Lady Gaga Have cycled through many iterations during the time we have known her: disco diva, Warholian punk, country-influred barroom ballades, star of movies both successful and not. But with the Grammy-Night debut of his video for the new single ”Abracadabra“She has returned to the position that many fans hold dearest: a happy Bonker’s maximalism. With a new generation of aspirants who grip on their crown, Gaga has proven the rare thing: a pop star pop star.
The “Abracadabra” clip debuted in a commercial break during February 2 Grammys broadcast; Gaga participated as a nominated (and possible winner) for Bruno Mars duet “Die with a Smile.” That song has a serious, obliging quality; You know both artists who make an effort to produce a wedding song standard. “Abracadabra”, on the other hand, is about something other than himself.
When I looked at home I was immediately blown back in my place; the detailed one videoWho depicts legions of dancers who flank two gags (a white -clad innocent and the evil “Lady in red” by the somewhat nonsense texts) looked and felt great. The choreography is sharp and frenetic, the costumes are Baroque and nods to Catholic greatness (a rich vein for this Italian American pop queen just as it was for her ancestors, Madonna). And the impact of the song has only grown; It was opened on No. 8 on the Global Spotify diagram and has risen ever since.
Then there are these texts. “She’s the champion on just like saying sound,” My husband texted me late at Grammy Night; I continued to look at the broadcast while reading a book and streamed “Abracadabra” an unclear number of times. The 2009 song “Bad Romance”, Gaga’s signature here and at the moment she equalized her ambition, had her fascinating “Gaga, Ooh-la-la” Kör. More than 15 years later, “Abracadabra” … Yes, Geni does it as “Abracadabra, Amor-Oo-Na / Abracadabra, Mort-Oo-Ga-Ga / Abracadabra, Abra-Oo-Na.”
It is not really word games that Gagas does, but she clearly enjoys how she can play with and pull out the song’s absurd, extravagant title. And having fun looks good on her. During the years since her 2020 album “Chromatica”, which was intended as a dance floor filler, saw it released by Covid, Gaga has focused on his film career with decreasing returns (“House of Gucci,” Sure; “Joker: foil: foil à deux , “No way). And what music we have received from her – from” Die with a Smile “to her excavations of the American songbook for” Joker ” – has tended to prove that she’s bona fides as a student in music history, not to make sound. Even “Disease”, the leading single for their next album, leaning against Morose; “Abracadabra” injects the campaign for that album, “Mayhem,” with a suitable dose pure chaos
And it just comes at the right moment. When Gaga has scaled back, younger artists have emerged with a sense of spectacle that they may have learned from looking at “Bad Romance” video as a child. Sabrina Carpenter uses every step she is on-the-one Grammys as a platform for self-parody, ultralam camps. Billie Eilish’s performances arranged with
Increasing the greatness when her songwriting becomes even more sophisticated. And Chappell Roan-the obvious comparison with Gaga among today’s newest stars-for her work with a drag-affected Let’s-Put-on-a-show, as well as an eagerness to use suits and makeup to help tell stories.
What story tells Abracadabra “, exactly? Many, many listen and views deeply, I feel further away from the answer. Say so much: as for a little of Gaga’s work since the beautiful and triumphant one-two-stand by” Bad Romance “and “Born This Way” album is done in the breath of fun. The horned red hat Gaga berries, the crushed preparation that “the floor is on fire”, the only concept of a “poem said by a lady in red” – it contributes to our sense of Gaga as not just all the things she tried to achieve in recent years. We know she can act. We know she feels jazz and american and keeping us on the trip. Abracadabra, really – it’s something like magic.
