Rolling Stone: Lady Gaga Producer BloodPop Details 'Perfect Illusion'

[Leaf 2,429]

"She's not at the back of the train," says Michael Tucker. "She's at the front, controlling the speed"

To make "Perfect Illusion," her explosive new single released Thursday, Lady Gaga sat at a piano in Shangri-La Studios in Malibu, California, with producer Mark Ronson and songwriter Kevin Parker of Tame Impala flanking her in La-Z-Boys. "They hashed out the lyrics for hours and hours," Michael "BloodPop" Tucker, a Justin Bieber and Grimes producer who worked on the session, tells Rolling Stone. "They started around noon and the sun just went down and they went into the night. Every few days, a lyric would change and it'd get better and better."

For the as-yet-untitled album, nicknamed "LG5" and due sometime this fall, Gaga reportedly shuffled collaborators in and out of the mix: RedOne, who helped turn Gaga into a superstar with his work on "Just Dance" and "Poker Face," has said he collaborated on eight new songs; Elton John, Nile Rodgers and Giorgio Moroder reportedly made guest appearances, as did past Gaga producers DJ White Shadow and Fernando Garibay.

Gaga's previous album, ARTPOP, was a commercial disappointment, selling just 258,000 copies in its first week compared to more than 1.1 million for its 2011 predecessor Born This Way. Since then, she has drifted away from pop music, recording a duets album with Tony Bennett and starring on FX' American Horror Story. But Tucker tells Rolling Stone how her new song is a return to the sound that made her famous.

Questions

What was Gaga's mission statement for the single?

How would you describe the sound?

How literal do you mean "soul-rooted"? Was Gaga inspired by traditional soul songwriting or production?

With you, Ronson and Parker in the crew, how actively was Gaga involved with songwriting?

How did you come to work on "Perfect Illusion"?

Can you break down who worked on what?

Where did you record?

How would you describe the feel of the four of you working together in the studio?

Read the full interview here: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/lady-gaga-producer-bloodpop-details-perfect-illusion-creation-w438828

[ChicaSkas 22,286]

Thanks, Leaf. I missed this one.

[dopega 3,686]

I hate how every article brings ARTPOP up 

[Leaf 2,429]

1 minute ago, dopega said:

I hate how every article brings ARTPOP up 

Followed by Born This Way 

[dopega 3,686]

Just now, Leaf said:

Followed by Born This Way 

[Bloody 64,631]

Τhey always have to write somethin negative

[Anderson123 35,598]

Question. Why do they always have to bring up ARTPOP's "commercial failure" ? The album sold a pretty good amount of copies the first week. It was obviously not going to sell A MILLION copies like Born This Way (Again, they bring up another album to compare it) because of the Amazon sale and the post-The Fame Monster hype.

Honestly, are writers this dumb ? Or do they just brainstorm random stuff just to fill an article and make themselves feel like critics ? Damn, they all talk about the same things.

[Gagz4Gaga 7,278]

Queen of being not at the back of the train but instead at the front and controlling the speed. 

[ChicaSkas 22,286]

2 hours ago, Alan123 said:

Question. Why do they always have to bring up ARTPOP's "commercial failure" ? The album sold a pretty good amount of copies the first week. It was obviously not going to sell A MILLION copies like Born This Way (Again, they bring up another album to compare it) because of the Amazon sale and the post-The Fame Monster hype.

Honestly, are writers this dumb ? Or do they just brainstorm random stuff just to fill an article and make themselves feel like critics ? Damn, they all talk about the same things.

Gonna guess that bringing up the "failure" (which is really in the ear of the listener) is because they want to come across as not biased to her automatic success.