Her decline right now is caused by different factors, I remember when she was getting huge, the music industry was worshiping her and called her genius, the new queen of pop and she had like one album out and then the general public started to hate her saying she's overrated and doesn't deserve all that praise, of course her antics and cringeworthy statements didn't help at all.

Now Gaga believed it all and she thought that she's really that good, she created a huge fanbase that she needs to praise her all the time and tells her how talented she is, that's why she created this whole art thing because she doesn't want people to criticize her music and by going with the art concept, she's kinda like this's my art and you need to be special to understand it, so you can't judge it.

Bottom line she didn't let her music speak for her.

Her little monsters are the reason. When back in 2009 she didnt have the connection with then she wrote TFM. When she got into then she wrote BTW.

She is the reason that she faded. It all stems back to why she became so famous in the first place. Yes she had some catchy songs but she got far more attention for her outfits and gimmicks then her actual music itself and once the shock value wore off then people moved on.

The fault can only be hers. She had pretty much all the artistic control on her project.

I think we should all stop acting like the era is already over and it will never be saved. Maybe she was right when she said it hasn't truely begun yet. I believe they are following a different strategy to this album than they did with Born This Way, which was extremely front loaded at the start. With this era, they are trying to build it over time so it gets bigger. She is saving the best singles for later: Gypsy, Venus and Sexxx Dreams