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Oh wow it's been a year already since Harlequin? I would love to see one of her best projects get a little spotlight tbh. Harlequin is better quality than half her main pop albums but the girls don't wanna have that discussion

Still waiting for that one recorded show

Five years ago, we had Pandemica’s only televised performance at the VMA’s. The standalone video was taken down but you can watch it here at 34:00 minutes in Gaga performed 911, Rain On Me (with Ari), and Stupid Love. Gaga also won the Tricon Award And she served various looks throughout the night Gaga won 5 Awards Total: Song of the Year: Rain On Me Collab of the Year: Rain On Me Best Cinematography: Rain On Me Artist of the Year Tricon Award

The movie, as the final cut, yes but saying the album was a mistake is probably the dumbest thing someone can say and I say that respectfully. This album is probably the little push Gaga needed to do what she used to do with Tony but alone and it's at the top of her discography. And if someone says they don't want Gaga to keep doing jazz or experimenting with less mainstream genres, it's just not realistic. The quality this album delivered is beyond most of her previous records

I think it would be super smart to finally release that performance from last year for the 1 year anni not only to celebrate the project - which it totally deserves, it's really a fantastic body of work & super unique compared to the rest of her albums and far and away more interesting than anything any pop girl has put out in the last 5 years !!!! would be great to get the album to the front of everyone's minds for Best Traditional Pop Album it genuinely has such a great shot at getting (and winning imo) a Grammy nomination.

I don't get how it'd be "extending/relaunching" the MAYHEM era when she's in the middle of a massively successful tour...The MAYHEM era is doing just fine on its own. It's its own standalone project within MAYHEM; it's clearly connected to Wednesday. That said, she's also incorporating it into MAYHEM proper since the aesthetics and sound are very similar to what we've already gotten with the album/era. There's also tour merch with some of the lyrics, so she'll perform it on tour as well.

People complaining about live vs prerecorded like they wont be watching it via a grainy livestream on a tiny phone screen either way.

I've literally not seen a single person hating on "Jews" and that's considering I'm (unfortunately for my mental health) reading comments on social media where people are absolutely cruel. People just hate on Israel as a country because of what it's currently doing.

Gaga always doing charity with this D-list artists event

I’ve changed my mind on the song after listening to the snippets a few times. It feels very ARTPOP meets Mayhem vocally. And I still want a full disco album and I think this is the closest era we’ve had to a mostly Disco/Funk record. Kinda excited.

Are fans seriously complaining this will be pre recorded? First of all, it makes NO difference to us because the majority will be watching from our homes. Second of all, a pre-recorded performance is 100% going to be better because they have a full day to edit, pick the best shots, and master the audio. It’s going to look better than every other performance. Plus according to rumors Gaga will be performing at the USB arena, just not live. She’ll record the performance the day before with a reduced crowd. It will look like she’s there. The only true complain I will entertain is that they scheduled two many dates close to the show, hence no time to rehearse a full Video Vanguard Award Performance. Getting a 10+ medley would have been better, but at least she will have a promo slot, and get several awards

I will never forget the first time I heard Close To You in headphones. 🥹 And The Joker omg... goosebumpsss...

I know this fanbase doesn’t like her jazz/nonstudio album projects generally but I still play Harlequin frequently and think it’s severely underappreciated. It’s a shame her vocals on this album didn’t get highlighted in the film, where she was obviously supposed to sing like a normal person rather than the world class vocalist Lady Gaga because the universe largely didn’t get to hear these gems. Gonna Build a Mountain is one of her best vocal performances ever, Folie A Deux is absolute perfection and completely different for her, The Joker is like a prelude to Perfect Celebrity in the best way, World On A String is like butter to my ears (no ear condoms required here ) , and Happy Mistake is a career highlight and one of her best ballads of all time. Truly amazing work

This is my issue with celebs being performative. If you want to speak out and show support for Gaza, great, say it out loud. If you have to follow that statement with a “but” or “and” then just don’t bother saying anything at all. You’re just trying to “both sides” the situation and not wanting to anger anyone off. And at least try to be specific with what’s happening. Children being shot at for trying to get aid. Hospitals being bombed. Gazans being starved. Journalists being killed. Your “heart being broken” is meaningless and just empty platitude if you won’t even address the atrocities we are witnessing.

Right. It’s so predictable at this point. A few weeks ago, her team “dropped the ball” by not scheduling her tour around the VMAs. So, of course, now that we know her “incompetent!!!” team did in fact account for the VMAs, we now have a host of new reasons to complain: the wrong song, wrong format (live vs prerecorded)… As someone who enjoys a nap after doing little more than walking my dog, I can’t imagine the mindset of any fan who sees TMBT and thinks “this lazy lady!” if she doesn’t get transported by helicopter between venues to do even more singing and dancing - live, no less - on that night.

Does it matter if it’s prerecorded and not live? All of y’all are gonna sitting on your ass at home watching from your computer anyways. It makes zero difference that her segment is recorded for logistical reasons (that being she’s on tour actually performing for fans LIVE).

I mean with the Joker hate gone and the Grammy nominations being out on November, she could totally campaign a bit for Harlequin to grab Traditional Pop Album. It's a big contender in the category I could see her releasing that recorded live

That silver tinfoil look (I'm no fashion designer) on the left is one of my favourites of hers, and easily my favourite look of the Chromatica era.

And what if...she performs the new single from MAYHEM...and no, im not talking about The Dead Dance 👀

Can't wait for the VMA's TOTAL MAYHEM announcement

The special finally coming? Apparently, Lady Gaga's team responsible for the artist's website is working on an update related to "Harlequin." Remembering that the album will celebrate its 1-year anniversary on the 27th of next month. 👀

I cannot emphasize enough how horny I am for the unreleased Harlequin special

GAGA wowed the world after coachella, and then set records with 2+ million in brazil. the world was loving her live performances and shes dancing and singing better than she ever has before. i feel like all that momentum couldve truly set her up to be one of the highest grossing stadium tours of all time. her stock as a touring artist was at an all time high after those two critically acclaimed performances. and i just feel like that momentum is being wasted on venues that are being toured by bensoon boone, chapell roan and sabrina carpenter........... artists who have recently gotten popular. and ya ya ya u can give me excuses why she didnt book stadiums (didnt make sense cuz several stadiums have plenty of open days this entire year all over the world) beyonce, post malone, kendrick, coldplay, acdc, shakira, chris brown, are all doing stadium tours, and gaga had more momentum than any of those artists. i really feel like she and her team had a once in a lifetime opportunity to have her highest grossing tour and they blew it. and for the fans its not great either, cheapest tickets in some cities is like 400-500 for nosebleeds !!!! the lack of ticket supply is really making this tour inaccessible to most fans..... for TCB i was able to get tickets for 80-100 bucks for nosebleed spots...... in two different cities im happy shes on tour, i just feel like they couldve been more strategic about it. also shes going 3-4 arena dates back to back to back to make up the capacity of one stadium date ... so that is taxing on her body since shes doing consecutive shows..... she couldve done one stadium per week for the rest of the year.... to space out the touring dates so she can rest in between shows

Imagine letting the commercial failure of a movie ruin an amazing album for you lmao absolute simpleton behavior

The Joker remains one of the most impressive studio vocals she’s ever delivered btw

Folie à deux is actually one of her let’s say best top 20 songs. And the fact she wrote it all by herself

911 at the VMAs > 911 at TCB don’t @ me

Can’t believe good sis Harlequin will finally be let out of the basement

These people are using the genocide as a free ticket to express their already existed antisemitism, just like after every terror attack by ISIS, all the islamophobics used it to express their already existed islamphobia. To minimize the reason of antisemitism to "Israel" is wrong and sugar coating antisemitism. A few months ago I was at a gay pride here, I went to say hello and introduce myself to the Jewish Queer organization, it has no connection to Israel, they didn't claim any support to Israel, they were not born there. It didn't stop a person to throw glass bottles at us while screaming "free Palestine", I had some injuries and went to the hospital and had some stichtes. I didn't want to make a fuss about it and open a thread here though. maybe it was a mistake. I'm not saying that what Shawn said is ok or wrong, but this thread is an example why celebrities or even private people are not saying anything, because as long as they don't align with what is "cool" right now, they would get a bunch of hateful comments in return.. nothing will satisfy the mob.

I'd love to see more of this mini-era. Harlequin is one of my favorite albums of all time! You can tell this project came from her heart and the pure joy of creating. Seeing Gaga experiment with music and use her vocals so majestically is always a sublime experience

Considering that Ms Abracadabóbora isn’t nominated in the main categories and it’s also relatively enough milked at this point, I think she will do The Dead Dance live from MSG or maybe prerecorded, as the song will be released days before and will likely be included on the upcoming tour dates IMO.

I've seen lots of awful comments about Jews unfortunately. Some people feel more comfortable showing their hate because of what's happening in Gaza.

Plus the little Mayhem teasers no one could decipher she really threw herself into this project

She served the best looks of her ENTIRE CAREER that night. Not up for debate.

undeserved, lock her on beyonce basement with sia rn

Why some of you ain't satisfied with a pre-recording performance? Just think of the gag that a new set IN the MAYHEM ball stage will be... Like I'm not complaining at all, I'm actually happy lmao She'll probably do a new set in the actual tour stage before the MSG concert starts. Fans in the arena win, people watching through their screens will also win... Damn this will be good yup yup

I expected more from her tbh. She flopped

omgggg yes

Truly obsessed with this performance. The original chromatica aesthetic was just too damn good.

Don't you find the lyrics cringey? Most of the songs just blend in together, I don't know, the album just bores me, apart from 3-4 songs I don't think it'll stand the test of time

Yep she should not do it at all Seriously you are all impossible to satisfy, like always

No Bore With A Smile please I need Abra + Smash Dance medley

Yeeeeeeeeeeessssssssss!!!!!!!!!! SEPTEMBER IS SLAYING!!!!! THE DEAD DANCE WEDNESDAY APPEARANCE VMAs!!!! (And more Touring)

So maybe this was that recorded performance that someone mentioned days ago?

I honestly expected more in the US, especially after the big success Small N Smelly had

But insane numbers, she's really not slowing down, I thought Sabrina beating the +8M Abra record would never happen, especially because the apk change. She proved me wrong.

Totally disagree. Nothing was gonna kill either of these singles IMO. Abracadabra was pretty dead on radio by the time summer really started but was still doing decent Spotify numbers WW. DWAS and Abracadabra all did pretty well on pop radio in ways Gaga hasn’t since ARTPOP and Applause. I think we could’ve at least gotten a Marry The Night sized hit and a sick video. A video for VIY also had a decent chance of going viral in Brazil/Latin America. These things would’ve only built the momentum for the album I will say I think the absence of another single could have set the stage really well for Dead Dance, we shall see…

I both agree and disagree. The tour right now I think is rather building her momentum - if we didn’t get this tour as is (arenas) we probably wouldn’t have gotten a tour so soon. Then you still have the stadium shows at the end of the year, shows in places she hasn’t been in over 10 years, and more rumored stadium shows for Greece, South Africa, South America, etc. I think there was momentum for MAYHEM wasted as an album though. A single following that hype at the end of May or early June probably would’ve done at least fairly well. Garden of Eden or Vanish Into You could've been the song of the summer tbh - the charts and pop music weren’t overly strong or crowded either

I really dislike stadium shows. It's super hard go get a good spot without camping an entire day. Seats are always bad because of the distance, as well as being more expensive than GA. This show in its current form couldn't exist in stadiums across the globe. It would often start in daylight, which is an extreme downgrade in terms of production. She'd also have to fight European fall and winter, which means all production elements have to be waterproof.