A large proportion of her current predicament is not because people tried to 'use' her or tamper with her artistic vision. Instead, it stems from the fact that in late 2010, she began, as the world's biggest pop star and cultural juggernaut since Britney Spears in 1998, to proclaim her new music as the best album of the decade (almost infamous now, really) and instead released singles which where grating, unpalatable and homo-centric, putting off casual heterosexual listeners, the main demographic purchasing her music and alienating radio.
Born This Way is not personally my cup of tea, however, I respect it as a body of work. It is fearless, intricate and filled to the brim with everything a good pop album should have: hooks, soaring choruses and daring production and melodies. All that said, it took my over two whole years to be able to appreciate it, even if I have been a fan since 2008 until now. How is the general public, notorious for their short attention span and general lack of appreciation for music which defies the norm, going to respond to a body of work, like that? They won't respond at all. They will instead, latch on to the next pop hit that is on power rotation on their music channels and favourite radio station. Needless to say, this is the body of work that she wanted to make, not Interscope, not Troy Carter, her on her own. Interscope would have been more than happy to have a a collection of synth filled tracks about love, laced with subtle sexual metaphors, watered down for radio sitting on their lap.
However, it doesn't start and end with the music. One of the biggest factors that sold Gaga's music was the accompanying videos. In early 2008/09, they were hot, palatable and fun. From mid 2009 to mid 2010, they were daring, edgy yet palatable and interesting. From that point on, her videos were dull, messy and devoid of any real factor that would entice people on YouTube to hit the replay button let alone hear about them by word-of-mouth and run home to search for them. The videos were Gaga's work. She knew what people wanted from her and she did what she wanted to do. Commendable as it may be, the videos were crap, failing to generate interest and more importantly, sell the music.
I have a lot of problems with how promotion was executed from late 2010 to late 2011 but that ultimately was arranged and at most, influenced by Gaga so blame resides with her management.
Basically, Gaga, on the whole, orchestrated the mess that was the Born This Way era and has yet to recover the interest which previously surrounded her career, only slowing down the downward spiral at best. However, instead of wiping away her tears and reigniting her passion for success, she is resorting to pointing the finger at others and taking the post-Bionic attitude of Christina; "my work was too daring, too edgy, the public weren't ready for it, only real fans and music listeners will understand it" but with the additional mentality of you average little monsters.com users; "nobody understand me, people are bullying me" etc.
She knows exactly what she needs to do to reignite interest in her and success but she would rather be seen as 'artsy', 'alternative' and 'the underdog' than accept the fact that she is largely to blame for this mess whenever this so called 'art' has only involved her wearing a dress with the Mona Lisa's face on it, a few references to a painting, mainly pertaining to the hair in it and having actual artists and sculptors paint and model her.
This is why I'm not hugely concerned. If she wants to play the game - she'll fight, and if she refuses to compromise herself - she won't. I'll go along with either as long as I enjoy the material.
My personal feelings are that she will fight. She wants to be a legend. But more importantly she wants to prove people wrong - which is a very powerful motivator. My concern here is how long it takes for her to get over herself and seek help. I feel we're at the point in her story where things are falling apart and we're just waiting for the Rocky montage to start.
I really don't think it'll be too difficult to return to top form. She's certainly not in the desperate position so many melt-downing and gloating would have you think.
Today is the first day since I came across her in 2008 that I'm contemplating maybe I shouldn't buy tickets to her tour if she comes, cuz I don't like her behaviour anymore
The backlash from her arrogance and her superiority is real
I agree.
I think she feels like everything she does now has to be dedicated to monsters all the time
She forgot that most of us started stanning for the carefree, a little bitchy popstar which made amazing songs accompanied by amazing videos.
Most of us LOVE and will always appreciate BTW.
She dedicated an album to her fans and that is amazing but she needs to get back to her popstar ways, which got her where she is right now.
Agree with it all, I'm just not sure if it's in her anymore. I know it's the same person from 2008, but when you compare her work back then to the work now, it seems like a different person. She evolved (which is good), but somewhere along the way, it became too much for people.
Today is the first day since I came across her in 2008 that I'm contemplating maybe I shouldn't buy tickets to her tour if she comes, cuz I don't like her behaviour anymore
The backlash from her arrogance and her superiority is real
I've never seen Gaga live. I must say I don't feel an URGENT need to see the ARTPOP Ball. Frankly, I'm tired of trying to see Gaga. TMB sold out right when I was buying tickets, my BTW Ball date was canceled, and now the ARTPOP Ball doesn't even have a date in the same area where my BTW Ball was canceled. Honestly, I think I might never see Gaga live. If it happens this time, great. If it doesn't, I might not be incredibly heartbroken since I've tried everything (more than likely, I would still be heartbroken).
Am i the only one who thinks she stuck between her fun persona and her preachy over the top BTW persona
And that those 2 don't mix well together.
And thinking about it a break would be a dumb move. She needs to come back hard with a new album and win over the GP again. Everything else will hurt her
This is why I'm not hugely concerned. If she wants to play the game - she'll fight, and if she refuses to compromise herself - she won't. I'll go along with either as long as I enjoy the material.
My personal feelings are that she will fight. She wants to be a legend. But more importantly she wants to prove people wrong - which is a very powerful motivator. My concern here is how long it takes for her to get over herself and seek help. I feel we're at the point in her story where things are falling apart and we're just waiting for the Rocky montage to start.
I really don't think it'll be too difficult to return to top form. She's certainly not in the desperate position so many melt-downing and gloating would have you think.
Yep, this is definitely the real down era, and sets her up perfectly for a comeback. But it's 50/50 as of right now. Maybe she'll come back, or maybe she'll keep focusing on spreading love and saving brazilian teenagers from committing suicide. She has to have a major creative resurgence, cause she ain't coming back with more DJWS/zeed/madeon songs
Agree with it all, I'm just not sure if it's in her anymore. I know it's the same person from 2008, but when you compare her work back then to the work now, it seems like a different person. She evolved (which is good), but somewhere along the way, it became too much for people.
Gaga should've predicted that this would happen. She kinda wrote an album about this sorta thing. She's a self-proclaimed "master of the art of fame." It's up to her to make a comeback. It ain't gonna happen this era but next era could be big.
Nah, your comment doesn't even make sense since the two posts were totally unrelated. Also, I don't care about Emma or the critics or what they have to say, I can think for myself
I LOVE this album. I mean I'm still obsessed with DWYW, SD, gypsy, GUY etc. I don't think the music is the problem
She should've gone with 10/11 tracks and released the others through the app/soundcloud tho.
Gaga should've predicted that this would happen. She kinda wrote an album about this sorta thing. She's a self-proclaimed "master of the art of fame." It's up to her to make a comeback. It ain't gonna happen this era but next era could be big.
She should just release the DWYW video and go with either GYPSY or G.U.Y for the third single. Make an amazing video and if the single still flops, end the era.
I'm just glad the radios are supporting her this era. And the fact that Applause is at almost 130M views. People are still checking her out and MOST of them are not even aware of her flopping, her being in depression state etc
