Gaga’s infamous backstage demand for a mannequin with ‘puffy pink pubic hair’, can only be topped by RiRi’s weird animal-print obsession, Steven Tyler’s weirder fetishes, and the weirdest of them all – Mariah Carey’s – 75 degree temperature rule.
Lady Gaga: The list of Gaga’s backstage demands during her Monster’s Ball tour were recently divulged on a website. The singer requested that her dressing room be decorated in “glam rock” fashion, with silver satin walls, white leather couches, black satin drapes and posters of famous rock stars such as David Bowie, Queen and Elton John. She also requested that a mannequin with “puffy pink pubic hair” be placed in her dressing room, for reasons not known. Gaga’s bathroom was to be decked out with lavender-colored bath towels, hand towels, hand soap, body wash and face soap. When it came to food, Gaga aimed for healthy, requesting organic teas and milk, organic tortilla chips, sprouted grain tortillas, peanut butter with no more than four grams of sugar, tuna and Activia yogurt. But the singer allowed for a couple vices, specifically “quality white wine” and Jameson whiskey.
Christina Aguilera: When she’s on the road, Aguilera requests real coffee mugs for her java, along with soy milk, soy cheese, echinacea, vitamin C and Flintstones chewable vitamins – according to her 2010 tour rider.
The Foo Fighters: They set the “standard for really fun, witty contract riders,” a music magazine’s managing editor, Andrew Goldberg, said. “The manager requests bath towels, and threatens a wedgie if they’re brand new. He calls bacon ‘God’s currency.’ The humour makes it fun to read – and that’s hard to do with a contract,” he said.
Mariah Carey: One of the original divas, Mariah Carey, is not to be outdone by relative newcomer Rihanna. According to her 2010 tour rider obtained by a website, Carey requested such luxuries as a $200 bottle of cabernet sauvignon, two dozen white roses and vanilla aromatherapy candles in her dressing room. Like Rihanna, Carey was also specific about how she lounges backstage. Her rider requested that the temperature of her room hover at 75 degrees and the furniture in her “living room space” bear “no busy patterns; black, dark gray, cream, dark pink are all fine.”
Steven Tyler: Tyler’s memoir, Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? revealed that the famous womanizer would have a member of the Aerosmith entourage make sure any girl Tyler took a liking to was in the shower by the time he returned to his dressing room. As for his cocaine, Tyler liked a lot of it, and whenever the band was on tour, the frontman would demand a full-length, 6-foot-long mirror in the room.
Rihanna: Rihanna made sure the prepping area of every concert venue was a leopard-print haven, littered with Archipelago Black Forest candles. According to a website, Rihanna’s tastes were pretty particular. They included: a six-foot couch – plush, white and no leather, and big enough for her to stretch out on for a nap – six floor lamps with dimmers, throw pillows, and a “clean” rug in animal print and the aforementioned candles.
Strangest celeb backstage demands
