Mr. Mendes

Last I heard it was kinda unclear whether the owner of GGD is even, like, safe JDKSKD he hasn't been seen in a long time

Girl shut up

Do y'all not see how crazy this exchange is

She's been promoting Palestinian sovereignty and an end to the violence since at least 2004, with multiple statements on it within her shows (Re-Invention, Confessions, Eurovision, and Madame X) and on social media (her angry response to Palestine being removed the map and pleading for the Pope to end the suffering in Gaza) so I think her stance is clear. I do believe in the past she was more willing to engage with Israel both through the lens of Kabbalah, but also through a desire for mutual peace. But since the escalation in the genocide following Oct 7, she has noticeably distanced herself and focused more attention on the situation in Palestine (arguably even earlier; she removed Israel from Killers Who are Partying and replaced it with Palestine on the later MX dates). While I do not doubt she still desires peace for all, I do think her perspective of how to approach the subject has changed as the atrocities have become more nakedly brazen in the last three years. I feel she, like many, has allowed her points of view to evolve as more information and reality has become clear to her.

No

See above. It was a genuine question because I 1) Can't see the links in the OP and 2) Have no clue who this person we're discussing is to start with and can't even really look them up because all I've got is a first name. If I wanted to be shady, I'd be shady. I say what I mean. If I say I'm not being shady but genuinely asking, that's the truth. Don't presume you know anything about me because you don't, you're just mad I won't co-sign every dumb thing you say.

I can't see whatever is imbedded in the OP, it won't load for me no matter how many times I reload the page so all I've got to go off of is the thread title and the responses to it. Hence why I asked. You through being rude?

Then what is your point? You said she gets an exception which is patently false, so what point are you trying to make?

I am asking this genuinely, not in a shady way like it usually gets asked: who are we talking about? Who is she and why did her dislike of gain so much traction? I'm assuming she has some sort of platform.

We celebrate because this was and is a great album that pre-dated all that stuff and this is a website that generally likes to discuss and (sometimes) celebrate music. Yes, he's incredibly embarrassing now and a shell of his former self, and he certainly has a lot of behavior from his past to atone for, but I don't know what to tell if you don't think this and the 20/20 duo records are some of the best male pop records ever made.

A way better song than most are willing to give it credit for. One of her best.

Yes and I kind of side eye anyone who doesn't

She's only had 2.5 (emails is only sort of) successful eras so the majority of her catalogue doesn't count. She didn't ever have a hit to start with until a few years ago.

Absolutely. Her charting positions and sales will inevitably decline the further into her 40s she gets and eventually singles will cease making moves and albums will be her main selling point, but that isn't unique to Gaga. It is the path all female artists unfortunately have to walk. But she will always be relevant, people will always want to see her live, her new music will always have appreciation, and she will remain a pop culture institution. She's the premiere artist of her generation and has made a sizable impact on the medium and culture. Even if her singles aren't going to #1 in this period, her albums will, she'll be a huge touring force, and we'll start the process of truly combing through her legacy for the first time. She'll kill her 40s.

They're not spending so much money. That's part of what leads to what you're talking about. Big investment/big budget videos are fairly rare today. Even one you named—Abracadabra—was not an expensive production. Almost bare set, young dancers that don't need to be paid much, choreography focused, no big special effects, one location. It's shot, lit, and edited well, but it was not an expensive investment.

Because they aren't important enough to a song or album's success anymore for artists and directors to put that much effort into them. Music videos exist today as mostly a formality and are made with the intention of them being chopped up and clipped and those clips posted on the platforms that do influence a song or album's success which is TikTok and other short form content generators. YouTube is a dying platform, and music videos are a dying artform. The only exception really is KPOP which has videos as an important element of the music by design.

Quoting the post they just made to bump it again.

Are you stupid or just doing a bit

Mind you, per recorded evidence, he spent all of 9/11 at Trump Tower in midtown which is nowhere near the World Trade Center.

She did, but this isn't a tour (as of now). She can also change her mind. Or tour in spite of a distaste for it.

As if this is the first example of an artist who many want to see live but don't always buy the record. This isn't rocket science.

The issue here is though many in this thread are jumping in because of who it's about, not what it's about. It's the inverse of the recent Pink thread (which was a necessary call out done for the right reasons). That's what I meant in my post (which is edited now to add more than I said initially). Like I said in the edits, it is important to stay vigilant about who is associating (such as in the Pink thread), but you don't find it the least bit trivializing that this site now does this for the purposes of stan wars instead of, I don't know, accountability? The Pink thread is a good example of bringing it up for accountability. This transparently is not.

It's really concerning how comfortable many of you have become using a genocide as ATRL stan war fodder. I don't disagree that association with or support of Israel needs to be called out but that is transparently not why it gets brought up a lot of the time and I just find that…concerning. It trivializes such an important topic. The recent Pink thread is a good example of how such calling out can be a positive thing. This, mentioning Gaga's performance there in 2013, etc just seems like transparent bait to whack pop stars with no care for the seriousness of the topic at hand.

It was filmed in London. I don't know when she plans to release it but she filmed the 4th and 5th London shows.

I think in hindsight we know why