Early AP era: did Gaga pretend to do well?

[Duella Dvil 13,198]

1 minute ago, bxr said:

   

Everything just reminded me of this pure stream of manifesto moment of pure creative rebellious consciousness

… for the kids, for the culture—ARTPOP!  

I CRIED THREE TIMES WATCHING THIS INTERVIEW LIVE I REMEMBER IT PERFECTLY

[bxr 4,010]

1 minute ago, Duella Dvil said:

I CRIED THREE TIMES WATCHING THIS INTERVIEW LIVE I REMEMBER IT PERFECTLY

The spliffs my roommates sojourned through during said canon session!

In a completely unrelated eventuation, that my mom still references “The trash bag, and what does she have to do with Katy Perry??” (complimentary)!

  
 

That’s what the f—k it’s all about …

[27monster27 16,447]

I think she was doing better (not fully, but better) until Troy Carter betrayed her. She still had issues before that, but she was in a state where she was doing better I think.

[imogen2133 838]

16 hours ago, Duella Dvil said:

Now she's so rehearsed and laser focused, she has her there could be 100 people in a room type shtick for each era and the JAZZ is missing in some ways.

She feels like she's matured as a musician but that improvisation in her ARTISTRY is toned down.

I have felt this way as well watching some of her newer performances (especially the performance at TUDUM) she seems so rehearsed and focused on hitting her marks, hitting certain notes and looking professional. I also watched a few of Madonna's tours a while a go and noticed the same thing there, which of course a performance that has great live singing, precise choreography and solid stage presence is still good to watch and entertaining but it feels like a lot of her more recent performances lack that artistry, personality or improv she used to display where she would mess up but keep going or do something in the moment that was completely different and surprising to how she rehearsed it. I personally would rather rewatch performances from the ARTPOP era any day over stuff from the Joanne or Mayhem eras because those seemed more spontaneous and less self conscious overall (I mean Gaga even admitted she gets self conscious and anxious before performing now in a 2025 interview).

[RochesterJoannster 4,325]

20 hours ago, AVeryGagaHolyDick said:

Yeah but she didn’t LOOK happy at all during Joanne/Chromatica

I don’t think those eras are comparable. There were definitely some moments during Joanne where she seemed happy, although it definitely felt like she was trying to fix something bigger overall than she could 

Chromatica she was just….gone. She didn’t even show up.

Edited Thursday at 02:50 PM by RochesterJoannster

[Earthling 3,750]

22 hours ago, Adelka Jergova said:

I feel like she was quite unhappy, she was also on a lot of drugs pretty sure? Can't quite remember though.

She also has explained that she had a lot of unprocessed trauma from everything that occurred in 2005, and it's possible this era, combined with all the physical pain and drama that was going on, was a culmination of all of that.

Do y’all remember the DOPE performance and that YouTube event!? 

[nATAH 59,939]

well she's not exactly going to sit there and say "i'm not happy" and be all miserable when trying to sell a product, is she?

she put on a brave face and clocked in

[bxr 4,010]

1 hour ago, nATAH said:

well she's not exactly going to sit there and say "i'm not happy" and be all miserable when trying to sell a product, is she?

she put on a brave face and clocked in

Everything about this speaks volumes about *gestures broadly at fame monstrosity* 

Chromatica Ball is on HBO in the background right now, and, the glaring reality of said context … whew 

Just on the blink consideration: literally, why exactly is that the assumed and practical norm for anyone’s life and livelihood?

 

ETA: Maybe it’s just because this is the first time I’ve seen TCB so the obvious brutality at scale, to your point, for sale … is striking 

And, in immediate retrospect, to your point, she did state quite clearly, the laughter that ensues when she tries to sell the product of herself … so maybe you’re spot en pointe 

Edited Thursday at 04:34 PM by bxr

[StrawberryBlond 15,839]

Gaga is a true professional, she's always "on" even when she doesn't feel in the mood to be. And her music will always come first so she naturally pushed on and promoted it because this is what she'd worked so hard for. She had to do the same for Chromatica. She's one of those artists who unfortunately really suffers for her art and pushes through the pain. AP was back in the days when she was all "go go go" and pumping out new music all the time and she didn't take a break to prioritise her mental health either, so there was no other option, really. I used to really fear for her health at one point and that she could die young because of her crazy schedule, lupus rumours, the smoking and hard partying. I'm glad she's calmed down a lot now she no longer has to fake it for people's approval as she no longer has anything to prove.