I was expecting something pretty unrealistic, I think, but I'm not disappointed, just underwhelmed. Comes with every anticipated era, I think. Had it in my mind she'd be swatting everyone else down left right and centre, but this way, it's a series of deep breaths instead of one big gasp and then her era sputtering out like BTW did.

No. Was there really a point in making this thread?

Yes. I was getting excited to see the sane gaga but her rehearsal videos are looking like she's back to her gimmicky self

This again.

Lady Gaga, you really need to understand her

Her music, her show, her things are not for everybody - her performances are made for her fans, her shows, they're all made SOLELY for her fans - if you become a fan after the fact, good for you - but lets take for instance the VMA performance this year, if you're not her fan, you simply wouldn't understand the grandiose subtext behind it, you'd think it was sub-par and continue on with you overly simplistic view of what her art is - but if you know it's who she is where she came from and where's going, see under the mask - see the art for art and not a simplistic performance than hey all power to you -

I don't know, Gaga is an ARTIST, who happens to be a celebrity.
it's all subjective, like the David is just a statue of a dude for me, but for statue aficionados, it's GENIUS

Pretty disappointed, yeah. I was expecting her to come back in full force in terms of music, videos, and performance, and I haven't been a massive fan of all three for Applause so far. Applause is a very underwhelming song too imo

After all this time gone, it seems people didn't really miss her. She's been trying to starve people who are simply not hungry.

No

I just don't care, but Applause is not as bad as some people make it out to be.

Can you go somewhere else and stop with the Gaga posts and threads? It's clear you're just causing drama.

Yes, in terms of success. However, the music seems to be very fresh (the Swinefest snippets). Applause was just a bad single choice.

Nope, it hasn't even been a month yet. She has 1 single out which is doing well, a stunning VMAs performance, and she will be performing some new songs from ARTPOP at the iTunes music festival. Let's give her some breathing space....

Yes

What did YOU want from her though? I think she's doing fine.

This.

No. She just released music three weeks ago. Stop.