Billboard's Ex Editorial Director Speaks Out

Bill Werde, ex Editorial Director of Billboard Magazine, gave us all a lesson in online celebrity last night, when he took to his Tumblr account to clarify a few things regarding certain shady bloggers who have somehow managed to spread their lies on the Internet.

These bloggers have been writing bashful entries about music artists, particularly Lady Gaga, for one year, and no one paid any attention to them or their glorified fan site until more credible media outlets started reporting their stories, even if they had absolutely no way to know if these were legit or not. Embarrassingly, the New York Magazine had to edit one of their articles with a line that told their readers to not believe that story because they had zero proof that what it said was true, and that it was just "fictional gossip".

These people's only goal in life is, apparently, to try and ruin Lady Gaga's career. Now why would anyone be so obsessed with someone they don't know? How could a popstar hold such power over people? I suppose, if you're Lady Gaga, nothing should surprise you anymore. Her undeniable impact and quick rise to global superstardom has, for some reason, scared fans of other popstars.

These stories have been supported by the likes of Internet bully Perez Hilton and hate Tumblr pages such as Paws Down Little Monsters (which was created by, you guessed it, a Madonna fan).

I won't mention the blog these people write for nor their names, because that is exactly what they want. And well, apparently these people don't even exist.

In their bios they mention Universities that have never heard of them and use pictures from random people's Flickr accounts.

Buzzfeed has written a similar article about Lady Gaga hating bloggers who won't reveal themselves. It's all very sad stuff, and it makes you wonder why people don't focus on getting on with their own lives instead of polluting the World with such mindless rubbish.

Read the Buzzfeed article here.

To read Bill Werde's Tumblr entry, go here.

Akon Betrays Lady Gaga

Akon and Lady Gaga

Friendship never ends? According to Akon, money comes first.

For those of you who are wondering who Akon is, he co-wrote Lady Gaga's debut single, "Just Dance", managed to have a couple of hits by himself, admitted he had made ten times more money thanks to Lady Gaga's career than he did working on his own music and then fell victim to the "rent-a-rapper" syndrome.

Just Dance [feat. Colby O'Donis] 

Apparently he's a businessman and works behind the scenes. Forgive me if I didn't know, but Akon isn't exactly someone you hear about very often.

The rapper recently gave a radio interview during which he stated that Lady Gaga's career is on the way down and that he cut ties with the singer as soon as he felt that she wouldn't make him a lot of money. Classy.

He told US radio DJ Sway on Sirius XM: "I cashed out. I got out while the goin' was good. It's like a business; you build it to sell it. When I got it to the peak of where I felt it couldn't go nowhere, and there was nowhere left to go but down, I cashed out. I sold my share and got out. I know how the business works. You're only hot for so long before you go cold".

Lady Gaga's latest album, "ARTPOP" reached the #1 spot in the US and in other major markets like the UK and Japan and has so far sold more than 1,700,000 copies worldwide. The singer is also going on tour in May, and tickets have been selling well. Her latest music video, "G.U.Y.", received more than 12 million views in under 48 hours.

Artpop [Explicit] [+digital booklet] 

 I don't know what you people think, but I am positively convinced that Gaga is here to stay.

Lady Gaga Unveils "G.U.Y." Single Cover

Gaga's handwriting

After the World premiere of the "G.U.Y." music video, which also features other songs from her latest album "ARTPOP" (Purchase the ARTPOP vinyl here), Lady Gaga took to Twitter and LittleMonsters.com to unveil the single cover. It features a still from the opening section of the music video: a winged, naked Lady Gaga. In the short film, you can see that the singer has been attacked by numerous businessmen who use her, squeeze all the money they can out of her and then abandon her.

But this is Lady Gaga we're talking about, and unsurprisingly, she gets up, makes her way to a liberating place where friendly, artistic minds take care of her until she's ready to take over the World again.

The video has received almost ten million views in 24 hours, and the song is starting to slowly climb up the iTunes charts worldwide. Will this be Lady Gaga's return to form after her latest album failed to sell as much as her previous records? People have been quick to dismiss the project as a "flop", a word that so many music fans seem to love and use even when it's completely unnecessary.

The album has simply underperformed, which shouldn't come as a surprise considering the long break the singer took after she had to cancel her North American dates of the "Born This Way Ball" tour due to a hip injury that left her on a wheelchair for months.

"artRave: The ARTPOP Ball" and future singles and personal appearances should help the album stay in the charts. In the meantime, buy "ARTPOP" and "G.U.Y." here:

US residents

Artpop   G.U.Y. [Explicit] 

UK residents

ARTPOP [Explicit]   G.U.Y. [Explicit]