How did Lady Gaga fall so far from grace?
james_killroy
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So it seems the VMAs have totally shunned her.
To think a few years ago they were begging her to appear in the hope of getting higher ratings.
What exactly happened to make her such a big turn off?
To think a few years ago they were begging her to appear in the hope of getting higher ratings.
What exactly happened to make her such a big turn off?
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However her whole high fashion, avant-garde image was never going to maintain the public's interest forever, and they've moved on now. She was never a particularly sustainable pop star.
Also, in my personal opinion, she seems to get more and more irritating by the day, which certainly doesn't help.
She couldn't do the VMA's even if she or they wanted her to because she is on tour in Australia and performing in Melbourne the night they are on.
I think the OP was referring to her lack of nominations.
This.
But because of the high quality videos she did, people will always look to Gaga to produce top videos and then expect her to sweep the VMA's. Quite the same with her album sales. Too much pressure on the woman by her fans.
Well to be fair to the fans, their expectations come from the hype she puts out that she simply can't deliver on.
Maybe if she just realeased a track/album without acting like it's God's gift to the world, people would not have such high expectations of her work.
This article by the NY posts gives a fascinating insight into a lot of what went on behind the scenes:
http://nypost.com/2013/12/14/what-happened-to-lady-gaga/
Poker Face, Just Dance and Bad Romance will always be her signature songs, I do think that she has peaked. But you never know, nothing is certain.
This.
Her ego has gotten out of control & she started making wildly OTT pronouncements about her "art" without the material to back it up. Her music isn't bad, but in no way does it match the hysterical hype she's given it. People can smell BS a mile off.
Its all a case of Emperor's New Clothes.
Oh God the whole Applause vs. Roar thing was this time last year. It was absolutely embarrassing for Gaga. Roar leaked, and then conveniently within a matter of hours a HQ snippet of Applause leaked. Why a HQ SNIPPET would leak as opposed to a whole song is beyond me. It was so obvious that she''d leaked it herself to try and take the spotlight from Roar.
Anyway, Roar was slaying worldwide, and then all of a sudden Gaga declared a 'pop emergency' (cringe) and brought the release date forward. Applause gets released. Her stupid fans go wild for it, of course. Everyone else is kind of like, meh.
And what happens? Roar absolutely annihilates Applause in terms of chart placings, sales and critical response. Applause absolutely paled in comparison despite Gaga's continuous desperate attempts to garner some interest in it. Meanwhile, Roar absolutely slays effortlessly - little to no promotion, no video, no gimmicks, just a great pop song that the whole world loved, making it go #1 everywhere, and stayed in the charts for months afterwards. Gaga could learn a lot from Katy Perry.
With the Born This Way era failing to live up to expectations, I think people (in general) weren't so quick to go "OMZZZ AMAZEBALLS BEFORE I EVEN HEAR IT" and reserved judgement.
Applause was an ok lead single but as boddism posted, the way Lady Gaga bigged up her album as a proclamation of art, and something about aura iirc, it would've just put people off before they even heard the music.
Lady Gaga just needs to reinvent herself. It can be done but what's crucial is making brilliant pop music. Trying to recreate former glories doesn't work either.
Looking at that NYPost article, all of those people who helped her get where she was got tossed aside, including her manager when he tried to convince her that the label wanted more potential singles and she didn't want to "adulterate her art" by recording any more tracks.
Pop will eat itself in effect, she lost the keys to her success and now is being shut out.
This.