Lady Gaga turned down $1 million to perform during RNC.

[Webster Green]

Go Gaga!

http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2525899

[olddots]

1. Nothing could make the repukes hip

they would be better off with the kind of music they like =no music

[busterbrown]

41. Fuck Journey!!!

I loved their music back when....However Steve Perry their lead singer has not been with them for years
and to me he was the sound of the group. So I can take some solace in that!

[OriginalGeek]

46. Well, maybe fuck 'em for taking RNC money but

their new singer sounds just like Steve Perry. He was picked from a youtube video of him doing covers of Journey songs with his band in the Philippines.

[busterbrown]

69. I know all about that....

Fuck Journey for sure because they played for the 1%.
Sounding like and copying someone artistically is second rate. It ain’t the real thing
and for me he doesn’t work at all. It’s pure copy catting!

The way it should be done is the way Paul Rogers did it with Queen. Now that was great!!

[exboyfil]

2. Missed a golden opportunity

for sabotage. That may have been what Clint Eastwood was up to. I frankly am amazed that anyone likes her. My teen age daughters don't think much of her.

[Webster Green]

4. I like a lot of her stuff.

I'm actually amazed that I do. I'm 66 years old, but whatever.

I've gotten into a lot of the newer music, like Deadmau5 & Skrillex. Arcade Fire is the best band on the planet (IMO), yet most of my friends had never even heard of them until I started obsessing over them.

[HipChick]

6. I adore Deadmau5..I'm the coolest Aunt because of it

[Webster Green]

12. You're just too hip.

I remember turning my nieces & nephews onto Sublime and No Doubt back in the '90s. They were blown away, thought I was the coolest uncle ever.

[rppper]

72. My nephews thought I was so cool...

Because I'd blast sublime everywhere....now not to point fingers here, but when I see a sublime car sticker or hear them playing in a car next to me, I sniff the air around me instinctively, and a solid 75% of the time I smell herb...even if its not mine...I'm just saying....

[Webster Green]

73. Heh!

I can relate. I wouldn't think of leaving the house without a doob for the road.

[Cha]

16. No, Eastwood has proven since then that "sabotage"

wasn't what he was going for.. although sabotage is what happened.

No accounting for otherwise brilliance that would try and sell romney to America.

[liberal_at_heart]

28. I think she's great and I'm 37.

I'm not usually all that into pop music, but I like her music. She is a very creative artist.

[stevenleser]

3. Gaga rocks! nt

[longship]

5. And Lawrence Welk was unfortunately dead. nt

[Marie Marie]

7. Well there was always Pat Boone.

[Cha]

17. Yeah, or ted nugent.. or

meat loaf if they could sober him up.

[JI7]

18. what is nugent boon etc going to think when they see they didn't get a similar offer

[Cha]

19. lol I was wondering the same.. Will they feel slighted

like they should? not good enough for prime time?

[Left Coast2020]

34. Why didn't they ask Chaka Khan?

[elehhhhna]

56. Oh ffs does du really think the rnc asked madonnasquared

opps, gaga, to play their convention?

This is them or her (she's off touring since she fell off her ridiculous shoes) attempting to be relevant

[JI7]

57. they always use music of openly liberal artists, RUsh limbaugh paid elton john a million

to perform at his birthday or 10th wedding or some shit.

and why the fuck would anyone claim to have been offered money by the RNC as a way to stay relevant ?

[TDale313]

8. Good for her!

[RudynJack]

9. Check your calendar.

[FreeState]

10. March 31, 2013 - same day as the linked article about the lawsuit that exposed this n/t

[RudynJack]

26. OK, I first heard it today.

It strikes me as unbelievable. Why would the RNC want Lady Gaga - a provocative, openly pro-gay, ultra-liberal? It seems utterly unlikely.

Also, the source is the Washington Examiner, a right-wing rag.

[Webster Green]

33. True that the examiner sucks.

It used to be pretty good. Anyway, this is likely true, although I have no proof of it.

Just another post on the Internets. Take it for what it's worth, I guess.

[Voice for Peace]

11. and DollY Parton turned them down too!

[Rowdyboy]

23. Dolly's also a longtime supporter of marriage equality.....In my book, she rocks!

[Cha]

13. I would think there's no amount of money in the world that

would compel Lady Gaga to perform at a shameful Lie Fest like the rnc.

[tuvor]

14. It would have cost her a lot more than $1 million had she accepted.

Too much of a no-brainer to be praising her for it.

[Webster Green]

20. Oh, I disagree.

She has proven herself to me more than once that her politics are right on, and I've posted here about her stance on various issues. Please don't make me search though, it's too late.

She is way cool!

[Comrade_McKenzie]

15. Integrity. nt

[Apophis]

21. That's awesome.

I'm glad she chose principle over greed.

[LittleBlue]

22. If you're unfamiliar with how talented Lady Gaga is

She's remarkably talented, even if people mistake the outfits for a lack of talent. She's not all show, that's for sure.

[Webster Green]

25. Thanks for this!

She is very talented, and worked her butt off to get where she is today.

I love her!

[TDale313]

40. Yes, thanks for posting these!

She really is talented. I admit it, I'm a fan.

[Carolina]

60. Wow, thanks these videos

What a voice. Must say I like watching her perform as her natural brunette self... less distracted by the more extreme theatrical coif or makeup, I can focus on her remarkable songwriter/singer talent.

[Lint Head]

24. What!? They couldn't get Elton John?

[TexasBushwhacker]

27. Did they want her to sing "Born This Way"?

Cuban American rapper Pitbull turned them down too.

[awoke_in_2003]

31. damn...

now my opinion on him just went up a notch or two.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

39. "Did they want her to sing "Born This Way"?"

Dressed as June Cleaver.

[awoke_in_2003]

29. well, that makes her more principled...

than Elton John.

[DollarBillHines]

30. I ran into her at the deli down the street, just last week

I had no idea who she was, but the staff surely did.

She was looking at houses.

If I knew how to post pics, I would.

It got pretty funny, actually.

[Webster Green]

32. Wow!

Very cool.

[DollarBillHines]

35. It was pretty funny

I have a 1966 Vespa with an all-steel Indian (Cozy) sidecar.

So I cruise down to the deli for their too-cool Thursday tastings..

www.sonamasbest.com

Some woman with weird hair asked me if that scooter was mine.

I said yeah and she said that she wanted a ride.

Turned out, she was Gaga.

I have pictures of us, smoking KOOLS.

Went back to the house (with entourage), pissed off GF, who was either working or asleep...

Lady Gaga (she calls herself Steph) played some really cool acoustic blues.

While totally ignorant (thankfully, probably) of her 'music', that woman can play...
DBH

[Webster Green]

36. So jealous!

That is too awesome!

[steve2470]

66. Wow so cool..if you can scan and post the pics at a photo hosting site, it would be great

If not, I understand, privacy and all that.

If you post the pics at photobucket.com for example, you can then post the photo URL here to display the photos in a post:

Example: httpREMOVE://REMOVEi2.photobucket.comREMOVE/albums/y13/steve2470/KITTEH_zps8ac0e975.jpgREMOVE

with the word REMOVE removed of course.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

37. Not a fan of her music so much

But I certainly respect her as an entertainer and a performer and also as an activist

Given her past history with social issues and political activism, it mystifies me why the RNC organizers thought she'd be interested in performing there. Perhaps they thought that she'd compromise all her principles for money. They really should have known better

[Webster Green]

38. That was my first thought.

Gaga? Really?

[monmouth3]

44. Again, proving they are soooo out of touch with what actually is popular. Nimrods..LOL...n/t

[Jade Fox]

49. Remember when Stephen Colbert did the George W. Bush roast....

or what ever it was called? Acute discomfort all around

Failing to vet seems to be a GOP problem. (see Republican Vice President nominee 2008)

[ReRe]

42. Washington Examiner???

Hmmm... wonder if the story is true? If so, we'll hear it somewhere else tomorrow. Good on Lady Gaga if it is. I'm not real crazy about some of her music, but some I really do like. And what I like more than anything is how she loves her little "Monsters." She has probably saved more young lives than we know, with her uplifting messages to them. "Born This Way" was just brilliant. Yeah, Repugnants, take your million bucks and stick it where the sun don't shine.
Lady Gaga doesn't want or need your dirty-rotten stinkin' money!

[Mad Maddie]

43. A Drop in the Bucket

To her, $1 million is just a drop in the bucket. Ok, maybe it's a few drops in the bucket. It's less than a week of her average annual income which I've heard is about $62 million.

[Zorra]

52. Born This Way ~

Liberals are not like conservatives. With conservatives, life is all about money, and only about money

With liberals, it's all about people. Conservatives simply can't understand how liberals will turn down an opportunity to make money because of their principles and beliefs.

[joeybee12]

45. They could have gotten Elton John for half that...

He'll do anything for money...ask Limpballs.

[Bluenorthwest]

50. Actually, Elton's fee for private concerts is 1 million donated to his AIDS Foundation

RNC would not count as a private show for several reasons and of course they'd not cut a check to his AIDS Foundation either.

I can understand the desire to refuse the donated wealth of various people such as Rush. I can also understand that when one is a performer selling tickets to the public on a massive scale it is a bit delusional to claim standards about who hears your act. Because the Devil can buy a seat and sit right down. Rush can buy a ticket. Can't stop him. So why not take the donation?
Two ways to look at it. One of the ways shorts the foundation a million. And that is a strong argument.

[joeybee12]

51. I was referring to Elton playing at Rush's latest wedding and getting $1 million for that...

Don't think he donated any money from that to his foundation...

[Harry Monroe]

47. Not a fan of her music

Just not my musical tastes. But I have a great and abiding respect for this woman!! She is a treasure!!

[samsingh]

48. i'm glad i already buy her music

[Spitfire of ATJ]

62. I know someone who wanted her dicography from itunes...

Actual email I got from them:

Just bought the Lady Gaga Dicography on iTunes, and it was incomplete.
It downloaded for 45 minutes and then froze my system.

I typed in iTunes/complaints

Got a group called Complaints and they want me to buy their album

[jmowreader]

53. I don't believe the RNC would have tried to hire Lady Gaga...

...but if I were her and this was true, I would have done it. But only if they paid me in large suitcases full of $20 bills delivered before the show.

There is no more Republican-hostile entertainer on the planet than Lady Gaga. They know it. So does she. Now imagine Gaga playing the RNC: she would write a whole set of extremely pro-gay songs ("Born This Way" would be mild next to these), then ring the stage with gay men French kissing each other throughout her concert. And because Lady Gaga knows how to use a phone book, the stage, her generators and all her cabling would have been guarded by the local chapter of the Hells Angels.

The resulting concert movie, filmed in IMAX, featuring footage of Repukes fainting, Repukes exploding and Repukes attempting to storm the stage and being beaten senseless by Hells Angels, would have been the top-selling concert film this century. You would go.

The most entertaining part would be the inevitable RNC lawsuit to recover their money on grounds she did not provide suitable Republican-friendly entertainment. It is no secret what Lady Gaga does for a living. She's got CDs out. She's on iTunes. She's on YouTube. She's been in the papers. Anyone with an internet connection can look her up and see she doesn't do Leo Sayer songs. Trying to sell a jury on the notion they didn't know Lady Gaga would actively try to give Republicans heart attacks would be approximately as funny as Christine O'Donnell's I'm Not A Witch ad.

Oh, and all the twenties? She would distribute them to homeless shelters and soup kitchens.

[Rider3]

54. I give her my respect on this one!

[Thav]

55. "$150,000 will go towards a domestic violence shelter"

Hey wow that sounds like a good.... wait a minute, didn't most of the GOP vote against re-authorizing the violence against women act?

[PennsylvaniaMatt]

58. That is great that she set the example...

That no amount of money could interfere with her convictions!

With that said, part of me thinks she should have played their, taken the $1 million, and then donate it ALL to a charity helping LGBT youth! That would have been quite a story, and in the middle of an election cycle!

Come to think of it, "Born This Way" would have been an appropriate song for many of the wealthy, older Conservatives there who were born into wealth and privilege!

[harmonicon]

59. Rich people are adorable. (nt)

[Webster Green]

63. Gaga certainly is adorable.

She worked hard for her success.

I love Lady Gaga!

[Joey Liberal]

61. I Love Lady Gaga!

Ever since I watched her Madison Square Garden concert on HBO, I have been a huge fan. I'm proud of her for not performing for the republiNazis!

[marmar]

64. Good for Gaga. ...... Wasn't willing to sell her soul.

nt

[alcibiades_mystery]

65. Take a lesson, Elton John

[Raine]

67. When I first saw this I thought it had to be a joke. nt

[Blue Owl]

68. She would know the GOP is a bad romance

And not the good kind of bad romance.

[lonestarnot]

70. That's the ticket. They don't own her.

[whistler162]

71. She should have performed....

and donated X amount to Planned Parenthood, X amount to Aids research, X amount to various other charities that would make the Conservative heads explode.

[AnneD]

74. She should do what hubby does everytime he gets a GOP fundraising gig.....

take out his gas money then donate the rest to local Dem and Green Party candidates. We get a perverse pleasure from this.

[MADem]

75. She should have demanded two million and then donated the money to the DNC!

That'd fix their little bright red state wagon!


And for whatever it's worth, I just knew there was a reason I really liked Dolly Parton! That "It's Takes a Lotta Money To Look This Trashy" artist is one class act!

[RedstDem]

76. Would have been awesome to send her with a script

And blast em