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Lady Gaga has fired Troy Carter :mellow::umm:

Lady Gaga Said to Fire Her Manager

Lady Gaga has fired her manager, Troy Carter, just days before the release of her new album, according to three people with direct knowledge of the news who were not authorized to speak about it.

Mr. Carter had managed Lady Gaga — whose real name is Stefani Germanotta — since 2007, before the release of her first album, and he is regarded in the music industry as an important force in her rise to megastar status.

The reasons for their split were not immediately clear. Showbiz411, a celebrity blog that, along with the music industry gossip site Hits Daily Double, was the first to report the news, attributed it to “creative differences.” But for months the music business has been rife with talk about an estrangement between the two, as well as speculation about how it might affect the commercial performance of her album, “Artpop,” to be released next week by Interscope Records.

Representatives of Mr. Carter and Lady Gaga declined to comment, and a spokesman for Interscope did not respond to an email on Tuesday morning.

The dismissal of a manager by a top pop act is an occasional occurrence in the music industry; such representatives often serve at will or through loose handshake contracts. But it is rare for such a break to happen on the eve of a major release.

Previous Lady Gaga albums have been phenomenons. The last, “Born This Way,” in 2011, had an enormous and flawlessly executed marketing campaign, and sold more than 2 million copies in the United States. Lady Gaga, who is in constant dialogue with her 40 million Twitter followers, has also become emblematic of pop’s reach on social media.

But the performance of early singles for “Artpop,” her third studio album, have been disappointing. “Applause,” released in August, peaked at No. 4 on Billboard’s chart, and has been outshined by Lorde and Katy Perry. “Do What You Want,” released two weeks ago, opened with 156,000 sales, the third-most downloaded track that week. Her tearful appearance at the YouTube Music Awards on Sunday was mocked in the news media as “bizarre” and “deeply strange and out-of-tune.”

Mr. Carter, who also manages John Legend and the violinist Lindsey Stirling — a breakout star on YouTube — has also made a name for himself in Silicon Valley as an investor in technology start-ups, including the taxi-hailing app Uber and the music site Songza. According to the technology news site PandoDaily, Mr. Carter is also raising $75 million to $100 million for an investment fund.

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My least favorite song is Donatella (garbage :rolleyes:) and Jewels n Drugs which is ok but is so random. The rest is STELLAR she made a great album. I'm so proud of her :wub: The vibe is so different from her last albums, closer to "The Fame" but more polished, mature and experimental.

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Fashion! and "Artpop" are my faves(so far). It's a pretty good album. Some songs sound the same, but I can tell she was really into the production moreso than the lyrics.

On first listen, it's definitely better than BTW(I don't listen to any of those songs anymore--outside of You and I).

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Fashion! and "Artpop" are my faves(so far). It's a pretty good album. Some songs sound the same, but I can tell she was really into the production moreso than the lyrics.

On first listen, it's definitely better than BTW(I don't listen to any of those songs anymore--outside of You and I).

i thought vince herbert tamars hubby was her manager :umm:

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