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After getting her start singing in clubs in New York City, Lady Gaga splashed onto the music scene with her debut album, The Fame. The albums first two singles, “Just Dance” and “Poker Face” instantly became international no. 1 hits. “Just Dance” was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording.
Lady Gaga continues to atract her audience with not only her music, but her outlandish fashion sense and unforgettable performances as well. In an interview for Germany’s RTL broadcasting station, Gaga stunned spectators with her lumpy green outfit made entirely of Kermit the Frog puppets. At the MTV Video Music Awards, Gaga changed outfits five times. She first donned a Victorian-style dress complete with black feathers and a gold neck brace. The singer/songwriter then changed into her performance gear — a combination of white, knee-high boots, a belly bearing top and white underwear. Gaga also assured ample airtime by wrapping herself, including her face, in a shroud of red lace. While accepting her award for Best New Artist, Gaga had to unravel herself simply to speak. In addition to being known for literally wearing her art on her sleeve.
Taylor Swift first arrived on the scene in 2006, but has since gone from appearing on Billboard magazine’s Hot Country Songs chart to performing at the MTV Video Music Awards. Swift’s fame exploded with the release of her second album, Fearless. Hit singles like “White Horse,” “You Belong With Me” and “Love Story,” landed Swift as the first country artist to top the two million mark in paid downloads. Swift also became the youngest artist in history to win the Album of the Year Award at the Academy of Country Music Awards. The Academy also credited Swift with attracting a younger audience to country music. Most recently, Swift was awarded Best Female Video at the MTV Video Music Awards for her hit single “You Belong With Me.” Audiences were shocked when rapper Kanye West stole the microphone from Swift during her acceptance speech to exclaim that Beyoncé’s video for “Single Ladies” was the “best video of all time.” The event triggered negative backlash for West and genuine empathy for Swift, who eventually got the chance to thank her fans when Beyoncé invited her on stage during her own acceptance for the Video of the Year Award.
A humble, soft-spoken woman from a small village in Scotland, Suan Boyle gained international attention after singing a breath-taking rendition of “I Dreamed a Dream” as a contestant on “Britain’s Got Talent.” Her appearance on the show triggered immediate media and Internet response as videos, interviews, and the “I Dreamed a Dream” performance were watched over 300 million times, setting an online record. Boyle continues to attract media interest because of the stark contrast between her sophisticated voice and her plain appearance in front of the camera. However, Boyle showed her glamorous side in the September issue of “Harper’s Bazaar” for her first magazine shoot ever. Keeping with her own personal style, Boyle embraced the natural looks Harper’s Bazaar planned for her. Looking polished in a JCrew cardigan and modest heels, Boyle retained her own unassuming attitude while glossing the pages of a high fashion magazine.
Boyle’s first album, I Dreamed a Dream, was released in November and has become Amazon’s best-selling album in pre-sales. In Britain, the CD was the fastest selling UK debut album of all time. In the U.S., the album sold 701,000 copies in the first week, the best opening week for a debut artist in over a decade.
Megan Fox got her breakthrough role in “Transformers,” acting alongside on-screen love interest Shia LaBeouf. With piercing blue eyes and jet-black hair, Fox quickly won the hearts of sci-fi nerds everywhere. Since then, Fox has graced the covers of magazines like Esquire, GQ, Rolling Stone, Elle and Cosmopolitan, to name a few. This year, Fox starred in the “Transformers” sequel, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” a huge box office success that achieved the highest grossing Wednesday opening in history. The film brought in nearly $60.6 million nationally and $119.1 million worldwide. Fox’s newest movie, “Jennifer’s Body,” in which Fox plays a possessed teenage serial killer who uses her stunning good looks to lure in male victims, was released in September. Although Fox has been nominated for a series of different awards for her work in the “Transformers” series, she recently won the Choice Summer Movie Star: Female Award from the Teen Choice Awards. Not surprisingly, Fox has also been awarded FHM’s Sexiest Woman of the Year for the second year in a row. Sorry, gentlemen. Fox is currently dating Brian Austin Green, former 90210 star and Fox’s on-again, off-again fiancé.
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