Lady Gaga is known to perform dramatic, theatrical and sometimes, just plain crazy antics onstage – and gets away with it. For the most part, that holds true, but Wednesday night was one of the few exceptions as she tried to pull off a stunt for which she was heavily criticized – not through words but through poultry – for being insensitive on the plights of the disabled.

As reported by British website Metro Online, the ‘Edge of the Glory’ singer went out onstage in the midst of her show in Sydney on Wednesday on a wheelchair. This sent people on the roof for what they thought as a tactless and insensitive gimmick by the singer. As a result, pissed attendees of the show egged her but to no avail, as she successfully dodged the egg attack thanks to her wall of posse, talk about “eggs of glory”.

Does she have a thing for wheelchairs or cripples? No one really knows, but this isn’t the first time Gaga tried to perform such a stunt. Two years ago at the MTV VMAs, she tried to re-create her ‘Paparazzi’ music video onstage with a dance routine a-la Glee’s ‘Proud Mary/Artie’ tribute (you can search for that Glee episode on YouTube, a season one episode where the kids sang ‘Proud Mary’ while rolling the school halls and auditorium on wheelchairs). And speaking of “eggs of glory”, Gaga appeared in this year’s recently concluded Grammy Awards from a hatched egg, as she premiered her much-anticipated single at the time, ‘Born this Way’. It would’ve been cooler though if she went all the way and appeared as a chick or anything with wings, a beak and feathers, anyway, she’s almost always clad in either or something that is similarly outrageous.

Looks like Lady Gaga has found a new haven where she could put all that talent and passion for high fashion – or should we say, quirky and head-turning head dresses – to good use. We just learned that the queen monster has landed a new job with hat designer to the stars and British royalty Philip Treacy as his new (and to date, probably the most famous) apprentice.

We know that this is a partnership made in couture heaven. Treacy’s works include Sarah Jessica Parker’s conspicuous feather head dress she donned for the premiere of ‘Sex and the City’ in London three years ago, and of course, who could forget Princess Beatrice’s scene stealing hat she had for the royal wedding of Will and Kate, that could’ve been the highest fashion talking point of the occasion if Kate hadn’t worn that stunning Alexander McQueen wedding gown.

Speaking to Us Weekly, the British hat designer is looking forward to training the ‘Born this Way’ singer, “She plans to [do an internship with me]. She’s already visited me,” Treacy said. And the designer has already had a taste of what to expect once Gaga’s internship begins. “This is what happened: One Monday morning, four burly bodyguards arrived — Lady Gaga’s security team — to check out the security of the building. I looked at them as if to say, ‘What?! Who is going to take a pot shot at Lady Gaga?’ Anyway, she is young, talented and peculiar — which I like.” Needless to say, Treacy’s atelier will be flocked by a hoard of watchful eyes with cameras while his own pair of watchful eyes teaches the chart topping diva a thing or two on how to make hats that could have the whole world talking, you could sell it on eBay for more than a hundred grand and donate it to charity (Princess Beatrice’s infamous head dress was auctioned off on eBay and was sold for £81,101 or US$131,650. The proceeds went to UNICEF and Children in Crisis charities.).

Lady Gaga’s back in Singapore, not as part of a world tour though (as she doesn’t have one for her current release yet) but for the Singtel AMped showcase, where her little monsters and normal spectators can get to see the queen monster in the flesh, along with an hour-long performance plus a brief conference with the members of the Singaporean press.

“I’m so happy to back in Singapore… This is one of my favorite countries in the whole world. Thank you for having me back,” said the ‘Edge of Glory’ singer, who donned an aqua wig, sunglasses (which could pass off as Mickey Mouse’s ears), white gloves, sky-rocketing shoes and toned down the ensemble with a khaki outfit.

The press people were obviously eager to ask her all sorts of queries but host Soo Kui Jien managed to keep the conference centered on Gaga’s new album, ‘Born this Way’, and its newest single ‘Edge of Glory’.

“The song ["Edge of Glory"] not only talks about the other side of life, but also about celebrating how far you’ve come… [It is like] taking acknowledgement for myself as a 25 year old who’s been working so hard from the bottom up my whole life, what is it feel like to be in the edge of your glory,” explained the singer.

The eight-minute conference immediately came to a close. Later that day, she treated her little monsters to an hour-long performance of her current hits springing from her new release, such as ‘Judas’, ‘Edge of Glory’, ‘Hair’, and of course, the title track of her third and current record, ‘Born this Way’. She completed the set with her previous hits – ‘Alejandro’, ‘Bad Romance’, ‘Just Dance’ and ‘Telephone’ – singles that made her more than just a one-hit or one-album wonder, but a bonafide pop culture icon.

With the warm and positive reception she experienced on her brief Singaporean stint, it will be a mistake for Gaga not to include the country into her next world tour, whenever that may be. She already took it a step forward and promised her little monsters that she will return with a “full tour next year”.

She better come through as her Singaporean fans have already marked their calendars and are gearing up for what shapes to be as a Gaga pandemonium in Lion City in 2012.

Remember Lady Gaga’s fresh meat ensemble to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards? That brisket and steak of a wardrobe that the queen monster wore on the said event is now on its way to The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame exhibit in Cleveland, and it will stay there for a whole day for all the curious – and the flies – to see.

The Franc Fernandez/Nicola Formichetti cold cut masterpiece drew a lot of attention, especially the attention of animal rights group PETA, who thought of the ‘dress’ as a butchered disaster via a released statement that reads:

“Meat is the decomposing flesh of a tormented animal who didn’t want to die, and after a few hours under the TV lights, it would smell like the rotting flesh it is and likely be crawling in maggots — not too attractive, really.”

But The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame thinks otherwise as they are making the ensemble a part of their upcoming exhibit on Thursday entitled, ‘Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power’. The showcase will stress “the flashpoints, the firsts, the best, the celebrated — and sometimes lesser known women — who moved rock and roll music and American culture forward,” as stated in a press release.

‘So You Think You Can Dance’ returns for its eighth season on June 15th via FOX, and it promises to have a star-studded judge line-up beginning with ‘Will & Grace’ alum Megan Mullally sitting as one of the first round judges for the dance competition.

But it is another guest judge set to appear in the middle of the show’s eighth season that is expected to draw millions of viewers. In a report released by Xfinitytv, SYTYCD head judge and executive producer Nigel Lythgoe asked Lady Gaga to appear as a guest judge in one of the season’s future episodes.

“I asked her when she performed on the ‘American Idol’ finale if she would come on and she said yes. She is on tour so they said it would probably be later in the season. She is an amazing dancer and performer,” Lythgoe said.

Tony and Emmy Award winner Kristin Chenoweth, who gained mainstream popularity via the now defunct TV series ‘Pushing Daisies’ and in FOX’s ‘Glee’ as recurring character April Rhodes, is also slated to join the judging panel while Neil Patrick Harris and Ellen DeGeneres both expressed interest and are still in talks about judging as well.

What goes up must come down, and it must come down real hard especially when the accompanying big promotional discount has come to a close.

That has been the story behind Lady Gaga’s ‘Born this Way’ plummeting second week sales. From a sky-rocketing and record-breaking 1.1 million copies sold on its first week out, the queen monster’s third studio set plummeted real hard in the sales department, only moving 174,000 copies on its sophomore stay in the shelves and it won’t be soon before other trailing artists, such as British soul sensation Adele, topple over the ‘Judas’ singer from the top of the Billboard 200.

The steep first week sales for ‘Born this Way’ is largely attributed to Amazon’s 99 cent promotional scheme, which they ran twice and even included extra perks such as additional Cloud Player storage space. Cloud Player is Amazon’s answer to Apple’s iTunes. The Amazon sale moved 650,000 to 700,000 copies of the album, which is more than fifty percent of its first week figures.

Adele, who is currently nursing a case of laryngitis (probably because of her throaty and soulful voice in singles like ‘Rolling in the Deep’ and ‘Turning Tables’) making her cancel the rest of the North American leg of her tour, might just reclaim the top spot in the Billboard 200. She sits comfortably right now at second place with 121,000 copies of her debut album, ‘21’, sold this week.

Just when we thought he’s reformed and all, Eminem’s back to his old ways again, dissing fellow music acts and also other personalities (i.e Sarah Palin, Kim Kardashian) and notching singles high up in the charts at the expense of singers like Moby, Jessica Simpson, Fred Durst, Britney Spears, Mariah Carey and her husband Nick Cannon, and even the King of Pop Michael Jackson, all of whom he has ridiculed at great length through his music videos or has hurled insults and snide comments, remember what he said about Moby in his 2002 hit ‘Without Me’?

“You 36 year old bald headed f** bl** me, You don’t know me, you’re too old, Let go, it’s over, nobody listens to techno…”

So after almost a decade of being out of the spotlight and then eventually coming out with a new album that was a product of his sobriety (2010’s ‘Recovery’), and collaborating with other artists (with Rihanna for ‘Love the Way You Lie’) who could’ve just been another unfortunate victim of his sharp words had he been in the mood to do so, you’d think you’ll never see or hear Slim Shady’s rapid fire of offensive remarks again, well, that would’ve been true until today.

Eminem’s side project, Bad Meets Evil, a rap duo featuring him teaming up with hip-hop act Royce da 5’9”, has just dropped their new single, ‘A Kiss’, taken from their upcoming EP ‘Hell: The Sequel’ set to hit shelves next week. The song is reminiscent of the old Marshall Mathers with some new flavor from his new rap partner and some new artists to be inducted in Eminem’s long line of people who simply tick him off.

“Tell Lady Gaga she can quit her job at the post office / She’s still a male lady, raps the ‘Not Afraid’ singer who added more explicit quips about Lady Gaga’s privates aimed to re-fuel the speculation that the ‘Judas’ singer is a hermaphrodite. While that rumor is more than a year old and the queen monster has since then survived this outrageous write-up with a succession of hits that can equal Mathers’ collection, his outrage towards Justin Bieber is more controversial:

“Him don’t give a damn about Bieber, do Him? / What a demon, a behemoth, evil just seems to be seeping through him.”

Eminem’s first rise to chart-topper status was built on controversial singles whose lyrics are too explicit and whose videos are too vulgar, especially for the conservatives. It now remains to be seen if the same bullying treatment to his contemporaries will continue to work as a successful song material or even as an album inspiration, especially now that the music landscape is in a constant state of change.

The Black Keys’ Patrick Carney is just one of the many music personalities populating Twitterverse, and today, he is also one of the many microblogging junkies bearing the wrath of the little monsters, Lady Gaga’s legion of passionate and loyal followers, and there at least 10 million of them in the popular social networking site.

The wrath, of course, was in the form of sharp, mean tweets bordering on bullying, demanding the drummer to go to hell and leave their queen monster alone.

It all began last month when Carney tweeted about Gaga’s performance at the season finale of Saturday Night Live, where Justin Timberlake appeared as the night’s host. His first tweet about it initially seemed harmless and vague (“Madonna is killing it!”) but when he seconded it with a “I still can’t get over madonna’s performance at the grammy’s this year! She was born that way!” comment directed at Ke$ha’s Twitter handle, @keshasuxx, it wasn’t too long till the little monsters treated that last post as a snide comment to their mother and retaliated with a fury that flooded Carney’s Twitter page with profane and heated comments directed at him, so furious, most comments needed to be spell-checked for grammar and punctuation, but the drummer didn’t mind the incoherent commentary, insults and even grave threats since he retweeted most of it, or at least the ones that were outrageous enough to be re-posted.

“Hey, little monsters! Everyone knows lady gaga sounds nothing at all like Madonna. I was joking! I am so depressed,” tweeted Carney, but apparently, it was too late for that. When that didn’t seem to work, he tweeted Gaga herself: “Your anti bullying message isn’t really translating to your little monsters!”, a post that was reposted by more than a hundred of Carney’s followers.

In the end, he just capped off his day in Twitterverse, a day that continued to be filled with the wrath of the little monsters, with “Today was awesome!” but added that it wasn’t entirely awesome because Bethenny Frankel was a bummer.

Lady Gaga is not just a creative genius and a cyberspace superstar, she also has some good business sense and knows how to turn her stature as a major player in pop culture into treasure gold.

A true internet media savvy herself, Lady Gaga is said to invest – both financially and intellectually – to a new social network that will be tailored to cater the needs of celebrities and performers like her who utilize social networking sites at great lengths to communicate with their fans. The website will be called Backplane and it is getting some serious financial backing not only from the singer but also from Google’s Eric Schmidt.

So what does Backplane have that Twitter and Facebook doesn’t?

Speaking to The New York Times, Troy Carter, Lady Gaga’s business manager explains, “Backplane will provide a platform and tools for communities to socialize and communicate on a more focused level. We needed a more concentrated base.” He also added that the idea for Backplane sprung about after his meeting with Apple’s Steve Jobs, where the CEO of today’s most valuable brand explained the prospects of Ping, Apple’s social networking portal tailored to music lovers, and Lady Gaga teaming up to boost both the site and the artist’s reach among frequently online music junkies. But Carter thought of something much better.

While Gaga is said to own a fifth of the future site, majority of the funding will come from Tomorrow Ventures, a venture firm established and owned by Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google. To date, the firm has already produced more than a million dollars to operate the site.

According to social media strategist and researcher Jake Wengroff from Frost & Sullivan, Gaga’s Backplane has a good chance of not only breaking ground in the already overpopulated social networking marketplace, but it can also survive the virtual industry by virtue of the singer’s constant dynamism, fearless perspective and personality, and innate shrewdness. She knows how to utilize the media’s fascination with her, her music and her personal style as her platform to reach out to the world and even boost her name’s market value.

“Lady Gaga is different, as she is quite aware of the power of technology to drive interest in her music — while simultaneously netting her outsize returns. Not all of her and her business partners’ ventures will make money, but her willingness to lend capital and credibility to even the tiniest of start-ups and concepts can only be a boon to the industry overall,” Wengroff explains.

Indeed, Gaga’s goal of spreading her philosophy through music and fashion via the internet is turning her into an icon, a successful entrepreneur and a highly sought-after brand, as well. Her recent ventures with Zynga, makers of the popular Facebook app FarmVille, and social app creators Tapulous, famous for its Tap Tap game series for the iPhone and iPad, has made her more valuable in the financial market and more popular in the social networking world, which continues to evolve to include several platforms such as music and gaming. And considering she’s got more than 10 million followers on Twitter – and the first person to have done it – and more than 35 million fans on Facebook who ‘like’ her, there is no doubt that the ‘Born this Way’ hit maker’s new venture has a very promising future.

Reports are swirling that pop-dance diva Lady Gaga will be joining the likes of Amy Winehouse, Mariah Carey and the Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin as the privileged few who will be collaborating with music legend Tony Bennett for his upcoming release aptly entitled ‘Duets II’, his follow-up to his 2006 Grammy winning set, ‘Tony Bennett Duets: An American Classic’ produced by Phil Ramone. Fellow Grammy winners Michael Buble and John Mayer will also be appearing in the new release set to drop on September 16 in Ireland, then on the 20th stateside. The album will take the 85-year old singing veteran from Los Angeles’ Capitol Studios, to Italy, Nashville and his home turf in New York to record the album.

Bennett is the embodiment of a true artist and an icon. For seven decades in the recording industry, he has released more than a hundred albums, has earned 15 Grammys, including a Lifetime Achievement Award, and is Columbia Records’ longest staying signed artist. He has truly earned the respect of the music community and the television industry as well, after his 2007 special ‘Tony Bennett: An American Classic’, bagged 7 Emmys. Apart from being a musical genius, he is also a seasoned visual artist – having three of his pieces housed at the Smithsonian’s Permanent Collection – and a published author as well, where he penned about his passion for both music and the visual arts in ‘Tony Bennett in the Studio; A Life of Art and Music’ and ‘Tony Bennett: What My Heart has Seen’, and his memoir, ‘The Good Life’.

A distinguished humanitarian, Bennett has worked closely with the Department of Education in his native New York to champion his cause of helping high school students appreciate, express and cultivate their artistic inclinations, whether through visual or performing arts, as such, the establishment of the Frank Sinatra School for the Arts in Astoria, Queens. In addition, along with his spouse Susan, he also founded the charity group Exploring the Arts, in an effort to encourage New York City public high schools to improve the quality of arts education in its curricula, particularly in the seven schools that the group is directly supporting at present. The United Nations has awarded him the Humanitarian Award in 2007 in recognition of his efforts.