[Ross]

It looks like the best place though. Aslong as I'm to the front I don't care.

[M X]

Is there standing in the CIA?

[Ross]

This is what it was like for Pussycat Dolls, Gaga and Ne-Yo in January. So I am guessing it will stay the same.

[M X]

That's probably the Golden Circle. The standing.

[Ross]

Well doors open 6.30pm, I have the day off and aslong as I get standing tickets I will start queing about 4:00pm. EXCITED!!

[Ross]

How did you get tickets, when Cardiff is before Newcastle date. How did you pre-order, American Express?

[Zac]

New set
-from The Fame Monster shoot

[Ross]

Hate that hair. Vile.

[Zac]

Over the past year Lady Gaga has wowed us with her outlandish costumes, and now she's set to be rewarded for her sartorial efforts.

At the Accessories Council Excellence Awards in New York next Monday she will be given the Stylemaker Award in recognition of the extraordinary array of accessories that she has been spotted in, and, to seal her fashion credentials, the award will be presented by Marc Jacobs. The two have become firm friends in recent months and Lady Gaga performed at the Marc Jacobs after-show party in September.

From the orbital hat by London milliner Nasir Mazhar to her dominatrix-style leather mask, Lady Gaga is certainly no wallflower when it comes to her fashion choices – we can't wait to see what costume she chooses to wear to the ceremony.

Source: ElleUK.com

[Zac]

Originally Posted by Ross

Hate that hair. Vile.

I love the wig. TFM shoot is one of my fave Gaga shoots ever!

[Ninastar]

wow! yeah i agree the hair is horrible but i want that nail polish! do you thjink its real or modified on the computer?

[Zac]

Originally Posted by Ninastar

wow! yeah i agree the hair is horrible but i want that nail polish! do you thjink its real or modified on the computer?

Probably real.

[King Gizzard]

Still think she looked best with long brunette hair

nearly everyone think she looked rough then but i thought she was damn hot in that leaked video of her ages ago

[Zac]

HQ and untagged version of Filthy Pop: http://www.sendspace.com/file/fo859t

[Zac]

I think I'm like the only one that likes the wig lol.

[Zac]

I love her back tattoo here:

[Ninastar]

Originally Posted by Nate

Still think she looked best with long brunette hair

nearly everyone think she looked rough then but i thought she was damn hot in that leaked video of her ages ago

Yeah she looked so much nicer when she was brunette. she had a nicer personality too!

[Zac]

OMG LEAKED!
Rejected version of the Just Dance video:

Youtube video

I think I actually prefer this to the final video. Sick.

[King Gizzard]

I remember seeing that Candid Camera think she was on too, mmmm

[KKBL]

She looks amazing in that discoball bra.I miss the Lady GaGa from that video

[Zac]

From this weeks Chart Watch blog:

Lady Gaga this week becomes the first artist to have four songs top the 1 million mark in paid downloads in 2009. "Paparazzi" follows "Just Dance" (featuring Colby O'Donis), "Poker Face" and "Lovegame." Those four songs have sold a combined total of 9,711,000 downloads just this year. (Kanye West is in second place, with three songs above the 1 million mark in paid downloads in 2009. There was his own smash "Heartless" plus his featured roles on "Knock You Down" and "Run This Town.")

And on a chart related topic then The Fame sold 20,826 copies this week and moved up 3 slots on the Billboard 200 to 16. It's total is now 1,559,260.

[Ross]

I don't notice much of a difference, Zac.

[Zac]

Originally Posted by Ross

I don't notice much of a difference, Zac.

Really? There are quite a few different shots, especially through the middle.

[Zac]

Get dressed and come outside," I hear my friend—we'll call him DJ Gaga—say over my phone. "I'm down the street, I've got a copy of Lady Gaga's new album The Fame Monster in the car." CLICK. I wake up Steve (the husband), we toss on some gym clothes, groggily stumble out of the house and into DJ's car. Needless to say, this is something we're dying to hear.

DJ hasn't been to sleep since last night's gig, which is why he's waking us up, but since random **** like this happens to Steve and I all the time (like crashing the Kylie Minogue after-party in LA—what?) we're not too flustered. We just pile into DJ's pimped-out BMW and head toward Santa Monica, going with the flow.

"Don't want to kiss, don't want to touch, just smoke one cigarette and run..."

DJ skips "Bad Romance" because everyone's heard that song and starts with "Alejandro," a Spanishy dance track that's unlike anything from The Fame, with touches of ABBA and Euro-pop mixed in. I'm not quite sure what it was about (still waking up) but she doesn't want Ale... Ale... Alejandro to call her name, and I'm pretty sure there's a Fernando, and maybe a Roberto or Gilberto mixed in too. Or maybe we'd just passed too many roll taco stands and I was feeling noshy. The song was, however, crystal clear and doesn't start like the odd versions you hear on YouTube, proving that DJ has come through once more.

"He ate my heart and then he ate my brain..."

"Monster" is the next song where she's talking about a boy who is, duh, a monster. I know they French kissed on a subway train, then he did all that eating. It's another crazy dance track but I doubt it's going to be one of the main singles.

"Speechless" is next and it's quite different from any of Gaga's other music. At times personal and painful, at other points reflective. It's like "Brown Eyes" on The Fame, but bigger in both production and emotion. She's speaking about some kind of close relationship, and where so many of her songs tend to be about having fun this feels largely based in the real world.

"She's a tramp, she's a vamp..."

By the time we reach Westwood we're at "Dance in the Dark," another fun tune with a lot of sex to it. At one point Gaga starts riffing off people's names like Madonna did in "Vogue," and I had this sudden vision of queens on a dance floor shouting along in unison. I'd mock them but I have no doubt Steve and I will be riffing along ourselves.

"Telephone" is another track... Are you ****ing kidding me??? Single #2. For sure.

"So Happy I Could Die" has Gaga asking you to meet her in a bar with a bottle of red wine.

"Teeth" is a hard song with heavy beats that make you want to bounce around to the rhythm and pump your arms in the air... until you realize you're almost 40 and worry that you're starting to look tragic, so instead you bop around until the cocktails have kicked in and then you don't care what anyone thinks and start pumping your arms in the air again. Steve described it as, "One of those songs Wade Robeson will do some kind of stomping/python/swaying dance number on So You Think You Can Dance." Truth.

Album finished, Steve and I return home (BTW, in good traffic the album can take you from Hollywood to Santa Monica and back). We thank DJ, then spend the rest of the weekend talking about what we heard. The whole album is bigger—with more confidence in Gaga's singing and definitely more production backing from the studio. Of course it's coming out just in time for the holidays, but can you fault the girl for being a smart business woman? Besides, The Fame Monster [Deluxe Edition] is worth the money. Where most re-releases toss on a couple songs that were castoffs from the previous album, this is a whole different album. It's inspired by The Fame but doesn't imitate it, and takes listeners on a new journey that they'll be dancing along to well after the holidays.

[Ross]

When I went to see her in January <33

I filmed this.

Youtube video