ARTPOP Discussion & Info Database 1-4-2012 thru 7-11-2013

[Jack 2]

why?

I like it, It leaves an element of surprise as to what the 'Element of Crime' actually is, and it would be something she would explore through the album.

I think it's a much better name than Born This Way :shrug:

[seana39223 1]

Calling it right now: the next album will NOT be electronic pop music.

Incorrect she said she wouldn't release an acoustic album cause she loves pop/dance music

[Jase 13,043]

'Element of Crime' is so fierce sounding

[seana39223 1]

'Element of Crime' is so fierce sounding

I really hope it's the title !!! :D

[Masaki 71]

'Element of Crime' is so fierce sounding

IKR? I love it!

[Pure Adrenaline 1,518]

oooh why im so hyped right now like the album is coming next week.....

[SMILE2NE1 3,566]

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PART I

*►â–º RECENT NEWS â—„â—„

• DJ White Shadow (Rumored Producer) new mixtape [TAGGED WITH "GAGA"]:
  http://soundcloud.com/djws-paul-blair/i-like-dance-volume-ten
  -It may allow us to get a feel of his new sound as it sounds similar to the leak on Gaga's phone on the Howard Stern show [see below] and this was also tweeted:
  
  DJ WHITE SHADOW †@DJWS
  The mixtape is just my new mixtape. Don't read too far into it... I am releasing a new EP... That's it.
  

• PRIVATE IN PUBLIC:
  -Gaga mentioned this phrase in her interview with Shakrukh in her interview in India 2011.
  -Gaga mentions to always be 'Private in Public' on Lifetime's The Conversation as the best advice she's been given. She has also mentioned this on Tumblr, ShowStudio interview and her V Magazine Memorandum 2.
  

*►â–º PRODUCTION TIMELINE ►â–º

1. 25 SEPTEMBER 2011 - Gaga states she has already working on her next album via MTV News. Just before this, she stated with was obsessed with the archetypes of personality and she was also intrigued by reality/fantasy (Jo Calderone)
   
2. NOVEMBER 2011 - Duet with Elton John on next album announced and releases information about Princess-Diana themed track with a 'trademark catchy chorus' and 'bitter' lyrics. Gaga also announces she has a name for the album and the concepts and flourishing
   
   
3. JANUARY 2012 - 2012 Album release confirmed via interview - The Insider
   
4. FEBRUARY 2012 - The 'door' to the next album has completely opened - Oprah's Next Chapter
   

*â–ºINFORMATION QUICKLISTâ—„

• Title: Unknown
  
• Producers: Fernando Garibay, RedOne, DJ Zedd [Hinted], DJWS [Hinted] [Look to Album Process Section]
  
• Release Date: 2012 [interview Source] + [insider Source]
  
• Number of Songs Unknown
  
• Known Musical Style/Concepts: Elton John Duet
  
• Known Concepts: Decay of superstar + Princess Diana + Reality and Fantasy + Changing the Music Industry
  
• Progress: Gaga's favourite album so far. Gaga has the name and concept and is undergoing a 'musical rebirth' by shutting herself off from the press and taking 'the journey'.
  

♕ TRACKLIST --- *denoting working title for nameless songs

1. *PRINCESS DIANA SONG (Producer Unknown / Track Length Unknown):

LYRICS:

N/A

INFORMATION:

• [V Magazine Interview (November 2011)]: "Gaga went to the piano to play us a new song she was working on about Princess Diana--a song about fame and celebrity death. Even in its rough stages, it has her trademark catchy chorus, and she sang the sad slightly bitter lyrics in full voice."
  
• [Access Hollywood 2011]: I'm fascinated with the decay of the blonde pop icon and how culture loves to build and give birth to fantasies and then destroy them and what that means. It's something I want to explore on my next album.
  

2. *ELTON JOHN DUET (Producer Unknown / Track Length Unknown):

LYRICS:

N/A

INFORMATION:

• [Ryan Seacrest Show (December 2011)]: Well it’s written, I’ve written his [Elton John’s] lyrics for him but if he wants to change them I’m not going to tell him “no.â€
  
• [Alan Carr Show (November 2011)]: Lady Gaga confirms duet with Elton John on next studio album
  
• Gaga and Elton have a strong artistic relationship and friendship. They worked together on Gaga's opening performance at the 2010 Grammys and also wrote and sang on the track 'Hello Hello' for Disney's 'Gnomeo and Juliet' movie. Gaga is also Elton's son's Godmother.
  

♕ MISCELLANOUS LYRICS/TITLES

*CONFIRMED:

*

N/A

*UNCONFIRMED:

• 'Private in Public' - [Gaga's Tumblr Picture] + [V Magazine Memorandum 2 (July 2011)] + [SHOWSTUDIO Interview (May 2010)] + [Indian Interview with Shakrukh (2011)] + [Lifetime's The Conversation as the best advice Gaga's been given is to Always be Private in Public]
  
• 'Element Of Crime' - [Gaga's Tumblr Picture]
  
• 'Gypsy' - [Gaga on Ellen (December 2011)] + [Gaga on Oprah's Next Chapter] + [DJWS Mixtape 16:30)
  
• 'Kill the Bitch' - [Gaga's Twitter (16 March 2012)] + [born This Way Ball Theme]
  
• Some people think we're sick, but we just love pop music - [KISS FM Jingle Ball (December 2011)] + I think we are sick - [Gaga's Twitter (14 March 2012)]
  
• Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy - [Gaga's Twitter (1 January 2012)] + [Related-Phrase-V Magazine Memorandum 6 (February 2012)]
  
• 'The Stage' is more than I could dream for, time to kill the dance floor. - [Gaga's Twitter (22nd April 2012)]
  
• 'Living on the Radio' - [Performed at the Monster Ball (August 30 2010)]
  I've got no friends
  I'm my own queen
  But I'm living on, living on the the radio
  That's my dream
  
  Stone river eyes
  And lonely a heart
  If I'm living on the radio
  They won't tell me apart
  
  Ten steps and roses on the tree
  Ten steps and lonely nights
  But you've still got me
  On the road
  Road paved in gold
  
  Baby you must believe
  Baby you must be free
  Keep living on, living on the radio
  That's your dream
  
  Baby you've gotta friend
  And so many little monsters, yeah
  Keep living on, living on the radio
  
  And when there's nowhere to go
  And your friends are gone
  And you only got your daddy to call
  Your gon be all right, honey
  'Cause your songs are on the radio
  
  'Cause the showbiz, all the caviar
  The champagne and the sold out shows
  But it will be all right honey
  'Cause your songs are on the radio

  
  

LYRICS:​​​

I ate his heart then I swallowed his brain, if you don’t love me back I’l do it again - [Gaga's Tumblr Picture]
'Pearls from a Lover' - [Gaga's Tumblr Picture]
A real blond loves a 'Peroxide Shot' - [Gaga's Twitter (11 January 2012)]
'Penthouse ***' - [Gaga's Tumblr Picture]
Would you love me no matter what? - [Gaga's Tumblr Picture]
'Born to Kill' - [Gaga's Tumblr Picture]
Anyone can love a rose...it takes a great heart to include the thorns - [Fernando Garibay (26 March 2012)]
'Bad to the Bone' - [Gaga's Twitter (10 March 2012)]
'Sexy and Twisted' - [Gaga's Twitter (29 January 2012)]
'Sex Bruises' - [Gaga stated it would be a good song title on The Ellen Degeneres Show (November 2011)]

♕ POTENTIAL MEDIA SNIPPETS

DJ WhiteShadow [Rumored Producer] Mixtape [tagged with "Gaga"] (May 2012) [unconfirmed]

http://soundcloud.com/djws-paul-blair/i-like-dance-volume-ten

• What sounds like Gaga at 39:23
  
• It may allow us to get a feel of his new sound as it sounds similar to the leak on Gaga's phone on the Howard Stern show [see below] and this was also tweeted:
  
• 
  *DJ WHITE SHADOW †@DJWS:

  *The mixtape is just my new mixtape. Don't read too far into it... I am releasing a new EP... That's it.

  
  

Howard Stern Show (July 2011) [unconfirmed]

2:00-2:17

Living on the Radio - Monster Ball (August 2010) [unconfirmed]

♕ ALBUM CONTENT/RELEASE/PROCESS INFO --- Reverse Chronological Order

*♕ CONTENT ♕

*REALITY AND FANTASY

• [Potential for future alter-egos (Gaga's character of fantasy)- Oprah's Next Chapter (March 2012)]: OPRAH: Jo, that’s the alter-ego. Do you have many?
  
  GAGA: Well, he was my first – [i’ll have more] perhaps in my future. This was for me an interesting way for me to reveal things about my personal life in a way that I can feel comfortable. I don’t like talking about my personal life but I knew that through Jo that I could make confessions. I could confess about my relationships. I could confess about my s-x life, my love life. I could confess about the woman that everyone wants to know behind the cameras and the lights.That is what Jo is for me – he is my confession.
  

• [Gaga foreshadowing in BTW era+VEVO Interview (December 2011)]: Gaga constantly foreshadows her future work in her current work. It could be said that the video of “Marry The Night†was already foreshadowing the theme of her future work. Just like the “Paparazziâ€-video was foreshadowing “The Fame Monsterâ€. She relived a moment from her past. But in her fantasy she made the nurses wear next season Calvin Klein. Is it a fantasy because her memory may have changed some facts? Reality and fantasy has been a topic Gaga has talked about with conviction during this whole era.
  
  She continues to discuss this in the VEVO Interview (December 2011): I generally loathe reality, but I don't believe that this moment between us is real. I believe this [interview] is a performance. There's 7 microphones and I'm microphoned and there's a camera, but through all the mediums in my work I am now, even working on my next record, pushing further and further in my mind - How can I more intensely and more perversely challenge myself to honor what is a real stage and what isn't:
  
  -Are they all real?
  -Can you exist in a real moment if someone is photographing you? Can you not?
  -If the camera is on and it captures something, is it only real if its voyeuristic with (e.g.) a cellphone? If its a professional camera, if it was expensive and you hired someone like Darius Khondji who is my Director of Photography who did "Se7en" - does that mean that it wasn't real because he is so professional? But if I had my sister photograph me back then in that moment or rather my best friend, would that have been more real rather because it would have been in the actual moment?
  
  I just find it interesting how we perceive what is artifice and what is reality, I believe that I relived that moment (in my supposed room after being dropped in the Marry The Night video) of that day with Darius and Gideon watching...The truth of it is that I don't necessarily believe that I didn't relive that moment, I believe that I did and now it's captured. I think to myself, it if wasn't real, why didn't I stop after the music was over or why didn't someone yell cut? Why didn't say that's enough we've got it?
  

RELATED: [Excerpt - From 12:10 onwards - 60 Minutes Interview (February 2011)]: You know when people heard I did an interview with you [Lady Gaga], everyone asked the same question - what is she really like?
Lady Gaga: Photographers say this to me, "I want to photograph the RE-ALL you," I'm like what the hell are you looking for, I'm right here! You've seen me with no make-up, you've asked me about my d--g history and my parents, my bank account! - I mean how much more real can I be?

People obviously think that you are not being who you are because you are wearing a lot of make-up and always presenting yourself in a different way? This is what I'm really like, this is exactly what I'm really like. Yes, [i think] people take me both way too seriously and not seriously enough.
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RELATED: [V Magazine Memorandum 2 (July 2011)]:
THE TRANSFORMATIVE POP STAR ON MAKING FANTASY A REALITY
Art is a lie. And every day I kill to make it true. It is my destiny to exist halfway between reality and fantasy at all times. They call me “theatrical,†but I posit profusely that I am theatre, and that theatre is me. I am a show with no intermission. It is this thing that summons me from the depths of reality and reminds me that the power of transformation is endless.

That I (we) possess something magical and transformative inside â€â€Ã¢â‚¬â€°Ã¢â‚¬â€ža uniqueness and specialness waiting to be exiled from the depths of our identity. I have said before that I am a master of escapism, which many attribute to my wigs, performances, and my natural inclination to be grand, but perhaps that is also a lie. Maybe I am not escaping. Maybe I am just being. Being myself.

The arrival at this revelation revises my previous escapist philosophies, as my entire being, thus far, as wholly artist and wholly human, has been propelled by the idea that I must effortlessly vacillate between two worlds: out of the real and into the surreal. Out of the ordinary, into the extraordinary.

“I DON’T SPEAK GERMAN BUT I CAN IF YOU LIKE.â€

But as I delved quite deeply into this topic for my current album, I’ve reckoned that perhaps there is no pendulum. No need to distinguish between artifice and consciousness. The “notion†of escapism may be a lie, but for some of us this lie is our truth. You must desire the reality of fantasy so profusely that it becomes necessity, not accessory. The lines for myself have become so blurred now, I know not the difference between a moment of performance and a moment of honesty.

If you were to ask me to remove my Philip Treacy hat at a party, in truth it is the emotional and physical equivalent of requesting I remove my liver. Talk about giving “clutching her pearls†a new meaning! I know not the difference between the hair that grows from my head and the teal wigs that grow from my imagination. They are the same. They are both honest, and always have been. So maybe I know nothing of “the art of escapism.†I was just Born This Way. I revere the dream to be real. I am always, and shall forever be, private in public.

NOTE this phrase - private in public - links to what Gaga said in her 60 minutes interview below - related to the decay of the blonde pop star/maintaining fame - that is: The sociology of fame and how to maintain a certain privacy without feeling like you're withholding anything from your fans. My philosophy is that if I am open with them with everything and yet I art-direct every moment of my life, I can maintain a sort of privacy - in a way I maintain a certain soulfulness that I have yet to give.
This also links to Gaga's SHOWSTUDIO interview (May 2010):

ALEX: Let's talk about the discrepancy between your private and public lives. Where is the line? When is the precise second when it switches? Do you feel the need to take a deep breath and do the thing, or does it always feel like you're on stage?
GAGA: There's two parts to that question. The first part, the discrepancy between private and public life: I believe as an artist, being private in public is at the core of the aesthetic, the message. However, I profusely lie about my personal relationships in an effort to protect that aesthetic and that message. Today people are distracted by unimportant things - like what my diet is, or who I'm ****ing. The second part of the question said when is the precise moment when it switches: I would like to be able to say when there's a dick inside me it switches. But it doesn't always. I do sometimes feel that I'm on a stage all the time, and I do feel that life is a stage for my art. When I'm dancing, singing, making breakfast. But there is a moment of freedom, when the stage disappears: when I cry. On stage, off stage, alone or with someone. There's something very honest about that. It has nothing to do with taking off a wig or smearing my lipstick. It doesn't even have anything to do about whether I have an orgasm. It's much deeper than that.
ALEX: And what is that moment?
GAGA: When I cry. Whether I’m on stage or offstage, or alone or with someone. Almost instantly when I cry the stage disappears. Even when I cry onstage with my fans, somehow it becomes.. a living room. And it’s not a stage anymore.
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[V Magazine Memorandum 2 Continued] In this lies one of many books in the Bible of Fashion: in order for the FANTASY OF YOU to become the REALITY OF YOU, you must commit to the fantasy as wholeheartedly as you commit to your humanness. Wear out your vision. Proclaim your mission. Amen, Fashion! Style can transform and release your internal superstar.

Whether it be one pair of shoes, some vintage sunglasses, a family heirloom, or a hair color that makes you feel as electric on the outside as you do on the inside. Acknowledge that this choice is a manifestation of an internal magic and the potential of your spirit. You are fan-tas-tic. And this fantasy is part of the real and honest you. It is a lie inside, waiting to be unlocked to become true. Scheiße. I just spoke some German.
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RELATED: [Excerpt - V Magazine Memorandum 4 (November 2011)]: As I began to reckon with Jo, I found it important to excavate what he didn’t like about me, or rather, what I struggle with liking about myself. Concurrently, I felt it necessary to imagine what the public expects of me during a performance of this magnitude  the opening of the VMAs  and how I might destroy this expectation in a variety of ways. On a stage, the laws of fantasy are meant to be broken, but I have always found it difficult to bring my real *** out there with me. (Or do I bring it out there and just don’t know it?) I have always feared that the reality of love, if brought into the spotlight, has the potential to destroy creativity.

Needless to say, the line between fantasy and reality is blurred in my life, as this psychobabble may indicate, so I drew upon my personal experiences to initiate a deeper parallel. Do my lovers feel like an extension of my audience? Because I refuse to draw a distinction between what’s real and what is artifice, do they feel a part of the show? How can Jo become more relatable and lovable than I am? During my performance and the three days I spent as him, I felt permission through him to confess things about myself as a woman, things I would normally keep hidden. In a way, it seemed that he could get away with a lot more than I can. He talked about his feelings, wore Brooks Brothers, smoked Marlboro Lights, drank beer on stage, and talked about what I refuse to discuss publicly: my relationships.

It was by remodeling myself into something completely foreign, and in some ways crafting the anti-pop performance, that the complexities of “the model†began to unfold. For someone known as much for her image as for her music  and this has become my model  the presence of Jo in no way eradicated my spirit from the stage. I was still ever-present, and, in fact, more myself than ever. Jo had a clean slate. Jo had no past or future to answer to. Jo existed only in that moment, as I chose for him to.

• [MTV News (September 2011): "I'm actually already working on my next album...I have lots of things to do, but in truth, I feel like I'm the most alive when I'm onstage."
  

*DECAY OF THE BLONDE POP STAR/CHANGING THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

• [Access Hollywood (November 2011)]:I'm fascinated with the decay of the blonde pop icon and how culture loves to build and give birth to fantasies and then destroy them and what that means. It's something I want to explore on my next album.
  

  [*]Relating to the decay of the blonde superstar: in TF/TFM - she was built up as a new blonde superstar - the fantasy was built - and in BTW, music culture somewhat destroyed this fantasy - it's the nature of the industry.

  • RELATED: [Ryan Seacrest Show (December 2011)]: [Gaga recognises she tried too hard to do grand things with Born This Way] - Gaga: I wanted to overachieve, I wanted to be an overachiever [with Born This Way]…yes [i was bitten by that bug] for this album.
    

  [*]BUT HOW DOES GAGA NOW SEE SUCCESS? How does Gaga see the 'success' of Born This Way? Is it quantified through airplay/sales etc. and should she be afraid to be kicked in the front teeth in terms of backlash/performance when following her artistic vision in the future? Her answer is NO - making a lasting change in the music industry is her idea of success.

  • RELATED: [V Magazine Memorandum 6 (February 2012)]: 2011 was one of the most exciting and difficult years of my life. I made this internal pact with myself when I put out “Born This Way.†This time, when I “win,†I want it to mean something. How can every “win†be a force? Not a tiara, a pat on the back, or the cashing of a check, but how can I look out into the sea of fans and know that our “win†changed the industry and changed each other?...
    
    ...By the end of the film, we discover the truth about winning from our hero. It only matters if you’ve changed the game. Being kicked in the teeth [phrase mentioned previously on Twitter (January 2012)] is par for the course for this kind of win, a win that not only pisses off the team you’ve beat, but every other team, their coaches, owners, and even some of the greatest baseball players of all time.
    
    You’ve made your own set of rules and gone so far on your own talent, no one can possibly crack the truth behind your wins. You were either lucky or were cheating. Nobody likes the game that they’ve won over and over again to change...
    
    ...The thing about music is you’re not in competition with anyone else. You’re in competition with the psychology of the industry as a whole. You’re in competition with you. You must delve deeper and deeper into your creativity, history, and modernity to change not just this moment, but every moment that came before it. How can I hit a home run that will make every player question every run that was ever scored? How can I round third to home plate and bewilder some of the greatest players of all time? How can I change the game, until 30 years goes by and someone changes it again?
    
    Sometimes my face is buried so deep in the work I forget to look up. Sometimes I don’t even realize I’ve won, because the stadium is either cheering or screaming so loud it doesn’t even matter... ...we all deserve...a moment of revelation to remember that we are timeless, we all matter, and every win like this is as important as the next. When you are changing the way people think, your life achievements are working toward the greatest accessory of all time: nerve...
    

RELATED: [Excerpt - From 6:50 onwards - 60 Minutes Interview (February 2011)]: Lady Gaga: As part of my mastering of the art of fame, part of it is to getting people to pay attention to what you want them to pat attention and not pay attention to the things you don't want them to pay attention to.

You studied the fame of other people; how they got it, how they kept it and how they lost it?
The sociology of fame and how to maintain a certain privacy without feeling like you're withholding anything from your fans. My philosophy is that if I am open with them with everything and yet I art-direct every moment of my life, I can maintain a sort of privacy - in a way I maintain a certain soulfulness that I have yet to give.

On a blonde icon dying before the world's eyes: That's what everyone wants to know; "what she's going to look like when she dies, what's she going to look like when she's overdosed on whatever they think I'm overdosing on?" Everyone wants to see the decay of the superstar. Of course [people want to see my decay], they want to see me fail, they want to see me fall on stage, they want to see me vomiting out of a night club - isn't that the age that we live in - that we want to see people who have it all lose it all - I mean it's dramatic...it's a movie. And yet I'm just not like that...I'm not a vomit in a club kind of girl.
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*INTERPRETATION OF CONTENT INFO

• When Gaga talks about being most alive on stage - is the hinting to the idea about perception in the VEVO interview - where does she feel most alive? - behind the camera, not in the public eye or on stage? This connects to the idea of the blonde pop icon as well - where does she feel most alive? And where do people perceive her to be most real? Is she real at all or is her whole life a performance? “I live halfway between reality and fantasy at all time.†"We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult." "It's not that I've been dishonest, it's just that I loathe reality." When you take into account the transition between all her eras, her work seems rather progressive now:It seems she sort of conforms slightly to what the public expect subconsciously expect from her, or rather the public's reaction to each era intrigues her.
  

In 'The Fame', she tackled the positive side of fame and it's liberating/glamorous side, but people attacked her for being the plastic/party girl who didn't have meaning to her music.
So in 'The Fame Monster', she responded by tackling the meaningful/dark side of 'The Fame'.
During both these eras she gained many fans (a lot of which were disenfranchised/outcasted), with whom she resonated with - During this time, a lot of her fans were struggling with social injustice and in response Gaga added another layer to the idea of who she is - this is why while dealing with the meaning/struggle of her own life in 'The Fame Monster', she came to deal with meaning/struggle of her and her fans' lives in 'Born This Way' and begin to act in social justice which was an undercurrent of her work since she started - 'Born This Way' this is who the **** I we are!
But during 'Born This Way', people called her fake, saying she was a plagiarist - how can you be born with wigs/horns on your face etc.? She clearly stuck to the message of Born This Way, but she is now intrigued by the idea that people perceive the real/fake her differently in different situations. It seems like the artifice of who she is fills the public perception of her the bigger and bigger she gets.
There were also calls for her to go back to 'The Fame' era fun Gaga and be more theatrical - in this sense she may progress back to being commercial/this image but not at the cost of the serious artist she portrays herself to be now - this would undermine her integrity
This is why the blonde pop icon (and her decay) is relevant in the next album. People perceive a superstar in different ways (e.g. live, music video, in real life - on the street, on the radio etc.). Sometimes they see her as real, sometimes as partially real and sometimes as completely fake - what effects this? And why do people make these assumptions for a period of time and destroy them later? - what changes? what happens to make this change?
She also believes that people perceive to have 'lost' during the BTW era in relation to competing artists - but for Gaga, winning is changing the music industry and the lives of herself and her fans while remaining true to her artistic vision
There was so much negative press about Born This Way - Gaga may feel as if she was influenced too much by the public when writing music. This is why she is shutting herself off from the music world completely to experience a musical rebirth. Look down to process.

*♕ PROCESS ♕

• [Billboard.com (17 April 2012)]: For DJ/producer Zedd, getting into Lady Gaga's inner circle took just a touch.
  
  "I introduced them in London at a Beats event," Interscope A&R representative Dave Rene says. "I said, 'Gaga, I want you to meet Zedd.' She just reached her arm out and touched him and said, 'Let's work together.'"
  
  ..."He's unique," Interscope Geffen A&M Records chairman Jimmy Iovine says. "With producing, you can acquire a feel along the way. Zedd already has it, at a very young age, which makes him a really exciting prospect. He knows song structure and he has the basic instincts of production. When I see that in people, I work with them."
  
  While the Interscope team won't comment on the exact nature of Zedd's work for Gaga just yet, the two artists are in active contact. Gaga is known to be working on a follow-up to last year's chart-topping Born This Way, and she's tapped the young DJ to serve as direct support for her upcoming 16-date tour of Asia, which begins April 27 in Seoul's Olympic Stadium. (Zedd also played Coachella and will hit Lollapalooza.)
  

• [Jeff (Jeff1317 via Twitter) Credible Gaga Insider (March 2012)]: Confirms that Lady Gaga is still working with RedOne - SOURCE
  

• [Oprah's Next Chapter (March 2012)]:
  OPRAH: Is it difficult now with the pressure? I would feel or think that there would be pressure to continue to outdo yourself, or to continue to express yourself?
  
  GAGA: There’s always that pressure, but the best thing about it is that it’s only a door away. It’s like I’ve got the first album door – it was open, it’s great, and the door stays open and you walk. I see it as a hallway…with wooden doors, the first door is open – that’s that album, you walk down, there’s another door, that’s the next album and then there’s one more door and it’s coming up right and I’m banging on the door and I’m looking for hammers, I’m trying to figure out where the machine guns are. I just want to get to the freaking door. I know it’s there but can I open it?
  
  It’s not the same as just writing a song. It’s writing ‘the next’. It’s writing he next chapter of whatever lobe is in my brain that waiting to be unlocked and people think I sound narcissistic, but it’s fine because, Oprah, it’s all I’ve got – my creativity. So I walked down that hallway and it happened recently – the door opened. The door opened. It opened. It blast open and once it opens the light shoots right through and I’m in and then I can relax because I know I broke through the door.
  
  OPRAH: So is that when the words flow, the lyrics, the harmony, everything?
  
  GAGA: It’s the journey; it's the new journey of all of us.
  
  OPRAH: Is there something you can do to help the creative process – the doors open more readily?
  
  GAGA: I have a couple of things that I do. The newest thing I do – I don’t read a damn thing. No press, no television, no…if my mum calls and says “did you hear about…?†[i hang up]. I don’t want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music; obviously I want to know about the world. I shut it all off. Other than this interview, Oprah, I do not intend to speak to anyone for a very long time. This is my moment for me to experience a rebirth with my own music – I have to shut it all out. The noise, you know the noise, the noise is loud – you have to cancel out the noise and remember that it’s your thoughts that matter.
  

• [MTV News (December 2011)]: I've started writing it and I have the name for it and all the concepts are beginning to flourish and take place," Gaga said. "I'm excited to put it out, but it's not done yet. So I'll put it out when it's done." Producer Fernando Garibay added: "I get a little bit of anxiety thinking about that right now. I wanna just always try to outdo ourselves, our songs."
  
  Fernando Garibay: "They're already incredible songs. But I feel like she's so young," he said, adding that the record is in its early stages and that "there's a lot of room to grow." While Gaga will hit the road on the Born This Way Tour next year, Garibay said that won't halt the recording process. "The last record we made in bus stops and hotel rooms," he said. "Wherever she's at, we'll make it." However the recording schedule pans out, Garibay knows he and Gaga will continue experimenting with new sounds. "She's the perfect platform for me to express myself," he said. "You can do stuff with her that you can't do with anybody else. It's amazing."
  

• [Jeff {Jeff1317 via Twitter} Credible Gaga Insider (November 2011)]: States that Gaga's next album will be "less preachy" and "more conceptual"
  

• [Digital Spy (November 2011)]: DJ White Shadow also revealed that Gaga is already working on the fourth album and that he is looking forward to receiving the call to inform him that it's time to head back into the studio with Lady Gaga.
  

• [MTV News (September 2011)]: "I'm actually already working on my next album," she said. "So I've been working on that. I've been planning the next tour, which keeps me very excited and busy because I have lots of new ideas, and I know exactly how I want it to look. I'm also planning my next music video. I have lots of things to do, but in truth, I feel like I'm the most alive when I'm onstage." And while there's still no release date (or any concrete information) on Gaga's next album, her manager, Troy Carter, recently suggested that, if he has his way, Gaga might give the record away for free.
  

*♕ GAGA TALK + INSIDERS ♕

*GAGA TALK:

• [Lady Gaga via Twitter (April 25 2012)]: Let's try this one more time with correct spelling, I've composing in quarantine for 18'hrs
  

• [Lady Gaga via Twitter (April 2 2012)]: I love my followers, thanks for talking with me tonight. I read as many as I could. Making music, learning choreo, and breakin ****. be back
  

• [Lady Gaga via Twitter (March 23 2012)]: #MyFavoriteGagaAlbumIs The next one.
  

*INSIDERS:

• [Jeff1317 (Credible Gaga insider) via Twitter (April 29th)]:
  a sh l ey @HausOfAshleyy
  @jeff1317 is us thinking that "Kill The Bitch" is possibly related to the next album/single completely off base?
  @HausOfAshleyy kinda too early for me to know that but, as of now, I'd say the concept is more tour-centric
  

*♕ RELEASE ♕

• [The Skorpion Show [Confirmed Gaga Insiders] (22nd April 2012)]:
  Makael: Lady Gaga's album is coming out this year right?
  Kevin: Yeah, I forgot about Lady Gaga
  Makael: Gaga's going to be going again, I think a lot of people are going to be stepping it up because they see that the fans are speaking louder than ever before
  

• [Rolling Stone Magazine (February 2012)]: Gaga: "I'll probably put out out an album again while I'm on tour. I'm always writing new music." Rolling Stone: Gaga may well have a new LP, too, by the time the tour hits the U.S. - at which point Born This Way will be 20 months old.
  

• [THE INSIDER (January 2012)]: Interviewer: What do you want to do in 2012? Lady Gaga: I just want to keep going. I'm not as goal-obsessed as I am process-obsessed. I just want to keep writing music. I'm looking forward to putting out another album and going on tour.
  

• [MTV News (25th September 2011)]: Confirms Gaga has already been working on the new album
  

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Edited May 14, 2012 by SMILE2NE1

[Jase 13,043]

I wonder how many threads we'll have BEFORE we get the actual album :teehee:

[David Ward 8,419]

first page :legend:

Edited May 10, 2012 by David Ward

[Americano 31,061]

I wonder how many threads we'll have BEFORE we get the actual album

:legend:

[David Ward 8,419]

I wonder how many threads we'll have BEFORE we get the actual album

Probably 2 more... I hope :ohno:

[Alegadro 2]

Page 1 :D

[AyaKara 2,281]

Closed? I really wanted to reread the whole large thread once the album actually came out to see all of our speculation.

[famous 467]

I wonder how many threads we'll have BEFORE we get the actual album

Good question. I think at least 4 :teehee:

[Squidward T 2,048]

Shouldn't you add DJWS to list of producers?