"Why The Lady Gaga Hate Is Unfair & Untrue"

[RAMROD 106,052]

Long may she rave, yaaaaaass!! :applause:

[YSL 2,429]

I loved it!

[Mary Pain 0]

I think the author is a member here.

 

 surprisingly he's not  

[Bt1 5,213]

 surprisingly he's not  

Oh, sorry. Then I confuse him with a member here than also had a great blog.

[aquaprincess 23]

Yes! Stan :legend:

[swine killer 0]

[AJH219 4,448]

Shared this on my facebook/twitter. I wish I could spam it everywhere 

[Poope MOnster 1,446]

      

[MelbHawker 6,583]

Well written article.

 

I love the Gypsy praise. Should've been the second single to be honest.

[Hachi 49]

Beautiful article. Some positivity is needed around here!

[Antidote 95]

Couldn't stop reading, so happy about this article!

 

And slay at the internet troll Angela Cheng yess expose her

[Mary Pain 0]

Oh, sorry. Then I confuse him with a member here than also had a great blog.

 It's okay!  sorry if i sounded mean in that post,  i was being sarcastic.   In fact this person is MTV's John Norris, the same one who interviewed her in the SXSW keynote,   he's a really important journalist in the music industry, that has seen many bands come and go.  So this article coming from him is a great praise (and press within the industry) for Gaga :)

[blacklistedd 599]

Theres a lot of times that certain critiques made are clearly unfair, ultimately though her approach is what has created this negative atmosphere surrounding her existence in popular culture and she does little to drastically alter that perception. On one hand its because shes trying to stick to her guns and show some pride in her conviction in the way she does things but on the other hand its like she seems to lack a certain humility in regards to her talent and her process. She says she surrounds herself with people that put her in check, maybe she just doesn't surround herself with the best people possible anymore.

[Masaki 71]

"In five minutes with this woman you get much closer to something approaching a human being than with the large majority of the personality-challenged mannequins that pass as pop stars in 2014, whose primary job as best I can tell is to look and appear  to use a word popular among the Beyhive  “flawless.â€"

[StrawberryBlond 14,314]

Exactly. Fourth major releases are usually the worst chart-performing among the major pop stars who debuted big. Interest could only go down if it reached an all-time high during its first years. That should be expected. And as you've said, the numbers this album and its first two singles pulled are decent enough as compared to today's standard. For an album to pull more than 2 million worldwide and 700k in the US with only one hit single is already within the accepted bounds to not be regarded as a complete commercial failure. A "flop" is the one which couldn't even pull half of that figure despite the presence of heavy promotion. 

 

Yes, Rihanna, Xtina, Beyonce and most recently, Justin Timberlake, all experienced career trouble at their fourth release. And there's many more. It doesn't have to mean that you're over. The fact is that most people only own one album per artist, apart from their ultimate favourites. The whole world can't expect to slavishly follow every single mainstream act and they have to right to only buy albums that they feel are absolutely perfect. There's far too many artists to keep track of and new ones are being boosted every year, meaning that it doesn't necessarily mean it's the end if a star who's been big for years doesn't quite deliver this time around. When it comes to music buying, the public function in the form of trends and what the media forces on them. That's why the biggest sellers of the year tend to be from new artists and those who have had huge promotion. Most artist's biggest seller is their debut, unless they started out indie. It should not be considered a failure if they can't pull in the figures that their debut reached. The debut is what put them out into the public eye, made people take notice. And they can't expect that attention to be paid to them all the time. 'What goes up must come down' and all that. If ARTPOP was Gaga's second album and/or she had a huge promo campaign behind it, but it still didn't sell, that's when concern should be applied. But it's her fourth release and had a very limited promo campaign and she's suffering from the whole 'build em up, tear em down' approach from the media after several years at the top. So, to call it a flop is misguided.