My 7 year old cousin is currently watching Applause (as it's just come on one of the music channels); his reaction, "oh my god that was so scary".
General reaction: "I like the song, it's catchy (and I could hear the hook slightly catching on with him) but I don't like that women, she's scary and strange."
I know the Gag's key demographic is not the pre-teen kids but this seems like the overall reaction whenever I ask people about her. I want he to come back with a
killer second single and smash hard (I was a huge fan during the first era (F-->FM)).