Gaga moments that stir bad memories?

[TEANUS 13,198]

The ARTPOP breakdown/ blackout and G.U.Y. release was during my parent’s divorce, it was an escape but it was still all so tragic that she broke down at the same time at my home life did...

[PxA limited 741]

Circa ARTPOP release was a really bad and depressive time of my life. And it was also a dark November, afterwards December. ☹️☹️

[Ronk 14,510]

Her broken hip, her fibro and the pain she must endure, the lost dogs incident, the revelation of her PTSD from bullying and rape, her manager leaving at the worst time at the start of the ARTPOP era.  I still have bad memories of all those terrible things.

[Reject False Icons 4,714]

When the perfect illusion video was released, my crush made fun of me around that time and I was so pissed and humiliated, it was a freeing song but at the same time I was so hurt  

[Chris Evans 8,917]

period in my life around when the free woman demo leaked

i still can't listen to it plus a few tiktok sounds from last year that just put me in a bad place

[Greg August 143]

i was very sick during all the "AHS: Hotel" era, i remember watching the episodes and vomiting in the commercials 

[Oriane 20,052]

My mom and I were evicted from our apartment the day Five Foot Two was released. I remember watching it in the evening when I was at my dad's place 

Stupid Love got leaked when I was dealing with unrequited love (to quote the words from someone on the previous page, I thought it was beautifully said). It got leaked a few days after I happened to see the person. I also remember that I had a cold at that moment and had a kind of a brain fog, which made the listening experience weirder. Then the music video was released one day before I saw the person again.

It's already one of my least favorite songs from her, but having this song associated with that made it worse. I can't stand hearing this song.

[The Fame Monster 3,992]

In 2011, when I was 15 years old, I had my very first date with a guy who was a year older than me. He lived in another town, so my parents agreed to take me there. My parents drove me near to the guy’s home and I think we were a bit too early there. While we were waiting the right time, my parents went to a near supermarket while I was staying at the car. I had never been that nervous in my life. My hands were shaking while I was thinking that within 10 to 15 minutes, I would finally meet that guy who I had been talking via Facebook for a while. I had already a big crush towards him. While I was in the car, I was listening to Born This Way (the song) over and over again and trying to really get that confidence in me. After the waiting, the guy came to the car, met my parents and me and the guy went to his home.

I was still quite nervous throughout the date, and I was actually very disappointed that we didn’t have fun together. In fact, it was quite awkward the whole time. I remember that we talked about Born This Way (the album) and watched the Judas music video together. I remember that he thought it was one of his favourite songs from the album along with Bloody Mary. He also thought that most songs of the album were fillers and that was quite disappointing to hear since I loved the whole album. We also watched Brokeback Mountain and were quiet the whole time (do you know how long that movie is!?) I was supposed to stay the night there, but because I was so miserable, I made an excuse to leave, and my parents came to get me. I was so sad. And my parents saw that but I didn’t want to talk about it. Again, the only way to make me feel better was by listening to Born This Way. 

When I think about this now, it’s really amusing to me. I wish my very first date would have been more magical though. 

I still listen to Born This Way a lot, especially the Country Road Version. It’s such a good song and I’ve gone through a lot by listening to it. But this was like the very first memory with the song that I will always remember.
 

[LittleMonster20 9,788]

When she canceled the JWT in Rock In Rio and was hospitalized for it and postponed the European date and mine was only 2 weeks away. I already had a rough day at school that day and I was really looking forward to the show so I was pretty upset that day. Thankfully I still got to attend 2 months later though, but that wasn’t the case for everyone sadly.

However knowing what went down on that day with Gaga’s fibromyalgia and psychotic break I understand now and I had a great time at the show, so I’m over that. But I think that was upsetting for the entire fanbase.

[Pa1nbow 14]

5 hours ago, Monsterabriel said:

Her hip breaking was really tragic and the recent dog incident was heartbreaking,that stuff made me  feel depressed.

Her hip breaking was tragic. But let me tell you a story of how music, art, and tragedy can sometimes have this wonderful butterfly effect.

Myself and my husband were dancing in the monster pit that fateful night she hurt her hip in Montreal. To be honest, we were so busy having fun, and Gaga is such a great performer we didn’t know anything was off. We only knew something was off when it took her a while to return for her encore. Someone in the pit that night passed around gauze hats in mint for us all to wear for when she  returned to sing Marry the Night, which she did, never letting on how much pain she must have been in.

The next morning after the show, my husband and I see online that she was injured and was cancelling shows. She tweeted and said something along the lines of “I just wanted to be strong for everyone , and I don’t wanna let anyone down, but I’ve been hiding an injury and need to help myself”. This hit me harder than anything ever had in my whole life. After finding out she was injured the visual of us Monsters in surgical hats while she was performing for us in terrible pain really hit me hard.

The truth was that I was also dancing that night hiding my own “injury”. I was too afraid to admit it but I had been feeling sick and weak for a long time. I was afraid of what would happen if I saw a doctor. I was afraid of letting my friends and family get scared. I just didn’t wanna let people down. Deep down I knew something was very wrong but was in denial.

Hearing Gaga have the confidence to admit she was not invincible , and needed take care of herself made me finally brave enough to see a doctor. Boy I’m glad I did. Because I had stage 2 testiclular seminoma cancer and I caught it early.

And that’s the beautiful butterfly effect of art and music. I’m not gonna say “Lady Gaga saved my life”. Because I wanna give myself credit for all the hard work I did to be Cancer free today. But I’m not so sure I would ever have seen a doctor and be alive today if not for that one show, that one night of music and art, along with her bravery to confront her own injury the next day. 
 

Needless to say I’m a fan forever. 

[Defmix100 6,083]

BTW album released around the time I was going through a breakup so for a long time I couldn't really listen to it happily

I had a bad panic attack an hour before seeing the C2C tour

I lost about $1000 when JWT was postponed and then cancelled (I was also getting no work so it took a long time to make that back), obviously that's my fault though and we know why Gaga had to cancel

[Stone S 1,133]

I broke my arm the day that "Hair" was released. that's all I can think of when I hear the song lol. not a bad memory though, just a silly one

 

im sorry to hear everyones bad experiences though, my heart goes out to all of you. Ive been there many times before trust me, I understand and you're not alone

[Tinnitus15 50,690]

Well this year with her birthday...I have Covid and yesterday I was not feeling okay so I will definitely remember her 35 birthday with this

[LilyLark 9,957]

9 minutes ago, Tinnitus15 said:

Well this year with her birthday...I have Covid and yesterday I was not feeling okay so I will definitely remember her 35 birthday with this

Oh no, I hope you have a speedy recovery!

[LilyLark 9,957]

It's a weird mix of a memory that is simultaneously bad and good. I associate Heavy Metal Lover and Robyn's Dancing on My Own with the time I got mugged outside a bar (they were blasting the songs on the outdoor area, which I was only like 10-15 feet from)...which sucks because I love the songs...but it's also sort of good because I was in shock and listening to the music brought me back to the present and made me realize it could have been so much worse than just losing my wallet & phone.