Featured Album
- SEP 27, 2024
- 13 Songs
- Die With A Smile - Single · 2024
- The Fame Monster (Deluxe Edition) · 2008
- The Fame Monster (Deluxe Edition) · 2008
- The Fame Monster (Deluxe Edition) · 2009
- The Fame Monster (Deluxe Edition) · 2009
- The Fame · 2008
- The Fame Monster (Deluxe Edition) · 2009
- Joanne (Deluxe) · 2016
- A Star Is Born Soundtrack · 2018
- Chromatica · 2020
Essential Albums
- Lady Gaga’s second album operates under the cloak of night, to thrilling effect. Anthems like “Hair” and “Marry the Night” allow her to command the dance floor with her muscular pipes atop a driving four-on-the-floor pulse. The biblically minded “Judas” is a snarling, storming passion play, while the title track celebrates diversity by commanding the world to get on its feet. Gaga’s love of rock, meanwhile, comes through on the sweeping power ballad “Yoü and I” and the triumphant, Clarence Clemons-assisted “The Edge of Glory.”
- It would seem as if Lady Gaga just dropped—make that danced—from the disco heavens as a born-ready star on 2008’s The Fame. But before the artist born Stefani Germanotta was actually living the lifestyle of the rich and famous, she was getting ready for her close-up in the New York club scene. And you can really hear the blood, sweat, and twirls through many a beer-splattered stage on The Fame. She lived it—and you feel it. That’s what makes The Fame such a self-manifesting statement—an album that chronicles the celebrity culture Gaga had yet to experience. When she sings about having “a little bit too much” on “Just Dance”—the album’s defining first single, featuring assists from singer Colby O’Donis, co-writer Akon, and main Fame producer RedOne—she’s that party girl we’ve all been (and if you haven’t been there, she offers a blueprint for your free-bootied future). You can also hear the gritty groove of the downtown New York scene on debaucherous dance tracks such as “Beautiful, Dirty, Rich,” “Money Honey,” and the disco-stick-riding “LoveGame.” Meanwhile, pop bops such as “Poker Face”—which followed “Just Dance” to the top of the charts—and “Paparazzi” reveal the lyrical and melodic beast behind the beat. The Fame was already a multi-platinum, Grammy-winning sensation when it was reissued as The Fame Monster (Deluxe Edition) in 2009. But with Gaga having now fulfilled her diva destiny, she quickly proved her success was no fluke, continuing her string of hits with “Bad Romance,” “Alejandro,” and “Telephone.” The latter pairs Gaga with Beyoncé—a pop-icon team-up equalled only by Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer’s 1979 classic “No More Tears (Enough Is Enough).” A worldwide smash that would earn the singer her second consecutive Grammy nomination for Album of the Year, The Fame Monster left little doubt that the world had gone gaga for Gaga.
- It would seem as if Lady Gaga just dropped—make that danced—from the disco heavens as a born-ready star on 2008’s The Fame. But before the artist born Stefani Germanotta was actually living the lifestyle of the rich and famous, she was getting ready for her close-up in the New York club scene. And you can really hear the blood, sweat, and twirls through many a beer-splattered stage on The Fame. She lived it—and you feel it. That’s what makes The Fame such a self-manifesting statement—an album that chronicles the celebrity culture Gaga had yet to experience. When she sings about having “a little bit too much” on “Just Dance”—the album’s defining first single, featuring assists from singer Colby O’Donis, co-writer Akon, and main Fame producer RedOne—she’s that party girl we’ve all been (and if you haven’t been there, she offers a blueprint for your free-bootied future). You can also hear the gritty groove of the downtown New York scene on debaucherous dance tracks such as “Beautiful, Dirty, Rich,” “Money Honey,” and the disco-stick-riding “LoveGame.” Meanwhile, pop bops such as “Poker Face”—which followed “Just Dance” to the top of the charts—and “Paparazzi” reveal the lyrical and melodic beast behind the beat. The Fame was already a multi-platinum, Grammy-winning sensation when it was reissued as The Fame Monster (Deluxe Edition) in 2009. But with Gaga having now fulfilled her diva destiny, she quickly proved her success was no fluke, continuing her string of hits with “Bad Romance,” “Alejandro,” and “Telephone.” The latter pairs Gaga with Beyoncé—a pop-icon team-up equalled only by Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer’s 1979 classic “No More Tears (Enough Is Enough).” A worldwide smash that would earn the singer her second consecutive Grammy nomination for Album of the Year, The Fame Monster left little doubt that the world had gone gaga for Gaga.
- 2020
Artist Playlists
- A career-spanning set from one of the 21st century's most captivating pop stars.
- A visual virtuoso in the art of subversion.
- Gaga anthems to make you run faster, jump higher, lift more—or just dance.
- A pop maverick molded by classics, cultural architects, eccentrics, and outsiders.
- Her outsized personality and undeniable chops equal pop gold.
- Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
Radio Shows
- Dance Dance Revolution.
- The pop star on ”Harlequin,” and music from Wyatt Flores.
- From early hits to futuristic dance-pop classics.
- Fourteen years ago, a great song got an even better music video.
- Revisiting the Halftime shows of Lady Gaga and Madonna.
- It’s called the Realness Remix for a reason.
- Revisiting two legendary shows in Super Bowl Halftime history.
- The live version of “Edge of Glory” has us on the edge of our seats.
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About Lady Gaga
Some may dismiss pop as inauthentic. But for Lady Gaga—one of popular culture’s greatest, most extravagant creations—the inauthenticity is the point. No artist has more defiantly embodied that provocation this century than the one born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (in New York in 1986). Never wedded to the same image—her most memorable looks (among many) have included a gown fashioned from raw meat, a red-carpet-appropriate pair of dish gloves, and “the world’s first flying dress”—Gaga personifies pop’s surface obsessions while simultaneously upending them. In a sense, her creative identity had crystallized by age 21; she’d been a child pianist, aspiring actor, and burlesque performer. Each of these facets powered her career’s most distinct parts: the celebrity fascination of her first two albums, 2008’s The Fame and 2009’s The Fame Monster; the subversive layering of 2011’s Born This Way and 2013’s ARTPOP; the sincere reverence of 2014’s Cheek to Cheek, her jazz standards album with Tony Bennett; the rootsier songwriting of 2016’s Joanne; and 2020’s jubilant return to her neon-hued electro roots, Chromatica. If the 2009 smash “Paparazzi” reveled in the flashes, then “Born This Way” celebrated inner light: In translating her diffuse identity into world-conquering art, Gaga has become a beacon to anyone else who’s felt like an outsider. Her loyal following of Little Monsters has affirmed a deep connection to her message of self-love and self-expression, despite pop’s fickleness and her chameleonic exterior. She played out a simpler version of her path to fame in the Oscar-worthy 2018 remake of A Star Is Born. But while her character’s ascent was abetted by her lover, Gaga’s was all her own.
- HOMETOWN
- New York, NY, United States
- BORN
- March 28, 1986
- GENRE
- Pop