It's hard to imagine a person with less talent and charisma than Gaga, who has successfully transitioned from a meat dress to an old Hollywood glamour A-lister over the course of a decade. Who else could tell us that her various personas are not just savvy marketing but joyous expressions of an artist always searching for new ways to get to know herself?
Gaga's ethereal beauty, great kindness, and her status as an all-around class act are all noteworthy. She was a household name as early as 2009, but she was less popular. When did someone suddenly become wholesome?
It's hard to say when this shift might have taken place because it hasn't felt sudden or forced. It might not come as a surprise to many Gaga fans. While Gaga has proved her serious musician chops in recent years by dabbling in more old people friendly genres, like jazz, there have been those of us who knew she was the real deal all along. I used to force my classmates to listen to the acoustic version of Poker Face in my homeroom. Gaga has always been a performer, transforming into herself for the sake of her art. She was a maximalist pop star who celebrated difference in the early aughts.
She and her team began to work on something of a reinvention after Gaga's commercial flop turned into a cult hit. That led to Gaga's first album with Tony Bennett, Cheek to Cheek, in 2014, and the next year, a lovely Sound of Music medley at the Oscars gave every gay millennial an opportunity to turn to their parents.
By the time Gaga became a movie star with A Star Is Born, her audience had already been primed to consider her an authentic artist. Gaga's performance at the Venice Film Festival for the Gucci premiere in a boat, flirting with Bradley Cooper, and going retro glamour take her to the next level. Her freakier side isn't gone for good because she's doing normie red carpet now. She wrote "I'm still here" after a fan commented that they missed the old Gaga.
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