Lady Gaga Born This Way
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The new Lady GaGa Born This Way premiered on February 11, 2011 on radio stations and on her website. “Born This Way” is the title track from the Lady Gaga new album, which will be released on May 23, 2011. After listening to the song, some Internet bloggers, including Lady Gaga fans, criticized it for sounding too much like Madonna’s 1989 Top 10 hit, “Explain Yourself.” Lady Gaga performed her new single at the 2011 Grammy Awards on Sunday, February 13 and went 'au natural' during the debut performance of her new single “Born This Way,” introduced by Ricky Martin. The reigning pop queen emerged from her egg cocoon to reveal her hit to the world, dancing to the thumping jam with a gang of backup dancers and taking a mid-performance break to play the keys on a gothic organ. Witness the rebirth of Gaga in the video below.
In her interview with Billboard (2/26/2011 edition), Lady GaGa shared with the magazine:
On the instant success of "Lady GaGa Born This Way": “I can’t believe it. I’m humbled, honored and overwhelmed at the reception to “Born This Way.” This has been so life-changing for me. Between Billboard and the international No. 1s, and the radio numbers… I couldn’t be more blessed to have the fans I have. I knew when I wrote the song it was special, but I also knew that perhaps my fans or my label were hoping for me to deliver “Bad Romance the Third” or “Poker Face the Third.” I wanted to do exactly the opposite.”
On her Grammies performance: “The Grammy performance was about many things but ultimately the song “Born This Way” . . . is visually and thematically and lyrically about birthing a new race, birthing a race within the race of already existing cultures of humanity–that bears no prejudice and no judgment.”
On her red carpet entrance in an egg: “I was in Amsterdam on my tour bus. I was thinking about birth–about embryos. Even my hair color was a washed-out rose color . . . It was meant to be a hair expression, an afterbirth.”
Read more in Billboard Magazine.
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