she had a record deal....
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I just got back from the Lady Gaga show at Tequila and I must confess, it was the worst show I have ever seen in my life (and I have been to hundreds of shows)!
My friend and I got there early to make sure we got good seats so we arrived at 7:00pm and waited. Doors opened at 8pm but for whatever reason, they had blocked off the stage area so the people who came later on (well after 8pm), ended up getting all the good seats when they finally removed the curtains at 9pm.
No matter, we thought we'd order a few drinks but for some reason, the bartenders apparently can pocket their own tips out of your change there without letting you know! The first bartender pocketed $1 of my change, the second pocketed $0.50. I had not realized they had done this the first time around and had given him more tips!
Someone in line had mentioned that Lady Gaga wasn't gonna be on stage until about 11:30pm so we waited it out, looking forward to the show. 12:30am rolls around and she finally took to the stage.
The sound was extremely low and we could not hear from where we were (and this was a small club)! We moved closer to the front and found she was lip-synching to a soundtrack (and very poorly at that). She appeared to be stumbling all over the place, almost falling when her dancers lifted her up, and dropped her microphone a few times. We figured she was drunk or drugged up on something. No word of a lie, she performed 3 songs and ended the night! The local radio station had advertised this was gonna be a full set but that is usually more than just 3 songs! She was on the stage for no more than 10 minutes before she dove into the crowd and appeared to have passed out. Her dancers struggled to get her out of the crowd and carried her off the stage.
That was 6 hours of my life I will never get back.