Why does everyone assume Gaga is being hushed?

Everyone,
including her, saw that BTW's over-hyping had some detrimental effects, so its not hard to imagine that she's keeping quite out of her own will.
Anyway, I'm sooo ready. I just hope that if (giant "if" considering the source) there's a female empowerment tone, its largely metaphorical, because this is not the 90's.
