US Charts Discussion - 'ARTPOP' debuts at #1

[Whispering 18,865]

musicblind: That was pretty much perfect!  Thank you so much! I wish that it could be read by fans in the Thoughts section, and not just here in the charts thread.

[Bad 32]

Is DWUW now # 16 ??????!!!!!!!

 

I see it at 15 in iTunes.

#16 on Kworb though.

[blahblahblahhhh 15]

This is absolutely true.

I'm a hardcore Madonna fan and I come to this board not to put you down but to lift you up!

Although I love Madonna, I am also someone who loves Lady Gaga... Hey, I like good music. What can I say?

You guys don't need to be in meltdown mode right now and here is why.

Trust me... Madonna has flopped worse and managed to bounce back better than ever.

Madonna was riding high in the late 80's with the Blonde Ambition tour (Kinda like The Monster Ball). Express Yourself was her Bad Romance, and the release of Vogue in 1990 was her Born This Way. It rocked the charts and the world of music. Her performance at the Video Music Awards of Vogue is sited as one of the greatest moments in her career.

Nobody could defeat Madonna... except for Madonna.

She followed up Vogue with the song "Hanky Panky" ... not familiar with it? Most people aren't. It peaked at number 10 on the Billboard charts (the exact same place as Judas).

A single about kink? People were starting to think Madonna was deviant. I mean... critics had called her deviant since Like A Virgin... but now the general public was starting to wonder too. This reminds me of the response to Judas in many ways.

So Madonna decided to double down on that image. First testing the waters with Justify My Love off of her greatest hits album... the video was banned from MTV, MuchMusic in Canada, and landed her on ABC's Nightline. In that interview she gave flippant remarks that didn't help her at all.

Yes, Justify My Love went to number one. But it sold half what Vogue had done and was the lead single of The Immaculate collection. Her first greatest hits.

Still, she marched on and released The Sex Book... this book ruined her career. In it she was featured naked... in bondage clothes... looking at her vagina in a mirror... simulating urination. This was 1991 folks. Her next single went to number 9 and then down, down, down.

THEN, she decided to actually release the album every critic had been accusing her of releasing all along: Erotica.

Erotica, imho, was Madonna's ARTPOP.

The haters have accused Lady Gaga of being pretentious, weird, artsy, and over the top... but her albums had never tried to be that... until ARTPOP. She wanted a reaction, even piping in boos at the VMA's... but I don't think she wanted THIS MUCH of a reaction.

In a similar way, Madonna wanted a reaction with Erotica and she got it... but I don't think she wanted THAT MUCH of a reaction.

Her debut single "Erotica" only went to number 3 (and this was a different era folks)... The single was basically Madonna's alterego "Dita" (kinda like Lady Gaga created alter egos) reading (not singing) an explicit erotic poem over a beat that could have come from a seedy bathhouse in the belly of the beast.

Reading passages from the bible over a very similar, in a hushed s-xy voice didn't help her either.

Nor did the constant nudity.

Critics BASHED the album. With Entertainment Weekly calling it "depressingly trite" and "the most joyless dance music of all time." Slant called Madonna's voice nasal and remote. Even the New York Times got in on the action chiding it for a lack of musical depth and professional poignancy...

You know what the irony is? Just as I think will happen to ARTPOP, Erotica is now considered legend. Stylus magazine stated: "Erotica was too sophisticated for a mainstream besotted with The Bodyguard..."

This is what is going to happen to ARTPOP. People are going to frown on it now, and in 20 years applaud it for trying to do something so different.

Critics LOVE to re-write history.

Stanley Kubrick's classic The Shinning, received nothing but razzie awards the year it was made and is now listed by AFI as one of the greatest films of all time.

Being different comes with major risks.

Due to the extreme backlash to the album, the s-x book, and outright nudity, simulated orgy, explicit references to gay s-x, bdsm, and frankly some of the most offensive things the mainstream media had ever seen... the tour for Erotica, called The Girlie Show" was virtually pulled from the US except for a very few select dates.

In fact, the HBO broadcast of it has to be shown from Australia. And a 'safety taping' of it was shown... not a live performance. Reportedly due to weather.

The tour only grossed 70 million dollars. Most people claimed that Madonna was officially 'over.'

Those are probably the same people claiming now that Lady Gaga is officially over.

Despite Madonna intentionally toning it down this time... her next album performed even WORSE than Erotica... Bedtime stories opened with only 145,000 copies sold.

This was at a time well before downloads and piracy had crippled the music industry. In fact this was at the music industry's height.

145,000 for Madonna in 1994 would be like Lady Gaga opening with 20,000 today.

Madonna even addressed the situation in the single Human Nature which sampled Express Yourself and declared things like "Oops did I talk about s-x? Oops did I speak my mind? Oops did I talk about you? Well, I'm not sorry."

The album did have one success... a ballad called Take A Bow, but at that point, all Madonna could do was call it quits and she more or less did.

She left the music business to film Erotica. The only release after Bedtime Stories and before Ray of Light was a compilation of her greatest ballads with a single that FAILED to debut in the Hot 100 and PEAKED at number 78.

During this time, Madonna sought to repair her image by playing the legendary Eva Peron in Evita. There was massive outrage among the Argentine people that this 'witch' would play their idol.

But somehow, this movie helped to change Madonna in the public's eye. It didn't happen the moment it was released. In fact, it got mixed reviews at first... but as it ran, people began to see a new side of Madonna. A passionate side that was about music, philanthropy, and not so much about whips, urine, and softcore ****.

She went on to win a best actress Golden Globe for her performance.

But then she went away yet again.

She was busy recording her comeback album. She originally recorded Ray Of Light with producer Babyface, but it sounded too similar to music from Bedtime Stories and WORSE Erotica. She knew that this could not sound like it even so much as came from the same artist associated with Erotica.

She grew her hair out long, 'found religion', and released one of the greatest albums of all time: Ray Of Light.

The critics, the public, MTV, Rollingstone, the Grammy's, the VMA's, everyone was floored.

This was an album of real music, with a sound that had not been heard before thanks to Madonna's use of William Orbit's 'soundscape' style of music on a mainstream level for the first time. She sung personal songs about her struggles with fame, her mistakes, forgiveness, regret, and hope for a better future.

This album made me cry. 

I consider this album and Born This Way to be the two greatest pop albums released since The Beatles released Let It Be.

The reason I tell you this long story is because I want you to know that this is exactly what Lady Gaga is going to do.

Lady Gaga has a way out, and she is smart enough to take it.

She will likely have a lot of thinking to do in the coming days, and her next album may end up being her Bedtime Stories... but after that, watch out. Because she will do something so innovative nobody saw it coming. She will ACTUALLY reinvent herself, rather than the millions of phoney times she has reinvented herself.

I actually consider Ray of Light to be Madonna's only true reinvention. The others were staged... but that was real. She had tasted fame and then tasted what it was like to be on the bottom again and she changed because she had to in order to survive.

Lady Gaga has to see the writing on the wall, and I think she will likely change faster than Madonna.

I personally think she needs to write truly introspective music played with real instruments that showcase her voice.

That is a side few people have seen.

Critics keep praising Dope and Gypsy. This is where she needs to go with her sound.

She can still be fun and make dance music. Ray Of Light was dance music... but she needs to provide the substance she has always promised and do so in a way that idiots can understand it.

ARTPOP has substance but you have to truly know a LOT about art to get it all. The name of her flying dress is a send up to the name of the exhibit of the original meat dress in the 1930's and NOBODY has commented on this because so few people follow art history in America.

Applause isn't about Lady Gaga, it is about us, but nobody gets this because the average IQ is 100 and that means good chunk of America has a below average IQ... think about it?

Critics loved Born This Way enough to nominated it for album of the year... it wasn't Born This Way that ruined her. It wasn't the music. It was the presentation.

Just like Erotica is now being declared a masterpiece by many critics, the presentation in 1991 turned off so many people that Madonna ended up selling only 145,000 copies of Bedtime Stories in her first week... and then it FELL DOWN THE CHARTS.

So please, do not despair.

I have seen many acts rise and fall. Alanis Morissette is one of my favorites, I still buy Hanson's CD's... yeah, did you know the MMMBop kids just released their 8th album? And they aren't all even in their 30's and they still sell out shows... more intimate shows... but sellouts and damn good music that critics love.

Hanson's route would be the worst case scenerio, and very unlikely.

Lady Gaga will do what Madonna did before her and Cher did before Madonna.

She will come back bigger, better, and badder than ever.

Trust me, I've worked in this industry as well as followed it for a very long time.

<3

-- David

 

 

You're so damn intelligent and your statements are so thought-provoking, I applaud you! 

 

Why can't all Madonna fans be this nice? :(

 

[Sara 1,128]

This is absolutely true.

I'm a hardcore Madonna fan and I come to this board not to put you down but to lift you up!

Although I love Madonna, I am also someone who loves Lady Gaga... Hey, I like good music. What can I say?

You guys don't need to be in meltdown mode right now and here is why.

Trust me... Madonna has flopped worse and managed to bounce back better than ever.

Madonna was riding high in the late 80's with the Blonde Ambition tour (Kinda like The Monster Ball). Express Yourself was her Bad Romance, and the release of Vogue in 1990 was her Born This Way. It rocked the charts and the world of music. Her performance at the Video Music Awards of Vogue is sited as one of the greatest moments in her career.

Nobody could defeat Madonna... except for Madonna.

She followed up Vogue with the song "Hanky Panky" ... not familiar with it? Most people aren't. It peaked at number 10 on the Billboard charts (the exact same place as Judas).

A single about kink? People were starting to think Madonna was deviant. I mean... critics had called her deviant since Like A Virgin... but now the general public was starting to wonder too. This reminds me of the response to Judas in many ways.

So Madonna decided to double down on that image. First testing the waters with Justify My Love off of her greatest hits album... the video was banned from MTV, MuchMusic in Canada, and landed her on ABC's Nightline. In that interview she gave flippant remarks that didn't help her at all.

Yes, Justify My Love went to number one. But it sold half what Vogue had done and was the lead single of The Immaculate collection. Her first greatest hits.

Still, she marched on and released The Sex Book... this book ruined her career. In it she was featured naked... in bondage clothes... looking at her vagina in a mirror... simulating urination. This was 1991 folks. Her next single went to number 9 and then down, down, down.

THEN, she decided to actually release the album every critic had been accusing her of releasing all along: Erotica.

Erotica, imho, was Madonna's ARTPOP.

The haters have accused Lady Gaga of being pretentious, weird, artsy, and over the top... but her albums had never tried to be that... until ARTPOP. She wanted a reaction, even piping in boos at the VMA's... but I don't think she wanted THIS MUCH of a reaction.

In a similar way, Madonna wanted a reaction with Erotica and she got it... but I don't think she wanted THAT MUCH of a reaction.

Her debut single "Erotica" only went to number 3 (and this was a different era folks)... The single was basically Madonna's alterego "Dita" (kinda like Lady Gaga created alter egos) reading (not singing) an explicit erotic poem over a beat that could have come from a seedy bathhouse in the belly of the beast.

Reading passages from the bible over a very similar, in a hushed s-xy voice didn't help her either.

Nor did the constant nudity.

Critics BASHED the album. With Entertainment Weekly calling it "depressingly trite" and "the most joyless dance music of all time." Slant called Madonna's voice nasal and remote. Even the New York Times got in on the action chiding it for a lack of musical depth and professional poignancy...

You know what the irony is? Just as I think will happen to ARTPOP, Erotica is now considered legend. Stylus magazine stated: "Erotica was too sophisticated for a mainstream besotted with The Bodyguard..."

This is what is going to happen to ARTPOP. People are going to frown on it now, and in 20 years applaud it for trying to do something so different.

Critics LOVE to re-write history.

Stanley Kubrick's classic The Shinning, received nothing but razzie awards the year it was made and is now listed by AFI as one of the greatest films of all time.

Being different comes with major risks.

Due to the extreme backlash to the album, the s-x book, and outright nudity, simulated orgy, explicit references to gay s-x, bdsm, and frankly some of the most offensive things the mainstream media had ever seen... the tour for Erotica, called The Girlie Show" was virtually pulled from the US except for a very few select dates.

In fact, the HBO broadcast of it has to be shown from Australia. And a 'safety taping' of it was shown... not a live performance. Reportedly due to weather.

The tour only grossed 70 million dollars. Most people claimed that Madonna was officially 'over.'

Those are probably the same people claiming now that Lady Gaga is officially over.

Despite Madonna intentionally toning it down this time... her next album performed even WORSE than Erotica... Bedtime stories opened with only 145,000 copies sold.

This was at a time well before downloads and piracy had crippled the music industry. In fact this was at the music industry's height.

145,000 for Madonna in 1994 would be like Lady Gaga opening with 20,000 today.

Madonna even addressed the situation in the single Human Nature which sampled Express Yourself and declared things like "Oops did I talk about s-x? Oops did I speak my mind? Oops did I talk about you? Well, I'm not sorry."

The album did have one success... a ballad called Take A Bow, but at that point, all Madonna could do was call it quits and she more or less did.

She left the music business to film Erotica. The only release after Bedtime Stories and before Ray of Light was a compilation of her greatest ballads with a single that FAILED to debut in the Hot 100 and PEAKED at number 78.

During this time, Madonna sought to repair her image by playing the legendary Eva Peron in Evita. There was massive outrage among the Argentine people that this 'witch' would play their idol.

But somehow, this movie helped to change Madonna in the public's eye. It didn't happen the moment it was released. In fact, it got mixed reviews at first... but as it ran, people began to see a new side of Madonna. A passionate side that was about music, philanthropy, and not so much about whips, urine, and softcore ****.

She went on to win a best actress Golden Globe for her performance.

But then she went away yet again.

She was busy recording her comeback album. She originally recorded Ray Of Light with producer Babyface, but it sounded too similar to music from Bedtime Stories and WORSE Erotica. She knew that this could not sound like it even so much as came from the same artist associated with Erotica.

She grew her hair out long, 'found religion', and released one of the greatest albums of all time: Ray Of Light.

The critics, the public, MTV, Rollingstone, the Grammy's, the VMA's, everyone was floored.

This was an album of real music, with a sound that had not been heard before thanks to Madonna's use of William Orbit's 'soundscape' style of music on a mainstream level for the first time. She sung personal songs about her struggles with fame, her mistakes, forgiveness, regret, and hope for a better future.

This album made me cry. 

I consider this album and Born This Way to be the two greatest pop albums released since The Beatles released Let It Be.

The reason I tell you this long story is because I want you to know that this is exactly what Lady Gaga is going to do.

Lady Gaga has a way out, and she is smart enough to take it.

She will likely have a lot of thinking to do in the coming days, and her next album may end up being her Bedtime Stories... but after that, watch out. Because she will do something so innovative nobody saw it coming. She will ACTUALLY reinvent herself, rather than the millions of phoney times she has reinvented herself.

I actually consider Ray of Light to be Madonna's only true reinvention. The others were staged... but that was real. She had tasted fame and then tasted what it was like to be on the bottom again and she changed because she had to in order to survive.

Lady Gaga has to see the writing on the wall, and I think she will likely change faster than Madonna.

I personally think she needs to write truly introspective music played with real instruments that showcase her voice.

That is a side few people have seen.

Critics keep praising Dope and Gypsy. This is where she needs to go with her sound.

She can still be fun and make dance music. Ray Of Light was dance music... but she needs to provide the substance she has always promised and do so in a way that idiots can understand it.

ARTPOP has substance but you have to truly know a LOT about art to get it all. The name of her flying dress is a send up to the name of the exhibit of the original meat dress in the 1930's and NOBODY has commented on this because so few people follow art history in America.

Applause isn't about Lady Gaga, it is about us, but nobody gets this because the average IQ is 100 and that means good chunk of America has a below average IQ... think about it?

Critics loved Born This Way enough to nominated it for album of the year... it wasn't Born This Way that ruined her. It wasn't the music. It was the presentation.

Just like Erotica is now being declared a masterpiece by many critics, the presentation in 1991 turned off so many people that Madonna ended up selling only 145,000 copies of Bedtime Stories in her first week... and then it FELL DOWN THE CHARTS.

So please, do not despair.

I have seen many acts rise and fall. Alanis Morissette is one of my favorites, I still buy Hanson's CD's... yeah, did you know the MMMBop kids just released their 8th album? And they aren't all even in their 30's and they still sell out shows... more intimate shows... but sellouts and damn good music that critics love.

Hanson's route would be the worst case scenerio, and very unlikely.

Lady Gaga will do what Madonna did before her and Cher did before Madonna.

She will come back bigger, better, and badder than ever.

Trust me, I've worked in this industry as well as followed it for a very long time.

<3

-- David

Brilliant post, and very educational!! Thank you SO much for sharing!!!! :hug:

[Doot 2]

Flop

 

I hope you get banned.

[Rat Boy 42,137]

This is absolutely true.

I'm a hardcore Madonna fan and I come to this board not to put you down but to lift you up!

Although I love Madonna, I am also someone who loves Lady Gaga... Hey, I like good music. What can I say?

You guys don't need to be in meltdown mode right now and here is why.

Trust me... Madonna has flopped worse and managed to bounce back better than ever.

Madonna was riding high in the late 80's with the Blonde Ambition tour (Kinda like The Monster Ball). Express Yourself was her Bad Romance, and the release of Vogue in 1990 was her Born This Way. It rocked the charts and the world of music. Her performance at the Video Music Awards of Vogue is sited as one of the greatest moments in her career.

Nobody could defeat Madonna... except for Madonna.

She followed up Vogue with the song "Hanky Panky" ... not familiar with it? Most people aren't. It peaked at number 10 on the Billboard charts (the exact same place as Judas).

A single about kink? People were starting to think Madonna was deviant. I mean... critics had called her deviant since Like A Virgin... but now the general public was starting to wonder too. This reminds me of the response to Judas in many ways.

So Madonna decided to double down on that image. First testing the waters with Justify My Love off of her greatest hits album... the video was banned from MTV, MuchMusic in Canada, and landed her on ABC's Nightline. In that interview she gave flippant remarks that didn't help her at all.

Yes, Justify My Love went to number one. But it sold half what Vogue had done and was the lead single of The Immaculate collection. Her first greatest hits.

Still, she marched on and released The Sex Book... this book ruined her career. In it she was featured naked... in bondage clothes... looking at her vagina in a mirror... simulating urination. This was 1991 folks. Her next single went to number 9 and then down, down, down.

THEN, she decided to actually release the album every critic had been accusing her of releasing all along: Erotica.

Erotica, imho, was Madonna's ARTPOP.

The haters have accused Lady Gaga of being pretentious, weird, artsy, and over the top... but her albums had never tried to be that... until ARTPOP. She wanted a reaction, even piping in boos at the VMA's... but I don't think she wanted THIS MUCH of a reaction.

In a similar way, Madonna wanted a reaction with Erotica and she got it... but I don't think she wanted THAT MUCH of a reaction.

Her debut single "Erotica" only went to number 3 (and this was a different era folks)... The single was basically Madonna's alterego "Dita" (kinda like Lady Gaga created alter egos) reading (not singing) an explicit erotic poem over a beat that could have come from a seedy bathhouse in the belly of the beast.

Reading passages from the bible over a very similar, in a hushed s-xy voice didn't help her either.

Nor did the constant nudity.

Critics BASHED the album. With Entertainment Weekly calling it "depressingly trite" and "the most joyless dance music of all time." Slant called Madonna's voice nasal and remote. Even the New York Times got in on the action chiding it for a lack of musical depth and professional poignancy...

You know what the irony is? Just as I think will happen to ARTPOP, Erotica is now considered legend. Stylus magazine stated: "Erotica was too sophisticated for a mainstream besotted with The Bodyguard..."

This is what is going to happen to ARTPOP. People are going to frown on it now, and in 20 years applaud it for trying to do something so different.

Critics LOVE to re-write history.

Stanley Kubrick's classic The Shinning, received nothing but razzie awards the year it was made and is now listed by AFI as one of the greatest films of all time.

Being different comes with major risks.

Due to the extreme backlash to the album, the s-x book, and outright nudity, simulated orgy, explicit references to gay s-x, bdsm, and frankly some of the most offensive things the mainstream media had ever seen... the tour for Erotica, called The Girlie Show" was virtually pulled from the US except for a very few select dates.

In fact, the HBO broadcast of it has to be shown from Australia. And a 'safety taping' of it was shown... not a live performance. Reportedly due to weather.

The tour only grossed 70 million dollars. Most people claimed that Madonna was officially 'over.'

Those are probably the same people claiming now that Lady Gaga is officially over.

Despite Madonna intentionally toning it down this time... her next album performed even WORSE than Erotica... Bedtime stories opened with only 145,000 copies sold.

This was at a time well before downloads and piracy had crippled the music industry. In fact this was at the music industry's height.

145,000 for Madonna in 1994 would be like Lady Gaga opening with 20,000 today.

Madonna even addressed the situation in the single Human Nature which sampled Express Yourself and declared things like "Oops did I talk about s-x? Oops did I speak my mind? Oops did I talk about you? Well, I'm not sorry."

The album did have one success... a ballad called Take A Bow, but at that point, all Madonna could do was call it quits and she more or less did.

She left the music business to film Erotica. The only release after Bedtime Stories and before Ray of Light was a compilation of her greatest ballads with a single that FAILED to debut in the Hot 100 and PEAKED at number 78.

During this time, Madonna sought to repair her image by playing the legendary Eva Peron in Evita. There was massive outrage among the Argentine people that this 'witch' would play their idol.

But somehow, this movie helped to change Madonna in the public's eye. It didn't happen the moment it was released. In fact, it got mixed reviews at first... but as it ran, people began to see a new side of Madonna. A passionate side that was about music, philanthropy, and not so much about whips, urine, and softcore ****.

She went on to win a best actress Golden Globe for her performance.

But then she went away yet again.

She was busy recording her comeback album. She originally recorded Ray Of Light with producer Babyface, but it sounded too similar to music from Bedtime Stories and WORSE Erotica. She knew that this could not sound like it even so much as came from the same artist associated with Erotica.

She grew her hair out long, 'found religion', and released one of the greatest albums of all time: Ray Of Light.

The critics, the public, MTV, Rollingstone, the Grammy's, the VMA's, everyone was floored.

This was an album of real music, with a sound that had not been heard before thanks to Madonna's use of William Orbit's 'soundscape' style of music on a mainstream level for the first time. She sung personal songs about her struggles with fame, her mistakes, forgiveness, regret, and hope for a better future.

This album made me cry. 

I consider this album and Born This Way to be the two greatest pop albums released since The Beatles released Let It Be.

The reason I tell you this long story is because I want you to know that this is exactly what Lady Gaga is going to do.

Lady Gaga has a way out, and she is smart enough to take it.

She will likely have a lot of thinking to do in the coming days, and her next album may end up being her Bedtime Stories... but after that, watch out. Because she will do something so innovative nobody saw it coming. She will ACTUALLY reinvent herself, rather than the millions of phoney times she has reinvented herself.

I actually consider Ray of Light to be Madonna's only true reinvention. The others were staged... but that was real. She had tasted fame and then tasted what it was like to be on the bottom again and she changed because she had to in order to survive.

Lady Gaga has to see the writing on the wall, and I think she will likely change faster than Madonna.

I personally think she needs to write truly introspective music played with real instruments that showcase her voice.

That is a side few people have seen.

Critics keep praising Dope and Gypsy. This is where she needs to go with her sound.

She can still be fun and make dance music. Ray Of Light was dance music... but she needs to provide the substance she has always promised and do so in a way that idiots can understand it.

ARTPOP has substance but you have to truly know a LOT about art to get it all. The name of her flying dress is a send up to the name of the exhibit of the original meat dress in the 1930's and NOBODY has commented on this because so few people follow art history in America.

Applause isn't about Lady Gaga, it is about us, but nobody gets this because the average IQ is 100 and that means good chunk of America has a below average IQ... think about it?

Critics loved Born This Way enough to nominated it for album of the year... it wasn't Born This Way that ruined her. It wasn't the music. It was the presentation.

Just like Erotica is now being declared a masterpiece by many critics, the presentation in 1991 turned off so many people that Madonna ended up selling only 145,000 copies of Bedtime Stories in her first week... and then it FELL DOWN THE CHARTS.

So please, do not despair.

I have seen many acts rise and fall. Alanis Morissette is one of my favorites, I still buy Hanson's CD's... yeah, did you know the MMMBop kids just released their 8th album? And they aren't all even in their 30's and they still sell out shows... more intimate shows... but sellouts and damn good music that critics love.

Hanson's route would be the worst case scenerio, and very unlikely.

Lady Gaga will do what Madonna did before her and Cher did before Madonna.

She will come back bigger, better, and badder than ever.

Trust me, I've worked in this industry as well as followed it for a very long time.

<3

-- David

  Thanks for putting things into perspective

[Doot 2]

  Thanks for putting things into perspective

 

LEt's be honest. Americano would deny this completely.

[blahblahblahhhh 15]

Someone should make a thread in the Thoughts section, we need this kind of positivity around here! lol If musicblind is fine with it, that is.

[Lady 748]

Is DWUW audio still age-restricted on YouTube? They should use DWUW cover for the middle east

[Americano 31,061]

LEt's be honest. Americano would deny this completely.

You all have an obsession with me, it's cute. But really, focus on the charts. Xo

[blahblahblahhhh 15]

Is DWUW audio still age-restricted on YouTube? They should use DWUW cover for the middle east

 

[MikeyMoonShine 0]

@musicblind That was fantastic. For me the Madonna comparisons were never about copying, they were about business sense, relevance in the industry, Breaking the mold, respect in the industry and critical reception. 

 

Gaga is close to Madonna with those things and i hope you are right and I hope Gaga does return bigger than ever. 

[Valextra 58]

With the SNL DWUW it's gonna to ben on the top10!

 

And with AMA and music video top5

[Rat Boy 42,137]

LEt's be honest. Americano would deny this completely.

 Tbh, like quite a few people on this forum, I don't really care if she eventually becomes "irrelevant" just as long as the music is good i'm happy. I just thought that this poster might make people see that just because she she's not exactly slaying the charts atm doesn't mean she's over    

[jhonyguy04 3]

I hope you get banned.

What the hell is ur problem??? :wtf: