“He is known for his legendary temper but if there was one person to take on Apple chief executive Steve Jobs – then it’s the fiercest woman in pop, Lady Gaga,” The Daily Mail reports.
“During a meeting with Jobs and her manager last year about the corporation’s music network Ping, Gaga ‘voiced concerns over the lack of integration with Facebook,'” The Daily Mail reports. “The discussion was about the corporation’s social network and its ‘underwhelming’ results, according to the New York Times. The discussion was about the corporation’s social network and its ‘underwhelming’ results.”
MacDailyNews Take: Being sticklers for things like chronology, we have to ask: How could Ping have had underwhelming results if it hadn’t yet launched?
Full article here.
Evelyn M. Rusli Reports for The New York Times, “While Lady Gaga herself — née Stefani Joanne Germanotta — is the artist and creative mind behind Lady Gaga Inc., her lesser-known manager, Troy Carter, is leading the enterprise’s digital strategy. Unlike other managers who focus on a handful of big platforms like YouTube, Mr. Carter is trying to tap into a broad range of online tools to keep the Gaga machine in overdrive.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
Just usual tabloid nonsense.
Who cares
Whatever her manager is doing…it’s working. I can see that she is a skank that makes pop music and will never give her a penny nor a minute of time.
It sounds like someone’s manager is noticing that the flash in the pan is nearing its end. Desperate for attention much?
She is disgusting.
and FUGLY
and a MAN
And SPOT ON with her point about Facebook integration being hugely important to Pings’ success.
Yeah, I gotta agree, doubtful she was involved in any tech decisions before launch, this is just a desperate cry for a little PR, hot on the heels of Apple’s big day.
Hard to believe that someone who isn’t even very involved in the creation of her own music and the technology behind it, would be very concerned with iTunes features that didn’t exist.
I’m sure if Apple needed an opinion, they would find at least find a spoon-feed, spoiled trollop with more experience… like Madonna perhaps?
Disclaimer: I really don’t care about Lady Gaga, but I do prefer facts to made up shit. That being said:
I’m not sure what you mean by “not very involved with the creation of her own music” She’s written every song on every album she’s released and has even co-produced some. She’s also been a pianist for more than 20 years.
Regardless of all that fact, what does that have to do with anything. Ping is a failure. Anyone can see that. Apple brought her on board because of her dedicated fan base. She feels that she has some stake since her persona was used to promote the service. I don’t see what there is to criticize of her here. Her music might not be your cup of tea, but she’s an incredibly saavy business person and knows how to control her brand.
Not a bad singer, piano player or philosopher, either.
http://www.popeater.com/2010/03/19/lady-gaga-sued/
Lets not forget that she has been sued TWICE by Madonna for ripping off her songs, it’s pretty transparent.
She is a manufactured hit, phony as can be, and no kind of role model for anyone. She’s no genius and will not last. Frankly, I think Brittany Spears is more talented, and that ain’t saying much.
Someone claim she is great and original again…
yup
Lawsuits are a dime a dozen. Let me know how the lawsuit turns out before you wax eloquent!
She is credited with writing her own material. That is very different than actually writing her own material. Copying others’ material wholesale then producing it entirely with pre-produced off the shelf loops and backing tracks hardly qualifies as song writing. It’s pretty clear she isn’t the one putting it any of this together. And what exactly does she do to be a co-producer? Perhaps you should think of that “credit” as part of her record deal and the financial arrangements it represents, rather than the actual work of producing a song or album.
She has maybe sat behind a piano at times over the last 20 years, but that is a far fat cry from being a pianist. All her appearances that I’ve seen of her are completely tapped, except for that horrible duet with Elton John. If that’s her being a “musician”, that would be like calling my toaster a chef.
I think you are stretching a lot, but yes you are right, she works very hard… hiring a publicist who makes sure her name gets spread where ever whenever she can. I don’t hold this against you though, you’re merely parroting her press releases and PR “story”. Which shows how successful she has been selling an image. If only she put the same effort (or should I say “any effort”) into her music.
She is a total copy of Madonna. Been there done that. Gaga just takes it to the next controversial shock level. Unfortunately, every generation has to up that shock level by one. And this is the result, but not the end. Shock sells.
Talk to the Facebook, Gaga, cause the Apple isn’t listening.
Why does she care? She doesn’t have a stake in it. What is the controversy?
Wasn’t it Zuckerberg’s ego that got in the way? I don’t see the relevance of Facebook much less Ping. They’re both disabled by default on all my systems.
correct.
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-facebook-ping-2010-9
Took forever to find this on MDN’s site… And they didn’t post any related articles either.
the link above is after starting here.. http://macdailynews.com/2010/10/16/steve_jobs_has_facebooks_zuckerberg_to_dinner_at_his_house_to_discuss_apple/
then going to the link about the 18 month long talks that failed.
basically Facebook were jerks, so Apple went ahead by themselves. and lady dumbass doesn’t like it.
word on the street is she is millions in debt and letting people buy your album for 99 cents wont help
That was Amazon. Her label was receiving full share of a nominal price, and Amazon took a major loss on that.
I love it when people make stuff up as they go along, as if this weren’t the internet and it weren’t that easy to google things up to check…
I think Apple merely offers Ping, but doesn’t care much about it, nor should they. The World isn’t crying for another social network.
Lady CaCa
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LOL!!!! LOL!!!! brilliant!!!
I s*** my pants laughing! Oooh I gotta a few fan girls I wanna annoy with that video! thanks!!
“Caca, ooh la la!”
My pleasure. It’s quite possibly one of the funniest videos of all time in my opinion.
Disclaimer to all that are about to click that link!
Sit down.
Place ALL Liquids out of reach. Else you will need to clean your screen/desk.
Do not wear headphones, make sure the video is audible to those around you. (if not people will laugh at you, better they see/hear the video and laugh with you)
Take deep breath.
Click link. 😉
unlady Gag Gag.
oh yea, ping sucks too. i had forgotten about it until i saw this article
I believe Facebook didn’t want to do this.
Lady Gaga is already a joke. She “reinvents” herself more than Madonna and Elvis Costello cubed, indicating the not a single version of her is anything anyone would want to have around for any length of time. I mean, if you’re already boring by the time you show up in your new wig, new silly makeup, and new garters, then you must be really, really boring.
Apple was here before Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta was born in 1986, and it will be here long after her titties are drooping well into menopause.
Pure FUD from a talentless performer.
This story is totally made up from her PR and marketing team.
Nice try, these days everyone sees through all this made up bullshit.
The Daily Mail never lets an inconvenient fact get in the way of a story that they wish to tell.
I had shared the opinion on this girl with everyone else here until very recently, when I was in a situation to see an interview (don’t ask me how I ended up watching it). It turned out that, apparently, this girl has some brains. After hearing the story, you can figure it out. Well educated, with solid family upbringing. Essentially all the showbiz flash is a carefully designed act, and apparently, it is working quite well. More importantly, unlike the above-mentioned Spears, this one seems to continue to have both feed firmly planted on the ground, and when cameras aren’t watching, is a normal person.
As much as it surprised me, I started liking this young girl (not her music, though); she’s smart, apparently. Good for her.
As for this little yellow-journalism excrement, two things: first, it is one of the crappiest daily tabloids from the UK ( and that’s saying something); second, publicists and agents make a lot of moves like this one without much consideration for their clients.
Was it the “60 Minutes” interview, which they repeated this week? Clearly she’s a very bright young woman. Like you I admire her business savvy, but not her music. As far as the business of music and managing fame goes she’s going to become the next Dolly Parton. The only difference being, I like Dolly Parton.
“Essentially all the showbiz flash is a carefully designed act…”
Ya don’t say!
She’s very smart. The constant wardrobe creations do more to keep her in the news than her music releases, which only fuels the sales of her albums. She took Madonna’s template and jumped up a couple of levels, whereas people like Britney Spears just copied it.
Personally i can’t stand her. but it’s her “act”
Its the same with Gene Simmons, Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson (of all people)
If lady Gaga and the Goo goo dolls did a concert, would it be the goo goo gaga concert?
it’s Baby Gaga…… and her stuff SUX
This story in a UK e-rag is nothing but Jobs health trolling with a made up connection to GaGa to get more hits.
…10 min of fame, 11 min of fame, 12 min of fame….
After that $.99 bonanza, her album sales fell off *85%* from the first week.
Word of mouth’s a bitch.
Lady who?
Only a society in deep decline could take a freak like Lady Gaga seriously.
Was she wearing her p-p-p-p-p-p-poker face ?