2006-2007: Career begins.
GagaGaga's early performance in the restaurant was/kloc-Def Jam signed at the age of 0/9, because the music producer L. A. Reid heard her singing in the office corridor. However, Gaga said Reid had never seen her. "I used to wait outside his office for hours, hoping that he could talk to me about my music, but this never happened." Reid abandoned Gaga three months later. She stopped for several years until producer Vincent Herbert signed with Interscope in 2008. Many artists were shocked by her keen ability to discover music and hired her to write songs, including Akon's Konvict brand, as well as Fergie, Wildcat, Britney Spears and New Kids on the Block. In early 2007, Gaga was appreciated by Jimmy Iovine, chairman of Interscope. He provided her with a brand through Streamline/Interscope, and also promoted her cooperation with Akon. After Akon heard the demo of Gaga singing in one of his albums, he found that Gaga also had a talent for singing. Akon finally reached an agreement with Jimmy to sign her to his own company, Jin Min, for live distribution. In 2007, Gaga cooperated with Lower East Side rock DJ, Go-Go dancer and performance artist Lady Starlight of the same name, and she helped Gaga establish her own fashion style on the stage. The two groups began to perform in bars in the city, such as Mercury Lounge, Bitter End and Lockwood Concert Hall. They also performed live performances, including "Lady Gaga and Starlight Satire". Their behavior is called "the ultimate pop funny rock show", which pays a low-key tribute to 1970s. In August 2007, Miss Gaga and Starlight Troupe were invited to perform at the American Music Festival Lollapalooza. Their crazy performance shocked the audience. The performance was very popular, and their performance received many positive comments. Initially, I focused on avant-garde and electronic dance music. Then Gaga found her own music style, and she began to blend the classic melody of pop music with the music of gorgeous rock music such as david bowie and Empress. "david bowie and Quinn are my main sources of inspiration ... I didn't know how to make progress until I found them." Gaga said. "When I sang in a club in new york, many record companies thought I was too dramatic, but when I went to interview for a stage play, the producer said I was too popular." Through her relationship with Akon, she began to redo her first album with the producer. With a solid electronic foundation, david bowie style and Queen-inspired music, Gaga hopes to integrate her retro dance music with the melody of the city. Although it is a popular song, it is on the edge of rock and roll. The first music they made was m? Terry Crewe's hit songs "Girls, Girls, Girls" and AC/DC's "T.N.T".
2008-present: Popular all over the world
In 2008, Lady Gaga came to LA to complete her debut album Fame with her record company. "Fame is to make everyone feel how famous they are." , she explained. "Pop culture is an art .. hating pop culture doesn't make you cool, so I hugged him and you can feel it in fame. But it's a reputation that can be shared. I want to invite all of you to the party. I want people to feel part of their lifestyle. " For this album, Miss Gaga said that she "married" many styles, "from Def Leppard drums and applause to metal drums and city music." Miss GaGa began to cooperate with a group called "Gaga's House", which regarded her as a fashion, stage performance and music myth. "In this industry, you have many stylists and producers, but I have my own creative team, and the factory in andy warhol is replicated there. Everyone is under 26 years old, and everything is done by everyone. " . Miss Gaga's first single Just Dance was released on April 8, 2008 and won the first place in seven countries. In the United States, "Just Dance" began to air on June 5438+ 10, and reached the first place in 2009, becoming Gaga's first American champion single. Up to now, 7.9 million copies have been sold worldwide. The second single "Poker Face" was released on September 29th, 2008, becoming the number one single in 20 countries, covering almost all the music markets in the world. This single has also become Gaga's second single in Zhang Guanjun, with a global sales of over 9.2 million. Becoming famous was officially released in the United States at the end of June, 2008 at 5438+00. It reached 17 in the first battle and sold 24,000 copies in the first week. This album has been well received by most critics, and Metacritic's music reviews give an average of 70 points. The online edition of The Times described the album as "a wonderful combination of Bowie styles, a dramatic middle dance inspired by the Queen, and a dance of a rich boy who pursues fame and fortune." Since then, the third album "Love Game" has become Gaga's champion single, and its global total sales volume has exceeded 30 million. "Fame" has won the number one sales in the world. Then GaGa's Haus began to turn his attention to the American market, and Gaga began her first tour of New Kids after being reorganized with Interscope's partner pop band the Block. On June 8th, 2008 10, Gaga started a small amount of cooperation with New Kids on the Block in Los Angeles until the end of June 1 1. She attended their concert as a guest and sang "Big Girl Now" from their new album "Block". On February 5, 2008, 65438, Gaga was added to the 2009 BBCSound, a list dedicated to introducing new people. Gaga was confirmed as the guest of Wildcat's concert tour in Europe and Oceania from June to May 2009. On June 5438+1October 18, 2009, the tour began in Abadian, Scotland and ended in Perth, Australia on May 30, 2009. In 2009, Miss Gaga's Just Dance was nominated for the 5 1 Grammy Award for Best Dance, but lost to Harder, Better, fast and Stronger of Daft punk. On February 18, 2009, Gaga performed with Brandon Flor of the rock band Blackboy and electronic duet pet shop boys on the stage of brit awards in 2009. Pet shop boys performed their own hit songs, and Gaga and Flor joined in the second half to perform 1985' s hit single "West Side Girl". On February 20th, 2009, according to Huliq News, Gaga donated the tickets for her Celebrity Ball Tour and the income from a meeting and greeting to the Odyssey charter school and primary school in Los Angeles to raise funds to alleviate their budget shortage. The auction started on February 7, 2009. In Yi Bei, Gaga was described as "the only opportunity in my life to meet Miss Gaga who worked hard for children's education". The auction was managed by Giving Engine Auction Management and ended on February 26th, 2009. Gaga's first tour in North America, the Fame Ball Tour, started on March 12, 2009, and received great praise. Gaga promised her supporters in advance that they would feel a high degree of drama from her upcoming performance. She said, "I hope what I do is more about andy warhol's ideas: pop performing arts, multimedia, fashion, technology, videos and movies. And they will appear together, and he will become a mobile museum exhibition. " Gaga's guest performance at Wildcat's Australian concert tour in May was warmly praised, but some critics pointed out that Gaga stole the thunder of Wildcat with her performance. Gaga appeared semi-naked on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in May 2009, just for their annual "Hot List in Plastic Foam", which caused quite a topic all over the world. Gaga herself once performed in this costume. In June 2009, she announced that she would tour with Ken West, but the cooperation plan was finally cancelled. On June 23rd, 2009, 165438+Miss Gaga released a revised new album "Fame Monster", and the first wave of "Bad Romance" won the second place in the Billboard Top 100 singles list. This song has set off a crazy craze all over the world and can be heard all over the world. The music video of this song has exceeded 100 million views on YouTube in just three months. The crazy modeling of Lady Gaga in the music video has also aroused the worldwide imitation craze, and the big sale of this song has also made Lady Gaga more famous all over the world. With the release of the revised album "The Fame Monster", Miss Gaga launched a brand-new world tour concert "Monster Ball Tour", and all tickets in North America were sold out, while tickets from abroad were also very popular. From June, 5438 to February, 2009, when he was performing at Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, he announced to fans all over the world that the sales of the first special edition of The Fame had exceeded 8 million copies. Miss Gaga of 20 10 became popular all over the world in 2009, making her the diva of the world music scene in less than two years, and her music has also been affirmed by major international music awards. At the 52nd Grammy Awards Ceremony, Miss Gaga received five nominations and finally won two awards. Her performance with Elton Johnson at the awards ceremony was even rated as one of the best Grammy performances by the media. This year, she continued her "monster ball tour". She didn't forget the public welfare when she was busy. She participated in public welfare activities including AIDS prevention. She also donated all the proceeds from the new york concert to the victims of the Haiti earthquake. On February 16, the 30th brit awards Awards Ceremony was held in Britain. Miss Gaga was shortlisted for three awards and acted as a guest performer. The last three awards were all won, making her the biggest winner in the 30th brit awards. When receiving the award, she sobbed and said, "Fans are the first people who want to believe me." In her speech, she also paid tribute to alexander mcqueen, a famous designer who just died. This designer once praised Gaga as her "muse", and all Gaga's crazy designs in Bad Romance were made by McQueen. On March 3rd, Miss Gaga official website officially announced that the music video of "Phone", the second title song of Fame Monster album, will be premiered soon, and the music video will be performed by Beyonce, the energetic diva. On March 5th, Phone topped the dance music on-demand list on Billboard charts and became the sixth champion single of Miss Gaga. On March 4th, Miss Gaga won the Best Newcomer Award, the Best International Pop/Rock Artist and the Best Single of the Year at the Echo Music Awards in Germany. At the end of March, Miss Gaga officially released the music video of "Phone", the second title song of "Fame Monster" album. Her almost nude performance in the MV and Beyonce's horizontal knife immediately made this music video spread quickly on major websites and media. Even though the music video was criticized by many conservatives after its release, Telephone still topped many charts. In May, Miss Gaga official website released "Journey to the Monster Ball" on 20 1, and also announced that the third wave of Alejandro will be officially released on June1. At the 20 10 World Music Awards, Miss Gaga's music was once again greatly recognized. She arranged five awards, including the best pop singer, and became the biggest winner of this year's World Music Awards. In early June, Miss Gaga said on Larry King that her lupus test was positive, but so far, she is not sure whether she has lupus. On June 8th, official website officially broadcast the third wave of music video featuring Alejandro. After Youtube was released, 8 million people watched it in less than three days. Up to now, Miss Gaga's album "The Fame" contains a revised version of "Fame Monster" (but not the album "Fame Monster" with eight new songs released in the United States), and its sales in the United States have exceeded 4 million, while its cumulative sales in the top ten record industry countries have exceeded 9.2 million, and its global sales have exceeded 6.5438+million. This is the first album that sold more than10 million after Amy Wise, the "drug queen", set a global sales of10 million with her second album Back To Black in 2006. Up to now, Miss Gaga has had an official MV Bad Romance with a hit rate of 236 million and an official MV《Just Dance with a hit rate of114 million on Youtube. Other MVs: phone 87 million (clean version plus explicit version), love game 4600 million, poker face 3400 million, Alejandro 3200 million, Aye Aye (I won't say anything else) 25 million, Paparazzi 224 million, Beautiful, Dirty and Rich 9 million, Lady Gaga, a total of nine. "The Family" and "The Fame Monster" not only won the annual sales champions of the two major western music records (g-music and Five Major Records) in Taiwan Province Province in 2009, but also recorded their albums on the charts for 72 consecutive weeks as of June 24th, 20 10, setting a record for the longest time in the history of the two major western music records. On August 12, Lady Gaga announced that since her debut, the album sales have exceeded130,000, and the single sales have exceeded 5 10/0,000!