Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ “Die With a Smile” rises to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

[Juanjo 1,958]

Finally! Congratulations, Gaga and Bruno on this extremely well-deserved #1!  Die With a Smile is such a beautiful, perfect song! 

[juicyjuicy 1,784]

21 minutes ago, PartySick said:

It really isn't  

Idk how to convey my exact thoughts tbh 'cause it's just been building for a few years now. Kinda reached capacity with her absence during the election and then finally blew up when DWAS made the album for shallow reasons.

But that's why parasocial stanning is toxic as hell  I became personally invested in her artistry and it simply doesn't feel honest anymore which gets me up in my fefes.

This is a lady that helped me heal quite a bit from SA and drug abuse trauma, it's infuriating to look at her and not recognize her as the same person/artist but it is what it is. It's on me but in the same token, I'm allowed to feel how I feel and express it and y'all are allowed to tell me how stupid you think it is.

I won't deny it's unreasonable  it's rooted in trauma bonding, of course it's unreasonable.

I'll still dance to the music. Especially if it's more tracks like Disease  

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Hey babe. I get you. It’s tough to describe, but I get you. I’m still a fan, and she’s gotten me through tough times too, but I have been increasingly very frustrated with her/her team and totally get your point re: inauthenticity (it’s hard to describe, but I get it too). But hey, I hear you, and I think we’re both still SO proud of everything she’s achieved and ALL the music she’s put out there and that’s positive.

[Monstermilo 3,810]

i feel like this proves ppl want more vocal driven, singer songwriter type music from gaga

sadly thats just where the GP supports her.... 

they do not want music like disease so if shes gonna release music like disease, its not gonna chart well and were gonna have to accept that. 

 

[Starmie25 13,934]

20 minutes ago, Monstermilo said:

feel like this proves ppl want more vocal driven, singer songwriter type music from gaga

They'll change their mind after hearing Notorious Being and Mustang 

[lilboyblue 3,815]

Congrats, Gaga and Bruno! #1, baby 

[Jill 26,979]

8 minutes ago, Monstermilo said:

i feel like this proves ppl want more vocal driven, singer songwriter type music from gaga

sadly thats just where the GP supports her.... 

they do not want music like disease so if shes gonna release music like disease, its not gonna chart well and were gonna have to accept that. 

Yeah, I think that commercially, the "normal" Gaga has way more potential than the crazy variant she became known for. Nowadays that kind of attitude and fashion and dance is nothing new unfortunately. Her own magic became dilluted due to her numerous copycats.

[darkgaga 3,158]

16 minutes ago, Monstermilo said:

i feel like this proves ppl want more vocal driven, singer songwriter type music from gaga

sadly thats just where the GP supports her.... 

they do not want music like disease so if shes gonna release music like disease, its not gonna chart well and were gonna have to accept that. 

 

We literally had one song from LG7 without any real promo, and we already say that all that music will flop. Come on…

[PunkTheFunk 123,734]

7 hours ago, Teletubby said:

Lady Gaga becomes only the third artist – joining Janet and Michael Jackson – to have notched multiple No. 1s in three distinct decades. Here’s a look at the three acts and their totals by decade:
- Lady Gaga: two Hot 100 No. 1s in the 2020s, two in the ‘10s, two in the ‘00s
- Janet Jackson: two in the ‘00s, six in the 1990s, two in the ‘80s
- Michael Jackson two in the ‘90s, nine in the ‘80s, two in the ‘70s

This is honestly insane. I'm shocked Beyonce and Taylor haven't achieved this yet. Now that I think about it, Beyonce didn't have more than one #1 in the 2010s, and Taylor didn't have one at all in the 2000s.

MJ is dead and Janet does not have chart success in her future (I love her but let's real). If Gaga manages to get two #1's in the 2030s, she could be the first artist to achieve this in four distinct decades!

[Shadow 6,471]

7 minutes ago, PunkTheFunk said:

This is honestly insane. I'm shocked Beyonce and Taylor haven't achieved this yet. Now that I think about it, Beyonce didn't have more than one #1 in the 2010s, and Taylor didn't have one at all in the 2000s.

MJ is dead and Janet does not have chart success in her future (I love her but let's real). If Gaga manages to get two #1's in the 2030s, she could be the first artist to achieve this in four distinct decades!

Who knows what the future holds?  It does look promising.

[NewUsername 11,017]

  

[StrawberryBlond 14,190]

3 hours ago, PartySick said:

This is a lady that helped me heal quite a bit from SA and drug abuse trauma, it's infuriating to look at her and not recognize her as the same person/artist but it is what it is. It's on me but in the same token, I'm allowed to feel how I feel and express it and y'all are allowed to tell me how stupid you think it is.

I won't deny it's unreasonable  it's rooted in trauma bonding, of course it's unreasonable.

 

We get that. Gaga was a huge source of comfort and healing when we discovered her. Most of us were very young, going through bad stages in our lives, feeling excluded and not good enough and Gaga helped us feel seen, appreciated and reassured that we weren't freaks, that we were goddamn superstars and we were born that way. It's just that, over time, we've grown up, healed, moved on, and Gaga has to. She's settled and happy now, is thinking about becoming a wife and mother. She's not looking to get out her pain in her music, she got her true rebellious ways out her system long ago and no longer needs to guide her fans anymore as we've found our way too. Gaga will always be my fave and hold a special place in my heart but I don't need her to be that guiding force, that mother figure. Gaga realises it's like that for a lot of us, so she moved her music on too. It would be artistically inauthentic for her to act like she's still in that same troubled space she once was.

The beautiful thing about music is, there's an artist for every occasion. One artist doesn't need to fulfil all your requirements. However you're feeling, there's an artist for that moment. Some of the best songs for dealing with pain are from artists I don't stan or am familiar with other than this one song. Gaga doesn't need to be everything you need all the time. Now that she's hit that sweet spot of working out what the public want and when, she will naturally use that intuition to make hits so she can extend her legacy and can continue to make music that will be acknowledged and beloved for the rest of time. And she can't do that by constantly chasing alternative, experimental sounds. She's always been an artist who wants to take the alternative, experimental scene and make it mainstream. You can't do that by always taking risks. If she wants to continue to be a successful artist and give us everything we want (frequent albums, big budget music videos, world tours at major venues, heavy promo, etc) she needs to make commercial choices when it matters. Every hit she has helps towards her achieving this aim, so we should be happy every time it happens. 

It's a good thing that Gaga has changed as an artist. Every healthy person evolves. Artists whose careers die are the ones who refuse to change. I loved The Fame back in the day but nearly 16 years later, I am so over that sound and if she had never let up with that style, she would have been totally done over a decade ago because the world moved on from electropop too. Gaga had to leave the outrageous, avant garde stuff behind because the public got bored with it and was demanding singers be more down to earth, normal, with no theatrical  distractions. So she took off the crazy costumes, pulled back on the anthemic pop and gave us acoustic realness in plain clothes and no make up. And the world realised how talented and versatile she was, she got respect and more hits in return. Maybe she'll switch it up one day when the public want a spectacle again but for now, she adhering to their boundaries to maintain a solid career. Even Madonna could only get so wild before she had to pull it back. Once she posed naked, the world had had it with her, they thought she'd gone too far and was done. So she toned it down and ended up with one of the most successful and acclaimed albums of her career. Christina Aguilera did it after her. So did Miley Cyrus. You can only push artistic expression too far before the world's jaws stop dropping open and they get immune to being shocked. 

We haven't heard the album yet. Perhaps it'll make it all right again. But until then, Gaga's still the same person, she just wants to keep her career successful and alive, like everyone else. Be grateful for every success that she gets because nothing is forever. Always remember we picked the right artist to stan. 

[julz 5,713]

I want a Gagavision of DWAS... An interview of Gaga and Bruno together discussing this song.  MY King and Queen of Pop

[gerrygaga 3,345]

Billboard said "Highlighting her hitmaking longevity"

Oh Godga, not everyone has that.

[princedeeblebleble 670]

We did it kids!!!! 

Lovely and a slaay! Thought it would happen a bit sooner considering who's on the song, but the charts are bizzarely slow now haha 

So now that they have this in the bag can we get back to LG7? This is the perfect time to announce the title or release date at least. 

Also people saying this is the sound people want is kinda bs because its not comperable in terms of what they did with the songs. Like where's diseases physicals, pop up shops, actual audience live performances or listening parties and various variants? They threw everything and the sink for DWAS at us to achieve this. 

Happy for her and Bruno, but I hope she wakes up from the slumber and gives an insane era now that theres no deadly viruses or major protests going on to make it inappropriate to promote and preform her music.

[QueenChromatix 2,278]

8 hours ago, gagzus said:

After Gaga’s death I think it might become #1 hit in the US