Billboard: Gaga is the must see performer in all of pop

[The Senate 359]

The tea is strong with this review 

[Wixson 5,004]

32 minutes ago, The Fame Monster said:

Am I the only one who loves how the media just cannot forget Gaga's arriving in the egg at the Grammy Awards or that she was wearing a meat dress at VMA's? 

I find it annoying. Yes, the meat dress is one of those legendary moments in pop culture and I adore it, but does every ****ing article - doesn't matter what it's about, has to start by mentioning she's worn a dress made of meat? 60% of them are mentioning it for all the wrong reasons. That's the part that annoys me.

[bumblebee 2,528]

I am not sure why they consider 500,000 pure copies of Joanne sold a declining sales number. Surely, she relied on Super Bowl to get over that mark, but I think selling half a million pure copies in the age of streaming is rather cool.

As for the radio support, they served the tea. None of her past three singles managed to reach top ten on pop radio, but it appears Million Reasons has made quite a lot of buzz. 

Gaga is in the unique stage of her career now when she has a legacy to back her (Billboard themselves even called her a legacy artist), and yet she may always surprise us with a song like Million Reasons that managed to become a solid part of her discography. She is already taken as a legend by a large part of the general audience, yet her media presence makes her belong to the contemporaries as well. 

So she is like double hot. She has a collection of unmistakably her  hits (like about nine songs), and at the same time she is all over the Oscars, Grammys and Coachellas.  And her old stuff is so good that people don't mind going to her tour based on her current material. 

 

[Smother Em Eh 7,128]

I mean he's not wrong is he?  

[GagaMyBlood95 9,915]

1 hour ago, Alexander Levi said:

*ahem* kety *ahem*

One example, yes 

[chiuga 1,970]

Those with a good pair of eyes and ears could tell from day 1 that she's a rock star not just your usual pop star so I'm not surprised her touring power is comparable to the rocK legends

[Mirages 20,259]

Even my non-stan friends and my parents wanna see her, because some of their friends told them they went to see her and she was amaze-balls 

[ProdigyARTPOP 3,909]

Omg at the part where the set was post apocalyptic  

[Ronk 14,762]

So glad I got a ticket.  Anyone who can make it to a venue can get a ticket.  Re-sellers keep adding seats.  Not-so-subtle hint:  Just go!

[sipthistea 21,099]

What did we do to deserve this legend? 

[chromattica 382]

5 hours ago, Bradley said:

Meanwhile we have artists like Bebe Rexha, Alessia Cara, Daddy Yankee topping the charts... do they even tour?

[Ziggy 11,838]

5 hours ago, Alexander Levi said:

No, she was frustrated with something (probably a writers block type of moment) and she was saying "yeah yeah I know it needs to be the next Uptown Funk"

It doesn't mean she was writing it to be a hit.

Though she did tell Howard Stern it was that and she wanted it as a single. So I think she was at least rooting for it to be a hit.

[Ziggy 11,838]

5 hours ago, bumblebee said:

I am not sure why they consider 500,000 pure copies of Joanne sold a declining sales number. Surely, she relied on Super Bowl to get over that mark, but I think selling half a million pure copies in the age of streaming is rather cool.

As for the radio support, they served the tea. None of her past three singles managed to reach top ten on pop radio, but it appears Million Reasons has made quite a lot of buzz. 

Gaga is in the unique stage of her career now when she has a legacy to back her (Billboard themselves even called her a legacy artist), and yet she may always surprise us with a song like Million Reasons that managed to become a solid part of her discography. She is already taken as a legend by a large part of the general audience, yet her media presence makes her belong to the contemporaries as well. 

So she is like double hot. She has a collection of unmistakably her  hits (like about nine songs), and at the same time she is all over the Oscars, Grammys and Coachellas.  And her old stuff is so good that people don't mind going to her tour based on her current material. 

 

I agree. I was at Chicago yesterday and people who were there for the hits went WILD for John Wayne and CTM. She's just a fantastic performer and it sells people right then and there. People know she'll put on a good show so I don't know if having a steady stream of #1s really matters anymore. Her hits are *so* well known that they can pull.

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10 hours ago, Ziggy said:

I agree. I was at Chicago yesterday and people who were there for the hits went WILD for John Wayne and CTM. She's just a fantastic performer and it sells people right then and there. People know she'll put on a good show so I don't know if having a steady stream of #1s really matters anymore. Her hits are *so* well known that they can pull.

It's great to hear the Chicago show was so wild! How can people not be snatched by John Wayne performance to be honest?