Lady Gaga Teams Up With Drag Race Divas For New Single Promo

Well that title is a mouthful, but it really tells you exactly what you need to know. Earlier this week, Lady Gaga's new single in what feels like ages (after having a new one every week back in 2011/2012) "Applause" was released on the internet, and it has blown up since. Her official lyric video features some very familiar faces, too, from our favorite reality tv show (competition, as not to offend our housewives) RuPaul's Drag Race.



"But GaoSalad," you plead, "You hate Lady Gaga." No, that's not true. While I can only tolerate maybe three songs from her last album, I have to say she does have a knack for making good pop music. It's just that she is so overhyped that I try to give other acts attention over her and other headliners. But this is RuPaul's Drag Race we are talking about here. I can't just leave this alone. This has to be known.

In the video, Gaga is actually the camerawoman, and is filming various drag queens perform to her new single, which exploded all over the world last week. In said club (which I have no idea the name of), many Drag Race alumni made the scene to perform. Among the crew were Shannel from season one, Shangela of Season two and three, Morgan McMichaels of season two, and Detox from season five. There was even a two second clip from backstage of Willam hogging the spotlight again.

God I love Willam.

On a positive note, I have to say I like this song's feel far more than the previous era of Gaga. If this is any indication of what we are getting with Artpop (and remember, I'm skeptical because "Hair" was supposed to be a preview for her last album, but it turned out to be the only outstanding track for me) then I will be happy. I wasn't too crazy about the subject of the song, being a bit simplistic to be coming from a writer who has sewn many innuendos and interpretations into her music in the past, but it's so damn catchy that I can't help but enjoy it.

Right now the album is shrouded in mystery. It's available for preorder on iTunes, but all that is revealed is that it's coming out November 11, and there will be 15 tracks in total. As of now, "Applause" is listed as the final song, but that is also subject to change. Even the album artwork is simply the single cover for "Applause." Tomorrow is supposed to shine even more light on the situation, but I couldn't let my Drag Race faves get passed up another minute.

UPDATE: The official music video is out now! I personally wasn't crazy about the direction they went in. What do you think? Better with or without Drag Race?

Top Five: Un-Christmas Songs

Welcome to Christmas! I'm not really as happy about it as the exclamation point would lead you to believe, but it's hard not to buy into the fake cheer of the holidays. It's time to hash out more celebrity X-mas related songs. Luckily, not all of them are your traditional tunes, some being downright anti-Christmas. As part of a month-long Top Five column of random crap I deem entertaining and relevant, I will be  Let me get at you with some Un-Christmas Christmas songs.


5. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence - FYI by Utada



Confession time: I LOVE Hikaru Utada's English albums. Back when I was a Weeaboo (Don't ask), I was all about some Utada, and she released her debut English album Exodus at the height of my Japan obsession. She released two English albums, this song from the second one. I placed it so high on the countdown mainly because it trolls you into thinking it's a Christmas song when it really isn't. She doesn't even mention the holidays at all. The only really seasonal part of the song is her saying "Jing-a-ling" a couple of times. Way to fool us, Utada. You win.
Edit: An Anon informed me she had to keep the title of the song she sampled for legal reasons. That still doesn't mean she isn't trolling you. I mean if she had to keep the title, logic dictates you should roll with the Christmas theme. She did not. Thus, troll.
(Warning: Lots of Hos under the cut.)

Space Cowboy + Dolly Rockers, New Gaga and More

A few months ago, I saw a tweet that made me really excited. It was a link to a picture of the British "wonky pop" group The Dolly Rockers with my future husband favorite song writer collaborating together. Now with any unsigned or recently signed band, a lot of things are going to be uncertain, so with the recent spike in activity with The Dolly Rockers, I took it upon myself to find out what is going on.

The Dollies have started a mailer with exclusive content including pictures, personal messages, and videos. Their first installment announced that they have been signed to RedWalk and having their entire album produced by RedOne, the hitmaker best known for his work with Lady Gaga. This made my heart sink as it looked like the tracks written with Space Cowboy might never see the light of day... So I took it upon myself to go to the source. While the Dollies were a little vague, it did sound hopeful.

I made a post about the picture and my excitement and the dollies replied!

"@Gaosalad we are signed to redone but have worked with the fabulous @spacecowboy x"

In an excited panic I replied to them asking if the songs will ever see the light of day and got yet another response!

"@Gaosalad ull have to wait and see whats on the album! there will be plenty of surprises x"

And with that Im going to remain optimistic.  And who knows? Maybe Spacey will post something about it on his twitter soon. Who knew I'd get addicted to yet another social networking site (sarcasm hurr).

In other news, Lady Gaga has released yet another song in an effort to draw attention to her already hugely anticipated album. Before I get on to talking about the song, let me make it clear that I am not the biggest Gaga fan. Go ahead and call the gay police but I think I might be the only homo on the planet that doesn't see her as the second coming of Jesus. Born This Way and Edge of Glory were nowhere near as good as they should have been. Judas is my guilty pleasure... and the new promotional single "Hair" is... kind of in between. The song has made me torn. It is looking like while half of the new album will be terrible, half of it has potential. I guess I may have to go against my OCD habbits and buy selected tracks instead of dropping fifteen dollars on the full album.

Other noteworthy releases this week:
Just one for this week. The return of Limp Bizkit. "Shotgun" is not only awesome but pretty addicting too.

And per request, I leave you with a picture of Katy Perry doing a rather convincing immitation of a certain 80's cartoon character.