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The moment she said, "And now Im going to sing Applause because I was told to do so" was the moment everything became clear. She lost the song. She lost it to the machinery of purely manufactured, anti-critical machinery. Its her song but at the same time its an expected part of her now. What once began as a song about celebrating the essence of performance is now a empty shell being moved around without a purpose. It made me a bit sad when she said that but its completely true. There is is machine attempting to control her every move and every decision. They want to her play Applause because it is the big recognizable hit. They want her to do choreography and look pretty on stage. They want her satisfy and feed the masses. This performance was a huge movement against all these controlling forces. By "them" I mean her label, pop culture, and one-sided fans who want pop-number one charts-simple yet weird-Gaga. 

The puking was her way of penetrating through all this. She did not choreography and did not beautify it to her original standard performances she does. Today was all about going against the grain. Look at her song choices: Aura, Swine, Dope, Gypsy, MANiCURE, Bad Romance (which is funny because she also deconstructed that baby as well)etc.) Everything that we expected (i.e a nice choreographed Venus or Guy performance) was thrown out the window. 

In in the end it was all for the sake of protecting herself against all these one-sided and one-minded expectations.

I never thought about it like that :udidnt:

 

You're right. That is kind of sad...

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AmenTheNight

To sum up ;

2008 : I love Pop Music, I am Pop Music

2014 : **** you Pop Music

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TraeumereiLPB

Another meltdown, oh well it's getting old. I loved the performance, it was high energy and fun. I did not get the off tune singing as much as some of you are saying. It rather seemed like she had a dry throat, maybe a bit hoarse. But my ears did not catch any horrible vocals :shrug: And also, some said the backing vocals were too loud. Uhm... I think they are just right, during Bad Romance they are almost too quiet. And even if they were too loud, Gaga is not to blame for something like this.

 

Now about the vomiting part: It was BRILLIANT! I don't get why some say it was nasty or try hard. Bleeding to death is ok, but colored vomit is not? Oh well.

It's hard to light a candle, easy to curse the dark instead.
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ModernEcstasy

After letting this sink in for a few hours, I'm still a little disappointed. Where was the Gaga that we saw at Swinefest? Are there troubles with the label, putting the tour in danger. Have I wasted money by buying artRAVE tickets?

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clefable

After letting this sink in for a few hours, I'm still a little disappointed. Where was the Gaga that we saw at Swinefest? Are there troubles with the label, putting the tour in danger. Have I wasted money by buying artRAVE tickets?

stop being so dramatic it was just a performance

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BloodyM

The moment she said, "And now Im going to sing Applause because I was told to do so" was the moment everything became clear. She lost the song. She lost it to the machinery of purely manufactured, anti-critical machinery. Its her song but at the same time its an expected part of her now. What once began as a song about celebrating the essence of performance is now a empty shell being moved around without a purpose. It made me a bit sad when she said that but its completely true. There is is machine attempting to control her every move and every decision. They want to her play Applause because it is the big recognizable hit. They want her to do choreography and look pretty on stage. They want her satisfy and feed the masses. This performance was a huge movement against all these controlling forces. By "them" I mean her label, pop culture, and one-sided fans who want pop-number one charts-simple yet weird-Gaga. 

The puking was her way of penetrating through all this. She did not choreography and did not beautify it to her original standard performances she does. Today was all about going against the grain. Look at her song choices: Aura, Swine, Dope, Gypsy, MANiCURE, Bad Romance (which is funny because she also deconstructed that baby as well)etc.) Everything that we expected (i.e a nice choreographed Venus or Guy performance) was thrown out the window. 

In in the end it was all for the sake of protecting herself against all these one-sided and one-minded expectations.

I get what you're saying but she knew what she was getting herself into. If she didn't want to do pop music she shouldn't have in the first place. If she didn't want to look pretty she shouldn't have dyed her hair blonde and acted all pretty for the sake of it. For me it seems like she wanted The Fame, she wanted The Money. She's now got it all and she's seems like shes not bothered about 'The Kingdom' she built.

If she didn't want to do 'Applause' then she shouldn't have performed it in the first place as I'm against forcing. Maybe she shouldn't have performed at all.  Don't get me work, if this is what she wants then I'll support her decisions and most importanly I hope that shes happy.

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BricksNStrings

The moment she said, "And now Im going to sing Applause because I was told to do so" was the moment everything became clear. She lost the song. She lost it to the machinery of purely manufactured, anti-critical machinery. Its her song but at the same time its an expected part of her now. What once began as a song about celebrating the essence of performance is now a empty shell being moved around without a purpose. It made me a bit sad when she said that but its completely true. There is is machine attempting to control her every move and every decision. They want to her play Applause because it is the big recognizable hit. They want her to do choreography and look pretty on stage. They want her satisfy and feed the masses. This performance was a huge movement against all these controlling forces. By "them" I mean her label, pop culture, and one-sided fans who want pop-number one charts-simple yet weird-Gaga. 

The puking was her way of penetrating through all this. She did not choreography and did not beautify it to her original standard performances she does. Today was all about going against the grain. Look at her song choices: Aura, Swine, Dope, Gypsy, MANiCURE, Bad Romance (which is funny because she also deconstructed that baby as well)etc.) Everything that we expected (i.e a nice choreographed Venus or Guy performance) was thrown out the window. 

In in the end it was all for the sake of protecting herself against all these one-sided and one-minded expectations.

this x 10000. I love this post.

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Phenomenal! SHE KILLED IT. Like some of the best performances of her career. She's been practicing hard. So proud of her! ugghh life slayeddd. VOMITPOP 

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