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| Length = | Label = | Producer = | Last album = | This album = ''The Fame'' (2008) | Next album = ''The Cherrytree Sessions'' (2009) | Misc = }} ''The Fame'' is the debut studio album by American singer Lady Gaga. It was released on August 19, 2008 through Interscope Records. After joining Kon Live Distribution and Cherrytree Records in 2008, Gaga began working on the album with different producers, primarily RedOne, Martin Kierszenbaum and Rob Fusari. Musically, ''The Fame'' is a synthpop and dance-pop album that has influences of pop music from the 1980s. Lyrically, the album visualizes Gaga's love of fame in general while also dealing with subjects such as love, sex, money, drugs and sexual identity. Promotion was primarily through The Fame Ball Tour and multiple television appearances. ''The Fame'' was included as a bonus disc on the deluxe edition of the extended play, ''The Fame Monster'' (2009). The album received generally favorable reviews from music critics, who commended the album's lyrical content and Gaga's musicianship and vocal ability. The album was a commercial success, topping the charts in different countries worldwide, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Poland and Switzerland. In the United States, it peaked at number two on the ''Billboard'' 200, while topping the Dance/Electronic Albums chart for 106 non-consecutive weeks. ''The Fame'' became the fifth best-selling album of 2009. It has sold 4.6 million copies in the United States as of March 2015〔 and is the seventh best-selling digital album in history. The album sold 15 million copies worldwide as of November 2010. The first two singles from ''The Fame''—"Just Dance" and "Poker Face"—gained international success, topping the charts in several countries worldwide, including the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Subsequent single "LoveGame" and "Paparazzi", were commercial successes as well, charting within the top ten of more than ten countries worldwide. "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)" had a limited release, while "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich" was a promotional single. ''The Fame'' has won multiple awards since its release. It was nominated for a total of five Grammy Awards at the 52nd Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. It won the Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album and the Best Dance Recording for the single "Poker Face". It also won Best International Album at the 2010 BRIT Awards. In 2013, ''Rolling Stone'' named ''The Fame'' as one of the "100 Greatest Debut Albums of All-Time".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The 100 Greatest Debut Albums of All-Time: The Fame )〕 ==Background and development== While establishing herself as an artist and working her way up through the New York underground club scene, Gaga released her debut studio album, ''The Fame''. Speaking about the title and concept of the album, Gaga explained: "''The Fame'' is about how anyone can feel famous. () Pop culture is art. It doesn't make you cool to hate pop culture, so I embraced it and you hear it all over ''The Fame''. But, it's a sharable fame. I want to invite you all to the party. I want people to feel a part of this lifestyle."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Lady Gaga: Biography )〕 Gaga stated in an interview with MTV UK that she had been working on the album for two and a half years and completed half of it during the first week of January 2008. As well as writing the lyrics, Gaga worked on the melodies and synth work of the album, with record producer RedOne.〔 According to Gaga, the first track "Just Dance" is a joyous, heart-themed song, which appeal to people going through tough times in their life. "LoveGame", the second track, was inspired by Gaga's sexual crush on a stranger in a night club to whom she said, "I wanna ride on your disco stick". It was written in four minutes based on the disco stick hook. "Paparazzi" has been interpreted with different meanings. However Gaga explained in an interview with About.com, that the song was inspired by her struggles and hunger for fame and love. Essentially a love song, "Paparazzi" dealt with enticing the media and asked the question, whether one can have both fame and love. "Poker Face" was inspired by Gaga's boyfriends who enjoyed gambling, and also dealt with her personal experience of bisexuality; her fantasies about women while having sex with men, thus representing her 'poker face'." "Boys, Boys, Boys" was inspired by the similarly titled Mötley Crüe song "Girls, Girls, Girls". Gaga explained that she wanted a female version of the song that rockers would like too.〔 "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich" summed up her time of self-discovery, living in the Lower East Side and dabbling in drugs and the party scene.〔 "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)" was about breaking up with a boyfriend and finding someone new.〔 "Brown Eyes" was inspired by the British rock band Queen and, according to Gaga, is the most vulnerable song on the album.〔 Gaga further clarified the ideas behind ''The Fame'', and her inspirations and visions for the album. She believed that the most important thing missing from contemporary pop music was the combination of the visual imagery of the artist with the music. Gaga incorporated theatrics in her live performances of the songs from the album. Hence she hoped that people would take notice of the performance art, which she was trying to bring back with the album and its music; according to her, the music put the lifestyle in front of it.〔
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