A couple of months ago, the writer Becky Burgum posed the theory that we might be living in 2008 again – the UK had dipped into recession, Vampire Weekend are making a comeback and belly button piercings are experiencing a renaissance.
Luckily, this hypothesis seems to have come true. By which I mean that Lady Gaga is a freak again, and wearing car parts.
Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before, unafraid to reference or not reference, put it in a blender, shit on it, vomit on it, eat it, give birth to it, etc.
The past couple of years, Gaga’s been looking a bit… normie. She’s been leaning in. She’s been wearing long wool coats with minimalist makeup and blazers. She’s stepped up the She-EO aesthetic to champion Haus Labs. And it’s looked stunning on her, obviously, but where was the mess? The chaos? The Gaga and not just the Lady?
Fans called this jaunt into corporate chic her “LinkedIn era”. Many, like myself, hated it.
Now, judging by her latest Instagram posts at least, Gaga has seemingly returned to her true form – an avant-garde experimentalist and innovator of couture, with the Met Gala look she didn’t get to wear, titled “Gimp of the Garden”.
Gaga wore the gimp outfit to the Chromatica Ball premiere, after missing the opportunity to wear it to the Met Gala. Stefani, you were sorely missed – if only there’d been a big lace moth larva to break up the endless parade of corsets with floral skirts.
The Chromatica Ball film was released on May 25th on MAX. It’s a cinematic capture of her 2022 show at the Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles, attended by over 52,000 fans.
At the premiere’s Q&A session, Gaga also confirmed that she’s working on a new album, which fans are calling LG7. “I am in the studio every single day. I have written so many songs, I’ve been producing so many songs, and it’s nothing like anything that I’ve ever made before,” she said. “I love to break genre, and I love to explore music. There’s something really beautiful about knowing that you will be loved no matter what you do.”
She added, “Something I’m definitely exploring right now is sort of the art of intensity and I think that the art of intensity actually began during this tour,” she explained. “But I’m not done with it yet.”
Oh we are so back!
Any celeb can cosplay CEO to a makeup brand. But only Gaga can serve this level of C**T. It seems like channelling Harley Quinn for Folie à Deux has done a world of good for mother.
One thing though: She also revealed that she’d played shows on the Chromatica Ball tour while she had Covid which was taken as an example of her unfaltering work ethic. That was probably something she should have kept to herself. Maybe the LinkedIn era isn’t fully over.
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