Originally posted by Rusty

1. You expected what? Adele sales? It was the biggest album of 2011, save for 21. Take a look at album sales. It did 7M. No female act has topped that with a release since. Also this contradicts your last comment saying 7-7.5M sales was a great achievement. Then again, hate of a popstar is so irrational consistency isn't needed.

Some, not all, of Gaga's SA shows had 2-for-1 deals. Regardless, they banked over $17M. How "tragic."

2. I never said she did great on the US leg of the BTWB, though I don't agree she did badly either. But your floppy comment didn't realize LiveNation refunded $25M from her shows. She wasn't playing to sold outs every night on the tour, but she was making serious money anyway. The tour would have topped $206M without sales beyond the day it was cancelled.

3. LOL.

4. Your arrogance is as funny as your Gaga obsession!

5. Gaga having demons that lead her to difficult times =/= Judas-Jud-aaaa-aaasss Judas-Jud-aaa-aaasss.

6. ROFL.

7. Another reading comprehension lesson yet again needed for you, and possibly a dictionary. It was Amazon's prerogative, to take a product, and sell it as a loss leader to get new customers. They chose the biggest debut (by far) of the year - Lady Gaga's album. They paid the difference, and the album sold a couple of hundred thousand more copies than it probably would have. Billboard realized the implications such a deal could have, and changed the rules after. Amazon still were the ones with the prerogative to sell BTW for 99c. Nothing I said is made up, I leave that for you. Your "vito" (it's spelt veto) is something that's made up - you couldn't possibly know she has that power, because realistically speaking the buck would stop with Interscope, and like I said in my comment, nobody would turn down that deal. It was guaranteeing more sales and money for the company, so they took Amazon's deal. Once again: Amazon's prerogative to sell the album at 99c. It's 2014 and the Madge stan can't get over that.

I didn't "skip past" her drugs/alcohol problems. She's had them her whole career. She hit a bad point in 2012, after committing to a 100+ date, mostly stadium-venue world tour. Her show still involved more audibly live singing nightly than almost all of her contemporaries. The PDLM teas you give are too muchT.

Originally posted by HausOfJustin

I don't give two s**** if it 'ruined her career' she made her best music on BTW and created one of my favorite albums of all time. Y'all can stay seething that she made such a flawless record that wasn't commercially on par with her previous efforts. She had a direction she wanted to go in and took it, and I'm not complaining at all. Again, stay seething.

Originally posted by Lifeline

BTW preceded everything that culminated in Artpop.

Once Gaga became too aware and full of herself, it was unstoppable. She didn't learn from her mistakes but continued to do them. + her "YASSS Gags" sayers didn't help it either.