Mayhem details that you still didn't get?

[gagacabana 5,404]

4 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

God bless her for having her tits out here for no reason. No one show this to @gagacabana…

Tits OUT, pu$$y FACING the world, pizza LOCKED IN #whoremembers  

[HotLikeMexico 6,257]

35 minutes ago, PartySick said:

I could imagine the small Brooklyn Baddie walking through these two weird bitches fighting with canes, veils, and a small militia of 💅s wondering what the f*ck is going on

Lmfaoooo why is her entire titty just out?! 

[PartySick 171,358]

39 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

God bless her for having her tits out here for no reason. No one show this to @gagacabana…

 

33 minutes ago, gagacabana said:

Tits OUT, pu$$y FACING the world, pizza LOCKED IN #whoremembers  

 

5 minutes ago, HotLikeMexico said:

Lmfaoooo why is her entire titty just out?! 

She went in the restaurant with a bra on too

[HotLikeMexico 6,257]

Just now, PartySick said:

 

 

She went in the restaurant with a bra on too

WTF?! 
 

why is this so ****ing funny. I’m legit cryinggggg

[gagacabana 5,404]

3 minutes ago, PartySick said:

 

 

She went in the restaurant with a bra on too

2 minutes ago, HotLikeMexico said:

WTF?! 
 

why is this so ****ing funny. I’m legit cryinggggg

Gaga herself on GGD poll "public displays of affection": ok but where is the option for entering a restaurant with a bra and leaving without it 

[Linus Gaga 8,473]

2 hours ago, HotLikeMexico said:

People arguing about three Gagas for the mayhem ball

 

Meanwhile I just thought blonde Gaga during the show was just the Gaga we know, aka her good side, then when she wears the black wig, and thats supposed to represent the mistress aka her dark side. Gaga is very much trying to pull away from the mistress the entire show and in the end learns to embrace the darkness and the two become one. 

But then how does that explain dark hair Gaga fighting mistress of Mayhem in Million reasons?

[Starmie25 22,125]

MAYHEM aside, what exactly happened to RhinoGa? 

[HotLikeMexico 6,257]

7 minutes ago, Linus Gaga said:

But then how does that explain dark hair Gaga fighting mistress of Mayhem in Million reasons?

She died

[gagzus 20,361]

7 minutes ago, Linus Gaga said:

But then how does that explain dark hair Gaga fighting mistress of Mayhem in Million reasons?

That dark hair Gaga is the blonde hair Gaga  with darker hair. That’s why after a certain point if you noticed on the tour they started using a darker version of the blonde wig for those sections to show it’s the same character. In fact that wig is actually charcoal where as the Mistresses hair is actually jet black, making it a shade or two lighter. 
 

Basically after The Beast, a song that symbolises Gaga’s inner ability to ‘turn on’ her public persona, the light side of her personality begins to dabble in the dark sides ways to essentially have fun- Killah, Zombieboy etc and Million Reasons is when both sides of her finally make peace with each other. It’s an internal dialogue because the song is about “a million reasons to let you go” - it’s about her deciding whether she wants to be Lady Gaga or not and it ends with Bad Romance, when her outfit is both white with red and her hair is black and blonde to symbolise, both sides finally merged together and she’s fused parts of her public persona with her real self enough to be happy with it.

Then HBDUWM is basically like an actor in theatre taking their bow to symbolise “hey this is the ACTUAL me” the one we as her fans know and love hence why they do album tracks as a closer because it’s a celebration of us and her.

TLDR; the show is about her inner dialogue of whether or not she wants to be her public persona or just herself and walk away from being famous. A thought we know has plagued her since after ARTPOP. But it ends with her deciding to “stay” because she has found a balance and peace.

[Jarpad 89]

I don't know whether to blame Gaga or the label for this, but why on Earth did they decide to drop the album and place their bets on TDD? I remember it being explained on here as "The Abracadabra success made them want to keep going in the 'dark' direction." But The Dead Dance isn't dark. It's goofy. It's Halloween. It's in the same category as Zombieboy, and Abracadabra is not in that category. The song itself (Abracadabra) isn't "dark," either, just the video. 

After Disease and Abracadabra, they could have stuck with the album concept of Mayhem and varying sounds by going for VIY or Killah or SOAM as a single. Instead we got TDD, which personally is one of the three songs I almost always skip on the deluxe.

I really hope whatever she releases next, she'll put as much blood sweat and tears into it as she did the more serious tracks on this album and not release more throwaway songs like TDD and ShapeOAW.

Off topic, while I got the general concept of the tour, I didn't understand the story from start to finish and I'm genuinely impressed by and appreciative of the fans in this thread who did. 

Edited yesterday at 04:11 AM by Jarpad

[gagzus 20,361]

19 minutes ago, Jarpad said:

I don't know whether to blame Gaga or the label for this, but why on Earth did they decide to drop the album and place their bets on TDD? I remember it being explained on here as "The Abracadabra success made them want to keep going in the 'dark' direction." But The Dead Dance isn't dark. It's goofy. It's Halloween. It's in the same category as Zombieboy, and Abracadabra is not in that category. The song itself isn't "dark," either, just the video. 

After Disease and Abracadabra, they could have stuck with the album concept by going for VIY or Killah or SOAM as a single. Instead we got TDD, which personally is one of the three songs I almost always skip on the deluxe.

So easiest way to explain it is this; in modern times Gaga has notoriously slowed down to enjoy her real life more since she was overworked and Bobby runs her personal schedule.

On the label side they don’t spend money like they used to, music videos don’t equate into sales anymore and because of streaming the album is out to the world for anyone to listen to for free. Singles become unnecessary after an album drops if its streams are stable and Mayhem’s are incredibly stable. To the point it has just surpassed BTW’s total runtime on the Billboard 200 and is now her 4th longest charting album.

As for TDD, Shape and the other songs. All of these were contractual obligations she will have signed onto before the era even started. Beyond Runway all the songs she has released are songs that never made Mayhem and you can tell. As someone who has worked in contract negotiation before I can tell you Netflix will have had a specific clause about her needing to promote it online and at shows for a period of time. Same way the negotiations for TDWP2 will have included her making a music video for Runway to help promote the song and the movie. We should be thankful they didn’t have her doing the full tour with the cast because for notoriety sake they absolutely could’ve. But I imagined Bobby probably negotiated her having to only promote it so much.
 

If it wasn’t for Wednesday or TDWP2 we absolutely wouldn’t have gotten anything music wise from her after Abra despite what everyone seems to think. None of the other songs on the album showed enough promise on their own to become singles, and as I said they don’t want to spend money anymore when the album is still being streamed and bought enough. I mean they also only invested into Disease anyway. Abra was funded by Mastercard.

Plus because of streaming DWAS was the biggest song of the 2020s so far and is still getting the most streams of any Gaga song daily. And since it’s on Mayhem, those numbers make enough money and streams for the album ALONE for them to never need to release a new single from it even without DWAS the album still pulls about 4m daily streams, with it it’s about 6-7m.

Basically it’s all just good business. Taylor Swift is proof that if we really wanted new music videos we should stream and buy the music more. Labels only listen to money.  
 

The only way she would’ve put out another single was if the tour wasn’t selling and they thought it could help promote it. But that was a sell out so another thing they need not worry about. Like I said money talks.

Edited yesterday at 04:30 AM by gagzus

[Jarpad 89]

35 minutes ago, gagzus said:

So easiest way to explain it is this; in modern times Gaga has notoriously slowed down to enjoy her real life more since she was overworked and Bobby runs her personal schedule.

On the label side they don’t spend money like they used to, music videos don’t equate into sales anymore and because of streaming the album is out to the world for anyone to listen to for free. Singles become unnecessary after an album drops if its streams are stable and Mayhem’s are incredibly stable. To the point it has just surpassed BTW’s total runtime on the Billboard 200 and is now her 4th longest charting album.

As for TDD, Shape and the other songs. All of these were contractual obligations she will have signed onto before the era even started. Beyond Runway all the songs she has released are songs that never made Mayhem and you can tell. As someone who has worked in contract negotiation before I can tell you Netflix will have had a specific clause about her needing to promote it online and at shows for a period of time. Same way the negotiations for TDWP2 will have included her making a music video for Runway to help promote the song and the movie. We should be thankful they didn’t have her doing the full tour with the cast because for notoriety sake they absolutely could’ve. But I imagined Bobby probably negotiated her having to only promote it so much.
 

If it wasn’t for Wednesday or TDWP2 we absolutely wouldn’t have gotten anything music wise from her after Abra despite what everyone seems to think. None of the other songs on the album showed enough promise on their own to become singles, and as I said they don’t want to spend money anymore when the album is still being streamed and bought enough. I mean they also only invested into Disease anyway. Abra was funded by Mastercard.

Plus because of streaming DWAS was the biggest song of the 2020s so far and is still getting the most streams of any Gaga song daily. And since it’s on Mayhem, those numbers make enough money and streams for the album ALONE for them to never need to release a new single from it even without DWAS the album still pulls about 4m daily streams, with it it’s about 6-7m.

Basically it’s all just good business. Taylor Swift is proof that if we really wanted new music videos we should stream and buy the music more. Labels only listen to money.  
 

The only way she would’ve put out another single was if the tour wasn’t selling and they thought it could help promote it. But that was a sell out so another thing they need not worry about. Like I said money talks.

I would like to both "thanks" and "sad" react. Appreciate you taking the time to lay it out this way.

[llemesm 1,936]

[Starmie25 22,125]

1 hour ago, Jarpad said:

After Disease and Abracadabra, they could have stuck with the album concept of Mayhem and varying sounds by going for VIY or Killah or SOAM as a single. Instead we got TDD, which personally is one of the three songs I almost always skip on the deluxe.

There was not enough demand to make any other official singles after Abracadabra, cept maybe VIY. 

You also need TikTok in this day and age to really propel a song upwards. 

As for TDD, the Wednesday team were clearly looking for a certain track to fit within the scene.

[ARTPOPSYCHOLOGY 6,281]

On 5/16/2026 at 8:31 PM, Ladle Ghoulash said:

4. HBDUWM is a song that I think works on two levels: one being a literal partner (maybe Michael), but secondly (which is the angle reflected in the MBT) is to the audience (“do you only like the bad girl I play on stage or do you like me for me?”)

5. I’ve always interpreted the signing of the scroll in Scheisse as Gaga entering a Faustian bargain with herself (she’s both the devil and someone selling their soul to the devil). Gaga has stated that the Mistress represents a ruthless and egotistical side of her personality, so with her singing that she wishes she could be “strong without this Scheisse,” I think you could interpret that as meaning “I wish I could be strong without this bad bitch act, without this heavy armor, without the trappings of fame/my persona,” but she ultimately caves and becomes the tough bitch she needs to be in order to succeed (which in turn becomes the challenge she poses to her more innocent/sensitive side in EtherealGa).

 

Not to mention the entire pre-show has her writing on the same scroll