15 years ago today, same-sex marriage was finally legalized in New York.
Lady Gaga was in Japan rehearsing when the news broke, she took a photo to celebrate with her dancers, and an iconic tweet was born 🌈 ✨
she was mistreated by her own idols during her rise to fame (madonna, grace jones, etc.) and you can tell she’s made it a mission to uplift every artist who looks up to her at these events.
Nikita Goodno, a former marketing and creative operations advisor for Lady Gaga’s Haus Labs, in new video:
“Part of my lore is that I worked for Lady Gaga during the pandemic so I never met her IRL but here’s a framed screenshot of us on zoom.”
It’s July 16th, 2025
You’re in Las Vegas attending the opening night of Lady Gaga’s MAYHEM Ball Tour.
You hear elements of Applause but you’re not sure where it’s headed.
Suddenly, the song’s intro rings through the arena and you lose your absolute SHIT along with 15,000+ other people.
Life is good.
Nicole Scherzinger won a Tony Award eleven months ago for playing a woman staging a comeback. Now she's staging one herself.
The Pussycat Dolls sold 15 million albums and 40 million singles worldwide. "Don't Cha" topped the charts in 15 countries. Rihanna opened for them. They performed at the AMAs in 2006 as the biggest girl group on the planet.
Then the group imploded. Robin Antin, the founder, sued Scherzinger in 2021 for refusing to do a reunion tour unless she got 75% of profits and full creative control. The lawsuit called it "extortion." Live Nation wanted its $600,000 advance back. The legal battle dragged on for four years.
While the lawsuit was still active, Scherzinger took a role on the West End. Playing Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. A faded star who refuses to accept that her moment has passed. She won the Olivier. The show transferred to Broadway. She won the Tony. Patti LuPone called her performance "courageous, audacious, mesmerizing." TIME named her one of the 100 most influential people alive.
The demand that was labeled extortion turned out to be leverage. The four years that could have been spent grinding through mid-tier reunion shows became four years building a career that now includes the highest honor in theater.
She settled the lawsuit in October 2025. Three months later, the Pussycat Dolls announced a reunion as a trio. On her terms. With creative control. Exactly what she asked for in 2021.
Twenty years after their AMAs debut, she walked back onto the same stage tonight in red latex, performing the same songs. The difference is she's no longer Nicole Scherzinger from the Pussycat Dolls. She's a Tony-winning actress who also happens to be in the Pussycat Dolls.
Norma Desmond wanted the comeback on her terms or not at all. Scherzinger got both.
Daily reminder that the crown for the best Coachella set and the greatest musical show in history belongs to Lady Gaga. No artist, past or future, will top the spectacle she delivered last year. The whole world was gagged.
unbiased opinion: this is the best Coachella show in history… Gaga truly left her heart and soul on that stage and proved she’s a once in a lifetime performer