Lady Gaga: Why she is a role model for all women - and what I learned from her for life
“Mayhem”: This is the name of the seventh album by, the long-awaited pop release of spring, in German: the ultimate chaos. Gaga baptized her new album in this way, even though there was something in her first. She was actually a hopeful, positive person, she explained inan interview, and can often hardly accept the part of her personality that the term “Mayhem” reflects.
The album is also about the dark days, the brokenness of the world, which according to Gaga only show us how well the good things in life are through and through. “The power of joy, the power of dancing, wine, laughing, music listening, the strength you feel when you feel yourAnd his family holds in his arms ” - for all of this, it is worth going through the madness and chaos. Pretty pregnant and quite true when you ask me.
You don't have to fight your demons all the time - hug them as part of you
With “Mayhem” and the history of origin around the album, Lady Gaga underlines an elementary struggle for me, who runs through her career right from the start and which we all know: the fight against my own demons. In many songs she addresses the dark side of the fame, sings about physical and, through endless attempts to finally defeat one's own problems, to live as a perfect person and end up extinguishing a part of themselves.
While her last album “Chromatica” revolved around the longing for healing from a painful perspective, Lady Gaga's view of things has changed in recent years: You don't have to be in constant fight against yourself and the world around you. Sometimes it can also help to accept instead of running away constantly. After all, not only the good times make us the complex women we are. This is what her single “Abracadabra” is about: the challenge of radical acceptance.
As a woman in the thirties, this thought catches me at the right time. Do not understand me wrong: it is important to deal with your own problems, to look for the root of mental struggles. But after I spent a few years with it, it feels pretty healing for me to go into the next phase of the challenge.
A “flop” is always in the eye of the viewers: inside
This radical acceptance was particularly difficult after the release of her third album “Artpop” in 2013. It ended up a charter success, but the world didn't really know what to do with this new music. Experimental, bizarre beats, theatrical vocals, wild screams, crazy camp aesthetics-in short: “Artpop” was ahead of his time, at Crazy for a time when classic pop songs like “Wreck Ball” byThe charts dominated. Over the years, however, a real cult has formed around “Artpop” among Popfans. Today the songs correspond to the zeitgeist, commemorate hyperpop, complement each-Playlist perfect.
“Artpop” was grown by many as a “flop” (until today!), Although at that time it started in the “Billboard 200” charts. Through this album I know: A “flop” is always relative - and there will always be someone who wants to badly talk to your achievements, regardless of how small or large, mainstream or nichy they are. And: Even if a project may come up with incomprehension, it does not mean anything. It can finally reach the people who celebrate and understand it ten years later who do not find your ideas absurd, but to the right extent.
You will find your crowd
The matter of being understood does not only apply to professional projects. During school, Lady Gaga was bullied by classmates: the “Weirde Theater-Kid”, which sang on every opportunity. There was even a Facebook group called “Stefani Germanotta, You Will Never Be Famous”, in which the young Gaga made fun.
For me, Lady Gaga is the best example of sometimes it may take longer than you want, but that it is out therefor one. Those who understand it, no matter what you look like or what interests and dreams you follow. They exist, the people who appreciate that you are the way you are, and not onedespite itlike, butbecause of this. In Lady Gaga's case, these are not just a friend: inside, but millions of fans who have shown: Stefani Germanotta wants to be Famous. But something like that.
You don't have to decide between love and success
Then of course there is also the thing with love. In her Netflix documentary “Five Foot Two”, Lady Gaga spoke openly about her despair that her professional successes usually also went hand in hand with separations and talked about the feeling of having to choose between family and the big fame. Today the whole thing looks a little different: since 2020 it has been with a businessmanTogether, a rather inconspicuous, reserved guy who largely moved outside the public before their relationship.
Within a very short time, Michael was appointed “Father Monster” by fans because Gaga's stories about their fiancee melt every fan heart. Apart from the fact that Gaga Heller shines as her engagement ring, when she speaks of Michael, he should have onegreat influenceon work on their new album. According to Gaga, Michael is said to have encouraged her to work on a pop album again, supported her as a songwriter and is said to have surprised her on Valentine's Day with a home studio for which he had his office rebuilt. I am often a bit too pessimistic about the romantic, heteronormative love, but here I have to say: If your partner cheers you on and supports you in things that make you out, that's pretty badesome.
Be everything at the same time
The fact that you have to choose as a woman in life is quite normal in many areas of life - in too many. Not only should we decide whether we want to be career women or partners, no, also in terms of style, personality or interests, is simultaneously something that women are happy to say. Do you like to wear baggy clothes likeOr short dresses like? Do you like to make up for hours or not at all? Do you like to hear pop or a rock? I want everything at the same time, complain!
This is also something that I learned from Lady Gaga: I can look different tomorrow than today, I don't have to choose a facet. Lady Gaga has gone through so many fashion phases and music eras over time and never apologized for it. She found it completely natural that all of these things are slumbering in her and just waiting to be let out.
Be too much. And just not too modest
Lady Gaga exemplified me like no other idol that too is just enough. Women are happy to be asked for reluctance, not to take up too much space, just not to irritate anyone. And what does gaga do? She comes with oneFlying dressto the show or in oneEgg to the grammys.
She was a lot, but just not modest. Even one thing that women like to be like - smile on compliments, preferably something like “that is not worth talking”. Lady Gaga doesn't think much of that - and I don't. In oneAncient videoShe says: “I know how good my work is. And I don't mean that in a imagined way. I want to encourage you all to live your life like this. If you do something great and someone says that he likes it, you should look at the people and say: 'Thank you, I worked very hard for it, and I know it's great.' "
Lady Gaga showed me that I can dare to do things that the world often wanted to tell me that it was too much to achieve too difficult to achieve. Thanks to her, I know that this is not the whole truth. That I-to say it with a legendary Gaga quote-“Talented, Brilliant, Incredible, Amazing, Show Stopping, Spectacular, Never the Same, Totoy Unique, Completely notes Before, Unafraaid or not Reference, put it in a blender, hit on IT, from IT IT, 1 give birthday to it ”can be. And you can do that too.
