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Reminder of what happened the last time Gaga released an earth-shattering lead single.
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Most musicians see the pop world stretching out before them and they consider it as a long line with art at one end and cash at the other. They set a limit on how far in each direction they are prepared or able to go, and they get to work. In 2009, Lady Gaga decided that this world was not flat. In fact, from her vantage point orbiting pop, she could see the line between art and commerce bending round so that the two extremes of art and commerce met at the top. She stuck a flag in that spot at the top and called it Bad Romance.
Expectations were hardly low. In 2008, Poker Face and Just Dance had been hits around the world, and she'd already begun wearing gas masks and Kermit capes in interviews or simply to walk down the street, but Lady Gaga's fourth top 10 single marked the coronation of the download era's first pop superstar. It was also the song whose irresistible energy and success elevated Gaga to a level where Madonna comparisons became commonplace.
Written by the then 23-year-old Gaga on her tour bus in Norway and produced by long-term collaborator, Morocco-born, Sweden-raised RedOne, Bad Romance is a song about being in love with your best friend, as well as being perpetually drawn to the wrong people in general. If its message lacks the self-conscious aspirations of some of Gaga's current work such as Born This Way, the song's importance – as with most truly significant pop songs – is less about educating the world, more about brutal effectiveness as a piece of music. Also in the mix were fearsome beats, a clever second verse that references the work of Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window, Vertigo and Psycho are all mentioned), a decadent, preposterous middle eight in which Gaga starts singing in French, some almost subliminal growls of "I want your bad romance", and a moment when the song collapses under its own weight, the silence pierced by an earsplitting howl of "WHHARRGHYOUBARROWMANCE!".
Credit to The Guardian, Peter Robinson https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...ga-bad-romance (full at the link)
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This may be your last chance to praise BR because PI about to end it.
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why am I just hearing about this ?
