No More Applause For This G.A.L.

Can it get any worse for G.U.Y.? I'm going to say N.O.  Gaga's third release from ARTPOP has had fans and critics talking - and what they're saying isn't good. 

The music video (which is almost 12 minutes in length - including 4 minutes of credits) was shot at Hearst Castle in California.  Much of the video takes place in the Neptune Pool, which according to sources was filled with 300,000 gallons of water, chlorinated, and promptly dumped out.

Sure, it's a massive waste of water. But why are so many people talking about it?  Because the state of California is suffering from its worst drought of all time.  Of course that didn't mean anything to Gaga or her people, though. 

Hypocritical Gaga made sure money spoke when she allegedly said she would "donate" $250,000 to the Hearst Castle Foundation, as well as film PSAs to demonstrate to local Californians how to conserve water, in order to use the pool.

Yes, she's going to tell people to conserve water, even though she just dumped 300,000 gallons of it.

Of course, there are some sources stating the water was only "lightly chlorinated" and therefore could be reused - but others are calling that a big fat lie.

More on the Hearst Castle debacle, though: according to radaronline.

(http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2014/04/lady-gaga-difficult-diva-music-video-shoot/), Gaga is a nightmare to work with.

Apparently, employees were forbidden to speak to her for the three days it took to film the video. Wow! She can't even put aside her attitude for a few days to talk to her overworked, underpaid staff? 

Maybe that was a good thing. Allegedly, she was frustrated that Hearst Castle remained open to the public during filming. 

The castle being open caused a lot of problems with security. Having hordes of her fans at the castle was a major problem and setback - but state law required that they stay open during business hours even during private events and filming... and a Lady Gaga video was no exception. 

The video itself had mixed reviews - naturally her fans loved it, but most critics thought it was a ridiculous spectacle. 

But was it worth the budget and all the hype?

You tell me.



Sources: http://www.hitfix.com/news/lady-gagas-new-guy-video-is-a-ridiculous-real-housewives-assisted-spectacle
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/04/15/did-lady-gaga-waste-massive-pool-water-in-draught-stricken-california/
http://www.designntrend.com/articles/12803/20140416/lady-gaga-gets-no-applause-extremely-difficult-work-with-during-guy-music-video-shoot-californias-hearst-castle.htmhttp://radaronline.com/exclusives/2014/04/lady-gaga-difficult-diva-music-video-shoot/

Gaga and Cocaine? This is soooooo not obvious.

What soon-to-be former A-list pop diva keeps her coke in pill capsules? She was seen snorting one at that big awards show last year?  Source - see No.8

So that's how she does it!

The Born This Way Foundation - empowering youth, one snort at a time.  

Just make sure to give us your money because we have, uh, other expenses and uh, a website to run. Oh and uh, some Facebook posts and Tweets so yeah, give us your money we can buy more coke combat bullying for a kinder and braver world.

Thanks Nuvo for the link.

What entrepreneurs can learn from Lady Gaga’s career

Read the rest here!

Lady Gaga's career is drowning!

Quick!  Someone throw her a life raft!  Predictably, Lady Gaga's knight and super fan, Anthagio (Anthony Ashcraft) came to her defence.  Which makes the read even more hysterical. There's nothing funnier than watching him writhe in pain as his idol falls off her perch.  

Read the rest here.

Thank you Sun Ra for the link.

Be sure to read Recovering Monster's post "Parade of Celebrities Come Out Against Gaga".

Bill Werde comments on Angela Cheng Claims!

Here's a snippet.  Read the full article on Little Monster Bill Werde's Tumblr.

Bill Werde says "all of this would be fine and well and water under the bridge, except for two nagging problems. One was that the “work” of “Cheng” and “O’Connor” appeared to me to create a lasting, negative smear on the campaign for Lady Gaga’s current album, ARTPOP."

Someone should inform Mr. Werde that ARTPOP under performed on it's own.  The music spoke (or didn't speak) for itself. Lady Gaga's pretentious attitude; alienation of the general public by being a holier than thou snooty high art type; and constant eye rolling claims suggesting she's the first person to accomplish things in pop culture that have already been done 30 or more years ago, are enough to solidify her demise. Let's not forget ripping people off through her foundation, which is really more of a tax break than anything else. Being the most annoying celebrity in existence can't be a good thing for your career and public image.

ARTPOP and Gaga doesn't need covert journalists and bloggers to turn the public off. She did that all on her own. I suppose Cheng and O'Connor are also to blame for the Born This Way Foundation's obscene spending of donation money on pretty much nothing?

Writing a post discrediting claims that he's on Gaga's payroll is useless.  Was he ever going to admit it if he were? That would be illegal.  It seems to me that Bill Werde is a die-hard Lady Gaga fan. He is a fan and therefore fails to see how Stefani contributed to her own career falling off the pedestal and into the pit of irrelevancy.  It's the media and blogger's fault even if they reported factual information like the charity foundation's irresponsible spending with very little of it actually doing anything to help it's cause?

Keep in mind too that Lady Gaga loves attention. She lives for the applause after all.  Any attention, even negative, is satisfactory for her because it keeps her name in the news.  In fact, she should probably put all the "hate" bloggers on her payroll.  At least we keep her name alive.  Mainstream media is barely singing her praises anymore either.

Remember one thing folks, whatever happens, it's never Lady Gaga's fault. It's your fault, the media's fault, her management's fault, the animals she kills and wears fault, the blogger's fault, former friend's fault, ex-boyfriend's fault, old high school peers' fault and everyone else breathing on this massive planet's fault. But it's not her fault.

Thanks Nuvo for the link.  Now check out BuzzFeed's article on Angela Cheng and Sabrina O'Connor! Oh the impact those two have!  Hey, what about Paws Down and I? Are we chopped liver or something? I kid, I kid.  My guess is our claims have more merit and constructive criticism instead of outrageous claims.  So we aren't sensational enough.  

Thank you Amen Madonna for the Buzz Feed link.

Guys, what do you think?

Lady Gaga - G.U.Y.: THIS SONG SUCKS

               

Review by Luke Giordano.  The song really does suck.  I posted Luke's review for Applause when it came out but it's so spot on, it deserves to be posted again.

               

Akon Throws Major Shade at Lady Gaga. He Cashed Out!

I know Lady Gaga feels like a victim so badly betrayed by the music industry, or she wants you to believe she is. But, let's get real shall we? The music business is a business and businesses are there to earn money. The entertainment industry is no exception.  Of course, in order to earn money, they have to find the right people to mold and shape into a fast selling package.  Gaga was (maybe still is) a commodity, like most pop stars are.  Pop stars have a shelf life, like milk.  The glory days of pop are over.  There will never be another Madonna or Michael Jackson ever again.  Very few have managed to harness the longevity needed to survive in such a fickle career with an even more fickle public.

Akon's relationship with Lady Gaga in the early stages of her career is no secret and he was crucial in helping her rise to the top for that short period.  But like all good businessmen, they know when to walk away.  Listen to Akon's interview with Sway in the Morning. When asked about Lady Gaga, he says "Actually I cashed out. I got out while the gooding (sic) was hot. It's like a business, you build it to sell it. When I got it to the peak of where I felt it couldn't go nowhere, and there was nowhere left to go but down, I cashed out, in other words I sold my share and got out before it was too late." When asked if he's surprised at the critics saying Gaga's fallen of the pedestal and the sales of Gaga's last album, Akon responds "No. That's why I got out". Ouch!

Skip to 3:43 and listen up to 5:47.

             

Make no mistake.  Gaga isn't this broken bird who was kept from flying because of these horrible executives.  I don't doubt that there are horrible people in the music business.  I'm sure there's a lot of shrewd and ruthless suits for artists to deal with.  But they are not responsible for Gaga's waning star. She is; and she's said many times how she's in control of her career.  It's convenient and it's human nature to pass the buck to others when it's too hard to swallow that pill of accountability. The truth is Gaga used them as much as they used her.  The fact that she had to go to court to seal scandalous documents permanently that would ruin her reputation testifies to that.

Thank you Pizzazz for the story.

Lady Gaga G.U.Y. video applies same, old, tired pop formula.

             

Lady Gaga's video for G.U.Y. came out yesterday and it's evident in the video that she's desperately trying to promote her entire album ARTPOP and not just the song the video is meant for.  The almost 12 minute video, which four minutes of it is just credits (implying this is some sort of masterpiece film) paints Gaga to be the (surprise!) perpetual victim who suffered at the hands of her handlers who trying to stifle her creative, and artistic vision, which involves vomiting. 

The video opens with Gaga's single ARTPOP and visually we see a group of men in suits fighting over money.  The men obviously represent music industry executives that only cared about Stefani for the money and not Stefani the artist.  As the crowd moves away, we see Gaga lying on the ground, beat up and abused. Gaga is wearing bird wings to signify the phoenix that will rise from the ashes.  I guess Gaga didn't get the memo that ARTPOP is done and the window for "rising" has long closed.  That of course had nothing to do with Troy Carter and the rest of her management team because Gaga has always made a strong point to let it be known that she is in charge of her career.  Unless it begins to fail.  In that case, it's no longer her fault.  

When Gaga arrives at Hearst Castle, broken and battered, the song changes to Venus, in an attempt to promote yet another song. Gaga is carried to the pool, adorned with flowers, lifted up and placed in the pool for a spiritual cleansing.  Then in a weird, tacky twist, we see the Housewives of Beverly Hills lip synching to Venus and playing in a mock band.  Their significance in the video is lost among the mega promotion and point of the video itself, if there actually is one that doesn't have to do with Gaga.  Then again, nothing Gaga does is about anything else other than her.  Even her do-good attempts at charity is basically one giant stroke of the ego as she places herself in a Messiah-like status.  Thankfully, her foundation was proven to be a scam and anyone with a brain can see that.

G.U.Y. begins with Gaga playing tribute to sex and it's God Himeros.  Like a bad self-made, low budget music video, a floating Hemiros head appears in the blue sky, looking down upon the pretentious, washed up pop star, smiling.  The scene is stupid and has z-movie status written all over it.  It doesn't deserve much more attention than that.

Cue the predictable dance sequence.  There's several of them, which include back up dancers. Notably, the real dancing isn't done by Gaga.  

The rest of the video is just your typical pop, dance, Hollywood stuff.  Costumes, dancing, dead animals as clothing, sex, masturbation; because it wouldn't be a pop video without touching your crotch.  How artistic.   Gaga looks pretty good and credit for that goes to the cosmetic surgery and Botox she's gotten, which is evident in this video.

Gaga's two-foot stomping about being a real artist is negated by travelling down the beaten pop-star path by including the usual pop music video recipe; sex, nakedness, ensemble dancing, flashy lights and pouty faces.  Gaga can scream "I am an artist" until she chokes because it's clear as the bluest, ocean water that underneath all that noise, Gaga is nothing more than just another pop star applying the same, old, tired formula.  Staying in line with her empathy for child molesters and sexual deviants, Michael Jackson makes an appearance in the video as well. Speaking of Michael Jackson, the scene where he, Ghandi and Jesus exit their tombs is a direct reflection about how Gaga thinks of herself.  A victim, beaten, crucified and humiliated for her art.  Gaga thinks she is a martyr for pop.  The delusions of grandeur are hysterical and sad.  

The video ends with a panoramic, exterior shot of Hearst Castle, the stunning California mountains and ocean. This is the best part of the video.

The song G.U.Y. itself isn't bad.  The best part is the chorus.  I predict, like the rest of ARTPOP, the song will fail to reach the top of the charts despite the expensive, long and colourful video and pathetic fan attempts.  But then again, Gaga doesn't care about the charts and that's obvious by placing two unrelated songs in the video and tweeting this.

TREND #GUYMusicVideoTomorrow make it #1 and I'll release a never before seen still!
— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) March 21, 2014

Oh PUKE! Lady Gaga, Desperate for Attention, Triggers Gag Reflex at SXSW

Last night Lady Gaga performed at sell-out music festival SXSW and the desperation for a waning career reached pathetic heights of grossness.  In a lame and failed attempt to divert attention from the Born This Way Foundation spending scandal and Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga tapped so called "vomit" artist Millie Brown to perform with her on stage.  The fact that someone calls themselves a vomit artist is disturbing in and of itself but that's a discussion for another day.

During the single from ARTPOP, Swine, Gaga did her best reductive version of a GG Allin show and had Millie Brown drink a green coloured, milky liquid on stage.  Once the tasty beverage was finished, Brown stuck her fingers down her throat and proceeded to vomit the green liquid all over Stefani. Once Brown emptied her digestive system of green fluid, she puked black shit all over Gaga as they both played in it like bridge-trolls on a mechanical bull.  I feel like vomiting as I write this. Revolting.  Checkmate for glamorizing bulimia too!  Good job Gaga.  How's that youth empowerment going? #PopStarsDontEat 

You know you're on your way out when you resort to putrid garbage like this.  Anything to get attention huh Gaga?  While art is a form of human expression, it should have it's boundaries as well. You can't create or perform whatever junk you want, slap an art label on it and expect to be considered some kind of artistic genius.  In Gaga and Millie's case, they are nothing more than clowns from a travelling circus sideshow act. 

Gaga really wanted to be a bad-ass rock-n-roll chick for this show. What you ended up seeing was watered down drunk, 1990's Courtney Love mixed with GG Allin, who whined when she had to sing her pop single "Applause". I guess the pain of being reminded of how badly it flopped was too much to bear.

Just how Gaga's SXSW was known for anything but the forgettable music from ARTPOP, GG Allin was known more for his stage antics than his music. He was known for vomiting on stage, beating up his fans (male or female), consuming his feces and self mutilation.  He even had his fans eat his feces. Gaga read a page from the GG Allin play-book and applied it to her show last night. Referring to a comment I read on dListed, GG Allin once said that he planned to commit suicide on stage.  That didn't happen.  He ended up overdosing on drugs.  

Gaga, your move. 

She's still trying to sell this ARTPOP concept huh?  Yeah, I don't think her attempts to create a new genre or movement is working, at all.  This turkey is fully cooked.

ARTRave; ARTPOP; Amazon sales scam

11.11.13.  ARTPOP release date and the reviews are coming in and they aren't good.  Here's a few headlines just to give you a taste of the wave of criticism.

Salon - Post-Lady Gaga, is Warholism dead?

The Montreal Gazette - Self-indulgence dulls Lady Gaga’s slick but derivative ARTPOP

The L.A. Times - Review: Lady Gaga 'could mean anything' on 'Artpop'

Time Entertainment - Lady Gaga’s New ARTPOP Doesn’t Always Live Up to Title

The Atlantic -  Anyone Else Bummed Out by Lady Gaga's Artpop?

The Washington Post - Review: Lady Gaga’s ‘Artpop’ fails as art and pop

The Edmonton Journal - Album review: Lady Gaga’s Artpop a sloppy, awkward listen

The Daily Beast - ‘ARTPOP’ Review: Lady Gaga’s Album Wants to Be Everything, But Is Nothing at All

At Gaga's ARTRave last night, she unveiled that hideous Jeff Koons statue of herself.

During her intro to Dope, she exercised her Method acting technique and tried to convince the crowd (and herself) that she's off the drugs and alcohol (at a rave!) and doesn't need it to be creative.  Watch the video and trust me when I say she's being sincere.  Actually no, I'm lying.  It's so phony and contrived.  If this is the best acting she can do, Hollywood should ban her from ever making another movie.  She also thinks people are stupid enough to believe that she's only been smoking pot when we all know she's on the hard stuff.  Sober?  Not likely.  Oh come on honey, don't insult our intelligence.  She's even dressed like a bag of cocaine!

                                

Ugh! That song is making my ears hemorrhage.  Speaking of drugs, according to several ARTRave partiers, the place reeked of cocaine and Ecstasy.  Say it ain't so?  At a rave? Drugs? No?  About raves; of all the venues Gaga picks to convince people she's off drugs, she does it at a rave??  Does that even make sense?

She attended ARTRave

Judging from this tweet, Gaga is obviously lying.

There are also unconfirmed reports that fans vandalized the Koon's Gaga statue at ARTRave and this picture is circulating the web.  Gaga is reportedly very upset and refuses to meet anymore fans.

Lastly, another video of Gaga's Wile E. Coyote moment. 

            

Oh! I almost forgot!  ARTPOP Amazon scam!!

Lady Gaga's latest desperate attempt for attention; a flying dress!

Let's all give thanks and a round of applause to Lady Gaga, for creating something we all need; a flying dress.  Stefani demonstrated her useful creation Volantis tonight and it's a complete and utter fail.  When I heard about the flying dress mess, I envisioned a dress with a jet pack of some sort on the back.  Instead we get this:

This is not a flying dress.  This is a body suit attached to a platform with six propellers to help it get off the ground.  The width of the propellers fits her inflated head nicely and it's hard enough trying to get that through a door!

     

What you've just witnessed is another jump the shark moment courtesy of Stefani.  Here's another view.  She's obviously been spending lots of time trying to think of something that no one else has done and this is what she comes up with.  A storm-trooper outfit with a fan stuck to her head.  The funniest part (as if this wasn't funny enough) was Gaga dressing up as an astronaut to introduce her contraption of epic proportions.

An astronaut!  She barely got two feet off the ground!  Oh the delusion!  Trapeze artists have flown higher than this! Maybe if she did a couple of rails first, she might get the feeling of being higher. Holy shit, I feel like I'm watching Wile .E. Coyote falling off a cliff in a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

So guys, where would you, um, wear this?