Today saw Lady GaGa’s video “The Left Eye” for ShowStudio’s Fashion Body get released. We have to say, this is so amazing to see from her perspective! What do you little monsters think?!

Fashion is very good at providing its own fashion’s-eye view of proceedings, but what is it like being at the very eye of that fashion storm, the undeniable focus of the world’s attention? Few creatives are as well-placed as Lady Gaga to explore those ideas, as her inimitable and unique contribution to our Fashion Body proves. Christopher Isherwood’s maxim ‘I am a Camera’ has seldom had such eloquent aesthetic expression as this film devised in collaboration with Nick Knight and Ruth Hogben – in creating a film to represent the left eye, Lady Gaga chose not to document the eye, but offer us a glimpse from within, a cinematic snapshot that unquestionably offers her own point of view on – and of – our modern culture of celebrity.

iTunes Ping may well be one of the most important features implemented in Apple’s iTunes, more important than Genius and we’re reminded today why this is the case.

Apple used Lady Gaga’s profile to illustrate Ping’s artist profile section and what’s supremely impressive is the rate at which the number is growing; we’ve calculated that Lady Gaga’s number of followers is growing at the rate of 1000 every 12 minutes or roughly 120,000 in a day which is simply astounding.

Given that she has six million followers on Twitter and a following of nearly 17 million people on Facebook, this doesn’t really come as a surprise for a global superstar.

Interestingly, Gaga’s account was launched back on the 3rd of August, four weeks before the launch of Ping and what’s more, we’ve notice that some entries seems to have been published on Apple’s social network first and then on Twitter.

Source: Desire Athow, ITPro Portal

Check out these alternative covers for Lady GaGa and Marc Jacobs issue of V Magazine. Which cover is your favourite?

She cut a direct path up to Lady Starlight and put a dollar bill in her underwear. Stefani Germanotta, an NYU dropout celebrating her 20th birthday at her much-older boyfriend’s Lower East Side rock club, St. Jerome’s, was transfixed by this leather-studded hottie shaking her ass in the skimpiest leather thong in history.

Germanotta’s eyes lit up with fascination. Who is this girl?

It was as if Lady Starlight had been transported from a sleezy-hot, mid-1980s David Lee Roth video to this downtown rock club in 2007. But as perfectly as she had the whole pole-dancing, hair-metal video vixen thing down, who Lady Starlight was really channeling was the lurid, swaggering frontman.

“I just loved to dance,” Starlight (born Colleen Martin) tells PopEater. “There was an aggressive thing about what I was doing on stage. I captured Axl Rose and David Lee Roth. I mixed c**k rock frontman with feminine go-go dancing. It just came from within.”

Lady Starlight would serve as Gaga’s DJ, but it was her encyclopedic knowledge of music and fashion subcultures, which came from her countless years as a dedicated scenester, that Gaga found the most useful. Starlight’s been through more incarnations than the Dali Lama, from British psychedelic ’60s mod to NYC club kid (“I was a dead ringer for Amanda Lepore”) to Sunset Strip ’80s sleaze/metal. It also didn’t hurt that she was a master costume designer and makeup artist.

“All the stuff you see Lady Gaga do now — the fire and fog and the elaborate outfits — were things we wanted to do, but we didn’t have any money. We tried to give our outfits as much visual impact as possible for the least amount of cash. That usually involved going to the fabric store and buying mirrors, sequins, fringe and then gluing it on to our underwear.”

“It was really more of my attitude towards art that was influential to her, rather than any specific look or style,” Starlight says. “Do it as big as you can, as loud as you can. Whatever it is. The more shocking the better.”

Whereas Gaga’s parents and classmates had been asking her to tone it down, Starlight encouraged Gaga to push things to the limit. To push them past the limit.

“The people from her upbringing were more conservative. She was finally connected to a group of artists who encouraged her to just go for it. Before that, I don’t think she had found that crew where she could really be herself.”

She also showed her that the one thing a performer must be, above everything else, is committed to the role.

“That’s what makes me stand out, especially to people who are a bit younger than me, like Gaga, that grew up in this alternative culture being a mash-up of things. She saw how specific, focused and disciplined I was to my look and style, and she admired that.”

Lady Gaga talked to New York Magazine about her total commitment to living the heavy metal ethos. “In those days, I’d wake up at noon in my apartment with my boyfriend and his loud Nikki Sixx hair, jeans on the floor, his stinky sneakers. He’d have his T-shirt on, no boxers. Then he would go do the books at St. Jerome’s. I’d spin vinyl of David Bowie and New York Dolls in my kitchen, then write music with Lady Starlight.”

It’s during this time that Lady Starlight became something of an Obi Wan Kenobi to Gaga’s Luke Skywalker, encouraging her to unleash her wild side, to become one with her sexual force.

Which brings us to the final lesson: take off your clothes. “I was the one who told her to take her trousers off because I rarely wore any myself,” says Lady Starlight. “The attitude of that scene was to shock people and make them pay attention. Not just in a sexual way, which often happens. It was more, like, let’s freak people out. It was very basic. Let’s freak people out.”

Was it hard for Lady Gaga, a Catholic girl, to come out on stage with her arse hanging out?

“She was never, like, ‘Oh, I don’t know about that,’” says Starlight. “She was down. She was excited. And I was like, ‘More, more, more, more, more!’ She never put on the breaks. We were encouraging each other to go bigger and bigger. More and more outrageous. And it did get more outrageous.”

And the response of the crowd?

“People would just sit there and stare. Sometimes I would think that they hated us. But they would come up to me after the show and say, “Oh, my God. That was the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen.”

While their burlesque act lasted less than two years, it’s impact on Lady Gaga was immeasurable. She always had the musical chops to be a rock star, but she lacked the laser-focused commitment to the role. Lady Starlight is the reason Lady Gaga is never not Lady Gaga, even when walking through an airport or attending a Yankees game.

“It was a call to arms,” says Starlight, recalling how their burlesque show was about challenging societal norms. “What Lady Gaga was doing was not pop. It really was performance art. We weren’t referencing a certain look or time period. That’s what’s so cool about Gaga. She’s never lost that attitude from those days in the scene.”

So, is Lady Starlight bitter that her friend and creative partner has gone on to unfathomable stardom while she’s still getting by performing her go-go dancing DJ routine, mostly in small clubs? Not at all — Starlight is proud of her young Jedi student. She even designed an outfit for Gaga to wear on her current tour.

Starlight, 34, is performing these days as the opening act for Semi Precious Weapons. Back in their early days, she and Gaga would open for SPW at tiny downtown venues like Pianos and St. Jerome’s.

“It’s a DJ performance with go-go dancing. Everyone will see what made Lady Gaga stop and say, ‘Who is that girl?’ I’m showing the world that now. Every night, I’m retelling the whole New York story.”

Source: PopEater

Turf Club music manager Dave Wiegardt said it was an especially quiet night at the blue-collar St. Paul rock haven — you know, the one with the puny, dingy bathrooms, 1940s facade and Replacements and Neil Young posters — when a black Escalade pulled up out front with the most famous pop star of 2010 inside.

“She just walked in the door with this giant guy by her side and bellied up to the bar,” Wiegardt said, describing the visit Lady Gaga paid to the Turf Club late Tuesday following her second of two sold-out concerts at Xcel Energy Center. “Next thing you know, she’s across the room at the pinball machines playing a game by herself. It was pretty unreal.”

Already known to enjoy hitting the town after her performances — but usually at more trendy dance venues and gay clubs — Gaga showed up at the Turf just after midnight and stayed for about an hour, accompanied by her two bodyguards. They stayed about an hour, said Wiegardt, who guessed that “one of the reasons they might’ve picked [the Turf] is because it was low-key and pretty quiet.”

Word got out via Twitter that she was there, but the crowd stayed relatively small and cool. Reports from the 50 or so patrons uniformly described the superstar as being unusually approachable and laid-back. One Tweeter said she talked fashion with the singer. Others commented that she appeared tiny in person. A group of women even talked Gaga into posing inside the Turf Club’s photo booth with them, pictures that are now splashed across the web everywhere from fan sites to the blog of notorious celeb hound Perez Hilton.

“She really came off like a normal person — or at least a normal person who goes out wearing black hot pants, a sports bra and fishnets,” quipped Machen Davis, one of the women in the photo strip and a promotions staffer at First Avenue nightclub.

Source: Star Tribune

According to Ticketmaster.com, starting 19th February 2011 in Atlantic City, the Scissor Sisters will be an opening act on the Monster Ball! GaGa has said in the past how much of a fan she is of the group, who are highly successful in Europe and the UK. We think they will definitely tie in with the mega event that is The Monster Ball. What do you monsters think?

Yesterday, Apple announced their new service for iTunes users, iTunes Ping. Lady GaGa has been featured all over the website since its launch, explaining why she had been pictured at the Apple headquarters. Ping is free for all iTunes users and can be downloaded HERE. Once downloaded, you can access a video of Lady GaGa in the studio, where she welcomes fans to her new service. Lady GaGa is certainly the queen of all media, don’t you think?!

As you all know, on September 12th, the MTV Video Music Awards will take place in Los Angeles. Our girl, Lady GaGa, is up for SO MANY AWARDS that we’ve lost count (not really, we know it’s 13 haha). Well, we are organising a project for all you little monsters to take part in. Do you want to write a good luck message to Lady GaGa? Well, now is your chance! What we need from you monsters is (in this EXACT format):

• Your Name
• Your Location
• Your Good Luck Message to GaGa
• Your picture (200×200 pixels, no bigger and no smaller)

Send all of this information in an e-mail titled GOOD LUCK GAGA to goodluckgaga@gmail.com and your message will be added to the project.

DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 9TH, 8 DAYS FROM THIS POST.

To view all the messages that have already been submitted, visit: http://www.gaganews.com/goodluckgaga