Interesting detail I noticed about Def Jam & Gaga.

[Focus 2,456]

"The new sound increased Lady Gaga's popularity with early song like "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich" and "Shake Your Kitty". Gaga began to do her live performances with her keyboard and her MacBook playing her synthetic beats. Even with a new kind of music, getting recognition by the music industry was not easy for her. While trying to be discovered, Gaga revealed that "When she was playing the New York rock clubs, a lot of record labels thought she was too theatrical. Then, when she auditioned for stage musicals, the producers said she was too pop". Until one day, Rob Fusari met her.

"I played it for Joshua Sarubin, who was [Vice-President of A&R] at Island Def Jam and he’s like, ‘I gotta get this girl in here next week.'"

Sarubin said that “There was something unusual about her.” “She sat down at the piano in a showcase room and the way she played and the lyrics and the way she acted and sang was just so different and in your face, and you couldn’t turn away. She was wearing these crazy white thigh-high boots and a black minidress and she had this presence like, ‘I’m sexy and I don’t care what anybody has to say about it.’"

During that meeting, chairman Antonio "L.A." Reid stopped in and said to her "I can hear you from my office, you're very loud!" He saw a born star inside that young women and signed her on the spot. On September 6 of 2006, Gaga said I Do to an artist development deal with and a first album scheduled for May 2007. "But after he signed me, he never met with me. I used to wait outside his office for hours, hoping he'd take meetings with me about my songs, but it never happened. He eventually dropped me after three months." "I was pretty devastated. I know what it's like being on a label when they don't quite get it," says Gaga of her original major label deal. That confidence was shaken when she got dropped from Island Def Jam after just a few months. The reason the company booted her remains a mystery, but word came down from Reid’s office that they were severing the contract.
The break up inspired the song, "Paper Gangsta" and inspired the music video for "Marry the Night"."

I don't know about you guys but the story of never being met with seems off. Going from "I gotta get this girl in here next week" explicitly because of her appearance to claiming that they never met again afterwards. I think Gaga was hiding something more ominous & wasn't ready to reveal the full details by the time she's done this interview.. An interesting insight.

[littlepotter 75,083]

Oh my god this makes sense. Could they have dropped her because they knew something about the assault? The MTN video explicitly shows that she went to the clinic before being dropped.

[Chromatica Island 8,517]

3 minutes ago, littlepotter said:

Oh my god this makes sense. Could they have dropped her because they knew something about the assault? The MTN video explicitly shows that she went to the clinic before being dropped.

I also think the MTN was about her r@pe and her being dropped from Def Jam, so it makes sense.

[Stephen 30,423]

Gaga has said it wasn't LA Reid

[Linus Gaga 8,179]

6 minutes ago, littlepotter said:

The MTN video explicitly shows that she went to the clinic before being dropped.

Which scene is about being dropped?  sorry if i don't remember

[Focus 2,456]

2 minutes ago, Stephen said:

Gaga has said it wasn't LA Reid

There's multiple involved when she started working for the label..

[Chromatica Island 8,517]

2 minutes ago, Stephen said:

Gaga has said it wasn't LA Reid

I figured it wasn't him, I do have my idea of who it could be tho.

[littlepotter 75,083]

2 minutes ago, Linus Gaga said:

Which scene is about being dropped?  sorry if i don't remember

The one where they call her and explicitly say "you're dropped"

[HosedDownGypsy 2,554]

5 minutes ago, Stephen said:

Gaga has said it wasn't LA Reid

How many rapists are there in those studios,  Reid was literally fired as the exec after sexuall harrasment allegations.

https://variety.com/2017/music/news/l-a-reid-accused-sexual-harassment-sony-music-epic-records-1202426625/

[littlepotter 75,083]

Well I didn't know this, but according to his Wiki and several sources, several women have made allegations about him  doesn't necessarily mean it is him but it at least gives an idea about the atmosphere and vibe in that label, it's rarely just one person doing those things, it's in the culture

[Windowlicker 3,513]

22 minutes ago, April 25 said:

I don't know about you guys but the story of never being met with seems off. Going from "I gotta get this girl in here next week" to claiming that they never met again afterwards.

This is very common with newer artists. They can sit in development for years before ever having their material heard by anyone at the label. And we found out later she was dropped because LA Reid didn't like the material she was working on. Sometimes it's that simple.

I feel like she's all but spelled out the name of the person who did this, so I don't really get the need people have to speculate.

[PartySick 159,824]

Can you guys please stop speculating about this stuff. It is beyond disrespectful and inappropriate.