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The Rise and Rise of Lady Gaga
Hyperion
September 2010
On Sale: September 14, 2010
256 pages ISBN: 1401324096 EAN: 9781401324094 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
"Stop feeding me bullshit. Tell me the truth." --Lady
Gaga, 2009 "I hate the truth. I hate the truth so much I
prefer a giant dose of bullshit any day over the truth."
--Lady Gaga, 2010 In little over a year, Stefani
Germanotta, a struggling performer in New York's Lower East
Side burlesque scene, has become the global
demographic-smashing pop icon known as Lady Gaga. She is a
once-in-a-decade artist, a gifted singer, composer,
designer, and performance artist who mixes high and low
culture, the avant-garde with the accessible, authenticity
with artifice. Who is Lady Gaga? She is a
twenty-four-year-old woman whose stage mantra--"I'm a free
bitch!"--is the polar opposite of who she is offstage:
isolated, insecure, and unable to be alone. She is an outré
artist who wanted to be a sensitive singer-songwriter, whose
musical heroes include Britney Spears, Billy Joel, and Bruce
Springsteen. She is a woman who says no man can ever compete
with her career, but who still isn't over the ex-boyfriend
who said she was too ambitious. She claims not to care what
people think, but spends her downtime online, reading what
people have to say about her. She claims to be a con artist
and utterly authentic. She is never less than
compelling. Based on over fifty original
interviews with friends, employees, rivals, and music
industry veterans, Poker Face is the first in-depth
biography of the extraordinary cultural phenomenon that is
Lady Gaga.
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