Christmas Do

Lady Gaga

(Oh dear)

Once again, before I unleash this blog before thee I am going to say that I am not a fan of Lady GaGa, at all. Nor is my co-blogger Chris Thompson but this has undoubtedly been a good year for him as a musician (if that's what he's classed as).

2009 started off well for Gaga as he rode the success of his debut album 'The Fame'. Several months beforehand Gaga had released several extremely successful songs from this album, these being 'Pokerface' and 'Just Dance', both of which were number 1's and were heavily overplayed. He finished the year off with a largely successul combined tour with New Kids on The Block (a bit random I know).

As 2009 began, he kicked off his 'Fame Ball Tour' to promote the release of his album. and was riding a whirlwind of success. Gaga then reached a new height when he featured on the front cover of the annual 'Hot 100' issue of Rolling Stones magazine covered in nothing but bubbles.

When the summer came Gaga played most of the festivals both in the U.K. and overseas including a very well received set at Glastonbury. A month later he was then nominated for nine awards at the MTV video music awards for which he walked away with a repectable 3.

Perhaps Gaga's most sincere turn was in October when he was in Washington D.C. attending a Human Right's Campaign's National Dinner. He then went on to pledge his support by taking part in the 'National Equality March'. He then got on to a podium with a microphone and started talking about gay rights. He then began to perform a rendition of 'Imagine', only changing some lyrics to reference a murder that is pivotal for Gay rights. Regardless of it's sincerity, it was a poor cover, as was the time he tried Coldplay's 'Viva la Vida'.

Soon after this Gaga released his second album to the public, 'The Fame Monster' (not exactly original) which was initially supposed to coincide with the release of 'The Fame'. It has so far only reached no.7 on the album chart but give it time you never know. 'Bad Romance' however, the first single released from the album has topped all of the charts, UK, US, Australia and Ireland.

2009 has almost reached it's finale and i'm sure Gaga will look back at what he has achieved and be happy, but the question is will he feel the same next year? And if you're wondering why i'm referring to Lady Gaga as HE then just look at this...

Cheers

Turner