How much would you pay for Gaga?

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How much would you pay to hear thirteen songs?

That’s the question millions of Canadians should be asking themselves this morning, when Lady Gaga tickets go on sale today.
It was announced on Monday that the world’s newest popstar would be coming to Canada, but at an (insane) price.

Ticket prices for The Monster Ball tour start at $100.50 and top out at $190.50. No, that is not a typo. And before you start defending Gaga’s prices, I’ll remind you that she’s only released one CD. (Two if you count the re-release.)

Not swayed by the tickets prices? First, I’m jealous. Second, hopefully lady gaga is coming to a stadium near you!

Summer Tour Dates:
June 28 – Montreal, QC
July 11 – Toronto, ON
August 23 – Vancouver, BC
August 26 – Edmonton, AB

Regretfully Gaga.

>I’ve made no secret that I’ve never really been a fan of Lady Gaga. But after watching the singer’s newest video for Bad Romance, I may be having a little bit of a change of heart.

This video is seriously messed. Like Island of Dr. Moreau-style messed. I would have paid a million dollars to have been a fly on the wall of that pitch meeting.
I know I always try to bring you great Canadian music on this blog, but I’ve learned that every now and then you have to have to give in to Lady Gaga. Like it or not.

Also, I’m going to start a fundraiser dedicated to the psychological help that will be needed for all those that work on a Gaga video. Who wants to help?

Lady Gaga becomes a Monster!

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By now you’ve heard that the Lady Gaga/Kanye West tour has been canceled. At last report, approximately three people actually cared. Two of those people had their names in the title of the tour.
But a canceled tour isn’t going to stop Lady Gaga from being creepy and super-weird all over this great country, because she is going to go on tour by herself. The tour is called The Monster Ball and surprisingly doesn’t feature Billy Bob Thornton or Halle Berry. So even though she only has one album, Lady Gaga is hoping you’ll come out and set yourself back years on your therapy sessions. The concert is expected to run for a solid twenty minutes. The show is also expected to bring the whos-who of emotionally repressed weirdos and freaks. So yes, I’ll be there.
The just announced Canadian dates include:

November 27 – Montreal, Quebec, Canada – The Bell Center

November 28 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada – Air Canada Center
November 29 – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada – Scotiabank Place
December 09 – Vancouver, BC, Canada – Queen Elizabeth Theatre
December 10 – Vancouver, BC, Canada – Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Let’s just hope that she shows up on time this time around.

Kanye/Lady Gaga Hit the road!

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It’s all in the timing.

Kanye West and Lady Gaga are about to announce their tour and yes, they are coming North. I can’t help but wonder if Mr. Douchbag himself would have made such a scene if Lady Gaga had won.
Anyway, some of the Canadian dates include:
Nov 11th- Vancouver
November 26th- Calgary
November 28th- Edmonton
November 29th- Saskatoon
January 6th-Toronto
January 8th- Ottawa
January 11th- Montreal
Are you still a Kanye fan after last night?
Are you going to go? The Calgary Herald is running a little commentary on that very subject!
Last time Kanye was in town, I decided to get rid of my tickets last minute and the last time Lady Gaga was in Calgary…she barely showed up.
I think I’ll return them the favour.

Kanye: douchiest of douches?

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Unless you got a thick skin, don’t even think about watching Kanye West diss Taylor Swift at the VMAs. It is heartbreaking. The show is still going on, but hopefully she’ll get a chance to finish her speech.

Your move Beyonce.

I also just remembered that Kanye West is announcing a tour with Lady Gaga monday morning, what’s the chances he did all of this, just so we’d start talking about him again. Dammit, I hate falling for a publicists tricks.

Kanye is also booked for the first episode of The Jay Leno show. It’s all making sense now…

Later on in the night, Kanye took to his blog to apologize:

Regardless of who he thought should win, the point remains, he only did it because he knew Taylor would just sit their and take it. Little does he know, Swift also writes songs about the all the guys that wrong her. You’ll get yours Kanye.

UPDATE: Even fellow nominee, Kelly Clarkson is weighing in on Kanye’s actions. Check out what she just posted to her blog. Although, you should know, that I really don’t think she would write like this. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a hacker and it will probably be pulled down sooner, rather than later.
“Dear Kanye, What happened to you as a child?? Did you not get hugged enough?? Something must have happened to make you this way and I think we’re all just curious as to what would make a grown man go on national television and make a talented artist, let alone teenager, feel like shit. I mean, I’ve seen you do some pretty shitty things, but you just keep amazing me with your tactless, asshole ways. It’s absolutely fascinating how much I don’t like you. I like everyone. I even like my asshole ex that cheated on me over you…which is pretty odd since I don’t even personally know you.

The best part of this evening is that you weren’t even up for THIS award and yet you still have a problem with the outcome. Is winning a moon man that much of a life goal?? You can have mine if it will shut you up. Is it that important, really??

I was actually nominated in the same category that Taylor won and I was excited for her…so why can’t you be?? I’m not even mad at you for being an asshole…I just pity you because you’re a sad human being. On a side note, Beyonce has always been a class act and proved again tonight that she still is. Go TEXAS!! Taylor Swift, you outsell him ….that’s why he’s bitter. You know I love your work! Keep it up girl!”

Rebran…..

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The deadliest word that any radio station can ever hear is rebranding.  

This is essentially a death sentence on the airwaves, as it usually means a complete format change and wiping the deck clean of all on-air personalities.
Here in Calgary, FUEL 90.3 just suffered through a re-branding and now is called AMP 90.3 and now plays entirely too much Lady Gaga and Katy Perry (see the stats)
But is another station in danger of rebranding.
Energy 101.5 has been going through a LOT of changes lately.  Firstly, as of today, they are known as 101.5 Energy FM, they fired popular morning show co-host Freeway Frank and they have a whole new website….(which prominently features possible the worst picture of Nickelback ever*-sigh.)

Now this doesn’t necessarily mean that Energy 10….sorry 101.5 Energy FM is rebranding, but doesn’t it seem like it’s maybe a last ditch effort for the Top 40 station that has struggled (currently sitting at #13 place)  since it’s inception.  Now with AMP trying to grab the lion’s share of the pop-radio audience, things are only going to harder for Energy.
*and that is saying something!

Calgary Radio Wars

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Calgary is currently in the midst of a war.  

The battle is between three radio stations that claim they are the #1 Hit Music Station.  For those of you who don’t know, “hit music station” means: “drive you batty with the same pop-songs over and over again.”
The three radio stations at battle are Vibe 98.5, Energy 101.5 and the new Amp 90.3, which has just been on the air for over a month and says annoying things like “Lady Gaga, exclusively on Amp Radio.
Since calculating radio ratings is as sketchy taking public transportation anytime past 5pm, I decided to do a little investigating and see how much “hit” music they actually play.  Or more appropriately, how much do they overplay “hit” music. I picked the four artists that annoy me the most and checked each radio station play list.  Below is the chart of how often each artist was played over the last 24-hour period.   


Looking at the resaults you can see that Katy Perry is by far the most annoying and most played artist in Calgary right now.  

However, Amp and Energy share the title of most annoying music, by splitting the most played artists right down the line.

Shockingly, Vibe 98.5 isn’t the most annoying radio station.  Unless you factor in their morning show, because they easily take the prize for  ”Most Annoying Morning Radio Personalities.” 

(side note: Why station manager Chad can’t see that Chelsea is the star of the station is still beyond me?!  Stop sticking her to afternoon traffic and in bars where she has to pretend it’s busy on a Tuesday night! She is great, plain and simple.)

Fuel runs out

>Good music took another hit this weekend.

After months of disastrous ratings, FUEL 90.3 finally decided to pack up shop and fell victim to the dreaded re-branding.
I know that Megan and approximately 1% of Calgary are going to be very upset.  
Fuel 90.3 fired most of their staff earlier this week and on Saturday the re-branding took full effect with the arrival of AMP 90.3.  So what kind of music does AMP play?
Well let’s just say that since Saturday night, I’ve heard Lady Gaga more than her parents probably listen to her.
Welcome to the fold AMP 90.3! Here’s to taking down Vibe 98.5

Carly in the house

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If you are in or around Calgary tonight, you must go check out Carly Rae Jepsen at The Warehouse. You know you’ve all sung her addictive tug of war song and now she is coming to Cowtown!

And although she didn’t technically win Canadian Idol, I did say two years ago that she was going to be a star, which so far seems to be coming true!

I’m actually going to be talking with Carly this afternoon and I couldn’t be happier. She seems like she is pretty cool and I think she is a good role model for young canadians who don’t want to be the Lady Gaga’s of the world. Yeah, that’s right. I called out Lady Gaga. What are you doing to do about it?

Carly Rae plays at Warehouse tonight and tickets are only $15 bucks.

Lady Gaga Sucks in Calgary

>The following is an email actually sent to Gossip Gangster Perez Hilton

Dear Perez,

So I just got back from the Lady Gaga concert in Calgary, Alberta and I thought you should know a little something about one of your new BFFs.

The doors were supposed to open at 8:00pm, which they did. But you don’t have to be Paris Hilton’s BFF to know not to go that early in the evening. The only people that would perform that early would be….well no one. Not even my relatives get drunk that early. And they have been drunk since yesterday.

Anyway, my friends and I showed up around 11:00pm (on a school/work night) and waited. Of course, by waited I mean got pushed and shoved like it was a premiere for Twilight or something. I swear 75% of the audience was made of Degrassi extras rejects who probably barely got through security. My friends and I did some shots, waited, chatted with some people who had been standing in front of the stage for four hours, did some more shots, waited, did some more chatting, danced to Britney and kept waiting. Finally it was about 12:15am and she still hadn’t shown up on stage.

What was frustrating about the whole thing was that we aren’t talking about Elton John here Perez (who started on time both times I saw him). We are talking about Lady Gaga, who has only had one hit. Oh and for the record, her one hit “Just Dance” never got higher than 16 on the Billboard 100 chart and her second single PEAKED at 125. Wow. Even more embarrassing, her album also peaked at a lonely 17th position on the albums chart. Statistically speaking, Lady Gaga is a one hit wonder, which makes waiting that long to see her similar to waiting for Donna Lewis, Tina Arena or OMC.

Look Perez, I know she is probably an amazing performer. But Calgary, Alberta ain’t Vegas. We are a city full of workers and students and it was a WEDNESDAY night, what the hell was she doing on the bus in front of Tequila for so long? Couldn’t she TIVO Pushing Daisies like the rest of us? The people in front of us said they listened to Lady Gaga every morning and they ended up leaving before we did. They even said that they were never going to listen to her again because they were so disappointed.

The whole evening was made worse by the fact that when my friends and I decided to leave, we saw Lady Gaga leaving her bus to enter the club around 12:30pm. Those outside, who had not yet hit puberty, screamed with excitement and she didn’t even raise her head to say hello. Excuse me Lady Gaga, when did you become such hot shit? Calgary is a freaking cold place and those people waited HOURS to see you sing one damn song and you couldn’t even fake a smile. It’s so funny Perez that you call Christina Aguilera a Gaga-copycat, but you know what the main difference between them is? X-tina started on time and loved every second with her fans. Lady Gaga? Well I don’t know, we left before she got on stage to sing her one song. I’m guessing we didn’t miss much.

Next time you see her, tell her that what she did in Calgary was defnitely not cool. Even less cool then the fact that she got third billing next to the New Kids on The Block and Natasha Bedingfield at the Saddledome earlier that night.

All the best,

Mike
Mike’s Bloggity Blog

Despite everything, a big THANK YOU to Lisa from Tequila Nightclub!!!! She has always been awesome to Mike’s Bloggity Blog and me and my friends always have a blast at Tequila, even if Lady Gaga sucked it hard!!!!!