No. This level of "success" happens for those who make art deemed safe and palatable enough for grandparents/young children to consume. The sex, violence, and satire Gaga has been putting out from the start capped that off and the performance art quality alienates a large portion of the gp that's left. I'm (happily) surprised she got as popular as she is.

So she's replacing Gaga in the Festival game mode? Her skin looks so good! The fact she's releasing new music at the same time as her Fortnite collab while Gaga and her team literally did nothing with the exposure

https://www.vogue.fr/article/interview-celine-dion-vogue-france-mai-2024-beaute

a look into the future

Anthology got a 6

“I’m so ready to be tour-mates” oh the paycheck was on the LINE, henny!

Hozier’s “Too Sweet” ascends to No. 1, from No. 2, on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, three weeks after it debuted at No. 5. The Irish singer-songwriter achieves his first Hot 100 leader. In his sole prior run in the top 10, he hit No. 2 with his breakthrough hit “Take Me to Church” in 2014-15. “Too Sweet” is from Hozier’s EP Unheard, which debuted three weeks ago as his fourth Billboard 200 top 10. The single, which Hozier co-wrote and co-produced marks the fifth Hot 100 No. 1 by an Irish act. It drew 35.6 million streams and 14.1 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 136%, good for top Airplay Gainer honors on the Hot 100) and sold 6,000 in the April 12-18 tracking week. stream “Too Sweet” and "First Time" Sabrina Carpenter earns her first Hot 100 top 10 as “Espresso” enters the chart at No. 7., it drew 19.8 million streams and 5.1 million in airplay audience and sold 4,000 in its first week.

Taylor has become the McDonald's of the music industry to get this success, so no. It's not applicable to an actual artist.

She’s entitled to her wrong opinion.

Reparations for bringing Camila

Cowboy Carter got 8.4 which of course means TTPD will win AOTY.

No. Cause if she gets that she'll have to compromise, stop comparing her to Gaga, to me they're night and day artists, people say that she's all about music, but beyond the illusion she's clearly all about the business in music rather, Gaga wouldn't be Gaga if she was putting out the kind of things the way she does it. Gaga and her music represented a shift and a revolution in pop music that was striking and relentless like no other in recent times, she can't replicate that, or any other artist for that matter, she was as huge as it gets, i dont know why you are sad she wasn't bigger, why are you insecure about it? Gaga clearly doesn't mind it, and her fans need to move on too, she's not greedy nor narsissistic enough to have this mindset or be ever aiming at it, she's eternally grateful she gets to have a spot in the zeigaist of pop culture at all, and what a ****ing legendary spot!

In standard and extended editions, Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album races to fill the gap between her intimate songwriting and her increasingly outsized persona. It’s unruly, unedited, and even a little tortured. The Tortured Poets Department, Swift’s 11th studio album, senses that widening gap between Taylor Swift the artist and Taylor Swift the phenomenon, and wants to fill it with a firehose of material. The burden of expectation is substantial: This is Swift’s first body of new work since the end of a years-long relationship and a pair of high-profile, whirlwind romances—one of which, with the 1975’s Matty Healy, appears to have provided much of the inspiration here. Fans came to Tortured Poetsseeking emotional catharsis, or at least the salacious details. Swift, it seems, wanted the comfort of familiarity. Returning to Jack Antonoff and the National’s Aaron Dessner, her primary songwriting and producing partners of the last several years, Swift picks up threads from Folk-more and Midnights without quite pulling anything loose. Tortured Poets’ extended Anthology edition runs over two hours, and even in the abridged version, its sense of sprawl creeps down to the song level, where Swift’s writing is, at best, playfully unbridled and, at worst, conspicuously wanting for an editor. The winking title track—a joke about its subjects’ self-seriousness—makes fun of the performance of creative labor, which is funny, given the show that Swift is putting on herself. She piles the metaphors on thick, throws stuff at the wall even after something has stuck, picks up the things that didn’t stick and uses them anyway. There is a clear emphasis here on vulnerability; it’s an effort to rub some of the varnish off of Taylor Swift the commercial product and focus on Taylor Swift the tender, unlucky romantic with whom we fell in love so many years ago. No matter her stature, Swift can still reach the everywoman. She is versed in memespeak: “Down Bad” works because of the juxtaposition between its banal hook and its description of “cosmic love”; the corporate girlies will go feral for “I cry a lot but I am so productive” (“I Can Do It With a Broken Heart”). I can even get on board with the outlaw machinations of “I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can),” if mostly for the lyrical backflip of its chorus: “They shook their heads saying, ‘God help her’ when I told ’em he’s my man/But your good Lord didn’t need to lift a finger/I can fix him, no really I can.” If Swift believes that output for its own sake is what she has to offer, she underestimates her gift. Listeners who believe that her every ounce of experience is inherently interesting—because she was the one to have it—misunderstand her as well. Taylor Swift doesn’t need a whole album to tell the story of a relationship; she only needs one song, sometimes even one line. She almost has it in Tortured Poets’ title track, with the tossed-off brilliance of “We’re modern idiots.” She’s nearly there with the vignette, which needs a bit more burnishing, about her man slipping a ring from her middle to her eager left ring finger at dinner. You can see what she’s chasing here: the moment in time that triggers a flash of feeling that lasts forever—the sort of thing people call Swiftian. We’ve been students of Swift’s poetry for years. The lesson of The Tortured Poets Department is not to push through the pain—it’s to take the time to process it. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/taylor-swift-the-tortured-poets-department-the-anthology/

American businesswoman Taylor Swift has just released her new album called "The Tortured Poets Department" breaking records left and right, the 34-year-old queen of multiple album variants has received mixed to positive reviews and Pitchfork decided to give the album 6.0 points on their review, this places it below the pediatric icon "Peppa Pig" This did not go unnoticed by the 4 year old pork; the pink swine decided to post a picture comparing both reviews. It seems that the battle between these two to reach the children's audience with their lyrics has barely begun. Which album do you think is better?

It is new and currently still on her IG Story

the way her praise of TTPD is so generic is very telling

This feels like one of these friends who never make it to meet up with you but every here and then you see them posting stories having fun with Haus Labs and having Nurtecs

That's queen things. It's giving relatable, its giving working class, its giving our ice cream machine is down, its giving pull in the drive thru parking space we need to make fries, its giving are you paying with your app. Love that for her.

Here:

I feel like it's constantly talked about here lol. It's just not that special and y'all refuse to accept that.

14-year-old me thought Gaga was untouchable and the TFM domination would last forever 💔

Please let’s not act a fool again GGD. Enough with the “OMG how”, “OMG something is rigged”, “OMG it’s because of multiple versions”. You can not like her but really we gonna play the surprised pikachu face card over and over when this is her 6th album with similar stats (while the others were not far behind). An album can not be great in anyone’s opinion and still sell well? You guys know that right.

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Seriously, it's such an epic mv and it's hardly talked about or appreciated within the Gaga fandom. On TikTok there's like no HQ stills or edits using JW. Closest is her runway walk from 2016 which gained a bit of traction in 2023. Hell, you have better chance of finding higher quality "DWUW" footage and that didn't even get released officially. And yes, im aware its her lowest viewed mv to date, but still Major Acid/Harley hybrid vibes too. Thank you Jonas!

I worked hard on myself and my mental health to be able to be optimistic and trusting again, and for what.

You can tell she paid Pitchfork because this album is a 4.0 at best and still will win AOTY

J. Cole’s “7 Minute Drill” falls off the Hot 100, a week after it debuted at No. 6. On the song, he appears to respond to Lamar’s apparent disses directed at himself and Drake in “Like That.” Days after releasing “7 Minute Drill” April 5 on his album Might Delete Later, J. Cole apologized for the its arrival, explaining that it doesn’t “sit right with my spirit,” and the track was removed from the streaming edition of the LP April 12; as of April 22, it is still available on the set’s digital download edition. The song rewrites the record for the steepest drop off the Hot 100 a week after debuting, surpassing Soko’s viral hit “We Might Be Dead by Tomorrow.” In late March, 2014, "We Might Be Dead by Tomorrow" debuted at #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and dropped off the following week, making it the highest-charting song that was only on the Hot 100 for one week in the history of the chart.

I travelled into the future and took the photo with my Polaroid camera glasses then travelled back to post it <3

Is Hozier a threat to Gaga, Taylor, Dua, Billie and Ariana for Pop Vocal Album next year?

i know the Gaga x fortnite delay was out of Gaga's hands but i wish they kept it for LG7 so it didn't feel like the last drop of piss from the chromatica era, it would have been way more hype with the new LG7 aesthetic

Because Billie has a good team in terms of music promo.

Call me biased but I don't even compare Gaga to Taylor. Gaga's achieved SO much in her career, and in so many different areas. I'm convinced her legacy will live on much longer than any of the other pop stars of her generation really. At least you know when she puts out another album it's gonna be different to the previous one, which is more than you can say for others...

What success? Having big streaming numbers to her name and making a lot of money selling the same product to the same people 20 times over? Gaga's an infinitely more interesting and multifaceted artist. Imo, she's more successful than Taylor in any way that's important. Taylor's on the radio but only Gaga is your fave's fave

Taylor's arc has never been seen before. Her original peak was 1989. Huge album. Imperial phase. All that jazz. Then she did the normal thing that happens after a once in a lifetime peak: She ebbed back to the middle with Reputation and Lover. Both big albums for sure. But not 1989 big. But then she not only re-peaked with Folkmore, Evermore, her Taylor versions, and Midnights, she's seemingly surpassed all her past peak eras, including 1989, with Poets. Not even Madonna did this - who did have two very successful albums (Ray of Light and Confessions) after she'd ebbed away from her imperial phase. But neither of those albums were BIGGER than True Blue or Like a Prayer. It's truly bizarre. And no one could have seen this coming after Lover. I know I didn't. That being said, I never thought Gaga would keep her TFM influence/peak because no pop star ever does or ever has. Except now Taylor.

Looks gooooooood

Shallow has now reached 2.4b streams on Spotify! Gaga's top 20 most-streamed tracks on Spotify (for 21.04.24) : 01. Shallow 2.400b (2,400,721,438) 02. Poker Face 1.234b (1,234,489,827) 03. ARUTW 1.229b (1,229,750,799) 04. Bad Romance 1.188b (1,188,090,482) 05. Rain On Me 1.045b (1,045,304,196) 06. Just Dance 1.022b (1,022,854,482) 07. Million Reasons 812m (812,383,467) 08. Telephone 682m (682,606,031) 09. Born This Way 596m (596,738,307) 10. Paparazzi 565m (565,456,683) 11. Applause 535m (535,491,924) 12. Bloody Mary 496m (496,456,161) 13. Judas 457m (457,996,204) 14. Alejandro 447m (447,506,886) 15. LoveGame 379m (379,666,567) 16. Stupid Love 373m (373,729,879) 17. The Cure 370m (370,909,400) 18. Sour Candy 358m (358,020,082) 19. INLA (Film V) 357m (357,121,225) 20. Hold My Hand 306m (306,209,585)

Saw a few swifties on twitter saying her and her team are probably scrambling trying to soften the blow, and that Taylor usually doesn’t share reviews on her stories but started to after the mixed/bad reviews started to come in.

Too generous.

Stupid Love. In my religion, we aren't allowed to watch music videos, so I never watched them. Then, one day, God let me down so I finally decided to watch a video and it was Stupid Love. I can't believe I'm going to hell for that iPhone filmed video where she really just glued fridge magnets to her face. Btw, my religion is lying and I think it was actually Just Dance or Poker Face but I can't remember.

https://x.com/billboard/status/1781871016391647704?s=46&t=RLk3skvYM7njdbJKkNFZ2Q

LG7: Lady Gaga Presents: The Tortured Little Monsters Department

Taylor's success is nothing but heavy marketing and obsession of the fans, despite what the delusional blinded cult members fans are trying to tell you. If we do the math and reduce the sales to only 1 variant, the numbers are not so impressive. And about Gaga, I guess she's not that desperate to sell her music and be successful.. she's at the top of her own game.

I still do because im the biggest clown in the world

Yo Taylor im really happy for you, but as a famous jealous bitter icon once said:

Is 8 years not enough waiting?

I've been saying this, it absolutely is essential to her musical legacy, particularly for this decade 2020-2030. As someone who believes she should be in the same lane as today's modern day supremes (Bey and Tay), it is very frustrating to watch her take a back seat for so long and allow her voice to be so absent from musical pop culture. I fully agree it's a make or break - and I hate to admit sometimes I feel like she has already waited too long. If she comes back FULL SWING, she can do it. But right now I can't believe it's nearing the end of April and we still don't have any real info. We need a BTW level era to bring us back.