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This is absolutely awful planning on both Gaga and her team’s part. ‘Abracadabra’ is quite clearly finished and done, ‘Mayhem’ isn’t holding on its own as well with just the moment of the said song and it’s quite clear we need some sort of momentum push. Gaga has not actively pushed ANY of her eras as hard as she can since ‘Born This Way’. I get we need to take into consideration her health and all, but to go from going full on live performances to suddenly nothing (like even a radio single with a visualiser or something) is bizarrely strange. Why perform ‘Zombieboy’ on TUDUM (which did next to nothing on the charts), to not immediately impact the song on radio followed by a video release then that would nicely tie in with the August official push by ‘Wednesday’, just baffles me. I don’t want to sound like a negative Nancy but she & her team really don’t do themselves any justice/favours and the backlash or the ‘eye roll’ from fans saying “oh look she’s gone all AWOL again”, isn’t exactly unjustified.

‘Abracadabra’ is collapsing nooo 😢😢

Alright I’ll give mother that, she’s cooking something as it’s clearly a conceptual hairstyle with the iPad giving me that Paris ‘Mayhem’ above the car sunroof teaser vibes. A deluxe is coming?!?! The hairstyle doesn’t scream ‘Zombieboy’ at all, it does fit a ‘How Bad Do U Want Me/Vanish Into You’.

I imagine the next #1 after that would be ‘Manchild’ quite comfortably.

I get the whole notion of “feeding the fans”, but almost every fan out there now is begging for her to do something regarding 3rd/4th single and she/her team just….doesn’t seem to be phased by it. I get her touring the world is the priority but there is clearly a gap between TUDUM and the first July show. Sabrina Carpenter made an album, a music video and released multiple songs in the midst of her also touring (yes I know Carpenter’s tours are not as extravagant and thoughtfully planned as Gaga, but using it as a mere example). ‘How Bad Do U Want Me’ was named as a Song of the Summer. At that point her team should’ve pushed a lyric video and the song to radios and Spotify playlists (and if a video comes after, great as it keeps the momentum up). Before that, it went viral with various celebrities using it on social medias so it should’ve been pushed with the album campaign as fast as they could (look at Taylor Swift’s 1989 TV era and how responsive the team was when they saw ‘Slut!’ wasn’t doing justice and quickly hopped to ‘Is It Over Now?’ 4 days into the album release). We get how ‘Vanish Into You’ was the one she wanted, but it’s clear the momentum now lies on ‘How Bad Do U Want Me’ from the general reception to it from the casual fan base/GP. The whole thing just FRUSTRATES ME! 😭

That is awful, waiting 6 months before the release of the next single??? What on earth is she/her team doing? I hope the rumour is false and there’s SOMETHING in the works before she kicks off ‘Mayhem Ball’ tour, because she’s not doing ‘Mayhem’ any justice right now.

I read somewhere it might just be a re-run of her GMA interview as it’s not being broadcasted on the main GMA channel but GMA3 or something. If that is the case then the chances of us getting new content is very slim.

I’m going to be hopeful and say Gaga has bagged the Taylor collaboration, as mother is no stranger to all female collabs with big popstars (Beyoncé, Xtina, Ariana and now hopefully Taylor). @Sour Candy I don’t see why her team should prolong ‘Abracadabra’ any further, even in the US and with the radio factor. It going Top 5 on pop isn’t going to do anything for the songs chart performance at this rate (I get that it’s 2 weeks away from potentially bagging a Top 50 spot in the Year-End charts, but that’s it). The shelf life of the song is pretty much dead at this point.

It’s smashing Australian radios, and it’s officially been added to Philippines radio as a single. I do think this is coming and it’s now heavily rumoured the GMA interview may involve Taylor Swift too (!!!!!)

I still want ‘Garden of Eden’, and I cannot see it getting the ‘Dance In The Dark’ or ‘Gypsy’ treatment. However I’d settle for this if it means it prolongs the era (and only if she releases a mega smash remix with Taylor Swift)!

Smashing records AGAIN!!

A video of a kid dancing to this song is going viral on Tik Tok, with the Grammys account commenting “future Grammy winner!”. I know they’re referencing the kid, but secretly on the DL, ‘Abracadabra’ will surely win Record of the Year or Song of the Year? Unfortunately I think Kendrick has next year’s Album of the Year locked in, but I think ‘Mayhem’ is a very close runner up so who knows what will happen!

The second & third best album ever released grabbing that title!! (Mayhem is THE best ever 😁😁)

If people are calling ‘The Giver’ a country song and not country-pop, then ‘Manchild’ is that too. I mean look at all the banjos playing in the background and instrumental!!!111

‘Abracadabra’s debut day was only partial as well (granted it got the back of Grammys effect but still).