EW:Gaga compares Joanne to TFM-"It’s dark in a different way

[yASSsss 35,510]

Mark has said that during the making of this record, you were always talking about putting “that little Fame Monster hook in there.” Was that to make sure fans of your earlier dance-pop didn’t feel left behind with your new direction? What drove that instinct?
I don’t know, I guess that’s my style. As the years go on, you start to identify the things about yourself that are unique. And for me, I like to hold onto those things. When I was making Joanne, we really had no rules, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have the intention to see the music with the things that you love. I love a sugary sweet melody. I love a sugary sweet sound that has a message underneath it, or perhaps something darker or different. Joanne is not dark in the way that The Fame Monster was, but it’s dark in a different way. Not darkness as horror—it’s dark in the way that things can life be dark.

A lot of people assume Joanne wouldn’t have happened if you hadn’t made a jazz record with Tony Bennett, or that it was a reaction to your 2013 album, ARTPOP. [Gaga shakes her head no.] But it sounds like this album was always going to happen one day, no matter what came before it?
I remember sitting around with my buddy Breedlove, who’s a singer-songwriter in New York City and who’s been a friend for many years. I was playing him some music ideas, and I kept looking over at him. Because your friends that you love, you just want to play them the music and see what they think. I remember saying, “You know, I just want to sit at the piano and write songs at the piano and not do anything on a track right now.” He said to me, “Could you just please f—-ing make the record that everyone wants you to make?” And when he said everybody, what he meant was all of [my friends]. “Could you please make that record? Because you know you have to make it. You might as well just do it. So just f—-ing do it.” And when your friends that you’ve known for that long give you that kind of courage as an artist, that’s what it’s all about, really. I’m still really close with people I’ve known since I lived on Stanton and Clinton street. Very close. Like, call-them-when-I’m-sad close.

A few things about this record clicked while watching you, Mark, and Hillary play together just now at this Bud Light dive bar show. Do you feel like that’s the ideal setting for people to experience and understand Joanne?
Absolutely. I told everyone before we did this dive bar tour, if there are a lot of fans outside, you better figure out a way for me to do a second show or sing outside because it’s not cool, you know? My fans, I think [the reason] why they’re so wonderful and loyal and loving is that they know I will as always be as equal and loyal and loving to them. You want all those hardcore fans that can’t get in, that can’t get the tickets first, you want them to see it. It was so fun to sing from that roof. That was a dream come true. I think that’s my favorite performance I’ve ever had, singing on the roof on the edge of the awning.

Have you thought about how you’ll balance new and old material during your Super Bowl halftime show next year? Usually it’s about the biggest, most iconic hits, but some lesser-known songs fromJoanne could go over really well with that audience—or even win over people who think they don’t like your music. I sent “A-YO” to my dad because I thought that might be his entry point to Lady Gaga.
The thing is, I’m just going to put together the best show for the football fans, the ones that are watching at home. It’s October, by the time of the Super Bowl, a few months will have gone by, and maybe the dads will really love the music by then. And if they don’t, we’ll see. I’m not sure what songs we’ll play. We put things together in a very special way, I think, my creative friends and I. I would be happy to play new music during the Super Bowl, of course. But for me I just always want the show to be great. I think that these songs could reach a lot of people and bring other sons and fathers together. That was also my intention in a way, because this album brought me and my father closer together. It healed a lot of things between us. There was an understanding all of a sudden that he knows that I know who he is, and he knows why I am the way that I am. He’s taking care of me in a totally different way. I don’t know how to explain it. He’s grateful to me for understanding something about him. And the other way I around, I’m grateful to him for understanding something about me—that I love my family more than anything. He taught me that, and that’s important, and I wanted to write about it.

Bringing families together—that seems like something the Super Bowl can get behind.
What was so great was the NFL heard the record before it came out. They gave me that slot, really, off my album. I think—they asked to hear it, so I can only assume that meant, “We want to hear what’s coming up next.”

Read the full interview here:

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/10/21/lady-gaga-joanne-interview-dive-bar-tour-super-bowl?xid=entertainment-weekly_socialflow_twitter

 

[River 116,212]

Well it's about a dead person so yeah it's kinda dark..

[Fiona Apple 13,006]

4 minutes ago, River said:

Well it's about a dead person so yeah it's kinda dark..

Stop lmao. The album doesn't have a concept.It's one track that is about Joanne O.o

[Werk 13,166]

9 minutes ago, yASSsss said:

Mark has said that during the making of this record, you were always talking about putting “that little Fame Monster hook in there.” Was that to make sure fans of your earlier dance-pop didn’t feel left behind with your new direction? What drove that instinct?
I don’t know, I guess that’s my style. As the years go on, you start to identify the things about yourself that are unique. And for me, I like to hold onto those things. When I was making Joanne, we really had no rules, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have the intention to see the music with the things that you love. I love a sugary sweet melody. I love a sugary sweet sound that has a message underneath it, or perhaps something darker or different. Joanne is not dark in the way that The Fame Monster was, but it’s dark in a different way. Not darkness

 

Please don't come after me but I wish the album had a little more sugary "sound" for the hooks.

[River 116,212]

4 minutes ago, Britney Spears said:

Stop lmao. The album doesn't have a concept.It's one track that is about Joanne O.o

I know, I'm just joking.. all this dark dark dark, Joanne is dead, it's dark enough stop it

[ViviLittleM 3]

I ran I thought it was the review

[StarryNight 10,106]

What headspace were you in when you first linked up with Mark. By that point, you had recorded a handful of tracks with [“Bad Romance” producer] RedOne. Did you already know that most of them weren’t what you were looking for on this album? Or were you still just experimenting?

I’ve known Mark Ronson for seven years. We met in New York many years ago. He wanted me to sing and write with him and Wale on a record called “Chillin.” I was happy to do it, but it wasn’t really my thing at the time, writing to tracks. I was like, “What is this? How am I going to do this?” And Sean Lennon just happened to be recording upstairs and came down, and I was like [long gasp]—so stoked to meet him. And not just because I’m a fan of his father, which is what I would assume you would think. Sean is actually an incredible musician and and a very, very accomplished pianist—his voicings are magnificent. I told him what a fan I was and that I got this tattoo [Gaga points to the peace sign on her left wrist] because of the “Imagine” memorial by his old house, near where I grew up. I just remember that was the beginning. I remember thinking these are my neighbors, this is where I belong—with New York musicians. You want to make friends with them and work. I just became famous very quickly and didn’t see Mark for many years. We bumped into each other in London a few times and hung out at parties and kept in touch over the years. Finally, at the Met Gala, he came over and said, “Are you ready to make that record like the one you wanted to make all those years ago when I first met you?” I said, “Yeah, I’m ready!” He said, “Okay, call me!”

 

 

she ignored that part about redone 8 songs