Lady Gaga

Some Lesser Known Facts About Lady Gaga

• Does Lady Gaga smoke?: No; in an interview, she said,
  

  I’m not smoking anymore but I smoked 40 cigarettes all day long.” ^[6]Independent 

• Does Lady Gaga drink alcohol?: Yes 
• Lady Gaga is an American singer, songwriter, businesswoman, and actress. She is known for her unconventional style and visual experimentation. She has twelve “Guinness World Records” to her name, and she is also known as the “Queen of Pop.”

• Gaga attended a private all-girls Roman Catholic school. She described her school life as “very dedicated, very studious, very disciplined but also a bit insecure.” Once, in an interview, she said-

I was mocked for being either too provocative or too eccentric. I didn’t fit in, and I felt like a freak”

• She had taught herself to play the piano just by hearing others, and she started playing at the age of 4. Her mother wanted her to play the piano; as she wanted Gaga to be a “cultured young woman.” She created her first piano ballad when she was only 13 years old, and a year later, she started performing at open mic nights.

  

• She has also studied method acting at the “Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute” in New York for ten years. She has played lead roles in plays such as “Guys and Dolls” and “Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.”

  

• In 2003, she was one of the students who got an early admission in “CAP21 – Tisch School of the Arts.” She used to live in a “New York Dorm,” where she worked on her songwriting skills and wrote essays and articles on art, religion, social, and political issues.

  

• In 2005, during the second semester of her sophomore year, she quit school to focus on her music career. However, her father was not happy with her decision.

• The name “Lady Gaga” was suggested to her by her former boyfriend Robert Fusari. Fusari was texting Gaga about the “Queen” song “Radio Ga Ga,” when a glitch changed it to “Lady Gaga.” As soon as she got the text, she replied-

This is it! Don’t call me Stefani ever again”

• Fusari and Gaga had also created a company named, “Team Lovechild” to promote Gaga’s career. They used to record and produce “electropop tracks” and send it to music industry executives.

• “Def Jam Recordings” responded positively to her tracks, and they signed her into “Def Jam” in September 2006. However, she was dropped from the label three months later. She returned home and started performing at “Neo-Burlesque” shows.

• While performing at “Neo-Burlesque” shows, she met the performance artist, “Lady Starlight,” who helped her mold her onstage persona. They started performing at many shows, and eventually, they were known as “Lady Gaga and the Starlight Revue.” They also performed at the “2007 Lollapalooza Music Festival.”

  

• In November 2007, she struck a music publishing deal with “Sony/ATV.” She was hired to write songs for “Britney Spears,” “New Kids on the Block,” “Fergie,” and “The Pussycat Dolls.” She also used to record “reference vocals” for Akon, who loved her voice, and he helped Gaga sign a joint deal with “KonLive” to make Gaga a franchise player.

• In 2008, Gaga moved to Los Angeles, formed her creative team, “The Haus of Gaga,” and finished her first album, “The Fame.”

  

• “The Fame” was an instant hit and its first two singles, “Poker Face” and “Just Dance” reached number one in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the UK.

  

• In 2010, she received two “Grammy’s” for her album, “The Fame.”

  

• In 2010, she was diagnosed with Lupus. However, she was not affected by the symptoms, and she hoped to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

• In February 2011, she released her second album, “Born This Way.” The song sold more than one million copies in the first five days and earned the “Guinness World Record” for the fastest-selling single on iTunes. The album sold eight million copies worldwide.

  

• She wrote the title song of her album “Born This Way” in just ten minutes.

• Her tour “The Monster Ball Tour” grossed $227.4 million in total, making her the highest engrossing debut artist.

  

• She considers “Born This Way” a lyrical masterpiece including topics like sex, love, religion, money, identity, liberation, drugs, sexuality, individualism, and freedom. The album had been recorded in English, French, Spanish, and German.

• Lady Gaga mentioned that her fashion sense was inspired by the American singer, “Cher.”

  

• For her performance at the “2010 MTV Music Awards,” everything Gaga wore was made of raw beef! The dress weighed 50 lbs.

  

• She calls her fans “Little Monsters,” and her fans call her “Mother Monster.”

• In March 2011, her bracelet store raised $1.5 million to help Japan’s community, when it was hit by a tsunami.

• Once, she had revealed that her song “Poker Face” was about her bisexuality, and her boyfriends were not comfortable with that, and they used to tell her-

I don’t want to have a threesome, I’m happy with just you”

• While speaking at the “2009 The Gender Equality Summit,” she said that it was “the single most important moment” of her career.

• In 2011, she started the “Born This Way Foundation” with her mother to empower youth and prevent bullying.

  

• She said the best advice she has ever received is- “If you don’t have shadows, you’re not standing in the light.”

• Once, she ordered Pizzas worth $1000 for her fans, who had been waiting all night for her outside a record shop.

• In an interview with the Rolling Stone Magazine, she said-

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl. Then I say to myself, Bitch, you’re Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today”

• She used to be bullied in school for her looks. When she was featured on the cover of “Vogue Magazine,” she tweeted –

• In 2015, she starred in the FX horror show, “American Horror Story: Hotel” in the lead role as “The Countess.” She was appreciated for her acting, and she also won the award for the “Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film.”

  

• On January 7, 2020, she appeared on Oprah Winfrey‘s show, “2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus.” On the show, she discussed how she was sexually assaulted several times when she was 19 years old, and how medication had helped her get through it and cope in her day-to-day life.