Is LG5 Gaga's break it or make it album?

[malazam 15,710]

álbum Sales dropped hard but if she make two smash hit singles will keep her in the mainstream it's not a hard job you know ARTPOP had the smash hit and it was DWUW.....rhat #1 that's gone forever...and if we think Gaga's working with RedOne and a better management.

good feeling about this album

[DirtyRichHooker 352]

It doesn't really matter to be honest with you, she has a pretty big fanbase that will keep her afloat.

[DiscoHeaven23 35,007]

She would definitely become less mainstream. 

[caseymonster 424]

She gained a lot of respect and momentum from c2c. she just needs to get her head out of her ass and come with some new ****. She writes about the same crap (fashion, d--gs and s-x). I want her to write about something personal so the public will see her more relatable. As long as she can get relatable catchy new tunes. Shes gonna do great. Otherwise we gonna have another artpoop...

[Bad Bromance 5,809]

No way!!  IMO, Gaga has already established herself as an icon so even if she underperforms, she will always be back with new music and one day she will be on top or near the top again.

I don't believe there's anything for us to worry about, tbh.  After the praise she received for her Oscars performance and the C2C tour with Tony Bennett, Gaga will definitely slay us with her new music given that she's in such a good and happy place right now. 

[Bad Bromance 5,809]

No, say she releases two more mediocre albums (god forbid) then releases a killer one in 5 years, people aren't going to be like 'shoot she had those two ****ty albums so lets ignore this great one.'

 

Fortunately I think she's got everything set up to release a killer album. She's gotten praise from so many legendary artists, cemented her reputation as legitimately talented, even the media is on her side again which I never thought would happen. All she has to do is deliver some major bops and she is golden.

This right here!!!  I have no idea why everyone is so worried.  Do you really think the GP will pass up good music when Gaga releases it?  Um..... NO!!  Let's be serious here.  The media is finally on her side so I think she's in a really good spot now.  

[ryhanna 3,507]

Not really. I think that was Born This Way, and she 'made it.'

ARTPOP proved that her fan base is loyal and strong enough to support her even when she's not being viewed favourably by the public. She got a couple of decent sized hits out of that and a #1 album, despite some mis-steps and backlash. 

 

[Echo 327]

This thread is about commercial performance, not musical quality. Since tfm people have been saying things exactly what is in the op.

The fact is that every album is extremely important to an artist's success. There is no one make or break album.

Why did I get a RIP? Was something I said ridiculous? I have to extremely disagree on that. There are plenty of artists that have had make or break albums/moments. I could list them, but then I would just be rambling.

[boyerased 2,886]

It's not. She's in the point of her career that a flop or two won't hurt. It won't tarnish her legacy. A good album will always get her in a good place with the public even after consecutive flops. Like how Mariah had Emancipation after years of flopage. 

[VenusBlackStar 1,301]

For the pessimistic stans, LG5 probably is make or break.

 

For everyone else, I wouldn't say it is. If you look at the long term careers of HUGE artists who started way before Gaga did, record sales on albums, no matter how amazing they are, sometimes just don't match the sales of the break through records. And sometimes they just flop like David Bowie with his '80s and early '90s records that came after Let's Dance. But David Bowie is still a legend even with those sub par records because eventually he came back out with Outside, Heathen, The Next Day, etc.

It's a common cycle that occurs with many artists if you think about it, and as amazing as Gaga is it would be unrealistic to think that maybe she'll have something like that, too (maybe with ARTPOP as a lot of people like to claim), so if that's the case then maybe LG5 will be that COMING BACK TO SLAYYY record.

[Woolfsmck 2,763]

She has already made it. Everyone knows how incredibly talented she is, so she has made it. This is the "make or break" for her to be back on the same "level" in the pop music world. She is on a different level than current pop stars, but this will or won't put her on that level, also. Sorry if I didn't explain well.. this might help:

Icons: Gaga, Cher, Madonna, Britney, Mariah

Best Pop Stars: Katy, Ariana, T-Swizzle, 2008-2011 Gaga, possibly + 2015-future Gaga. 

 

I don't see how she would be brokeded if the next pop album didn't see well?

[WhoAskedOpinions 658]

I don't see how she would be brokeded if the next pop album didn't see well?

just she wouldn't be on the same level for pop music at the time... not as an overall artist.

[Woolfsmck 2,763]

just she wouldn't be on the same level for pop music at the time... not as an overall artist.

ok ... but she entered pop music as a smash hit artist.  Pretty tough to maintain that level.  I think that ARTPOP was better than its sales performance, but behind the scenes turmoil and her being overexposed hurt it.  

[Thomas P 18,479]

honestly when it comes to the gp I have no idea. They are a confusing bunch!!

[StrawberryBlond 14,820]

Gaga's already a solid icon, she doesn't have to worry about making or breaking. This kind of fear is reserved only for new artists whose second album flopped and the artists who flop that are only famous in their home country. Even if we're talking about making or breaking from a purely commercial standpoint, she's still fine as she didn't flop spectacularly enough to warrant a make or break record. Xtina is in a make or break situation which she is unlikely to recover from - she had 2 consecutive major flops and she's waiting too long to release her new one. Her last two albums have sold around 1.5 million combined and aside from her collabs with Maroon 5, Pitbull and A Great Big World, she has done nothing to bring her back from the brink and all these songs are guest features, not her own work. She also hasn't done very good promotion and hasn't toured since 2008. Gaga is far and away from that kind of situation. Her local and international fanbase is loyal and stable enough, C2C and her various promotional activities have proved fruitful and people will still pay to see her live. Now she's got a more supportive team behind her, she can put forth the era that ARTPOP was meant to be.

We've got to realise, unforeseen things happened that brought ARTPOP's sales down. The label deciding to change the second single, meaning that both choices weren't promoted to their full potential, the album pre-order forcing the sales of DWUW from any pre-order customers to not count towards the single's sales, the failure to produce a video for DWUW (the public was here for it, the reception it got and the views of the audio track prove that), the failure to do Australian promotion (cancelled because Gaga's management changed around the planned time and the schedule went out the window) and the app, well...even I don't know the full story about why that was consigned to the dustbin of history. I'm positive this mess won't occur this time. Interscope have no reason to mess up now as they've seen what happens when they get sloppy.