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Reverb: "How we all became bored with Lady Gaga"
Interesting. I guess the Artrave isnt doing as hot as expected? 
Waaay more at the link: http://www.heyreverb.com/blog/2014/0...xpected/92807/
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Take a lesson from Lady Gaga: A meat dress will go rancid faster than any Prada or Louis Vuitton.
In 2010, after releasing her platinum-selling and Grammy-winning “Fame Monster,” Lady Gaga was being hailed as “The Last Pop Star,” “The World’s Biggest Pop Star” and “Our Lady of Pop.” Those days, she would fearlessly cover herself in blood at sold-out arena shows or wear a meat dress to the MTV Video Music Awards. She was daring and fresh.
But, four years later, she’s doing the same thing, and finding it hard to sell out her big “Artpop Ball.”
On Aug. 6, Lady Gaga will return to Denver for the first time in four years. The Denver Post called her 2010 show at the Pepsi Center “the most unique mass spectacle of the year.” Since then, she’s released two albums, and you’d assume that ravenous little monsters would be biting at the chance to see pop’s new queen again. But they’re not.
As of July 30, tickets were available for Lady Gaga’s show at all price ranges. Fellow pop divas Katy Perry and Pink both sold out Denver months in advance. Nationally, Gaga’s current tour hasn’t broken the top-10 list of StubHub’s most popular events. It’s a sales decline that perfectly illustrates Lady Gaga’s fading glory — not a quick, one-hit-wonder fizzle, but a slower, more painful tumble from fresh and daring, to same Gaga, old tricks.
What happened to the smart, funny singer whose strangeness was a sudden injection of originality into popular culture, a chameleon of musical influences and styles? With a flourish of futuristic pop she would conjure David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Kylie Minogue, Madonna and Britney Spears. The music would tackle drug and celebrity culture, feminism and modern art. She was daring, ridiculous and unstoppable.
Take Perry, for example, whose music career has mirrored Gaga’s since they both became famous within a few years of each other. After adopting the whipped-cream bra and lollipop image on 2010’s “Teenage Dream,” Perry traded it in for a more modest, powerful, and in some cases, dark identity on 2013’s “Prism.” Perry’s upcoming stop at the Pepsi Center on Sept. 30 is already sold out. That’s not to say Lady Gaga needs to do exactly as Perry does to stay relevant — but change, even a subtle one, can refresh a pop artist.
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