“There have been two meetings that have already taken place with Billboard.
The plan is to make 'Perfect Illusion' one of the biggest worldwide hits of all-time, even if it isn’t received well,” a source at Billboard tells us.
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The trade magazine has already prepared several articles in order to hype up the single.
One article quotes different radio station program directors saying how much they and their listeners love “Perfect Illusion.” THIS IS LONG BEFORE THE SINGLE HAS EVEN BEEN HEARD!
Another article has “Perfect Illusion” making some type of Twitter history, even though it is completely made up.
An article that Gaga’s PR team wrote in late July, which Billboard will present as their own article, is about the crazy reactions on Twitter.
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Lady Gaga and her team have worked overtime in creating fake Twitter accounts and buying followers for each one in order to hype up “Perfect Illusion” and the new album. When it’s released, these accounts will do nothing but praise the song.
It isn't just Billboard, though.
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We are told that...the Huffington Post and...Entertainment Weekly are either being paid cash under the table or are being promised “special gifts” in order to hype up Lady Gaga, her new single, and her new album.
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Team Gaga has allegedly paid a substantial amount of money to...Showbiz411 as well as...Buzzfeed.
More about how Billboard named Gaga "Woman of the Year" (and an employee who quit the magazine because of it), and how Gaga and Billboard arranged for "Dope" to hit #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the link provided:
