Lady Gaga versus Christina Aguilera

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Op maandag 3 mei 2010 15:12 schreef Peachcore het volgende:

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Dat dus. Het is geheel collectief. Alsof Lady Gaga net zo'n puppet on a string is als Rihanna of zo.

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SHE WAS NO 'LADY': Lady Gaga, now a galaxy-wide superstar, was
once humble girlfriend (left) to producer Rob Fusari (right).
http://www.nypost.com/p/n(...)0tcCdvG0TmoOxOjLevNJ

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Producer, alleged ex-lover who 'discovered' and named Lady Gaga sues her company for $30 million

BY Jose Martinez
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Originally Published:Thursday, March 18th 2010, 2:05 PM
Updated: Thursday, March 18th 2010, 3:15 PM

Rob Fusari's production company seeks more than $30 million from Lady Gaga's company. Fusari alleges that he discovered and named the star.

The producer who claims credit for transforming a Manhattan "guidette" into Lady Gaga is suing to get a chunk of "The Fame" singer's fortune.

Ex-lover Rob Fusari contends two companies owned by the mega-star owe him more than $30 million after he came up with the Lady Gaga name and co-wrote her hits "Paparazzi" and "Disco Heaven."

"It's an age-old story in the music business," said Robert Meloni, a lawyer for Fusari. "You become famous and you turn on the person who discovered you."

The wild-styled singer, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, was introduced to Fusari in March 2006 by a singer who knew he was looking for a female rocker with "garage band chops."

Wendy Starland put Germanotta on the phone with Fusari after seeing her perform at The Cutting Room because she fit his vision for "an all-girl version of The Strokes," the suit says.

Within a day, Germanotta was on a bus from the Port Authority terminal to Fusari's 150 Studios in Parsippany, N.J.

"Fusari was expecting someone a little more grunge-rocker than the young Italian girl 'guidette' that arrived at his doorstep and was worried that he had made a mistake," the suit says.

"Fusari then asked her to play one of her songs on the studio piano and within seconds realized that Germanotta had star potential. The trick would be coaxing it out of her."

The producer, who collaborated with Destiny's Child on "Bootylicious" and with Will Smith on "Wild Wild," contends he reshaped Germanotta's song-writing skills and convinced her to add dance beats to her songs.

He also came up with the unique Lady Gaga name after playing Queen's "Radio Gaga" for her daily when she entered the studio.

"One day when Fusari addressed a cell phone text to Germanotta under the moniker 'Radio Gaga' his cell phone's spell check converted 'Radio' to 'Lady'," the suit says. "Germanotta loved it and 'Lady Gaga' was born."

Fusari is seeking a 20% cut from a 2006 contract he says he signed with Gaga's Team Love Child and Mermaid Music.

"Would she have found another Rob Fusari? Maybe," Meloni said. "Would she just have gone on to playing in small clubs? Maybe. But the fact is that he brought her to a certain level."

A representative for Lady Gaga, a dropout from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, declined comment.

Fusari and Germanotta were at one time romantically linked, but broke up in January 2007, the suit says.

In the introduction to the court papers, Fusari casts Lady Gaga as "a woman scorned."

"All business is personal," the suit says. "When those personal relationships evolve into romantic entanglements, any corresponding business relationship usually follows the same trajectory so that when one crashes they all burn.

This is what happened here."
http://www.nydailynews.co(...)_her_company_fo.html

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'I made Lady GaGa': the girl who changed Stefani Germanotta's life with a phone call


By Annette Witheridge - exclusive 13/03/2010

Not so very long ago, college drop-out Stefani Germanotta was a dumpy brunette in a back-room music industry office job.

And if it wasn’t for Wendy Starland, millions of us wouldn’t know her today as the outrageous platinum blonde phenomenon that is Lady GaGa.

After putting aside her studies to make it in the music business, she promised her dad she’d go back to university if she hadn’t succeeded after a year.

Then, just a week before the deadline, she bumped into talent scout Wendy who transformed her from the jeans-wearing frontwoman of a nerdy grunge band into the chart-topping diva she is today.

Speaking exclusively to the Mirror, singer Wendy reveals how she introduced Stefani to music industry contacts and set her on the track to superstardom.

For 18 months, she helped the wannabe write material and revamp her look. She even made her bleach her hair so she wasn’t mistaken for Amy Winehouse.

And when her protege, now 23, hit the big time she wrote Wendy a gushing – and funny – email thanking her mentor.

Triple Brit Award winner GaGa wrote: “;I will proclaim my loyalty and eternal thanks to the incredible Wendy Starland for discovering me. Wendy Starland changed my life. Wendy was the angel that fulfilled my promise to my father one year before, on my 19th birthday.

“Without Wendy’s remarkable ears, hearing through my rough-around-the-edges college band, the eyes to see through 15 pounds I would lose over the next three months, and the heart to reveal to me one of her most credible contacts, I may never have become Lady GaGa.

“There’s no PHD needed to understand the magnitude of what this woman did for my life, and I simply cannot refuse her my infinite gratitude. Peace, Love, and Disco Dancing, Lady GaGa a.k.a always just Stefani to Wendy.”

Wendy, 28, who has worked with Moby, Sean Paul, Grandmaster Flash, Wu Tang Clan and The Beat says: “We first met when she was working as an intern at Famous Music Publishing. I came in to see her boss, Irwin Robinson, and she told me she was a fan of my music. Apparently she had my song Stolen Love on constantly.

“She was sweet but hardly stood out in a crowd. She wore conservative office clothes. It was her job to photocopy press releases and she was enthusiastic. Hardly the rebellious teen.

“A multi-platinum record producer I was working with, Rob Fusari, who’d worked with Beyonce and Jessica Simpson, asked me to find him a new girl singer. He wanted someone edgy, who wouldn’t have been out of place in The Strokes.

“I looked high and low for eight months. Then one night I was performing at the Cutting Room, a New York club, and Stefani came rushing up to me. She was on the same bill and asked if I remembered her during soundcheck. She was wearing jeans and a T-shirt. Her band was awful, in my opinion. They were college boys, and she seemed to be modelling herself after Fiona Apple.

“Yet when Stefani started singing I was hooked. She had incredible confidence, she carried the crowd even though, in my opinion, the songs were bad.

“I grabbed hold of her afterwards and said I was going to ‘change her life forever’. We went outside and phoned Rob, who asked why I was waking him up.

“He asked her name, then said it was way too much of a mouthful and asked me not to waste his time. But I put Stefani on the phone and he agreed to meet her.”

Rob was, to put it mildly, underwhelmed. He recalls: “She was a little overweight. She had on leggings and some strange cut-up shirt, a hat that looked like it was out of Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’ — I thought, ‘That could be her. But I hope it’s not.’ ”

But when Stefani sang for him, he says: ”I’m telling you, it was, like, 10 seconds in and I’m texting my management. I’m like, I need a contract — immediately.”

Wendy was, of course, delighted. “Stefani – and she will always be Stefani to me – was thrilled. I told her we’d write new songs together, we’d change her name and her look. She was 19 and had promised her dad Joe she would return to college if she hadn’t made it by her 20th birthday. That deadline was just one week away and if I hadn’t seen her she probably would have done just that.

“We spent about a year and a half or so working together, and bit by bit she evolved. The name was the result of brainstorming. We thrashed out lots of different ideas and came up with GaGa from the Queen hit Radio Gaga.

“Then she started changing her clothes and make-up. For a while, she wore lots of black eyeliner. But after performing at Lollapalooza she kept getting mistaken for Amy Winehouse, so that’s when we decided she should go blonde.

“She dumped the boy band. The music business is tough and Stefani was happy to leave her past behind, including her then boyfriend.

“I was there when she met her big love Luc Carl. He was a tall, good looking barman and rock drummer. Stefani loved the attention he caused. Then she met Lady Starlight and they started performing together. Starlight spun discs, Stefani sang along. Gradually the GaGa look started to come together.

“Lots of people claim to have discovered GaGa and Starlight certainly added her magic. But I spotted her first. In this ­business it really is all about connections and who you know.

“Rob told her he would not have signed her because he didn’t see her potential after watching a video tape of her performance the night I discovered her. She claims she was probably 15lbs overweight and in my opinion, quite ordinary to look at. But you had to look beyond that. Gradually she evolved.

“She was always very focused. Now I’ve read she’s told stories about her drug taking rebellion, but that was not my experience with her.

“When we met she was sitting behind a desk. As I see it, a rebellious person wouldn’t show up on time for work every day. Stefani was a typical privately educated, New York City kid.

“She did an internship, then she went into the studio, where we worked hard to create Lady GaGa. If she was in the midst of a druggie rebellion, I don’t believe she could have done that.”

“We got her a record deal with Island/Def Jam but for whatever reasons she was dropped very quickly. Then Interscope signed her up and the rest, as they say, is history.”

Wendy, about to release her new single Love Will Come To You, hasn’t seen GaGa since she hit the big time but says that is what it’s like in the music industry.

“It’s a tough business and once you make it, every second of your day is tightly scheduled,” she explains. “We wrote many songs together. None of
them has yet appeared on her albums but I hope they do one day.

“I’m excited for the future. I have a new single out, and I’m appearing at The Imagine Music & Art festival over the summer with an expected audience of over one million.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/c(...)all-115875-22107298/

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Op maandag 3 mei 2010 16:02 schreef Bellatrix het volgende:
Je kunt natuurlijk ook zeggen dat Gaga het hele ''dirty'' wezen van Aguilera heeft afgekeken. Aguilera loopt al zo'n10 jaar langer mee dan Gaga, en heeft ook heel wat controversiële outfits aangehad. Of misschien heeft ze zich laten inspireren door Boy George, of door David Bowie, of door Madonna of door iedereen? Je kunt nou eenmaal niet iets echt nieuws meer doen.

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Op maandag 3 mei 2010 16:04 schreef Isetmyfriendsonfire het volgende:

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GaGa is en was altijd heel anders gekleed dan hoe Aguilera er ooit uit zag.

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Op dinsdag 4 mei 2010 17:37 schreef Isetmyfriendsonfire het volgende:
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Van een vriendin van me.

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Op dinsdag 4 mei 2010 18:03 schreef Terrorizing_Cookie het volgende:

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van perezhilton.com

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Op dinsdag 4 mei 2010 18:04 schreef Isetmyfriendsonfire het volgende:

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Oh, dan heeft zij het van Perez. Kan ook.

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Op dinsdag 4 mei 2010 19:01 schreef Mylene het volgende:
Leuk, het wordt nu ook via YouTube uitgevochten.

http://www.youtube.com/user/GagaHeartsXtina
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bron

Christina Aguilera Copies Gaga! - Not Myself Tonight (official video pictures)

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Op donderdag 29 april 2010 09:07 schreef Kidney_bean01 het volgende:
ja Marilyn Monroe... en die zal het ook wel weer van iemand hebben nageaapt.. het maakt mij ook niet uit wie wat kopieert, op den duur is alles wel gedaan ook volgensmij.. het gaat er alleen om dat je het dan goed doet, en Lady Gaga is gewoon goed in het neerzetten van het imago dat ze heeft. Daar kan die Murphy griet wel over gaan zeuren, maar dan had ze zelf moeten zorgen wereldwijd door te breken met haar image.

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Op woensdag 5 mei 2010 07:08 schreef Mylene het volgende:
Hier nog meer jatwerk door Lady Gaga van de orginele Róisín Murphy.

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Op woensdag 5 mei 2010 07:08 schreef Mylene het volgende:
Hier nog meer jatwerk door Lady Gaga van de orginele Róisín Murphy.

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Op donderdag 13 mei 2010 21:12 schreef Mylene het volgende:
Lady Gaga wint de strijd met Christina Aguilera in de VS met gemak.

Terwijl Lady Gaga haar video Alejandro nog moet uitbrengen komt Christina met haar video niet verder dan 23 in de Amerikaanse Billboard top 100.

Je kunt misschien wel stellen dat de houdbaarheidsdatum van Christina in de VS voorlopen is.

Ke$ha, Rihanna, Beyonce en Lady Gaga maken daar nu de dienst uit. Zelfs Britney scoort nog beter Christina. Ik denk dat haar kansen in Europa hoger liggen.

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Op donderdag 13 mei 2010 21:14 schreef Isetmyfriendsonfire het volgende:
Dat heeft GaGa niet gemaakt, hoor. Dat heeft een designer ontworpen waarvan ik de naam niet meer weer.