Girl Gaga made fairly an entrance Thursday on the Los Angeles premiere of her live performance movie “Gaga Chromatic Ball,” and precipitated an excellent larger splash when she advised the group she “did five shows with COVID” throughout the eponymous tour in 2022, per social media footage.
“I shared it with everyone on my team,” Gaga defined. “I said, ‘I don’t want anyone to feel uncomfortable at work and you don’t have to perform and you don’t have to work that day, but I’m going to do the show,’ because I just didn’t want to let all the fans down.”
Gaga, whose actual identify is Stefani Germanotta, argued “fans were putting themselves in harm’s way” by attending her concert events anyway.
The footage of her feedback went viral, as followers selling social distancing and critics who slammed Gaga as a hypocrite sounded off on social media.
“She raised over $128 million which all went towards covid relief and vaccine development, her entire crew was vaccinated and you were required to be vaccinated to enter any of the venues so don’t try and start nothing,” wrote one person Friday on X, previously Twitter.
“I won’t attack her, but even vaccinated people died,” somebody replied. “The crew may have consented to exposure, but fans and arena crew didn’t. It’s odd to raise money while putting people at risk. Idk why she even let this out. It’s a bad press move imo.”
Whereas these on the premiere audibly laughed and applauded Gaga, many on social media slammed her for performing whereas contaminated.
“Fuck this,” wrote one person on X. “This is not a flex. This is what happens when you’re stuck due to insurance policies with no out for covid. This is not showing care for your fans, especially not your disabled or immune compromised fans. Do better, @ladygaga.”
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The continued social media dialogue seems divided between adherents of prior Covid isolation tips and people who by no means believed in them, who really feel Gaga is getting a go for breaking the identical guidelines beforehand espoused by public figures like her.
Gaga did certainly increase $128 million for Covid reduction with a digital live performance in April 2020, and later held a briefing on the pandemic for the World Health Group. Gaga partnered with vaccine-developer Pfizer final 12 months to lift consciousness of a migraine drug referred to as Nurtec ODT.
