When a song is soaked in as much smash-potential as Lady GaGa‘s ‘Do What U Want’, it’s almost expected that its video will be awaited with fever-pitch anticipation. However, for Mother Monster’s fans, the “waiting” has been never-ending.
Indeed, despite ample teasing, the clip has yet to materialize – leaving last August’s ‘Applause’ as the sole video to be lifted from the star’s ‘ARTPOP’ album. Alarming, right?
Well, even more perplexing was the lack of explanation for the hold up. That is until today, though.
The 27-year-old singer shattered the silence with a lengthy note to fans on LittleMonsters.com.
Her reasons for the odd delay after the jump…
Via LM:
DWUW Video
It is late because, just like with the Applause video unfortunately, I was given a week to plan and execute it. It is very devastating for someone like me, I devote every moment of my life to creating fantasies for you. All my my most successful videos were planned over a period of time when I was rested and my creativity was honored. Those who have betrayed me gravely mismanaged my time and health and left me on my own to damage control any problems that ensued as a result. Millions of dollars are not enough for some people. They want billions. Then they need trillions. I was not enough for some people. They wanted more. I am very grateful to the photographers and designers who have always stood by me to make sure my fans are never aware of the things that happen behind the scenes, but unfortunately after my surgery I was too sick, too tired, and too sad to control the damage on my own. My label was not aware that this was going on. The next few months of ARTPOP will truly be its beginning. Because those who did not care about ARTPOP’s success are now gone, and the dreams I have been planning can now come to fruition. Please forgive me that I did not foresee this coming, 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. Give me a chance to show you the meaning of seeing art all around you. Open your hearts to me again that I may show you the joy of us coming together through our talents, that we are stronger as a unit than when we are alone. Let me be for you the Goddess that I know I truly am, let me show you the visions that have been in my mind for two years. I love you. Forgive me monsters. Forgive me ARTPOP. You are my whole world.
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Yikes. By the sounds of this, it appears Stefani is levelling the blame at recently departed members of her team (management, maybe?)
That said, in knowing that only those involved will ever truly know what really went down, we’re just eager to see ‘ARTPOP’ receive the type of commercial push it deserves. Because as such a “visual” artist, imagery is half of GaGa’s proposition. Hence, more than any backlash or dented popularity, we see messiness of the era as due to the lack of rolling out what she’s loved for — the visuals. Here’s hoping that’s remedied in the weeks and months ahead.
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