Lady Gaga’s fans affectionately call themselves “Little Monsters.” The nickname arose organically during the production and release of her second album, which focused around various ‘monsters’ in Lady Gaga’s life.
Ever since the inception of the name, Gaga has embraced the moniker that her fans have adopted, partly due to the fact that she was instrumental in the forming of it. Embraced is the keyword here, as Gaga even started brandishing her own spin on the name, accepting the crown of ‘Mother Monster’ bestowed on her by her fans.
That honorary title of being the ‘Mother Monster’ extends far beyond a simple naming dynamic between performer and fans, Gaga has been an incredibly active philanthropist and activist, especially in the realm of issues that involve her fans.
It might still be a stretch to imagine how Gaga could have ended up calling her fans ‘monsters’, and how something that understandably has negative connotations ended up being such a powerful term of endearment towards her fanbase. So, what was the exact chain of events that led to the nickname?
The Little Monsters were born during Gaga’s rerelease of her second studio album, an EP that is fittingly be The Fame Monster. The album covered a range of topics close to Gaga, all flirting conceptually with ideas of fame, power, sex, and death.
The word ‘monster’ comes up time and time again throughout the EP, both in the title, in lyrics, and concept, though it wasn’t for any of those reasons that her fans became known as Little Monsters. Alongside the release of the EP, to celebrate and support its release, Gaga embarked on a worldwide tour entitled The Monster Ball Tour, and it was on this tour that the name Little Monsters was finally coined.
Her fans could become so rabidly enthusiastic in their clawing and clamoring gestures and cheers while she was on stage during this tour, especially during performances of “Bad Romance”, that she began lovingly referring to them as ‘monsters’ while on stage. Those hand gestures are also what eventually came to be universally recognized as the symbol of the fanbase, united by the Little Monster claw.
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