Lady Gaga set her league of little monsters atwitter last month when she let slip that she’s already completed work on the full-length follow-up to her smash debut, The Fame. That disc won’t be out until next year, though, so we have yet another stopgap from the woman who’s done as much as anyone lately to keep the music industry afloat. The Remix collects 10 club-ready interpretations of tracks from The Fame and its expanded reissue, The Fame Monster; it’s a cash grab, but one that handily reminds you how much Gaga has done to push American pop back toward the dance floor.

The best cuts — such as Starsmith’s retro-’80s take on ”Bad Romance” and a haunting version of ”Paparazzi” by Madonna collaborator Stuart Price — emphasize the contradiction at the core of Gaga’s hits, in which jubilant Eurodisco grooves can’t quite conceal a touch of stage-kid melancholy. Elsewhere you get brainless beat worship (Richard Vission’s six-minute ”Just Dance”) and iffy indie-electro experimentation (Passion Pit’s ”Telephone”). But hey, all those baby beasts need feeding, right? B–

If you haven’t purchased your copy of ‘The Remix’ yet, make sure you pre-order it on iTunes now!

With their grey hair and glasses, they are decades older than her average fanbase. But these cowboys were thrilled to meet Lady Gaga when she popped into their local bar yesterday. The pop star was just as happy – when she first visited The Round-Up Saloon in Dallas, Texas, she was an unknown aspiring artist. Two years later she dropped in for a drink fresh from her huge stadium performance at the American Airlines Center.

This time she received a huge reception, with one over-eager fan even climbing up to the roof area to get her to sign her arm. The owners Alan Pierce and Gary Miller first met Gaga when her tour manager contacted them to ask if she could perform a slot in summer 2008. They said they weren’t keen, as ‘the next Madonna’ wasn’t the usual type of act to perform at the bar. But the two gave Gaga a chance and she played a couple of songs.

Two years later she was back in the city as part of her world tour, and surprised them by booking out the roof area and arriving with her 15-strong entourage, including her mother, to celebrate her whirlwind success. Pierce told Thecount.com: ‘She was nice and wonderful now, as she was before she became a big star.’
And Gaga even got a memento of her visit – a belt buckle.

Up and coming pop singer, Sky Ferreira, talks about Gaga in a recent interview with PAPERMAG:

What’s your take on the current Gaga-fied pop world with all the glitz and glamour? You kept it simple with the video for the Rankin-directed “One”.

I love the whole dramatic over the top thing. I like songs to be like chapters. Some simple, some extreme. I want each video and song to be something completely unexpected. Not meaning unexpected for “shock factor” — more just to experiment. I don’t want to do something to just shock people. I’ll only do something because I think it’s awesome and I want to do it. Not like “Oh, OK. I need to do this and that so I can get their attention.” That’s why I love Lady Gaga because I think it’s the same with her. She’s made everyone have to step up their game.

SHOWstudio.com is set to launch its latest film project- The Fashion Body- this summer, bringing together the union of the body, fashion and the moving image. The project features a whole host of celebrity friends enlisted to help create the video montage with creative director Nick Knight taking charge of the wondrous visual creation.

A film of Lady Gaga eating an animal heart, super model Lily Cole and renowned designer Gareth Pugh are just a few of the exclusive contributors making their own personal short film for SHOWstudio.com, aiming to celebrate their chosen body part through items of fashion.

The Fashion Body runs as as extension to their current exhibition Inside/Out, an idea in which the conventional aspects of beauty are challenged by using body parts and internal organs as graphic imagery. An unusual take on beauty but none the less a rather intriguing one.

The Home of Fashion Film looks set to showcase their latest venture throughout summer, with films debuting every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, providing a delightful insight into elusive celebrities and their take on the weird and wonderful happenings in fashion.

Lady Gaga has jetted round the world FIVE times in just one year. The Poker Face star has racked up 130,000 air miles in the past 12 months, travelling to 78 different cities on her Monster Ball World Tour.

That’s the equivalent of circling the earth’s circumference almost five times over.

At one point she flew from Germany to New York City on May 12 to perform with Elton John and Sting on May 13 – then the next day flew back to Europe to play in the Netherlands. And while the 24-year-old has taken in four of the world’s seven continents in the last year, it has not been without its dangers.

She was forced to cancel a gig in Indiana in January after she collapsed backstage. She revealed on social networking site Twitter: ‘An hour before the show, I was feeling dizzy and having trouble breathing.’ Paramedics warned her she was suffering from exhaustion and dehydration.

Her Monster Ball tour is set continue into 2011.

Spiritual guru, Deepak Chopra discusses his relationship with international pop icon Lady Gaga, admiring her innovative talent and even comparing her lyrics to the poetry of the Beatles. Deepak excitedly admires what she has accomplished at such a young age and describes her as a ”combination of wisdom, angst, rebellion, exquisite music, and great performance.”

Lady Gaga’s first ever remix album is finally being released in America on August 3rd. Make sure you get a copy by pre-ordering it here!

Newsweek — Many of us keep track of what tops the box-office and iTunes charts, but can anybody even guess what’s the most-viewed YouTube video of all time? No, it doesn’t involve a baby or a kid doing something hilarious. The answer is “Bad Romance,” the music video starring Lady Gaga shimmying in what looks like an underground brothel. As of press time it had been viewed 244,529,375 times. The runner-up, and catching up fast, is the music video for Justin Bieber’s song “Baby,” with 243,479,950 views. No. 3 features a real baby (“Charlie Bit My Finger—Again”), though there’s another video, Miley Cyrus’s “Party in the U.S.A.,” at No. 5, with 138 million views. Of course, music videos make up only a fraction of YouTube’s audience as the second-largest search engine after Google, but the Web site has singlehandedly revived the genre—with a little help from a woman who wears soda cans in her hair.

Once upon a time, when people purchased their favorite songs on records and cassettes, the music video was a touchstone of popular culture. MTV launched in 1981 as a network devoted to airing them 24 hours a day—remember the rise of the VJ? But just like video killed the radio star, reality TV killed the music video. In the late ’90s, music channels stopped being synonymous with music—and started airing washed-up music stars, such as the Osbournes and the Lachey-Simpsons, bickering in the comfort of their own McMansions. Not long after TRL was axed in 2008, music videos were relegated to the graveyard shift; even now, they air on MTV only between 3 a.m. and 9 a.m. As the music business imploded on the back of illegal downloads, videos—once seen as the best promotion to help boost albums—were a luxury that didn’t make sense.

And then came music to record executives’ ears: YouTube, which has partnered with a company named Vevo to monetize a medium that was as dated as a pair of disco shoes. Every time YouTube broadcasts a video through Vevo online, it is accompanied by a brief ad, and for every 1,000 such “impressions,” Vevo earns at least $25. The reason music videos have come back from the dead is simple. They are the perfect length—three to five minutes—for abbreviated online attention spans. They are easy to share, tweet, Facebook, and comment on. You can watch them from the comfort of your own home (or cubicle, when you’re procrastinating at work). Some videos are now so high in demand, they even have their own trailers. Is it just a coincidence that the movie industry feels so sluggish at the same time music videos are taking off?

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WWD — Executives at Coty Inc. denied a report circulating online that the company has signed a fragrance deal with Lady Gaga. “I know nothing of this project,” said Steve Mormoris, senior vice president of global marketing for the firm’s Coty Beauty division. “It is a totally false rumor.” Gaga’s involvement in beauty includes acting as a spokeswoman for the MAC AIDS Fund. She collaborated with the Estée Lauder Cos. Inc.-owned MAC Cosmetics brand to create a signature Viva Glam lipstick in a “bubble-gummy” pink shade, which hit stores in February. Despite Coty’s denial, speculation continues to percolate.

DJ Hero is giving away a GaGa monster prize pack! (see photo below) All you have to do is upload a photo of your best GaGa impersonation on their http://www.facebook.com/djhero wall!