Gaga won her first two GRAMMYs at the 52nd GRAMMY Awards for Best Dance Recording ('Poker Face') and Best Dance/Electronic Album (The Fame). She also made her first performance appearance on the GRAMMY stage that same year, singing a medley that included 'Poker Face' and 'Speechless' and 'Your Song' in a duet with Elton John. Poker Face - 1946 Big Band Style Lady Gaga Cover ft. Lady Gaga - Your Song (Elton John GRAMMY Salute). (feat Lady Gaga) (Live On Sunset Boulevard.
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Lady Gaga didn't want to be 'herself'.
The 'Joanne' hitmaker admits there was a time in her life where she would struggle to even be herself as she was battling 'depression and sadness' and felt 'threatened' by the pace of life.
Speaking to People magazine, she shared: 'I used to wake up in the morning, and I would realise I was 'Lady Gaga'. And then I became very depressed and sad, and I didn't want to be myself. I felt threatened by the things my career brought into my life and the pace of my life. I spent a lot of time in a sort of catatonic state of just not wanting to do anything. And then I finally, slowly started to make music and tell my story through my record.'
© Bang Showbiz Lady GagaMeanwhile, Gaga previously revealed her desire to live her dreams made her feel 'tortured and traumatised'.
She explained: 'One of the hardest things in life is to be brave enough to be yourself. I wish to everyone that's going to that celebration to feel that joy inside them. That's what Bradley said to me yesterday right before we did our last rehearsal for the live performance of 'Shallow'. He said, 'Let's just drop a little bit of joy'. And it turns out joy did a lot for me. The truth is I was so determined to live my dreams and yet there was so much in the way. There was so many things I didn't anticipate that broke me, that tortured me, that traumatised me.'
And Gaga insisted that fame doesn't make you happy.
She said: 'Money has been put on a pedestal, beauty has been put on a pedestal, celebrity has been put on a pedestal.
'I have travelled the world and seen the happiest people in the poorest parts of the world. Their values are intact. In the richest homes I meet the saddest and most depressed people. With this album I wanted to remind the whole world and my fans that the most important things are love and kindness. Kindness is what will create harmony, not celebrity and not fame.'
Lady Gaga has a lousy poker face. We're totally on to her Grammy Awards secrets.
When the lights go down on the Staples Center Sunday, the five-time nominee will be there to get the festivities rolling. And she won't be opening the show alone with an inevitably crazy outfit.
Lady Gaga Grammy Performance Video
Elton John will be there to join her, E! News confirms exclusively.
They'll be doing some sort of medley ('Tiny Just Dancer' or 'Don't Let the Bad Romance Go Down on Me' perhaps?) set to a 'factory'-themed set and costumes, a source tells us. We're not quite sure whether Elton or Gaga will both be tickling the ivories, but at least one of them will. Gaga is said to be 'rehearsing like crazy' at Center Stage in Burbank, and one of the tracks getting practice time is 'Telephone.'
And just for the sake of clarity, Beyoncé won't be joining them.
We just hope this collab is half as good as when Elton teamed up with Eminem in 2001.
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Here's the full list of Grammy nominees to prepare you for Sunday's big show.
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