If she's not gigging, the NYU maintenance dept. would like their mops back.

eating might help that exhaustion thing

They say she is the next Madonna and for the first time I have to agree.

Britney was never Madonna's succesor, it was GAGA!

i guess i'm not "in" in this lady gaga thing. is she the new britney spears? "soooooo much better"? hmm?

She is different. I think she's the first female artist in a long time to have success without any sex appeal....in the stereotypical sense.

"I think she's the first female artist in a long time to have success without any sex appeal....in the stereotypical sense."

I guess you might mean that her "sex appeal" isn't appealing to you, which I can understand. But certainly her marketing and image are about little other than sexuality.

A quick look at a random collection of images makes the point... she's rarely photographed fully clothed:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS324US324&um=1&q=lady+gaga&sa=N&start=18&ndsp=18

And, by the way, that's not a new development since she's become a star. Here are pics from Lolapalooza in 2007:

http://images.google.com/images?ndsp=18&hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS324US324&um=1&sa=3&q=lady+gaga+lolopalooza+2007&btnG=Search+images

Whatever happened to the idea of evaluating artists by their art and not their sex appeal or image?

This is why u shouldnt listen to singers like this. They earn fans bc record companys pay millions to promote them and then they cancel concerts bc theyre lazy and rich all bc of record company promotion. No one decides what music they like anymore they just listen to z100 and lady gaga's execs pay z100 millions to play her songs. What happened to extensive touring when you first start out to gain a fan base and then continually touring to keep fan support. Popular music as gone far astray from reality. Stop letting record execs choose the music you listen to because the singers dont care about music, they care about money. How can she say shes dehydrated and exhausted when she barely tours all year and is given the best amenities. My friends band played 250 shows last year and he lived out of bus. He never complained of dehydration or exhaustion bc he loves doing it for the fans and music. Lada Gaga is garbage.

That's how mainstream music works. Record companies want to the public to the music THEY want you to hear.

It's another reason why the record companies hate the Internet. They want control over the public, which they don't have anymore.

"This is what happens when spoiled rich girls become entertainers. They don't care about anything but themselves."

This is what happens when spoiled rich kids think that celebrities are supposed to serve them, or something. They don't care about anything but themselves. Lord knows you'd be acting like you were on your deathbed if you were in her position. And, she clearly suffered through that whole performance on Oprah. It was hardly a minor thing, this dehydration and exhaustion business.

"skipping out on her show at the Borgata this past weekend, however, since she was healthy enough to appear on Oprah"

What? She says she was too exhausted to dance around and sing (or lip-synch, whatever) for an hour -- but somehow she was still able to sit on a couch and talk for ten minutes? Outrageous!

Everyone of those shows is sold out. It would pretty much kill her career, or at least put a solid dent in it, if she cancelled all of them. She'll probably just cancel the Haiti one.