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What if she actually means that nobody is ready as in they still have work to do and didn't get it done

Oh my goddddd…let me just start with that. I have loved Gaga since I was 7 years old when I first heard Just Dance and Poker Face, and I have lurked GagaDaily for over a decade. This was genuinely a once in a lifetime experience that I never thought would happen, and I still can’t believe it actually happened. Now that that’s out of the way, detailssss. My bestie and I woke up at 3 AM EST to fly out to LA from Atlanta, and we got to WERK as soon as we got there. We did interviews for Mastercard and fittings first. All of our costumes were pieces from the original video (wth I know), and they had Gaga’s huge white cape hanging over a rack in the fitting room for us to gag over. I talked to this really sweet girl for about 15 minutes while I was waiting who has been on Gaga’s stylist team for a short period, and she kept giving me hints that I was going to be so excited for the shoot tomorrow. We then go and rehearse for like 4 hours with Parris Goebel…literally terrifying, but she is so genuine and excited about her craft and was so excited about working with us. Such star power energy but very humble and grounded. Loved her! Next day, we have to be on set early and get another round of interviews done and then glammed. The artists and stylists were all so talented, funny, kind, and just a joy to be around. My hair and makeup were so sick. They gave me an amped-up version of Honey Balenciaga’s hair from the video (gag I know). At this point, everyone was antsy wondering if Gaga was coming to set at all because we had seen tweets that she was still in NYC, but when I went over to put my costume on, I saw her 10 inch pleasers on the table hehe. When I say this woman has tiny feet…oh my god they had to be like a 5 1/2 or 6. Her red bedazzled cane from the video was also on the table, so I was like “yeah she’s gotta be coming today.” Now, it’s time to go on set and film. We’re literally thrown to the wolves and have to do solos in front of Parris right off the bat. I have never really danced professionally, and I was the third person in line to go. Let’s just say I was terrified, but when that camera locked on me, Gaga literally possessed me or something. I served face like y’all wouldn’t believe haha. It was electrifying. We shoot for a few more hours and get the chorus filmed, and then it’s like 6 PM at this point. Parris walks out in front of us and says, “You guys look great, but I feel like something is missing…” and we’re all like, “Yeah SOMEONE is missing!” Parris is like “What do you guys think is missing then?” My bestie back behind me yells, “MOTHERRRRR!!!” And here comes Gaga out from behind the curtain in this skin-tight red latex dress with horns on the nipples, a huge velvet hat and her cane, and she goes, “Oh, hi” in her little babygirl voice…like girl don’t play with me right now haha. I was just in shock, like the woman I have admired since childhood is right in front of me, and I’m on set of her music video and IN IT with her. I thought I would be sobbing, but my jaw was just on the floor… like I couldn’t process anything. She then starts telling us how she can’t believe how incredible we look and how we literally look just like the music video when we’re dancing. She said she was so inspired by us and was so excited we were all getting to do this. Then, up she goes on her platform off to the side to START FILMING WITH US… girl I was about to puke. I’m in my leaned back position for the 1000th time that day trying to get into character to start the takes for the opening scene, and I’ve got my emotions together for now. Then, when Gaga started the take, she said something so monumental that it genuinely shook me to my core. She starts off the video saying, “The category is fans or die. Little Monsters, my stage is yours.” Y’all when those words left her mouth I just started sobbing. Like how much more full-circle of a moment in life can you have? I grew up in a really small, rural town with no one to turn to about my sexuality growing up, but I always had Gaga and her message. This was like the most surreal moment, and little 7 to 14 year old Caleb felt so seen and nurtured in that moment. My idol just handed her stage over to me and the incredibly talented friends I had made. I couldn’t hold the tears back, so if I look crazy in that opening scene (I mean I already have the huge spiky hair anyway lmao), don’t judge haha. We did like 6 takes with her doing that, and I was just crying and bent over between every take while still trying to get a look at her every chance I could. She kept looking over at me smiling bc she knew I was so emotional, and between one of the takes, she looked at me and said “You guys are killing it.” Then, they had all the dancers move off to the side of the stage, and Gaga performed the song all the way through in one take. My best friend from home and I were in the front and sobbing so hard because we just couldn’t believe we were experiencing this in person. They had to get us a box of tissues because we were literally a mess y’all lol. My poor makeup lmao. Gaga is so sweet and calm when you’re talking to her, but when that camera gets on her, she literally turns into someone else. Like GAGA takes over her. It was the most insane thing I have ever seen. We wrap up on set with her, and she gives us another group pep talk telling us she loves us and is so proud of us and how she didn’t want to be the center of attention in this video because it’s OUR video. That’s why she’s not in the center of the floor dancing with us and instead to the side of us. She such an angel, seriously. Then off she goes to get ready for Club Mayhem. We rush to get ready and changed for Club Mayhem, and when we get there, the people from Mastercard ask us if we want to do a flash mob to Abra when Gaga comes out. Obviously, we say yes lol. Gaga comes out and gives her speech with Parris, and then the Mastercard people clear a spot on the dance floor. It’s dance or die time b*tch. We work the cameras for the first 2 verses and choruses, and then I turn around and Gaga has her phone right in my face filming me…I’m literally like what is life right now haha. She is right there with us dancing and says, “I love you guys. Put your hands up!” (of course lmao). We dance with her for a little bit longer, and then she’s on her way. Such a surreal experience. Also, I had written a letter to give to her and didn’t have the chance to, but I found one of the guys on her stylist team at the bar and asked him if he could give her my letter. He was very genuine and said he would definitely get it to her somehow. He was so kind about how amazing we looked in the video and how we should be so proud of ourselves. Everyone on her team was just so genuine and so happy to be there with us. It was amazing. I also have made some amazing friends because the dancers were obviously true monsters, and we were all so proud of each other and so happy to be there. We all still have a group chat together and talk basically everyday. We’re going to try and meet up at the MAYHEM BALL in New York if we get tickets <3. It was such a mind-boggling experience, and I will never forget it. Literally no other artists do things like this for their fans. Gaga is one of a kind.

She loves filming stuff hope she loves releasing stuff now

Lady Gaga’s MAYHEM moves in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, as the set debuts atop the tally dated March 22. It’s the seventh leader for the superstar. The set — her seventh studio album — launches with 219,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending March 13, according to Luminate — the biggest week of the year for an album by a woman. It also scores Gaga her largest streaming week ever. Of MAYHEM’s 219,000 first-week equivalent album units, album sales comprise 136,000 (it’s the top-selling album of the week and debuts at No. 1 on Top Album Sales), SEA units comprise 80,500 (equaling 108.05 million on-demand official streams of the set’s songs; Gaga’s biggest streaming week ever, and it debuts at No. 1 on the Top Streaming Albums chart) and TEA units comprise 2,500. With MAYHEM’s bow of 219,000 equivalent album units, the set earns the biggest week for a woman in 2025, and the largest debut by a woman in over six months. The last larger bow by a woman was Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet, which started with 362,000 atop the Sept. 7, 2024-dated list. MAYHEM’s first-week sales were bolstered by its availability across a gaggle of editions: 14 vinyl variants (some signed, and some include the bonus track “Can’t Stop the High,” while Target’s exclusive vinyl has the extra track “Kill for Love”), four CD editions (one signed, Target’s exclusive CD adds “Kill” while Gaga’s webstore carried a CD with the bonus track “Can’t Stop the High”), a cassette tape, a deluxe CD box set with a branded T-shirt and poster, and two widely available download albums (the standard 14-song album, and then a deluxe version exclusive to iTunes with the three music videos for “Disease,” “Die With a Smile” and “Abracadabra”). Of MAYHEM’s opening-week sales, vinyl purchases comprise 74,000 — Gaga’s biggest week on vinyl ever. https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/lady-gaga-mayhem-debuts-number-one-billboard-200-chart-1235923158/

The fame is not better than BTW and mayhem.

CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND “Lady Gaga’s Coachella Performance Is One for the History Books” https://consequence.net/2025/04/lady-gaga-coachella-2025-review-setlist/amp/ ROLLING STONE “Lady Gaga Proves Why She’s A Once-In-A Generation Pop Icon During Coachella Set” https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-live-reviews/lady-gaga-coachella-performance-2025-review-1235315933/ VARIETY “Lady Gaga Outdoes Herself With a Coachella Spectacular That’s Equal Parts Freaky and Hearty” https://variety.com/2025/music/concert-reviews/lady-gaga-coachella-performance-1236367950/ THE GUARDIAN (5/5 STARS!!) ”Lady Gaga at Coachella review – a thrilling all-timer of a performance” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/apr/12/lady-gaga-coachella BILLBOARD ”Lady Gaga’s Coachella Headlining Set Was a Genius Commentary On Fame” https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/coachella-2025-lady-gaga-mayhem-festival-headliner-recap-1235944728/ THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE “Lady Gaga unleashes 'Mayhem' and 'Abracadabra' during electrifying Coachella headline set” https://tribune.com.pk/story/2539464/lady-gaga-unleashes-mayhem-and-abracadabra-during-electrifying-coachella-headline-set?amp=1 THE LAGOS REVIEW ”Lady Gaga stuns Coachella with mind-blowing spectacle” https://thelagosreview.ng/lady-gaga-stuns-coachella-with-mind-blowing-spectacle/ ELLE “Lady Gaga's Coachella Set Had a Chess Dance Battle, Jaw-Dropping Costumes, and More” https://www.elle.com/culture/music/a64464034/lady-gaga-coachella-costumes-set-list/

https://x.com/dollopgaga/status/1904242808069960160?t=iVPJeqiV0Af1lwEunyPisQ&s=19

PERFECT CELEBRITY: THE GHOST OF AN ALBUM BETRAYED By a fan who doesn’t miss a single gdamn thing. I’ve been a fan since 2008. I’ve watched every era bloom and collapse, every shift in aesthetic, every intention, every pivot. I know when something’s real — and when it’s been repackaged, resold, and covered in a layer of false narrative. And what I’m telling you is this: “Mayhem” was never meant to be “Mayhem.” It was Perfect Celebrity. It was dark. It was cohesive. It was brutal. It was honest. And somewhere along the way, it was hijacked. THE LIE OF CHAOS They want you to believe “Mayhem” is about embracing chaos, multiplicity, fragmentation. But the truth? That fragmentation was never the plan. It was the damage. And instead of fixing the cracks, they called them art. Let’s talk about that mirror. The cover art — that shattered, gothic, broken collage — wasn’t designed to represent “a million sonic versions of Gaga.” It was a scream. It was: I am a Perfect Celebrity. I’ve been made, broken, reconstructed. I am haunted by fame. It was pain. But then the project changed. Tracks were swapped, tones softened, the concept diluted. And now that broken mirror? It’s sold to us as: “See how diverse I am!” Bullshit. THE REAL ALBUM STILL BLEEDS THROUGH You can still hear it. In Perfect Celebrity, in disease, in the Beast, in Abracadabra, in Can’t Stop the High, in Shadow of a Man, even in the quiet ache of Blade of Grass. They are the remnants of an album that was supposed to be a war on the industry, on image, on artificiality. But they were surrounded, watered down, dressed up in songs that Gaga herself almost didn’t want in the album — like How Bad Do U Want Me, which Michael Polansky reportedly convinced her to keep. And don’t get me started on Die With a Smile — a beautiful song, yes, but a standalone that got retrofitted into the storyline after it blew up. You know it. I know it. Gaga knows it. The rest is PR fiction. Lady Gaga literally said it in her Apple Music interview with Zane Lowe (late 2024): the album was originally called “Perfect Celebrity.” That track was the core of the concept, and she even considered re-producing the entire album to fit its electro-grunge tone. If you’re arguing against that, you’re arguing against what she herself admitted — on camera. The pivot happened. That’s not speculation, it’s documentation. The Visual Language Tells a Different Story The visual direction of the album — from the hyper-gothic photoshoot by Frank Lebon to the glitchy, eerie visualizers on YouTube — clearly reflects the darker tone of the original “Perfect Celebrity” concept. The fragmented mirror aesthetic, the baroque horror fashion, even the visual teaser clips were created long before the final tracklist was settled. If the sound now feels disconnected from the imagery, it’s because the imagery was never meant for this version of the album. Narrative Retconning Is the Real Mayhem When a track like “Die With a Smile,” originally released as a standalone single, suddenly appears in the album’s hypersticker and final tracklist — after it charts globally — that’s not a vision. That’s a retrofit. And retrofitting narratives after fan or commercial response is a feature of today’s post-Zeitgeist pop cycle. Mayhem became a marketing container for multiple ideas, but only one of them — “Perfect Celebrity” — had conceptual integrity from the start. THE SXSW GAGA IS GONE — AND I MISS HER I was watching live when Gaga performed Swine at the South by Southwest Festival in 2014. I saw her scream: “**** YOU POP MUSIC, I WON’T PLAY BY YOUR ****ING RULES. THIS IS ARTPOP. FREE YOURSELF.” She had Millie Brown vomit paint on her body. She was fighting the machine. That was the last time I saw Gaga truly defy the industry. Since then, she’s become a phoenix, yes — thanks to her immense talent, to jazz, to cinema, to Tony Bennett — but not the chaotic rebel I once admired on stage with Lady Starlight, wearing leather and glam and nothing but fire in her throat. Now? I see marketing in every shadow. I hear “entropy” as an excuse. I see a shattered concept (Perfect Celebrity) that was transformed into Mayhem to cover the scars, not reveal them. That mirror wasn’t meant to be beautiful. It was meant to cut. I’M TIRED OF THE POST-EDITED ART I’m tired of albums being reshaped mid-campaign to adapt to audience reactions. I’m tired of interviews rewriting history two months after reality. I’m tired of fans being fed the illusion of chaos instead of the truth of concept betrayal. Lady Gaga has always — always — crafted concept albums. This is the first time the concept cracked. And they tried to sell the cracks as intention. I don’t buy it. This isn’t hate. This is heartbreak. And if you feel it too — if Mayhem left you wondering what could’ve been — you’re not crazy. You’re just not buying the narrative. Perfect Celebrity still haunts this album. And I refuse to let them bury it. Here lies Perfect Celebrity: An album that breathed but was never born. It lived in photoshoots, in the granular edges of YouTube visuals, in hyperstickers printed before the truth changed. It spoke through electro-grunge screams, before the silence of marketing repainted its mouth. It was a concept. Not fragmented. Not chaotic. Whole. Angry. Surgical. Loud. Its ghost still lingers in the seams of Mayhem: A shattered mirror that was meant to reflect the destruction of fame, rebranded into an ode to diversity. A warning turned into wallpaper. It was betrayed — not by failure, but by adaptation. It was rewritten, reframed, restructured, as if its original message were too sharp for the skin of the moment. Lady Gaga conceived it. She even spoke its name. But the world wasn’t ready. Or maybe, it was. The album was lost. But not forgotten. You can hear its pulse in th Beast, in Disease, in Can’t Stop the High. You can see it in the shadow of a man, in the broken glass of a photoshoot, in the tension between image and sound. Let this post be its gravestone. And to those who still believe: We were not wrong. We were early. Perfect Celebrity — you never dropped. But you never died.

The setlist was apparently passed on by tour production staff. The tour itself is split up into 3 acts with an encore to end. Here are the alleged "leaks"... Act 1: 1. Abracadabra 2. Eh Eh (nothing else I can sat) / Money Honey 3. Mary Jane Hollad 4. Die WIth A Smile Act 2: 1. Blade of GRass 2. Happy Mistake 3. Poker Face 4. Government Hooker / Bad Kids Act 3: 1. Disease 2. Just Dance 3. Perfect Celebrity / The Beast 4. Perfect Illusion / Million Reasons Encore: 1. Bad Romance 2. Born This Way For the record, I don't believe this is the actual set list. Only 6 songs from the new album? Doubtful. What do you think?

“I think that was a hard time for some of my fans, because it felt so different from the “me” that they knew. But it felt so needed for me. It was like I just wanted to strip everything away. I just wanted to understand and get much closer to who I was before it all. It’s so interesting because it’s the most stripped-away that people feel that they’ve ever seen me, but I know how far away from me I was. On this record, I’m much more confident and sure of who I am. I also didn’t feel the need to completely reinvent every part of who I am, because I’ve started to become proud of who I am and feeling like I can own my personal approach to pop music, my style, my vision, that these are things that I made that belong to me, and that I don’t have to put so much pressure on myself to be somebody else, to be great.”

Wow. Never seen this. It’s so peculiar what time can do; it’s honestly an adventure to stan her. She sounds so mature and free, but from an adult perspective, which is actually more complex and viable than being ‘rebelious’ just for the sake of being it. The ultimate twist/shook for Gaga is kinda going back to be gaga and have the guts to do it with her head high. Mayhem might be her best era and album ever, from a fan perspective. It’s watching the flag go up again, after years of doubts and trashing from the outside, only this time, her flag rises stronger

Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like her to have- but she has it.

Well I can confirm I am ready so she lie

Here is the career recap video they showed before Gaga got on stage:

In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Lady Gaga says she’s most excited to perform “Killah” at Coachella: “The bridge just pops off and it’s going to be total mayhem, a good time. I can’t wait to play it at Coachella.” https://x.com/ladygaganownet/status/1909704422571008082?t=yFraLPBzLDY7wneVHJhMwQ&s=19

It is now live!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHqWnpVRgtr/?img_index=1

Miley is back with her highly anticipated 9th new studio album, Something Beautiful, arriving May 30. Something Beautiful features 13 new tracks written and produced by Miley and executive produced by Shawn Everett. https://mileycyrus.lnk.to/SomethingBeautiful Vinyl variants: • Black • Sea Blue •Crystal Clear Vinyl (target/hmv Exclusive) • Smoke Red (Spotify Fans First) • Translucent Red (Urban Outfitters)

Happy Birthday Mother Monster may you have many Happy ones to come Love all the monsters at GGD

Honestly, do what makes you happy. Religion is a concept used to divide people, in my opinion. So people pick and choose what parts they want to follow and what to choose as ammo against others.

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Ok guys Abracadabra just entered the Top 40 on the US overall radio charts #39 (+2) 23.93 + 0.55

If someone just wish me a happy birthday like that i just know it will be the last time im speaking to them lmaoooooooooo

She knows what she's doing

love it, i made this!

Haus Labs mascara mv incoming

I hear the squirrel squeaking from afar

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as dumb and inconsequential as it is, and as much as she may deserve it, there really isn't any excuse for anyone throwing anything at a performer on stage, so good for her

Spotify 1(=) DWAS 6,816,362 24(+6) Abra 2,905,030

Born this way is the magnum opus that saved her fans Mayhem is the magnum opus that saved herself Both living in harmony

Honestly, the only thing that isn’t giving this era is the fans who need to find something they don’t like at every juncture.

You don't need to tell me twice

https://x.com/gagasourcelgs/status/1911214701125517553 This makes sense, that's probably why they are taking down everything and being so vicious with the copyright strikes. Hopefully we don't have to wait +1 year like bey fans

Tour announcement and a lawsuit big day for gagz Lady Gaga is being dragged to court by a surfboard brand who claims she straight up jacked their logo for her new album ... according to a new lawsuit. Lost International is suing Lady Gaga for trademark infringement for her "Mayhem" album ... claiming they own the rights to the term as used in the surf company’s distinctive logo and that Lady Gaga’s use is basically identical. In the lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, Lost says they've been slapping a stylized version of "Mayhem" on their surfboards and merch for over a decade ... and Gaga ripped off the design for her latest album. Lost included a side-by-side look of their "Mayhem" logo on their merch and the one Lady Gaga is using on hers ... and there are notable similarities. The surf brand says they have owned the "Mayhem" trademark since 2015 and says Lady Gaga is now misappropriating the logo without permission. Lost says they voiced their concerns to Gaga but claims she didn’t stop the use ... so now they're suing. https://www.tmz.com/2025/03/25/lady-gaga-sued-by-surfboard-company-over-mayhem-album-logo/ They're barely similar at all ...

The People’s Princess, “How Bad Do U Want Me,” is one of 5 tracks on Mayhem that has the cutie patootie dot on Apple Music. A dot is given to songs AM considers popular based on user’s listening habits. The others are: Abracadabra (another beloved track), Garden of Eden (the first “new” song on the album), Vanish Into You (the slightly promoted track on the packaging), and Die With A Smash. She did it with no promo, tricks, or nepotism. Pure talent! (Zombieboy and Killah stans found dead in a ditch)

Disease #10? I renounce my fandom card. I no longer want to be associated with this fan base

Hi guys Chica here A quick message to you all: Be really careful with these Coachella download links. I've never seen copyright strike so fast on SO MANY accounts and so many links. This is the biggest Gaga spectacular the world has seen in AGES and they are trying to gatekeep it. I've had 3 links taken down in less than 3 hours which rarely happens. That being said --- posting links on Gagadaily directly is not a good idea because it does put the site's safety in jeopardy from USA copyright laws --- if too many digital signatures are seen coming from GagaDaily and connected to the affected accounts/affected links that are stricken our site could be in jeopardy which I don't want and neither do any of you. YES I know this is rich coming from me, your biggest scofflaw in the world of media preservation who believes to her dying breath that the public should have the content BUT --- I can't risk anything happening to our beautiful home here. If you are going to share a link by all means DO IT. but do it OFF SITE. Send a DM with your twitter or your insta or your snap or tiktock and do it that way so that you can share the link ENTIRELY off GagaDaily itself please. I've saved the performance itself in 1080p so as time goes on it will be safer. Don't host the files on your personal Gdrive. I've had 2 serious personal Gdrive takedown notices from Coachella's management about my uploads of Lanachella last year. They almost took my Google account. Do not let this happen to you, okay guys? its like good s*x, you gotta be careful and use protection, okay? Please be safe and please do not post links publicly , just DM each other your alternate social media handles so you will be safe, okay? We aren't as a site in trouble yet, but I just want to say a warning before hand because I've never seen copyright MOVE like they have on this performance. Ever. Thanks for coming to my doomsday cautionary ted talk i love you -- Chica

I mean... She already said she went with a certain direction with Perfect Celebrity even being the first album title (grunge, industrial) - I remember she stated in the Zane Lowe interview she came to the studio saying they had to make the album sound like Perfect Celebrity but then changed her mind, not the other way around - but then followed other paths (funky) and decided to name the album MAYHEM because of that - and many other reasons -. I don't think it's that deep, it's just that as a fanbase we have kind of a trauma with other projects she intented to do in the past and didn't make the cut... That's it lmao And, to be honest, I'm glad she did. I was also in full mode ready to listen from start to finish industrial before the album dropped, but that would've been too over the top. She crafted an excellent body of work in the end. And also, as much as I love PC and it is one of my favorite ones on the album, I wouldn't have moved a bit if the whole narrative was focused on "the pain of being a celebrity" because let's be real, she has touched that topic many times before. Chromatica is the perfect example for that. Artistically speaking, I agree this is her first album not falling into the "concept album" idea (at least what we are used to from her). But is that bad?

Same breed of men who will call a woman "emotional" and a "bitch" for doing the same thing.

We just get GGD back online and this is what I’m greeted with??

People with taste are excited

um, it’s “use your passion, no return”..

Overall radio : Abracadabra: 21.88 (+1.01) DWAS: 68.55 (-0.32) It's coming

Mayhem is a lot like The Fame in that no matter what she releases (single wise) there will always be other options that would also fit Had she released it then, this thread would probably say "Disease/Abracadabra should have been released last Halloween" That's a good thing though it means the album is full of quality tracks that could make sense commercially

Goodbye ARTPOP Act II rumors, welcome Mayhem Act II delusion!