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Originally posted by robboadam
So I was thinking about something a few days ago:
Is Art Gaga more important to people here than Sales Gaga?
Ie. Kanye West does innovative artistic music and videos, but yet gets relatively medium sales.
Ie. Would you rather have a Marry the Night situation or have a number 1 but a generic song/video?
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Art Gaga helps to establish her as a credible artist and solidify her place as an influential, unique entertainer. Sales Gaga helps to build her a financial empire and impact the general public, as well as give her recognition from other stars through paying homage or influencing them herself. I would like a balance between them, but if we had to choose one of the absolutes of the spectrum, I'd prefer Art Gaga as it will provide for a longer career and a lasting impression on pop culture, if with less money and GP recognition. However, I think that this and the other extreme end are impossible for her to achieve - she is an artistic mind, but one that expresses herself through means that invariably attract attention, and usually success by extension.
I also think that this was a problem with MTN; the only thing she did or it that was remotely as attention-grabbing as with her other songs was the NYE event, and even that was ruined by it being drowned out by one of her first performances of HML and yet another performance of a 10-month-old lead single, while also still not living up to the hype of other events (although it's lack of radio support due to the freeze is what
really killed it). She didn't live up to herself artistically with the song except the brilliant video, and that was a problem.