‘Kon says he’s joining his artist in Europe to record songs for her next album.
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While Lady Gaga has been touring across the globe and gearing up to shoot a video for her single “Alejandro,” she’s also found time to record tracks for her next album. Her label boss, Akon, has already heard some of the Fame Monster follow-up, and he says it is out of this world.

“She records while she’s on the road,” Akon told Vibe.com. “I’m flying out to Europe to work on some new records with her. Gaga’s just like me. She has a tour bus with a studio in it. Some of the songs I’ve heard are going to be crazy. She’s getting bigger and better.”

Although a release date, title and other details have yet to be revealed, Akon knows that she’s working hard and doesn’t need much advice from him.

“All I’m doing at the end of the day is listening to the tracks Gaga has written and approving them for her album. She has producers that she works with outside of myself and they are coming up with some incredible records,” he explained. “But the beauty of it is she knows exactly what she wants. So it just makes it easier for me.”

Frequent Gaga collaborator RedOne told MTV News that he and the singer still have a lot of tricks up their sleeves but wouldn’t be specific. “That I don’t want to say, because you always want to shock people,” he said. “And you don’t want to let people know, so that when they hear it, [they go], ‘Oh my God.’ ”

And after winning a pair of Grammys with Gaga this year, RedOne promised more successes to come. “We’re just gonna rock again,” he said. “When me and Gaga get together, it’s crazy. It’s unbelievable.”

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‘It just comes with the territory,’ singer says.
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Christina Aguilera plans to stop by “American Idol” in May to give fans a taste of her upcoming album Bionic, but some who have heard the first single “Not Myself Tonight” have compared the new Aguilera sound to Lady Gaga.

“It just comes with the territory. That, in particular, is not even worth wasting the breath to comment on,” she told the Bert Show on Q100 in Atlanta Tuesday morning (April 20). “I’ve been around for over a decade and I think my work speaks for myself. [When I was younger] I would have engaged, been a little upset [about the comparisons]. There’s a bigger picture out there. I’ve got my son, my family, my work.”

In another interview with Atlanta’s Star 94 FM on Tuesday she added, “No rip-offs, we’re all inspired by different things. I was inspired … by artists that came before me. … You know what I love about the new breed of newcomers is that they’re risk takers. They’re doing things that aren’t so safe. … I always had the guts and passion to do things like that. … I’m happy to see that people have come full-circle and are now accepting it and are into it and these girls have the guts to do it.”

It’s not the first time people have compared the two blond pop stars. In 2008, Aguilera addressed the comparisons, revealing that she didn’t even know who Lady Gaga. “You know, that’s funny that you mention that. This person [Lady Gaga] was just brought to my attention not too long ago,” she told the L.A. Times in November 2008. “I’m not quite sure who this person is, to be honest. I don’t know if it is a man or a woman. I just wasn’t sure. I really don’t spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.”

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‘Idol’ reps have yet to confirm that Gaga will be on the show May 5, as she tweeted.
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This season of “American Idol” has featured a variety of guest performers, from Rihanna and Miley Cyrus to, most recently, Adam Lambert, but a potential “Idol” appearance from Lady Gaga really has fans buzzing. On Friday, the singer took to her Twitter to address the rumors.

“See you on American Idol. MAY 5th, Little Monsters,” she said in a tweet that was accompanied by a YouTube video, which has since been taken down due to copyright claims.

A press time, reps for “Idol” haven’t responded to MTV News’ request for comment on the possible appearance.

If she is, indeed, coming on the show May 5, it wouldn’t be the first time Gaga graced the “Idol” stage. Last April, the singer put on a show-stopping performance of “Poker Face.” No word on what song she might perform, but fans are currently speculating she’ll perform her third single “Alejandro” from her Fame Monster EP.

Gaga’s music will be heading to Fox prime time regardless as “Glee” has dedicated an upcoming episode to the singer. The stars of “Glee” say Gaga’s music and the show go hand in hand.

“Her music and her influence on pop music right now, it’s so well expressed by ‘Glee,’ ” actor Cory Monteith told MTV News. “The way that that episode goes with Lady Gaga’s music is amazing.”

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Trendsetting rapper M.I.A. has fired the first shots in a potential war of words with trendsetting pop star Lady Gaga. In an interview in the upcoming issue of NME, M.I.A. dissed Gaga’s music, style and the obscene amount of product placement in the “Telephone” video. “Lady Gaga — people say we’re similar, that we both mix all these things in the pot and spit them out differently, but she spits it out exactly the same! None of her music’s reflective of how weird she wants to be or thinks she is,” M.I.A. told NME (via NYMag’s Vulture).

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The Kala rapper didn’t stop there. “She models herself on Grace Jones and Madonna, but the music sounds like 20-year-old Ibiza music, you know?,” M.I.A. continued. “She’s not progressive, but she’s a good mimic. She sounds more like me than I fucking do!” M.I.A. went on to poke fun at the creative Haus of Gaga working behind the singer, likening it to “Me blindfolded with naked men feeding me apples and shit.”

Incidentally, M.I.A. and Lady Gaga are labelmates on Interscope, so it’ll be interesting to see how the record company reacts to his family feud. Still, if the great Kanye vs. 50 Cent battle of 2007 taught us anything, it’s that a little innocent beefing never hurt album sales, and M.I.A. has a new LP on the way in June. At press time Lady Gaga has not responded to M.I.A.’s quotes, nor has M.I.A. used her Twitter account to embellish on her unprovoked statements.

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The biggest catch — and in Farrell’s opinion, the toughest catch — was Lady Gaga, who will present her Monster Ball in front of its biggest audience yet. “Lady Gaga represents to me the music industry today. She’s a good representation of where it’s at and where everybody’s trying to get to. If you look at the Grammys, it looked like everybody was trying to catch up to Lady Gaga,” Farrell tells RS. “We just see the vision of Lady Gaga in Chicago in Grant Park surrounded by all those beautiful buildings — we all just thought that it would be an epic performance.”

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The headlining slot marks the second time Gaga will perform at Lollapalooza; Before she became Lady Gaga, she performed on the much-smaller BMI stage at the 2007 fest, and was eager to return on the big stage. “She had a real interest in doing it as well because she felt like we had given her a break to go into the world of legitimate music, you know not just pop,” Farrell said.

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Lollapalooza’s other huge coup was snagging Seattle grunge legends Soundgarden to headline, marking the first gig of any kind Chris Cornell and the Superunknown gang have performed since their 1997 breakup. “It was a very tough catch for us,” Farrell says of adding Soundgarden, who announced their reunion on New Year’s Day but have gone silent since. “They were ready then they weren’t ready, then they didn’t know what they were going to do and then they were going to go out with another group to tour. So we were really kind of on edge to secure them and it came down to the wire.” Soundgarden had previously performed on two Lollapalooza circuits when the festival was a roving tour, so Farrell was set on booking them again: “We’re happy that it all worked out and we have the exclusive first comeback show for them.”

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With so many festivals to compete against — each with their own exclusivity clauses — and so many artists still in the studio working feverishly to complete their new albums, Farrell admits that compiling this year’s lineup was more “nerve-wracking” that previous years. “For Arcade Fire, we were going to miss the window and we just love them so much we were like, ‘OK, we’ll give you another 30 days, we’ll keep the slot open,’ and the patience worked out,” Farrell says. “They all have new material and I don’t think there’s a better place to present it than Lollapalooza.”

Perry’s, the DJ and electro stage, will return with 2ManyDJs, Empire of the Sun, and a set by Farrell himself. As for whether he’ll will take the Lollapalooza stage with Jane’s Addiction, who Rolling Stone reported officially added bassist Duff McKagan to their roster last week, Farrell isn’t promising the band will appear at Chicago’s Grant Park. However, don’t be surprised if they do show up at an afterparty or two in the days following the fest, much like Them Crooked Vultures did last year. “It’ll be similar to what they did but maybe not in a club. Maybe somewhere really special,” Farrell hints.

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Full Lollapalooza 2010 Lineup:
Soundgarden
Green Day
Lady Gaga
Arcade Fire
The Strokes
Phoenix
Social Distortion
MGMT
Jimmy Cliff
Hot Chip
The Black Keys
The National
Spoon
Devo
Cypress Hill
Cut Copy
The New Pornographers
Erykah Badu
Slightly Stoopid
Grizzly Bear
Gogol Bordello
Chromeo
Wolfmother
Yeasayer
X Japan
MUTEMATH
Metric
Dirty Projectors
AFI
Mavis Staples
Matt & Kim
The xx
Drive-By Truckers
Blues Traveler
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
The Temper Trap
Jamie Lidell
Frightened Rabbit
Fuck Buttons
Deer Tick
Blitzen Trapper
Stars
Raphael Saadiq
The Cribs
Minus the Bear
Switchfoot
The Walkmen
Mumford & Sons
Wild Beasts
Rogue Wave
Los Amigos Invisibles
The Big Pink
The Dodos
Hockey
Cymbals Eat Guitars
B.o.B
Dawes
Warpaint
The Antlers
The Soft Pack
Rebelution
Balkan Beat Box
Wavves
American Bang
The Ike Reilly Assassination
Company of Thieves
Nneka
Harlem
The Constellations
Miniature Tigers
Mimicking Birds
The Kissaway Trail
HEALTH
Javelin
The Morning Benders
Foxy Shazam
Violent Soho
Royal Bangs
NEON TREES
Freelance Whales
Semi Precious Weapons
Dan Black
The Band of Heathens
Dragonette
My Dear Disco
Shawn Fisher
Neon Hitch
Skybox
The Ettes
Jukebox the Ghost
These United States
MyNameIsJohnMichael

Lollapalooza 2010 Perry’s Lineup:
2ManyDJs
Empire of the Sun
Digitalism
Perry Farrell
Tiga
Felix da Housecat
Rusko
Erol Alkan
Kaskade
Flosstradamus
Wolfgang Gartner
Joachim Garraud
Mexican Institute of Sound
Caspa
Peanut Butter Wolf
Dirty South
NERVO
Cut Copy (DJ Set)
Beats Antique
Steve Porter
Didi Gutman of Brazilian Girls
Ancient Astronauts
Ana Sia
Team Bayside High
Dani Deahl
FreeSol
DJ Mel
BBU
Vonnegutt
Only Children
Lance Herbstrong

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