GOSSIP: L.A. Reid Passed On Lady GaGa?

“This artist came to my office… she played piano, she had on white go-go boots – like, all the way up to here, thigh high boots — she sat down at that piano, she played and she sang. When she was done, I said, ‘You are an amazing artist, a true star, and you will change music,’ and I signed her. Her name was Lady Gaga.

Then, a few months later, I got her demos, and it was a work in progress, and I was having a bad day. I’m telling you, I was having a bad day,” he continued. “And I said, ‘You know what? I really don’t like it. Let her have her freedom, let her go find her career.’ It was the worst thing I’ve ever done.”

‘I felt bad, but I swear to you, like a month later Justin Bieber came and redeemed me, so, you know, I survived it all,” L.A. told Shaun, of signing the then-14-year-old “Baby” singer shortly after sending Lady Gaga packing. But I’m a little bit jealous, because the Twitter following, for example, the biggest ones are Bieber and Lady Gaga, so I would have felt like the king of the world! Instead I felt like half the king.”

See full interview with Shaun Robinson here