Looking at people comments for Hotshot post (that about not mainstream artist), seems 'dragers' here in general are quite stupid, as they falling for so obvious trolling.
"Venus" is a terrible song and would have never smashed at any point in her career.
"Do What U Want" isn't "safe" (maybe for Gaga's standards, but not in general), it's just better.
Anyhow, as a Gaga stan, I just wish her the best and hope that she made the right choice by choosing DWUW as second single to represent and sell her album instead of any of the other songs on it.