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Lady Gaga performs onstage during the MTV Europe Music Awards 2011 live show at at the Odyssey Arena on Nov. 6, 2011 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
You could count on one hand and probably still have some fingers left over the number of pop albums this century that have been as widely and wildly anticipated as Lady Gaga s second full-length album
Born This Way.
Released worldwide 10 years ago this weekend, the album followed two years of Gaga racking up massive hit singles ( Just Dance, Poker Face, Bad Romance ), with accompanying larger-than-life music videos and headline-grabbing live performances that helped cement her as music s biggest new star.
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In showbiz, personality goes a long way.
Personalities go even further. Artists throughout history have used alter egos as a means of stepping outside of themselves and communicating ideas they otherwise cannot. It can be cathartic and creatively liberating and it’s a great marketing gimmick. Below, we celebrate 11 performers who’ve given us strange alter egos.
1. Garth Brooks // Chris Gaines
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In the 1990s, nobody sold more records than Garth Brooks. So it was a little surprising when, in 1999, the country mega-star ditched the hat, grew a soul patch, and reinvented himself as fictional Australian rocker Chris Gaines. Brooks was developing a movie about Gaines called
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