The audience’s renewed love for all things Lady Gaga is a sign that we are stronger than we think

Unemployment is increasing, housing markets collapse, and the price of eggs somewhere about a million dollars per fetus, and Lady Gaga released a new incredible song after weeks at the top of the world. If you click the heels three times, hoping to move it to a happier period, it did not succeed exactly as planned. We are hitting DAB in mid -2010 again.

But you do not need to tell you that. If you watched the collective cultural collapse, which was the video release of the latest song, Gaga, “mascot“During an advertising break in the middle of the Grammy Awards, I definitely felt: the sweet feeling in which nostalgia. Its release last October. Sadness of the Obama era, when the times were equally unconfirmed. However, it was easier to prevent bad news by riding on radio -heavy cars or by moving the iPod storage using a click wheel. Reaper Grim’s script is a bush from our heels.

After the release of “ABRACADABRA”, that emotional yearning for the past echoed immediately through both social media and Suitable reviews. For several days, people were With joy Call Returning the victorious “recession index”, which is one of the latest favorite phrases on the Internet. Through this logic, the quality of Gaga’s music and the economy move on the opposite columns: when one decreases, the other must rise.

While the “recession index” is just a joke, it made me wonder: Is Gaga an indication of the recession, or is the recession indicating that we need Gaga? It may be when things are more comfortable politically and socially because the general public becomes less rak’ah with Swill that is nourished, and they are looking for something a little more. There is no denial that Gaga has a core in size, and “Abrakadabra”, along with a handful of Grammys Night, you feel completely what the audience needs correctly now. Music is not just distraction from daily terror; It is Gaga’s way to oppose philosophical philosophical caused by the frightening agenda in the right wing. As it is Tweet In 2009, just two months before it was proven that “bad romance” proved that Gaga was more than just a passing heresy: “They could not take me if I fear them first.”

Don’t make me mistake here, Lady Gaga has always made good music – even the weakest efforts full of shiny spots. But her invasions in different pop wings were often bad or misunderstood after the 2013 ARTPOP (ARTPOP) for the year 2013, which floundered according to early Gaga standards. The prevailing. Jazz music albumsOscar -nominated acting roles and a large number of Showstopping Offers In award shows. “Chromatica” was welcomed in 2020, as a return to the model, although her voice was more compatible with the discounts in her “The Fame” in 2008 than the most dark dark work that followed.

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The summit of this era came in the Gaga march in the form of 2011 Magnum Obus, a album full of inverted eggs and unreasonable metaphors, so that it was impossible not to sit and celebrate. The record dealt with the rights of the stranger, the transit vision, the laws of immigration, the constitutional injustice, and the suicide cases associated with bullying, feminism and religion-all of which are accurately tucked in one shiny and high-understandable package. Her specific technical statement, which is a great period at the end of her statement.

It is also the fatigue of the general public, quickly. He was an inevitable Gag. You can’t turn on your TV without seeing this woman stimulating somewhere, wearing a black and white wig, and preached to her amazing gospel. By the time when “ARTPOP” was released two years later, fatigue can be seen from one mile. The fans did not want to hear any writing of songs presented by the pop star. Do not ask, do not tell that it was canceled! Gay marriage was on the horizon! Roe V was. Wade is a distinctive judicial decision for decades! There was no return. Why do you continue in morals?

Unfortunately, the line between contentment and contentment is very high. Although it would be a non -ports to link the public directly against Gaga with the emergence of American fascism, I do not think it is not just to say that the two have no relationship at all. The world’s most famous pop star was an enthusiastic and non -apologize defender of progressive values ​​a decisive advantage for the future of American culture. But that was a privilege that many of them did not recognize until the height of Gaga was already in the back vision.

These days, the political pop into a large extent. Pop music has been cleared as it was since the beginning of the millennium. Posters hesitate to promote music with a more progressive cultural message, fearing that they will affect their currents-or what is worse, inciting the anger of the seated president and his cars of destroyed chrons on the Internet. Hell, Morgan Wallen has become a sensation with one album after Arrested Throw about racist insults. In some respects, it is no wonder that artists tend to be at the present time, and they tend to make the pages to clarify the pages of their diaries. Self -installation lyric is the ideal way to circumvent any reaction. Until Chappell Roan erupted last year, it was as if all the musicians had forgotten that the lyrics of intimate songs should not sacrifice a global view.

But the recognized pop era also has an hour. In the midst of the second Trump administration and all the horror it caused in just two weeks, the fans are desperate for comfort. They want something cheating, something strange. They want to tell them that things will be fine, and if you are not fine, we will make them through hell together.

Remember people that it could be that the shepherd seemed to be a statement of Gaga Grammy Night Mission. During the broadcast, California sang Dreamlin, along with her partner, “dies with the smile of” Bruno Mars, such as the praise of Los Angeles in the midst of the wild destruction. It was sad and moody, which reminded viewers that enjoying writing the songs of the old school and performance methods does not necessarily mean that your morals are old as well. Soon after, Gaga and Mars won the Best Dual/Cooperation Award. When she approached the microphone, Gaga spoke shortly about the honor she had for her, before she preceded her next statement by saying, “It is an honor for me to be the author of songs, producer and music.” After a moment, I talked about the importance and strength of this privilege, using a classic Gaga platform. “People are not visible,” started. “Persons are worthy of love, and the strange community deserves to be raised. Music is love.”

The speech was met with chants from the audience, as the cameras pick up artists jumping to their feet to be praised. Charli XCX was seen moving on “F ** K year” during her head nod. It was one of the most clear political statements at night, a few days after Trump signed a set of anti -executive orders that limit the rights of persons around the country. It was a glimpse of Gaga yesterday, the person who did not take any prisoners and Appear Do not ask, do not tell the cancellation of gatherings Call President Obama’s lack of gay rights in front of the White House while her first album was raising the plans. “They say this country is free and they say this country is equal,” Gaga said in this gathering in 2009. sometimes“

But it was “Abrakadabra” who made the whole night feel like a complete circle, years of making. The song House and Electronica are merged and those euro lines that have become Gaga are pins on “The Fame Monster” and “Born This Way”, which is the same that the audience fell in love with “Damwah”, which is deep pieces of the last album, Verusi went for two years . People were hungry for this Gaga, the person with his music with an irresistible immediate. “Save me from this empty battle in the game of life,” explains to refrain from the song. In the video, Gaga is fighting a latex sabag and left to dance for her life to save herself from the entity in the end of her fate. It should not be vibrant, but this is exactly what you felt every day in the second period of Trump’s state yet – the late lax.

Perhaps the best part of all of this happens in one night, although Gaga seems to have the constitution for that. Not only is her stronger and more accurate singing, and her ability to pick up the listener and bring her to her art is equally from sharp. Its willingness to battle through any remaining fearful fear. “I wanted to explore the question,” What do you feel to flourish and not just survive all the time? ” interview After the video version.

There is no doubt that Gaga is now flourishing. She is far from the first days of her career, when many considered a challenge to her a way to circumvent, or to move her as a flash in the pan. Its heritage is mixed. “Abracdabra” looks like a celebration, a final evidence that you can struggle for good, go to hell and make it stronger. “Chaos”, in Her wordsIt revolves around placing broken pieces again to create something beautiful in its new way, which is something that it seems to have to do for ourselves in weeks, months and years in the coming years. The overwhelming joy of the world that Gaga has returned to its roots is not just an indication of stagnation, it is a sign that people are ready for the battle that was not always necessary 15 years ago. If the chaos is what will come, Gaga’s album, called appropriately, may be the shields that we need to make it through the fire of a safe enemy.