FULL VIDEO: Lady Gaga surprise-debuts the first ever live performance of Brooklyn Nights, an unreleased ARTPOP song that leaked online 11 years ago, at N1 of The MAYHEM Ball in Melbourne.
The last time she was in Melbourne, for the artRAVE in 2014, she sang a short snippet of the song to the audience. After 11 years away, finally getting the full performance is an absolute gift to veteran fans and ARTPOP truthers.
16 years ago today, Lady Gaga revealed the album covers for The Fame Monster, shot by fashion photographer Hedi Slimane.
She told Rolling Stone at the time that it was “World War III” getting her label to approve the imagery:
"They were like, 'It's confusing, it's too dark, you look gothic, it's not pop,' and I said, 'You don't know what pop is, because everyone was telling me I wasn't pop last year, and now look - so don't tell me what pop is, I know what pop is.' It's funny, because I fought and fought and fought, and I actually ended up having two covers, because I wanted to do this yin and yang presentation with the covers. When I go to see what my fans are saying, I go onto GagaDaily - they see the cover and say, 'I don't really like the blonde one, but the brown one is fucking sick.' They love it, and I know what they love, so I make it for them, I don't care what anybody else wants."