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- Lady Gaga joins Maine rally for repeal of 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' | Richard Adams
Lady Gaga joins rally in Maine backing the repeal of 'Don't Ask Don't Tell', saying: 'Equality is the prime rib of America'
Revealing a political savvy that matches her spectacular theatrical talent, Lady Gaga joined a rally calling for the repeal of 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' (DADT) and aimed at influencing critical Republican votes in Congress.
After only a brief announcement on Twitter to her 6.4m followers, Lady Gaga made an appearance at the rally at Deering Oaks Park in Portland, Maine on Monday evening, part of a campaign to scrap the government policy that bars gays and lesbians from serving openly in the US military.
Wearing a relatively conventional suit and dark-rimmed glasses, and speaking in front of a giant American flag, the singer told the crowd: "I thought equality was non-negotiable," and explained:
"I'm here because they inspire me... I'm here because 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' is wrong, it's unjust and fundamentally it is against all we stand for as Americans."
Lady Gaga's choice of Maine was significant because the rally was designed to put pressure on the state's two moderate Republican senators, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, to support a vote on Tuesday on the bill allowing the repeal of DADT, which is currently being blocked by Senate Republicans using a procedural tactic known as the filibuster.
If one of the two Maine senators support allowing a vote, and break the filibuster, then the Senate could join the House of Representatives in passing the legislation, as early as this week.
Two hours before the rally Lady Gaga tweeted: "On my way to Deering Oaks Park, I have been writing my repeal DADT rally address for 48hrs. It's called "THE PRIME RIB OF AMERICA."In her address the singer expanded on her choice of title:
"Equality is the prime rib of America, but because I'm gay I don't get to enjoy the greatest cut of meat my country has to offer."
Maine's Morning Sentinel liveblogged the event, which included speakers from the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network and Maine Democratic representative Chellie Pingree.
Her Maine appearance was part of a flurry of activity by Lady Gaga aimed at supporting the repeal of DADT through pressure on Congress, including this video released last week:
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Переслать - Joe McElderry covers Donkeyboy! Er, who?
Despite huge success in their home country, Norway, Donkeyboy struggled to get their song, Ambitions, played in the UK. So why have the X Factor winner's people chosen it for his new single?
This blog's headline was the question on, er, some people's lips after 2009 X Factor winner Joe McElderry premiered his new single, Ambitions (the first after the obligatory winner's single) on Radio 1 yesterday morning. You may remember wee Joe as the Geordie lad with the big smile who was basically adopted by judge and mentor Cheryl Cole. You may also remember him as the victim of the bizarre "real music v Simon Cowell" Facebook campaign that saw Rage Against the Machine finally get their festive anthem Killing in the Name to the Christmas top spot.
So, having covered Miley Cyrus's The Climb for that first single, he's now releasing another cover, this time a song by a little known (outside of Scandinavia) Norwegian pop group who had trouble even getting their original played on UK radio. The oddly named Donkeyboy (head to urban dictionary for two eyebrow-raising definitions) are Cato Sundberg, Kent Sundberg, Peter Michelsen, Thomas Drabløs and Alexander Garborg Ågedal. They formed in 2005 in the southern municipality of Drammen and, like all bands since the invention of MySpace, were signed after someone from a major label (in this case Warners) stumbled upon their songs and thought, "these guys are destined for success in Norway and a future footnote in pop as the band who originally did that Joe McElderry single". Or something.
Released in March 2009, the really very good Ambitions was Donkeyboy's first single and spent a staggering 13 weeks bobbing around the Norwegian top 10 before finally reaching the top spot, going on to spend a further 12 weeks at the pinnacle. In total, it has spent 52 weeks on the Norwegian charts and was only knocked off the top spot by their follow-up, Sometimes. Having emphatically slayed the Norwegian market, in April of this year they attempted to crack the UK only to be met with little or no support from radio. All this despite supporting A-ha on tour!
You'd think Cato, Kent et al would be fully aware of the fact their song has been covered and yet on their Facebook page yesterday they seemed slightly bewildered: "We don't know anything about this Joe guy. And it is completely new for us that he's planning to release Ambitions ..."
So, what do you make of it all? Does it matter that Joe McElderry's releasing another cover as his first single when even Olly Murs has managed to get someone to write him a new song? And if not, is his version any better than the original?
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Those crazy chappies from OK Go have come up with another mind-boggling video ... are they not finding this all too stressful yet?
Half the fun of OK Go these days isn't their amazing videos – it's watching the intense concentration on their faces as they try desperately not to screw up what might well be the 267,263rd take of an increasingly impossible music video.
This one is just as mind-boggling as the likes of This Too Shall Pass and, er, This Too Shall Pass (they did two for it). And as if they found previous videos not challenging enough, this one features an army of dancing dogs. Amazingly, the band still seem to be on speaking terms with them after what can only have been an impossibly difficult video shoot – so much so that they ask you to help animal rescue efforts at www.okgo.net/dogs at the end. Bless.
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