What Ever Happened to Lady Gaga? She Used to be HUGE! 

had to re-upload the video and edit out some content that was getting flagged for copyright (the part I edited out will be obvious). This copyright detection system is a joke as is fair use... anyway... ENJOY!

I'm a Gaga fan and I don't mean this in any bad way, but you're absolutely correct! I also think that all of her early iconic ideas, concepts and passion came because she had a huge desire to be famous, so much so that she dedicated her first two albums to the Fame. She had to really fight in the beginning, great ideas are born out of necessity & stress. Now she's surrounded by a "team" of ass kissers, I cringed so much when I watched her Netflix documentary and every min someone from her team kept on telling her how gorgeous and amazing she is. Not to mention that she said herself that her producers & record label told her in what direction to go music wise for her first three albums. Chromatica might have charted, but it is by far my least liked Gaga album, the instrumentals are so basic, each song sounds like a remix. No catchy melodies or unique synths (remember how unique her synths were in Just Dance, Poker Face, Born This Way, Mosnter, etc.?).

I had a similar conversation with a friend about this a couple of months ago. I think you nailed it. I also think that the loss of her old songwriting partners like her ex and Space Cowboy, ect didn't help. When she has to write the songs herself she just re-writes the songs she liked as a kid. On her own she just seems like someone who watched The Blonde Ambition Tour VHS way too many times in her life.

I think what happened was a combination of things. More competition propped up in the pop music landscape, Gaga herself wasn't really as interested in being a mainstream success anymore, and she shifted her focus more to her acting career. Nice job with the video as always.

Cant forget Lady Gaga’s Jazz/Lounge era with Tony Bennett 🥴

I think about Gaga every second of every day.

The last time I saw her was with Metallica at the grammys. I thought she was on fire there. Her vocals fit really good with rock music.

She’s still relevant, but music is kind of a dying art. She stopped putting out eccentric art after being so harshly critiqued in 2013. Excited for her in Joker 2 and her future in acting

I still think that The Fame & The Fame Monster are genuinely great albums. There are some good tracks like that on Born This Way too but her direction sound wise just slowly changed towards direction that I don’t care too much about. I personally like her work with Tony Bennett too.

Gaga will always be

She's evolved to an Award Winning Actress though, she just super talented i think that she just cant stick to just making music.

She skyrocketed into idolization within the first 2 years of her career. There were so many things changing in music, fashion, internet, technology, etc. so this combination of factors helped propel her to stardom, but also backfire when trends changed quicker. I remember many people didn't take her seriously, calling her a gimmick, etc. so I'm sure it got to her to _not_ be taken seriously once she was already everywhere.

Shes about to ne Harley Quinn in Joker 2

obviously she's focusing on acting she's going to be Harley Quinn

am I crazy or what bc I really dont hear any similarities between Express Yourself and BTW... and also wasnt EY a ripoff? also Lady Gaga is still huge, she still garners more monthly listeners on spotify like for example Beyonce who's touring right now. her album Chromatica didn't sell as well since it was released during the pandemic and she closed her official store and focused on fundraising for COVID relief, but it has sold more than her 2016 album so... anyways globally, Lady Gaga is still huge, specially here in asia. i just dont know whats the issue with american ppl's obsession with racist artists right now lol. I think she just needs a better management... like didn't her song Bloody Mary from 2011 chart this year? Idk why they didn't push it as a single. I just know if Gaga is really desperate for a hit she would've but I think she's more focused on her acting right now than her music

she was always so strong... she said being who she truly was, was all that it's about instead of being a celebrity. apparantly she lied everything she said. she literally said she would stay the way she was untill she would die. she literally said she didn't care about the money and fame, but to care about her true fans.

She literally won an oscar in 2018, and had a number 1 hit in 2020

i never heard anyone tell me i should listen to a lady gaga song. i did because i was a true monster. true gaga.

I think most pop stars don't really have enough about them to genuinely reinvent themselves more than a couple of times, without it coming across as inauthentic and turning the public off. Katy Perry took over from Gaga as being the pop girl of the moment, but after two album cycles, her success also began to dwindle. I also think that with Gaga, she tried to ride two horses of being a 'credible' singer-songwriter, as well as striving for pop icon status and somehow came up short on both. Her biggest hits like Poker Face and Bad Romance aren't anything particularly innovative. That sound has been around in Europe since the 90s and is perceived as being disposable pop, and certainly not the kind of music that's associated with a serious artist. As for being an icon, that's something the general public bestows on a celebrity IF they are considered worthy. The record company obviously spent a lot of money on Gaga in the beginning so she had a huge amount of hype. But after the initial burst of coverage, there just wasn't a huge amount of interest in her as a person outside of her fan-base. To most people, Gaga is a pop singer from the early 2010s, which is very different to being a pop culture icon.

finally someone who adresses this ! somehow gaga doesn't exist anymore...... it's like she completely lost her mind !!! she often talks about mental health but she is NOT doing ok AT ALL.

I mean the radio still pays Just Dance and Poker Face

the stars didn't burn out... all she had to do was keep being gaga.

I believe that Chromatica is one of her best projects, but its aesthetics are derivative of the hyperpop style that's in vogue.

I heard on the radio. Her husband was suing her for the rights to her music. Because he gave her the look and her sound. That would make sense why none of her other CDs hit the same way

Gaga had a #1 (Shallow) hit in 2018, and another #1 hit in 2020 (Rain On Me). She also had a big viral hit in 2022 (Bloody Mary). And as much as so-called fans hate on these songs, both Million Reasons and Stupid Love were top 5 hits. I think the narrative of her fading is overblown. She has simply switched most of her focus away from music onto other endeavors like jazz, movies, and make-up. You don't have to like it but she isn't your monkey that has to cater to your entertainment for the rest of her life.

Shes making an album rn its great

I hope she's doing well and happy ❤

It´s time to Gaga go pop weird and alternative again and make excellent bangers with purpose! I´m tired of the GAGa "actress" and the "try hard" to be recognized as a serious artist. She was always serious and she don´t recognized! Her true big strength was their weird pop sound, eighties inspired, electronic and dramatic performances. I miss this Gaga!

Back in 2017, there was a botched onstage collaboration between Lady Gaga and Metallica at the Grammys. The song that was performed was "Moth Into Flame." Unfortunately, James Hetfield's microphone didn't work for much of the song. Eddie Trunk, whom you brought up in a previous video of yours, was REALLY bothered by the botched collaboration. Trunk has claimed that Lady Gaga danced like an extra in "Rock of Ages" during the performance. Trunk has also claimed to being taken back to that unfortunate moment upon hearing "Moth Into Flame." It hasn't helped matters that presenter Laverne Cox failed to mention Metallica by name right before the performance in question began. Um, is it safe to say that rock is REALLY dead? By the way, Dancing with Ghosts, what have you generally thought of Australian pop superstar Kylie Minogue? Kylie has indicated that she inspired Lady Gaga. Do you think Lady Gaga would have had the music career she has personally had without Kylie Minogue's apparent influence?

Out of all the post Madonna female pop superstars Lady Gaga was the most disappointing one. Having said that i love Gaga , she started so greatly, she reached that iconic status with the signature looks so difficult to get in pop culture. I think Gaga created soooo much expectations with her first record that we forget only her first record was "truly" iconic and successful. Born this way was a good but only ok album. Artpop was miserable, her with joanne was boring. Her last solo album surprisingly was good. But gaga will always remain as that girl who came up with that wonderful album called "the fame". After that she just stared to follow trenda

Ok, Born This Way was definitely a successful album, with very few bad songs on the album. I don't know how old you are to call things that aren't for you or that you don't get "cringe" but it's time to grow up ! Other than that it was a really good video, it expressed very well the frustration that a lot of Lady Gaga fans have been feeling in the past 8/9 years. Sometimes it feels like she changes her mind way quicker than her career can afford. After the ARTPOP fiasco, she fully rebranded herself, with Cheek To Cheek, Joanne and A Star Is Born, as a former popstar who makes the music she likes and doesn't care if it works on the charts or not. But then after that somewhat critically successful yet commercially mitigated era she dropped Chromatica, a full-on mainstream pop album with a lot of commercial potential if well promoted/marketed. There were many great songs in this album and I could totally see Babylon, 911 and Sour Candy working well on the charts. Chromatica could have been another Born This Way, even another The Fame Monster if done well. But not only was Chromatica released in very difficult time for the music industry, she also flatout IGNORED the album after it was released. I get that with the heavy political landscape at the time (COVID, BLM & re-elections coming up) promoting your pop album would have made her look very bad. But I can't help but feel like it was so weird as a Lady Gaga stan because we literally waited years for this album, and it was a good album, it really was. But she acted like it never existed, never promoted it and went back to work on her acting career, changing her mind yet again in the span of a few months. All I know today as a Lady Gaga stan who used to be obsessed with her from Just Dance to G.U.Y, is that she's not the popstar she used to be, nor does she really want it. She tried to resurrect her superstardom in 2020 but the whole world was dealing with something greater at that time, and I wouldn't be surprised that she took this failure as a sign that it wasn't her destiny to became a heavyhitter again. I also believe that the trajectory Lady Gaga's career has taken has demonstrated something greater than just "pop music is dying" or "Lady Gaga is the last popstar". I think people just don't want to get involved in music as much as they used to. We don't crave the gasping at a videoclip or gossiping about rivalry between two popgirls as much as we did in the early 2010s. Internet and social media has massively raised awareness on environmental, societal and political issues, and that's for the better. Now, we sort of look down upon talking about Ariana Grande's homewrecking accusations or Dua Lipa's next sample album. We know that there are much bigger issues right now that need our attention.

I Prefer Gaga doesn't Recycled the Artpop Concept I Think she Need To give Chromatica ver 2.0 style If done properly , it can be a new Rennaissance

I know she is still successful and talented and I will always love her but she (her music and visuals) are so boring now. She used to put out hits after hits, a bunch of iconic music videos from a single album, she was the biggest popstar on Earth, she was so damn iconic, her concepts, visuals, her music... she was untouchable. Nothing can top The Fame / The Fame Monster era.

Gaga just got into a Zero Build and got herself a 20 body kill with a common AR

I feel like she's a victim of the same thing that befalls many artists/bands that suddenly blow up. Their first two, maybe three albums are seen as the most amazing thing out at the moment. Then suddenly everyone turns on them or just gets bored. Like you said, sometimes they try to reinvent themselves afterward and it usually just... doesn't work out. Sure, there will always be the diehard fans left behind, but the diehard fans aren't how you get or keep your huge success from before. I think humanity as a whole just has a very short attention span and constantly wants the new exciting thing rather than sitting around to wait for new music from someone they claim they love. ...meanwhile i just keep listening to the same shit I've been listening to since middle and high school. Lol oops.

Gaga was incredible in House Of Gucci though, so at least she`s staying at least somewhat relevant still. I absolutely LOVED House Of Gucci, i don`t even fully understand why? I have ZERO interest or knowledge of fashion? I wasn`t a Lady Gaga fanatic either? Its just a great story that is told VERY well with solid acting throughout. Highly recommended!

it's a ridiculous video. gaga is still talented and she got mature and she is not going to do the same as before. a real artist change and do something different. why do you not talk about katy perry rihanna, beyonce, madonna. all of them have not yet the same impact now as before.

8:26 - that’s mostly how she started pre-Gaga!

Born this way to me was when she became a parody of herself and the things she did AMAZINGLY on Fame/FM seem contrived on BTW. THAT BEING SAID: the visuals were fire. Album cover, photoshoots, she was firmly in her bag on that level i really miss that Gaga she be doing the milquetoast shi now

I totally agree on everything you said.. except abour birj this way. Maybe looking back it was a bit, well definitely, try hard.. but i still wnotyed the album and video! And i believe many people did. But everything else is right... She just . . Fizzled out. Oh well. Its time gor her to ride the nostalgia wave to make money. Lol. That and acting, which she seems to be better at.

Without her we would not have the masterpiece. I perform this way by Weird Al

I'll always love lady gaga. I feel awful about how she must've felt, and to be under that much pressure to top yourself. Literally competing with herself. I love that she found acting and hope to see her continue on for many years. And who knows, maybe she will make another album like "fame." I do want to know, what music does she TRULY want to make? I would be curious to see her make an album of the genre she really wants to perform. Remember what Pink did, she was not at all interested in R&B, but it was what got her out there. She was lucky to end up such a success making the music she really wanted to make, and she blew up. Do u think she would have such a great career if she stayed R&B? Probably not. Gaga is so talented and i dont see her fading from music, unless its by choice. Dont give up on your music gaga!! I cant wait for u to have your true comeback!! ❤

My wife and I were big Lady Gaga fans before Born This Way. Since then we don't even care. We still listen to her early stuff, but not very often. She could turn her career around by going back to her early sound, but I don't see it happening.

Omg I love madonna

Alejandro was more like express yourself than born this way.

The reason why gaga is not big as she used to be is because she was never original... She stole ideas from people, and it just seemed like a big collage of basically artistry all put together and someone acting it out... that is not artistic and that is not a way of showing any kind of "Art Pop" especially when it's done and poorly and almost seems like something filmed for Saturday Night Live performance. I even think that she likes to make up certain things at a given time such as a claim to have gone through bullying in her teens and then suffering from Fibromyalgia, and then, claiming to be bisexual to only say in front of an episode on RuPaul's drag race to say that she is a straight woman with the LGBT alliance which is perfect but why do you have to lie about your identity and other things? It makes no sense and it just seems like this is somebody that has suffered from trying to get attention from people. I think that whenever Madonna posed with her, I believe it was in 2018 or 2017. It was basically for publicity purposes, because Madonna knows that gaga is a fake and was an industry plant and one of the first industry plants at the time. Gaga is still sort of relevant today mostly because of some of her gay fans but even that is something that many people can see is that a lot of her artistry in the early early 2010s was basically homage and a sloppy homage to Madonna and other artists.. She never came across as authentic in any of her music and it's why, after artpop, she knew that it was definitely not original, and she was not meant to be an artist. she can sing and she can do anything, but I think that if she would've came out first with an album like Joanne, her career would probably be a little bit better and her authenticity would be a little more sincere. Because whatever she was doing prior to her album Joanne she was basically copying and making mockery and trying to be relevant during those times of The Fame Monster, Born this Way and Artpop. Nothing was ever original.

You obviously too also must have had 3 teenage sisters in the year 2009 😂😂😂

Honestly, she got to weird… and was all about being “edgy” or political, instead of just being considerate about making good music

Honestly I truly believe she achieved what she came for initially and brilliantly extended the relationship connections aesthetically and conclusively . Especially the first two albums [The Fame(MONSTER) EP ]that Set the modern/2000s era tone and articulated ,showcasing a global theatre on “pop culture “ in real time collectively in sync with her actual career (a star born). Literally formulated a stage name“L.GAGA” as a vessel to channel the beauty and brutality of fame , the rise and fall , the light and the dark. The contrast of a stars fame . It’s shows the average person who chases ” it “as the “American dream” knowing little or nothing about “it” but only the glory $ide 📸. I truly believe Her message was loud and clear. A tribute to the ‘fame” , a tribute the culture a tribute to the stars and a tribute to the “ART” in “POP”- culture. The powerful grip and illusion that“The Fame” has. “its” a very powerful unconscious conscious, unpredictable entity that evolves in stages with each individual star’s cycle. She out grew the era because she accomplished her goal and message. B.T.W was the true anticipated release because it’s a whole different POV of the character L.G in her “art pop culture “story. It’s like novels being released with a spin keeping you ALMOST full never quite there making you want more as we watch a character and real person grow thru the cycle . example: “fame and Fortune “. It’s never seems to be enough. This is my interpretation . I truly believe She blew up and did her thing( brilliantly! )and like most A-listers , she truly wanted that one thing most.. just more control over her life and her grand uncontrollable career path. Which is really hard to undo… it can be frightening , lonely ,sad etc. and I’m glad she has/is doing what she truly wants for her. Plus her acoustics and Jazz are my favourite❤.

Missy Elliot did the "weird" thing before all those chicks.

Great video. I don’t even like lady gaga but thought it was an entertaining watch.

Woah how dare you say that about born this way. As one of the lgbtq community you should be able to respect the lyrics as it is a great song.

She just not that ambitious anymore.She probably in a happy status now ,making all that money from her makeup,foundation ,etc.I really think her upcoming album or film will miss the expectation,hopefully that will make her hungry again

Umm she's in Joker 2 LOL

The way you said some of the stuff about her in this video which is false information, and very corny, but I am not going to say anything because I am a nice person

and you are..?

Hear me out: Firstly, you're just a Madonna fan in disguise, obviously. Secondly, even you can't compare Gaga and Madonna in an apple-to-apple way. The landscape of music consumption within the last 10 years has vastly changed compared to the 20 years between the 80s to 00s. The artist has to promote their music through TV shows, radio, etc up until 10s. So, Gaga came at the edge of that era. Then why was Taylor Swift able to pull it off? Well, Gaga had changed her trajectory of career cause she has countless talents to offer, so why should stick to one scope? She has the power still, but she doesn't want to. To be successful in music is not her one and only projection for her 15-year career into the scene. So, let's not compare her impact with Madonna or other mainstream singers cause their approach was different. Even in the acting scene, she continues to make an impact and inspires other artists beyond the music industry. Thirdly, do you suggest she be extravagant and keep the aesthetic for her entire career? C'mon, that's lame. That would not work either. She became huge because she broke the rules. What's the point of being weird while the other main pop girls are trying the same way nowadays? In conclusion, you're video would be more relevant if you added "music" in the subject cause she is still huge as an artist - just look at the numbers of the Joker trailer itself. Not to mention her A Star Is Born era.

The Lady Gaga cycle reminds me of Pam Anderson making Barbed Wire.

bc lina morgana's power is running out for her

She’s just not around anymore. Too bad, very talented artist.

a bike can be rided

Facework

Gaga needs to get back in the studio with RedOne. He composed the music, and the melodies. Gaga provided the lyrics and incredible artistry. Both need each other.

OJ died an innocent man, ya 🤡

collaborating with Ariana grande... how low can she sink..... damn.

i mostly don't agree with you. as a true gaga lover i felt it was after Joanne that she changed. let's be honest... everything that she did up untill then was ''gaga''. now however gaga truly doesn't exist anymore.

Disagree with you on so many points. And you completely glazed over 2014/15 gaga era 😂

4:00 - Looks like a poor man's H. R. Giger-esque attempt.

She is Harley Quinn this year. Thats not big enough? What do you want from her

i feel like you hate successful women

Her problem was she could actually sing. That's a no no.

hate to break it to you, but Lady Gaga isn't Gaga anymore ... she's just as "boring" as the other artists, no creativity ... what a. shame

Plastic surgery era

Tried to be an actress.

I wonder how much negativity is already in the comments

Sia was such a substandard Gaga rip off but then i suppose that Gaga was just a Madonna rip off herself!

Lady Gaga is the girl Justin Hawkins. She was also the worst actor in American horror stories until Kim Kardashian was cast as a major character.