Forbes Lists Down World’s Most Powerful Women

forbesThe Forbes magazine has just recently released its 2010 Forbes list of the world’s most powerful women.

The list ranked Michelle Obama as number 1 replacing German chancellor Angela Merkel as the most powerful woman in the world. She also surpassed everybody’s favorite Lady Gaga on 7th place.

This year’s list of Forbes world’s most powerful women had surprisingly consisted of a number of media personalities. This includes Lady Gaga, Oprah Winfrey, and Ellen DeGeneres.

Michelle Obama was described by Forbes as “a forceful advocate of school nutrition standards.” This actually directs a new look for the Forbes’ list. Last year’s Forbes list of the world’s most powerful women appeared to be mostly dominated by politicians and chief executives of world-known international companies.

Forbes explained on the fresh ranking they had made this year. According to them, “We’ve come up with a new ranking of the female power elite that reflects the New Order of now.”

Forbes showed how different the list is this year compared to last year. Obama ranked first, having been ranked as 40th last year. Winfrey who was ranked 41st last year is placed on 3rd this year. Lady Gaga comes in to 7th place as a fresh face in the list. Beyonce Knowles is on 9th place, again a fresh face on the list; the same goes with DeGeneres who ranked 10th on the list.

Lady Gaga Promotes Her Perfume Line

lady gaga,fashion community,vmas,pop icon,personal stuff,perfume,controversy,dressesAfter Lady Gaga surprised a lot of us last VMAs for the dresses she had worn, Gaga is up for her line of perfume.

Controversy after controversy, but Gaga is still the much-anticipated and sought-after pop icon these days. Being the star of the VMAs and a hot icon to the fashion community, we would be thinking on what perfume is Gaga using? Yes, criticized yet she is bombarded with some personal stuff.

According to a source, Gaga has signed up a deal with Coty Inc. to create her new line of perfume –  to create new fragrances. The senior vice president of global marketing in the Coty Beauty division, Stephen Mormoris, the pop singer had just signed a deal with them just last week before the VMAs, and the new Gaga perfume will be out in the market in 2012.

According to Mormoris, the company chose Gaga because she is now a phenomenon. Mormoris described Gaga as “a fascinating cultural force” that could bring a lot of buyers to Coty Inc. In addition, Mormoris is expecting Gaga to pull a lot of people to buy the new line of fragrances and to cause “electrification” to non-Coty avid.

This is considered Gaga’s latest business project. She’s now in the long list of pop stars that had a deal with perfume makers, some of them are Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Avril Lavigne, Gwen Stefani and Hilary Duff.

Aside from this new perfume business deal, Gaga is in line with deals with Polaroid and designing Heartbeats headphones.

MTV EMAs Cite Several Pop Music Artists

mtv european music,mtv european music awards,lady gaga,european music awards,madrid spain,rihanna,mtvThe 17th annual MTV European Music Awards that will be held at Madrid, Spain has already given tentative list of the artists who are nominated. Among the artists are VMAs winning star Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and Rihanna. These top three artists who made it on the list are said to have bagged five nominations each.

Gaga is nominated for Best Pop Act, Best Live Act, and Best Female Act. She will be competing against Perry, Rihanna, Miley Cyrus, and Shakira for the Best Female Act award. On the Best Male Act, hip hop artists take over this category. Nominees are Eminem, Usher, and Kanye West. Justin Bieber and Enrique Iglesias also are fighting for the title as Best Male Act.

While the organizers are still preparing for the big event, rumors are already spreading that Gaga will be the reigning star again. She will out-compete all the other artists as what she did in the MTV Video Music Awards, bagging eight titles. Will Gaga reign in the MTV European Music Awards? Let’s just see and wait until November 7, the airing date of EMAs.

The EMAs confirmed that Katy Perry and the Linkin Park will be performing in the event. While all are waiting if Gaga will also perform, other details of the show are kept secret so as to surprise the viewers.

Lady GaGa vs. Westboro Baptist Church

Lady Gaga vs Westboro ChurchLady GaGa’s creating a new web buzz this week. After posting a note on her Facebook page addressed to the Westboro Baptist Church, the said group was not a big fan of hers. She said “that the groups of protesters are all hate criminals; they preach using lewd violent language and imagery that I wish to protect you all from. Their message is about hatred and divisiveness, but inside at the Monsterball we preach love and unity.”

The Westboro Baptist Church is an Independent Baptist Church and a hate group that was founded by Fred Phelps in 1955. Their headquarters is located in Topeka, Kansas, United States. This group is famous for their anti-homosexuality and protest activities, picketing stints at funerals and desecrating the American Flag.

For those of you wondering why Lady GaGa is going gaga over this group… they were at the Monsterball concert last Saturday night at ST. Louis’ Scottrade Center waving their placards with the “God hates Lady GaGa” signs.

They believe that Lady GaGa uses her art and fashion to teach and promote rebellion against God. Lady GaGa ended her note with these words of wisdom: “Although I respect and do not judge anyone for their personal views on any politics or religion, this group in particular to me is violent and dangerous. I wanted to make my fans aware of my views on how to approach, or rather not approach, these kinds of hate activists.”

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