Simulation concept

[Sneaky Oliver 22,062]

Hi guys! I just watched the whole show again on YouTube and I could finally figure out the storyline for the show and it’s an amazing concept that some fans should not ignore! 

Once you doubt yourself/your skills/talent and stop listening to your inner voice, you become sort of a prisoner to the Simulation. I’d describe it as a state of mind or consciousness instead of a “place”. 

Thats when Enigma comes. Enigma is the representation of your insecurities but it can guide you and help you get out of Simulation! 

This “state of mind” simulates your future because by envisioning yourself in the future you may rediscover your strength, your dreams, your goals. When Gaga finds out she’s stuck at Simulation, she decides that she would become a famous artist again, cause that’s her ultimate goal anyways even though Enigma (PetGa) warns her about fame being way more dangerous in the future. 

Then Enigma leads her through her struggles (gives her the artificial intelligence and technology that it takes to escape the Simulation). As Enigma said, only we can heal ourselves! Once Gaga figures this out she becomes powerful again and she’s finally free!

sorry for the long text!  I hope it makes some fans appreciate the show more! 

[ARTPOPRS 1,431]

Could she have envisioned her future with new music?

 

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Lol I get it now though, thanks for the explanation.

 

[Sneaky Oliver 22,062]

9 minutes ago, ARTPOPRS said:

Could she have envisioned her future with new music?

 

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Lol I get it now though, thanks for the explanation.

 

I think there’s room for new songs! She may replace some of the current songs like GH and include new songs and other fan favorites as well 

[Kattys 4,319]

Muse is shaking... They could do a collab for once pls 

[Lee Ng 1,490]

Yet Perfect Illusion couldn't even make it to an interlude 

OT: Yes I love the storyline ! I just hope she would take off the wig (while still keeping that The Fame T-shirt of course lol) in Shallow cause Petga told Gaga something between " You have to go back to the Earth and told them what happened in Simulation". RegularGa strikes through 

[SharkmanthaC 113,958]

Thank you for this! As I'm watching more videos this morning, it makes more sense. I knew as much time and money that was poured into this show, the concept wasn't such a mess as others are saying.

[Sestri Levante 1,047]

I don't know why some people are ignoring the "plot"  It makes the whole show come together  

[TheSlash 14,539]

I thought about the plot the whole day like  . Now it's becoming clearer, ty sis    

[Guest Adarsh]

I'd like to take countless printouts of this and force feed it to the little critics.

[V e n u s 299]

i have a feeling one of LG6's main themes is going to be mental health.

AND..

I. AM. HERE. FOR. IT.

[Phaye Monster 8,731]

Thanks for explaining this! I was pretty confused by it all, understanding it just makes the show so much more impressive 

[Joshie S 6,058]

Yep this is a great way to look at it.

She's also FINALLY letting us monsters in and cryptically explaining what went on during the ARTPOP era, which she touched on in Joanne, but this story is literally entirely about ARTPOP.

Fans are always quick to judge, but I'm so happy she's able to be free now

[crisTEAne 21,059]

yeah, my reading is kinda similar. here it goes schematically: 

— "original" gaga = stefani
— wants to be a star
— becomes a star but loses her soul/essence/selfsameness/whatever-you-wanna-call-it 
— originalGa is lost in the world that she herself created for herself = the lady gaga simulation 
— within the simulation, she's wearing her superhero cape, she's strong (no fibro stuff), but she's simply copying/simulating herself based on the mix of her former perception of herself and the gp's perception of who lady gaga was/is/supposed to be
— nota bene: simulation, the world functioning as an endless hall of mirrors and images, is a concept by baudrillard, a postmodern french philosopher, and he basically defines simulacrum as representation without an origin(al), a copy that has no referent (to use proper terminology, it's like a constantly shifting signifier that is never complete, never becomes a sing, because it can never refer to a signified, only to another signifier, which, in turn, refers to another signifier ad infinitum)
— within herself, enigma functions as some sort of "pure" consciousness/voice that can guide her back to her "original" self (this is the part that goes against everything postmodern and back to everything humanistic/romantic/modern)
— post-BTW during the show, lady gaga is off the deep end, dives in(to the hall of fame), and finds herself yet again in and with the help of her fans, meaning that some sort of "original" subjectivity and "authenticity" are restored

or something like this. but, if i wanted to, i could tear the whole concept apart and simply point out that she can look for her "original"/"authentic" self however hard she wants, she'll never feel like her "old" self again because it never really existed in the first place, it was always-already a misrecognized ideal-self/image/imago (cf. the lacanian mirror stage, if some of you are interested in theories on self-perception).

but, of course, we humans are story-telling beings, as margaret atwood put it, and we are constantly in need of a seemingly coherent narrative with which we can make sense of ourselves and of the things around us. it gives us the illusion of agency. and, i think, agency (being in control of her self, of her image, and, ultimately, of who lady gaga was/is/supposed to be) is precisely what gaga (stefani?) has been looking for ever since her career took off. 

so i understand that she wants to believe that she can simply get out of that simulated space that she herself created and that it feels comforting that whenever she feels lost, the only thing she has to do is listen to her inner voice, but it's really just the romantic/modernist vision of selfsameness. she's the par excellence postmodern pop star, she should know that the space of her origins in which her authenticity is supposedly there, in which her "truth" is assumed, is exactly that: an assumed space that was always-already empty but never ceases to give the illusion that there is something there. the working of that space is simulation itself. subjectivity itself is a simulation. and i think she really does know this, it's just not easy to admit it and, simultaneously (pun intended) remain sane. but that's what her mental health team is for, so she should be fine. 

until the next spectacle, that is. 

[Sneaky Oliver 22,062]

@T E A I’m seriously printing this. You are amazing!! This concept is just so smart I think not even Gaga herself knows how great it is. I mean we could write essays and books about it!

[crisTEAne 21,059]

43 minutes ago, Sneaky Oliver said:

@T E A I’m seriously printing this. You are amazing!! This concept is just so smart I think not even Gaga herself knows how great it is. I mean we could write essays and books about it!

i'm so happy that you like it, but i can't take full credit for it. it's a mix of 

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french theorists are the best, imo.