In March 2018, Gaga supported the March for Our Lives gun-control rally in Washington, D.C., and released a cover of Elton John's "Your Song" for his tribute album "Revamp". Later that year, she starred as struggling singer Ally in Bradley Cooper's musical romantic drama "A Star Is Born", a remake of the 1937 film of the same name. The film follows Ally's relationship with singer Jackson Maine (played by Cooper), which becomes strained after her career begins to overshadow his. Cooper approached Gaga after seeing her perform at a cancer research fundraiser; an admirer of Cooper's work, Gaga agreed to the project due to its portrayal of addiction and depression.
2018–present: "A Star Is Born", Enigma, and "Chromatica"
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga | 2018–present: "A Star Is Born", Enigma, and "Chromatica"
Her cover of Elton John's "Your Song" for his tribute album "Revamp", she starred in "A Star Is Born". "The Fame" , "Just Dance" and "Poker Face". "Just Dance", "Poker Face", "Bad Romance", "Telephone", and "Alejandro". "Just Dance" and "Poker Face", "Bad Romance", "Telephone", and "Alejandro".
what is the meaning of the song alejandro
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The song bids farewell to her lovers.
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whose song is it?
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Lady Gaga
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was it a single release or part of any album?
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It was part of her third EP, "The Fame Monster".
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where was it performed live?
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Yes, she performed at The Monster Ball Tour.
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did it perform well on charts?
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It debuted at number 72 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 for the issue dated April 17, 2010; debuted on the Mainstream Top 40 chart at number 35, and the Hot Digital Songs chart at number 71.
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what is this above tour you mentioned just?
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It was the second worldwide concert tour by Lady Gaga.
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where did it take place?
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Montreal
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was it broadcasted anywhere?
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Yes, it aired on HBO
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what was its actual concept?
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The musician wanted to put together an expensive looking, beautiful show which would be affordable for her fans - the tour was a "pop-electro opera".
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where is this above singer from?
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Manhattan, New York City
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what is her style of music?
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Electroclash, "ruthlessly catchy naughties pop glazed with Auto-Tune and undergirded with R&B-ish beats."
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name some of her notable works?
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It additionally topped the charts in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland and the UK. As of June 2019, the soundtrack had sold over six million copies worldwide. The album won Gaga four Grammy Awards—Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Best Song Written for Visual Media for "Shallow", as well as the latter category for "I'll Never Love Again"—and a BAFTA Award for Best Film Music. "Shallow" also won her the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Original Song. In October, Gaga announced her engagement to talent agent Christian Carino whom she had met in early 2017.
Lady Gaga | 2018–present: "A Star Is Born", Enigma, and "Chromatica"
In March 2018, Gaga supported the March for Our Lives gun-control rally in Washington, D.C., and released a cover of Elton John's "Your Song" for his tribute album "Revamp". Later that year, she starred as struggling singer Ally in Bradley Cooper's musical romantic drama "A Star Is Born", a remake of the 1937 film of the same name. The film follows Ally's relationship with singer Jackson Maine (played by Cooper), which becomes strained after her career begins to overshadow his. Cooper approached Gaga after seeing her perform at a cancer research fundraiser; an admirer of Cooper's work, Gaga agreed to the project due to its portrayal of addiction and depression.
Lady Gaga | 2018–present: "A Star Is Born", Enigma, and "Chromatica"
Gaga and Cooper co-wrote and produced most of the songs on the soundtrack for "A Star Is Born", which she insisted they perform live in the film. Its lead single, "Shallow", performed by the two, was released on September 27, 2018 and topped the charts in various countries including Australia, the UK and the US. The soundtrack contains 34 tracks, including 19 original songs, and received generally positive reviews; Mark Kennedy of "The Washington Post" called it a "five-star marvel" and Ben Beaumont-Thomas of "The Guardian" termed it an "instant classics full of Gaga's emotional might". Commercially, the soundtrack debuted at number one in the US, making Gaga the first woman with five US number-one albums in the 2010s, and breaking her tie with Taylor Swift as the most for any female artist this decade; Swift tied with her again in 2019.
Lady Gaga | 2018–present: "A Star Is Born", Enigma, and "Chromatica"
In February 2020, Gaga began a relationship with entrepreneur Michael Polanksy.
Lady Gaga | 2018–present: "A Star Is Born", Enigma, and "Chromatica"
Critics have analyzed and scrutinized Gaga's musical and performance style, as she has experimented with new ideas and images throughout her career. She says the continual reinvention is "liberating" herself, which she has been drawn to since childhood. Gaga is a contralto with a range spanning from B♭ to B. She has changed her vocal style regularly, and considers "Born This Way" "much more vocally up to par with what I've always been capable of". In summing up her voice, "Entertainment Weekly" wrote: "There's an immense emotional intelligence behind the way she uses her voice. Almost never does she overwhelm a song with her vocal ability, recognizing instead that artistry is to be found in nuance rather than lung power." Gaga's songs have been called "depthless" by writer Camille Paglia in "The Sunday Times", but according to Evan Sawdey of "PopMatters", she "does manage to get you moving and grooving at an almost effortless pace".
Lady Gaga | Musical style and themes
She cited BloodPop as the main reason she was able to finish the work, as he motivated her to "push forward" to continue the process, and also helped her to get over feeling "miserable" and depressed. They talked about how almost every song on the album started with Gaga or the both of them playing the piano, and they "would build the track up after a semblance of a song existed". Gaga divulged how her intuition had evolved since the production of her last album, especially with the "real" and "honest" nature of this record's production virtually halting her inclination to second guess her creative output.
Chromatica | Writing and recording
Every song is an anthem of defiance and empowerment, turned up to 11 and genetically engineered for maximum danceability." "The Telegraph"s Neil McCormick wrote that ""Chromatica" offers Gaga at her most energetic and forceful, and that is something to behold." Alexandra Pollard of "The Independent" called it "extravagant" but "overblown", although she suspected that "it will keep revealing itself over time." Writing for "PopMatters", Evan Sawdey called the album a "full-bore masterwork" praising the song's music choice and lyrical content. Sarah Jamieson from "DIY" described it as "a record packed to the brim with euphoric beats and sizzling grooves" and "also one of her most honest and open records yet".
Chromatica | Critical reception
Gaga returned to her dance-pop roots with her sixth studio album "Chromatica" (2020), which spawned the number-one single "Rain on Me". Having sold 124 million records as of 2014, Gaga is one of the world's best-selling music artists and the fourth highest-earning female musician of the 2010s. Her achievements include various Guinness World Records, 11 Grammy Awards, and awards from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Council of Fashion Designers of America. She has been declared "Billboard"s Artist of the Year and Woman of the Year and included among "Forbes" power and earnings rankings. Gaga was ranked number four on VH1's Greatest Women in Music in 2012 and second on "Time"s 2011 readers' poll of the most influential people of the past ten years.
Lady Gaga | Introduction
Gaga believes that "all good music can be played on a piano and still sound like a hit". Simon Reynolds wrote in 2010, "Everything about Gaga came from electroclash, except the music, which wasn't particularly 1980s, just ruthlessly catchy naughties pop glazed with Auto-Tune and undergirded with R&B-ish beats." Gaga's songs have covered a wide variety of concepts; "The Fame" discusses the lust for stardom, while the follow-up "The Fame Monster" expresses fame's dark side through monster metaphors. "The Fame" is an electropop and dance-pop album that has influences of 1980s pop and 1990s Europop, whereas "The Fame Monster" displays Gaga's taste for pastiche, drawing on "Seventies arena glam, perky ABBA disco, and sugary throwbacks like Stacey Q".
Lady Gaga | Musical style and themes
Page Six's Jarett Wieselman stated: "I've repeatedly hypothesized that the success and adoration bestowed upon Lady Gaga has led every female celebrity to assume that whether or not she cultivates a quirky personality, her options for fashion forwardness are limitless!" He also said that "the 'Lady Gaga' effect persists". Tracie Egan Morrissey from Jezebel, said that 2011 MTV Video Music Awards's red carpet "reeks of Lady Gaga's influence" and that "ever since Lady Gaga came on the scene with her bizarre masks, tall hats and concept outfits, everyone thinks looking like an idiot on the red carpet is a sign of artistic integrity." She continues: "Nicki Minaj has a horrible case of Gaga-itis" and that Katy Perry's "cube on her head is totally her attempt at being avant fashion-y." Jon Caramanica from "The New York Times" in his article "Girl Pop’s Lady Gaga Makeover" states: "It's Halloween-costume empowerment, sure, but her fingerprints are all over the revised images of Christina Aguilera, Rihanna, Katy Perry and Beyoncé; and on new artists like Kesha, Janelle Monáe and Nicki Minaj" and that "the work she’s done since her 2008 debut album [...] has nudged loose conventional boundaries." He then continued by saying that "If Lady Gaga has had direct impact on anyone, it's been, most surprisingly, Beyoncé, who has spent the majority of her career impervious to influence from her peers.
The Fame Monster | Legacy and impact
The album has influences of the 1980s pop music and discusses Gaga's love for fame while also dealing with subjects such as love, sexuality, money and drugs. Initially intended to be a re-release of her first album, an EP titled "The Fame Monster" (2009) included eight newly recorded tracks. Its tracks include "Speechless", written solely by Gaga, as well as "Alejandro", "Telephone" and "Bad Romance". The EP explores the darker side of fame. Gaga's second full-length album, "Born This Way", was released in 2011. She reunited with RedOne and Garibay, and sought new collaborators, including DJ Snake, DJ White Shadow, Jeppe Laursen, and Robert John "Mutt" Lange, this last one producing the country rock song "You and I" written solely by Gaga.
List of songs recorded by Lady Gaga | Introduction
However, he felt some songs ran too short on the album, and felt "claustrophobic" and "overworked". Katherine St. Asaph from "Pitchfork" opined that "the pop diva returns to her dance-pop days with a fabulously fun and deeply personal album that is at turns bizarre, theatrical, and ambitious." In a positive review from "Variety", Jem Aswad wrote that the album has "consistency and sonic unity, even as the songs wander thematically and melodically all over the map" as well as calling it a "rock-solid foundation for the next phase of [Gaga's] remarkable career". Hannah Mylrea of "NME" gave a positive review calling the album "pure joy" specifically calling the record's production "glossy." Furthering with positive reviews, Nick Smith of "musicOMH" concluded his review by saying: "There may not be anything really new here, but why mess with this formula when it can produce such engaging slaps and dancefloor empowerment?" Writing for "Entertainment Weekly", Leah Greenblatt thought that "nearly every one of its 13 tracks reaches for a kind of delirious excess: thunderous hard candy bangers designed to press on the brain’s pleasure centers until they submit, again and again, to the replay button." Kory Grow from "Rolling Stone" thought that "mostly, Gaga has focused "Chromatica"'s spectrum on the kind of body-moving music that comes naturally to her" and said that "her pop renaissance couldn’t come at a better time." "Clash" gave the album a rating of 8/10 stating, "Across its sixteen tracks, "Chromatica" is entirely over-the-top, but in the best possible way.
Chromatica | Critical reception
Chromatica is the sixth studio album by American singer Lady Gaga. It was released on May 29, 2020, by Streamline and Interscope Records. Originally scheduled for April 10, 2020, the album's release was delayed for seven weeks, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Gaga and BloodPop served as the album's executive producers. "Chromatica" is a dance-pop, synth-pop and electropop project with elements of house, disco and other electronic genres. The album is named after an imaginary, dystopian planet, which the singer described as a place where "equality rules". The album covers themes of mental health, trauma, self-worth, finding love through hardship, which contrasts its positive and uptempo production.
Chromatica | Introduction
Matt Moen from "Paper" felt that the poster hearkened back to Gaga's fashion choices during "The Fame Monster" (2009) era, suggesting the singer's return to avant-garde looks. He also found Las Vegas EDM and rave influences in the poster, likening it to an Electric Daisy Carnival. Formichetti also worked on creating the costumes for the concert series. On December 4, 2018, Gaga shared a video from the rehearsal on her Instagram account showing her in a bodysuit with dots on it, utilizing motion capture while the song "Aura" played in the background. She also assumed a titular new identity in one of the videos, referring herself as Enigma.
Lady Gaga Enigma | Background and development
He added: "Maybe she's lost her appetite to be a weird provocateur, but she has learned how to sharpen and stylize her attack, and that focus makes "Chromatica" one of her most consistent and satisfying albums." Patrick Gomez of "The A.V. Club" gave the album a "B", writing that although it is "at times frenetic and disjointed", the songs are generally strong and varied. Michael Cragg from "The Guardian" gave the album a 4 out of 5, saying the album "represents not only Gaga’s most personal record, but her most straightforward" and compared it to the electropop from earlier works.
Chromatica | Critical reception
In discussing the large collaborative atmosphere that enveloped the album's production, Gaga said, "It's easy to go into a computer and find a cool loop, but the producers I work with don't work this way. When they're inspired, they embroider things." Talking with Apple Music's Zane Lowe, she added that she had "never seen so many producers be willing to pass around music [...] and have it be a conversation", and that every song had many different iterations as they were developing them to "sound the best that it could be" and "interpret what [she is] saying the best that it can interpret." In a interview with "American Songwriter", Gaga stated they wrote between 50 to 100 songs, saying "[...] I wanted to 'rinse' the record.
Chromatica | Writing and recording
Following her EDM-influenced third album "Artpop" (2013), which yielded the single "Applause", Gaga eschewed dance-pop and released a jazz album with Tony Bennett, "Cheek to Cheek" (2014), and the country pop and soft rock-influenced album "Joanne" (2016). She also ventured into acting, playing leading roles in the miniseries "" (2015–2016), for which she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, and the critically acclaimed musical drama film "A Star Is Born" (2018). Her contributions to the latter's soundtrack, which spawned the chart-topping single "Shallow", made her the first woman to win an Academy, Grammy, BAFTA, and Golden Globe Award in one year.
Lady Gaga | Introduction
In 2015, "Time" also noted that Gaga had "practically invented the current era of pop music as spectacle". Her work has influenced artists including Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, Ellie Goulding, Halsey, Jennifer Lopez, Nick Jonas, Sam Smith, Noah Cyrus, Katherine Langford, MGMT, Allie X, Greyson Chance, Taylor Swift, Cardi B, Rina Sawayama, and Blackpink.
Lady Gaga | Impact
It is a Eurodance and disco song, that features a punchy and scintillating production containing "synthetic" drum snaps where Gaga delivers an anguished falsetto. "Sour Candy", Gaga's collaboration with Blackpink, sees the singers addressing a potential lover to not attempt to change their damage. The song is multilingual containing English and Korean and sour candy is used as a metaphor for how the singers function in a relationship. It is a blend of multiple genres including dance-pop, electropop, bubblegum pop and deep house and follows a house, dance and electronic beat. The groovy house and disco-influenced dance-pop anthem, "Enigma" emphasizes Gaga's desire for mystery.
Chromatica | Songs
"Alice" is preceded by an orchestral interlude called "Chromatica I", which opens the album and transitions directly into the track. As Gaga wanted to highlight that the album has three distinct acts, she recruited musician Morgan Kibby to produce interludes for the album, with the help of a 26-person orchestra who performed the string arrangements. Kibby was brought into the studio after submitting the demo that would eventually become "Chromatica I". With the long string runs at the beginning of this composition, Kibby pursued to recall "the majesty and grandeur" of Donna Summer and Gloria Gaynor. She also aimed to reference classic scores from films such as "THX 1138" and "Outland".
Alice (Lady Gaga song) | "Chromatica I"
She shone in works that were painful and romantic, such as "En esta tarde gris" ("In this gray afternoon"), "Sombras, nada más" ("Shadows, nothing else"), "Tristezas de la calle Corrientes" ("Sorrows of Corrientes Street") or "Caserón de tejas" ("Mansion of Tiles"), "Canción desesperada" ("Desperate Song") and "Sin palabras" ("Without words"). Many of her best songs were by composer Enrique Santos Discepolo because they particularly suited her style.
Libertad Lamarque | Early career
By age 13, she had written her first song and her mother took her to nightclubs to perform at open-mic events. Germanotta gained entry to the Tisch School of the Arts in New York at age 17, but left and started using drugs while performing as a go-go dancer. After a period of difficulty with her father, she ceased this behavior pattern. Germanotta adopted a new name, "Lady Gaga", which came from the rock group Queen's song "Radio Ga Ga". She learned that with a new identity she could gain attention, which she appreciated. Her first album, titled "The Fame", was released in August 2008 and included the hit songs "Poker Face" and "Just Dance." She had an emotional separation from her boyfriend named Luke, who was a heavy metal drummer, but she continued to focus on her music and her work.
Lady Gaga: Queen of Pop | Contents
"Free Woman" is a euphoric Eurodance and house anthem, containing elements of acid house. The song sees the singer reclaiming her identity and gender after a sexual assault with a "rousing" chorus, a "fun" electronic beat, an EDM drop, and a midtempo gospel groove from a keyboard line. Gaga talked about the origin of the song, saying it "came from thinking on some days I was going to die. I was like, 'I'm going to die soon, so I better say something important.' Now I listen to it and know that I'm going to live." The song tackles her need to be with someone "in order to survive" while trying to be a free woman, a topic she discusses in the lyrics "I'm not nothing without a steady hand".
Chromatica | Songs
"A Star Is Born" premiered at the 2018 Venice Film Festival, and was released worldwide that October. Gaga's performance was acclaimed by film critics, with Peter Bradshaw of "The Guardian" describing the film as "outrageously watchable" and stating that "Gaga's ability to be part ordinary person, part extraterrestrial celebrity empress functions at the highest level"; Stephanie Zacharek of "Time" magazine similarly highlighted her "knockout performance" and found her "charismatic" without her usual makeup, wigs and costumes. For the role, Gaga won the National Board of Review and Critics' Choice awards for Best Actress, in addition to receiving nominations for the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actress.
Lady Gaga | 2018–present: "A Star Is Born", Enigma, and "Chromatica"
Talking about previous record "Joanne", Gaga admitted that it was an album that she made for her father, trying to heal his and her family's trauma. She later realized she "can't fix [her] dad", and called the album a "futile effort" to heal him. Her disappointment drove her into depression and chain-smoking, and writing "Chromatica" was her way for healing. The singer added that her failed relationships also served as inspiration for writing new songs. In an interview with "People", she talked about how she was in a "dark place" when she started to work on the album, often feeling depressed and sad, saying: "I felt threatened by the things my career brought into my life and the pace of my life.
Chromatica | Background
"Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)" was about breaking up with a boyfriend and finding someone new. "Brown Eyes" was inspired by the British rock band Queen and, according to Gaga, is the most vulnerable song on the album. Gaga further clarified the ideas behind "The Fame", and her inspirations and visions for the album. She believed that the most important thing missing from contemporary pop music was the combination of the visual imagery of the artist with the music. Gaga incorporated theatrics in her live performances of the songs from the album. Hence she hoped that people would take notice of the performance art, which she was trying to bring back with the album and its music; according to her, the music put the lifestyle in front of it.
The Fame | Background and development
She studied music there, and improved her songwriting skills by writing essays on art, religion, social issues and politics, including a thesis on pop artists Spencer Tunick and Damien Hirst. In 2005, she withdrew from school during the second semester of her sophomore year to focus on her music career. That year, she also played an unsuspecting diner customer for MTV's "Boiling Points", a prank reality television show.
Lady Gaga | 1986–2005: Early life
According to Jon O'Brien of AllMusic, Sinclair gradually composed a musical tone incorporating "the theatrical dance-pop of Lady Gaga, 1940s film noir, and the electro-gloom of Depeche Mode." She also reported that she has always been a pop music fan, especially in evoking contemporary "new age" artists as Adele, Lana Del Rey, Marina and the Diamonds, Ivy Levan and Lorde. Sinclair claims to be influenced by her own experiences. She is also inspired by cinema when composing songs. In this regard, she said during an interview for "MKR Magazine": I'm a huge fan of Stanley Kubrick, Tarantino, Gaspar Noé. I love anything that's beautiful and disturbing and horrifying and gorgeous at the same time.
Teddy Sinclair | Style and influences
Development of Gaga's third studio album, "Artpop", began shortly after the release of "Born This Way" (2011); by the following year, its concepts were "beginning to flourish" as Gaga collaborated with producers Fernando Garibay and DJ White Shadow. As the singer embarked on her Born This Way Ball tour, she began collaborating with disc jockey Zedd. In October 2012, when asked by DJ Calvin Harris about her work with Zedd, Gaga sent a cryptic Twitter message: "Were all good [Zedd] miss you buddy been listening to **rq* all day". The abbreviated word was assumed to refer to a song title.
Aura (song) | Background and development
She rose to prominence the following year with her debut album "The Fame" and its chart-topping singles "Just Dance" and "Poker Face". The album was later reissued to include the EP "The Fame Monster" (2009), which yielded the singles "Bad Romance", "Telephone", and "Alejandro". Gaga's five succeeding studio albums have all debuted atop the US "Billboard" 200. Her second full-length album, "Born This Way" (2011), explored electronic rock and techno-pop and sold more than one million copies in its first week. Its title track became the fastest-selling song on the iTunes Store, with over one million downloads in less than a week.
Lady Gaga | Introduction
"Chromatica" also surpassed the first-week sales figures of Gaga's previous three releases, "A Star Is Born", "Joanne" (2016), and her collaborative album with Tony Bennett, "Cheek to Cheek" (2014). In its second week, Chromatica sold 12,819 units and remained atop the UK Albums Chart. In Japan, the album debuted at number three on the Oricon Albums Chart and the "Billboard Japan" Hot Albums chart, with 14,238 units sold. In France, "Chromatica" debuted at number one with 21,746 units.
Chromatica | Commercial performance
Gaga admitted to being increasingly self-conscious at the apex of the "Born This Way" era, and when asked about the decision to refine her image, she responded: The album's themes primarily revolve around fame, sex, and empowerment, whilst briefly exploring gender roles and marijuana. References include Greek and Roman mythology, and classic jazz and electronic musician Sun Ra. Spencer Kornhaber from "The Atlantic" saw "Artpop" as an "attention-freak's manifesto", and interpreted the record's exploration into carnal desire as a facet of the broader idea of "owning up to one's own desire for attention". "London Evening Standard" John Aizlewood suggested that songs such as "Do What U Want" and "Dope" highlighted Gaga's "curiously submissive" tendencies as a lyricist.
Artpop | Conception
"Chromatica" debuted at number one on the US "Billboard" 200 chart, with 274,000 album-equivalent units (including 205,000 pure album sales) moved during its first week, becoming the biggest opening week sales for a female artist in 2020 at that time, and fifth overall. It became the second album by a female artist to reach number one in 2020, following "Rare" by Selena Gomez. "Billboard" noted that 75% of the total units came from album sales. The album also accumulated a total of 87.16 million on-demand streams of individual album tracks in the week ending June 13. Gaga became the eighth woman to have at least six number one albums in the US, joining Beyoncé, Mariah Carey, Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, Barbra Streisand, Madonna and Janet Jackson.
Chromatica | Commercial performance
Because of "The Fame" success—it was listed as one of the 100 Greatest Debut Albums of All-Time by "Rolling Stone" in 2013—Gaga has been credited as one of the artists that popularized synthpop in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Scott Hardy, CEO of Polaroid, praised Gaga for inspiring fans and for her close interactions with them on social media. According to Kelefa Sanneh of "The New Yorker", "Lady Gaga blazed a trail for truculent pop stars by treating her own celebrity as an evolving art project." Including "Born This Way" as one of the 50 best female albums of all time, "Rolling Stone" Rob Sheffield considers it "hard to remember a world where we didn't have Gaga, although we're pretty sure it was a lot more boring".
Lady Gaga | Impact
The album begins with "Aura", a mariachi and EDM song, that has influences from dubstep and Middle Eastern music. It opens with Western-style guitars, Gaga's distorted vocals, and a "maniacal laugh". Throbbing beats lead to the chorus, in which the singer asks: "Do you wanna see the girl who lives behind the aura, behind the aura?". She explained that in the song she expresses that just because she wears a lot of "visual fashion", "[it] doesn't mean that there is not sort of the same person underneath." These "veils" are protecting her creativity, and her "Aura" is the way that she deals with her "insanity".
Artpop | Songs
It was also described as a conversation between Stefani Germanotta and Lady Gaga. The grand string swells of "Chromatica II" "crescendo and swerve" into "911", a Euro disco song dealing with the singer's antipsychotic medication. The song sees Gaga using monotonous, robotic vocal effects along a techno-funk groove, industrial synths, and a "trippy" chorus. In the verses Gaga lists how mental illnesses have affected the world around her while the choruses see her fully acknowledging her mental illness and referring to herself as her own worst enemy. In "Plastic Doll", Gaga confronts how she is objectified, comparing herself to a barbie by the way others have treated her.
Chromatica | Songs
In 2019, she became the first woman to win an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe Award in one year for her contribution to "A Star Is Born"s soundtrack. Gaga is one of the world's best-selling music artists, with estimated sales of 124 million records as of 2014, and has produced some of the best-selling singles of all time. She has grossed more than $512.3 million in revenue from concert tours and residencies, becoming the fifth woman to pass the half-billion total as reported to "Billboard" Boxscore. Gaga has consecutively appeared on "Billboard" magazine's Artists of the Year (scoring the definitive title in 2010), and ranked 11th on its Top Artists of the 2010s chart.
Lady Gaga | Achievements
"Chromatica" loses the guitars but certainly handles heavy subject matter." Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic thought that the singer revives memories of her 2009 EP "The Fame Monster" and "leans into her status as a veteran on "Chromatica", making only the mildest attempts to sound modern... [The album] willfully ignores trap and the other dour pop trends of the late 2010s for exuberant disco and house, styles that are not only in her musical comfort zone but allow her the freedom to explore personal pain and loss..."
Chromatica | Music and lyrics
It sees Gaga telling a lover she can be anything they desire. The song features an electropop production including "woozy" horn loops "swirling" strings, '80s synths, "soaring" vocals and a "funky" '90s backdrop while the middle of the chorus features drum kicks. The record continues with the Hispanic-influenced French house, nu-disco and electropop track "Replay", that contains deep house elements, disco synths, and ghost-like vocals. It sees Gaga addressing her past and being in an unhealthy relationship with herself.
Chromatica | Songs
"Fun Tonight" continues the Eurodance of its predecessor while also including electropop and dance music genres, with an EDM drop. It is categorized as a "breakup anthem" with mentions of fame and paparazzi. The song features a "melancholic" with an "emotional" vocal delivery by Gaga where Gaga uses falsetto in the chorus. According to Gaga, it is about how there were many nights when people who loved her would try to make her smile or be optimistic, but she had no ability to be happy while also seeing her reflect on the disconnection between her professional power and personal sadness.
Chromatica | Songs
Kibby explained that she sat down with Gaga and at looked at pictures, paintings, and films for references, and committed to creating musical pieces that match the energy of the album and can seamlessly connect to the already existing songs. She added: "The soul of the album was already there, and so the arrangements were written with the intent to further amplify the nooks and crannies of the emotional themes; they became almost the Greek chorus of "Chromatica"." The main theme they explored was "light and darkness, the push and pull... [of] our shared and relatable human experience." The compositions were finished only days before the album was mastered.
Chromatica | Writing and recording
Laura Alvarez from "Forbes" named it "pop's strongest album of the year", and praised Gaga for "the bravery in her songwriting".
Chromatica | Critical reception
In this economy, though, her high-times escapism has its charms". Alexis Petridis of "The Guardian" found it "packing an immensely addictive melody or an inescapable hook, virtually everything sounds like another hit single", and predicted that it "certainly sounds like it could be big." Daniel Brockman from "The Boston Phoenix" wrote that "Gaga ups the ante in terms of catchy songwriting and sheer high-in-the-club-banging-to-the-beat abandon." Ben Hogwood of "musicOMH" praised Gaga's "blend of sassy attitude, metallic beats and sharp, incisive songwriting", elements which he felt are integral to "creating pop music". Although he panned "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)", "Paper Gangsta", and "Brown Eyes", Evan Sawdey of "PopMatters" called "The Fame" "a solid dance album" and wrote that "much of the album's success can be attributed to rising club producer RedOne." Joey Guerra from the "Houston Chronicle" felt that although the songs present in the album are not innovative, Gaga deserved credit for bringing real dance music to the mass.
The Fame | Critical reception
Adam Markovitz of "Entertainment Weekly" said that the album is "rewarding but wildly uneven", although "the album's sprawl still shows off the breadth of her talent." Despite criticizing her for "letting her skills as a songwriter slide ever so slightly," AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine complimented Gaga's composing "sensibility" and "considerable dexterity at delivering the basics." In "MSN Music", Robert Christgau found the album to not be on-par with "The Fame" or "The Fame Monster", but added that "both of those keep growing, and with its mad momentum and nutty thematics, this one could too." In a mixed review, Greg Kot of the "Chicago Tribune" felt that the album was rushed and sounded like "a major artist sprinting to please everyone all the time." Evan Sawdey of PopMatters called it "her weakest album to date" and wrote that it combines "some daring songwriting with some remarkably repetitive themes and beats." Chris Richards of "The Washington Post" found it "boring" and said that, "at its worst, it sounds like reheated leftovers from some '80s movie soundtrack." Randall Roberts of the "Los Angeles Times" opined that Gaga lacks musical adventurousness and that "She's unsubtle in her message, unsubtle in her dress, and, most important, unsubtle aesthetically ...
Born This Way (album) | Critical reception
Gaga grew up listening to artists such as Michael Jackson, the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Queen, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Mariah Carey, the Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Whitney Houston, Elton John, Blondie and Garbage, who have all influenced her music. Gaga's musical inspiration varies from dance-pop singers such as Madonna and Michael Jackson to rock artists such as David Bowie and Freddie Mercury, as well as the theatrics of the pop artist Andy Warhol and her own performance roots in musical theater. She has been compared to Madonna, who has said that she sees herself reflected in Gaga. Gaga says that she wants to revolutionize pop music as Madonna has.
Lady Gaga | Influences
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta ( ) (born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She is known for her consistent image reinventions and versatility in both music and entertainment. Gaga began performing as a teenager, singing at open mic nights and acting in school plays. She studied at Collaborative Arts Project 21, through New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, before dropping out to pursue a career in music. When Def Jam Recordings canceled her contract, she worked as a songwriter for Sony/ATV Music Publishing, where she signed a joint deal with Interscope Records and Akon's label, KonLive Distribution, in 2007.
Lady Gaga | Introduction
The moody drama that stems from this persona infused into each song. The challenge to popular music orthodoxy from within the system. And above all, the placement of a powerful operatic voice at the focal point, and in Nika Roza Danilova's case, the classical training that goes along with it." "Now" reviewer Anupa Mistry agreed, stating: "Like her prior work, the songs are thematically dark and diffuse, but the dancey impulses on 'Vessel' and 'Seekir' signal headier paths ahead. Could Zola Jesus be the inverse Lady Gaga?" Reef Younis, writing for "Clash", remarked that "[s]tepping out of the shadows suits her after all." Still, Allmusic's Heather Phares saw a lot of complexity on the album that "extends even to [the album's] relatively accessible moments, which inch closer to pop without actually delivering it".
Conatus (album) | Style
Development of Lady Gaga's third studio album, "Artpop", began shortly after the release of her second one, "Born This Way" in 2011, and by the following year, the album's concepts were "beginning to flourish" as Gaga collaborated with producers Fernando Garibay and DJ White Shadow. As Gaga travelled the world for her Born This Way Ball tour, she also collaborated with producer RedOne, working remotely with each other. "We've been sending ideas. We couldn't get together in the studio, but we've been sending ideas back and forth, and it's very focused on writing really good songs and, of course, with the vibe of different sounds, different kinds of productions," RedOne clarified.
Gypsy (Lady Gaga song) | Background and development
In her interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music's Beats 1, Gaga talked about the background of "Chromatica I": Callie Ahlgrim of "Insider" appreciated how "Chromatica I" "blends into 'Alice' very smoothly", while Courteney Larocca from the same publication noted that it sounds like "it's opening a fantasy movie."
Alice (Lady Gaga song) | "Chromatica I"
American singer, songwriter and producer Lady Gaga has recorded material for seven studio albums and three extended plays (EP), and has been featured on songs on other artists' respective albums. After being dropped from a solo contract with Def Jam Recordings, Gaga worked as a songwriter for Sony/ATV Music Publishing, where Akon helped her sign a joint deal with Interscope Records and his own label KonLive Distribution. After signing with Interscope, Gaga began working on her debut album "The Fame", which was released in 2008. It produced the global chart-topping singles "Just Dance" and "Poker Face". She collaborated with different producers, primarily RedOne, Fernando Garibay, Martin Kierszenbaum, and Rob Fusari.
List of songs recorded by Lady Gaga | Introduction
She believed that "Artpop" failed to embody the concept of the album and was plagued with the same inconsequential lyrics that was visible during her "Born This Way" era. She concluded by giving the example: "Like a mad scientist trying to create life, Gaga's experiment to fuse ART and POP sometimes results in overly ambitious deformities with six legs."
Artpop (song) | Release and reception
The album is divided into three unique segments, with the first part symbolizing "the beginning of [the singer's] journey to healing." It opens with an orchestral piece, "Chromatica I", described by Gaga as a "grave string arrangement, where you feel this sort of pending doom that is what happens if I face all the things that scare me." This theme continues in the song "Alice" with the line "My name isn't Alice but I'll keep looking for Wonderland”, meaning that the singer is not giving up, she is "not throwing in the towel". The song talks about mental illness and Gaga's struggle to find a place where she belongs.
Chromatica | Songs
Digital Spy's Lewis Corner wrote: ""Joanne" is clearly Gaga's most personal album, popping aside the synthetic personas for something more honest and, well, human. Mother Monster may be retired for now, but Lady Gaga's sheer musical brilliance still shines through." For Evan Sawdey of "PopMatters", the album—with its "flaws and all"—was a correct musical step for Gaga, which he believed would make "fans and observers once again rethink what they know about the daring diva". Similarly, Amanda Petrusich of "Pitchfork" remarked how Gaga explored an alternative path musically, diverging from "visual provocations" that permeated most of her career.
Joanne (album) | Critical reception
Development of "Artpop" began shortly after the release of "Born This Way" (2011), and by the following year, the album's concepts started building as Gaga collaborated with producers Fernando Garibay and DJ White Shadow. Initial recording sessions for "Artpop" coincided with the Born This Way Ball: up to fifty songs were written and considered for inclusion. Gaga herself admitted that she intended to make audiences have "a really good time" with "Artpop", engineering the album to mirror "a night at the club". A hip surgery in February 2013 caused the singer to take a six-month hiatus, during which she studied literature and music with her creative team, the Haus of Gaga.
Applause (Lady Gaga song) | Background and writing
She began performing at neo-burlesque shows, which according to her represented freedom. During this time, she met performance artist Lady Starlight, who helped mold her onstage persona. The pair began performing at downtown club venues like the Mercury Lounge, The Bitter End, and the Rockwood Music Hall. Their live performance art piece, known as "Lady Gaga and the Starlight Revue" and billed as "The Ultimate Pop Burlesque Rockshow", was a tribute to 1970s variety acts. They performed at the 2007 Lollapalooza music festival. Having initially focused on avant-garde electronic dance music, Gaga began to incorporate pop melodies and the glam rock style of David Bowie and Queen into her songs.
Lady Gaga | 2005–2007: Career beginnings
Katie Couric interviews Lady Gaga about her life and the inspiration behind her music at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan, the school she attended as a child. Gaga also performs nine songs to a small audience of friends and family, including "Born This Way", "Marry the Night", "You and I", "Hair" and "The Edge of Glory", as well as covers of Irving Berlin's holiday classic "White Christmas" and Nat King Cole's "Orange Colored Sky". She also sings a duet with Tony Bennett of "The Lady Is a Tramp", originally from the 1937 musical comedy "Babes in Arms", featuring the work of Gaga's trumpeter, Brian Newman.
A Very Gaga Thanksgiving | Synopsis
"Born This Way" has lyrics in English, French, German, and Spanish and features themes common to Gaga's controversial songwriting such as sex, love, religion, money, drugs, identity, liberation, sexuality, freedom, and individualism. The album explores new genres, such as electronic rock and techno.
Lady Gaga | Musical style and themes
They ended the engagement in February 2019. Gaga signed a two-year residency, named Lady Gaga Enigma, to perform at the MGM Park Theater in Las Vegas. The residency consists of two types of shows: Enigma, which focuses on theatricality and includes the singer's biggest hits, and Jazz and Piano, which involves tracks from the Great American Songbook and stripped-down versions of Gaga's songs. The Enigma residency show opened in December 2018 and the Jazz and Piano in January 2019. Gaga launched her first, vegan makeup line, Haus Laboratories, in September 2019 exclusively on Amazon. Consisting of 40 products, including liquid eyeliners, lip glosses and face mask sticker, it reached number-one on Amazon's list of best-selling lipsticks.
Lady Gaga | 2018–present: "A Star Is Born", Enigma, and "Chromatica"
It inspires people... This is a prolific pop artist who is sometimes famous and successful, sometimes obscure, who nonetheless keeps making her own kind of music." James Montgomery of MTV describes her as "a fabulously fearless pop artist" who can "out-sing almost anyone out there. She can out-crazy Gaga or Lily. She's the total pop-star package, everything you'd want in a singer/entertainer/icon. And still, she remains oddly off the radar. Such is the price of busting borders". "Entertainment Weekly" said: "She essentially invented the whole modern wave of Pop Diva Domination: You can draw a straight line from "Get This Party Started" to Katy Perry, Kesha, pre-messianic Lady Gaga, and post-weird Rihanna." "Glamour Magazine" wrote: "When Pennsylvania-born Alecia Moore debuted in 2000, pop was dominated by long-locked blonds like Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Jessica Simpson.
Pink (singer) | Legacy
She taught music in the U.S., and patented a technique of instructing music notation to children. Grigorieva composed and performed music, and produced works for theatre and advertisements. A 2006 song she wrote, "Un Dia Llegara", became popular on the Josh Groban album, "Awake"; this garnered her recognition as a songwriter.
Beautiful Heartache | Musician
Callie Ahlgrim of "Insider" praised the song for presenting "classic Lady Gaga in all her blood-pumping, bass-thumping glory", and further added that although "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" "has become an oft-used reference in pop music", she appreciated "the way it complements the themes of the album; it makes sense to imagine Gaga as a wide-eyed, curious Alice type and 'Chromatica' as a surrealist third space in between earth and escapism." "Billboard" Stephen Daw ranked "Alice" as "Chromatica" sixth best track and wrote, "Remember how deliriously entertaining early 2000s post-rave dance music was? Lady Gaga certainly does as she exhibits on ['Alice']...
Alice (Lady Gaga song) | Critical reception
It's an album that is very revealing of me as a woman". According to Kevin Fallon of "The Daily Beast", "The act of being Lady Gaga had drowned out the brilliant music, and the importance of Lady Gaga had somehow muddied the simple pleasure of being her fan: It was her authenticity, in all of its strangeness and lofty artistic pursuit, that spoke to us. That seemed to have gone missing." He felt that with "Joanne", Gaga was able to eliminate that redundancy and present herself as an "evolved performer", who could lay down bare emotions in the songs, rather than "mask" them in electronic music beats.
Joanne (album) | Themes and influences
Her major works include "Queens" (2018), "First Black Woman in Space" (2016)"," "Now I'm Here, Performing Black" (2015), "Black Hair Politics, We Play.," and "War of the Squirrels."
Simone Dede Ayivi | Major works
Of the physical sales, 8,500 sales were for vinyl copies of album, which the Official Charts Company noted as being significant as this also represented the fastest selling vinyl record of the year so far. Additionally, according to Official Charts Company, who compile the UK charts, the album sold more than the rest of the top-ten combined. It is also Gaga's fourth number one following "The Fame" (2008) / "The Fame Monster" (2009), "Born This Way" (2011), and "Artpop" (2013), or fifth UK Chart topper if Gaga's cast appearance on the "A Star Is Born" (2018) soundtrack is also included.
Chromatica | Commercial performance
Gaga's sixth studio album "Chromatica" (2020) spawned the music video for the lead single "Stupid Love", followed by "Rain on Me", in which features Ariana Grande. She also released a short film for "911", which focuses on a variety of surreal hallucination she has after getting involved in a serious car accident.
Lady Gaga videography | Introduction
She is known for her unique contemporary style. In recent years, Natalie Hennedige has been re-imagining the classics with works like "Ophelia" (2016), "Electra" (2017), "Medea" (2018), and most recently "Rubber Girl on the loose" (2019), based on Sophocles' "Antigone", , giving voice to the transgressive women of history.
Natalie Hennedige | Career
She wrote many songs for other artists, such as Christina Milian's "Peanut Butter & Jelly", Charlotte Church's "Moodswings (To Come at Me Like That)", Aretha Franklin's "Put You Up on Game", Pussycat Dolls' "Painted Windows" and Ciara's "Pucker Up". She was featured on Rasheeda's "GA Peach" on the track "Pack Ya Bags" and Timati's "The Boss" on the track "Sexy Bitch". A track leaked in 2008 titled "Kaboom" is a duet between Harper and Lady Gaga recorded during their sessions with Jim Jonsin, before either singer was famous. Additional credits include, Maino (Don't Say Nothing), Three 6 Mafia (Shake My), Ciara (Kiss My Swag), Trina (Let them Hoes Fight) and Dirty Money (Love Come Down).
Kalenna Harper | 2004–09: Songwriting and album appearances
Gaga collaborated with K-Pop girl group Blackpink on a song titled "Sour Candy". In an interview for Japanese entertainment site TV Groove, Gaga stated that "when [she] called them and asked if they wanted to write a song with [her], they were so happy and motivated" and that she wanted "to celebrate them". The group's members sing in both English and Korean on the song. After "Chromatica" was mostly finished, Gaga felt that the album had distinct acts, and "something about it felt cinematic". BloodPop recruited musician Morgan Kibby to compose three orchestral interludes to tie the album together. Kibby and Gaga spent two weeks working on the interludes, and assembled a 26-person orchestra to record the pieces.
Chromatica | Writing and recording
Named Woman of the Year in 2015, she is the eighth top digital singles artist in the US, with a total of 83 million equivalent units certified according to Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). She was the first woman to receive the Digital Diamond Award certification from RIAA, one of three artists with at least two Diamond certified songs ("Bad Romance" and "Poker Face"), and the first and only artist to have two songs pass seven million downloads ("Poker Face" and "Just Dance").
Lady Gaga | Achievements
The Miami New Times called her a "singular talent" and described her music as, "Imagine stripping off all the studio layers of (T Rex, Roxy Music, and Mott the Hoople), retaining their Oscar Wilde-ian lyrical and structural flights of fancy, and channeling it through a muse with an ethereal, dream-pop-worthy voice."
LoveyDove | Early life and influences
If Gaga had only spent as much time on pushing musical boundaries as she has social ones, "Born This Way" would have been a lot more successful." Andy Gill of "The Independent" critiqued that "the broader [Gaga] spreads her net musically, the less distinctive her art becomes." "The Boston Globe" said that the songwriting "feels thin" and called the album "the most deflated moment in pop music this year". Rich Juzwiak of "The Village Voice" commented that Gaga's "we-shall-overcome sentiment" is expressed more effectively through the album's "egalitarian use of house beats" than through her "sloganeering", which he found "trite" and "[un]insightful."
Born This Way (album) | Critical reception
While Gaga and Starlight were performing, Fusari continued to develop the songs he had created with her, sending them to the producer and record executive Vincent Herbert. In November 2007, Herbert signed Gaga to his label Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope Records, established that month. Gaga later credited Herbert as the man who discovered her. Having served as an apprentice songwriter during an internship at Famous Music Publishing, Gaga struck a music publishing deal with Sony/ATV. As a result, she was hired to write songs for Britney Spears, New Kids on the Block, Fergie, and The Pussycat Dolls. At Interscope, musician Akon was impressed with her singing abilities when she sang a reference vocal for one of his tracks in studio.
Lady Gaga | 2005–2007: Career beginnings
Gaga throws listeners down a sonic rabbit hole of kick drums and shimmering synths..." The magazine's Jason Lipshutz described the song as a "post-rave triumph". Lindsay Zoladz of "The New York Times" said she "can imagine putting the song on repeat during this cruel summer, while the newspaper's Caryn Ganz said "Alice" has "glittery hopefulness". Quinn Moreland of "Pitchfork" considered the lyrics "Maestro, play me your symphony/I will listen to anything/Take me on a trip, DJ, free my mind" one of "Chromatica" "wild lyrical clunkers". "USA Today" Patrick Ryan described the song as "hypnotic". Spencer Kornhaber from "The Atlantic" listed "Alice" as one of the standout moments of "Chromatica" with its "gasping chorus." "BuzzFeed News"' Alessa Dominguez said that "Chromatica" "starts strongly" with "Alice" and sees Gaga sing with "glam-theatrical fervor".
Alice (Lady Gaga song) | Critical reception
Its lead single, "Perfect Illusion", debuted at number one in France, while second single "Million Reasons" reached number four in the US. When "Joanne" reached number one in the US, Gaga became the first woman to have four number-one albums in the nation during the 2010s. She extended the record in 2018 with the release of the soundtrack to "A Star Is Born". The soundtrack and its lead single, "Shallow", were international hits, reaching number one in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Her sixth studio album, "Chromatica" (2020), similarly topped the charts in numerous countries around the world, and also featured the single, "Rain on Me", which topped the charts in the US, Canada, the UK and several other territories.
Lady Gaga discography | Introduction
While traveling the globe, she wrote eight songs for "The Fame Monster", a reissue of "The Fame". Those new songs were also released as a standalone EP on November 18, 2009. Its first single, "Bad Romance", was released one month earlier and went number one in Canada and the UK, and number two in the US, Australia and New Zealand. "Telephone", with Beyoncé, followed as the second single from the EP and became Gaga's fourth UK number one. Its third single was "Alejandro", which reached number one in Finland and attracted controversy when its music video was deemed blasphemous by the Catholic League.
Lady Gaga | 2008–2010: Breakthrough with "The Fame" and "The Fame Monster"
In terms of musical composition, "Born This Way" is considered to be a notable departure from Gaga's previous works. It incorporates a broader range of musical genres such as opera, heavy metal, rock and roll, Europop, electro-industrial, disco, and house in addition to featuring a wider variety of instrumentation and musical styles. For example, an organ can be heard as Gaga closes "Born This Way", a Gregorian chant-inspired male vocal choir is a prominent feature in "Bloody Mary", guitars and violins in "Americano", and electric guitars in "Bad Kids". The songs "Hair" and "The Edge of Glory" are distinguishable from the rest of the album, as a saxophone – performed by Clarence Clemons, a prominent member of the E Street Band – can be heard throughout.
Born This Way (album) | Influences and themes
Sex. Art. Pop. Tech". According to James Montgomery of MTV News, "Auras lyrics equate celebrity and stardom with religious oppression and subjugation. The beginning of the song, implying that the singer destroyed her old self to become Gaga the artist, examines the loss of a private life and constant media scrutiny (noting that they are by choice). The track's central metaphor is a burqa as a "veil of fame", sexualizing it with the line "Do you wanna see me naked, lover?" Montgomery said that criticism of Gaga's use of the word "burqa" is countered in the lyrics, when she sings "Enigma popstar is fun, she wears burqa for fashion".
Aura (song) | Recording and composition
Her first was her 2001 debut album "Let Yourself Go", which featured mostly classic songs from the 1940s.
The Art of Elegance | Overview
Kyle Munzenrieder of "W" magazine wrote that "everyone from Madonna to Björk to Beyoncé to Lady Gaga has taken more than a few pages from her playbook[.]" Jones's work is often discussed for its visual aspect, which was largely the work of French illustrator, photographer, and graphic designer Jean-Paul Goude. According to Jake Hall of "i-D", "their collaborative work [went on] to define the visual landscape of the 70s and 80s," and "the artist helped create one of the most intriguing legends in musical history." Goude saw Jones as his muse, declaring she was "beautiful and grotesque at the same time," and dated her from 1977 to 1984.
Grace Jones | Image
In several interviews, Gaga expressed that she was mostly inspired by Madonna, Whitney Houston, and Bruce Springsteen; other musical influences for the album include Prince, Iron Maiden, Kiss, Queen, TLC, Pat Benatar, and En Vogue. The album contains mainly moderate-tempo dance songs, described as "anthemic style melodies with really sledge-hammering dance beats." In the months prior to the release of "Born This Way", Gaga characterized her new music as "something so much deeper than a wig or lipstick or a fucking meat dress" and upon hearing it, Akon remarked that she will take music to the "next level." The album includes references to several religious figures of Christianity, notably Judas Iscariot, Mary Magdalene, and Jesus of Nazareth.
Born This Way (album) | Influences and themes
In March 2010, Gaga disclosed that she was working on a new album, saying that she had written most of the songs for the proposed album. Meanwhile, producer RedOne described it as Gaga's "freedom album" as her manager, Troy Carter, felt her public image would begin to change after the release of "Born This Way". A few months after the announcement, Gaga exclaimed that she had finished writing songs for the album: "It came so quickly. I've been working on it for months, and I feel very strongly that it's finished right now. Some artists take years. I don't. I write music every day." In another interview, she declared the album "the anthem of [this] generation," as she continued, "It includes the greatest music I've ever written.
Born This Way (album) | Background and recording
In 2005, Gaga recorded two songs with hip-hop singer Melle Mel for an audio book accompanying Cricket Casey's children's novel "The Portal in the Park". She also formed a band called the SGBand with some friends from NYU. They played gigs around New York and became a fixture of the downtown Lower East Side club scene. After the 2006 Songwriters Hall of Fame New Songwriters Showcase at The Cutting Room in June, talent scout Wendy Starland recommended her to music producer Rob Fusari. Fusari collaborated with Gaga, who traveled daily to New Jersey, helping to develop her songs and compose new material.
Lady Gaga | 2005–2007: Career beginnings
Development of Lady Gaga's third studio album, "Artpop", began shortly after the release of her second one, "Born This Way" (2011), and by the following year, the album's concepts were "beginning to flourish" as Gaga collaborated with producers Fernando Garibay and DJ White Shadow. However, while on tour for the Born This Way Ball, Gaga had to undergo a hip surgery in February 2013 which forced the singer into a six-month hiatus, and this rehabilitation became one of the inspirations behind the album. According to White Shadow, the title track was one of the first songs penned for the album, which created the backbone for the record.
Artpop (song) | Background and development
Gaga described her high school self as "very dedicated, very studious, very disciplined" but also "a bit insecure". She considered herself a misfit and was mocked for "being either too provocative or too eccentric". Gaga began playing the piano at age four when her mother insisted she become "a cultured young woman". She took piano lessons and practiced through her childhood. The lessons taught her to create music by ear, which she preferred over reading sheet music. Her parents encouraged her to pursue music, and enrolled her in Creative Arts Camp. As a teenager, she played at open mic nights.
Lady Gaga | 1986–2005: Early life
Genevieve Koski of "The A.V. Club" felt that the "whole point" of the album is "glitter-laced, dance-inciting energy that bodes well for extended club play". "Slant Magazine"s Sal Cinquemani viewed that Gaga's lyrics veer between "cheap" and "nonsensical drivel", while her singing is "uneven at best". He added that the highlights such as "Poker Face", "Starstruck", "Paper Gangsta", and "Summerboy" rely "almost solely on their snappy production and sing-along hooks."
The Fame | Critical reception
Gaga told "The Daily Telegraph" that with her earlier releases like "The Fame" (2008), "The Fame Monster" (2009), and "Born This Way" (2011), she felt unable to achieve her full vocal potential. She described "Cheek to Cheek" as a "rebellious" and "liberating" album for her because she was able to sing without worrying about record producers engineering it for radio. Bennett said that Gaga had written an original song for the album titled "Paradise". It also contained solo performances along with the duets; Gaga later clarified that the album contained only standards. The songs were handpicked by Bennett and Gaga; they selected tracks from the Great American Songbook including "Anything Goes", a Porter song, "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" and "Sophisticated Lady" by Duke Ellington, "Lush Life" by Billy Strayhorn, and the title track by Berlin.
Cheek to Cheek (album) | Background
Development of Lady Gaga's third studio album, "Artpop", began shortly after the release of her second one, "Born This Way" in 2011. By the following year, Gaga started collaborating with producers Fernando Garibay and DJ White Shadow. In the meantime, she began presenting tracks to her record company and hoped to announce the album's working title by September 2013; a revelation that was actually disclosed one month earlier. The artist later claimed that "Artpop" was her first "real album" comparing herself to a "phoenix rising from the ashes", which reflected her heightened confidence in writing material for the album compared to her previous efforts.
ArtRave | Background and conception
Gaga described "Artpop" as "a celebration and a poetic musical journey" that displayed a "lack of maturity and responsibility", contrary to the dark, anthemic nature of "Born This Way", ultimately subscribing to what she called a "reverse Warholian" formula. In an August 2013 interview, she told "V" magazine that she underwent a "cosmetic experience with words" as she examined potential names for the project. "Popart" was initially favored and taken into consideration, but as Gaga questioned "the cultural implication of the words" and the title's evolution post-release, she soon found a "nice ring" to "Artpop". With "Artpop", Gaga attempts to inject vulnerability into her work; Pierrot and Sandro Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" painting have both been cited as muses of the singer's creative vision.
Artpop | Conception
The music of hers that is probably best known today is her 1930 arrangement for strings of Vaughan Williams' "Hymn-tune Prelude on Song 13 by Orlando Gibbons", originally written for the pianist Harriet Cohen. The arrangement was recorded by Richard Hickox and the London Symphony Orchestra in 1999 The only other work of hers to be recorded is her 1967 "Fanfare". The publisher Phylloscopus has more recently published some of her pieces, including the "Five Carols Without Words", the Suite for bassoon and piano, and the "Hungarian Folk Song Suite" for two bassoons. Works that can be reliably dated include:
Helen Glatz | Works
In a positive review, an editor of "The Daily Beast" declared that "there were moments of expected genius on it worthy of Grammy consideration." Robert Copsey from Digital Spy felt that several songs sounded "half-finished", though suggesting that the album had more good songs than bad tracks. Helen Brown, writing in "The Daily Telegraph", criticized Gaga's choice to do another album "themed around her own stardom" (after "The Fame" and "The Fame Monster"), and commented that although the singer approached different genres of music, "she doesn't do anything wildly original with them, but she has fun". Brown however praised the album as "great for dancing".
Artpop | Critical reception
The reviewer also said that "[From] her chart success, Lady Gaga has proven herself to be an of-the-moment pop sensation. Dig deeper, and it's clear she's versatile and talented enough to have staying power." Mikel Wood from "Rolling Stone" also gave a positive review saying "The tongue-in-cheek tabloid-victim shtick that provides some laughs on The Fame grew somewhat tiresome at the Wiltern, especially when the singer started spewing half-baked media-studies nonsense like, 'Some say Lady Gaga is a lie'... Fortunately, this is a woman who knows how to lighten a mood: Within 10 minutes or so, she'd donned a flesh-colored leotard and a bedazzled admiral's cap and was rhyming 'boys in cars' with 'buy us drinks in bars."
The Fame Ball Tour | Reception
American singer Lady Gaga has released six studio albums, one film soundtrack, two remix albums, two video albums, two box sets, four EPs, thirty-three singles (including three as a featured artist), and twelve promotional singles. Gaga made her debut in August 2008 with the studio album "The Fame", which peaked at number two in the United States, where it was subsequently certified triple Platinum, while topping the charts in Austria, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Its first two singles, "Just Dance" and "Poker Face", were both successful worldwide, reaching number one in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Lady Gaga discography | Introduction
The album's eponymous lead single, "Born This Way", was an international success, peaking at number one in nineteen countries including the United States, where it became her third number-one single. The other singles from the album were "Judas", "The Edge of Glory", "You and I", and "Marry the Night". Gaga's third studio album, "Artpop", was released in November 2013 and includes the singles "Applause" and "Do What U Want". In September 2014, Gaga and Tony Bennett released the collaborative album "Cheek to Cheek", which debuted at number one in the US, becoming Lady Gaga's third consecutive number one album. Her fifth album, "Joanne", was released in October 2016.
Lady Gaga discography | Introduction
"Lady Gaga: Queen of Pop" has 288 pages, including 32 pages of photographs of the musician. The author compares Lady Gaga to Madonna, writing that both are independent and work to assert control over their futures. The book discusses Lady Gaga's early life and background, including her upbringing in a New York City household with her father, a businessman. Born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta on March 28, 1986, from age 11 she attended Convent of the Sacred Heart high school; the same high school as Paris Hilton. Germanotta was not popular with her fellow pupils because of her experimentation with exotic dance, drugs, and bisexuality.
Lady Gaga: Queen of Pop | Contents
This set list is a representation of the January 20, 2019, concert. It is not intended to represent every show.
Lady Gaga Enigma | Jazz and Piano
Born This Way is the second studio album by American singer Lady Gaga, released by Interscope Records on May 23, 2011. It was co-written and co-produced by Gaga with several producers, including RedOne and Fernando Garibay, with whom she had previously worked. She also worked with artists such as E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons and Queen guitarist Brian May. The music of "Born This Way" stems from the synthpop and dance-pop styles of her previous material while incorporating different forms of instrumentation from that on her previous releases, such as electronic rock and techno. It features a broader range of genres, such as opera, heavy metal, disco, house, and rock and roll, while its lyrical topics include sexuality, religion, freedom, feminism, and individualism.
Born This Way (album) | Introduction
Raissa has named Lady Gaga, Prince, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell as some of her main musical inspirations. She praised Gaga's presence as a female artist, Prince and Bowie's theatricality and Cohen and Mitchell's lyricism.
Raissa (singer) | Influences
Akon convinced Jimmy Iovine, chairman and CEO of Interscope Geffen A&M Records (a brother company for Def Jam), to form a joint deal by having Gaga also sign with his own label KonLive, making her his "franchise player". In late 2007, Gaga met with songwriter and producer RedOne. She collaborated with him in the recording studio for a week on her debut album, signing with Cherrytree Records, an Interscope imprint established by producer and songwriter Martin Kierszenbaum; she also wrote four songs with Kierszenbaum. Despite securing a record deal, she said that some radio stations found her music too "racy", "dance-oriented", and "underground" for the mainstream market, to which she replied: "My name is Lady Gaga, I've been on the music scene for years, and I'm telling you, this is what's next."
Lady Gaga | 2005–2007: Career beginnings
Gaga hardly says anything Madonna didn't say 25 years ago" adding that "But I have a feeling that she is a less interesting pop-artist than many of us had hoped for. Lady Gaga so often praised for being "original", is mostly very un-original."
Born This Way Ball | Europe
She also performed a concert at the Sydney Town Hall in Australia that year to promote "Born This Way" and to celebrate former US President Bill Clinton's 65th birthday. In November, she was featured in a Thanksgiving television special titled "A Very Gaga Thanksgiving", which attracted 5.7 million American viewers and spawned the release of her fourth EP, "A Very Gaga Holiday". In 2012, Gaga guest-starred as an animated version of herself in an episode of "The Simpsons" called "Lisa Goes Gaga", appeared in the documentary films "The Zen of Bennett" and "", and released her first fragrance, Lady Gaga Fame, followed by a second one, Eau de Gaga, in 2014.
Lady Gaga | 2011–2014: "Born This Way", "Artpop", and "Cheek to Cheek"