[bbfan1991]

WOW she looks great and that performance of the USA national anthem was class too. Glad that Lady Gaga is back!

[Saph]

Apparently ARTPOPs coming out on Nov 11th, and new single next month

Spoiler:

[Smithy]

She's finally coming

[GypsyGoth]

[Glenn.]

[Jake.]

About ****ing time

[Niall]

This should be interesting. I can't wait to hear the new single! Hopefully she'll be more tame this era now that BTW is finally behind us.

[Jake.]

Originally Posted by Niall

This should be interesting. I can't wait to hear the new single! Hopefully she'll be more tame this era now that BTW is finally behind us.

100% this

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

eew in the hq version of that pic you can see she has really hairy arms

[Smithy]

all girls have hair on their arms

Anyway, she's filming the video next week!!

[Saph]

She looks pretty in that pic ^

[Shaun]

-likes the pic too-

I won't get too hopeful about the first single cos it'll probably be a bit... attention-seeky. But I'm looking forward to her return.

[Nia-96]

Can't wait for the first single to be released!!

[bbfan1991]

At last, glad she is back and not long to go now.

[Smithy]

I love this article

t's been exactly 149 days since Lady Gaga canceled her Born This Wayball, underwent surgery, and disappeared from the public eye to rehab (and get fitted for a gold-plated wheelchair, naturally).
But doesn't it feel so much longer than that?

And not just because in the time Gaga's been gone, Justin Timberlake, Daft Punk, Lil Wayne, Kanye West and Jay-Z all released albums, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis topped the Hot 100 twice, DOMA was repealed, Miley Cyrus discovered twerking and Amanda Bynes went crazy.

No, the past five months have felt like an eternity because they have been entirely bereft of Gaga, who went from being one of the most visible, successful and controversial artists on the planet to a mere afterthought, almost overnight. Rarely — if ever — has a star of her magnitude vanished so quickly, or as completely. Gaga was pop music's perpetual-motion machine, always moving toward something (at the time of her injury, it was the much-discussed ARTPOP album), and when she went under the knife, it was as if someone pulled the plug. Everything stopped.

And when her activity stopped, so did the endless font of over-the-top proclamations, out-there fashions, and outspoken support of worthwhile causes. In short, she went silent, and whether you like her or not, you've got to admit that the entire music biz — and pop music in particular — has been pretty boring because of that.
Of course, on Friday, with one florid, fantastic Facebook post, that machine started humming again. Gaga is back, ARTPOP has a release date (and an app), and all is right with the world.

Sure, there are still plenty of uncertainties surrounding Gaga's comeback: Can her brand of theatrical pop still resonate with the masses? Did she over-extend herself with the omni-everything Born This Way? Is there anything she can do to shock us anymore?

But the way I see it, we need her back in our lives ... in less than 150 days, pop has become a rather staid, slightly misogynistic thing, and while there are still soldiers like Daft Punk and Macklemore fighting the good fight with songs that are sonically adventurous and socially conscious, Gaga will certainly bring the reinforcements. To her, pop isimportant, an artform that, in addition to inspiring the listener to move, also has the power to transform lives and lift up the downtrodden (or something like that). There was a time, like when she was selling a bazillion records, that we took stuff like that for granted. Not anymore.

And if you think Gaga isn't itching for a fight, well, just check out some of the language she uses in her new Facebook post: "reverse Warholian expedition," "an age where art drives pop," "a 'rage' of electronic passion and fury." This is primetime pretention, crazy-talk at its most elevated, the kind of stuff that's sorely missing these days — Kanye's contributionsnotwithstanding — not to mention an integral part of what separated the Mother Monster from her contemporaries. Any concerns that she'd lost a step since she's been on the shelf should stop right now; she's back, as bad as ever, and ready to elevate pop music once again. Or tear her otherlabrum trying.

Is 149 days really an eternity? Of course not ... it just felt that way without Gaga in our lives. Is it an insurmountable obstacle? Probably not, though given just how quickly pop culture moves these days, her success is not a certainty. Her career was speeding along like a sportscar, until she abruptly blew a tire (or a hip) and exited the track. If there's an artist capable of climbing out of the wreckage, it's Lady Gaga ... after all, through little more than hard work — and a never-say-die attitude — she rose from an unknown to a pop royalty. Can she regain her crown? Who knows? But it's certainly going to be fun watching her try. If you thought Beyonce had 'em bowing down, well, you ain't seen nothing yet. At long last, the Queen is back.

MTV Stanning for the Queen

[Smithy]

oh she set a new world record too

“468,000,000 searches in 0.19 seconds.”
— Gaga’s new world record with the release of the promotional picture from ARTPOP

[Smithy]

Filming for the lead single started today Inez and Vinhood are directing the video (they did the You & I fashion films and worked with Björk for her Biophilia shoot)



She was spotted at studio 29 in some black outfit

[Jessica.]

I missed her!

[Smithy]

The music industry has been so boring without her, it's exciting to think 32 days from now we'll have the single cover/name/probable lyrics/possible video teasers and the VMA performance confirmed

[Smithy]

[Ninastar]

i really love her shape

not too muscley, not too slim. just perfect <3

[Smithy]

She's lost a lot of weight and toned up too



more pics

[GypsyGoth]

Oh my! That's one way to get publicity.

[Smithy]

Youtube video

[GypsyGoth]

Is that for a music video or just a promo for the album?