A quick catch-up on the latest musical bits of bobs from the last week or so in the world of Lady Gaga.
1. New single.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGaZ0-SrWlE
'Bad Romance' was premiered at Alexander McQueen's Paris Fashion Week show. It's very much a 'core brand values' sort of affair. It is also very much amazing.
2. New song.
'No Way' is a new song that has leaked and it's lovely.
3. New album.
In a shock move by Universal Music, Lady Gaga's 'The Fame' re-release — 'The Fame Monster' — isn't going to be a total cash-in job. In a statement press-released last night, Lady Gaga explains that the second disc of new tracks is something quite special. "On my re-release 'The Fame Monster', I wrote about everything I didn't write on 'The Fame'. While traveling the world for two years, I've encountered several monsters, each represented by a different song on the new record: my ‘Fear of Sex Monster,’ my ‘Fear of Alcohol Monster,’ my ‘Fear of Love Monster’, my ‘Fear of Death Monster’, my ‘Fear of Loneliness Monster’, etc. I spent a lot of nights in Eastern Europe, and this album is a pop experimentation with industrial/goth beats, 90s dance melodies, an obsession with the lyrical genius of 80s melancholic pop, and the runway. I wrote while watching muted fashion shows and I am compelled to say my music was scored for them. I also composed a ballad for the album — 'Speechless', a song for my father, and it's my favorite work of all. I wrote every piece on the road — no songs about money, no songs about fame. I wrote it for my fans, so I wrote everything in between".
It's fascinating, isn't it, how Lady Gaga has such a clear but also stylised way of describing what she does — it comes in very subtle flashes but it's a quality that none of her contemporaries or peers can really match.