Here’s a sentence we never thought we’d write: Shutterstock, the prominent stock photo service, has cast some Twitter shade upon Lady Gaga. Her fans cast it right back.
It all started when Gaga’s new single, “Stupid Love” leaked. If you still haven’t heard it, just go to a drag show this weekend — there’s sure to be at least one giddy queen in every town performing the bop.
me listening to the full stupid love leak pic.twitter.com/meuHG6blfr
— jamie louis | LG6 IS COMING (@o19luisss) January 22, 2020
The leak lit up Twitter and one meme, in particular, appears to have made it all the way back to Ms. Stefani, who shared the same images with a simple request: “can y’all stop”.
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can y’all stop pic.twitter.com/1jvZLdY6jV
— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) January 23, 2020
And while you might think Shutterstock would appreciate having its brand tweeted out to Gaga’s 80 million+ followers, they seized on the chance to (playfully — note the winking emoji) engage.
“@ladygaga We hear you! We like artists to be paid for their work too. Here’s a link to the photographer’s work where you can license these quality images,” the company wrote, adding links to the photos.
.@ladygaga We hear you! We like artists to be paid for their work too. Here's a link to the photographer's work where you can license these quality images: https://t.co/F37wsUBre8 and https://t.co/lljeK1HgkB ?
— Shutterstock (@Shutterstock) January 23, 2020
We’d be remiss not to include the full photo titles — works of poetry unto themselves:
- Closeup view of a young girl wearing a ski mask, listening to illegal music, isolated against a white background.
- Concept image of a young girl dancing to pirated or illegal music downloads on her mp3 player, isolated against a white background.
So just to recap: Lady Gaga pirated an image of a girl listening to pirated music after fans pirated her music.
Her fans didn’t find it quite as amusing. “BYE,” wrote one, while another proclaimed “Lady Gaga can do anything she wants.”
They may have a point there, but to honor all the artists involved in this saga, we’ve gone ahead and licensed the images ourselves.
Here they are, watermark-free, ready to be printed, framed, and enjoyed for generations:
Stunning.
LilMesican
Hahaha… Disclaimer: I’m not a Gaga fan… So this is pretty funny to me. Especially since most of her music is a rip-off of someone else!
CarrieV
The leak lit up Twitter and one meme, in particular, appears to have made it all the way back to Ms. Stefani, who shared the same images with a simple request: “can y’all stop”.
Ms. Stefani??? I know I’m old, but is Lady Gaga’s nickname “Ms. Stefani”?
Please disregard this message if I didn’t get some joke.
startenout
Stefani is her actual first name. Ms. Germanotta would have been more correct
Crystix
I love that queerty bought the rights to image only to post it on their website for people to steal and use illegally. I for one will – I already have the perfect DJ Night poster in mind.
THANKS QUEERTY XOXO