ET: How Lady Gaga Conquered Music, Fashion and Film in Just a Decade

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As a child attending an all-girls Roman Catholic school in New York, Lady Gaga was reportedly teased for being “too provocative or too eccentric.” Yet today, 10 years since she burst onto the scene with her debut album, The Fame, the 32-year-old artist’s wild creativity and offbeat flair continue to drive her unstoppable ventures into music, fashion, philanthropy and acting. Now, she’s set to expand her legacy by making her feature film acting debut in the highly anticipated remake of A Star Is Born, directed by and co-starring Bradley Cooper.

Adding a dream movie role to her impressive showbiz reel seems only fitting for the girl who honed her performance skills with lead roles in school plays like Guys and Dolls while growing up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Music had already made an impact by then -- her mom Cynthia is said to have had her learning piano from the age of 4, while her father Joseph was an internet entrepreneur, unaware his eldest daughter (whose real name is Stefani Germanotta) would one day be one of the most followed people on social media.

By the next year, her debut electric pop album, The Fame, and its singles “Just Dance” and “Poker Face,” firmly cemented Lady Gaga’s arrival on the music scene. Soon, she was off on tour with New Kids on the Block, opening for the group on select dates of their comeback tour. She also appeared on the boy band’s album The Block, singing on “Big Girl Now” and co-writing “Full Service.”

As Gaga’s success continued to grow, The Fame was reissued in 2009 as The Fame Monster, a double LP featuring “Bad Romance,” “Telephone” and “Alejandro.” She reflected on her exploration of fame during a 2011 interview with NME.

“There’s a lot of people who want to see me fail,” she said. “The minute they see something to shoot at, they shoot, and the bigger I become, the bigger target I am. I think back in those times the internet and the press and the paparazzi were not privy to the demise of the celebrity and now they are.”

Haters aside, by 2011, Gaga seemed determined to elevate her impact, starting with her second full-length album, Born This Way. "I thought I was the cultural sh**-storm," she told NME. "I walk into a room, people write about me. It wasn't until I released [the single] 'Born This Way' that I realized how completely vacuous everything had been. I realize now what a small impact I've really had, and how massive the impact is that I'm about to have."

The electronic rock and techno album sold more than 1 million copies in its first week in the U.S. alone, and while filming the music video for the album’s fourth single, “You and I,” she met Chicago Fire hunk Taylor Kinney, who became her love interest both on- and offscreen. The cute couple got engaged on Valentine’s Day in 2015, but announced their split in July 2016.

Moving forward is something Gaga has excelled at with her limitless artistic endeavors, having expanded her creativity into business projects like blinged-up headphones called Heartbeats by Lady Gaga, perfume and photo products.

She has also made an unarguably strong impact with her outlandish style. Having named Cher, Madonna, Alexander McQueen and Donatella Versace as her fashion influences, Gaga’s much-talked-about looks have proven the highlight of countless awards shows and red carpets, from the raw beef dress and accessories she wore to the 2010 MTV Video Music awards to the epic jacket made of Kermit the Frog dolls she donned during a German television interview in 2009. As guest editor for V fashion magazine’s 99th issue in 2016, she even nabbed the Editor of the Year award at the Fashion Los Angeles Awards.

Meanwhile, Gaga has continued to reinvent herself with her music, swiveling into R&B and disco for 2013’s ARTPOP, then releasing a chart-topping jazz album, Cheek to Cheek, with Tony Bennett. In 2015, she sang the Hunting Ground theme “Til It Happens to You,” which earned songwriter Diane Warren an Oscar nomination. In 2016, her country-influenced album, Joanne,topped the charts (making Gaga the first woman to have four No. 1 albums during the 2010s) and a world tour followed.

While filming her documentary, Gaga also dove back into acting, a nod to her 10 years spent studying Method acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. Back then, the biggest role she could get was a cameo on The Sopranos, but in 2016, she took home a Golden Globe award for her work on FX’s American Horror Story: Hotel, where she played Elizabeth Johnson, the bloodsucking owner of a landmark Los Angeles hotel.

Five Foot Two director Chris Moukarbe praised Gaga while reflecting on filming her during a tense moment of shooting AHS, during which she became frustrated on set about not being kept in the loop.

“I’ve seen real divas and she’s definitely not one,” he told Vulture in 2017.“I’ve seen people who are being really unreasonable or whose expectations are outside what their contributions are. With her, she’s giving so much and working so hard that when she occasionally has a moment like that, it never feels unprofessional or undeserved. She’s not demanding all the red M&Ms be removed from the bowl, you know? It’s something artistic [in the script] that she’s trying to work out, and if somebody isn’t doing their job the way she needs them to, and it’s inhibiting her job, she needs to correct it. But it feels in step with the amount of work she’s doing, at least from my perspective.”

Now, all eyes are on the big screen for Gaga’s performance in A Star Is Born, a remake of the 1937 film most recently remade in 1976 with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. Gaga plays Ally, whose relationship with Jackson Maine (Cooper) faces trouble when her career starts to overshadow his. The film will premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Aug. 31, then screen at the Toronto International Film Festival in September ahead of its theatrical release on Oct. 5.

The film is already stirring Oscar buzz, but music remains at the forefront for the woman who has headlined Coachella, been named Billboard Woman of the Year and even inspired a course at the University of South Carolina, "Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame."

In December, she will also join the growing throng of iconic artists headlining musical residencies in Las Vegas, Nevada, with the launch of a two-year run of gigs at the MGM Park Theater. Beginning on Dec. 27, the venue -- also home to residencies by Stevie Wonder and Queen + Adam Lambert -- will host the hit-heavy Lady Gaga Enigma show, as well as four special Lady Gaga Jazz & Piano concerts, featuring stripped-down versions of her chart-toppers as well as songs from the Great American Songbook.  

"I can’t wait to share ENIGMA with all of my fans and with Las Vegas," she said in a press release announcing the residency details in August. "We’re creating a show unlike anything I’ve done before. It will be a celebration of all that is unique and different within us. The challenges of bravery can be overcome with creativity and courage that is grown out of adversity, love and music.”

Gaga has also supposedly been in the studio with producers Boys Noize, DJ White Shadow and Bloodpop while working on her next album. But the record will likely take shape at its own pace. “I get pitted against people who have been around for decades, and the expectation is for me to be as culturally important and successful as them,” she mused to NME. “I have to keep that in mind and not rush things or age myself as an artist.”

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5 minutes ago, VoldeLorde2 said:

She’s not demanding all the red M&Ms be removed from the bowl, you know?

When Chris Moukarbel references a drag race mess

Henny's impact

 

[azul 2,099]

She really is exploding in her 30s 

 

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Omg the praise! 

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Did they really forget the Superbowl? 

 

[Sneaky Oliver 22,221]

The fact that Born This Way has almost 2 paragraphs and poor sis ARTPOP has barely one line 

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She is turning into a musical legend. And rightfully so, I'm glad that the media recognizes her impact. And the fact that many new artists (Cardi being the prime example) cite her as an influence solidifies my view.

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But we need the audience to buy her album

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I didn't realize that she has tried and experimented with so many things in just a decade

Maybe she is not the best in any of those categories, but she has the undeniable multi-talents that make her such a resilient and versatile artist 

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14 minutes ago, KemOcQue said:

Maybe she is not the best in any of those categories

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Poor ARTPOP. 

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49 minutes ago, Sneaky Oliver said:

The fact that Born This Way has almost 2 paragraphs and poor sis ARTPOP has barely one line 

But so did C2C and Joanne. Doesn't mean all three are not great <3