Who says there aren’t sour grapes in the music industry? Apparently, even Lady Gaga can’t avoid having the same trials as her lyrics, because now a music producer and songwriter who also claims to have been Gaga’s boyfriend is rearing the ugly head of jealousy and sour grapes over her career. According to Rob Fusari, who apparently needs $30.5 million in the lawsuit, even though he’s a music producer and a songwriter and has worked with plenty of other major recording artists, he fostered Lady Gaga’s career and she completely dumped him when her career took off. Would this be the first time that has ever happened to a music producer who thought their protege was attractive and date-able and then something came up that meant they couldn’t get all their money out of it? No.
To be fair, Fusari’s involvement in Gaga’s early career has been stated before in interviews and did clearly state that he was the one to introduce her to a record executive who would eventually bring her to Interscope Records, who would later release “The Fame.” His lawsuit is claiming that while he helped Stefani Germanotta become Lady Gaga, going so far as to claim that he gave her the name and that he “radically changed her style and look.” He did co-wite Paparazzi and Beautiful, Dirty, Rich, and had a romantic relationship during the development of her career. Once she took off, she dumped him and even though they had a joint venture where he was to earn 20% of the proceeds, he’s claiming after they broken up that he wasn’t receiving any of the money he was supposed to receive. He’s already received $611,000 but claims that he is supposed to get more.
Personally, this sounds a lot like sour grapes and ‘coulda, woulda, shoulda’, but we’ll see how it goes. Lady Gaga, on the other hand, hasn’t said anything immediately, but the actual comments about Lady Gaga’s own identity is that this had been her style since before she became “Lady Gaga.” And given her background, it makes sense. So what’s the real story here? We’ll just have to wait and see.
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