How did you 'survive' ARTPOP?

[Twitter 14]

2013 was definitely a rough year for Gaga and the fanbase. Everyone in the fanbase was defensive to the public for saying anything about Gaga. 

Each artist experiences eras like these. I wasn’t worried about Gaga career cause I knew she’ll rise again. I was more worried about her mental health at that time. Glad she didn’t have a Britney 2.0 

[Gagaism 12,260]

I felt bad for her sometimes because I hate when someone drag or try to put her down but I did survive listening to that, bop after bop, especially APPLAUSE which I LOVE. 

I love the album, the looks and all about the era, even all the bad things we know she had experienced on that time. 

I’m so proud because she came like a phoenix after all, that’s everything.

I JUST LOVE THIS WOMAN! 

[KatieJudasGaga4 67,907]

Well, I didn't like "Applause" back then, even when I was a mega fan, so idk. (Lovee it now) Loved DWUW and mixed with G.U.Y.......But, the worst song of her career came and you guys know what it is. 

[MEM 3,114]

I probably wasn’t the best LM at that time, I remember being into a bunch of different artists and not stanning Gaga hard enough. I bought the ARTPOP the day it come out, but I just kind of played it in the background instead of really sitting down and absorbing it. It was kind of good to be distracted by first year of college, because I missed a lot of the backlash (all I remember is the huge war between Applause and Roar lmao, Roar is great but it’s a ripoff of Brave by Sara Bareilles (and I stan Sara more than Katy tbh), so Applause was my pick.)

I think the question is more so, how did Gaga survive? I definitely thank Tony for a huge part of it, for cementing her talent in another genre and bringing her back to her roots. The 4th album curse really exists. The world wasn’t ready for ARTPOP and sadly, I don’t think it will ever be. But I always have faith in Gaga

[robboadam 2,360]

Lived my life

[rumours 45,521]

Years of therapy and an industrial-grade ointment.

[Magneto 13,491]

It was my favorite era and I never cared for the gp's perception of her tbh

[HorusRa2 5,005]

I defended my girl through it all. 😭😭

ATRL was a rough place to be back then. 

Then I kind of quit paying attention to Gaga related stuff online until Joanne. 😅

[crackpoppodcast 1,546]

I replayed Venus on repeat for twenty five years and imagined the video that could've been. I was actually also very inspired artistically and creatively, so I was more focused on myself and my art than Gaga and the charts at this point of my life. What an era!

[wahkeenasitka 1,995]

All I remember is downloading the leaked version of ARTPOP, having multiple orgasms while listening to G.U.Y. and Aura, and basically completely dying and losing my mind when the G.U.Y. video finally came out. (which I probably watched 15 times in the first day that it was released.)

[FGGrayson 9,670]

  Tbh is still the album i listen the most with BTW so it wasnt that hard since i played the album a lot and just enjoyed af

  I love to be messy in forums so i was having fun af always fighting, defending Gagz when it wasnt cool to stan her, there are forums with places that are not moderated and u can fight and being messy, so those were golden times for me, iconic

  The GP irl here just pretended she didnt exist so it was like whatever, never heard a hater or praise

 

  And we formed the ARTPOP Army and made a list with the most iconic moments of the era so...

 

[FGGrayson 9,670]

56 minutes ago, HorusRa2 said:

I defended my girl through it all. 😭😭

ATRL was a rough place to be back then.

All the monsters were hiding lmfao  and a lot bandwagon and moved to Katy Perry and Madonna, mess

It was savage af

[FGGrayson 9,670]

1 hour ago, Magneto said:

It was my favorite era and I never cared for the gp's perception of her tbh

i knew u would be here king

[djBuffoon 12,174]

That was a pretty annoying time, as I loved the album (still do) and appreciated it as a work of joyous, wild, eclectic pop music, but everyone kept shitting on it.

And that includes not only critics, who refused to give the album any of its due credit, but also fans, who would cite its “underperformance” as some kind of proof of inadequacy, as if artistic worth can be determined by numbers. 

But I got through it by just enjoying the music, enjoying the aesthetics and videos, and playing it for friends who also ended up loving it and didn’t care how much it did or didn’t sell. 

[Murph Masters 10]

ARTPOP was my ****. Didn't give a **** about the opinions then and still don't. The iTunes Festival performance was awesome and daring in a big way. The album was adrenaline filled and so was my life, at that moment. I was pumped up listening to that album at a time when I needed it. I was living in a house with a bunch of young, 20-somethings, drag queens, tattooed, crazy people that all loved to have a good time and dance our asses off. Then going to the shows... ****. The ArtRave was fun as ****. There was NO ONE sitting down for any part of that show. I went twice, once in the pit in Connecticut and again in the seats in Boston, and both time were ****ing awesome. My friends and I had a damn blow out on the way home and I didn't get home until the ass crack of dawn and then had to be to work. It was actually kind of a life changing experience. During her speech she talked about how there were other people on tour besides just her - sound guys, guitarists, dancers - and how if you want to do something just do it (her pretty normal speech) and it was what I needed to hear at the moment. The energy was palpable. A few weeks after the second show I had quit my job and enrolled in school. It really started a whole series of events for me! Now I have a Bachelors in Music Production and my life has gone completely in the shitter, but I'm ****ing out here trying - and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the ARTPOP era. I have no idea how my career will unfold, but I feel confident that I will have one. Basically, to this day that era is a reminder of a time me and all my friends painted our faces and danced and laughed and partied our asses off. I MISS IT and **** all the haters.