#Lady gaga applause video series

And so, I wanted to make a song about entertainment, and about show business, and about the banging of the gong, and the critics, and how all of that sort of, weaves its way in and out of your life as you become a bigger and bigger entertainer, but that, ultimately what I live for is knowing that I’ve done something that’s made you truly happy, and made you truly have an experience with the stage, with the lights, with each other. I realized in this moment that I live for the applause, but I don’t live for the attention like, the way that people just, they just love you, because, you know, you’re “famous.” I live for, actually performing for people and them applauding because, they’ve been entertained. So, I went out every night, and I played and I played and I played until I couldn’t walk one night, and that was it. And I just couldn’t cancel, because the thought of leaving 50,000 or 30,000 or 12,000 or 8,000 kids in the arena just broke my heart. So, everything hurts really bad, but I didn’t want to let them down. I was feeling very dizzy, I had a lot of vertigo I had pain, but, it’s like, fuck if I know what hurts the most, because I’ve been on tour for a year. Once I really realized what had been going on, and I realized how I was feeling, before on stage, I realized that it was the applause of the fans that really kept me going, because I would be ready to go onstage, and just be crying hysterically, like not understanding even, how I was feeling. When I was on tour, and my hip was breaking, I didn’t really know why, because I was smoking up a storm, making sure that I couldn’t feel a damn thing all day long. This was going to be the last track, this is called 'Applause'. Well, this is the last track on the album. Lady Gaga talked about the meaning of the song and about importance of applause in her career in the track-by-track ARTPOP commentary on Sirius XM.

Just having people's attention all the time what I crave is performing live and making a connection with my fans and hearing them cheer because they're happy. This idea that the performer lives for the applause as opposed to living for the fame separate from the stage.

But I thought it was a great choice as a lead single because the album is very eclectic and it goes on a journey, so it was more about what was the first statement that we wanted to make and I liked the statement that it made because it brings back some very old sentiments about show business that I feel are very very absent right now. I never choose my singles, so I didn't actually choose it. On September 18 th, 2013, Lady Gaga revealed on her Twitter account the meaning behind a song, while asking people to remember the difference between 'celebrities' and 'artists'.ĭruning an exclusive interview for DVD Japanese edition of ARTPOP, when Lady Gaga was asked why she chose 'Applause' as the lead single, she answered: He also revealed that he recorded the 'screaming fans' heard on the track during one of the Born This Way Ball dates. It was after she took some time off in 2013, that they revisited the song and selected it as the first single. When asked about the creation of the song, Gaga confirmed that she was in a lot of pain during the last weeks of the tour and that thanks to the applause of her fans, she was able to drown out the pain and finish the show.Īt the time, they didn't know which song would be the lead single for ARTPOP. When asked about the song, DJ White Shadow explained that it was written in 2012 and that Gaga was in pain due to her undiagnosed broken hip and labral tear while writing the song.

#Lady gaga applause video series

She explained that she documented the creation of the ARTPOP project in a series of notes and books filled with visual ideas and sketches. The lyrics were slightly reworked from the first version revealed a year before. On July 24, 2013, Gaga posted via Little Monsters handwritten lyrics with a visual for the song. I live for the way that you cheer and scream for me. She tweeted on Janupart of the lyrics: ' If only Fame came in IV form could I bare being away from you. Gaga first revealed the title of the song in November of 2012 through Little Monsters: 'I Live for the APPLAUSE'.