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Originally posted by ClashAndBurn
You're acting like Gaga is the only pop star to receive media criticism for flopping. Christina got it for Bionic (everyone dragged her for issues in her personal and professional life, topped off by the incident at the Super Bowl in 2011), Britney got it for Blackout (pretty much everything she did from 2007 to 2008, including an incident where she drove her car with a baby in her lap), and even Rihanna got some of it during the Rated R era. Who was behind a lot of that criticism for each of those girls? Hmm... Perez Hilton, maybe? I see a pattern here.
Point is, it's not just the media being "against Gaga." They do it with anyone who sees their first major underperformance until they can turn it around.
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I never said it was Gaga exclusive, but they didn't have stanbases going out of their way to get rumors like $25 million loss to Interscope, job losses over ARTPOP's performance, ticket sales being abysmal for artRave, etc all into mainstream media. Comparisons to Britney are fairly out there - you're talking an infamous person going through mental break after mental break while leading droves of paparazzi around Beverly Hills at 2am
every day. The baby seat thing was moronic, she was always going to be dragged for that, it's nothing to do with her career. Rihanna and Xtina's "backlash" wasn't much next to how Gaga is being perceived, with outlets genuinely using ART
FLOP and interjecting that she's on a downward trend in reviews of her shows and record. She's being perceived as a hasbeen 5 years in when she'll sell 2M copies of ARTPOP and gross solidly from her tour - the disparity of how her career is in real life versus in the media is so biased it's insane.
To interject, I don't really know how else is Gaga meant to react to that. She ignores things and they just get worse half the time. She might as well do some dragging herself, at least it gives us stans something to
about ala microscope tweet.
