Watch: Lady GaGa Rocks ‘Graham Norton’ With ‘Do What U Want’ & ‘Venus’

Published: Saturday 9th Nov 2013 by Sam

The ‘ARTPOP’ promotional train made a major stop at the BBC’s Graham Norton Show last night.

Filmed during the Pop titan’s recent press tour of the UK, the spot saw Mother Monster unleash two performances; the first a live rendition of new single ‘Do What U Want’ (featuring an all-new verse) and the second ‘Venus’.

Watch all the action after the cut….

Hmmm.

Though keen appreciators of GaGa’s talent, it’s also important to keep it all the way real. The performances were “okay” at best.

Save for the teasing of a new solo verse in ‘Do What U Want’ (which we envision will be released in some capacity during the album’s campaign), there wasn’t much of anything going on in either performance — fairly uncharacteristic for a “GaGa” showing.

‘Venus’ remained the muddled mess is was during her X Factor showing, while ‘What U Want’ served up powerful, yet questionable vocals. What’s more, why the latter is receiving the stripped-down, no-theatrics treatment when it’s THE single confuses us in earnest. It’s a dancefloor jam and should be presented as such.

Given the “hectic” that has been the launch of the project, we’re tempted to give GaGa a pass. However, we’re going to need her and her Haus to snatch themselves together with the quickness. Because these so-so showings and the (lack of) thought behind them is starting to alarm. Harsh sounding perhaps, but it’s Steffani’s cross to bear. When you establish such lofty levels of slayage, it’s your task to consistently top it…or at least hit that mark….each and every time.

Here’s hoping the weeks ahead bring with it the GaGa that beasted this year’s VMA’s.

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  1. Lyssa November 9, 2013

    The albums sucks

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      • OMG November 9, 2013

        Artpop is revoltingly dull and disgusting.

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  2. selenator November 9, 2013

    Gaga needs to stop. Her singles from Artpop are flopping.

    • Hur November 9, 2013

      The Selina’s only hit was “come and get it” off of Stars dance.. sooooo your comment is trash!

    • BEYHIVE_MINAJ November 9, 2013

      Flopping like star dust?

  3. Hur November 9, 2013

    She did great! I will be buying the album!

    • ArtTrash November 9, 2013

      you may as well just flush your money down the toilet because that messy album sounds like s***….

  4. Tony November 9, 2013

    Flop ugly b****

  5. rih rox((U mad Bro?))(( stanning for H20’s previous rant)) November 9, 2013

    So ugly.

  6. Kendric November 9, 2013

    .

  7. WE FOUND RIHANNA. November 9, 2013

    This album will FLOP!

  8. just sayin’ November 9, 2013

    These performances come off un authentic. She seems like she acts like this on purpose for “shock value”????
    I heard the album and its very blah especially if you play it all the way thru. It all sounds like 1 song. Lyrics are basic and lacks poetry. There are many references to being naked and things in that family. Not creative or ARTISTIC at all. The album is a carbon copy of other artist sounds.
    Too bad this happens so early im her career.

  9. just me November 9, 2013

    Give it a rest gaygay.
    In other news eminem and rihanna’s the monster is still slaying itunes across the world like there is no tomorrow.lol

  10. *ℙᏫℙ ℝᏫᎩAℒᎿᎩ* November 9, 2013

    @sam

    will you post about what she said about madonna in her interview to that gay magazine ?

    Enough Playing and Get Those Hits Bro!

    • just sayin’ November 9, 2013

      What did she say?

      • *ℙᏫℙ ℝᏫᎩAℒᎿᎩ* November 9, 2013

        she Basically Dragged The “Madonna Vs Gaga” Feud to another level.

        🙄

  11. Stephy Tha Lambily November 9, 2013

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    • *ℙᏫℙ ℝᏫᎩAℒᎿᎩ* November 9, 2013

      Now Sit on it and Hopefully you will be better.

      🙄

    • BEYHIVE_MINAJ November 9, 2013

      Eww

      • Amanda BYnes November 9, 2013

        Is that Gaga’s d***?

  12. ArtTrash November 9, 2013

    If by rock you mean bore to death then yes…

  13. Rosie November 9, 2013

    T***** needs to stop trying so hard, she tried too hard to be “simple” earlier but it didn’t work, now she’s just all over the place and still no one cares.
    And kii @ her stans really thinking she was doing a line for H&M when it’s just a meet and greet/release party at Times Square tomorrow night. And then Monday(?) is Lady Gaga Day on American pop radio. No one except Katy gets this much promo.

  14. ArtTrash November 9, 2013

    and she’s definitely running out of ideas. What in the bloody hell kind of stage costumes are those? drugs are not your friend caca.

  15. JOHNVIDAL November 9, 2013

    I just bought Celine´s “Loved me back to Life” album today. So happy with it. And I´m ready for Artpop next week. Buying it for sure. I´ve only bought 4 physical copies this year. Gaga´s will be the 5th. At the end of the day I´m sure most of you don´t buy any albums at all, but still spend your lives stanning and hating. I admit I download a few songs I like from many other albums, but when the album or talent is complete from start to finish I just buy. I like to support real talent on mainstream cos it is dying honey. I mean “who the hell wants a Katy Perry album?” *in my Linda Perry voice*

    • Lady Gaga November 9, 2013

      Celine flopped b**** lol

    • Rosie November 9, 2013

      LOL @ this post though.
      I don’t even listen to any of the artists posted about on here except Lana. Especially since the majority of them aren’t known in my country. Plus I do buy albums from my fave artists.

      • JOHNVIDAL November 9, 2013

        Glad to hear you still buy albums. Where are you from?

    • *ℙᏫℙ ℝᏫᎩAℒᎿᎩ* November 9, 2013

      I Loved “Loved Me Back to Life”.
      I will Be buying “Artpop”
      “Prism” has some really great songs, to make it short,try the ones at the end @johnvidal, like “Ghost, Love me, By The Grace of God, etc…” her lyrics are amazingly impressive in my opinion.

      • JOHNVIDAL November 9, 2013

        Huy hun! I couldn´t resist it. I had to buy “Loved me Back to Life” today. Couldn´t wait till next week like I told you 🙂 Except for the NeYo song, which is generic as hell, the album is really great. Better than Taking Chances in my opinion. That one had a few fillers I didn´t enjoy. The 13 songs on this one are great. Vocals for years (as always). Really great.
        And @pop I think you are one of the very few in this site who still buy albums right? Didn´t you buy Charmbracelet recently? 🙂

  16. BEYHIVE_MINAJ November 9, 2013

    Why y’all trolling so early?

  17. Lady Gaga November 9, 2013

    FLOP

  18. Barbra Striesand stan November 9, 2013

    Why did Celine do K Michelle numbers?

    • JOHNVIDAL November 9, 2013

      Becuase she doesn´t even try and is focused on her family since 2000. Plus she went #1 on itunes albums charts in 31 countries anyway, that´s being SUCCESSFUL. Not in the USA this time, but she has a big worldwide fan base. She´ll be more than ok since last year she sold like a million copies in France, Canada and Belgium alone from a f****** French album.
      The ignorant kids in this blog…

  19. BeyIsKing November 9, 2013

    I won’t bash Gaga because unlike most of your faves she actually has talent.

    • ArtTrash November 9, 2013

      girl bye, you mean she’s good at copy and pasting other peoples work like your flop fav…

  20. KING B November 9, 2013

    gaga i love u and ii am rooting for u but you need to step up the level of those performance you are a better performer than that

  21. Dark horse November 9, 2013

    So sick of this tired flop t*****.

  22. SLAYAGE November 9, 2013

    Well the problem with GaGa is she is insecure. She is elibrately being sloppy with performances because she thinks she can get away with it! She is trying to do a ‘MILEY CRYUS’ on us. The only problem with that is, Miley and GaGa are two different artists. GaGa has slayed us time and time again, and Miley is much younger. So tbh, I expected GaGa to slay like her fame era, because ArtPop sounds like a futuristic version of the Fame era, and even better tbh! G.U.Y is LoveGame, Venus is like Bad Romance etc….If she performs on point, this could be her biggest era tbh! Same with Britney! Like work b**** would have been a hit if she performed it on the X FACTOR WITH ‘ME AGAINST THE MUSIC TYPE SLAYAGE’!

    • king b November 9, 2013

      i know right gaga use to deliver crazy perfoemance on the fame era and yes! yes! yes! venus had the potential to be the new bad romance and G.U.Y is definitly lovegame 2.0 i just want her to deliver a 200% perfomance she aint no Beyonce but God now she can deliver extraordianry performance VMA 2009 anyone

  23. SLAYAGE November 9, 2013

    And GaGa needs to stop the xtina vocals on dwuw! Like NO. Only christina can do christina.

  24. bash November 9, 2013

    cher called…she wants her costume back!!!

  25. HOTSTUFF November 9, 2013

    the DWUW performance was a total disaster…there’s like nothing going on, it’s just an idiot jumping around thinking she’s the next after MJ, the singing is a mess, the song was already basic and boring but without R kelly it’s even worse ….and Venus …*Foils nails*

  26. HOTSTUFF November 9, 2013

    Oh for the little Morons, Rihanna stays unbothered with her epic performances of stay & diamond. #FACT #DEAL

  27. HOTSTUFF November 9, 2013

    she sounds like she’s shitting while singing DWUW with those forced vocals LMAO.

    • BEYHIVE_MINAJ November 9, 2013

      You stan for rihanna boo. Let’s not talk about vocals

      • HOTSTUFF November 9, 2013

        that’s no prob boo, we can talk about Riqueen’s vocals whenever u want but this is a gag post and she sounded like she was about to s*** herself while singing DWUW. #DEAL

      • BEYHIVE_MINAJ November 9, 2013

        I’m sorry but she slayed DWUW. I like you and all,but let’s not get delusional,k babe?

      • HOTSTUFF November 9, 2013

        okay babe, we may not have the same definition of ‘slayed’ cause that would be like the ‘stay’ performance @grammy …but that’s okay, we’re entitled to our own opinion xo

    • BEYHIVE_MINAJ November 9, 2013

      I’ll be honest and say that she slayed the Grammys. I love her intimate style

  28. Amanda BYnes November 9, 2013

    What an ugly creature.

    Plays *Poor Unfortunate Souls- Ursula

  29. Navy nick November 9, 2013

    I think both performances were awesome!!!! Loved it

  30. Amras November 9, 2013

    I’m really surprised never thought I’d say that but she’s beyond good or bad, she’s actually just boring right now.

    • Sean November 9, 2013

      Sadly. Messy and boring. It’s just odd.

      I do love the album though. I think it has the potential to be massive, but her and her camp need to get their act together. These performances have been lackluster and sloppy.

      GET IT TOGETHER

      • HOWYOULIKEIT November 9, 2013

        no the album is flopping. only a few good songs on it. artpop is the best song on it

  31. HOWYOULIKEIT November 9, 2013

    There’s nothing else i can say

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