So people are already abbreviating Perfect Illusion to PI. Instantly I started reading it as Pi (/paɪ/) and it got me thinking. According to Wikipedia: If you take a look at Gaga's website, no matter how long you keep scrolling down, the message just keeps on coming again and again with never the same repeating color pattern. Also, as we know, the value of pi is commonly approximated as 3.14159. Applause was released on August 12, 2013, three years ago. Maybe the value of pi c