Look at yourself

[highlikegaga 9,107]

I've seen so many threads about Gaga "losing her spark" and while i know most of y'all are tired of them...i'd like to put another opinion and perspective to it.

Sometimes i like to track things that happened to me thanks to Gaga's career. (example: i was in the hospital, when Alejandro video came out; i was in this grade when this album came out; you know, those kinds of things)

So look at yourself. Who were you when Just Dance dropped? Who were you when she released The Fame? Who were your friends? What kind of emotional state were you in? What were you problems? Needs?

When Gaga came onto the scene i didn't have any friends. So her music was my friend. I was the weird outsider in my old school and the even weirest outsider in my new school. Maybe i was the punchline one too many times. And everyone always seemed to not get me. But i changed for the better. I had friends and lovers when i grew up a little. To the point i was going down bad roads and hanging out with bad people. So when Joanne came up i didn't really understand it. I sort of let it go by. I was listening to it, but not really hearing it. Until the end of 2017 when i had to go back to who i was and spend more time with my family. Then my father passed away and Joanne the single couldn't come at better time for me. In 2018 i hang out with new people, have a new job, some new hobbies. And somehow that album of her is fitting to MY toned down era. I've let the craziness in my life go for now. No more partying, drinking recklessly and hanging around with people who stripped down my integrity and creativity. And I'm healthier this way. If someone tells me to go back to my 2016-2017 version, because i was funnier, crazier, more interesting and social WITHOUT thinking about the way i was killing myself to be there for fake people - i'd give them the finger.

So why do you guys want Gaga to stay the same? You should be the same person you were in 2008 to demand her to be the same person she was in 2008.

To me Joanne is creative as hell. That pink hat is part of her era and upon seeing a pink cowboy hat EVERYONE thinks about Gaga. She's once again recognizable. She's once again making history and she's doing it on her terms. True little monsters have to be happy and proud of her and don't expect her to keep working herself to death.

Rant over.

[Batwings 12,885]

I'm the same age as Gaga. We were both born in 1986. So when I look at her career trajectory, I also look at my own life. I am not the same person I was when Just Dance came out. I am not the same person I was when Born This Way came out. So why do we expect Gaga to be the same person? She's growing and evolving in the same way we all do, and it's beautiful.

[Itsbrenda 2,983]

I was perfect when just dance dropped and I’m perfect now.

 

edit: sorry, I meant mess* and mess*

[Sakrai 4,759]

Sanity is always appreciated in this website. So thank you 

[Tan Fei 1,324]

Yes . Look at yourself before you judge others . and be kind to pple who were kind to you and dont judge you from the beginning . 

[Rat Boy 43,592]

30 minutes ago, ND4 said:

I was perfect when just dance dropped and I’m perfect now.

 

edit: sorry, I meant mess* and mess*

 

[DoremonLove 8,147]

I agree about what u sad about changing also would like to say which i didnt say in that messy thread creativity doesnt really mean meat dress or a vessel.  that amazing grammy performance with angel wings also thanks for this amazing post. 

[HiddenWeirdo 4,277]

thank god you took the time to write that!

Yesterday, I really read too many negative comments about her losing her sparkle because of not being the person she was years ago and it made me angry.

Sometimes I want to leave GGD because there are too many people in here that really ruin my enthusiasm. Too many people talking like 'professionals', saying what she should do better in her career regarding her creative and management decisions. Trying to change and wanting to treat her like a Barbie doll, like something they can take control of.

I remember when BTW came out and I wasn't on GGD. And I remember enjoying this record with the purest love for her creativity without reading any criticism about e.g. falling quickly off the #1 spot or not being appreciated enough by the public.

[Michaelandro 442]

I am just as creative as I was back in 2008

[Ariana Grindr 3,173]

Every album ironically fits every era of my life. I said it before (we all have) and I’ll say it again, her music truly saved my life and every single album has comforted me from what I was going through, whether it was being a reckless party monster to wanting the fame, to accepting and loving myself for who i am, to my stripped down self, GAGAs music has always been the defining playlist of my life

 

I really hope she gets better soon. Se will be in my prayers.

 

[ryanripley 86,575]

same here! thats why joanne is my favourite! 

[HiddenWeirdo 4,277]

29 minutes ago, ECORONA said:

Every album ironically fits every era of my life. I said it before (we all have) and I’ll say it again, her music truly saved my life and every single album has comforted me from what I was going through, whether it was being a reckless party monster to wanting the fame, to accepting and loving myself for who i am, to my stripped down self, GAGAs music has always been the defining playlist of my life

 

I really hope she gets better soon. Se will be in my prayers.

 

Beautifully said. That's exactly how I feel about her music 

[Sunday 2,183]

I want to witness her growth as I grow up as a person. Its one hell of a nostalgic ride whenever I try to see her and myself and how we both were doing during the past eras. Its probably the reason why she's still on my playlist for 8 years. I guess I'm too old to be even considered as a "stan" but she and her music saved me in different ways so in which case, she'll always have my emotional support from the sidelines as long as I'm still breathing.

[lauramonster 267]

Plus... I want to add that you don't have to love EVERYTHING that an artist release... I love Björk so much and I can't stand some of her albums  I love another ones, it's fine. Other people will apreciate the ones I didn't like. 

Same with Gaga. Or Beyoncé... I love Lemonade, my friends who where more into Beyoncé's pop records can't stand it. It's fine... they grow up, so we are.

[Glamourpuss 29,062]

I often have to take a moment to remind myself how gaga has helped shape me as the person I am today. Sometimes I do get critical of her and it's not fair to her. She's helped me more than she could ever know.