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Originally posted by Bribe
There's a lot of things wrong with this article, but this section is probably true.
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“I have a lot of experience in this area,” says one longtime label executive and producer. “Artists have a lot of help on their first albums, and they’re open to a lot of help, and they are very smart collaborators and make great work.”
Once that work results in great success, he says, the artist invariably believes they are solely responsible. “Time and again, they feel like they could have done it themselves, and if they had done it their way, it would have been even bigger,” he says. “So they jettison the people who helped them get where they are and hire people who are less powerful, who let them do what they want. I think that may be where Lady Gaga is.”
And without anyone formidable to guide her, Lady Gaga, for the first time in her career, seems culturally tone-deaf, releasing an album that’s ostensibly about modern art — a “reverse Warholian expedition,” as Gaga so loftily describes it — to a public that doesn’t care.
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I think she bought into her own hype after TFM, and thus created BTW. Since that era she has been consistently downsizing her team (firing LAG, Troy, Dada, etc), and also choosing to work almost exclusively with the Haus instead of professional directors and producers. |
That's it.
Another way of putting it: Gags became a caricature of herself.
Now she's at a crossroads: either she relies on her fanbase and says FU I'll continue to play messiah to my niche monsters and we grow old together or else she still has ambition and wants to rule the world & considers herself too talented to not be on top of pop, which means she'd have to not necessarily stop all gimmicks but just make sure she don't take herself too seriously.
That also entails she'd have to go back and revive those REAL collaborative instincts with real creatives - meaning for example letting the real DJs (Zedd/Madeon etc) do the heavy lifting on albums instead of hiring a full-time, easily manipulable "in haus" personal DJ that otherwise has nothing to do.
@ monsters acting like nothing happened to Gaga.
