In an interview with Vogue’s Jonathan Van Meter, Lady Gaga discussed her upcoming album ‘Born This Way’. The pop phenom revealed a few song titles from the record. The 17-track CD will include ‘Hair’, ‘Bad Kids’, ‘Government Hooker’, ‘Americano’ and the*confirmed* second single ‘Judas’. After it wasreported that Gaga plagiarised the lead single, the magazine conveniently states that the track now “pays homage” to the obscure underground disco record ‘I Was Born This Way’.
They say the song starts off a little Madonna-esque before “switching into something that feels a bit like a Bronski Beat hit”. They call it a “Gaga original” which will unbelievably become thee “great dance song, destined to be the anthem of every gay-pride event for the next 100 years”. She says she wrote the track in ten minutes, which would explain why the lyrics are not that amazing. Read more on the song descriptions below.
Second single ‘Judas’ is described as a typical mash-up: “The melody sounds like it was written for the Ronettes, but it is set to a sledgehammering dance beat and is about falling in love with backstabbing men of the biblical variety” they write.
‘Americano’ is described by Gaga as “a big mariachi techno-house record, where I am singing about immigration law and gay marriage and all sorts of things that have to do with disenfranchised communities in America,”. The magazine states that it has a resounding Piafesque chorus, which was intentional. “It sounds like a pop record, but when I sing it, I see Edith Piaf in a spotlight with an old microphone.” she says.
When describing the album’s sound and direction she says, “there are some very rock-’n’-roll moments on the album, too: There’s a Bruce Springsteen vibe, there’s a Guns N’ Roses moment. It’s the anthemic nature of the melodies and the choruses.”
She also feels it’s different and better than anything she’s done before. “It is much more vocally up to par with what I’ve always been capable of. It’s more electronic, but I have married a very theatrical vocal to it. It’s like a giant musical-opus theater piece.
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