“It’s possible that we are undervaluing Lady Gaga. Alright, she’s coming in hot for 2019’s awards season following Bradley Cooper’s remake of A Star Is Born. Yes, she’s forever a household name. But there isn’t that universal hysteria lent to Gaga that we employ with Beyoncé or Teslas or Meryl Streep. We don’t obsessively reappraise every moment of her intricately thought-out career – a career, she reminds her audience onstage was largely confounding to outsiders when she first emerged.”