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66 points
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gurl what? that has always been Gaga, she never sticks to one look for too long, shes constantly transforming, it has always been this "confusing" hence why a lot of people cant picture how Gaga actually looks to this day50 points
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Die with a Smile (with Bruno Mars): ROTY, SOTY, Pop Duo/Group Perf, Best Music Video Chromatica Ball: Best Music FIlm Sweet Sounds of Heaven: ROTY, SOTY, Rock Perf, Rock Song36 points
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it's always a hit or miss with movies, I mean, even Best Actors/Actress winners had shitty movies.. she did her job as an actress, she did it the best as she could with the material, but at the end, she has zero control on the final edit and the final vision of the director. I mean.. Michelle Yeoh won best actress and then her next movie The School for Good and Evil has 37% RT score.. even lower than JFAD It's not her ARTPOP, it's Todd's ARTPOP, it's his movie, not hers, she's only doing her job there.31 points
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Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars’ “Die With A Smile” returns to #1 on Spotify’s Today’s Top Hits playlist.31 points
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She‘s barely started to become exposed again - so she’s far from being overexposed if you ask me. DWAS and Joker 2 promo have been the only things the GP would have seen in the past few weeks - and if that feels overexposed tO some then that says more to their feelings towards Gaga than about the promo cycle. Spread the word! Her promo this era has been off to a great start and it feels like old Gaga days again - finally! She‘s in it with her whole heart and I’m loving every minute of it30 points
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Okay, before you come for me, hear me out…I was with some friends yesterday (who are gay but not massively in tune with everything happening in pop music and indifferent towards Gaga). They felt like Gaga was a bit “oversaturated” at the moment - as in they see her everywhere and can’t seem to get away, which I took away as a negative thing. They also commented on her red wig and heavy makeup look and said “I can’t believe she looks like that now and she’ll have that look for the next few years” - to which I felt like I had to explain that it’s only the promo look for the Joker film/Harlequin album and that she’s coming out with a new single for her new pop album in a few weeks so will debut a new look then. They thought this was all quite confusing especially as she wasn’t very recognisable in the DWAS promos either. They didn’t even know she was releasing a new album or lead single at all. Do we feel like she is doing too much at the same time? Given the divisive Joker film reviews too, do we feel like this will have potentially a negative effect on LG7? i.e. Fewer people will be here for it if she hadn’t released DWAS or been in the new Joker film/released all this right before her new single?28 points
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You’re being too dramatic. Even if there are mixed reviews, the movie has more buzz than HoG. Joaquin and Todd ARE doing promo, we’re just not so attentive to it, because it’s not being posted on here since it’s not JoaquinDaily or ToddDaily.28 points
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If October had 32 days, you could bet that day would be26 points
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https://variety.com/2024/music/concert-reviews/lady-Gaga-secret-concert-belasco-harlequin-joker-1236167691/ Can a set of show tunes and Great American Songbook standards, rendered with a healthy measure of respect and virtuosity, also be a punk-rock show? Or at least something that kinda/ sorta feels like one? That basic question arose over the course of seeing Lady Gaga’s secret post-midnight performance at downtown L.A.’s movie-palace-turned-music-club, the Belasco. There are surely a few performers out there who have a feel for both the classics of the Broadway/movie-musical era and raw-power rock ‘n’ roll. They just don’t exist at anywhere near the superstar level, and even in a more niche world, they probably know better than to try to combine these extremely different ethos. Lady Gaga, thankfully, does not know any better. After catching Monday night’s show, I’m happy to report that she is the woman who can marry the controlled genius of Tin Pan Alley and the wildly performative id of punk’s chaotic spirit… if only for one extremely memorable late night (or early morning). The show had her and a truly crackerjack six-piece band barreling through her new “Harlequin” album in its entirety, with the energy level turned up to 111, well beyond any recorded versions. No one should imagine that she will stay in this mode for very long (she already characterized the current record as “LG 6.5,” with a straight modern-pop album 7.0 to follow in four months). She’ll probably never even do another gig like this, with or without the strange set dressing at the Belasco that further pinned this as a unique moment in time. But as a one-off, it was glorious. I’ve been on record as being high on Gaga shows in the past, including her Dodger Stadium gig, her Chromatica residency and, especially, her Jazz & Piano shows in Las Vegas — to which the “Harlequin” stuff bears at least superficially a black-sheep-cousin relation. Having seen all those, I’m here to tell you her Belasco performance was utterly bonkers but also one of the best things she’s ever done. I’d say you had to be there to get it, with the cone of silence that was placed over the show, including the pouching of phones and watches and no photography released. (The photos seen accompaying this piece are from her Kimmel performance the following night.) But perhaps you didn’t have to be, assuming the cameras and cranes and waivers to be signed assured that there is some intended release, yet to be announced. Maybe it won’t transfer to whatever screens it ends up on; maybe you’ll be looking back on this when you see it in two weeks or six weeks or a year and thinking: What was he on about? That’s the risk in raving about something destined to be seen sooner or later on a small screen. But in the room, at least, it felt as galvanizing as, say, the tour-ending show Jack White did in the same venue a couple of years ago. Which is not something I walked in expecting to say about a show that was destined to have “That’s Entertainment,” “That’s Life” and “Get Happy” on the setlist. Exactly what the show was meant to convey, on a psychological level, remained a little bit mysterious, and even unsettled, in a good way. The production design for the set couldn’t have been more striking, or further away from any show-biz norm. The stage was dressed up as a dimly lit, disheveled studio apartment that has seen better days — and whose inhabitant probably has, too. Light peeked in a window through throughly messed-up venetian blinds that looked to have never been repaired from damage suffered in some rage or raucous party. Gaga’s “bed,” which she occasionally jumped up and down on like an unrestrained child, consisted of unmade sheets strewn across a mattress laid out on the floor — and a pillow that the singer gleefully ripped to shreds, finally showering the audience with feathers that flew all the way up into the balcony. Was this set supposed to be the humble lair of Gaga’s not-quite-on-her-rocker character from “Joker: Folie à Deux”? This would be a reasonable interpretation, for an audience that hadn’t yet seen the movie, whose premiere the star had attended hours earlier. And certainly she danced her way through the show like a possible madwoman, or someone hopped up on coke. But actual insanity probably wasn’t exactly the idea. At one point in the show, Gaga stopped to talk to the audience about how this was about her getting back in touch with the unbridled joy someone might experience in music and in performance before the expectations of a career knock that out of ‘em. So maybe the messy apartment set was just meant to reflect the mindset of somebody who is just so completely focused on finding manic ecstasy through art that little things like housekeeping and home repair take a back seat. And maybe we’re rethinking it either way — but the design certainly added a level of irony and intrigue that wouldn’t have been there if she’d just been performing “If My Friends Could See Me Now” in front of a stock phalanx of bright lights. But in front of this ambiguous backdrop was the unambiguous sight, and sound, of Gaga seeming to have the manic time of her life. Anyone who’d heard a report that she was not unduly high-energy at the film premiere a few hours earlier had to laugh at how she seemed to be consuming a whole year’s worth of energy in one hour-and-a-half-or-so performance. (With smartphones locked up, it was difficult to know when the show actually started or how long it lasted, with about half of the songs getting a do-over — with no flagging effect on her pep or the audience’s deafening enthusiasm levels.) Gaga had a small rag doll she occasionally picked up off the mattress and used as a performing partner, and she treated herself with all the spontaneous malleability of a floppy effigy — combined with the lapses into sheer precision you expect out of somebody who’s been training as hard as she has all her life. Befitting the advanced age of some of the material she was performing, there were some flapper-style moves, when Gaga wasn’t transforming herself into a one-woman moshpit. If it felt like the show had a legit punk sensibility at times, that was only in the set dressing, energy and the star’s unbridgled performance style, not anything you’d hear in an audio-only soundtrack. There, her singing was as flawless as ever, despite her seeming to work off a week’s worth of calories with every number that proceeded. The phenomenally good band very much had a rock ‘n’ roll spirit, although stylistically only a few of the numbers fit directly into that vein. With both a trumpet and sax player in constant motion in the mix, the group often slid into New Orleans-style jazz — most obviously when they did “Oh, When the Saints,” in a rendering that did Louis Armstrong proud but also made it feel like Armstrong had always been a rocker. The show had instrumental interludes, presumably for costume changes — although each time Gaga reappeared, it was in a different outfit that was mundane by her standards, with glitz never threatening to intervene. The concert opened with the surreal appearance of a spookily lit barbershop quartet, who reappeared later to be accompanied by the band in singing “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” One of the interludes had the group playing a tremolo-guitar-filled instrumental that was identified on the setlist (which Gaga herself leaked on Instagram) as a Cramps song. It was that kind of night: rooted in the best that mid-century Broadway and movie musicals had to offer, but suitably genre-inspecific and weird around the edges. That’s why I give this show a slight edge over her Jazz & Piano residency in Vegas, which I liked quite a lot. Gaga was certainly able to make the nostalgia evident in that show into something… well, Gaga-esque, but there was undeniably an element of cosplay in stepping into the costumes and songs of another era. The catalog she is dipping into for her “Harlequin” era is similarly throwback, obviously — despite the presence of a bit of original songwriting, and selections from lesser-known, slightly more contemporary shows like “The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd.” (That’s where the song “The Joker” is derived from, though most people guessed it was a fresh original at first.) But it’s a real kick to see her roughly returning to America’s shared past of show tunes and taking greater liberties, making the vibe very much her own. You’d never doubt the reverence she has for these songs, but there’s liberation in her being able to treat them kind of like that unmade bed. This studio-apartment set had room for a grand piano, and Gaga calmed herself down enough to sit at it for a spell, singing first a solo rendition of her current hit with Bruno Mars, “Die With a Smile,” and then use that as a segue into (naturally) Charlie Chaplin’s “Smile.” This was more the elegant Gaga that the establishment has come to know and love — a Lady fit for a sophisticated concert hall. That was, literally, grand, but the best parts of the show came in seeing her turn into the rocker she’s always threatened to be… to the point of picking up an electric guitar during “Happy Mistake.” Her motivations for doing an album beyond the “Joker” soundtrack album aren’t entirely simple to suss, but the best possible explanation is that, having proven she’s a good collaborator, she wanted to do something that was purely her vision. If so, this further culmination of the project, as a filmed show, confirms her unfiltered take can be not just interesting in a conceptual realm but a real, visceral kick in the pants. And if this single performance is as close as she ever comes to doing a pure rock album or tour, it’d be enough. For those of us who love old-school Broadway, furious bands, and a singer who has what it takes to do any of these styles, who could ask for anything more than a “World on a String” that slams? TL;DR - They loved it24 points
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If you don't follow Gaga or pop news specifically, these are the only things the GP would have picked up in the past months because they've been in major non-pop news or exposed otherwise: 1. DWAS 2. Gaga got engaged to this guy our intern wasn't able to find much info on 3. Joker 2 is out now20 points
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At least she did not consider Uranus Bloom18 points
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Joker 2 is such a sad case of wasted potential, Gaga and Joaquin give excellent performances but nothing could have saved what a pointless mess the script was17 points
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Die With A Smile remains at #4 in the United Kingdom today, spending its seventh consecutive week in the top 10 here! 🇬🇧 UK Official Singles Chart (04.10.24) : #4 (—) Die With A Smile (with Bruno Mars) Chart Run: 7-7-7-6-5-4-4 Total Sales: 244k (Silver) 23/08/24: #7 (NE) 27,333 sales 30/08/24: #7 (---) 34,128 sales (61,461 overall sales) 06/09/24: #7 (---) 34,194 sales (95,655 overall sales) 13/09/24: #6 (+1) 37,039 sales (132,694 overall sales) 20/09/24: #5 (+1) 36,013 sales (168,707 overall sales) 27/09/24: #4 (+1) 37,564 sales (206,271 overall sales) 04/10/24 #4 (—) 37,963 estimated sales (244,234 overall sales) We were 97 units from a top 3 peak, for reference in the U.K. today… #1 52,878 Sabrina Carpetener - Please Please Please #2 40,677 Chappel Roan - Good Luck Babe! #3 38,079 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso16 points
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i think this might have more to do with your friend's indifference towards Gaga than anything else16 points
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There's no backlash directed to her, so she'll be fine. If anything insatiable LMs who dismiss her continually and mock her for her jazz efforts/project choices might be even more of a danger to her mental health because she cares deeply about these projects.16 points
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You don't know that... For reference, Bruno Mars never once lost a SOTY or ROTY nomination, plus we all know that Gaga's one of the Grammy's faves. She literally got nominated for some of the big categories with Tony. Considering Grammy's typical voting demographics, she has a better chance right now than Sabrina or any other new pop girl. The only thing that could hinder it is the fact that in the past 5 years, there are a lot of new young voters who will likely favour Billie, Sabrina and even Taylor Swift. But I don't get why people are so negative and say straight away she won't win any big category when it's been the number 1 song in the world for the past 2 months14 points
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I am worried that JFAD is the ARTPOP of her acting career. Gaga is at the happiest she’s ever been in her life but the poor reception (critics and fans), potential box office bomb and losses, and award nom snubs that this film is going thru rn is giving me ARTPOP vibes. Not to mention the messes Joaquin and Todd put her thru - rewriting scenes that she prepped for last minute, cutting out a lot of her scenes in the final version, and then barely lifting a finger for promo while she is doing all the promo I just hope this isn’t similar because Gaga lost her passion for music after ARTPOP and I don’t want Gaga to lose her acting passion, or passions in general, over this film and the people involved.13 points
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No, but she needs to stop following the Oscar bait route and focus on developing her acting skills with artsy movies. These projects are waaay to ambitious and people value simplicity.13 points
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Also it is worth mentioning, from the update yesterday, we are now challenging Ariana on the peak monthly listeners on Spotify. Gaga #6 at 99,101,651 Ariana #5 at 99,648,377 about 650k difference. Honestly, never in my wild imagination would I ever think this is possible...13 points
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THURSDAY STREAMS 10/03: 10.977 million streams worldwide Stream gaps: 3.124 M vs. Birds Of A Feather 4.742 M vs. Taste 41st day @ #1 GLOBAL SPOTIFY 🔥 Lady Gaga behavior. Antis fuming!13 points
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"they didn't even know she was releasing" tells me they're just haters after all thats been getting promoted. They're probably seeing something on their tik tok and scrolling and now they think she's everywhere.13 points
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also at #9 (+8) on Hot Hits UK which is imperative for the Official UK top 40.13 points
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Harlequin debuts on official album charts: New Zealand #28 Australia #40 Lithuania #6913 points
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Sorry but your posts give me the impression you’re rooting against Harlequin just to prove your point. You don’t like it, that’s fine. But charts don’t always reflect the music’s quality.13 points
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they should just release it instead of doing press for it13 points
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Well technically you can act well in a bad movie12 points
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Jay Z for sure Naomi Campbell 100000% since she always said P Diddy was her “chosen family”/brother lmao, let’s see if she can save herself this time11 points
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The Joker is #91 in the UK Downlad Singles Chart Happy Mistake is #93 in the UK Downlad Singles Chart10 points
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i fear for how this fanbase reacts to actual movie bomb in her career and i mean one that'll actually hurt her career her acting is still being praised and the critics say there's not enough of her... when they start coming for her acting then we should be concerned10 points
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Who cares? Stream Harlequin, prepare to see Joker, get ready for LG7 lead. Enjoy the moment, revel in her career and artistry and tell your friends to stfu.10 points
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There is no overexposure in the digital era. Look at Taylor. News/events/releases come and go in the same week if not the same day.10 points
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