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The Guardian: Lady Gaga fans pose as soccer moms...
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Lady Gaga fans pose as soccer moms to drum up radio buzz for new single
Little Monsters made accounts filled with stock photos of parents and mentions of wine to tweet radio stations to show a high demand for Perfect Illusion
The news that Lady Gaga’s new single, Perfect Illusion, would debut on Friday elicited excited responses from her fans. But in between the GIFs or declarations of “Yaaaaas Gaga” that flooded Twitter, some fans hatched a unique plan to help the song get more attention.
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The profiles were decked out with stock photos of parents. One account, dubbed Bethany Joan, used a photo of Kate Gosselin from the early days of the TLC show Jon & Kate Plus 8. The posts all mentioned how much their children love Gaga’s music, with their formal and typo-filled tweets focused on parenting, religion, wine and things like making their sons waffles.
A few became rather morbid, like one by a user named Scarlett Rose. “My husband is dead. I don’t want to remarry. Buy Perfect Illusion on iTunes,” the account wrote. Another showed a photo of a woman in a neck brace who wrote that she crashed her minivan when she heard about the new single.
Rather than using their “stan” accounts – meaning super fan – to request the song, Gaga fans used the fake accounts because “Radio hosts hate homosexuals and stan twitters, it’s a fact,” according to the post on GagaDaily.
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...e-twitter-fans
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