All the points in the article make complete sense and some I've touched on myself. She's passing the buck, of that I have no doubt. That doesn't mean I don't believe she's feeling sad, despair or desperate right now. She might and could be; but it's gravely misguided. I believe wholeheartedly that she is blaming the lackluster performance of ARTPOP on her former team instead of right where it belongs, on herself.
Gaga has repeatedly tweeted with emphasis about how ARTPOP was coming along and it's obvious she spent two years working on, beginning during the Born This Way Ball; and spending a lot of time on it while recovering from plastic surgery. The Applause video was not given one week to plan and execute. She had been working on it for weeks and she said so herself. She lied. Then again, Gaga is a pathological liar so that should come as no surprise. She lies so often that she forgets her own lies.
Gaga prides herself on being the one in charge of her career. She's often said that she isn't manufactured, she writes her own music and is fulfilling her artistic vision. So when her vision fails to meet her expectations, suddenly she isn't in charge anymore.
Gaga has said that the people closest to her betrayed her. That the people who she thought were supposed to care weren't there for her when she needed them the most. I think a more accurate story is that these same people were exhausted by her and burnt out from trying to manage and guide her. They ran out of steam. Her betrayers were the ones that had the guts to give her a different opinion opposed to nodding their head with a pathetic yes to her every whim and request. Her betrayers were the people not willing to enable her. Gaga's betrayers are the ones that had the guts to say no.
