Lady Gaga, it's wartime.
Grab your armor and wield that auto-tuned microphone for an unexpected battle in the pop music world; a newcomer is ready to duel.
Multi-platinum recording artist Lady Gaga has been challenged to a $1 million singing battle against Los Angeles-based singer Alisa Apps. Apps is unsigned, yet has received 1.3 million views on YouTube for her song "How Do I Make Right," uploaded in July 2008. She is determined to show anyone and everyone what she's got hidden up her sleeve.
According to MTV, the competition would include each singer performing a variety of songs and having a team of judges settle on an ultimate winner. It would occur either at Madison Square Garden in New York or the O2 Arena in London.
Upon hearing the news, Gaga's fan base was outraged due to the explicitly boorish statements made toward the fame monster. Apps' reasoning behind this contest is not to generate stardom through a conniving outlet, but to prove her authenticity as an artist.
"I feel sorry for Lady Gaga – she's just a plastic doll generated by the music money marketing machine," Apps declared in a press release. "This contest gives people a chance to choose which they prefer – plastic or real."
Apps' recent statements about Lady Gaga as a musician have really swayed the masses to believe that she's not her biggest fan. However, Apps sympathetically views Gaga as a marionette just being played with by the music industry.
"I don't hate her. I just think that Lady Gaga doesn't know who Lady Gaga is [just having all these different masks and not really being one of them], and for that matter, doesn't know who Stephanie is anymore," Apps stated in an exclusive interview with Celebuzz.com. "I'd like to see music out there that has more true person, more of the true heart."
Gaga has yet to respond to the request. Only time will tell the fate of this potential battle.
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