Just one day after her headlining performance at the Doritos #BOLDSTAGE, Lady Gaga will deliver the keynote address at SXSW next week (March 14). According to Billboard, the keynote, led by John Norris of Fuse will be given to Music and Platinum registrants at the festival.
Check out this blurb featured in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, where special makeup effects artist Rick Baker explained how it was Gaga's prosthetic cheek and forehead enhancements during the Born This Way era that inspired the face of Maleficent:
Baker used prosthetics to achieve Maleficent's razor-sharp cheekbones. "Angie liked the way Lady Gaga had her makeup done with triangular forms under the skin," explains Baker, who also used a prosthetic nose and ears to complete Jolie's look.
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Chairman of Live Nation's Global Touring division, Arthur Fogel has hit out at reports of less than stellar sales for Gaga's upcoming artRave: The ARTPOP Ball tour. In an interview with Billboard, Fogel says ticket sales for North America and Europe are at 80% capacity sold, despite the tour not even beginning until May. "The run with Gaga over the last two tours has been incredibly successful, and this one is shaping up no differently," Fogel adds that additional US dates for the artRave will be announced soon, as well as more dates in the UK, including a fourth date to an already sold out run at the O2 in London.
When speaking about recent reports of a date in Milwaukee "flopping", Fogel laughs and says that show has "sold 14,264 tickets, the gross is $961,000, and it's at the end of June. I just don't know how this shit gets any traction without people doing their homework." Fogel also says that 29 shows that are currently on sale in the US have already grossed $26 million in sales. Finally, when asked about reports of Live Nation losing over $30 million by promoting the tour, Fogel says "forget $30 million, if it were actually true, you'd say 'pull the plug"
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Update 03/07/14: Fuse has announced that they will be streaming Gaga's gig LIVE on Thursday, March 13 at 11/10C on Fuse.tv. The concert will also air on broadcast television on March 29 at 10/9C on Fuse.
Lady Gaga has announced that she will be headlining the 2014 SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas next week. The gig, which is sponsored by the Born This Way Foundation, will be used to launch the Doritos Bold Missions campaign. Check out an excerpt of the announcement from FastCoCreate below and the full article at the source!
For starters, the brand's bringing Lady Gaga to town to headline the "#BoldStage" show on March 13th. But the only way for Little Monsters to land a ticket is to take up a bold challenge from the brand. Doritos is taking the SXSW opportunity to launch its new "Bold Missions" campaign which will use Facebook, Twitter and Vine to dare its fans to pull off a range of stunts and challenges in return for prizes. At SXSW, the prize is one of 2,000 tickets to see Gaga, and the missions include jumping from a 30-foot high platform to grab a dangling #BoldStage ticket, busk on the street using instruments Doritos provides to earn $10 in 10 minutes or less, and go up against roller derby pros while wearing an inflatable sumo wrestler suit.
Lady Gaga spoke about her involvement in the #BoldBravery campaign the "completely one-off set and experience" in a statement to Rolling Stone, saying:
The ARTPOP performance at SXSW will be a completely one-off set and experience. I’ve been dreaming of this moment. It’s all about the music and the connection with the crowd, and I want the audience in Austin to see me live in a way I never have before. I love theatrics, but I started out singing at a piano with a Bud Light in a bikini. Performing at Stubb's is a real blast from my past, I can’t wait to celebrate with the audience how far music can go when we believe and stick together. It’s moments like these that I live for.
There are personal brave moments when you face one person, and brave moments that help change the world, when you face many. Both are equally as important. My bravest acts have been the conceptual choices I’ve made when writing music. Whether I’m fighting for equal rights with Born This Way or fighting for creativity and art with ARTPOP, I’m always aware of the many I will face in opposition. With ARTPOP, I hope to inspire the audience at SXSW to cherish their individual talents. This simple act keeps music and art alive in a very commercial world.
The amazing @ladygaga is showstopping in a look from Atelier Versace at the 2014 Oscars! pic.twitter.com/waSRKFmxCG
— Versace (@Versace) March 3, 2014
Lady Gaga hit up the 86th Academy Awards red carpet Sunday night to show off a stunning pink gown by Versace. Midway through the broadcast, Gaga left, and stopped by Elton John and David Furnish's Oscars Viewing Party, to benefit The Elton John AIDS Foundation for a bit before changing into another Versace gown, and finishing her night off at the Vanity Fair Oscars after party.
The stunning duo @nolanfunk & @LadyGaga at the Vanity Fair After Party both wearing Versace & #AtelierVersace pic.twitter.com/MULwnFd4dD
— Versace (@Versace) March 3, 2014
Gaga, Donatella, and Nolan Gerard Funk also took a photo inside photographer Mark Seliger's Oscar portrait studio to top off the night!
In an interview for V Magazine's music issue, R. Kelly spoke a little bit about what it was like working with Lady Gaga, and all those theatrical performances of "Do What U Want"!:
What about working with Lady Gaga? V has a special relationship with her. What has it been like collaborating and performing together?
RK It’s amazing, man. It’s an honor to be working with greatness. When I say that I say it with all my heart, because she is great on the stage and off. She is so talented. I was doing a show and she ended up on the side of the stage with her friends watching. I didn’t know what the hell was going on. I was wondering why people were screaming so loud! After the show she ended up giving me a call about a track and I was like, “Hell yeah! Send it to me, let me hear what it is!” The next thing you know, it was all over the radio.
The TV performances for that song have been so amazing, and also very theatrical. Why are these aspects of performance important to you?
RK The visual is the real challenge, because you want people to go home and remember it for the rest of their lives. Once you accomplish that, with a song and a visual, that’s what gives you legacy and power.