Usually, you’re lucky if you look at a film festival lineup and see a handful of interesting movies in the mix. But this year’s Toronto International Film Fest is no ordinary beast.
A Star Is Born for the third time in the new trailer for Bradley Cooper’s remake of the classic showbiz drama, starring Lady Gaga in the role previously inhabited by Judy Garland in the 1954 original and Barbra Streisand in the 1976 remake. The plot of this one looks like it’ll hew closely to the rock ‘n’ roll angle…
Lady Gaga’s enormously popular 2009 single “Bad Romance” is nearly a decade old. In that time, the world has changed drastically, and we’ve all become much older. Even the littlest monsters have become big monsters, their Aladdin Sane makeup crusting in jars and perpetually clawed hands aching with the earliest signs…
According to Entertainment Weekly, Lady Gaga and Joe Biden might be preparing to launch a “groundbreaking initiative” that will provide support to victims of sexual assault across the country. This is going off of a comment Biden made at Glamour’s Women Of The Year Summit, with him responding to a question about the…
Tributes are hard, especially those that attempt to capture someone’s physicality rather than their aesthetic. A song-and-dance number inspired by your favorite silver-screen star tends to go over slightly better than graven images of a celebrity, lovingly crafted as they may be. We can’t fault folks for trying, but…
Lady Gaga has constructed her own reality over the last decade, building a larger-than-life persona via elaborate costumes, gigantic stage shows, and an army of “little monsters” that found common ground, strangely, as outcast acolytes of one of the world’s biggest pop stars. She’s been a meat-dress-wearing fashion…
Citing “severe physical pain,” Lady Gaga has decided to postpone her upcoming European tour so she can talk to doctors and try to figure out why she’s suddenly suffering through what must be some pretty awful stuff. This comes from Live Nation (via Variety), which has shared a statement from Gaga’s people that says…
Punk icon Henry Rollins is already a pretty fiery guy, so bringing him on First We Feast’s “Hot Ones” to suck down the hottest wings on the planet was a tricky proposition. Luckily, Rollins keeps his cool through each tasting, though the heat does seem to tighten his every muscle, making Rollins burrow into himself,…
Good news for anybody who’s ever looked at Lady Gaga’s life of activism, elaborate costuming, and occasional pop music, and thought, “I need to know more”: Netflix has announced that it’s acquired a new documentary about the celebrated musical shapeshifter, titled Lady Gaga: Five Foot Two.
Despite the best efforts of her lawyers, Lady Gaga is getting dragged into the defamation lawsuit Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald has filed against Kesha. Gottwald’s lawyers subpoenaed Lady Gaga earlier this year after she’d already supplied them with a written statement about some text exchange(s) she had with Kesha, who,…
Just a few days ago, we reported that Lady Gaga had been subpoenaed to testify in court as part of Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald’s ongoing legal battle with Kesha over her allegations that he abused her physically and verbally, with Gaga being forced to testify regarding a written statement she gave the court about…
Although Kesha has finally started producing new music again—with her first album in years, Rainbow, due out August 11—that doesn’t mean the ongoing legal fight between her and Dr. Luke, the producer she has repeatedly said sexually assaulted her, has ended. Luke (whose real name is Lukasz Gottwald) is still suing…
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…
Filming on the (new) remake of A Star Is Born will get meta this week as Lady Gaga films in character at Coachella, where she just headlined. However, the film apparently won’t riff on Gaga’s own arty pop-star persona, instead taking on the world of country music. (The argument can be made that Gaga veered in that…
After stepping up to replace Beyoncé a little over a month ago, Lady Gaga finally got to put on her headlining set at Coachella last night. According to Pitchfork, she put on the predictable selection of hits and newer songs off of her recent album Joanne, but she also decided to perform a new song and then promptly…
Three days ahead of the festival’s start date on April 14, Coachella has now released the schedule for this year’s first weekend of events, allowing would-be desert-goers to figure out their initial plan of attack. As noted by Pitchfork, folks with a diverse set of musical tastes will face the usual set of scheduling…
Coachella is once again letting you enjoy its musical offerings from the privacy of your own home should you not want to deal with heat and/or copious flower crowns. According to Pitchfork, the festival will continue its tradition of broadcasting performances live on YouTube during its first weekend. The ”confirmed…
Tonight’s season 9 premiere of RuPaul’s Drag Race is extra. The show has some intense momentum behind it after two great seasons last year, and the steady growth of the series’ popularity has motivated Viacom to move new Drag Race episodes from Logo to VH1, a network with a much larger viewer base. It’s also moving to…
While they’re never going to live up to the Oscars in terms of 2017 award show fuck-ups, last month’s Grammy Awards did feature a few technical glitches that got in the way of a perfect show. Most notably, a much-touted Lady Gaga-Metallica collaboration suffered a setback when James Hetfield’s microphone didn’t work…
For the first time in its herstory, RuPaul’s Drag Race will walk the runway at VH1. In a joint press release, Logo and VH1 (which are both owned by Viacom, along with a ton of other assets) announced that reality TV’s fiercest and most fabulous competition show would sashay over to VH1 on Friday nights beginning March…
