Lady Gaga took the stage at the US Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona, over the weekend, defying online petitions urging the singer to cancel the show in light of the state's controversial new immigration reform law, Senate Bill 1070. "Reject any person, any thing or any law that has ever made you feel like you don't belong," Gaga told the thousands of fans in the audience, to deafening cheers. Gaga even alluded to calls she'd received from some "really big rock and rollers, big pop stars, big rappers" asking her to boycott performing in the embattled state, but she admitted she went ahead with the show for her fans. Gaga called the concert a political statement in itself: "The nature of the 'Monster Ball' is to actively protest prejudice and injustice and that bulls**t that is put on our society," she said. "Because you're a superstar no matter who you are, or where you come from. And you were born that way."




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lady GAG A stick to singing and leave the keeping of this country running correctly to the people in Arizona who seem to have all the brains. Illegals do no belong in the USA PERIOD.
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Hmm...I don't know the law is a good idea but it has or had some flaws to it which I don't agree with. Why can't celebrities have opinions? They are people and they can be educated. She's just stating her opinion and I don't see any problem in that.
Right on, Eddie
If there were no illegals to do the farm work that the American citizens dont want to do, you know that the price of fruits and veggies would skyrocket? and there were only FOUR people who signed up to make an attempt at trying out farm work to see how hard it is. and just because an illegal may not belong, people dont realise that in some states, thats how we get our houses so cheap. thats how we get a LOT of things so cheap. so just because i resemble what someone would think is an illegal immigrant, people would be stopping me and i dont like the thought of me, being an american citizen, to have MY civil rights taken away. and theres obviously a lot of racism that still goes on and people don't realise that i could be beaten because of some racist authority. in fact the reality of it is that its a police brutality situation waiting to happen. i dont even live in arizona but fear my state may adopt that law. and then i would be profiled. i try to be a good citizen and good person, and i dont get into any trouble. how is that right that someone can say they want to stop me for my race when i havent done anything wrong. and people who say this isnt going to happen are naive. we're going back to the dark ages...Salem, McCarthyism, concentration camps, and dont think for one minute that it cant happen. Besides, are you willing to give up the affordability of fruits and veggies? and depending where you live, on housing? everyones entitled to an opinion, but you need to have the whole story on the repercussions of what can happen, and just a general sense of empathy for someone and how it would feel to be stopped, or to even have that worry when you go out, for THE COLOUR OF YOUR SKIN! it seems to me lady gaga has it right on the money, and just because someone's in politics doesnt make them qualified for the position. look at sarah palin! i thought she was okay until i actually watched her interviews and she could not answer them, nor could she name a single newspaper or Supreme Court ruling. and she didnt even know what the vp or the US was supposed to do! in all sincerity, you have to be willing to be flexible with your views, and the simple "they dont belong here" explanation really doesnt convey WHY you believe they shouldnt. any strong conviction should absolutely have an explanation.
Way to go Eddie. Illegal is illegal no matter how you cut it. Gaga should just shut up her big mouth
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I love her music but the politcal stuff was absolutely out of line.
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Everyone can have their opinions, it's the stating them to people who have not asked you for them that I disagree with and that celebrities in particular seem so fond of doing. I am a financial consultant, and when people pay me to help them with their investments, I don't "add in" how I believe Arizona should run it's state while they are sitting in my office. I also don't expect my doctor or the cashier at Albertsons to tell me how I should vote. Why on earth would I go to a concert or an awards show and expect an entertainer, even a "smart" one, to share their political views with me. If they want to invite people to a "political discussion" and then provide their views, be my guest, and I won't go, because I don't care, but at least then I have the opportunity to say no before my time is wasted.
@barbiedahl. I agree. I went to her show last Dec., it was awesome. But her politicalness IS way out of line!
Glad she did not buckle under the pressure and went ahead with her concert. And, it's her show, she can say what she wants whether we agree with her or not. All people have to do is stay home if they don't like it.
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If they knew she was going to pull that BS they probably would have stayed home.
Well... Tifany. At that point everyone who heard it, had already purchased their ticket. Think she would give their money back? They were her captive audience. She was not versed in the technicals of the issue or she wouldn't have said it in the way that she did.
Illegals ... are by definition, illegal in the USA. They have not gone through proper channels and done what is required of them in order to partake in the privledges of our country, so the tend to be more of a parasite on the system, so to speak.
Lady GAGA, your voice is good...that's all
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LADY GAGA YOU SHOULD STICK TO PERFORMING AND STOP ACTING STUPID. YOU ARE STUPID AND SO ARE ALL OF THE REST OF YOUR FELLOW PERFORMERS WHO BOYCOTT OR PUT DOWN ARIZONA. ARIZONA IS A PART OF THE USA AND YOU ARE ACTING ANTI-AMERICAN BY PUTTING IT DOWN OR BOYCOTTING IT. THERE ARE "LAWS" IF YOU WANT TO PROMOTE THE BREAKING OF LAWS IN THIS COUNTRY, THEN EVERYBODY ELSE SHOULD START BREAKING LAWS AND GETTING SUPPORT FOR BREAKING THEM. YOU ARE A TOTAL IDIOT IF YOU THINK THAT PEOPLE WHO BREAK THE LAWS OF THIS COUNTRY SHOULD BE SUPPORTED. LADY GAGA GO TO MEXICO, IRAN, OR ANY OTHER COUNTRY AND YOU ATTEMPT TO LIVE AND WORK THERE WITHOUT FOLLOWING THE PROPER LAWS THEY HAVE SET UP AND THEN REPORT BACK TO US ABOUT HOW LIBERAL AND EASY THEY WERE ON YOU.... GUESS WHAT, YOU DOPE, YOU WOULD BE SINGING AND DANCING IN JAIL SO FAST FOR "BREAKING THEIR LAWS!!!"
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Does the word ILLEGAL not mean anything anymore? I mean seriously, is this something our country should even be questioning!!?
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Right on Lindsay! That is the bottom line the this whole thing.
ILLEGAL!!! Nuf said!
if lady ga ga is so "pro" illegal aliens..why doesnt she move their nasty butts in with her!
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What a stupid troll!! She needs to shut up!! People need to get a grip!! Illegal immigration is going to destroy this country! God shes ugly too! If you love your country you would not accept illegal aliens!! This is America not some 3rd world hole!! Not yet anyway. But if idots like this ugly troll have thier way we will be soon!! Just go to where the so called immigrants live and what do you see. It looks just like where they ran away form like the rats they are!!
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Just shut up and do whatever it is you do!!You are wasting your 15 minutes of fame.
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Typical Hollywod hype to draw more peopleand make more money for her show.
GAGA, if your are so supportive of the Illegals, why don't you be financially supportive and take all these drug runners and lost souls in and rehab them, educate them, feed them and take care of them medically like the TAXPAYERS OF OUR COUNTRY ARE DOING NOW TO THE TUNE OF 300 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.
You and people of your ilk make me want to puke.
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