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Alright. I'll go stream Woman's World once. Once.

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I'll start with a controversial take: 95% of Monsters don't know how to recognize a genre "It's a country album" when describing Joanne—an album full of pop, rock, Americana, funk, even freaking folk and doo-wop. "It's a jazz album" when making the decision to ignore the rock, blues, soul, punk, and theater aspects of Harlequin. Actually, describing ANY album with a single genre when they all span half a dozen different genres themselves (except for Chromatica which is nearly the same song 13 times). "I want dark pop music like *insert a song from before 2011 with glittering synths but because it's in a minor key that makes it dark and brooding or something*" Did I make this thread just to randomly complain about this? Of course not! I also wanna see y'all fight over some unique takes

Bruce Springsteen just released a song written this week-end to speak out against ICE and honnour Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Kinda nice to see a HUGE masc american figure like him speak up. The comments under his post on FB are full of MAGA crybabies asking him not to bring politic to the table. I'm living!

for the first time ever Katy +1 Gaga -1 I dont like saying this, Lady

Queen of Jetlag Show will be lit tonight

I think she's a multimillionaire, so we shouldn't act surprised when her actions don't exactly align with our own economic class because surprise! her class interests are not the same as ours. She will never truly have our best interests at heart because she simply doesn't live the same life we do, nor does she share our preoccupations or obstacles. This is partly what explains her silence toward current political issues too. That being said, maybe we're reading too much into what amounts to a sponsorship for a cute song

LADY GAGA WHERE ARE YOU?! YOUR VOICE IS NEEDED IN A TIME LIKE THIS!

and she won all categories she was nominated in Don't think it holds much weight at all but we love to see it, multiple Grammies including AOTY incoming

Very pedantic thing to say, but I think a lot of Little Monsters appreciate the aesthetics of art more than the actual vision and statement behind it, and therefore tend to reduce Gaga’s concepts to visual cues rather than engaging with them as fully developed artistic ideas. Ex : the reaction to BTW's album cover not liking the disease video because it does not have choreo etc

Thoughts? The thought is a deep void that our queen is silent on ice and a genocide. The reason being her career was built on speaking up and voicing an opinion and making songs about injustice CUE angel down Her and Michael are a brand now, I had no idea about the real estate news… its all just too much. Not much more to say but yeah a void and disappointment. Glenn Close and Meryl aren't afraid to speak up neither are simple people like Katy perry... So that says something. She's not thinking about her fans here terrified, the trans community, people on green cards, undocumented. We need her more now than ever!

Spotify goes full Mayhem ball mode and forgets about Chromatica Is this a sign we're getting Monochromatica?!

Because they are pop girls and have no power against ICE or trump. Lots of pop girls played their part during elections, where their voices would actually matter. This energy should be placed on the people that can actually make change. Pop girls making statements is just performative at this point.

There, this is her statement against ICE and anti-immigration

Because they're sell outs. They only cosplayed as activists when it was easy, when it was a PR spot and good album promo. Now that it comes with the risk of a cost they aren't interested. They don't want to get their hands dirty. Their life doesn't get any worse under Trump, when Renee & Alex were killed nothing in their life changed. They actively benefit under the Trump presidency, they pay less tax and their incomes have never been better. They have zero reason to stick their neck out.

I don’t understand the hate and apathy towards Chromatica - potentially even from Gaga herself. I think it is one of her top 3 albums musically and at the very top when it comes to visuals. I mean I get that it was released during the pandemic but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s a brilliant piece of work.

Gaga being a consistent fixture in Super Bowl for the past decade!

They are not promoting anything right now and before the grammy's and superbowl? no way they gonna say something, they speak up only when it's beneficial for them. And for the millions times, rich, capitalistic, privileged people don't have a say in what is happening in he world, because they are one of the cause for all of that and because they don't give a f-ck. during a nuclear war, what do u think these people would do? stay with you in the shelters or take their jets and fly away for their luxury underground shelters? and then do u really think that their 25k characters limited tweets will help u? stop giving celebrities this huge credit, they don't deserve that, most of them are ignorant pretending to be geniuses. they are as rich as any other billionaire. donations don't matters, the fact that we need to rely on their donations IS PART THE PROBLEM.

Ding ding ding we have a winner. Not to mention that basically all of the people that would need to hear this message and change their point of view are the last people that would give a **** what a popstar has to say about it and the people who want to hear it from the pop stars are the people who already agree with them.

Imagine if when she said "I've been spending a lot of time in the studio on tour" it was for this

Even f*cking KATY PERRY is speaking up. I'm so goddamn disappointed in Gaga.

Support bts is whats needed during normal times. Not when extrajudicial nazi death squads are executing people on the streets.

The Joanne era was not as authentic as it was marketed to be. Gaga needed a stripped down era after the maximalism of ARTPOP, so she crafted one. What rubs me the wrong way, is that she chose a style that, to this day, does not seem to be part of her actual DNA as an artist. She could've taken many paths that would've been much more believable, especially given the theming of the lyrics: - a modern piano-based album - a jazz-infused pop album - a Springsteen-esque album To name a few. Instead she forced her voice to sound 3 decades older, put on a cowboy hat, brushed off her best southern accent and forced one of our mods to repeat "it's not country" for more than 10 years after release. (I know it's not a country album but she sure as hell leaned in to it) It looks like she wanted to take a left turn for the sake of it. To go down a route that nobody could predict, just to be contrary. That could be an interesting approach, were it not that the lyrical themes of the album are supposed to be very sincere, tragic and deep-rooted in her history as a person. I believe most of these songs on paper. But the production, the marketing and even the fashion made it feel like she was hiding herself more than ever.

The fans who define a Gaga album/song based on how well it sells/charts aren't fans. It always confuses me when Gaga fans hate older music/refuse to engage with it when its literally the foundations of everything Gaga does.

https://x.com/MAYHEMBallTour/status/2013955589655715988?s=20 Her f*cking face

Gaga is nominated for Outstanding Music Artist at the 37th GLAAD Awards. Source: https://glaad.org/mediaawards/37/nominees/ __________ Our bisexual queen btw

I predict that she will perform a cover for a song, maybe the one from the ad, for the ICE victims, the members here will complain that she once again missed an opportunity to promote the album. you know, the usual

https://twitter.com/i/status/2015392292245319943

Honestly willing to give him the chance to make good on this sentiment. I don't expect him to, but maybe he'll surprise us. People always deserve a chance to right their wrongs.

According to Deuxmoi, Gaga and Beyoncé were asked to play Thelma and Louise in a reboot directed by Jane Campion ("The Pianist"). Apparently Gaga accepted it, but Beyoncé declined the offer, so they're looking for a partner for Gaga.

I haven't heard about this one. It's all over my instagram today lol the hive is pressed for some reason... maybe because Beyoncé can't act (III). I'm so tired of reboots and sequels no one asked for. I need Gaga to do an original non-musical part for a smaller studio with a character that isn't the love interest to a male protagonist who dies.

Many fans take her brand as deathly serious and “c*nty” when the project has been hamfisted and camp from the jump and fans only selectively apply the “it’s cheesy” argument when it applies to a type of cheese they don’t like. She’s closer to Meatloaf meets a drag version of Madonna than she’ll ever be to someone like Björk (and she’s well aware of this).

Agreed on all of it, but heavy on the last line.

bandaids don't fix bullet holes tho

That would be amazing! But I can't actually imagine her performing again never mind at something like this...

he is releasing album this week

I can’t believe Roar sold that much. It’s such a shitty song

Can't wait for this to hit #1 on the charts when it finally happens

The ad is literally a clear political message that aligns with everything she ever stood for. Especially the core message of her Super Bowl performance. She got a company to pay 8million/30sec to get her message of togetherness, showing compassion and standing together and strong on the screen. Y‘all are so willfully blue eyed with your utopian worldview. Where were you when MasterCard paid for Abracadabra? Oh right, because it was a cunty serve, your morals were on break. Gaga was always extremely careful about when and how she speaks up. Not because she was scared, but because she wanted to do the cause justice and she wanted to use the best moment for the RIGHT impact. And she rarely misses, but for over a decade you guys care more for her to instantly react to anything, as aggressively and radical as possible, instead of letting her chose her message wisely.

Why are people so anti-surrogacy like good for her and good for the woman who is probably well off now lol