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Vogue Singapore
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue Singapore
Lady Gaga beauty looks to rock to the Mayhem Ball Tour
Lady Gaga has always been in a league of her own. The pop icon—who has created a distinctive discography so electrifying and true to her bold, passionate nature—has inspired a legion of fans, all of whom have felt seen and heard through the raw energy of her music. And they've certainly all been awoken once again in recent months, ever since she dropped the thunderous dance anthem that is 'Abracadabra' as part of her Mayhem album release. Just last month, she also brought the roof down at Coachella, with her maddening theatrics and a transportive setlist that reached millions of her fans around the globe. As for what's in the air this weekend? There's no shortage of mayhem in town, as Mother Monster herself opened the hall of fame for her Mayhem Ball Tour. The little monsters have come out to play, all taking turns to fall in for the pandemonium of a night with Lady Gaga herself. And whilst we're looking at some equally ferocious outfit mania amid concert-goers—one we can only expect to see more of in the days to come—we're bound to anticipate a scene of equally dramatic beauty looks too. She's a queen in that department after all. From her own concrete references to drag culture, as well as the longstanding establishment of her very own cult beauty brand Haus Labs, all signs point to one. Throughout her own scintillating career as well, the visual transformations were never short of a head-turning beauty beat. There were the Coca Cola can rollers in 'Telephone'—one we've even spotted a little monster sporting for Day 1. Then, the memorable hair bow of 'Poker Face'. Or when Mother gave us everything she had in 'Judas', with her abstract liner designs and thinly-pencilled brows. The beauty looks to take inspiration from run the gamut, so there's no reason why you shouldn't be giving the Mayhem Ball your full glam. Catch all the inspo you need and recreate some of Lady Gaga's most iconic beauty looks from her music videos here. YouTube 1 / 10 The lightning bolt for 'Just Dance' Young Gaga had $20 and a dream. There was no debut like 'Just Dance', and she aced the indie sleaze aesthetic with some messy tightlining and concealer lips. But it was the tribute to David Bowie—in a cobalt lightning tattoo down her right eye—that's certainly made it one to remember. YouTube 2 / 10 Coca Cola can hair rollers in 'Telephone' 'Telephone' was that song for so many reasons, but there's no anarchy like Mother Monster still serving looks on prison time. Coke cans as hair rollers? Iconic. YouTube 3 / 10 Pencil-thin brows in 'Judas' It was all about the eyes for 'Judas'. Matched to her signature plum lip, the music video saw her work a flipped (under) liner look with a drawn-in pencil brow look that would go on to have much more legs in pop culture later on. YouTube 4 / 10 Undone and ethereal in 'Applause' It was raw, it was sinister. 'Applause' came jam-packed with beauty looks to cop, from a smeared face paint moment to a doll-like porcelain appearance that teemed with the mood of John Galliano's runways. YouTube 5 / 10 Hair bow in 'Pokerface' To this day, the little monsters will be sure to bring up her hair bow moment from 'Pokerface' as one of her most legendary hairdos—one she went on to do many iterations of in her career. YouTube 6 / 10 The skeleton makeover of 'Born This Way' A tribute to the queer community, Gaga epitomised the message of her song in this skeletal body art look—one she collaborated on with her late muse and friend Zombie Boy to achieve. In a single capture, she defiantly created an image that everyone shared, and could identify with. YouTube 7 / 10 The cupid bow lip in 'Paparazzi' The very picture of weird. In her scheme to poison her on-screen boyfriend Alexander Skarsgård, the ending moments of 'Paparazzi' sees Gaga rock this blonde wig, some very lengthy lashes as well as a clownish cupid bow lip in a severe shade of black. YouTube 8 / 10 The austere glamour of 'Alejandro' Oh, the gothic beauty of 'Alejandro'. According to her longtime make-up collaborator Val Garland, it was time to pare back and give in to the incredible austerity of her own beauty. Beyond her vampy cold, red lips, her brows were bleached, her lashes and hair were her own, and her skin was given a frosty-pale sheen. YouTube 9 / 10 Punk swerves in 'The Edge of Glory' If there's a Gaga look that could scream punk, this would be it. With her half-bleached wig, the purposefully mussed-up liners and crimson red pout. YouTube 10 / 10 The royal reign of 'Abracadabra' A glorious return, if there ever was one. Mother Monster made sure to ascertain her status as a fashion and beauty chameleon with this comeback—and chose to go the monochromatic route of sunset lids and a brick red lip to go with her burgundy ensemble.
Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
What Happened at Lady Gaga's Brazil Concert? Bomb Threat Explained
Authorities thwarted a bomb attack at Lady Gaga's Brazil concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. Officials report a suspected individual recruited accomplices to deploy improvised explosives during the May 3 performance, which drew massive crowds to the iconic shoreline venue. The Brazilian police averted a bomb attack on Lady Gaga's Rio de Janeiro concert. As per the local police, the teams coordinated with the justice ministry to arrest two individuals, including a teenager. Gaga's team revealed that they learned about the threat the morning after the show from media reports (via BBC). The police also disclosed that the group that was behind the attack had been encouraging hate against the LGBTQ+ community. The authorities arrested one individual from the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul who had illegal possession of a firearm; the teenager was detained for possession of child pornography. The police also noted that the group's main intention was to gain 'notoriety on social media.' Meanwhile, Gaga's team has released an official response as the news of the bomb threat surfaced in media. The spokesperson mentioned that they had no prior knowledge of the attack. 'We learned about this alleged threat via media reports this morning,' the representative for the 'Telephone' singer told The Hollywood Reporter. The rep further added, 'Prior to and during the show, there were no known safety concerns nor any communication from the police or authorities to Lady Gaga regarding any potential risks.' Gaga delivered the biggest show of her career with the Rio de Janeiro concert. The show reportedly drew over 2.5 million people to Copacabana Beach. The pop icon took to Instagram to thank fans for turning up for the biggest concert of her career. The 39-year-old entertainer gushed, 'Nothing could prepare me for the feeling I had during last night's show—the absolute pride and joy I felt singing for the people of Brazil.' She added, 'The sight of the crowd during my opening songs took my breath away.' She acknowledged the historical moment and expressed how 'grateful' she is. The singer wrote, 'An estimated 2.5 million people came to see me sing, the biggest crowd for any woman in history.' I wish I could share this feeling with the whole world—I know I can't, but I can say this—if you lose your way, you can find your way back if you believe in yourself and work hard.' The post What Happened at Lady Gaga's Brazil Concert? Bomb Threat Explained appeared first on - Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More.
Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lady Gaga's Rio de Janeiro Concert Gets Bomb Threat
Authorities thwarted a bomb attack at Lady Gaga's Brazil concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. Officials report a suspected individual recruited accomplices to deploy improvised explosives during the May 3 performance, which drew massive crowds to the iconic shoreline venue. The Brazilian police averted a bomb attack on Lady Gaga's Rio de Janeiro concert. As per the local police, the teams coordinated with the justice ministry to arrest two individuals, including a teenager. Gaga's team revealed that they learned about the threat the morning after the show from media reports (via BBC). The police also disclosed that the group that was behind the attack had been encouraging hate against the LGBTQ+ community. The authorities arrested one individual from the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul who had illegal possession of a firearm; the teenager was detained for possession of child pornography. The police also noted that the group's main intention was to gain 'notoriety on social media.' Meanwhile, Gaga's team has released an official response as the news of the bomb threat surfaced in media. The spokesperson mentioned that they had no prior knowledge of the attack. 'We learned about this alleged threat via media reports this morning,' the representative for the 'Telephone' singer told The Hollywood Reporter. The rep further added, 'Prior to and during the show, there were no known safety concerns nor any communication from the police or authorities to Lady Gaga regarding any potential risks.' Gaga delivered the biggest show of her career with the Rio de Janeiro concert. The show reportedly drew over 2.5 million people to Copacabana Beach. The pop icon took to Instagram to thank fans for turning up for the biggest concert of her career. The 39-year-old entertainer gushed, 'Nothing could prepare me for the feeling I had during last night's show—the absolute pride and joy I felt singing for the people of Brazil.' She added, 'The sight of the crowd during my opening songs took my breath away.' She acknowledged the historical moment and expressed how 'grateful' she is. The singer wrote, 'An estimated 2.5 million people came to see me sing, the biggest crowd for any woman in history.' I wish I could share this feeling with the whole world—I know I can't, but I can say this—if you lose your way, you can find your way back if you believe in yourself and work hard.' Originally reported by Arpita Adhya on ComingSoon. The post Lady Gaga's Rio de Janeiro Concert Gets Bomb Threat appeared first on Mandatory.
Forbes
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Lady Gaga's New Duet Beats Her Beyoncé Collaboration
Lady Gaga has delivered more than her fair share of pop smashes over the years, but every now and then, one rises above the pack — and 'Die With a Smile' is doing just that. The track has proved to be not just a big hit, but a sturdy one. The cut is still riding high on the Hot 100, months after it debuted, and as it does, it climbs the ranks of Gaga's longest-running hits ever. This week, the collaboration with Bruno Mars holds at No. 3 on the Hot 100, a remarkable placement for a track that's already been on the ranking for months. Just one frame ago, 'Die With a Smile' was sitting in the runner-up spot, and while it slides one rung, it's only because Drake's 'Nokia' surges to a new high of No. 2. With another week added to its tally, 'Die With a Smile' has now spent 34 frames on the Hot 100. That puts it in fifth place among Gaga's longest-charting hits. Technically, it was tied for that position last week, sharing the honor with 'Telephone,' her Beyoncé-assisted single that also marked a hugely successful period in her career. Gaga's charting discography is filled with singles that spent months on the most important tallies in America, and one smash reigns supreme. 'Just Dance,' the breakout hit that introduced the pop star to the world back in 2008, remains her longest-charting tune, with a run of 49 weeks on the Hot 100 – just shy of a full year. Close behind is 'Shallow,' her one-week, Oscar-winning No. 1 alongside Bradley Cooper, which spent 45 weeks on the tally. Then comes 'Poker Face,' another one-frame ruler, which enjoyed 40 weeks on the chart before stepping aside. If 'Die With a Smile' continues charting next week — and all signs point to that happening — it will reach 35 weeks on the Hot 100. That stretch would tie it with 'Bad Romance' as Gaga's fourth-longest-running track. 'Bad Romance' famously peaked at No. 2, despite its status as one of her most celebrated tunes. It stayed on the tally for 35 weeks before making its exit. Now, more than a decade after the cut changed pop music forever, 'Die With a Smile' is about to match it — and possibly pass it. With the song still sitting comfortably inside the top three, there's little reason to think it's going anywhere anytime soon. The Mars-assisted cut is still a huge winner across streaming sites and especially at radio, and there's every reason to believe it will continue to find space on the Hot 100 for several more weeks, if not months.
New York Times
23-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Yoko Ono, Demonized No Longer
Here's the thing about Yoko Ono, the artist and widow of the murdered rock star John Lennon (usually not identified in that order), and the subject of David Sheff's new biography. She is funny — ha-ha, not peculiar. Asked by an interviewer if she'd ever forgive Lennon's killer Mark David Chapman, since Pope John Paul II had visited the jail of his own would-be assassin to offer absolution, Ono replied: 'I'm not the pope.' Promoting an ephemeral Museum of Modern Art 'exhibit' in 1971, in part to protest the underrepresentation of women and Asian people there, she posed in front with a strategically placed shopping bag so that the building signage read 'Museum of Modern (F) Art.' (This was years before 'Family Guy'!) Elton John recounted in his memoir, 'Me,' how he'd wondered why Ono had sold the herd of Holstein cows she'd bought, trying to invest ethically. 'All that mooing,' she told him. For Ono, now 92 and mostly out of the public eye, to have written her own 'Me' would have been profoundly out of character. Her art was crowdsourced long before that was a word. 'Self-Portrait' was a mirror in a manila envelope that reflected the viewer. She invited audiences to step on a painting, play a form of the child's game Telephone, climb into a bag, cut off her clothing or otherwise 'finish' her visions. Following Lennon's death in 1980, trusted intimates flouted confidentiality agreements, stole the couple's memorabilia and wrote tell-alls that Ono fought hard to suppress. ('Best book I'll ever burn,' their son, Sean, told one particularly egregious betrayer in court.) Long racistly reviled as the dragon lady who broke up the Beatles, Ono has enjoyed a reputational spiffing in the 2020s. In the luscious documentary 'The Beatles: Get Back,' she is mostly Where's Waldo-like in the frame, but occasionally wails into the mic as the bandmates jam. There have been retrospectives of her own art, as a participant of the Fluxus movement and beyond, at the Japan Society and Tate Modern. Sheff is a prolific journalist and author who conducted one of the last significant interviews with John and Yoko, for Playboy, and became good friends with her. His memoir, 'Beautiful Boy,' about his son's methamphetamine addiction, was named with her blessing for one of Lennon's last songs. Having received her astrological and numerological clearance, he became enough of a regular at the Dakota to see the changing of the slipcovers from denim in winter to white linen in summer. There have been other biographies of Ono, most recently by the critic Donald Brackett. But with cooperation from her children and brother, her ex-husband Tony Cox, her former partner and decorator Sam Havadtoy, her stepson Julian Lennon, colleagues from the art and music worlds, and such longtime friends as the feminist writer Kate Millett, Sheff's is the closest to an authorized one the world will get. The book is predictably sympathetic, but not fawning, mostly written in a straightforward prose, with sentences like 'The oppression of women by men was the subject of many of her songs, films, writing and artworks.' And yet sympathy for Ono seems wholly justified. 'As a woman she wasn't just dismissed,' the art dealer Mary Boone tells Sheff. 'She was demonized.' Yoko, meaning 'ocean child,' was born in 1933 in Tokyo to wealthy but cold parents. She didn't meet her father until she was 2½, and her mother was vain and germophobic. 'Even now I find it unpleasant to sit on a cushion or chair that still retains the temperature of somebody who had just been sitting there,' Ono once wrote. At 12, she watched bombs falling on Tokyo; after evacuation to the countryside she had to beg and barter for food, take care of her siblings and suffer through pleurisy and other ailments. There would be suicide attempts and time in a mental hospital. After the war, Ono dropped out from both a philosophy program at Gakushuin University and the boho Sarah Lawrence College. The journalist Betty Rollin, a classmate there, found her 'someone without mooring, drifting, lost and striving.' Ono's finishing school would be Greenwich Village; her musical god not Elvis Presley but John Cage. She married twice before Lennon, to Toshi Ichiyanagi, a Juilliard pianist, and Cox, an art promoter who fathered her daughter, Kyoko, whom she took onstage as a baby 'as an instrument — an uncontrollable instrument, you know,' and from whom she was long estranged. Many of her artistic experiments now seem prescient, like offering shares of herself at $250 each. Long before Maurizio Cattelan duct-taped a banana to a wall, she made 'Apple,' a piece of fresh fruit on a stand at the Indica gallery in London. (Lennon, naughtily and biblically, took a chomp.) I am not an Ono-phile who wants to wallow overmuch in this kind of art, but applaud Sheff's book as an important corrective to years of bad P.R. He's done the opposite of a hatchet job, putting his subject back together branch by branch, like a forester. (Climbing trees is a big theme in her work.) He argues convincingly for her as survivor, feminist, avant-gardist, political activist and world-class sass. When people criticized her for licensing 'Instant Karma' to Nike in 1987, she retorted, 'I got $800,000 which went to the United Negro College Fund. … You have a problem with that?' The internet, in particular, seemed built for Ono's participatory visions. When Donald Trump was first elected in 2016, she tweeted a 19-second audio clip of herself screaming.
