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Celeb News: Vice: The End of Gaga's Career
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Vice: The End of Gaga's Career
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DROWNING, NOT WAVING: THE SLOW AND BITTER END OF LADY GAGA’S CAREER
Remember when Lady Gaga was virtually infallible? When critics and fans bowed at her altar, and even detractors couldn’t begrudge her the stranglehold of influence (and if not necessarily influence, definitely uncontested saturation) on pop culture? I ask if you remember because it seems that for Gaga, that’s all we have left: the memories.
No one gives a **** about Lady Gaga anymore. Last week, she released her 11-minute, 46-second epic “Artpop Film” for the track “G.U.Y,” and almost no one gave a ****. The video has just over 23 million views at the time of writing—a number that’s likely to grow, but based on the performance of her last video epic, “Marry The Night,” it won’t likely be by much—but also one that’s disappointing for Gaga in the wake of contemporaries like Katy Perry and Beyoncé, whose videos have amassed 165 million (“Dark Horse”) and 129 million (“Drunk In Love”) views respectively. Even Jennifer Lopez’s recently released video “I Luh Ya Papi” has pulled in 17 million views, and J.Lo doesn’t even have a fun nickname for her fans. Considering none of these other videos are a performance epic to rival Gaga’s, which was filmed at Hearst Castle, that’s got to be pretty frustrating for the Gaga-sphere. I mean, all Bey did was dance on a beach.
Comparisons aside, did you even know Lady Gaga released “G.U.Y.” last week? The video fell almost completely under the radar as sites that would usually dedicate full posts to The Life and Times of Mother Monster relegated the “G.U.Y.” video to “New This Week”style list posts, or didn’t even bother to mention it at all. It seems as though Lady Gaga, one of the most widely watched and critiqued pop icons of this generation, has been deemed unworthy of the news cycle, at least as far as her “art” is concerned.
Lady Gaga is flailing. She’s drowning, not waving. Which really sucks for her, because she’s an amazingly talented artist. If you don’t believe me just watch this video of her singing “Hair” on Howard Stern, which I’ve just re-watched and teared up over. At the most base level, without any of the accoutrements, Lady Gaga is an accomplished, capable, and passionate performer. Somehow however, that very rare fact has been lost, and possibly suffocated, beneath a menagerie of wigs and the oiled, fetishized bodies of her many dancers.
My personal obsession with Gaga began when I saw her in concert nearly four years ago, and I was struck by the dearth of her skills on stage. She was completely mesmerizing, her songs were infectious, and I danced and screamed along like I’d been born that way. Lady Gaga is fascinating in a way most other pop stars aren’t—save for maybe someone like Ke$ha—because she’s the dark horse. She’s the girl in high school who smoked cigarettes behind the bike shed, and who walked the halls under the protective hurricane of rumors and speculation about her life, her family, her backstory, constantly swirling around her.
But now, Lady Gaga just seems... boring. The arbiters of think-piece material don’t seem to care about her anymore, and even more worryingly, nor do the social pages and gossip blogs. She’s fading into a “meh”-ness that goes against her whole body of work. Here are a few reasons why:
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Wow, they went IN. 
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DAMNIT I wanted to thread it first. At least change the title so you can see it's about her from the top of the site.
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like i said in SYG, the author is trash for using cuss words.
an examiner-esque article 
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I'm really getting bored of the media trying to make it look like Gaga's career is completely dead.
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damn.
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No one gives a **** about Lady Gaga anymore. Last week, she released her 11-minute, 46-second epic “Artpop Film” for the track “G.U.Y,” and almost no one gave a ****
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So mean
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a blog? 
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They went for the jugular.
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They made a FEW good points, but overall very unprofessionally written. And I hate all these people who say "Oh I was such a huge fan when she made great videos and songs from btw and tfm, but everything from artpop is trash" even though the stuff she's been doing with artpop is NOT that far off from what she was doing before. You know that if ARTPOP wasn't such a disappointment commercially nobody would be writing **** like this about the music.
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Wow, they really dragged her 
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Another opinion piece. Ok? Thanks, I guess.
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Originally posted by Remixed
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Nope! It's from Noisey, the music section of Vice Magazine. 
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Originally posted by highwayuni
I'm really getting bored of the media trying to make it look like Gaga's career is completely dead.
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+1
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it's really not as bad as they're saying 
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Jesus
Since I firmly believe that anyone can make a comeback, what's gonna happen if Gaga makes one They're dragging her to hell & back
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Angela Cheng teas
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Wait, you can go to her twitter account if monsters get to her they're gonna rip her to shreds
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Reported? Why? I feel like people actually deserve to read this. 
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