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Who Will Win? Lady Gaga, Mayhem Gaga scored three consecutive Album of the Year nominations beginning in 2010 with The Fame, followed up by The Fame Monster the next year, and Born This Way in 2012. But more than a decade later, she has experience on her side now, not to mention a stunner of an LP in Mayhem. “Lady Gaga always feels like a strong contender for this category,” says John Stein, head of North America Editorial at Spotify. “And [her being a] household name helps here.” Mayhem may actually benefit from the competition too, Stein says: “I think it might win based on vote splitting.” Link for the full article here: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/grammys-2026-album-of-the-year-predictions-nominees-1235441589/ The last time Rolling Stone got the right prediction was for Folklore, 2021.

Musically speaking, there is no better option to win this year. MAYHEM is a triumph and a pure celebration of so many musical genres. Her best work to date in my opinion.

She makes it so, so easy

part of me wishes you were a mod so you could have closed the thread after this reply

This is just further proof she has no artistic integrity and just cares about the charts

Anyway here’s 35 more variants, consume

It's comical how determined most of you are to hate on her.

"If it's the first week of my album release and if you're saying either my name or my album title, you're helping" Narcissistic of her to say. I usually give her benefit of the doubt cuz I am a fan, but this album is really not it. This behavior will soon backlash for her. I hope she just takes the criticism like an adult and makes a better album. Or prolly elevate her artistry.

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She gets her pússy ate by the public 99% of the time, even when she’s churning out mid-quality music, so it’s about time she got a little bit humbled by the masses tbh

not Adam Levine catching a stray, that's sister

Opalite is a bop ! people love putting their energy into hate if it’s not your vibe move on

Spotify Global #21 (+1) DWAS - 3,061,768 #155 (+2) TDD - 1,283,583 #189 (-16) Poker Face - 1,174,996

For the first time the world doesn't drop to its knees before her and she decides it warrants a response to dismiss the incredibly valid criticism of her lackluster and cringy writing, uninspired production, predatory sales tactics, and MAGA dogwhistling. All while still breaking sales records It's giving fragile, narcissistic ego but wbk she's a real life mean girl. Poor little billionaire Life must be so hard for you

Would Rolling Stone lie? Considering that they give TLOAS a 5/5

I heard TDD like 5 times on the radio yesterday

https://www.instagram.com/p/DPeooylEhlM/?img_index=1 Hours ago, PinkPantheress just announced a list of artists who will be featuring on her upcoming remix project Fancy Some More. The artists included:

Nah, it’s mostly that her and her fans are insufferable and she’s deeply shallow and self-absorbed. She literally talks about the lyrics on this album like they’re profound. Her head is too far up her own ass and she needs to touch grass expeditiously.

LM: Gaga we want DarkGa BACK! Gaga: Here’s Disease, a dark song and a creepy mv LM: this is too dark, it will flop, GP hates too dark Gaga: here’s TDD a groovy but dark song and a spooky mv LM: this is not dark enough, it’s too dancey to be dark! And the mv is LAME! Gaga: ma vaffanculo Can u guys just enjoy the era? Too dark, not dark enough, mayhem is not dark, dark dark dark

Let's be honest, other fanbases are jealous of her. If she weren't as successful, no one would care this much about how genuine or artistic she is. Other artists don't even write her songs or direct her own videos, she does, she's very involved in every single step of her creative process, more than any other popstar. Judging by how we love to brag about every achievement of our faves, we all wish they were on her level of success, wether we admit it or not. There's a reason why the charts thread here is contantly buzzing, we all care about charts and stats, is part of being a fanbase.

Most liked YT uploads on Gaga channel (excluding autogenerated audios): #1 Die With A Smile 12,454,870 #2 Bad Romance 9,942,402 #3 Shallow MV 8,622,748 #4 Poker Face 8,314,788 #5 Rain On Me 5,938,472 #6 Shallow Oscars 5,011,194 #7 Sour Candy (audio) 4,027,726 #8 Always Remember Us This Way 3,666,594 #9 Judas 3,486,302 #10 Abracadabra 3,349,771 #11 Telephone 3,086,771 #12 I'll Never Love Again 3,055,691 #13 Alejandro 2,948,324 #14 Applause 2,785,286 #15 Million Reasons 2,365,097 #16 Just Dance 2,320,686 #17 Paparazzi 2,135,173 #18 Born This Way 1,909,265 #19 Stupid Love 1,900,048 #20 Bloody Mary (audio) 1,867,089 #21 Hold My Hand 1,799,613 #22 911 1,743,322 #23 Perfect Illusion 1,493,851 #24 LoveGame 1,188,572 #25 The Edge Of Glory 1,101,884 #26 Super Bowl Halftime Show 1,037,653 #27 The Dead Dance 1,019,951 #28 Yoü and I 995,469 #29 G.U.Y. (edit) 993,695 #30 Disease 927,898 #31 Million Reasons (audio) 891,713 #32 G.U.Y. ARTPOP film 822,550 #33 Marry The Night 821,230 #34 Sour Candy (lyric) 811,730 #35 Telephone (explicit) 810,693

Shallow is hitting 2.9 Billion streams on Spotify today

Lol this is just not true

I feel like the vast majority of the criticism I’ve seen of TLOAS is extremely valid. There’s a difference between blatant hate and criticism. Commenting on her dating life or past relationships, imo, has always been weird and ugly. It always felt very misogynistic; I think THAT is unwarranted hate. However, when it comes to her music and how she presents herself as an “artist”, I think those are 100% valid critiques.

Thanks

Best part of the song

your hatred for this woman could power a tiny village for 3 minutes let me join you and make it 6 minutes

We all did

Erm I would pretty much let Taylor know that she is a boring **** and, um the album that she gave me was not something that I would particularly listen to myself. They were old maiden type of variants, and she said that those variants were meant to be eaten up EVERYONE and their grandmas. So if that is the case she should have put them back in the studio and she should never even recorded them because she was UNQUALIFIED to give me that album if that's the case and, um I think that Taylor is just a disgrace. She's a disgrace to women who are actually talented and classy and, um she just doesn't have the vernacular she thinks she possesses Somebody lied to her several times and told her that she was a showgirl, a poet, hot and sexy and beautiful and she's nothing like that She's nothing of the sort

me no curr, deserved for wasting money on caca music

in fact we should be even more harsh on that hunched back hag! let’s continue to shame mediocrity and praise hard work and talent. imagine having the privilege of being a working musician and all you do is sing talk to high school level poetry as a grown ass adult? there’s so many artists working their asses off daily to improve at their craft.

no i actually think people are too soft on her considering her music would be downright panned or passed if released by any other artist, her stature as a untouchable juggernaut is preceeding too much the quality of her work.

She also gets praise when it is not warranted honestly . she can literally buy 10/10 reviews and fabricate record sales with all the variants. she is the textbook definition of overrated

No she needs to go away for a while she is so obsessed with what people think of her and it’s a big turnoff go live your fabulously rich life girl stop caring what people think of you

I'm not a swiftie, just a casual listener, but the dogpiling/tribalism everyone is showing is so gross. The same sh*t you see in high school, work places, etc.. always wanting to see the "top dog" fail because everyone is secretly jealous and miserable. Anyway, I enjoyed the album, Fate of Ophelia is an incredibly catchy song, one of her best leads imo.

No because she gets praise when she does things worthy of praising. She simply didn’t do that this time.

Most of the fandom loved Disease. There was just apprehension from some because they everso naively thought it was the lead single so it might not get positive GP recognition. The Mayhem Ball is probably the darkest thing she's ever created and it's a massive success across the board.

Well she will inevitably break Adele's record with one of her albums so not surprising to me. The key difference is, when Adele released 25, everyone and their mother rushed to buy a personal copy, and maybe one for the car. People gifted the album to eachother at Christmas because they thought the receiver likes Adele just as much as they do. That's an artist that really touched the regular person. Like Céline did before her. Like Whitney with Bodyguard. Taylor releases same bland songs with 55 variants in 120 formats and her fanbase makes sure to get all of them because they think it's their personality. Art and music can be commercial, but Taylor is just the soundtrack to late capitalism. I will continue to be disgruntled, and she'll continue to sell millions every week.

I feel like they just sealed her fate of losing (again) because they rarely get these predictions right so goodbye AOTY 2026

I actually think it’s gonna win and then boozt abracadabra to being the number one hit it deserves a la million reasons (superbowl 2017)

Some opinions may come across as rude or harsh, but I understand where they originate. I genuinely believe — and I think many others would agree — that Taylor Swift’s unprecedented commercial success feels undeserved. I don’t consider her music to be the worst, but most of it strikes me as dull and uninspiring, and it rarely evokes any emotional response in me. As Gaga fans, especially now during the Mayhem era, it feels unfair to see someone whose work resembles fast-food pop — easily consumable but lacking excitement — achieving numbers several times larger than our idol, whom many of us have supported for years. It’s not pure envy or jealousy; rather, it’s a sense of cultural injustice. We’re trying to reconcile that feeling within ourselves when engaging in pop culture discussions.

For everyone here who claims to hate her, it's remarkable about how much you all talk about her. It's one thing to discuss her new album or criticise her for things that she's done that you dislike, but the sheer quantity of threads is just bizarre. There are users in this thread who I see talking about her more than they talk about Gaga, on a Gaga forum. The evidence being that out of nine threads in the 'new threads' category, five are about Taylor Swift. It's just unhinged.

She's the typical type of a loser that turned into a toxic overachiever. She's a black hole of attention, money and numbers. Never satisfied. Always looking for more, more, more. Her craft is bad, but she just want more and more people to consume it. And people just fall in the trap. She's the leader of a cult. I just hate it.