Love is a smoke rais’d with the fume of sighs; Being purg’d, a fire sparkling in a lover’s eyes; Being vex’d, a sea nourish’d with lovers’ tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet (Romeo and Juliet 1.1.197 – 201) So says Shakespeare about the all-consuming nature and power of love. Love is blinding, it is intoxicating, often making people forget where their allegiances lie. A theme that is well-explored in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, a story of star-crossed lovers caught between the crossfires of two families in conflict. Even after having killed her cousin Tybalt, Juliet still roots for Romeo and is willing to go to any extent to see their love find fulfilment. An act that is almost self-destructive in the sense that she goes against her family, which leads to her own destruction. Elsewhere in the same vein, Lady Gaga in her song Bad Romance, proclaims, “I want your love, and I want your revenge (Gaga 1:28). She writes about being in love, perhaps with the wrong kind of person. However, she is willing to turn a blind eye and be complicit in his “lover’s revenge”, the same way Juliet turns a blind eye and continues to build a bridge to Romeo. What might the heroines of Shakespeare and Gaga have in common? This paper endeavours to answer that question through a comparative approach.