It all began with some bitchy comments made in a Rolling Stone interview: erstwhile pop band The Chainsmokers (DJs Alex Pall and Drew Taggart) decided to take the low road and diss Calvin Harris, Rihanna, and Lady Gaga. Reflecting the overall sentiment of our Facebook feed, they also ventured to say that “Perfect Illusion” “sucks.”
Well, Lady Gaga didn’t like that. And decided to strike back. Her new song “A-Yo” features these opening lines: “I can’t wait to smoke them all / Whole pack like Marlboro / Blow it in your face / Blow it in your face / Blow it in your, blow it in your face.”
Burn?
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Well, much as you’re not allowed to refer to yourself as “subversive” or “transgressive” or “The Real Deal,” Lady Gaga decided that shading The Chainsmokers wasn’t quite enough, so she decided to point out her own shade to The Chainsmokers in a Tweet, which makes her shade not shade at all, much like Alanis Morrissette’s “Ironic” isn’t ironic at all:
#AYO @TheChainsmokers maybe u guys’ll like this 1 better ???????#NowPlaying
Apple: https://t.co/u0r8kOeLCr Spotify: https://t.co/iCwMjenJut— JOANNE (@ladygaga) October 18, 2016
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Then The Chainsmokers responded with this odd bit of Hot Topic artwork and the crypto-corny lines “Fighting flames with fire” and “I died for you one time but never again.”
Fighting flames with fire pic.twitter.com/cUh18Z5hXw
— THE CHAINSMOKERS (@TheChainsmokers) October 18, 2016
Then there was this. Olive branch?
Haha @ladygaga RESPECT ??
— THE CHAINSMOKERS (@TheChainsmokers) October 18, 2016
And then? And then?
The Chainsmokers wikipedia page has been hacked by little monsters We have no chill.?#GagaEndedTheChanismokersParty pic.twitter.com/hPCoZEbMJn
— Lady Gaga | 3 Days (@GagaNewsShade) October 19, 2016
Halsey, who is featured on The Chainsmokers’ current #1 hit single, just unfollowed @drewtaggart! #GagaEndedTheChainsmokersParty
— Tobey | Lady Gaga (@tobeymonster) October 18, 2016
Now, #GagaEndedTheChainSmokersParty is trending on Twitter. And here’s why:
When Lady Gaga shows up to the #GagaEndedTheChainsmokersParty
“Who are you wearing?”
Lady Gaga: “The Chainsmokers” pic.twitter.com/OuIKATub8t
— JOANNE (@holyfoolevan) October 18, 2016
When you’re listening to #MillionReasons and suddenly Gaga drags The Chainsmokers #GagaEndedTheChainsmokersParty pic.twitter.com/GKWK5kYFX6
— wiktoria (@jloxkesha) October 18, 2016
#GagaEndedTheChainsmokersParty Literally what happened after Gaga’s tweet: pic.twitter.com/AwXbmIIiqF
— Perfect Illusion (@LilMonsterKills) October 18, 2016
Today’s situation shows how Gaga can destroy a career in one tweet#GagaEndedTheChainsmokersParty pic.twitter.com/l2gaJUwVJm
— Tin the Spooky Ghost (@flawlessmorpher) October 18, 2016
Unfortunately, none of this excitement can eclipse the fact that the song “A-YO” is a total clunker.
Kirby
Perfect Illusion does indeed suck. A lot. But then so do the Chainsmokers.
DDstar1me
Hhhh…and the decline of the music industry continues.
truckproductions
umm her music is terrible. basic, uninspired crap.
michel_banen
Looking forward to the new Bruno Mars album……
Sansacro
What a boring chain.
Also guess L blow-it-in-your-face G won’t be winning a Nobel for her lyrics any millennium soon.
johnkcopley
Who cares?
LongIslandGayPhotos
Is there some reason I am supposed to care about this?
Brian
The Chainsmokers? Aren’t they some crappy New York duo who choose some random female to perform on their cookie-cutter sounds? Spare me. I don’t know if they’re gay but I’ve seen closet cases who are less convincing.
As for Lady Gaga, her peak was in 2008 with Poker Face and Just Dance.
All in all, what a sad reflection of American music today….
dean089
So two guys that no one has ever heard of are now who everyone is talking about. Success!
grethomory
@Kirby: I agree. That song sucks a big one…I hope she tried to pull one of those old Michael Jackson things where she lets the weakest single come first.
Amalgamate
@Kirby: and Gaga is way overrated and a shiitty actress
lykeitiz
@Amalgamate: Here Here! Her new song sucks, and so does the new season of American Horror Story. She looks ridiculous in it. She needs to get back to making out with Tony Bennett or ripping off Madonna. She’s much better at both of those things.
Pistolo
It doesn’t surprise me someone like her attracts such dreadful hoards of foaming-at-the-mouth fanatics. When you shove your way to the top as she has, often through corporate scumbags and bullies, those sorts of people become the company you keep. But “Perfect Illusion” is falling in the charts and her album is getting bad reviews, no amount of fan harassment or stunting will save her from averageness.
Masc Pride
She is EXTREMELY homely.
ErikO
So she’s arguing with two guys on twitter instead of going out and making new music or performing?