There's no question that the world is going Gaga. Her new album "Born this Way" dropped on Monday, breaking records world-wide. Her fans also broke the Internet, overloading Amazon's Cloud Drive, which offered the album for 0.99 cents. The Mother Monster also took over the TV, appearing on The View, Saturday Night Live, Letterman and an eTalk special with Ben Mulroney this week.


1) Lady Gaga has a sense of humour.
No stranger to ridiculous outfits, Gaga donned a dress covered in grapes for a Liquorville skit with SNL season finale host Justin Timberlake, who was dressed as a beer bottle. She also appeared in the latest Digital Short; "3-Way (the Golden Rule)"* featuring the dudes with the chinstraps who brought you “Dick in a Box.”
*Warning: the video sketch is not work appropriate


2) Lady Gaga fights HIV/AIDS.
"Whether you’re black, white, beige, chola descent, you’re Lebanese, you’re Orient"—Lady Gaga’s nude lipstick for M.A.C’s Viva Glam campaign (100 per cent of the profits from the lipsticks go to the MAC AIDS Fund) will work for you, because Gaga does not discriminate. She is also very passionate about a cause that is 100 per cent preventable, but remains incurable.


3) Lady Gaga teams up with Clarence Clemons.
Lady Gaga recruited E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons on "Hair," "Edge of Glory" and "Highway Unicorn (Road to Love)" for her new album. "The Big Man" has worked with legends like Bruce Springsteen and Aretha Franklin. Clemons told Rolling Stone that he was a "Gaga-ite" before working with her. That’s how you know she’s a big deal.

4) Lady Gaga released her new music on Facebook’s Farmville.
Seriously? Who even thinks of that? She called it Gagaville.

5) Lady Gaga gets the HBO treatment.
For all the Little Monsters who weren’t lucky enough to see it live, or want to relieve it again and again, the Monsterball Tour, a glam pop epic about Lady Gaga’s journey to get to her concert on time, was filmed in Madison Square Gardens and can be seen on HBO this month.


6) Lady Gaga gives back to Japan.
100 per cent of Gaga’s five-dollar "We Pray for Japan" bracelets go directly to Japan relief efforts. Gaga tweeted that in 48 hours her Little Monsters raised a quarter of a million dollars for Japan Relief. She, along with the incomparable Karl Lagerfeld, Victoria Beckham and a slew of others worked with Vogue and GQ Japan to design a Fashion Unites for Japan T-shirt, the proceeds of which support the Japanese Red Cross Society.

7) Gaga can actually sing.
For anyone who has ever seen Gaga perform, she actually sings live. She lives and breathes for her fans, and actually bleeds on stage for them (not real blood of course). And she’s proud of it.


8) Gaga’s body is slammin’.
And it has to be to get away with what she wears.

9) Lady Gaga is down to earth.
Watch any interview with Lady Gaga and you’ll see the fame didn’t get to her head. She told Anderson Cooper she still calls her parents everyday. She jumped on Ben Mulroney’s lap when he complimented her music. She takes a tumble every now and then in her outrageous shoes and reminds us that she's human.

10) She was "Born this Way."
Gaga is all about one thing, being true to who you are. Gaga doesn’t change her personality to fit what she thinks others want. Her wardrobe has never been what you might call normal. And she inspires her fans to do the same. If she wants to wear a meat dress, she will. But, if you’re more comfortable in a nice pair of jeans, that’s cool with her too.

Why are you going gaga for Gaga?

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