#FlopWatch2014 Lady Gaga Announces European Leg of ARTPOP Ball

It was only a matter of time before Gaga announced the dates of the European leg of the ARTRAVE: ARTPOP Ball.  According to Pollstar, the last show in North America is on July 21st, 2014 in Los Angeles at the Staples Center.  The European leg picks up in Merksem, Belgium on September 23rd, giving her a two month break in between legs. During that break, Gaga will disappear into a wooded area, sit on a rock (naked) and chant like a monk with a flaming ember shoved up his butt, to centre herself and calm her mind after the disastrous, poorly sold North American leg.  

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

The ARTPOP Ball is 9 dates shorter than the Born This Way Ball.  Here's the BTW Ball's dates.

ARTPOP Ball dates according to Wikipedia:

Several cities from the BTW Ball aren't on the ARTRAVE schedule, like Sofia, Bucharest and Riga. Some of ARTRAVE's venues match the BTW Ball's venues, such as Vienna, Zurich and Barcelona. Others are downgrades, like Paris and London. Twickenham Stadium in London holds a capacity of 82,000; while O2 holds up to 20,000.  That's a big difference.  Same with Paris. Stade de France holds 81,338 while Zénith de Paris holds 6,293.  Wow!  What is going on Gaga? She's doing two dates in Paris at the same venue for ARTRAVE and that still won't match the Stade de France on one day.  

What's happening here is obvious. Gaga downgraded from mega-stadiums to arenas and other smaller venues.  Either because she completely missed the target the first time around and overestimated what she could sell or she's losing fans and popularity and she knows it.  She's removed her one foot from fantasy land and placed it back in reality land and adjusted her tour schedule accordingly. It's the same trick restaurants use when they use a smaller plate to make the portions look bigger. The North American tour dates aren't doing that great so far.  Could that be mirroring what will happen in Europe?  Folks, I think we're officially on FlopWatch2014.

Lady Gaga a cutter?

Media Take Out is alleging that Lady Gaga is cutting herself to cope with downward turn her career is taking.  Check this out.

Here's what I think.  Gaga is not cutting herself.  First, the scars look old.  Which indicates two things to me.

1.) She cut herself a long time ago to get attention and/or sympathy.

2.) She got it from jewellery.

I won't focus too much on point No.2 because it pretty much explains itself.  Point No.1 deserves a little more investigation.  Cutting is an obsessive disorder and is a by-product of depression, psychosis, eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder (BPD).  Gaga may have suffered from at least one of these conditions, most likely depression.  Because the action of cutting is obsessive, the arms of an actual cutter would look more like this:

The injuries in the pictures are relatively fresh however the scars would be much more prominent than what appears on Stefani's arms.  So if Stefani cut herself in her past or present, those five little cuts that you see on her arms are most likely an experimentation geared to get sympathy.  In elementary school, a bunch of us girls did it too.  Guess why we did it? We did it for attention.  It was a faux cry for help that was not a result of any underlying condition.

My conclusion; Gaga is not cutting herself.   In my opinion, Stefani is definitely the type of personality that would seek out a self destructive method to cope with her problems.  In her case, it's likely drugs and/or alcohol, not cutting.  She is too vain and too concerned with her appearance to do anything to her face and body. Unless it's to improve it as she did through plastic surgery.

BUT! If there's anything that would drive the self proclaimed Saviour Queen of the Gays to cut herself, it would be because she wasn't asked to perform this number at The Grammy Awards. Madonna was.

                                 

Lady Gaga is a confused idiot.

I don't have to write anything more. The two screen shots are enough.

Lady Gaga looks in the mirror and sees art. For real.

Oh the pretentiousness!  The arrogance!  The self importance and pomposity! Gaga went to The Louvre in Paris and for the first time, she laid her eyes on Bob Wilson's portraits of her.  

"I went to the Louvre today and saw the portraits Bob Wilson made of me. It was such a special moment. I wore archive Gianni [Versace] and wore my hair in metallic braids. It was a day I'll never forget."

From the girl who once said "Fuck fashion. Beauty is a lie"; who now brags about designer clothes and has had extensive plastic surgery to alter her appearance.  How's that "born this way/God makes no mistake" message going Gaga? What a pitiful and shallow existence it must be for someone to define herself by the designer clothes she wears. Who cares who she is wearing? What was the point of even saying that?  Does she have any idea what she sounds like?  It reminds me of this one incident in high school.  It was after gym class and a bunch of us girls were in the locker room changing back into our Catholic school uniforms. One girl, Maria Louisa, said out loud "Does anyone have any perfume?  Oh, never mind. I have Oscar de la Renta in my locker."  She put the emphasis on "Oscar de la Renta".  What she was trying to do was painfully transparent. It was also very embarrassing for her. She thought having a designer perfume somehow made her a more worthy person. That's exactly what designer labels, brands and products try to make you think through means of marketing manipulation. I didn't fall for it as a teen and I definitely don't fall for it now. I don't think it's possible for me to care less if someone owned a Rolex or Christian Louboutin shoes. It does not impress me because it's meaningless.  I like clothes and I like to look nice and well put together.  I don't need to wear a designer label to achieve that and I'm not stupid enough to waste my hard earned money on that nonsense. Not even if I suddenly became rich; because my principles and who I am as a person are too deeply ingrained in my psyche. Looking back on it, I can see that Maria Louisa was a very insecure teen that was seeking acceptance from her peers.  Just like Gaga is today.  I actually feel sorry for her (just a little) because wearing Versace this or Prada that means shit and one day she will see that. Or not.  Gaga might be a lost cause at this point. Her arrogance and grandiosity is like a snake swallowing it's own tail.  Since she's keen to keep all the "yes" people around her, her insufferable personality is only going to get worse.

As for Bob Wilson, can someone please take his Quaaludes away from him!  What he says about Gaga is so unhinged and irrational.  

"She would look at the image (his painting of her) and after a while she would look at her face in a mirror and something happened, and I would shoot her (with a taser I hope)... There's a nobility to her. She's a real princess."

Lady Gaga's Brilliant Advice for Pregnant Fan

Our Lady Grist the Redeemer had some deep and profound advice for a young pregnant fan.  On Gaga's social media site Little Monsters, and fan wrote "Omg... I'm pregnant I'm so scared if I tell my parents and mainly my dad he going to kill me I took like 4 test to prove it but it all came back possve (sic) I'm pregnant omg help please... I know I made a mistake."

To which Gaga replied  "Tell your parents, everything will be ok. Yu (sic) just need their support right now. Don't be scared... Just tell your mom privately... Don't worry honey don't be scared. Any decision you make is the right one and you'll be ok."

Wow. That's so, so......what's the word I'm looking for, so, so........useful? No, helpful? How about useless? How about lazy.  What a lazy, basic answer to come from a woman that thinks she has what it takes to run a youth foundation. I'm surprised she didn't tell her to go shopping for designer clothes and fur to cheer her up.

Hey kid, if you want some advice, you should've come to me.  You're 14 years old with your whole life ahead of you. Judging on how you communicated your problem to Gaga, my guess is you're not not mentally or emotionally mature enough to have a kid. If you're going to keep this baby, you better have a good support system and a lot of help, because you still have years of school to go through and make something of your life. You're going to want to be a teenager and have fun and do the things that kids your age do. This baby is, to be nice, going to change your life drastically; and not only in a good way.  Be prepared for the rudest awakening of your life.  Of course it's not the baby's fault but this is reality and the truth sometimes sucks. Kiss every ounce of the freedom you have left good-bye. If you want to keep your baby, make sure your mom and dad will co-parent with you. If not, there's always adoption. I won't suggest abortion because I don't believe that abortion should be used as a form of birth control. You're a dumb kid that fucked up. Is that harsh? Suck it up. You should know at your age how babies are made and you made a dumb decision. The baby shouldn't have to pay for your ineptness. Now if abortion is your choice, I won't judge you for it either.  Go talk to a counselor and work through your emotions and feelings with an unbiased professional because we both know how your parents are going to react. Congratulations, you just aged them ten years. Just a tip though, after getting Gaga's brilliant piece of advice, steer clear of The Born This Way Foundation.

@ladygaga I heard you tried to help a pregnant teen. Maybe you should cover Papa Don't Preach.
— Gaga Cheat (@MissStef0318) January 17, 2014

Bashing Lady Gaga is Bad for Society

Dumb and Dumber

Written by Roveston Powell

First of all, I'm not a Lady Gaga fan, never been. Not even at the top of her game, when she took over the music industry releasing a string of massive hits. Hits which were presented as an artsy way of expressing herself while, in reality, they were just eurodance beats often accompanied by a video about her being naked most of the times. Oh, look, a blonde white skinny young female without clothes on. How original.

While everyone in U.S. went "ooh" and "ahh" for Lady Gaga's "refreshing" sound and stage presence (at least she can sing and play instruments), we in Europe weren't really hearing nothing new as we actually invented that sound during the 90s. The only original thing she has done, somehow, ismaking it popular in the global market.

Eventually she became so popular that most people started adoring her like a new messiah (Madonna) and other popstars joined the compliments wagon even if it made them look like lesser deities. Probably because the one who dared belittling her, Christina Aguilera, received so much backlash she still has to fully recover from it. The critically acclaimed version of "Paparazzi" performed during the 2009 VMAs was so much well received that even I, by watching it live as I was living in North America back then, had to admit that she was here to stay.

Full article here. 

ARTFLOP Tour Lives Up To It's Name

THIS IS A POP EMERGENCY!! Someone call 911! ARTRAVE: The ARTPOP Ball is dying and needs emergency resuscitation! Quick! Where's the defibrillator?  Scissors!  I need scissors to cut open the ARTSHIRT! Phew!  There we go.

Not sure if this is going to work.  There isn't any amount of promotion to save the ARTRAVE.  What I'm witnessing before my very eyes on Ticketmaster's website is enough to make the most hardened of hearts cry.  Oversaturation and pretension is never a good thing. 

Sunrise FL

Atlanta, GA

Pittsburgh, PA

Washington D.C.

Vancouver, B.C.

She's doing well in Uncasville, CT.

Seattle, WA

So far only the North American dates have been announced.  Although European, Asian and uh, South American dates haven't been announced, I'm sure she'll go there as soon as she erases the original ARTPOP release date from the collective memory and re-releases it with ARTPOP II. Although I'm not sure why she would bother.  The tour starts in the US and Canada to make up for cancelled dates due to her plastic hip surgery.

This is like the South American leg of the Born This Way Ball all over again.

Holy Photoshop Batman! Lady Gaga on Elle.

Lady Gaga will, uh, grace the cover of Elle Magazine and she is completely unrecognizable!  The combination of photoshop and Baby I Was Born This Way plastic surgery is like that big flashing neon sign you find in Chinatown.

Shameless album promotion. It won't work.

Yeah, because THIS looks like Gaga.

ARTFLOP

Oh wait....that's not right.  Here....

I only have two words to describe this photoshop extravaganza.  Holy shit.

And did you see the pictures from the Golden Globes?  Her lips are filled out again and she looks frozen to the 10th botox degree.

And check out this petition asking that official action be taken against Gaga's fans for hate, bullying and harassment.

@ladygaga @LadeyGagah That's GREAT! Now you can partake in some doggie & kitty slaughter while you're there so you can get a new coat! bitch
— Gaga Cheat (@MissStef0318) January 14, 2014

Disturbing Anti-LGBT Tweets

Dear readers

Last night a very disturbing tweet came up my feed by someone that claims to be a pastor.  I used to follow this person based on his animal rights stance, not knowing at the time that he was so hateful and criminal. His name is Martin Cisneros and he goes by Online Vegan on Twitter.  He runs Fountain of Gardens Ministries in Fort Worth, Texas.

These are his tweets, which I screen capped just in case he deletes them.

I've reported him to the FBI.  I can handle someone not agreeing with LGBT rights.  They are entitled to their opinion although it's an uneducated, ignorant opinion that's based in fear. But when someone is starting a movement to murder LGBT, incite violent and break the law, something must be done.  

I am not religious at all but this is not Christianity! Or is it?  Maybe this is the American right wing version of Christianity because I'll tell you right now, I have never met a group of more hateful, bigoted, ignorant, confused and deranged people like the American Christian Right Wing.  Do these moronic Christians in America honestly think that Jesus would condone this behaviour?  Here's a big newsflash for them - their stupid Bible was written by several different authors! None of it came from God and Jesus.  These authors took their opinions of that time and included it in a book to ensure that you agree with them or else burn in a mythical place called hell.  They also left chapters out. Did they ever ask themselves why?  That's all I'm going to say about that.

If you live in Forth Worth, please contact your local authorities.  If you can, please file your own complaint to the FBI at this link.  Share this post and make it go viral.

@OnlineVegan dude, just embrace your sexuality. All this self-hate can't be healthy for you.
— Gaga Cheat (@MissStef0318) January 13, 2014

UPDATE

I've contacted several news outlets in the Fort Worth area.  NBC FW got back to me and are investigating. Telemundo in FW tweeted him.  The reporters are getting on this. My instincts tell me this guy is going to have his 15 min of fame.

@OnlineVegan Good Morning, I'm a producer with Telemundo 39 in DFW and would like to talk to you. Please call me @ 682-239-6279
— Iris (@IrisNews) January 13, 2014

Lady Gaga Loses Relevance Plus Wendy Williams Tells Gaga Straight!

TV talk show host Wendy Williams had a few choice words to say to Our Lady of Perpetual Victim-hood.  It all had to do with the whining and complaining about ARTPOP's flop parade on every worldwide chart possible.  Like us, Wendy Williams can see it's plain as day that the blame does not lie with Gaga's management or team.  Gaga, from day one, has maintained that she's putting her all into ARTPOP.  That this was a creative process that she was in charge of, to every last detail.  I'm convinced that Troy walked or was fired because he couldn't take her arrogance any longer. Gaga definitely became difficult to work with and was completely inflexible.  That's why ARTPOP is an ARTFLOP.  She refused to listen to advice and take direction.  Gaga became the contemptuousness know-it-all.

               

It' so easy to blame others when things don't go your way, isn't it?  Let's throw all those who had to suffer through her unendurable personality for several years, under the bus.  Nice cop out Caca.  No one's buying. Not the general public and not even your critics.

Speaking of critics, here's another whiny self-pity rant of Gaga's.

Grow a backbone Gaga.  Critics are there for a reason. Even your fans can critique you. Maybe you should start paying attention to it.  You might save your career.  If that's even possible at this stage four career cancer. Gaga's too caught up in the high art bullshit that she walks around actually believing she's some important highbrow artist.  That delusion is sure to drive a huge wedge between her and the people who try to manage her because her arrogance and braggadocio will prevent her from seeing that her ideas have been disastrous.  Flying dress anyone?  How about the naked yodeling imbecile in the forest?  No?  How about working with pedophiles? Oh and people with ears can critique music. 

Rumor has it that Gaga's father, Joe Germanotta, is her new manager and is taking 50% of her earnings.  50 percent!!!!  That is insane.  This is a recipe for disaster.  An insider told me that Gaga's relationship with her mother is allegedly very strained and that even Cynthia has turned against her own daughter.  With Papa Joe at the helm, I give their relationship one year before it crumbles into a pile of burnt coal.  

Definitely worth the read.  Check it out!

Crash The Critic: Angela Cheng’s ARTPOP Problem

This is a snippet from a new post by Monster's Culture.  Show him your support by reading his post and give him your comments. He's trying to get down to the Angela Cheng mystery.  I don't believe Angela is who she says she is but there is a real person behind the facade.  That real person seems to have some type of insider information as she knew that Bill Werde would lose his position at Billboard weeks before it happened.

Angela Cheng is starting her own website and moving away fro The Examiner.  It should be interesting to see if any more of her predictions become reality; and that's a reality Lady Gaga will be forced to live in.

UPDATE:

So there's been a lot of drama today.  All you have to do is read through the comments to see. Angela, thank you for coming out, speaking, being direct  and answering people's questions.  Here's my stance.  Does it really matter if we know who Angela is or not? Probably not.  Yes, there is a curiosity factor. Especially since she broke the $25 million story about Gaga.  I'm not sure if that number is totally accurate but since MSM picked up the story, I would have to assume they did their own digging as well.  She did know about Bill Werde losing his position at Billboard.  One bird, two stones right?  That right there is enough to peak anyone's interest; and it did!

I also don't reveal my identity for several reasons.  First, my main job.  In addition to walking dogs part time, I run a business in the entertainment field and I don't want my clients, colleagues and peers to know about this blog. Second, Gaga's fans.  That's all I need to say about that.  My name is Stefanie.  I am a "Miss" meaning I'm not married.  I'm definitely a woman.

I'm not Angela Cheng, Peter Buchanan, Paws Down, Perez Hilton or any others that I've been accused of being. Further, we have no proof that Angela is either.  People will always speculate and that's fine.  Angela confirmed that the first picture she used was not her and says the current picture is, albeit it heavily and creatively photoshopped.  I'm satisfied with her answer.

I think what we need to remember is exactly what Angela says.  We are on the same side.  So let's work together. I'm looking forward to reading Angela's website once it's live.  Hopefully she'll put the $25M story back up! ;)

Lady Gaga Gets Called Out

Read the rest here!

All the points in the article make complete sense and some I've touched on myself.  She's passing the buck, of that I have no doubt.  That doesn't mean I don't believe she's feeling sad, despair or desperate right now.  She might and could be;  but it's gravely misguided.  I believe wholeheartedly that she is blaming the lackluster performance of ARTPOP on her former team instead of right where it belongs, on herself. 

Gaga has repeatedly tweeted with emphasis about how ARTPOP was coming along and it's obvious she spent two years working on, beginning during the Born This Way Ball; and spending a lot of time on it while recovering from plastic surgery.  The Applause video was not given one week to plan and execute. She had been working on it for weeks and she said so herself.  She lied.  Then again, Gaga is a pathological liar so that should come as no surprise.  She lies so often that she forgets her own lies.  

Gaga prides herself on being the one in charge of her career.  She's often said that she isn't manufactured, she writes her own music and is fulfilling her artistic vision.  So when her vision fails to meet her expectations, suddenly she isn't in charge anymore.  

Gaga has said that the people closest to her betrayed her.  That the people who she thought were supposed to care weren't there for her when she needed them the most.  I think a more accurate story is that these same people were exhausted by her and burnt out from trying to manage and guide her.  They ran out of steam.  Her betrayers were the ones that had the guts to give her a different opinion opposed to nodding their head with a pathetic yes to her every whim and request. Her betrayers were the people not willing to enable her.  Gaga's betrayers are the ones that had the guts to say no.

Gaga Meltdown on Little Monsters Website

Gaga had a public tête-à-tête with fans on her Little Monsters website after a fan posted her concern about Gaga's mental and emotional state, to which Stefani responded.

Stefani also tackled the rumor about Interscope losing $25 million.

The rumor started when Examiner writer Angela Cheng posted a story about it, which was picked up by mainstream media and it blew up all over the Internet.  The story has since been deleted by Cheng.  The financial loss is likely a lie or a gross exaggeration but we can't deny that ARTPOP failed to live up to it's hype.  

What's obvious here is that Gaga is not in a good place mentally or she's playing it up to get the pity vote.  Here's the thing, Gaga wanted fame and she got it.  What she didn't count on were critics. Maybe it's because she doesn't think she deserves any criticism.  Whatever it is, she clearly can't handle it.  By her saying that "actors and singers need critics to grow" is a lie, she is basically stating that no one should ever criticize anything a person in the public eye does.  That is wrong. Especially when you work with known pedophiles and sexual predators, you better damn well know you're getting judged.  There is no free pass because you want to label yourself an artist.  

Any clue on who those people are that were not there when she woke up from surgery? Troy Carter maybe? Other industry people? My guess is that Troy Carter, being a manager, became exasperated trying to work with his client. He was going in one direction and she was going in another.  Stefani likely became very difficult to work with; determined to pursue the performance art path.  Carter knew it wouldn't work and he was right.  So he walked or was fired.  

Get real Stefani.  This isn't Candy Land where everything is kittens and flowers.  This is the music business and I do not believe for one second that she didn't use those people as they used her. Gaga knew what she wanted career wise, she went after it and she got it.  To try to pass herself off as the innocent victim that didn't have a poker hand in all of this is an insult to her fan's intelligence. By the way, record companies are not your friend. They are the worst of them all.  They are there to make money from the next big star.  That's it. End of story.

Another massive mistake Stefani made was to create this faux relationship with her fans.  Honestly, it's scary.  If you want to spread a positive message, fine, more power to you.  But to create this false sense of romanticism and illusion of friendship is very manipulative, very cult-like and very creepy.  

Gaga is placing all her strength and determination in an outside force (her fans) instead of finding it within.  Or is she?  Could this be a tactic to wield a fictitious and misleading relationship with what are essentially strangers; for the sole goal of profit?

Is that last screen cap a stomach virus disguised as a forum comment because I'm about to puke all over myself. Taylor Kinney probably doesn't give a shit about her fans and that's not me being mean. That's me being realistic. Who the hell looks into another person's eyes and says "I can feel that you love my fans"? How corny.  

I know several of you are wondering about my Twitter exchange with Angela Cheng.  First, let me say that what Angela says is not my opinion.  I am not spreading lies or misinformation.  I'm simply blogging about what someone else told me.  I have no way of knowing if Angela is telling me the truth or not.  All of this is alleged. 

Angela says she is not changing her stance on Gaga but will continue to criticize her in a way that isn't damaging. Angela did tell me in a private Twitter message that she did speak to Gaga herself and that Gaga was in an awful place, her speech isn't coherent. Cheng believes Gaga is suicidal. Cheng claims that Gaga no longer feels she can trust anyone, including her own mother.  She also claims to have spoken to Troy Carter and he is very concerned about her safety.  Everyone in Gaga's inner circle is turning on her, which Angela replied that she brought this on herself.  Gaga's response was that she was forced to do things by her management that led to her career decline.  I personally doubt that.  It's not in a management company's best interest to ruin their client's career. Troy made her who she is today.  I'm leaning more toward the fact that Gaga is ruining her career all by herself.

I asked Angela why Gaga would talk to her?  Why should she trust her of all people?  Angela's response was that Gaga doesn't trust anyone and only wanted Angela to hear her side. Which brings me to my next question; why would Gaga care about telling Angela her side?

I did question Angela as to why she was using a stock photo picture of a young Chinese girl to identify herself on The Examiner.  She did not reply to that.

Angela says there's a lot more and she will email me in more detail later.  That email has yet to come.

UPDATE

And more....Gaga's excuse about the extreme delay for the pedo song video, Do What U Want.

No, the DWUW video isn't here because she made the huge mistake by inviting an alleged pedophile to sing along with her.  I suppose her former management made her do it. Blaming everyone else again for why ARTPOP failed is such a cop out.  Stefani has always been very vocal about how she's in charge of her career; that she calls the shots, writes her own music and is not manufactured.  So when things take a downturn, suddenly she's not in charge anymore? I mean, she's blaming that shitty Applause video on time! All her previous videos managed to get done so is she seriously trying to pass the buck on to everyone but herself?  Now she's going to pretend the release date didn't happen and that the next few months will give ARTPOP a jump start.  I don't think there are jumper cables big enough in the universe to make that happen!

"Let me be for you the Goddess that I know I truly am. Let me show you the visions that have been in my mind for two years. I love you. Forgive me monsters. Forgive me ARTPOP. You are my whole world".  Is she high?  She must be flying so high right now because there's no other possible rational explanation for those last few sentences.  None.

UPDATE 2

Furthermore, she is lying about the Applause video and I have proof.  Her Tweets!

What was that Gaga about you only having a week to plan and execute the Applause video? Yeah, I thought so.

Love it!