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bro... the cut off is crazy

The Paramore frontwoman announced a run of dates earlier this month, and within days she extended the tour due to “overwhelming demand”. The shows kick off in Atlanta on March 27 and include dates in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Dublin in June. Now, she has given an interview to Clash in which she has clearly stated that she intends the tour to be entirely inclusive, saying she wants everybody to “feel welcome to the party”. “I don’t want racists around, and I don’t want sexist people around, and I don’t want people there who think that trans people are a burden,” Williams told the publication. “I think that’s a hard line for me now. I hope it naturally happens that people who do harbour those harmful ideologies aren’t going to feel welcome, because they’re going to walk in the door and realise that the gang’s all here, all banded together around something positive,” she continued. “All are welcome if you believe all should be welcome… If you don’t believe that, you’re not welcome!” Williams is a long-standing campaigner on these subjects, openly criticising the Tennessee Republican leadership last year after turning down an official State Honour. “The blatant racism of our state leadership is embarrassing and cruel,” she said. “Myself, as well as Paramore, will continue to encourage young people to show up to vote with equality in mind.” https://www.nme.com/news/music/hayley-williams-tells-racists-sexists-and-anti-trans-people-theyre-not-welcome-at-upcoming-tour-3913867 https://www.clashmusic.com/features/true-believer-hayley-williams-interviewed/

The fact that newcomer Olivia Dean achieved that, mama what are the A lists doing! Hopefully a trend being made

Can you guys be more empathetic? They need more money to support their luxurious lives. I support Gaga ripping her fans off if that’s what it takes for her to thrive her lifestyle. I’m sorry I love seeing her happy in her expensive clothes.

Not a day goes by without me thinking about this mess you just had to be there!!

6. 911 - 8.95 Highest Score: 10 Lowest Score: 5 Participants:

funny thing is that most fans are (or play) delusional believing that all these artists have no ideal about their products prices, including touring that would be like: “ok, I wanna have control of and know all things on my career and businesses but when it comes to tickets, please, don’t say anything to me, please xoxo”

not you making Taylor Swift plain chicken and rice

5. Judas - 9.10 Highest Score: 10 Lowest Score: 7 Participants:

9. Born This Way - 8.72 Highest Score: 10 Lowest Score: 5 Participants:

10. Disease - 8.65 Highest Score: 10 Lowest Score: 6 Participants:

600 pages for something that never existed is crazy

sorry does that says 606 pages? you methheads

Hello lovelies. I was at the gym, staring off into space as I usually do. When it dawned on me as to why the Abra music video didn't clinch a nomination at the Grammys: Is it possible that by debuting the VM during the 67th Grammys, that the music video was disqualified since—I am assuming—Gaga's label paid the Grammys as a sponsor/advertiser? Generally, when you underwrite something it disqualifies you from consideration for any awards by that organization. It seems like the most likely explanation, aside from the VM just not being submitted for xyz reasons.

Wonder how everyone who said Gaga had no control over ticket prices feels now. A total newcomer can but Gaga doesn't have the influence?

One word: greed.

1. Bad Romance — WINNER: 9.67 Highest Score: 10 Lowest Score: 8 Participants:

I got so scared for a minute

With spotify logos influenced by Lady Gaga, Doja Cat, Justin Bieber, TS, Katseye and more! What do you think your Wrapped will look like?

2011 Gaga specifically went out of her way to keep tickets cheap and accessible. She made it a point. Now you won't be seeing her for less than $500 if you're in the States no matter where you sit. It's shameful tbh.

Ticketmaster has given fans of Olivia Dean partial refunds after the British singer condemned ticketing companies for allowing touts to relist tickets for her North American tour at more than 14 times their face value. After the tour sold out in minutes on 21 November and tickets appeared on resale sites at prices in excess of $1,000, Dean addressed the major ticketing companies on Instagram: “@Ticketmaster @Livenation @AEGPresents you are providing a disgusting service,” she wrote. “The prices at which you’re allowing tickets to be re-sold is vile and completely against our wishes. Live music should be affordable and accessible and we need to find a new way of making that possible. BE BETTER.” Ticketmaster initially replied: “We support artists’ ability to set the terms of how their tickets are sold and resold. @OliviaDeano, we will cap resale prices on our site at face value and hope other resale sites will follow.” The ticketing company subsequently said it is in the process of “refunding fans for any markup they already paid to resellers on Ticketmaster”. In a statement, Michael Rapino, CEO of Ticketmaster’s parent company Live Nation Entertainment, said: “We share Olivia’s desire to keep live music accessible and ensure fans have the best access to affordable tickets. While we can’t require other marketplaces to honour artists’ resale preferences, we echo Olivia’s call to ‘do better’ and have taken steps to lead by example.” It’s no secret that concert prices have gotten seriously out of control in recent years, with fans of pretty much every artist having to pay out an obscene amount of money to attend their fave’s show. From dynamic pricing, which sees ticket prices soar in accordance with demand, to shady resales where bots have snapped up all the face value tickets and are now reselling them at a hugely inflated price, these days, you’d be incredibly lucky to snag a ticket for less than a few hundred dollars. Posting to her Instagram story, Olivia wrote: “i’m sorry that there seems to be an issue with ticket re-selling and pricing. my team are currently looking into it. it is extremely frustrating as the last thing i want is for anyone to be scammed or overcharged for our show :(" She then tagged the three major ticket websites, Ticketmaster, Live Nation and AEG, directly as she added: “you are providing a disgusting service the prices at which you’re allowing tickets to be re-sold is vile and completely against our wishes live music should be affordable and accessible and we need to find a new way of making that possible BE BETTER.” Shortly afterward, Olivia returned to her social media page with some good news, writing: “After many conversations with my team, Ticketmaster and AXS have agreed to refund the difference to anyone who has paid over face value for a ticket and will cap all future ticket resale prices to face value for the North American run of the tour.” And while most people praised Olivia for being so proactive in helping her fans, it didn’t take long for others to point out that her success in securing this result proved it was possible all along — meaning that countless other big-name, more established artists simply chose not to challenge the inflated prices on behalf of their fans. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/nov/28/olivia-dean-fans-refunded-by-ticketmaster-resale-practices https://drgnews.com/2025/11/28/artists-like-beyonce-and-taylor-swift-are-being-called-out-after-newcomer-olivia-dean-secured-ticketmaster-refunds-for-fans-who-paid-inflated-prices-to-attend-her-tour/

Changed the title a bit since more than just Beyonce were mentioned and deservedly so. Look, I love Gaga, but I keep looking at the new Miami date and there are nosebleed resales going for as much as my VIP ticket was at face value or MORE and that's just pure, disgusting, nasty greed and she 10000000% has the power to protect her fans from it. She clearly just doesn't care that one resale just after I bought my ticket...a floor seat for $65,000 how is that even allowed. If it was my name on the tour and someone pulled that with my tickets, I'd hire a hit squad tbh. Wbk people like Taylor don't care, she bleeds her fans dry regularly. And Beyoncé, for someone who's so outspoken on social issues, is beyond removed from reality. None of them care.

4. Abracadabra - 9.28 Highest Score: 10 Lowest Score: 3 Participants:

8. Alejandro - 8.73 Highest Score: 10 Lowest Score: 1 Participants:

The cutout part got me seriously worried i was like how was SHE being transfobic?! Jesus taken the wheel haha But honestly, slay! Wish more queer icons would say such thing so we could more easily get tickets to the shows

Shame on all of them. Gaga.. can’t stop the greed, I’m freaking out a newcomer did that

Bad Romance deserved it, congratulations Abracadabra is only in Top 5 because of recency bias (and bad taste) but overall good videography ranking. Thank you @ANVEEROY

7. Marry the Night - 8.88 Highest Score: 10 Lowest Score: 5 Participants:

Who tf voted 1 Katy Perry is that you

Manifesting same for ophelia

I Knew who made this thread before clicking

2/3 ain’t bad!

2. Paparazzi - 9.42 Highest Score: 10 Lowest Score: 7 Participants:

WHEW I WAS LIKE PLS DONT LET US LOSE HER

Abracadabra is 100% my #1 song Top artists will likely be Gaga, Chrissy Chlapecka, and Taylor (this one is courtesy of my boyfriend)

This is why I don't play about that white lady

Oh Collabdonna

US Radio Charts #43 (+2) The Dead Dance - 23.21 (-0.09) "I could be your Evan for the weekend You could be my Adam for the night." - Chromanne

I remember. She paid out of pocket to bring the full BTW Ball to New Zealand because the powers that be only wanted to transport half the show. Paid for a whole ass jet to bring her show. And I remember her specifically saying that she wants everyone to be able to come to her show. The tickets at the back were only $80 ($45USD). It's insane what they cost now. And I'm disappointed she didn't stand up against the dynamic pricing or do anything like guaranteed face-value resales to prevent scalpers like Billie Eilish and Hayley Williams. Idk what capitalistic jerk has gotten into her head but it's sad

DON'T BUY FROM RESELLERS GUYS UNLESS YOU'RE FULLY SURE IT'S FROM A VALIDATED PLATFORM. A friend of mine just got his little sister giving him Mayhem ball ticket as a present. He waited a long time and was told the ticket weren't valid at the gates with the dude explaining to them how small details should have warned them on these tickets. Apparently many others were refused for the same reason. She had paid 2X400 € to make her big bro happy and they both went home with teary eyes.

Talk of the Charts predicts that The Dead Dance will be at #93 (-3) in its 12th week on Billboard Hot 100. If it continues to be on chart for its 12th week, it will spend the same number of weeks as Marry The Night (also 12 weeks).

Result so far: 11) Poker Face — 8.38 12) Applause — 8.28 13) G.U.Y. (An ARTPOP Film) — 8.12 14) Yoü and I — 7.77 15) Rain On Me — 7.75 16) John Wayne — 7.72 17) LoveGame — 7.48 18) Die With A Smile — 6.85 19) Just Dance — 6.63 20) The Dead Dance — 6.58 21) The Edge of Glory — 6.52 22) Perfect Illusion — 6.27 23) Beautiful, Dirty, Rich — 6.18 24) Joanne (Where Do You Think You're Goin'?) — 6.00 25) Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say) — 5.93 26) Stupid Love — 5.77 27) Million Reasons — 4.42 Participants:

I’ve found my people. I don’t have any real beef with Addison, but the only hype I ever see around her is from people who are super online.

And yet no cultural impact

A song that perfectly captures the pain, tumult, and dissonance of heartbreak and disillusionment at an identity level iktr. IMO part of what’s so brilliant about Disease and PI is that they’re both (to differing extents) anti pop songs: angular, dissonant, building tension but never releasing etc. Gaga’s ability to do that is a part of what makes her such a gifted writer, imo. You have to know the rules incredibly well in order to break them, bend them, make people purposefully uncomfortable etc. I live for Miss Gar using the form (and the concept) of a pop song to create the visceral sense of gnawing at the bars of your enclosure. Also creating a pop song about feeling disillusioned with your public persona that’s also musically antagonistic towards being a conventional pop song is just deliciously meta. For anyone who’s interested, here’s a great podcast from two musicologists breaking down the structure of the song and tying it to other common musical motifs in Gaga’s catalogue:

That’s just not happening Not only is Taylor taken a lot more seriously than Katy, the latter was mostly carried by the GP while Taylor is mostly carried by her huge dedicated fanbase

Her time will come and it's gonna be one of the most shocking things ever... Tbh, it's gonna be for the history books. Something tells me that she's gonna fall hard not even small drops. More shocking than what happened to Katy Perry

This took me out with @ANVEEROY ‘s profile picture