What happened to Gaga's humor?

[sipthistea 21,099]

Another day, another complain about silly stuff like her sense of humor or her face looking weird. 

[Brian Ryan 1,468]

Spice Girl in this bitch!

[Kayla 7,595]

22 hours ago, ZombieAphrodite said:

This is what I'm talking about. Why so serious? What is she trying to prove? It just depresses me. 

She ended a longterm relationship with a man she was engaged to.
She's lived away from her family and friends for years as her little sister was growing up. (As someone who's done this and still is, that wears on you tremendously) 
She's been under pressure to perform for people for almost a decade- to look perfect, be perfect, and do everything just right.
In an interview she mentioned how she and Taylor had lost multiple friends over the recent years (I think it was the Stern interview?), and was meaning they died.
You don't know what is going on in her personal life. She's felt detached from people for a while now, I personally think she was struggling with her self expression for a while, etc. etc.

You ask "Why so serious? What is she trying to prove?" like you know enough about her to decide what her emotions should be. Maybe instead of worrying about how Gaga is "ruining her image" you could worry about why on earth she's struggling the way she is. 

Keep in mind she's in the same industry that has pushed people to move out of the country to get away, put people in mental hospitals, and churns out a lot of addiction issues and a scary amount of suicides. 

[Kayla 7,595]

22 hours ago, MonsterPaws said:

I noticed the change in her personality as well  I think it might have been depression or just the amount of sh*t she went through.

This is something I found in my notes app. I don't remember writing it but it hurt to read it when I found it a few months ago:

"I can't pretend to be happy anymore. I feel different. I know I've been dealing with this **** for months if not for years now, but somehow it's different today. Just yesterday the temper I used to control so well is breaking through. My head and heart feel crowded. I'm not laughing the way I used to. I'm not smiling the way I used to.I can't feel anything. I wrote about how my disgusting façade will eventually tear itself down. I just didn't think it would be this soon."

I don't really feel this way anymore though; my humour is sort of coming back so that's good I guess, and I think Gaga might go through the same thing. But only she knows.

This post gives me a lot of hope. I've felt like I lost my spark over the years after going through a lot of **** and have worried I would never be able to come back to the things I loved about myself before it all. Seeing you're getting your humor back after what you wrote months ago is inspiring.

And I hope Gaga can do this too. She always seems to be "overcoming" something, but I hope very soon she REALLY overcomes her troubles and can feel as confident as she seemed so many years ago. 

 

5 hours ago, StrawberryBlond said:

Thing is, the public wanted her to be more serious and change her music. They were saying that they were sick of her usual dance pop songs and asked her to give us something different and take a real risk. They also wanted her to ditch the costumes and wigs and crazy make up and show us who she really is. They wanted her to be real, basically. So, she gave them what they wanted. The result? Mixed reception, average sales, no big hit singles, accusations of her new image and sound being forced and pretentious. F**k the GP.

I despise the concept of 'just can't win.' It's the public who need to start being consistent with what they want. It annoys me that the likes of Taylor and Beyonce can go off in whatever musical direction, artistic direction and image that they want and they get praised for it by critics and public alike, but Gaga does it and she gets slammed and her intentions behind it all get doubted. Why is Gaga getting so unnecessarily picked on? It's so unfair. It's part of the reason why I hold so much against the likes of Taylor and Beyonce - they have everything Gaga deserves but is, for some reason, disallowed.

It's because Gaga is more controversial and genuinely rooted in the art of it all. Taylor and Beyonce are businesswomen with musical talent - first and foremost, they market themselves. They take "risks" that are known to be well-received and respected. I mean, Taylor going from Country-Pop to Pop and started wearing crop-tops? She got praise for that because nothing about it was actually a risk. 

Gaga deserves that respect, but the reason she doesn't get it from the GP is because what GAGA does is makes something she believes in and THEN tries to market it, while these other people figure out what to market then try to make it something they believe in. 

[PeterPan 0]

Everyone finds something to complain about everyday

[Manul 7,377]

She is in pain. Pretty obvious.

I mean you can see it in her eyes. She's struggling so hard with how she feels and how she is expected too. I just wish I could hug her,

[StrawberryBlond 14,874]

20 hours ago, Kayla said:

It's because Gaga is more controversial and genuinely rooted in the art of it all. Taylor and Beyonce are businesswomen with musical talent - first and foremost, they market themselves. They take "risks" that are known to be well-received and respected. I mean, Taylor going from Country-Pop to Pop and started wearing crop-tops? She got praise for that because nothing about it was actually a risk. 

Gaga deserves that respect, but the reason she doesn't get it from the GP is because what GAGA does is makes something she believes in and THEN tries to market it, while these other people figure out what to market then try to make it something they believe in. 

That's a good way of looking at it and makes me feel a bit better. They do indeed take lucrative risks. There's risky "for you" and then there's risky "in general." Going pop is definitely not a risk by any means, especially today. But going pop when you were so rooted in country with a solid fanbase was risky for Taylor's standards in particular...but she was always country pop anyway. Some people always considered her pop to begin with.

'Trying to market something and then try to make it something they believe in' is a great phrase. It's not really working like a real artist. They may be artists in the technical sense, but I've definitely always thought of them as businesswomen first and foremost. Taylor, especially. Ever since her success with Fearless, she's been all about trying to appeal to the public more and more. I think the fact that she releases an album ever 2 years in October/November is proof of how she sees making music as more of a chore, something that just needs to be done to be cranked out at a specific time, with a tour starting and ending at a specific time planned in advance. We'll see how she is after a longer break this time and whether it'll impact on her music.

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On 11/30/2016 at 6:55 PM, Kayla said:

She ended a longterm relationship with a man she was engaged to.
She's lived away from her family and friends for years as her little sister was growing up. (As someone who's done this and still is, that wears on you tremendously) 
She's been under pressure to perform for people for almost a decade- to look perfect, be perfect, and do everything just right.
In an interview she mentioned how she and Taylor had lost multiple friends over the recent years (I think it was the Stern interview?), and was meaning they died.
You don't know what is going on in her personal life. She's felt detached from people for a while now, I personally think she was struggling with her self expression for a while, etc. etc.

You ask "Why so serious? What is she trying to prove?" like you know enough about her to decide what her emotions should be. Maybe instead of worrying about how Gaga is "ruining her image" you could worry about why on earth she's struggling the way she is. 

Keep in mind she's in the same industry that has pushed people to move out of the country to get away, put people in mental hospitals, and churns out a lot of addiction issues and a scary amount of suicides. 

In addition to also leaving marks of physical, psychological, and sexual abuse. Couldn't agree with this assessment more. 

I'm starting to actually get a little happy that finally her fanbase is starting to get streamlined with fans who understand and believe in her wholeheartedly. Not turn away when she releases music with melodies they don't like, or her working with producers they don't want, or, in this case, her "not laughing as much." If Gaga or anyone for that matte remained the same human being in this business for 8 years then they're either drugged up or just fake. And unfortunately for some other artists, that is exactly the case.