HollywoodLife got ahold of Lady Gaga’s last tour rider, and it’s pretty involved. She asks for a different international food every day of the week along with an oxygen tank in her dressing room. This may sound naive, but don’t you have to have a prescription to get oxygen? Like it’s not easily obtained and I know that oxygen bars exist but they’re not technically legal. There are much worse things for celebrities to be into and since Gaga has fainted so often you could see why she’d be sucking down oxygen. Hopefully she’s eating some of that food she orders, too. Here’s HollywoodLife’s report:
The outrageous and stylish Lady Gaga stirs up the pot everywhere she goes, and her dressing rooms are no exception! HollywoodLife.com had an exclusive look at the 24-year-old mega star’s tour contract — and you’ll never believe her bizarre demands.
Not only does Lady Gaga’s hotel need to be at least a 5 star premium location, she requests two things above all else in her dressing room: honey and an OXYGEN TANK! What she could possibly need an oxygen tank for at every pit stop is beyond us, but it’s better to be safe than sorry!
The requests don’t end there. If dinner isn’t ready by 5 p.m., the venue can be in breach of contract. Plus, Lady Gaga has a specific type of food for each day of the week. Check it out:
Mon – BBQ Night
Tues. – Asian Night
Wed. – Mexican Night
Thurs. – American Night
Fri. – Carving Night (Include Tri Tip & Ham)
Sat. – Pasta Bar (Assorted Pasta types, meats, veggies, sauces)
Sun. – Turkey Dinner with all the trimmings
[From Hollywoodlife via Celebuzz]
That’s making me hungry and a nice pasta bar sounds so good right about now. (It’s 3:45 pm here, the time in the afternoon when you want to start eating.) The Smoking Gun has two earlier riders from Gaga, for 2009 and 2010 and while the 2009 rider isn’t that involved, the 2010 one gets into a lot more specifics, probably because her tour and staff is that much larger. Gaga requires organic ginger and lemongrass tea along with honey. She also asks for two bottles of white wine, preferably from Kendall Jackson or Robert Mondavi. There’s a bunch of furniture she requests too, and it all sounds rather standard. I guess the more famous she’s become the more outrageous her requests. As much as she tries to tout herself as a non-conformist performance artist, she’s kind of predictable and not much different from countless rock stars before her. I’m sure she’ll come up with some convoluted selfless reasoning for her food choices if anyone ever questions her about it, like “I am honoring my little monsters around the world with a rotating diet of their regional cuisine.”
don’t these people have tour buses? why all the nonsense…she is not and will never be madge so give it up…I just don’t like her
Enough enough enough of this Lady Gaga! It grates on my nerves everytime I hear “my little monsters”!
I don’t think honey is such a big demand.
I can’t stand this chick-mainly because I’ve heard some not nice things about how she screwed a lot of people from her former band to get where she is and thinks she so hardcore-when she comes from the same machine all the other pop girls do.
But I wish I had the oxygen tank for me! When I was in the hospital for two weeks a year ago -they had me on oxygen all day and night and when I left, I had the skin of a 15 yr old! It was amazing!
I always thought “DAMN, could she be any more self absorbed?” So I thought it was SO funny when I found out she was an Aries…”the sign of the self”. I’m really into astrology and I can always spot an aries.
I want to like her. I think she is talented. Not as talented as she thinks she is, but whatever. That’s what you gotta believe to get there.
Its the pretentiousness that makes me salivate at the thought of her demise. I kinda can’t wait for her to implode.
woo hoo! aries rule! that’s why i love the bitch!
Really is it that demanding to not want the same thing each night? I love bacon, but I sure don’t want it every night.
I’m a big fan of Lady GaGa…but even I am getting a bit tired of her and her schtick and that meat dress makes me want to hurl every time I see it.
I hate it when these celebrities start buying into their own hype and start acting like pretentious, self-entitled assholes *coughJLOcough*.
That said, she had excellent taste in wine!
If she gets hungry why doesn’t she just eat her meat dress.
none of that sounds demanding to me.
I don’t find her demands all that bad. So she wants to eat by 5? The show likely starts at 8-8:30 so eating a few hours beforehand is a good idea. And don’t we all want a 5 star hotel? I’ve done a lot of travelling for work and I got spoiled. When I travel for pleasure, it’s a whole different hotel class. And if I could demand a different cuisine everyday, you can make damn sure I would.
I love Robert Mondavi. California wine is the best.
I’m terrified of how demand-y I would be. I don’t really follow astrology but my b-day is March 20, end of Pisces, start of Aries. I’ve been told I’m more of an Aries. I guess I am selfish 🙁
that dinner menu sounds pretty simple. she is famous enough to not have to live off ramen noodles and fast food on tour.
can blame her for trying to create some sort of routine on the road. we sort of do that at home with certain nights being slated for certain types of food.
I sing my praises to Lady Gaga every day because she wore those huge aviator glasses to her speech in Maine. I am blind as a bat and must wear glasses; sure, I have the fashionable teeny ones, but I can never find them and don’t see well out of them. Then I have my HUGE classes, literally from 1987, that I can find and see through-well in fact.
I used to skulk around in them in shame, but now I wear them with pride, thanks to Lady G.
I guess I am one of her monsters. And what’s wrong with mixing up the cuisine when you are going through the grind of a tour?
As for Madge, she had a heart of stone when she was big (maybe her kids have softened it now). Not true Lady G. She maybe love herself, but she loves us, too, and we know it.
PS: I am 46, so I remember Madonna when she was “It”; so many people hated her, but danced to her music anyway.
People get so freaked out about riders. They don’t stop to think that many people, not just the artists, are away from the comforts of home for months on end, and sometimes years. My ex is in a band. I’m sure their crew would love it if they had the money to vary the week’s dinners that way.
This ‘thing’ IS a monster. Her unsavory actions as she bludgeoned her way to the top are sickening. Can’t stand her.
I sing Lady G’s praises everyday. I am blind as a bat, but I have these tiny, fashionable glasses from Denmark I can wear, but can’t see out of and never can find.
Lo and behold, I found my 1980’s glasses in a drawer, and I can see-and I can find! But, before Lady G showed up at her Maine speech in her HUGE aviators, I skulked around in my 1986 glasses in shame.
Now I wear them with pride and refer to them as my “Lady Gaga” glasses.
And hey, what’s wrong with mixing up the food choices during the grind of a tour?. Serving by 5pm makes sense, too, unless she and her dancers want to gag on their meals come 9 or 10 pm when the show fires up!.
We love you, Gaga!
um, realistically speaking all those foods ARE American.
I’d rather see something like:
Monday: seal flipper pie (Canada)
Tuesday: roasted grubs (New Guinea)
Wednesday: Moussaka (Greece)
Thursday: Caviar (Russia)
Friday: Haggis (Scotland)
Saturday: duck feet (China)
Sunday: oxygen & nothing (most African countries)
Compared to what you see on a lot of stars’ riders, I don’t think this is bad at all. But it doesn’t look like she eats much of that food!
I tried to hate Lady Gaga, but that’s hard to do when you have gay friends, lol. My friend Adam dragged me to one of her shows, and I was hooked. She’s amazing live!
@Bill Hicks is God, most Canadians don’t eat that. Switch it for Poutine!!!!
@ No. 19 … brilliant !! 😀
“white wine, preferably from Kendall Jackson or Robert Mondavi”
way to get specific. both of those wineries own umpteen other smaller wineries which produce many many labels of “white wine”.
I first watched GaGa in the video Eh Eh, and I thought “this is a pretty girl”. I liked that she was slim but curvy, and had a very womanly appeal (I tend to be more on the curvy but curvy side, so I appreciate a skinny girl with boobs 🙂 ). Then… she just got gross. Now I look at her and there is nothing remotely attractive about her. She just looks pale and dead and “fishy”. Yuck
Okay, it just looks like she wants something different each night. Not that outrageous. Honey would be for her voice. The O2 is weird.
And the wines – aren’t those cheap brands? Or at least on the cheap side. That’s actually a sensible request if she likes to have a few white wines.
Dinner at 5?. wow, too early.
I don’t think this is diva-ish at all. My BF is way more demanding about dinner & while he is MY rockstar, he is not an ACTUAL rockstar. I would demand everything Paleo & organic & local & sustainable & no plastic allowed & I’ll keep hugging my tree, you fill in the rest!
I wonder if Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin ever made demands or had contracts like this. Oh, wait, they were real musicians – authentic and legendary – not as Eileen and others point out – a manufactured carefully crafted pop tart infatuated with her own greatness enhanced by all the parasitic ass kickers that are on Gaga’s gravy train. This hopefully won’t last much longer; schtick can only cover up average talent at best for so long until the public realizes that the emperor has no clothes.
I don’t see what’s so demanding either. – Me1st – tour buses don’t serve food, they have minimal kitchens and nobody sleeps on them. They are only for comfort while riding on the road.
If you sing, your food has to be digested and away from your esophagus. Nothing worse than burping or getting reflux while you’re trying to dance and sing. Also, the woman likes cheap wine, so I don’t see what’s so difficult about it. It’s not like she’s even getting pouilly fuisse or pricey champagne.
So what? GaGA likes food variety. Good for her. . . A lot of people dont want to eat the same thing everday! She’s not alone. But this is nothing to start a Diva support group about.
Robert Mondavi has a wide price range.
I love GaGa!!:)
Lots of performers use oxygen. I’ve seen this many times at the side of the stage. Musicians will step offstage for a second and get a “sip” of o2 so they can continue without collapsing. Gaga’s stage show pretty grueling. Her rider is not so unusual or demanding. Smoking Gun has some pretty crazy ones that are fun to peruse.
Hiya Persistent Cat, yep that’s a Newfie dish but since there’s more Newfs in Toronto than in Newfoundland – and since Toronto’s the largest city in Canada – that’s representational enough for me 😉
Can’t get a good poutine outside of Quebec really and since a lot of Quebecers don’t consider themselves Canadian anyway, I will see your poutine and raise you a Timmy Ho’s coffee or French Toast with ketchup, lol!
I really don’t see how this rider is bizarre. When you’re on the road 200 days of the year I doubt you would want to eat the same thing everyday. Five is early but when you have to do a show 2-3 hours later, you don’t want to get a stomache ache from performing. Actually oxygen isn’t an odd request. I see it mostly from older acts since they get tired more easily but when you’re dancing for 2 hours with all of those hot lights, some performers need a little pick me up.
Erm that food is for the whole group so it’s to feed many people not just one. How dare they ask for a variety in their diet? This is a scandal? Heh.
Wow she has had alot of work done esp on her nose! From the older picture where she is in glasses to the current pics she has a whole new nose! Its pretty good work but sad when girls with more pronounced noses whittle them away. It makes you more unique/beautiful to have something other than the boring button nose – blah!
1) At least she EATS
2) She has collapsed, so it makes sense to have oxygen, no?
3) A variety of food is the norm for road warriors
4) Pasta night!
5) Those are not expensive wines, just tasty
Listen, I was a chef at The Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center for awhile. This is no different from Celtic Woman. Seriously!
PS–Star and staff need something to look forward to, when they are away from family and friends.
How is oxygen seerved? Buffet or plated?
Egads, she is one seriously unattractive woman! I try to find some beauty when I see her pictures, but I can’t find anything remotely appealing.
And she doesn’t have the talent to justify her foolish rider. Very few musicians do.
Can’t take her seriously ever since I saw Christopher Walken doing “Poker Face” on youtube. Totally Hilarious.
@Bill, typical Torontonian, thinking it’s the centre of the universe 😉 Just kidding (but not really). My mom’s a newfie, I wouldn’t have said a word if you suggested cod tongue or fish’n’brew.
I’m in Ottawa, you can get a lot of good poutine on this side of the river (and the other side of the river in this area aren’t separatists).
Her demands aren’t really that wacky and diva-ish, imho. They’re pretty simple and achievable compared to most stars her stature demands which looked like they were taken from a hostage-taker’s wishlist (right JLo, Luciano Pavarotti, Madonna). Heck, if I’m a star, I would be demanding food consisting of endangered species and protected wildlife and should only be served by Zooey Deschanel in a sequinned French maid outfit.
In an entertainment business, she doesn’t entertain me one bit.
Not only pretentious, but Gag gag also takes her whole dragalicious schtick so seriously. Not an ounce of fun from her, and no way is she half the talent of fellow Oxygeneer Michael Jackson.
However, when this one trainwrecks, THAT is gonna be a blast! But she’s so calculating and no soul and talent of a true arteest that it’ll prob never come.
Trashaddict watched the legendary Chris Walken do Poker Face. Devastatingly funny by doing Poker Face that way Christopher Walken pulverizes the inanity of that song and Gaga in general.