Lady Gaga has come up with a novel way to beat internet piracy. Fans – and mad geneticists – willing to shell out $99.98 (£61.25) on the Super Deluxe Pack of Lady Gaga's extended album The Fame Monster, are in for quite a surprise. Along with CDs, paper dolls, 3D glasses and a coffee-table tome, buyers will allegedly receive a lock of her hair.
In other Gaga news, the singer has announced a series of collaborations with Beyoncé, in which the pop stars will trade off on two forthcoming singles, and possibly Lady Gaga's second album.
"I want to do my version of Beyoncé," Lady Gaga told New York's Z100 radio station yesterday. Though she's best known for far-out costumery and sullen posing, Lady Gaga took a different approach for her appearance in an forthcoming Beyoncé video. "[Beyoncé] called me and she said, 'What do you want to do?'" Lady Gaga revealed. "And I'm like, 'I don't want to show up in some frickin' hair bow and be fashion Gaga in your video'. I said, 'I want to do you.'"
And so there she is, in a photo leaked to the Perez Hilton blog: Lady Gaga with her hair (or perhaps her wig) down, standing in a Beyoncé-style white leotard. "The whole time I was learning the choreography they were calling me Gee-yoncé," Gaga said.
That clip – for Beyoncé's Video Phone single – isn't the only team-up on the cards. The Crazy in Love singer guests on Telephone, a track from the forthcoming expanded edition of Lady Gaga's debut album. Telephone was produced by Darkchild and is reportedly a future single.
That's not all, though. Lady Gaga has suggested that she and Beyoncé may evencollaborate on songs that don't have the word "phone" in their titles.
