After a break from her Monster Ball tour, Lady Gaga will embark on the Born This Way Tour 2012. The first leg for The Born This Way Tour revealed that Gaga would perform concerts in countries such as South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand. It will kick start at Seoul, Korea on April 27th, 2012.

It is most likely to last from 2012 to 2013, and be held around the world, including Latin America.

This is the tweet announcement “Little Monsters, the wait is over…the first set of dates for Lady Gaga’s new tour THE BORN THIS WAY BALL are here! The tour kicks off April 27th in Seoul, South Korea and will travel the world during 2012-2013. Of the new tour, Gaga said “The Haus of Gaga and I have worked for months conceiving a spectacular stage. THE BORN THIS WAY BALL is an Electro-Metal Pop-Opera; the tale of the Beginning, the genesis of the Kingdom of Fame. How we were birthed and how we will die celebrating.”

Awesome. We can’t wait for more dates to be released.

The show, which will team Gaga with veteran TV news announcer Katie Couric, was, of course, conceived and directed by Mother Monster herself and will feature the singer performing eight songs in front of a small audience of her friends and family, according to a press release announcing the show. Couric will also sit down for an interview in which she asks Gaga about the inspiration for some of her songs as the two chat at Gaga’s New York alma mater, Sacred Heart Catholic School.

“We all know Lady Gaga is a phenomenon,” Couric said in a statement. “This is a chance to see more of who she is beneath the wild costumes and staged musical numbers … Lady Gaga as a high school student still bruised by being excluded from the party, Lady Gaga as a devoted daughter and caring sister, Lady Gaga as a 25-year-old woman embracing fame and fortune that seemed to come overnight. She will impress you, delight you and surprise you.” 


In addition to her new single, “Marry the Night,” and other songs from Born This Way (“You and I,” “The Edge of Glory”), Gaga will perform “White Christmas” and her duet with Tony Bennett, “The Lady Is a Tramp.”

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The foundation announced on Tuesday that those performers, along with others to be announced — a group promised to collectively represent “the most influential and socially responsible artists in music, film and television” — will be taking part in “A Decade of Difference: A Concert Celebrating 10 Years of the William J. Clinton Foundation,” at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Oct. 15. The show will be broadcast live online by Yahoo.

“I am proud that some of today’s most influential performers are coming together to raise awareness about the work of my foundation,” President Clinton said in a statement. “In the past decade, commitments to my Clinton Global Initiative have improved the lives of more than 300 million people around the world. We’ve lowered the cost of AIDS and H.I.V. treatment, combated climate change, strengthened economies, increased access to education and healthcare, provided financing and mentoring for small businesses. This celebration marks 10 years of these efforts and demonstrates how much we can do to make a difference in the years ahead.”

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The ‘Born This Way’ singer used the 41st episode of her Gagavision TV show, which is broadcast on her official YouTube channel, to announce the date for the track.

A message appeared on the screen with the date of the forthcoming release, which will be her second single from the ‘Born This Way’ album.

The five-minute show also gave fans a glimpse of the ‘Poker Face’ singer’s rehearsals for her Judas video shoot.

The single was expected to be unveiled before GaGa’s Monster Ball Tour kicks off with a performance on ‘Good Morning America’ on May 27.

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Gaga debuted the $5 red and white wristband — marked with the phrase “We Pray for Japan” — on her Twitter page Friday. Featuring the phrase in both English and Japanese, the bracelet also includes Gaga’s signature Little Monsters claw motion.

“I Designed a Japan Prayer Bracelet. Buy It/Donate here and ALL proceeds will go to Tsunami Relief Efforts. Go Monsters,” the 24-year-old singer blogged, pointing fans to her official online retail store.

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Either Gaga, 24, had finally gone, well, gaga. Or she was slyly sending herself up by referencing one of mock rockumentary Spinal Tap’s most famous scenes – when Derek the bass player gets stuck in a ridiculous plastic pod.

With no apparent sense of irony, the New Jersey nymphette spent three hours inside the plastic egg during rehearsals “getting into character”.

According to one straight-faced aide, Gaga was “in an embryonic state and won’t be born until the performance”.

Moments before going on stage, she Tweeted [who knew embryos carried Blackberrys?]: “This is Nicola, Haus of Gaga: Gaga is in incubation. Tonight’s performance is in collaboration with Hussein Chalayan and House of Mugler. X.”

Once on stage, she “hatched” from the by-now glowing egg – from whence she had avoided suffocation by frantically sucking on an oxygen tank – to perform her rather underwhelming new “gay anthem” Born This Way (geddit?).

Dubbed a Madonna-lite ditty – think a Eurovision slaughtering of Express Yourself – the brilliantly hyped performance must have left granny Madge chewing the skirting boards as she watched from [the care] home.

Wearing a yolk-coloured Latex bra, skirt and revealing a bare stomach, Gaga completed the look with black lipstick and a long, pink side-ponytail. It was Madonna circa Blonde Ambition tour. Or a sonic Su Pollard.

She later accepted three Grammys – best female pop vocal and best video, both for Bad Romance, and best pop vocal album for The Fame Monster – dressed in a dominatrix outfit.

And she left organisers hitting the mute button as she collected her best album gong with an: “Oh, s***!” The yolk’s on you Gaga.

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The Forbes list of 2010 is a guide the fans go by every year to see who is pulling in the cash on a yearly basis. There is a collection of individuals that range from talk show hosts to actors and everyone in between who have an opportunity to work the crowds, make endorsements, share with the fans, and bring cash to the table to support their lifestyles.

The numbers aren’t for the weak at heart either, especially for the musical talent of the list. Beyonce topped the list of 2010 at number nine with $86 million dollars for 2010 and the range from the ninth on the list to the fourteenth (where Lady Gaga landed) is only the difference of a mere 22 million dollars.

Lady Gaga plans to push right into 2011 with a New Years Eve event that is to reveal something that every one of her monsters want to see. A new album, a new singles and even a new tour is in works for one of the most influential entertainers currently on the pop culture scene.

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Hong Kong, Shanghai, Berlin, Amsterdam, London, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and, of course, the Times Square location in New York City.

The New York Gaga-like wears a subdued sheer black dress, topped with a wide brim hat made of hair, a costume the real Gaga wore earlier this year to a consumer electronics event.

Figures in other cities are dressed in typical Gaga outfits and accessories, like black telephone hats, naked body suits, leotards and a purple beehive.

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