Lady Gaga has, literally, turned her face into a canvas for the cover of the first single from her upcoming
ARTPOP
album,
"Applause."
The
arresting image of Gaga's faces smeared with blue, red and yellow
streaks of paint and sandwiched in the folds of a white sheet, premiered
on the
Women's Wear Daily site over the weekend.
Shot
by photographic duo Inez van Lamsweerde and Vindooh Matadin, the
picture and accompanying interview are the official confirmation that
the as-yet-unheard song will be the first bit of new music from the
anticipated album. The song will be available on iTunes on August 19,
which, Gaga revealed on her
LittleMonsters community, will also be the first day fans can pre-order the
ARTPOP album and interactive app.
That's six days before Gaga will make her sure-to-be
triumphant stage return
at this year's
2013 MTV Video Music Awards at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on August 25.
Gaga
shot the "Applause" video, directed by Van Lamsweerde and Matadin, in
Los Angeles a week ago. The cover image is a still from the shoot that
Gaga said shows a vulnerable part of her personality that fans rarely
see.
"It's the end of the night after the show," she said of the
shot, in which her hair is covered by a black head wrap. "When I look at
it I see that there is a longing for the applause. I see that there is a
void that is leaking onstage, that the performer is leaking, that the
art is sort of becoming something else in front of your eyes. Something
more human, something more honest." Gaga said she was near tears during
the shoot that produced the image.
She also revealed a bit about
the sessions for the song, which she co-wrote with longtime collaborator
DJ White Shadow. "I'll tell you that it is very fun," she said. "And
that it's full of happiness, because what I'm saying in the song
essentially is that I live for the applause.
As
Aswad Ayinde’s daughter stood up to speak, the judge ordered him to put
down the court papers he was hunched over and face the daughter he had
assaulted and raped since she was 8 years old, fathering her four
children.
“I
can’t describe how much you hurt me and my sisters,” the daughter, now
35, said Friday to her father, shackled in a prison jumpsuit, his head
still bowed, eyes never once meeting hers.
As the woman rehashed the horrors her father inflicted on her and her sisters in
Paterson,
Ayinde burst out, “You should’ve told the truth instead of lying,”
bringing an admonishment from Superior Court Judge Raymond Reddin, who
told him that not only did he believe the daughter’s testimony, but also
so did the 12 jurors who convicted him.
Ultimately, the daughter said she forgave her father and hoped at some time he’d repent.
“But
obviously, with your head down like that, you do not understand,” she
said, three of her sisters fighting tears in the courtroom pews.
After
the daughter finished, Reddin on Friday tacked on 50 years to the
40-year prison sentence Ayinde, 54, received in 2010 after being
convicted of raping another of his daughters, who bore a fifth child.
The
former music producer and self-proclaimed prophet faces three more
trials for allegedly sexually assaulting three other daughters after
requesting separate trials.
Prosecutors
have said that Ayinde dominated his children as a god-like prophet who
wanted to create a race that carried his pure bloodline. Over the years,
he molested five of his seven daughters and fathered six children, the
family and their attorney said.
By
about 2001, the family had mostly split up, Ayinde “bouncing around,”
but still in reach of his family, the daughter said. In 2003, he tried
to rape her for the last time.
“That was it. … I just felt stronger,” she said.
Yet,
it wasn’t until she and her sisters learned that Ayinde had fathered
more children with other women that they decided to go to the
authorities in 2006.
“We
found out we had other siblings, young siblings, and we had to put him
to a stop,” the daughter said after the sentencing hearing. “Even though
we were healing, they could still fall victim.”
These days, the sisters stay in close touch. The daughter who spoke Friday is studying communications at
Essex County
College — “straight A’s last semester,” she said — and has just
finished a memoir. As for her four children, two have genetic illnesses
that doctors told her likely were due in part to the incest. A
9-year-old daughter died in 2010 of spinal muscular atrophy.
In sentencing Ayinde, Reddin could not hide his disgust for what he had done.
“By
13, most fathers are taking their daughters to the park … teaching them
to ride a bike,” he said. “You took her in the bedroom and repeatedly
raped her to complete your disgusting, revolting fantasies.”
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As
Aswad Ayinde’s daughter stood up to speak, the judge ordered him to put
down the court papers he was hunched over and face the daughter he had
assaulted and raped since she was 8 years old, fathering her four
children.
“I
can’t describe how much you hurt me and my sisters,” the daughter, now
35, said Friday to her father, shackled in a prison jumpsuit, his head
still bowed, eyes never once meeting hers.
As the woman rehashed the horrors her father inflicted on her and her sisters in
Paterson,
Ayinde burst out, “You should’ve told the truth instead of lying,”
bringing an admonishment from Superior Court Judge Raymond Reddin, who
told him that not only did he believe the daughter’s testimony, but also
so did the 12 jurors who convicted him.
Ultimately, the daughter said she forgave her father and hoped at some time he’d repent.
“But
obviously, with your head down like that, you do not understand,” she
said, three of her sisters fighting tears in the courtroom pews.
After
the daughter finished, Reddin on Friday tacked on 50 years to the
40-year prison sentence Ayinde, 54, received in 2010 after being
convicted of raping another of his daughters, who bore a fifth child.
The
former music producer and self-proclaimed prophet faces three more
trials for allegedly sexually assaulting three other daughters after
requesting separate trials.
Prosecutors
have said that Ayinde dominated his children as a god-like prophet who
wanted to create a race that carried his pure bloodline. Over the years,
he molested five of his seven daughters and fathered six children, the
family and their attorney said.
By
about 2001, the family had mostly split up, Ayinde “bouncing around,”
but still in reach of his family, the daughter said. In 2003, he tried
to rape her for the last time.
“That was it. … I just felt stronger,” she said.
Yet,
it wasn’t until she and her sisters learned that Ayinde had fathered
more children with other women that they decided to go to the
authorities in 2006.
“We
found out we had other siblings, young siblings, and we had to put him
to a stop,” the daughter said after the sentencing hearing. “Even though
we were healing, they could still fall victim.”
These days, the sisters stay in close touch. The daughter who spoke Friday is studying communications at
Essex County
College — “straight A’s last semester,” she said — and has just
finished a memoir. As for her four children, two have genetic illnesses
that doctors told her likely were due in part to the incest. A
9-year-old daughter died in 2010 of spinal muscular atrophy.
In sentencing Ayinde, Reddin could not hide his disgust for what he had done.
“By
13, most fathers are taking their daughters to the park … teaching them
to ride a bike,” he said. “You took her in the bedroom and repeatedly
raped her to complete your disgusting, revolting fantasies.”
- See
more at:
http://www.northjersey.com/news/Aswad_Ayinde_faces_daughter_he_was_convicted_of_repeatedly_raping_at_court_sentencing.html#sthash.LKERlYCx.dpuf
As
Aswad Ayinde’s daughter stood up to speak, the judge ordered him to put
down the court papers he was hunched over and face the daughter he had
assaulted and raped since she was 8 years old, fathering her four
children.
“I
can’t describe how much you hurt me and my sisters,” the daughter, now
35, said Friday to her father, shackled in a prison jumpsuit, his head
still bowed, eyes never once meeting hers.
As the woman rehashed the horrors her father inflicted on her and her sisters in
Paterson,
Ayinde burst out, “You should’ve told the truth instead of lying,”
bringing an admonishment from Superior Court Judge Raymond Reddin, who
told him that not only did he believe the daughter’s testimony, but also
so did the 12 jurors who convicted him.
Ultimately, the daughter said she forgave her father and hoped at some time he’d repent.
“But
obviously, with your head down like that, you do not understand,” she
said, three of her sisters fighting tears in the courtroom pews.
After
the daughter finished, Reddin on Friday tacked on 50 years to the
40-year prison sentence Ayinde, 54, received in 2010 after being
convicted of raping another of his daughters, who bore a fifth child.
The
former music producer and self-proclaimed prophet faces three more
trials for allegedly sexually assaulting three other daughters after
requesting separate trials.
Prosecutors
have said that Ayinde dominated his children as a god-like prophet who
wanted to create a race that carried his pure bloodline. Over the years,
he molested five of his seven daughters and fathered six children, the
family and their attorney said.
By
about 2001, the family had mostly split up, Ayinde “bouncing around,”
but still in reach of his family, the daughter said. In 2003, he tried
to rape her for the last time.
“That was it. … I just felt stronger,” she said.
Yet,
it wasn’t until she and her sisters learned that Ayinde had fathered
more children with other women that they decided to go to the
authorities in 2006.
“We
found out we had other siblings, young siblings, and we had to put him
to a stop,” the daughter said after the sentencing hearing. “Even though
we were healing, they could still fall victim.”
These days, the sisters stay in close touch. The daughter who spoke Friday is studying communications at
Essex County
College — “straight A’s last semester,” she said — and has just
finished a memoir. As for her four children, two have genetic illnesses
that doctors told her likely were due in part to the incest. A
9-year-old daughter died in 2010 of spinal muscular atrophy.
In sentencing Ayinde, Reddin could not hide his disgust for what he had done.
“By
13, most fathers are taking their daughters to the park … teaching them
to ride a bike,” he said. “You took her in the bedroom and repeatedly
raped her to complete your disgusting, revolting fantasies.”
- See
more at:
http://www.northjersey.com/news/Aswad_Ayinde_faces_daughter_he_was_convicted_of_repeatedly_raping_at_court_sentencing.html#sthash.LKERlYCx.dpuf
