Lady Gaga documentary is in the works

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The show kicked off with hosts Taylor Swift and LL Cool J switching music genres. Swift beatboxed while LL Cool J sang out “Honky-tonk, here I come.” (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

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Fun. -- nominated for six Grammy Awards, including new artist, song, album and record of the year -- performed its hit “We Are Young” with R&B singer Janelle Monae. (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

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Ne-Yo performed his hit “Let Me Love You,” which began as an R&B ballad and ended as a full-on dance party. (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

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Wesley Schultz, Neyla Pekarek and Jeremiah Fraites of the Lumineers, nominated for new artist, present the nominees for country solo performance.

Complete list (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

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Luke Bryan performed his hit “I Don’t Want This Night to End.” (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

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Grammy-nominated Maroon 5 performed “One More Night” and “Moves Like Jagger” off its album “Overexposed,” which is nominated for pop vocal album. (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

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The Band Perry was joined by Dierks Bentley to pay tribute to country legend Johnny Cash. They performed Cash’s “Jackson.” (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

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Phillip Sweet, Kimberly Roads Schlapman, Jimi Westbrook and Karen Fairchild of Little Big Town announced the new artist category. (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

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Young country star Hunter Hayes sang the nominations for pop vocal album.

Full nominees list: 2013 Grammy nominees (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

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Musicians Chris Young and Sheryl Crow present Grammy nominees for record of the year. (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

By Reed Johnson

Dec. 27, 2012 11:59 AM PT

Looks like Lady Gaga is tearing another page out of the Madonna platinum-blond, pop-superstar playbook.

In the early ‘90s, Madonna launched a new phase of her career by allowing director Alek Keshishian to make a documentary, “Truth or Dare,” about the singer’s Blond Ambition tour. Keshishian’s film painted Madonna in a candid and revealing light and included a memorable cameo by her then-boy-toy Warren Beatty, who in one sequence makes the laughing observation about Madonna: “She doesn’t want to live off-camera, much less talk.”

Now Lady Gaga has followed Madonna’s celluloid blueprint by reportedly recruiting fashion photographer Terry Richardson to make a feature-length documentary about her. Richardson is (in)famous for erotically explicit imagery that prompted one colleague (according to a Wikipedia entry, citing a New York Post story) to describe his business M.O. thusly: “He takes girls who are young, manipulates them to take their clothes off and takes pictures of them they will be ashamed of.”

Of course, premeditated controversy is to Lady Gaga what red meat is to a ravening lion. Sounds like a heavenly match.

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