Lady Gaga Unleashes “Monster” With Dr. Dre: Headphones First, Song Next? Singer on New Tracks

October 1st, 2009 by Ellen Carpenter Leave a reply »

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For their debut collaboration, Dr. Dre and Lady Gaga designed a pair of headphones. Are they going to team up for a song next? “I think we are,” said Dre with a sly smile, after a press conference announcing Heartbeats, the new Gaga-endorsed earbuds for Monster’s Beats By Dr. Dre line. “We’re just talking about it now. I’m gonna send her some tracks and if she hears something she likes, then we’re gonna get together.”

But fans won’t have to wait for that for their next Gaga fix. The diva/provocateur/incendiary-bomb pop star told Rolling Stone that her debut’s re-release, The Fame Monster (due November 24th), will include a “ton” of new songs. “I think re-releases are unfair,” said Gaga, her mile-long fake lashes practically batting the bangs of her platinum blond wig with every blink. “It’s artists sneaking singles onto an already finished piece of work in an effort to keep the album afloat. Originally [my label] only wanted me to put out three songs and now it’s much more than that. It’s a new album’s worth of material.”

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Gaga, sitting at a table in the New York Palace Hotel’s library, says it’s a complete coincidence that her album shares a name with her new headphone brand. “It’s so funny because I had already written a song for my re-release called ‘Monster’ back in March” — three months before she met with Dr. Dre and the Noel Lee, the head of Monster, to discuss the collaboration. “I said, ‘I can’t believe you guys are called Monster because I’m obsessed with monster movies right now and I’m kind of obsessing over the decay of the celebrity and the way that fame is a monste...

Article Source: Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily

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