Lady Gaga and Her Flawless Response to Critics Win the Week

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We’ve reached the end of another week. But before we clock out for the weekend, we’re giving credit where it’s due. Lady Gaga is the latest champion in our series.Not since the days of “Poker Face” and her iconic has the future looked so damn bright for .

Make no mistake, her career—which includes an , a Golden Globe, millions of record sales, a makeup line and more—has been going strong since her debut, but there's something about her current era that feels especially promising.

Once the ultimate striver (complimentary), Gaga has reached a point where her output, it seems, is entirely on her own terms ("I’m the creator and I made all of it, and that helped me to value myself as a musician and a songwriter in a deeper way,” she recently told ), and her personal life is thriving.On the music front, her collab with Bruno Mars, “Die With A Smile,” has been atop the Billboard Hot 100 for a month, and is up for two Grammys.

She at the awards, but even if she doesn't show at all, she's forever a part of Grammy history after . On Monday, she that she'd be dropping her seventh studio album, Mayhem, on March 7, causing, well, mayhem for her fans.