DWAS Becomes Gaga's 10th Most-Viewed Video on YouTube

[The Fame Monster 4,149]

Die With a Smile has now become Lady Gaga's 10th most viewed video on her YouTube channel, with 474 million views just 4 months after its release.

It recently surpassed iconic music videos like Rain On Me (428M views), Applause (448M views), and Just Dance (464M views). With this achievement, the LG7 era has already surpassed the most viewed videos from previous eras, including ARTPOP's Applause, Chromatica's Rain On Me, and Joanne's Million Reasons (337M views).

At this rate, it's only a matter of time before DWAS overtakes Telephone (481M views), Judas (521M views), I'll Never Love Again (546M views), Alejandro (576M views), and Always Remember Us This Way (609M views), breaking into the Top 5—likely within the next two months.

DWAS is currently in 3rd place on YouTube's official Top 100 Music Videos Global chart, trailing Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You (Make My Wish Come True Edition) in 2nd place and ROSÉ & Bruno Mars's APT. in 1st place.

[eifulien 2,935]

I don't really feel like celebrating this song's achievements. I see it as a point of fracture between the fandom and the general public. And the GP is winning in this "contest".

Don't take me wrong, the song is beautiful, I understand why it struck a chord with the masses but it just feels like Gaga is becoming a victim of her success (post-Shallow) where she's really accepted and appreciated for her adult contemporary music, so to say.

Disease, in the meantime, an outstanding Gaga track is kinda left with our fandom in the trenches, struggling to make an impact and remind the world what makes Gaga, well Gaga, despite all the "I'm not one thing" talk that she's been pushing for years.

This situation made me realise that her success in the late 00s with TF/TFM was rather an exception than a sure formula to get you to the top. I certainly hope that Gaga will not let the success of this style of music dictate her future exploration of the musical genres. In a way, I feel like she'll remain misunderstood by the masses. 

[robboadam 2,177]

6 minutes ago, eifulien said:

I don't really feel like celebrating this song's achievements. I see it as a point of fracture between the fandom and the general public. And the GP is winning in this "contest".

Don't take me wrong, the song is beautiful, I understand why it struck a chord with the masses but it just feels like Gaga is becoming a victim of her success (post-Shallow) where she's really accepted and appreciated for her adult contemporary music, so to say.

Disease, in the meantime, an outstanding Gaga track is kinda left with our fandom in the trenches, struggling to make an impact and remind the world what makes Gaga, well Gaga, despite all the "I'm not one thing" talk that she's been pushing for years.

This situation made me realise that her success in the late 00s with TF/TFM was rather an exception than a sure formula to get you to the top. I certainly hope that Gaga will not let the success of this style of music dictate her future exploration of the musical genres. In a way, I feel like she'll remain misunderstood by the masses. 

[Guest]

8 minutes ago, eifulien said:

I don't really feel like celebrating this song's achievements. I see it as a point of fracture between the fandom and the general public. And the GP is winning in this "contest".

Don't take me wrong, the song is beautiful, I understand why it struck a chord with the masses but it just feels like Gaga is becoming a victim of her success (post-Shallow) where she's really accepted and appreciated for her adult contemporary music, so to say.

Disease, in the meantime, an outstanding Gaga track is kinda left with our fandom in the trenches, struggling to make an impact and remind the world what makes Gaga, well Gaga, despite all the "I'm not one thing" talk that she's been pushing for years.

This situation made me realise that her success in the late 00s with TF/TFM was rather an exception than a sure formula to get you to the top. I certainly hope that Gaga will not let the success of this style of music dictate her future exploration of the musical genres. In a way, I feel like she'll remain misunderstood by the masses. 

I might understand your point but you chose a really bad timing, we just got DWAS, Disease and Harlequin. How can she explore more than that?  And I would say nobody was expecting DWAS success so nothing was premeditated

Why should we worry? Shallow was 6 years ago and I would say Chromatica was a success given the circumstances, a completely different genre

Edited December 30, 2024 by Guest

[KevinWright 1,602]

7 minutes ago, eifulien said:

Gaga is becoming a victim of her success (post-Shallow) where she's really accepted and appreciated for her adult contemporary music, so to say.

That’s not true. If she was a victim of her own success Chromatica and LG7 both will be ballad centered albums. But Chromatica was very electronic and LG7 will also be electronic if we can judge it from only the Disease track.

Actually I like that we get both ballads and dance songs in the same period. And I hope that LG7 will be a perfect pairing for these two sides of Gaga 

[eifulien 2,935]

3 minutes ago, AMRer said:

I might understand your point but you chose a really bad timing, we just got DWAS, Disease and Harlequin. How can she explore more than that?  And I would say nobody was expecting DWAS success so nothing was premeditated

Why should we worry? Shallow was 6 years ago and I would say Chromatica was a success given the circumstances, a completely different genre

Oh, sorry, when I said to explore more, I meant it as a "I hope the success of DWAS doesn't push her towards sticking to this style of music only in her pop output".

[JoeMo 3,837]

Obviously Bruno has a big following which is a massive reason why the streaming numbers are big. 

[Juanjo 2,070]

59 minutes ago, eifulien said:

I don't really feel like celebrating this song's achievements. I see it as a point of fracture between the fandom and the general public. And the GP is winning in this "contest".

Don't take me wrong, the song is beautiful, I understand why it struck a chord with the masses but it just feels like Gaga is becoming a victim of her success (post-Shallow) where she's really accepted and appreciated for her adult contemporary music, so to say.

Disease, in the meantime, an outstanding Gaga track is kinda left with our fandom in the trenches, struggling to make an impact and remind the world what makes Gaga, well Gaga, despite all the "I'm not one thing" talk that she's been pushing for years.

This situation made me realise that her success in the late 00s with TF/TFM was rather an exception than a sure formula to get you to the top. I certainly hope that Gaga will not let the success of this style of music dictate her future exploration of the musical genres. In a way, I feel like she'll remain misunderstood by the masses. 

I totally hear what you’re saying, and, trust me, you’re not the only one who feels this way. However, we have to accept that Gaga is, in fact, a multifaceted artist, and she will have the opportunity to shine in different aspects of her career. Also, the music industry is soooooo much different now than when she made her debut, we just cannot predict what will become a hit and what won’t. I am totally ok with her achieving commercial success with her “AC” songs, while still giving the fans what made us fall in love with her in the first place. If you think about it, looking at musical legends from the past, she is still in her career infancy, there’s a lot more room for her to have plenty of pop hits. Let’s celebrate these milestones!  
 

OT: Congratulations, Gaga! Considering YouTube’s popularity is also not what it used to be, this is such a big accomplishment! 

[julz 6,593]

Why is DWAS not nominated at the Grammys for Best Music Video.... I mean it is not simple, u have the two biggest global music iconic superstars in a video, nuff said. This brings back what a music video originally means, recording a performance of the music where you make people feeeel the music. You can relate to it, copy it. Nice touch that the producers are in the video as well. Gaga probably told Bruno to have matching colors and the mannequins. The lighting is amazing, the slow mo, the decision to wear blue and red, the zoom in and out, the dancing, the heart in the end... 

Just amazing.

[nATAH 46,845]

2 hours ago, eifulien said:

I don't really feel like celebrating this song's achievements. I see it as a point of fracture between the fandom and the general public. And the GP is winning in this "contest".

Don't take me wrong, the song is beautiful, I understand why it struck a chord with the masses but it just feels like Gaga is becoming a victim of her success (post-Shallow) where she's really accepted and appreciated for her adult contemporary music, so to say.

Disease, in the meantime, an outstanding Gaga track is kinda left with our fandom in the trenches, struggling to make an impact and remind the world what makes Gaga, well Gaga, despite all the "I'm not one thing" talk that she's been pushing for years.

This situation made me realise that her success in the late 00s with TF/TFM was rather an exception than a sure formula to get you to the top. I certainly hope that Gaga will not let the success of this style of music dictate her future exploration of the musical genres. In a way, I feel like she'll remain misunderstood by the masses. 

full offence but this is dumb as hell

[lastpopicon 23,826]

1 hour ago, JoeMo said:

Obviously Bruno has a big following which is a massive reason why the streaming numbers are big. 

[eifulien 2,935]

1 hour ago, nATAH said:

full offence but this is dumb as hell

Your point being? 

[DopeEnigma 1,226]

3 hours ago, eifulien said:

I don't really feel like celebrating this song's achievements. I see it as a point of fracture between the fandom and the general public. And the GP is winning in this "contest".

Don't take me wrong, the song is beautiful, I understand why it struck a chord with the masses but it just feels like Gaga is becoming a victim of her success (post-Shallow) where she's really accepted and appreciated for her adult contemporary music, so to say.

Disease, in the meantime, an outstanding Gaga track is kinda left with our fandom in the trenches, struggling to make an impact and remind the world what makes Gaga, well Gaga, despite all the "I'm not one thing" talk that she's been pushing for years.

This situation made me realise that her success in the late 00s with TF/TFM was rather an exception than a sure formula to get you to the top. I certainly hope that Gaga will not let the success of this style of music dictate her future exploration of the musical genres. In a way, I feel like she'll remain misunderstood by the masses. 

I doubt it will influence her direction or musical choices at all. She’s already massively successful and can do what she wants. I don’t think for a second LG7 will be anything other than GaGa being true to herself but tbh, as a fan, DWAS was an interesting change of direction which is what I love about GaGa, she can do just about anything and do it very well. I wouldn’t worry too much and I think DWAS has been a good thing for the new album. She’ll still always be GaGa and know what her fans like, I’d say just enjoy what is released and not worry too much. 

[Sarah H 3,532]

It deserves to be. Great song. 

Edited December 30, 2024 by Sarah H

[CyanDante 6,034]

1 hour ago, nATAH said:

full offence but this is dumb as hell

Best Take! 👌