You know, at the end of the day, I’m glad that Lady Gaga’s ARTPOP has been such a colossal flop. And I don’t mean that in only the schadenfreude way, I mean that I’m also happy the little-monster fever has broken and that more and more people are seeing Gaga for what she is: a bag of tricks, stunts and (crack) drama. Do I think Gaga is a talented songwriter and performer? Sure. I do, actually. But I also think that the hype had to die down at some point, and better now than later. And I also think it’s high time that Gaga deserved to be called out on a lot of her crap.
As I covered a few days ago, Lady Gaga had a meltdown on littlemonsters.com where she tried to explain why ARTPOP had flopped so badly. The basic gist of Gaga’s rant: it’s everybody’s fault but hers, all of this stuff was forced on her, she just wants to be an artist but she’s surrounded by money-hungry a—holes, and her monsters just need to stick with her and let her be their goddess. Now Page Six claims that Gaga’s rant was aimed specifically at one person: her recently fired manager, Troy Carter.
Lady Gaga seemed to blame her “Artpop” disaster on her ex-manager Troy Carter in a blistering online rant, but music insiders say the real problem is her lackluster album.
Gaga parted ways with Carter in November, days before “Artpop” was due to hit shelves. Critics called the album a flop after it sold about 250,000 copies in its first week and dropped 82 percent in its second week (Beyoncé’s self-titled surprise fifth album, released in mid-December sold 618,000 copies in week one).
The singer ranted on her Web site LittleMonsters that the Terry Richardson-directed video “Do What U Want,” a duet with R&B crooner R. Kelly, has been delayed, and appeared to blame Carter for “betraying” her — even though he’d split with her before the video was made.
“It is late because, just like the [‘Artpop’ track] ‘Applause’ video . . . I was given a week to plan and execute it. It is very devastating . . . All my most successful videos were planned over a period of time when I was rested and my creativity was honored,” she wrote on Sunday.
“Those who have betrayed me gravely mismanaged my time and health and left me on my own to damage control any problems that ensued . . . Millions of dollars are not enough for some people. They want billions. Then they need trillions . . . Those who did not care about ‘Artpop’s’ success are now gone . . . I never thought after all the years of hard work that those I called friends and partners would ever care so little at a time I needed them the most.”
“She’s mad the album failed,” said our source. “At no point does she talk about the underperformance of the music . . . Everything is to blame except the music being bad.”
Gaga’s rep and Carter declined to comment. Meanwhile, we hear Red Light Management’s Coran Capshaw, who reps Alicia Keys, has reached out to manage Gaga, who’s now mostly managed by father Joe Germanotta, who reportedly gets 50 percent of her earnings. “Dad has as much say as any manager does,” we’re told.
[From Page Six]
First of all… Papa Joe gets 50%? In what GD world does a father/manager get 50%? Somewhere, Dina Lohan just lifted her head out of a vat of gin and hiccupped wildly! Dina could have been manipulating 50% out of the Cracken this whole time?! As for whoever is to blame for ARTPOP’s failure… surely there’s enough blame to go around? Ultimately, Gaga deserves the blame for making a crappy album and for hiring all of the drugged-out sycophants to follow her around and tell her she’s brilliant. I have no doubt that Gaga’s management was (and is) full of moochers and frauds, just because that seems to be the kind of people she attracts.
Anyway, the veil has been lifted and there’s no going back. People are now seeing Gaga for who she really is – a hot mess and a stunt queen.
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