Yes. The public was overwhelmed with her presence in 2011. She got overexposed real badly.
So this absence should re-ignite the public passion for her again.
She's at the point now where she can disappear to the general public for a while and then come back and still be relevant and slay the charts. To her fans, it doesn't really seem like she has gone anywhere as we follow her and take interest in her life on tour. We are still in The Born This Way era.
No. I think she should give an appropriate amount of time so everyone can wash the BTW era out of their eyes/ears, then slay us sometime next year. She isn't Ke$ha, people aren't going to forget she exists.
yes... had Rihanna not released Loud so soon after rated R, she may have slipped too far... Gaga is letting her BTW image linger for too long on people, it may hurt her