It's going to be interesting to watch how this campaign plays out.

She does appear to have parted with Troy and has made a few comments about no longer letting people sign their name at the bottom of her canvas, no longer letting corporations interfere in her art, that there is no marketing plan for this album (she is organising appearances etc. herself) and that ARTPOP is the first fully Haus of Gaga production.

"We will no longer stand for the harassing of the artist, for the torturing of the artist, or taking of the vulnerability of these beautiful young creative minds. Tonight we will put ART in front.".

She also has said that she is rejecting the notion that she has to reinvent herself with each album because MJ, Elton, Whitney etc. didn't need to and that she doesn't agree with being expected to come up with a constant flow of new ideas when sometimes all it takes one big idea to make impact. She's embracing her own iconography and ultimate concept - the weird blonde art-pop icon.

"I'm at the age where you see blond hair and (breasts) and a (butt) and hear me singing about sex or fighting for gay rights, people start to roll their eyes. But no matter what happens, I'm prepared to go down with the ship," she says.

This can go one of two ways IMO - she does whatever she wants and welcomes a mainstream back seat, or she gets really hungry to prove that she can do it herself and fights hard for superstardom.

I was thinking this earlier but I really think that in the years to come, Gaga is going to have a career similar to Cher. I can see Gaga doing a few movies when she's older and doing very well in them indeed, you only need to tell from each performance she does what a great actress she is. She's a talented girl

I'm really loving Fashion! now, I think it's the piano that does it for me...beautiful

Still haven;'t got the album yet

I am also waiting for ARTRAVE to be uploading in it's entirety on you tube. People seem to be only uploading half of it.

Her Howard Stern interview is brilliant. She's being very candid about Madonna, Perez, her career, Taylor etc.

It's great --- full interview here--- performances of Dope and Gypsy near the end

https://soundcloud.com/smoprah/lady-...ard-stern-2013

She only did 9 songs --- they are here if you have missed any

http://gagadaily.com/index.php?showtopic=72690

It's very refreshing hearing how candid she's being. Howard's getting great answers out of her by asking good questions.

A pointless discussion really, but in case anyone hasn't heard this from a few years back.

BBC World Service - Newshour Discussion Kate Bush/Lady Gaga - May 2011.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YmRwRvDga4

Gaga's Top 10 Best Selling UK Singles (as released today by the OCC):

01. Poker Face 1.1m
02. Bad Romance 1.0m
03. Just Dance 935k
04. Telephone 694k
05. Born This Way 690k
06. Paparazzi 585k
07. The Edge of Glory 580k
08. Alejandro 436k
09. Judas 302k
10. Applause 215k

Pap and EOG coming for those platinum certificates.

Mine was posted first class Saturday by Amazon. Still no cd.

Artpop has now made it's debut on my Cd shelf. It arrived an hour ago.

The interview with Stern was brilliant. Howard is just amazing anyway, but the chemistry they have and the honesty she has with him was great.

I loved, and I think it was about 15 minutes in, when she said something along the lines of being really happy they're having a good interview because of all the crap press people have to do for promotion. Great stuff.

The album thread has turned very sour. I am fed up with constant talk of Madonna, Katy Perry, Sales figures and what a 'poor effort' ARTPOP (apparently) is. I just want to talk about what should be a fun exciting time for Gaga's career with a new album etc. Mind you the internet is another world all on it's own tbh!

Don't worry. It's just a cycle of who to bitch about

Last year it was Madonna and earlier this year, it was all about Rihanna.

People are entitled to the opinions, but it's all this sales talk boring me, which is why i am ignoring the thread until it all dies down.

Despite this talk of sales, Billboard still predicts she'll get #1 http://www.billboard.com/articles/ne...source=twitter

I'm actually surprised she could surpass Eminem

Yeah, I suppose it's Gaga's turn to get another bashing!

Yeah, she did well to surpass Eminem (so far). that's good news!

Isn't the bridge of ''ARTPOP'' marvellous? The ''brushes of darkness'' bit?

That is great pop music right there.

The bitching coming in at all sides is just sapping out any remaining fun. If it isn't someone dragging her, it's a fan having a meltdown. So much melodrama over a bloody album.

I'm trying to stay clear of volatile threads/sites for a while because it's just becoming a drain to debate, complain and defend constantly. It's not like it achieves anything. Plus, I can feel the negativity impacting my enjoyment of the music, which I don't want.

Ah well. Here's to 'Cheek to Cheek' in January!

It comes and goes, swings and roundabouts. It's difficult right now, but she'll come back fighting! It might benefit her in the long run too as well, or at least i hope so! She might come across as believing her own hype and that she's invincible, and whether that's a correct assumption or not, she's not stupid.

She knows what people are saying about her and she'll act accordingly. This will be a difficult time for her, after her initial explosion into public conscience.

Here is a great Howard Stern interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYEgr...ature=youtu.be It's been mentioned here before but here's the link for it. It's long but it's great. She's very relaxed and open and talks about her earlier songs, the BTWB, her struggle to get signed and get her music out there, Perez, etc. Whenever she gets all arty and obscure, it's really a conscious decision on her part, because this interview and Graham Norton show that she's more than capable of being informal and down to earth.

It renewed my faith in her because I was finding that kinda subconsciously I was getting really down on ARTPOP and everything, and this interview reminded me why I think she's awesome and this is just a dip in the road and I believe she'll come back fighting! I don't think ARTPOP is the best album she's done, but I'm enjoying it more now than I initially did, so I think it's a slow burner.

Good interview with Miranda Sawyer on The Culture show the other day.

Yes I agree! It was a tad odd but I thought the questions were interesting and she obviously enjoyed the interview too even if she did look exhausted!

It was certainly interesting, anyway. I nearly died at the long silence at the start though.

Anyone know of she's performing another song on SNL? An Applause performance might be a good idea since the song is still floating around top 10 in America.

She's performing DWUW with R Kelly and Gypsy on SNL.

Brilliant choices. This will be the first performance/promo for DWUW in the US and it'll be interesting to see if it triggers the song to smash. Right now it's #14 on iTunes with only 30 million AI, just waiting to be pushed. Hopefully this'll mean Gypsy is the second single, too. She should probably perform it in ballad form so as to wow people but not push the studio version prematurely.

Applause is really holding up. Radio is loving it. Bodes well for her.