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Jonny McGovern (born July 12, 1975), also known by his character name The Gay Pimp, is an American stand-up comedian, musician and podcaster. He has recorded three albums as comedic singer The Gay Pimp, and is also a cast member of Logo's The Big Gay Sketch Show.
Jonny McGovern was born to Mary McGovern and Rob Gutowski in Brooklyn, New York. His parents traveled often and McGovern grew up primarily in Egypt and Thailand. McGovern later returned to the United States to study acting at Boston University, where he earned a BFA.
McGovern stated that he was inspired to create his signature comedic character, The Gay Pimp, after listening to rap songs and interviews by Eminem. McGovern has said,
After the songs from the show began to get heavy rotation in New York City nightclubs, McGovern was approached about making a music video for one of his songs, Soccer Practice. The video for Soccer Practice, which received heavy rotation in dance clubs as well as notoriety on the Internet, featured McGovern in a shirt that was emblazoned with the sequined words "Gay Pimp." In it, he cavorted and simulated sex with scantily-clad men.
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (/ˈstɛfəniː dʒʌrməˈnɑːtə/ STE-fə-nee jurr-mə-NAH-tə; born March 28, 1986), known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to focus on her musical career. She began performing in the rock music scene of Manhattan's Lower East Side, and was signed with Streamline Records by the end of 2007. During her employment as a songwriter for the record company, her vocal abilities captured the attention of recording artist Akon, who signed her to his label Kon Live Distribution.
Lady Gaga came to prominence as a recording artist following the release of her debut album The Fame (2008), which was a critical and commercial success that topped charts around the world and included the international number-one singles "Just Dance" and "Poker Face". After embarking on the The Fame Ball Tour, she followed the album with The Fame Monster (2009), which spawned the worldwide hit singles "Bad Romance", "Telephone" and "Alejandro". The album's success allowed her to embark on the eighteen-month long Monster Ball Tour, which later became one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time. Her most recent album Born This Way (2011) topped the charts of most major markets and generated more international chart-topping singles, including "Born This Way", "Judas" and "The Edge of Glory". Besides her musical career, she involves herself with humanitarian causes and LGBT activism.
Beloved darkness, to you I plead
You belong to the other and not to me
Remove my spirit from the wind, I shall remain forever...
The sufferer feels the wind of sorrow
Abasement and abeyance abduct the love
Follow the moon and follow the dead
I cry for the girl I never had
My pain ever deepening as I dream of your kiss
My ire irks the obscurity of obsequious lonelyness
Antagonize my anguish but it has no effect
I watch this glorious triumph in hatred
This mask of shattered divinity do I now wear
Close your eyes and feel what will be
I love everything of you, yet I fear you cannot love me
Hath I never sailed upon infinite shores of sin
I look in the mirror and I only see the broken hope
And then I look and I feel what I see, but these feelings fear me
I yearned for thee as yet only darkness arises
Torn in silence I hath seen the majestic beauty
Where are you, I search for you
A not ending tale for the love I never had
I cry for you, the girl, you, I never knew
Because it's time - it's time for the dead
Don't close your eyes and see what emotions can do
I fear my love's to big - drowned into sorrow
And on the next day what will follow?
My existance is a black hole in you
This is for you, in search of you
The loss of the love is the begin of the end
Hopeless adventures for a man to find you
When I die ... then I am silent
Don't tell me how strong you are
My emotions for you is a feeling that protects me from death
From the distance I see and I know it's too far
Somebody slayes my heart as I am gasping for my breathe
The forever failure I made to open my feelings
They took control over my sorrowful being
The smell of my blood is no victory tonight
Reappeared pain makes me losing this fight
Shattered love shed tears of blood on the ground
The moon lay hidden beneath a cloud
Just to see the storm and the rain
And to give me my soul's bane
Immortal darkness arise as the frost of winter dims the light of the end
An angel like you must from heaven be sent
Dressed in white silk on velvet you lay
As I pity the sadness and begin to fade away
The discouragement of me; benighted of my soul beneath
Only then may these ivory gates open for thee
And when my inner being died I cried like rain