Lady Gaga sends message to fans, confirms Chromatica Ball Film

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6 hours ago, Ziggy said:

Idk if you know what unserious means colloquially bc these people are being quite serious lmao like unserious means they don’t take anything seriously.

but to the point, I think it’s more that gay icons ought to rally visibly in times of danger. If that isn’t happening people will wonder why or why not. To brush it off as a “yay gay” post tells me you probably don’t feel a tremendous amount of threat rn (just speculating from the tone), which is great! Really. But others are definitely not so secure rn. They are getting harassed and having people talking about exterminating them on public platforms. knowing that there are people in the broader culture actively *now* speaking up for them instead of against from their positions of power is a huge deal. It’s made impact before, it can again. Gaga has influence and people know that. It’s not really a matter of her not “owing” someone something, a weirdly American transactional idea lmao it’s that she has power and influence and has flexed it before and let others know that they can feel safe bc she is out publicly stumping. Maybe it sounds weird, but there is some good that can come from talking about the good you’re doing, contrary to popular belief.

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The comments online lately have been so bitter. She is a work horse, she always has something cooking for us. I'm glad she was able to express that while putting up boundaries around her personal life  

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2 hours ago, Yaaaas Gaga said:

I find it embarrassing that Gaga even had to make this post in the first place. She’s 37 years old now, not 23, so if she decides to take some time away from the limelight to focus on herself is that really such a crime.

There’s no doubt in my mind that her team monitor the comments on GGD and have obviously seen the (rather unfair and unreasonable) backlash she has been receiving lately which has prompted Gaga to make this post. I can’t imagine how it must feel for her to know that her own fan base is attacking her, and after everything she has done for the community throughout her career.

Hopefully Gaga’s post will silence the hateful fans for a short period (until they find something else to complain about).

My advice is people need to stop relying on others for happiness, it is something to be found within!

Let's talk about the beginning part because to me it seems like some of y'all wanna twist some of the events that happened on the forum. I don't even remember a single person saying that she doesn't interact with her fans or wanting to know personal things about her. People were partially upset over the fact that she was only posting brand deals/Haus Labs. Which makes sense, because I'm following Lady Gaga. Not Haus Labs, not Nurtec, not Dom Perignon, or Tudor. I follow her to see her artistic projects, not another ad on a platform that already tries to sell me enough. I can understand that she does business ventures and gets sponsorships because of the changed landscape of the music industry, but 5/9 of her most recent posts BEFORE Nurtec were her selling us products. Or 8/12 if you wanna include the Dom Perignon stuff (although the pictures are beautiful and I think she deserves some credit for them). Also, people were upset that she was peddling a product from a industry that's very responsible for the classism and division that exists today. 

1 hour ago, Sunny said:

And when the political climate surrounding LGBTQ+ rights is the worst in America in decades, she decided to stay completely silent this year. Not to mention that I don't remember the last time she did something that big to support the cause, and preaching about love and kindness does not count. It's okay though, she can shill for Joe Biden, pharhma ads and Haus Labs, but when people want her to stand by her previous words it's rude. 

And no, I want her to do way more than a tweet. But she can't even do that.

I remember the last time she did something for pride, it was on tour. Actually said some things in between songs that had some of the crowds walk out. Because believe it or not she sells tickets to the GP too. 

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1 hour ago, Sunny said:

As a celebrity who is the self-proclaimed "Queen of the Gays"

Huh? When did she proclaim that?

1 hour ago, Sunny said:

it is her job to speak on LGBTQ+ rights

It is not her job to speak on anything.

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5 hours ago, Sunny said:

And when the political climate surrounding LGBTQ+ rights is the worst in America in decades, she decided to stay completely silent this year. Not to mention that I don't remember the last time she did something that big to support the cause, and preaching about love and kindness does not count. It's okay though, she can shill for Joe Biden, pharhma ads and Haus Labs, but when people want her to stand by her previous words it's rude. 

And no, I want her to do way more than a tweet. But she can't even do that.

Please visit the BTW foundation social medias I beg  they have been posting a lot of information for weeks and even having a donation thing

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Bullying works 

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3 hours ago, Mother of Puppies said:

I think many of us who did criticise the Nurtec ad also called out the few ass**** who called her a sellout and that she "betrayed" the LGBTQ+ community and all that dumb ****.

People need to stop throwing all of the people who simply didn't like the ad and the way her socials were being run into a pot with the other "haters". There's a difference. There were only a handful of people being rude - most on here simply stated they were being disappointed and that was an accumulation of many things - and it's ok to adress this while still loving this woman.

I'm sure you all sometimes criticise or call out your friends/family members when something doesn't sit right with you, right? You do that because you care - it's what humans do - it's communication. And again, I'm only talking about the people who did that in a respectful way - not the idiots who called her things and that she doesn't care and all that bs.

The problem is how people choose their words, that's is the thing I most hate about social media, the deliberate nastiness and cynism, provocation, etc. I didn't see the thread, I was oblivious to the the drama until her post. But I can imagine that some people were deliberately nasty cause I saw it other times. You, other users I already memorized are cordial, express what you think be it criticism, whatever without rudeness, provocation etc. That's why discussing in social media turns a toilet in two seconds. I can't understand why people don't talk on social media like they do normally and in person, that's what do. You talking among stranger why the hell the nastiness, you should even be more careful. 

Anyways that's another talk lol. That's my big pet peeve.

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it's sad that it came down to this but it also had to be done in a sense cause the situation was getting out of hand.

unlike everyone who surrounds her professionally she is fully aware that her fans love her and I genuinely believe she loves us back

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31 minutes ago, Admin said:

Huh? When did she proclaim that?

It is not her job to speak on anything.

Literally all of her career. And then if she doesn't want to speak on anything (but she can promote other stuff) she's not an ally at all. Sad to see her become a hollow shell of her former self

[Leoooo 2,284]

An emotional read. It warmed my heart to hear from her in such a personal way and you could feel something important in the words she was using. Regardless of what brought her to write it, the collective relief she has given some fans will surely bring her some of her own. Massive thanks to the few who went against the grain and had her back when her artistic integrity was being pulled apart by... most.
Gaga at her most authentic and iconic is a Gaga who has been in solitude for a while. She speaks about it constantly, (The Fame & all of the incarnations of it would never have happened without that) so if this time has been all that she says it is, and I believe her - we have some very, very good things ahead

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11 minutes ago, Sunny said:

Literally all of her career. And then if she doesn't want to speak on anything (but she can promote other stuff) she's not an ally at all. Sad to see her become a hollow shell of her former self

Like many comments have said previously, she is actually *working* on helping these issues in the real world in a way most celebrities never have or will, to say she isnt an ally is incredibly insulting to her, the people her organization are helping and to yourself, because it is just so incorrect.

Maybe you think a social media post will change the world, the rest of us know you need to actually act. And maybe wait until the end of the month before you make these declarations anyway.

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8 minutes ago, Medusa said:

Like many comments have said previously, she is actually *working* on helping these issues in the real world in a way most celebrities never have or will, to say she isnt an ally is incredibly insulting to her, the people her organization are helping and to yourself, because it is just so incorrect.

Maybe you think a social media post will change the world, the rest of us know you need to actually act. And maybe wait until the end of the month before you make these declarations anyway.

No I will not wait. LGBTQ+ people, especially Trans people, are being persecuted every day. This isn't an album rollout cycle for her to wait and release it at the last day. If she's a true ally and a fighter for the cause, she needed to be vocal on her own (not through her organization which most people don't know about), and she needs to act as Lady Gaga. I'm not arguing that the foundation isn't helpful, but she needs to be at the face of it, when so many public figures and companies are blatantly anti-LGBT.

It's much more than a social media post, which again, she makes lots of when she has to promote or sell something.

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15 minutes ago, Sunny said:

No I will not wait. LGBTQ+ people, especially Trans people, are being persecuted every day. This isn't an album rollout cycle for her to wait and release it at the last day. If she's a true ally and a fighter for the cause, she needed to be vocal on her own (not through her organization which most people don't know about), and she needs to act as Lady Gaga. I'm not arguing that the foundation isn't helpful, but she needs to be at the face of it, when so many public figures and companies are blatantly anti-LGBT.

It's much more than a social media post, which again, she makes lots of when she has to promote or sell something.

We will never agree because we both see the value in her posting something on social media (That literally, every single person knows already) completely differently, and I see the work she is doing as way more powerful. And you say most people dont know about it, but the people who are actually facing the big issues (Homelessness, vindication) will hear about them, and I think that is way more important than reaching 90% keyboard activists who wont see the real struggle in reality.

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10 minutes ago, Medusa said:

We will never agree because we both see the value in her posting something on social media (That literally, every single person knows already) completely differently, and I see the work she is doing as way more powerful. And you say most people dont know about it, but the people who are actually facing the big issues (Homelessness, vindication) will hear about them, and I think that way more important than people want to be keyboard activists without ever seeing the real struggle in reality.

Well of course, since it isn't about social media. It's her complete silence on LGBT issues in the past year. And of course the people who need it know about it, but we are talking about people who don't know about it, which is most of America.  Also, I'm pretty sure the foundation is ran by her mother, Gaga funding it doesn't mean she's doing it.

Both can coexist, it's just honestly disgusting how she has so much power and influence and she could be using her image to talk about those issues. Whether it be a social media post, interview, a tv special. Also you're really downplaying the impact of social media in today's politics, and how being vocal on it can help so much with the general view. 

I'll eat my words if she does something big, doesn't excuse that it took her all this time. This isn't the time to stay backstage and hide, this is the time of urgency. It's crazy how you all can defend her as long as she makes promise of new music

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It's weird to observe this relationship between her and fans and the "feeding" dynamic it carries. I, too, long for her presence, to see her art, photos, music. It's a gut feeling, she's captivating, she puts on a spell, her art crawls under your skin and it's an overload to the senses and it's a deep connection everytime we get something. She used to be way more comfortable doing that, naturally, sharing her process. She was in a phase of emanating youth, you could see she felt good having that interaction. However, the internet changed A LOT, too much. Youtube didn't have ads, twitter was funnier and not so heavy, Instagram came later but it was just photos. I used to post a lot on Instagram, today I can't even push the button to post a story, it's been months. And it's not a choice, it's a feeling of displacement, that social media doesn't feel like a place where you can comfortably post something. I don't know, it's weird, it has to do with not wanting your image circulating there. Maybe more people feel like this, Instagram became a shopping mall. Twitter became a flood of fancam and memes and discourse and language that is repeated over and over and over and over again, no real connection. It's only understandable she would post only ads, not even her pressing post. She seems to like TikTok though, which I'm still trying to understand, but I guess she establishes a deeper connection with those videos.

But my point is why do we engage with her as if she is a folkloric figure, a person with discourse elements attached to her figure, and that we need her to keep pushing that discourse because it's familiar. For me, it feels like she wants her birds to take flight, she's done her share of nurturing, and that left her drug abusing and suicidal. Stefani wanted to kill Gaga. Sometimes I imagine myself if I went somewhere, and got the looks, the phones being held up, the videos, the constant harassing. Imagine someone you don't know saying they love you, imagine someone you don't know asking for a picture and your signature, imagine someone you don't know crying in front you. Now imagine yourself putting your head to your pillow after that and processing that. Fame causes a cognitive overload of information through that interaction and it's something very few people endure in the world. Some like it a lot, it inflates their ego, they think they're the best person alive. That's not her case.

She is an extremely intelligent person, she thinks about philosophy of art and talks about it in interviews in a way that no one else of her caliber does. She is an extremely sensitive person, if you are or know sensitive people, you know that their relationship with the world is deep, full of pain and questions about the human nature, what we're here for, what is the world. And we can also observe how sensitive people tend to interpret things their specific way and put their foot down on what they believe. The senses get chaotic on sensitive people, the simple act of pushing a post button becomes an entire existencial question. And in this feeding relationship we have with her, we forget she's a human, under the spotlight, in a world she has strong opinions about, being famous which she also has strong opinions about, making art which she, again, has strong opinions about. When we demand things from her, we do it reading our senses, our feeling of need, of wanting to be fed, so her art can crawl under our skin once again. But on the other side there's a person, healing immense trauma, navigating a weird world only a few get to experience, while being empathetic, kind and with a purpose if doing nothing more than good to people. When she says she "just wants the public to smile", you can see her need of serving. You can observe that through BTW Foundation activity online, you can see that in interviews when she talks about her work and the world. But no one can be a servant 100% of the time, even less when that service is under the spotlight, and even less when they think about that spotlight daily, when they suffer from that spotlight. I can only imagine how it is to have her mind and her life. It must be a life of constant conflict.