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Originally posted by SupahBass05
No one on ATRL actually attacks an argument. They just deflect the question by calling the poster pressed. Of course she cares about it all. I'm afraid for her if ARTPOP underperforms. She'll say something like it's ahead of its time.
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This post hit it right on the nail:
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Originally posted by inspiration4
The only thing that bothers me is that she seems to lumps all criticism into the same category, and perceives all of it as a being a desire to write her off. Rather than taking a minute to even consider that Applause shouldn't have been the first single, or that maybe people genuinely aren't feeling it, she instead masks that possibility with this narrative that it's due to society wanting to see her fail, when the reality is that this extreme sentiment is confined to a few forums on the internet. Regular people don't think about this at all, they just want good music, that's it.
The irony is that if she does fail, or under-perform, or whatever, it's solely due to her and her team being to dense to consider that maybe, just maybe, some of the critics raise valid points. This (false) attitude they possess of everyone being against her is why they don't learn from their mistakes.
She's her own worst enemy.
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Gaga could be a lot bigger than she is right now if she just realized not all criticism is meant to hurt her feelings. But her team is probably full of yes-people and she just feeds into their praise and if you disagree you get booted out. If you read this entire thread, all her fans saying "YASSS GAGA. CLOCK THE HATERS. ATRL HAS BEEN READ. YOU GO QUEEN!" are just pushing her further to buy into her own ego. But this delusion of saying she doesn't care about chart numbers or money (and no stop with that "she just wants it known, she just doesn't care about the money" bs when "money" clearly meant how much the song has sold etc.) is a straight out lie.
She has a point, but the hypocrisy is real.