Music Gaga: The age is hers!

Lady Gaga It was never just a pop singer. She was, from the beginning, an event. A revolution that arrived in high heels, wig and sharp speech, transforming everything around – including what
expected from a star.

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta It emerged in the late 2000s as an outsider in the lines of the industry. With “Just dance”And“poker face“She just looked like another promise of the clues. But quickly it became clear: Gaga It was not there to repeat formulas, but to explode any mold. Since The Fame (2008) – which a year later would be relaunched as The Fame Monster – She made fame a concept to be dissected, like a true disciple of Andy Warhol.

Between grand visual concepts, costumes that seemed out of a fashion nightmare (or a futuristic catwalk) and meticulously constructed characters, Gaga proved: your life was performance. And did not lie. Entered an egg in GrammyHe wore raw meat, incorporated the baroque, the futurism, the kitsch. More than causing, it communicated. Each look was a manifesto, an aesthetic with message.

From it, having “ages” became a norm in pop; Each album with its visual identity, its palette, its aesthetic narrative. Bowie and Madonna They had already traveled this way, but Gaga raised the game and turned the reinvention into an uninterrupted fashion show. She merged fashion, music and activism like few – and made the image a weapon of expression.

And it was. Lady Gaga became a spokesman for those who had no space, especially women, people LGBTQIAPN+ And anyone who has already been moved, weird, different. With Born this way (2011), she made a self -acceptance anthem for an entire generation of young queers. His lyrics have always spoken of identity, pain, overcoming and freedom. His speeches, awards and public appearances were as politicized as it is exciting. The singer raised a global community of Little Monsters, long before “fandom” is a common term – and gave them not only a name but a home, the house of Gaga.

In the music industry, always guided by cis-heteronormative and misogynistic patterns, the pop diva hit the front. It was discredited, ridiculed, underestimated, but never silent. On the contrary: with each album, it reinvented itself. From classic jazz in Cheek to cheek to the futuristic pop of Chromaticafrom Joanne’s country introspection to the new and chaotic Mayhem (2025), Gaga Always embraced the unpredictable. And maintained consistency being inconsistent – which in the world of pop is genius.

Its influence transcends the sound. Gaga redesigned what it means to be a popstar. Without fear of seeming “too much”, he made room for other artists, such as Rihanna, Rosalia and Taylor Swiftthey also wanted to be multiple. It normalized extravagance, discomfort, art as provocation. And created trend, meme, inspiration.

In Brazil, it became legend: from the iconic “BRAZIL, I’m Devastated”To the looks of the lines of shows, from eternal memes to surrealist stories (such as the Bible thrown on stage). The show in Rio de Janeiro is not only historical, but a reunion with a country that understands it in exaggeration, intensity, affection.

Lady Gaga It is more than pop. She is rupture. She is shelter. It is performance, politics, art and vulnerability – all together. And that’s exactly why it continues, to this day, fascinating.

*Article originally published in the Rolling Stone Brazil Special Edition about Lady Gaga. See more information below.

Lady Gaga on the cover of Rolling Stone Brazil

To celebrate the coming of Mother Monster for free show at Copacabana Beachin Rio de Janeiro, on May 3 as part of the program Everyone in Rioa Rolling Stone Brazil produced a special print, which brings dossier about the career of Lady Gagacommented discography, manifest about the New Age – of resilience and chaos – musical. Gain on the profile store website.

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