Probably posted before but it's super interesting! It sounds like it was at a seminar or something.



Really cool to hear such a detailed account of how the song was made, the parts broken down and different elements being added.

That's awesome that Gaga came up with that synth line! She almost co-produced it judging from her input.

One of my favourites singles of 2009

BYE

It's worth listening to if you have time! If not, skip around to different parts, it's cool.

I'm at around 53:00 where you hear one of the vocal tracks, it's sad how they made her sing it so vanilla and basic, she should have been able to shine a bit more vocally

ETA: WAIT, he said there was no autotune on her voice, and the chorus was only 2 takes

Fascinating. I'm only 15 mins in but it's interesting to know that her label essentially commissioned the song.

Also Rob Fusari has a really annoying attitude but what he was saying about not making songs absolutely perfect was really interesting.

I agree, it's cool to hear how he talked about how they made the drum elements and stuff imperfect, because Gaga isn't a Britney type of perfect image, she's got an edge.

Reminds me of Taylor talking about how she wanted horns in Shake It Off to sound kind of amateurish and not perfect to kinda reflect the quirkiness of the song.

Wait the Beyonce expose

Where?

Around 50:00 I think. She claims she came up with most of Bootylicious herself.

He means she has a different type of image/personality from Britney. Britney is the blonde bombshell with kind of a picture perfect image and personality, she's very well kept up (all of her personal life stuff aside, that's the image they market for her).

Gaga has more of an edge to her, isn't really the perfect blonde bombshell like Britney....she wears things that make her look less attractive on purpose, she doesn't go for conventional beauty a lot of the time, and pushes boundaries in a different way. That's what he meant, he said the jagged sound fit her personality.

He's not talking about "image"
He's saying that he doesn't quantize the song because she likes the fact that Gaga is "loose", he likes that the drums and everything don't sound "perfect".
He mentions Britney as in "Britney makes perfect pop music".

You're both saying the same thing. And Fusari is right.

That's literally what I was saying. It's about their personalities and brands.

Fusari low-key shading GaGa throughout the video.

I love knowing the back ground on songs, it's amazing, Paparazzi is such an anthem.

The piano part in the beginning sounds 90% like Let It Go

This was really interesting and worth the hour!

Definitely so much insight from this. The "raw" part was definitely missing with ARTPOP, and think that's what made it so ****ing different from her old records, and quite frankly, not as good.

I hope she goes back to the raw part with LG5, and focuses on creating fundamentally good music without the technology.