While the celebs try to keep us busy with Home Fests and other forms of distractions like home video of songs released in 2018 and remix versions of all that they managed to record before having to shut shops, nothing will ever come close to the real entertainment value that comes in with watching them fall apart at the seams -- just like the rest of us. 

Like Madonna recently said, COVID-19 is a great equalizer. It doesn’t care how rich, smart, funny, or famous you are -- if it’s coming for you, it’s coming for you. Though she got a lot of flak for it, it rings true. Just like the rest of us are very capable of scheduling failure and prime time awkwardness, so is Mother Monster, apparently. And all it took was the great equalizer to show us that! 

Having withdrawn from releasing her latest album ‘Chromatica’, she was about to take on another project that was supposedly going to be announced on Jimmy Fallon’s show. “Lady Gaga has a big announcement,” Fallon had promised. But when the segment launched into a Face Time call with Gaga, we saw her flustered: “I can't, Jimmy. I can't talk right now. I'm really sorry. It's just, like, a really weird time right know. Hello? Jimmy? I can't see you? Am I on TV?” 

We saw Jimmy trying to hold it all together and trying to reschedule to 10 minutes from then to which she replied, "Can you call me on, um, can you call me Friday?" And Fallon repeated, “Can I call you on Friday? It's uh, yeah. It's Wednesday.” 

Towards the end Gaga wanted to add in quite frantically that the announcement was “for COVID-19”. She went on to say, “I can't, I can't, I can't tell you everything right now because I'm still ironing out the details and I have a lot of phone calls to make.” 

After a lot of awkwardness, Fallon finally cut the call and all of us collectively stopped cringing. There are times when celebs appear on television in designer sweats and hair that five people worked on to make it look out-of-bed to tell us anecdotes of how they are really just regular people. We try our best to believe it. But there is no greater proof that it is indeed truer than this. And after you’ve seen someone like this, it makes you wonder -- what’s all the fuss about? Can we just stop the pretense and have a conversation unscripted?