BTW wasn't risky at all how does a song supporting the LGBT community turn out risky?
If her hardcore fan base was a right wing conservative fan base that woulf have been risky, but a large number of Gaga fans were gay even before the record
She was basically making a recorded suited for the majority of her fans, there's nothing risky with that
And songs about self-acceptance and about loving yourself had been made and made that previous year and during that time and even earlier, there was neither anything new nor risky about BTW.
The same with bionic, it wasn't risky but stripped and Back to Basic were risky
other pop stars did that kind of album 20 years before her. she's not the first to go from happy pop to something darker, you know.
it's not only that, it's the content & image of the album being preachy about a social agenda the public isn't keen to hear about
the transparency 
