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October 27, 2009
- Lady Gaga wears a dress by Francesco Scognamiglio with stars by Philip Treacy, and sunglasses by Versace.
June 7, 2011
- Main article: Oprah Radio on Sirus XM
Gaga arrived wearing a "Born This Way" skirt near noon to the Sirius Studios in New York. She also signed a couple of autographs on her way in. Inside, Oprah Radio hosted a special one hour event from 1:00 to 2:00 pm ET with host Gayle King and a small intimate studio audience of listeners. During the interview, fans were able to call-in and ask question to Gaga. This was the second interview Gayle King did with Gaga. After the show, Gaga spent some time to sign autographs and take pictures with fans.
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- Personnel — Hair by Frederic Aspiras, makeup by Tara Savelo
- Lady Gaga wears a dress by Haus of Gaga customized by Xzotic Ink by Natalie Lapelosa, platforms by Noritaka Tatehana, and sunglasses by Versace.
- Lady Gaga wears a bra by Calvin Klein, platforms by Noritaka Tatehana, and a blazer by Maison Martin Margiela.
- Now Gaga wears custom tights and platform pumps by MUGLER, and sunglasses by Chanel.
July 18, 2011
- Lady Gaga wears an outfit by House of Etiquette, boots by Pleaser, earrings and necklace by Versace, sunglasses and case by Chanel, and a fan by Louis Vuitton, while she holds her custom jacket by Christian Benner.
August 19, 2013
Gaga was interviewed on Sirius Hits 1 channel, Howard Stern's radio show and OutQ.
- Lady Gaga wears an outfit and belt by Balmain, boots by Azzedine Alaïa, and sunglasses by Tom Ford.
November 8, 2013
- Town Hall Meeting & Track by Track Playback
Arriving at Sirius XM
Lady Gaga going to Sirius XM Satellite Radio.
Sirius XM
She was interviewed by the Sirius Hits 1 XM crew.
- Lady Gaga wears a dress by Rakel Sölvadóttir, and pumps by Prada.
Track-By-Track ARTPOP Сommentary
On December 1st, 2013 Lady Gaga posted a tweet with the announcement of Track-By-Track ARTPOP Сommentary video which was published on "ARTPOP Jesus" YouTube channel on November 30th, 2013.
Lady Gaga took to Sirius XM to do Track-By-Track overview of her album ARTPOP. She guides the listeners through the album, explaining the meanings and inspirations behind every track on the album and finishes off explaining the concept of the album: every track on ARTPOP represents one adrenaline rush (adrenaline of sex, adrenaline of art, adrenaline of fashion, adrenaline of drugs, etc.)
Track-By-Track ARTPOP Commentary by Lady Gaga
Track-By-Track ARTPOP Сommentary Transcription
Hi, I’m Lady Gaga, and this is a track-by-track of my new album, ARTPOP.
“Aura” is, the first experience that you have on the [ ARTPOP ] app; on the app you can download for free on iTunes or on Google Play, whatever your device is. So, I guess I wrote this song, as a way to sort of accompany, that initial experience; in the song I say, [lyric from Aura] “The girl behind the aura / Do you want to see the girl who lives behind the aura?” So, this is really a song that is about a lot of different things, but what it is really, is that people have a certain perception of me, because I wear a lot of very visual fashion, and I’m a very creative person. So, this song is about me basically saying, that just because all of those things are there that doesn’t mean there’s not, sort of the same person underneath; and then also that, these veils are just protecting me from the thing that I hold most sacred: which is my creativity. And so it’s really, my aura, is the way that I deal with my insanity — and I feel quite insane — so, the song sounds quite insane. It’s a complextual record that I did with DJ Zedd and Infected Mushroom, and there’s sort of this Israeli guitar, that’s looping in and out of this, really complex beat; and you know, I’m kind of a complex personality, very intense personality. So, this song is both of those things. One of the lyrics is, [lyrics from Aura] “Enigma pop star is fun, she wear burqa for fashion / It’s not a statement as much as just a move of passion,” you know, everyone thinks everything I do is a statement, but sometimes I’m just moved by something passionate and I want to express it.
“Venus” is the first song that I’ve done that I’ve produced myself. I did work on it a little bit with Madeon, he did some co-production, but this is really like: my record. And this song is, a hybrid of a couple different things. One of those things is Venus, the goddess of love, as we know in Roman and Greek mythology; and then, it’s also about the planets. So, this song is about faith, but it’s also about finding faith in other places — in the beyond — and, my experience with love being something that took me a really long time to find. So, it’s really psychedelic, and it really takes you on a journey, and I sampled Sun-Ra, “Rocket Number Nine,” which was later re-done by a French group, Zombie Zombie. So I kind of got this, a lot of different inspiration from the sort of futuristic-disco-meets-late-70s and jazz and this really kind of gooey deep-groove, and I spent a lot of time working on that bassline, making it just what I wanted it to be. So, I sing, [lyrics from Venus] “Goddess of love, take me to your leader / take me to your planet / take me to your leader / take me to your Venus.” So, this song’s really about sex, but it’s about sex in the most mythological way.
“G.U.Y.;” I did this record with Zedd, you know him from “Clarity,” that’s a great song. What I really like about “G.U.Y.,” is it’s really about new-wave, like third new-wave feminism, which is that we don’t feel the need — for me, anyway — to be on top all the time, or be in charge, or take control like a man. I’m a power-bottom, I like to be underneath. So, G.U.Y stands for “Girl Under You;” so in the song I say, [lyric from G.U.Y.] “I wanna be that G, U, Y / The girl under you, guy.” So, the record’s all about being comfortable being underneath, because you’re strong enough to know, that you don’t have to be on top to know you’re worth it. And, it’s great because I worked on it with Zedd, but, again, because I co-produced on the record, it’s really fun, I think, for Zedd’s fans to hear how different this is from his other stuff; you know, you can just hear two people really collaborating, and having a true exchange between auras.
“Sexxx Dreams” is about, sex dreams [chuckles] — so shocker — but the record, when I was working on it, started out as this mamba groove and we all just kind of spent a lot of time in the room together really, like, letting the groove, hypnotize us; and I started writing, and everyone will tell you when I wrote it, they just, didn’t really know where I was going with it for like three hours, they just, were just, not understanding. And then, once I hit the chorus, they were like: “Oh, yeah! I get it I get it I get it — it all makes sense...” Anytime we’ve tried to remove or replace different parts of the song, it just, never quite flowed the same way, and the chorus never hit as hard; so it’s a really special tune, it’s really a journey. And, I’m alternating between speaking and singing. And when I’m speaking, I’m talking to one person, and when I’m singing, I’m talking to the other, and then it reverses for the second verse. So, I’m talking to my boyfriend, who’s in the bed with me, or my girlfriend, whoever, and the other person that I’m talking to, is the person that’s in the sex dream, who I’m having these fantasies about, and I feel like a criminal. So, this song is about, the type of sex dreams that I have, also which are maybe, not what other people’s sex dreams are like mine are really freaky and out there and crazy. So, it kind of takes you through this journey through my mind, and then, at the end, it sort of gets you into that headspace of, thinking when I have a sex dream about somebody, then the next day I run into them: it’s going to be really awkward. So, it says, [lyrics from Sexxx Dreams] “Watch me act a fool, tomorrow when I run into you, tomorrow when I run into you.” So, at the end of the song, kind of like, everything comes together; whether it’s the guy I’m talking to, or the lover, in my mind, the sex dream lover, in the end I’m thinking about how foolish I’m gonna be, whether or not I run into either of them.
Now, the next song, “Jewels N' Drugs,” this is also a song I did with DJ White Shadow, and he really shines on hip-hop records, and he hails from Chicago, so there’s a lot of trap influence on this song; but it really starts on kind of in a space where trap music started, and really grows into a more electronic, sort of innovative progressive-trap song. And I was really excited to work with T.I., to work with Too $hort, who’s really amazing, and Twista, who’s from Chicago. So, you know, that’s a very special song for me. Also, because a lot of times when I have these hip-hop collaborations, they like, dissipate, into thin air; and I think it’s because, these rappers like, go back into their crews, and their groups, and everybody goes like, “I don’t know if you should work with Lady Gaga, ‘cause she’s got like, gay fans, and you know, I don’t know if that’s gonna be a good look for you,” but these guys are totally fearless, and they just don’t care about any of that, and they really wanted to make a record that was inclusive, that involved everybody, and they weren’t afraid to bring those communities together and put them in one room, and I really appreciate that.
The next record is, “MANiCURE.” This song is written, actually, in a couple of different ways. It’s written on the album as “MANiCURE:” capital M,A,N; lower case I; capital C,U,R,E. So, it’s either: “manicure,” “man I cure,” or [Gaga says like in song] “MANiCURE!” And this song is about getting ready to go out and catch a man, or catch a girl, you know, to fool around with; and so, while I’m singing all about, you know, [lyrics from MANiCURE] “Put some lipstick on / Perfume your neck and slip your high heels on.” This record’s all about getting ready to go out, and your manicuring your body, and your manicuring your spirit, and your mind, and then the chorus hits, and it’s all about being really shooken by this person that you run into; and how you need it, you want it, you have to have it. And it’s just sort of a mantra that repeats back and forth, about how you’re gonna get laid tonight.
“Do What U Want” featuring R. Kelly, which is a song that I wrote in Chicago, and I finished it on the airplane to Milan. It started out as a groove that DJ White Shadow sent me, and I was just so obsessed with it, but I just didn’t know what it was gonna be yet. I thought this could be so many different things, and I, I ended up writing an R&B song to it; and I was like, “Oh fuck, I don’t even know if anyone will take this seriously... I’ve never really made a true R&B song before,” but everybody loved this record. And it’s really, the lyrics are not only about, you know, the way that I feel now — sexually as a woman, in my life — it’s kind of like one of the greatest gifts you can give to a man, that you love, is just like, “Do what you want with me, I don’t care.” And then, at the same time, it’s about the press and it’s about becoming more and more famous, and really needing to figure out a way to, in my mind, to handle all of those things, and I’ve really, kind of navigated all of that by knowing that: they do what they want with my body, but that’s just the vehicle for my music and my records, but my mind and my heart, that’s what I get to keep, that’s the part that’s sacred, that’s what they can never have. So, I asked R. Kelly to be on this not only because I’m a big fan, but because he’s from Chicago, and Paul’s from Chicago, and I was living there, so it just kind of made sense. And, this is something that we both really have in common, you know, a lot of people write a lot of lies about me all the time, and a lot of people kind of write about him all the time; so, we really really connected with this song, and it became like an emotional experience for me. For the both of us, on the set, we had a great chemistry, shooting the video, and I’m really excited for people to see it, and to hear it. So, here’s “Do What U Want” featurong R. Kelly.
[“ARTPOP”] So, this is the swan song of the album. This record was one of the first songs, I think that it was the first song that I wrote. This is also production by DJ White Shadow, and I worked on this with him, probably the longest out of all the songs. It was very interesting the way that it all kind of happened; once we made it, we really didn’t want to do anything to it, and I’m not really like the, I like to edit and change and let things grow, but “ARTPOP” is really an inferno, and it’s the only song on the record that I didn’t really want it to go anywhere, or “explode” or orgasm because in a way that’s kind of like composing something that would be just like every other, sort of, orgasm that I’ve ever had; and, because it’s really the center of the record, I really wanted there to be a more infinite tone to this concept of ARTPOP, that: we can put art in the front, and not have the corporate world controlling art anymore. How can we, the artists, beckon for our ideas, and for our visions to be the most important thing, the thing that’s driving, driving culture, that’s driving these corporations. I didn’t really want it to grow too much. I wanted it to kind of hypnotize people, and kind of become like a mantra; and I say, [lyric from ARTPOP] “We could belong together (ARTPOP).” So, it’s really a metaphor for love, between me and my fans; if we can belong together, then maybe art and pop can belong together, in that order.
So, “Swine,” this is actually a very personal song on the album, and it is about some of the more troubling, and challenging, sexual experiences I had earlier in my life, and it’s really kind of an angry, emotional, song where I’m sort of screaming and squealing throughout the track; and I’m trying to make fun of it, and turn it into a dance song as it’s all happening, but inevitably you arrive at this chorus, where, you really feel a sense of gravity in the middle of the song. I say, [lyrics from Swine] “I know you want me / You’re just a pig inside a human body / Squealer, squealer, squeal out, you’re so disgusting / You’re just a pig inside / Swine.” And then I sing “swine,” over and over again, in this really, intense kind of emotional voice. This song was really important for me, it was like an exorcism; and the groove and the beat is just so so hard, and it’s so so thrashing, and it’s so so chaotic; and, it’s such a release for me whenever I play it, I just start banging on these drums and start screaming and squealing and, I love this record.
[“Donatella”] So, I wrote this song with DJ Zedd, and I wanna say we were in Singapore when I did this record, or maybe we were in Thailand, we might have been in Thailand, and when we were working on it, I didn’t know quite what it was about yet, and then as we started writing it, I really wanted this to be about Donatella, who’s my friend, Donatella Versace, and something that we both have in common, this. I guess this theme also is on “Do What U Want (song)” a little bit — but this feeling of being misunderstood; but instead of hitting back at everybody about it, I’m sort of making fun of what they say about the both of us. So, I say, [lyrics from Donatella] “I’m a rich bitch, I’m the upper class / I’m the pearl of your oyster, I’m a babe / I smoke Marlboro Reds and drink champagne.” So, it’s just kind of ludicrous and over-the-top, and ridiculous, and sort of nothing that you would ever want anyone to write about you as a person, but they write about us this way all the time. So, instead of allowing it to make us feel smaller, I’m shouting it from the rooftops over these really bone-crushing beats; and, it’s just a really fun song, and she’s a really good friend of mine, and she’s really picked me up during times that were very hard in my life. So, I also wanted to really tribute her on my record; so, here’s “Donatella.”
[“Fashion!”] This song, is called “Fashion!” and I wrote this song with will.i.am. This is our first song we ever did together, we’ve been trying to kind of work together for a few years, but we’re both very picky and, I just wasn’t ready yet, I didn’t find the right song, it wasn’t the right thing yet, but this was the right song, and the right groove, the right track... It just, it felt really good; and we worked on it for awhile together, and we made it perfect, and we really spent a lot of time editing it until it was just right. And, you know, this really is just a really fun song about being able to get dressed up, and feeling like you own the world; and I think sometimes people always thought that when I was getting dressed up or, you know, putting on my outfits, or doing my live shows, that it was for attention, but I really feel a sense of growth, and a sense of confidence in myself when I’m able to transform, and thats what this is about; and I think that other people do too maybe, just on a smaller scale than I do. So, here it is, “Fashion! (song)” from ARTPOP.
The twelfth track on ARTPOP is called, “Mary Jane Holland.” I wrote this song with Madeon. He’s an amazing amazing DJ from France, amazing producer, amazing, just, musician. He’s very very young and very very sweet, and I absolutely adore him; and when I was in Amsterdam, I called him and I was telling him, you know, “I had some ideas about what I wanted to do on the album.” And I said, “You know what? Just send me whatever you want.” And he sent me these synth beat ideas, and I was in Amsterdam, and I started writing, and then I dyed my hair brown [chuckles] like, literally, outta nowhere, I was just, “Freddie,” he does my hair, I just said, “Let’s go. Let’s just, I don’t wanna be blonde anymore.” And he said, “How come?” And I said, “I just feel like the world owns my blondeness, and it’s not mine anymore, and I didn’t want to feel owned. And I wanna go out today, and I wanna have a good time, and I don’t want anyone to know it’s me, I just need one night of just, freedom, and I don’t wanna be wearing another fucking wig while I’m doing it.” So, he dyed my hair and I went out, and I just got, super-stoned, and drank a bunch and we went out to my favorite sex clubs and strip clubs and had a great, great time and all night I kept calling myself, “Mary Jane Holland.” And everybody kept calling me “Mary Jane Holland.” So, it became this alter-ego of who I became when I was smoking weed, and, it really became a source of comfort for me that I could smoke and take something that would really help with my anxiety, and help really bring me down from the pressures of being a star; and, whenever I smoke, I really forget that I’m famous. And that’s maybe not a good thing [chuckles], but I, I really love that, I really loved just feeling kind of normal, and like I could go out and do whatever I want, and I could be stupid or I could be dumb, or be smart and be fun, and it wouldn’t matter. So, in this record I say, [lyrics from Mary Jane Holland] “I think that I could be fine / If I could be Mary Jane Holland tonight.” And it’s, it’s true, I would say to myself, “You know what if I could just grab a toke, and be a brunette, I think I’d be okay, just for like, one evening.”
The next song on my album, ARTPOP, is “Dope.” So, then you sort of get to the sad, end part of that story, which is that I became really addicted to marijuana. I know that sounds kind of crazy, because people think you can’t be addicted to it, but I guess I wanted to, kind of be honest about it because, I think a lot of people think you can’t be, and I started to use it as a coping mechanism for my anxiety and I’d smoke like fifteen to twenty joints a day, just numbing numbing numbing my body, my spirit, everything; and, eventually it makes you even more paranoid and sweaty, and kind of, worse than you were before you started smoking; and, I lived high for like a whole year, doing that, maybe a little longer. And, it was really hard for people around me to see me in kind of a withdrawn state all the time, even if I was creating, and I was happy making music and doing what I did, it was hard for them to talk to me, and, you know, I’m usually like, a really articulate person, and I wasn’t so articulate anymore, and I was just kind of not really [there] all the time. So, I wrote this song as an, “I’m sorry,” to all the people in my life that I really love is that I’m sorry to my fans, to my boyfriend, to my parents, and I sing at the end, that [lyric from Dope] “I need you more than dope,” and that’s the truth. So, here’s “Dope,” from ARTPOP.
So, this is the second to last song on the album, this is “Gypsy.” And I started writing “Gypsy” with RedOne, and then I finished writing it with DJ White Shadow and Madeon, and myself, obviously, and we finished the production together. I did a lot of the guitar parts on this song, it was sort of my main passion on this record, was getting some really exciting acoustic parts, and my buddy Tim, he plays guitar, he’s so so talented. And this song is about, you know, traveling the world, and sometimes feeling really really lonely, but being okay with being alone because I have my fans, and because, when I get to that different country everyday: they are my home, just for the day. So, I say, you know, [lyrics from Gypsy] “Be my home, just for the day / I’m a gypsy gypsy gypsy / Hey.” And this record’s all about falling in love, but it’s also about what I think the key is to staying in love, and that’s not trying to stop the other person from being on their own journey, not trying to stop them from being who they are, or trying to change them. That’s really been the new success in my love life. It’s been in allowing the other person to be on their journey, and you be on yours, and that you just be really happy when you’re together and not try to change one another.
Well, this is the last track on the album. This was [always] going to be the last track, this is called “Applause.” When I was on tour, and my hip was breaking, I didn’t really know why, because I was smoking up a storm, making sure that I couldn’t feel a damn thing all day long. [chuckles] Once I really realized what had been going on, and I realized how I was feeling, before on stage, I realized that it was the applause of the fans that really kept me going, because I would be ready to go onstage, and just be crying hysterically, like not understanding even, how I was feeling. I was feeling very dizzy, I had a lot of vertigo; I had pain, but, it’s like, fuck if I know what hurts the most, because I’ve been on tour for a year. So, everything hurts really bad, but I didn’t want to let them down. And I just couldn’t cancel, because the thought of leaving 50,000 or 30,000 or 12,000 or 8,000 kids in the arena just broke my heart. So, I went out every night, and I played and I played and I played until I couldn’t walk one night, and that was it. I realized in this moment that I live for the applause, but I don’t live for the attention; like, the way that people just, they just love you, because, you know, you’re “famous.” I live for, actually performing for people; and them applauding because, they’ve been entertained. And so, I wanted to make a song about entertainment, and about show business, and about the banging of the gong, and the critics, and how all of that sort of, weaves its way in and out of your life as you become a bigger and bigger entertainer, but that, ultimately what I live for is knowing that I’ve done something that’s made you truly happy, and made you truly have an experience with the stage, with the lights, with each other. So, this is the way I like to end the album.
[Concept of ARTPOP] So, you’ve been through all these adrenaline rushes: from, the adrenaline of taking the veil off the girl in “Aura,” and entering her “Venus,” then, the adrenaline of me getting underneath and knowing that I’m strong underneath the man, and that I don’t have to be on top; the adrenaline of laying in bed next to somebody and having thoughts about someone else; the adrenaline of sitting in my apartment in Chicago and eating pancakes and pouring honey all over them, and just hanging out, and saying, you know, “It’s nothing if it isn’t with your family, I have my family, I still have my friends, so I have everything.” Then, the adrenaline of getting ready to go out to bag a chick or a guy; the adrenaline of knowing that no matter what they say about me, I’ll always have my heart and my mind; the infernal-like adrenaline of “ARTPOP,” this mantra, this hypnosis, where, I’m able to just be content with my adrenaline, which is something I struggle with, which is that crazy feeling, that just makes me want to drink, the thing that makes me crazy; the adrenaline of “Swine,” which is the adrenaline of fear, the adrenaline of an uncertainty, of not knowing if you can survive; and there’s the adrenaline of “Donatella,” it's that feeling of being able to turn what people say about you: your blondeness, your money, your weight, whatever that is, and turning it into something positive, and fighting back; the adrenaline in “Fashion!” of being able to put something on and feel like a totally different person, that you own the world; the adrenaline of MJH, “Mary Jane Holland,” of taking a puff, and dying your hair brown and being able to go out with nobody recognizing you; the only place the adrenaline drops is on the album is the “Dope,” that’s where the adrenaline kind of comes down, and that’s why that song sounds like a comedown; and then in “Gypsy” we start to become joyful again, we start to turn those tears back into what we know is our reality, and the high that I’ve gotten from traveling the world, and knowing that I have a home anywhere, and that I don’t have to feel alone anymore; and so, after that big drop at the end, that comedown and that sad, sad song, “Gypsy” [inaudible] the show.
Hi, this is Lady Gaga. Thank you so much for hanging out for the track-by-track of my new album ARTPOP. I hope you like what you heard and remember, you can tweet me what you thought by using hashtag Lady Gaga on Hits 1.
Leaving Sirius XM
Gaga was seen leaving the studio.
- Lady Gaga wears a dress, platform sandals, and a bag by Versace.
April 4, 2014
- Main article: Lady Gaga Live at Roseland Ballroom
Sirius XM Hits 1 streamed an audio of tonight's Roseland concert on the radio.
March 21, 2014
Gaga was seen arriving at Sirius XM to do interviews to promote G.U.Y. She gave an interview to the Hits 1 station and to BPM with DJ Ben Harvey. She was also seen leaving the studio afterwards in the same outfit used in the interview.
September 12, 2016
- Lady Gaga wears a shorts by Levi's customized by Chain Gang, a bra by Victoria's Secret, a t-shirt by American Apparel, boots by John Fluevog, an earring by Martine Ali, a necklace by Cody Sanderson, and sunglasses by Moscot.
November 19, 2016
- Lady Gaga wears a sweater and boots by Saint Laurent, and a custom hat by Gladys Tamez.
June 24, 2019
- Main article: Apollo Theater
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