Well Done Lady Gaga
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23765905
I'm not a fan of her but she's done a good thing. Now if only Bieber and One Direction did the same with their cretinous obsessives.
Lady Gaga has asked her fans to stop sending online threats to her critics.
The pop star said she would not condone "hateful or abusive language" directed towards others, adding "this is not a healthy way to handle your emotions".
Some of her fans had tweeted death threats to dance producer Deadmau5, who criticised Gaga's video collaboration with artist Marina Abramovic.
I'm not a fan of her but she's done a good thing. Now if only Bieber and One Direction did the same with their cretinous obsessives.
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Step up and tell your fans to stop sending death threats, or is it a case of being scared in case these weirdos stop buying the dolls, albums, magazines and they speed along their already limited shelf life
shes over, for me.
And with her supposed stance against bullying it's somehwat had to swallow after this has been going on since for years.
It's good she has addressed it but i wonder how heartfelt it really is or is it just a case of being seen to be doing something as whatever she was doing or planning ha sbackfired hugely.
Sharon Osbourne isn't exactly the best role model but I thought she said it perfectly back in January, below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzsuH_vD-WY
she's seems to be distancing herself from the negative stuff she has written on twitter by removing her tweets and then posting this to her fans. it like she is purposely shifting the blame from her on to her fans, that is the way i see it away.:rolleyes: nowhere in that statement does she acknowledge her wrongdoing at all and this comes the day after those tweets.
I think she is just losing it and trying to grasp her way back into peoples favour. It must sting that katy Perry has all but stolen her thunder and this seems lie atransparent attempt at shifting the blame and being seen to be the wronged party.
i do have sympathy for her predicament, i really do, but she has put this pressure on herself by starting this anti-bullying crusade. personally, i agree with everything she supposedly stands for, but she is undeniably poor at putting her own words into practice at times.
I do it can't be easy facing such a back-lash but it was of her own making and inevitable. and your right i stand for all that she says it's a shame she doesn't always live by her own principles
Yes, it is too little too late and after her behavior in many situations when she encouraged it and also used her team and friends to insult other artists on her behalf (on her own site), she comes of as a hypocrite.
Where was this speech when her fans were threatening every other person & other stars. Even the people she claims to be fans of were getting hate vile threats, She sat back and watched it all happen, as she was on top of the world.
I'm afraid Stefani the damage is done. Too little too late. You made your bed..
I repeat what another poster has already said Sharon O is hardly a role model but she said it perfectly
She seems to be doing this because she indirectly spurred the "hate" with the very public argument on twitter.
Better late than never, but the public fighting on twitter is not something I endorse with anyone (the ones I like included).
I wish it was that simple as that: the singer says "Don't be mean" & the fans stop. But I don't think it works that way... Hopefully some stopped, but at least a couple (if not more) will just go on doing whatever they want and spoil it for the rest...
Since you brought them up:
1D have already asked the fans to stop sending hate to their GF/family in the past & Louis was very vocal about his dislike of the extreme shipping of him and Harry (and how those fans were believing in something that wasn't true and abusing his GF/family). But despite his ver clear and blunt message, some fans (a significant portion) still believe in their truth and some still send hate to the boys' GF... It's not all the fans, but a couple of hundreds (or more, I didn't count them) are enough to ruin it for everyone.
I don't know if Lady Gaga is really under the illusion that she controls her fans, but if that's the case, it could lead to some rude awakening.
Rude comments on youtube from little monsters are still popping up (against Sharon for example)... I don't imagine they will al stop their bullying of Perez. It's even facilitated by the fact that Perez is generally considered as a bad person, so the cyber bullies might feel even more vendicated...
how can her role in what happened be considered indirect?
I meant exactly what you said: she expressed her "opinion", but didn't tell anyone to sent him threats, that's all I meant with "indirectly". But of course this "opinion" and the public fight on twitter lead to some of her fans sending horrible messages to Perez.
That's why celebs should be more careful with what they say on twitter, and certainly not fight on twitter IMO.
She's not a child, nor Britney Spears. She runs her own account.
She can sure act like one.
Strange how it's gone very corporate now though. I doubt Interscope will have been too impressed with her twitter behaviour over the past few days. She might not be a child so she should stop acting like one
One? Hordes where telling him they'll kill his son. He may be vile but the monsters are worse.