Lady GaGa Indulges Her Demons
ARTIST: Lady GaGa TITLE: “Bad Romance” WEB DEBUT: Oct. 19, 2009 ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: Yes, this is the same “Bad Romance” that leaked in apparently half-finished form earlier this month; this morning it got released in its fully finished form. “Romance” will appear on the forthcoming Super Monday-slated reissue of GaGa’s The Fame, and this track is apparently supposed to represent her fear of love. The new version also represents her fear of not putting out music that’s as glitzy as possible, as evidenced by her saying that listening to the demo’s initial leak made her ears bleed; you can definitely hear the shininess turned all the way up. But otherwise it’s not that much different: there’s GaGa working out the lower part of her vocal register, there’s GaGa engaging in the sort of wordless vocalizing that keeps people wondering about her Illuminati ties, there’s even a bit of French in there. The track was produced by the Moroccan-Swedish knob-twiddler RedOne—also responsible for GaGa’s “Poker Face” and that not-very-good Sugababes single—and maybe it’s just that his techniques leave me cold? WHERE TO HEAR IT: Right here:
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