Gaga’s upcoming album will be her first since 2013’s “ARTPOP”. At points, it nearly sounds like the classic rock band Queen.
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And that’s not even the full list of contributors to LG5. Her deflating hook is practically D.O.A., and Gaga’s theatrical delivery doesn’t seem particularly interested in conveying anything aside bravado. She remained relatively secretive in terms of what the song was about and why she wanted to sing with another girl and specifically said that people will see why when they finally see what the song is actually all about.
Stealthy Gaga fans have already discovered that radio station 96.1 KISS in Pittsburgh will be debuting “Perfect Illusion” at 11 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. PT, so if you can not wait to hear the song on Friday, there is an option.
She’s really, to me, if not the greatest vocalist in the world. “How do we navigate through social media?” she said.
Listen to the song, above, and see what you think.
The singer, 30, unveiled “Perfect Illusion“, the lead single from her fourth studio album (discounting a joint effort with Tony Bennett in 2014), at midnight Friday. “This song is about raging against that and letting it go”.
For her big return to the pop scene, Gaga enlisted music producer Mark Ronson who earlier collaborated with Bruno Mars for “Uptown Funk”, Kevin Parker from rock band Tame Impala and BloodPop who was a producer on Justin Bieber’s “Sorry”. “But there’s also a lot of things that are on the internet that aren’t reality”.
Lady Gaga attends the “Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology” Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2016 in New York City. “It’s about wanting people to re-establish that human connection”.
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The “Bad Romance” singer dropped a dancey new track on Thursday night titled “Perfect Illusion“, which instantly became available for streaming on Apple Music and played on a variety of radio stations, including New York’s Z100 at 11 p.m.
