We’ve reached the end of another week. But before we clock out for the weekend, we’re giving credit where it’s due. Lady Gaga is the latest champion in our Winner of the Week series.
Not since the days of “Poker Face” and her iconic Gossip Girl cameo has the future looked so damn bright for Lady Gaga. Make no mistake, her career—which includes an Oscar, a Golden Globe, millions of record sales, a makeup line and more—has been going strong since her debut, but there’s something about her current era that feels especially promising. Once the ultimate striver (complimentary), Gaga has reached a point where her output, it seems, is entirely on her own terms (“I’m the creator and I made all of it, and that helped me to value myself as a musician and a songwriter in a deeper way,” she recently told Elle), and her personal life is thriving.
On the music front, her collab with Bruno Mars, “Die With A Smile,” has been atop the Billboard Hot 100 for a month, and is up for two Grammys. She may perform at the awards, but even if she doesn’t show at all, she’s forever a part of Grammy history after her career forced the Academy to change the best new artist rules. On Monday, she casually announced that she’d be dropping her seventh studio album, Mayhem, on March 7, causing, well, mayhem for her fans. It’s her first proper Lady Gaga album since the pandemic-era Chromatica. We’ll get to see a new music video tied to the album during a Grammys commercial break, per People.
Sorry to be like “plus, her boyfriend!” but…plus, her boyfriend! She’s serious about starting a family with fiancé, Michael Polansky, who is apparently such a good guy that his ex wrote a whole article about him dating Gaga and didn’t even have anything negative to say about him in it.
But what’s most indicative of her state of mind is her reaction to the almost universally panned (John Waters liked it… waitaminute, why isn’t Gaga working with him?) Joker: Folie a Deux, in which she co-starred. The first film won Joaquin Phoenix an Oscar; we don’t know her expectations for starring in the sequel, but presumably, she probably wanted some acclaim. And her response to not getting it? “People just sometimes don’t like some things. It’s that simple. And I think to be an artist, you have to be willing for people to sometimes not like it. And you keep going even if something didn’t connect in the way that you intended.”
Obsessed with “people just sometimes don’t like some things.” The perfect vague yet totally true aphorism to throw at any put-down. She’s also set to appear in the first episode of the long-awaited second season of Wednesday, lest anyone think the experience put her off acting for good.
A new Year of Gaga? In 2025? The medicine our souls need.
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