Lady Gaga arrived tonight, September 30th, at the Beacon Theater in New York City. Gaga, dressed in yellow, appeared at the theater in order to rehearse for her appearance at Sting’s anniversary concert to benefit the Robin Hood Foundation.
He tells Access Hollywood, "This artist came to my office... she played piano, she had on white go-go boots - like, all the way up to here, thigh high boots - she sat down at that piano, she played and she sang. When she was done, I said, 'You are an amazing artist, a true star, and you will change music,' and I signed her. Her name was Lady Gaga.
"Then, a few months later, I got her demos, and it was a work in progress, and I was having a bad day. I'm telling you, I was having a bad day. And I said, 'You know what? I really don't like it. Let her have her freedom, let her go find her career.' It was the worst thing I've ever done."However, a month later the former Island Def Jam Music Group chairman "redeemed" himself by signing teen sensation Justin Bieber.
He adds, "I felt bad, but I swear to you, like a month later Justin Bieber came and redeemed me, so, you know, I survived it all. But I'm a little bit jealous, because the Twitter following, for example, the biggest ones are Bieber and Lady Gaga, so I would have felt like the king of the world! Instead I felt like half the king."
I think it’s timeless. The beautiful thing about this song is, it’s very uplifting, very uplifting. It’s emotional, but it has dance on it, and it has a dance vibe on it. It’s just a timeless song. You can play it with the guitar, the piano, with whatever instrument you want. You can sing it a cappella, you know what I mean, it’s that kind of song.
I’m very excited about that song. And it’s an event. Cher and Lady Gaga: How big can it get?
Everybody loved it. Gaga on it, Cher, two big icons. [They are] part of music history. So it happened. I’m very happy to be a part of this.
"I think the media are out of control. The media is not something you can trust."Then said she formally handed Gaga a gift for her wedding to Russell Brand:
"Do not hate! No way. Even I like what she does. Many people think that just because we are so popular, and because we pop, we should be enemies. But in fact we are not. She, gave me, a gift for my wedding. "What is the gift in question was most certainly the interviewer, who asked the interpreter 'Firework' which was the gift. She certainly refused to answer but said it was "very Lady Gaga"
"That's private information. No I can tell you. But it was very funny. The gift was very Lady Gaga".
"Lady Gaga is doing the same thing that Madonna did, though of course, women have a great talent. Both Lady Gaga and Madonna know the value of scandal to promote themselves."After this she said that to succeed need attention and Liza says that Lady Gaga, like Madonna, do it very well:
"Why not? You must do what is in this business to get attention and they have done brilliantly."