Best country-influenced Gaga song?

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Choose your favorite country-influenced Gaga song. 

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Wikipedia about Speechless: Musically, it's a rock power ballad with influences of 1970s rock, blues rock, glam rock with a slight element of country music as well.

MuuMuse about Teeth: ... part musical, part country, and a little bit tribal in spot.

 

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Wikipedia: "You and I" has rock and country music influences.

Telegraph about You and I: A perfect country rock ballad is given a boost by a rhythm taken from Queen’s We Will Rock You and Gaga’s Janis Joplin roar.
Billboard: That means she needed the heart and piano sway of Michael Jackson’s “Will You Be There” to kick off the ultimate “Mutt” Lange tribute: a Shania Twain-Def Leppard hybrid epic that isn’t her biggest hit simply because that’s not how hair-metal-country songs work in the 2010s, but it will almost certainly be the song chosen to play over the end credits of a Lady Gaga biopic in 30 years or so.

Theringer: “Yoü and I,” one of the best songs Lady Gaga has ever written, is buried 13 tracks deep into her blockbuster 2011 album Born This Way. All cocky, cowboy-boot swagger and twangy-sweet snarl, it’s a country song, if we must abide by things as old-fashioned as genre, but you could also just call it an American song.

 

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Spin about Aura: she intones grandly over the spaghetti-Western guitar.

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Wikipedia on Joanne: ... including [crossing] between country and funk, pop, dance, rock, electronic music, folk'' and on her main page: With her fifth studio album she incorporated various genres such as country and pop.

Fuse headline: Lady Gagareveals meaning behind Joanne Country Influence.

Michigandaily on Joanne: Is a country-tinged departure for Lady Gaga.

Dailygamecock on Joanne: ... somehow led her to a mix of electronic and country.

Irishtimes about Joanne: Let’s talk about Gaga’s new album Joanne. Billed as her “country one”, it’s an unusual mix of commercial country, whiskey ballads, and pristine production. But surprisingly, it kind of works.

Vulture about Joanne:  Lady Gaga’s Joanne Is a Slightly Frustrating Mix of Country and EDM ... The war between what Joanne wants to be and what it needs to be is a constant. It wants to be — and frequently is — a clever post-Shania amalgam of country grit, dance-pop gloss, and folk balladry. Upbeat cuts like “A-YO!” and “John Wayne” trade synths for guitars (provided on the latter by Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme) without sacrificing the hooks. Elsewhere “Joanne” and “Million Reasons” slide even further into the country gambit, scaling back percussion and nudging Gaga’s vocals to gutting depth over faintly strummed guitars. ... Gaga’s comfort with the country material here makes Joanne’s more deliberately streamlined bits jut out like commercial concessions. “Perfect Illusion” is a fun sing-along, but it feels like a bone tossed to Gaga’s faithful Little Monsters next to “Million Reasons” and “Sinner’s Prayer,” the biggest left-field bids for country-radio airplay since Beyoncé’s “Daddy Lessons.”  ... As a case study in incongruities — pop-country versus EDM, brash theatricality versus quiet introspection — Joanne is fascinating, if occasionally frustrating. Co-producers Mark Ronson and BloodPop buttress each other’s strengths, Ronson’s ear for classic soul, funk, and rock mixes well with BloodPop’s modernist touch. Both are observant of the mechanics of mainstream country here, but not beholden to them.

Celebuzz about Joanne: an incredibly varied palette of sonic inspirations, including country, folk, pop, electronic.

Clashmusic: Gaga mostly stripped of the bombast that permeated her early work and injected with surprising but fresh shades of country and light Americana. ... ‘Joanne’ is at its most pleasing during the album’s rather delightful country excursions, which all benefit from a comparatively minimal approach and less extravagant production.

Rolling Stone about Joanne: Gaga impressively traversed folk, funk, country and rock balladry.

Popcrush about Joanne: ... genres present throughout the release– ranging from rock to country.

Telegraphe:  She appears without makeup on the cover of an album where blues, country and rock influences come to the fore. ... Million Reasons is a country power ballad that Carrie Underwood would kill for.

Andpop about Joanne: It's pop meets country with a little bit of rock n'roll.

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Wiux: Diamond Heart the opening track. It sounds kind of like a Bruce Springsteen song. “Young, wild, American / looking to be something,” she starts off singing in a pretty low register, keeping pace with the drums which are the only backing sound at this point, but her voice quickly becomes more jazzy as she raises her voice matching the guitar that comes in. “A-YO” is more obviously country-inspired.

Themuse jezebel: After opening with the exciting “Diamond Heart” and “A-YO,” in which she mixes her own version of country rock with lyrics that channel both Lana Del Rey (the former is from the POV of a stripper who wails lines like “it doesn’t pay to be good”) and Carrie Underwood when she’s lashing out (“Lock me up and breathe in, mirror on the ceiling”).

 

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Hufffngtonpost about A-YO: One of three ‘Joanne’ tracks that Gaga previewed before the album first came out, it sounds a bit like a cross between album cuts ‘MANiCURE’ and ‘Americano’, but with touches of country.

Rolling Stone described "A-YO" as an upbeat country pop track.

 

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Wikipedia about Joanne: is an acoustic country ballad.

Digitalspy about Joanne: This is a delicate country-infused lullaby for Lady Gaga's late Aunt Joanne.

 

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Wikipedia about John Wayne: Is a pop rock song, which contains influences of and experiments with various elements of other genres including country, disco, funk, and house.
Time: ... she dropped one of her signature zany music videos to accompany the rollicking country jam "John Wayne".

Thelineofbestfit about John Wayne: It's a hammy, country number, acting as Gaga's personal ad for another "wild man".

Spin:  “John Wayne” sounds like it was born as tropical house and was later fitted in a rock-country drag. 
Latimes about John Wayne: ... Sean Lennon on slide guitar, and “John Wayne,” which mashes up tinny Euro-house synths, slowed-down funk drums and a boot-scooting bass line straight out of Nashville.

 

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Wikipedia about Million Reasons: The track is a pop song with country influences, backed by guitar and piano.

PMA: “Million Reasons” is a gorgeous country-western ballad.

Telegraph about Million Reasons: ... is a country power ballad that Carrie Underwood would kill for.

Idolator: The handful of Joanne‘s more forgettable tracks are a hodgepodge of quiet ballads (the country-tinged “Million Reasons,” the well-intentioned “Angel Down”).

Idvice: Million Reasons is the most clearly country in its perspective, and it is lyrically and musically tear-jerking.

Exclaim: The album's peaks offer compelling paths forward for Gaga — the country balladry of "Million Reasons''.

Rolling Stone about Million Reasons: a pop song which had a country music appeal.

Musicvavclub about Million Reasons: ... possesses earnest but bland country-pop flair.

Diymag. On the welly-filled ballad ‘Million Reasons,’ and ‘Sinner’s Prayer’ (the latter of which benefits hugely from Father John’s twanging country licks).

Chicago Tribune: Gaga mashes up blues and hip-hop on the sassy "A-YO," but her flirtation with contemporary country is decidedly mixed: a sturdy power ballad "Million Reasons" that sounds like it would play in Nashville, and the embarrassing hoedown "John Wayne," which piles on the bad-boy-goes-to-the-rodeo cliches.
Slate in their review about Joanne: It has more earnest modern country in “Million Reasons” and “Sinner’s Prayer''.

 

NYT about Million Reasons: She tethers Gaga to something like a country ballad but can’t keep her there for long.

 

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Wikipedia about: Sinner's Prayer: ... consists of instrumentation from bells and whistles, and is a simulacrum of country music, along with R&B and pop.

Popmatters: “Sinner’s Prayer” has a casual country-pop vibe.

Nmne: the old-school country-styled 'Sinner's Prayer.

Latimes: “Sinner’s Prayer,” a sort of spaghetti-western fantasia.

Allmusic: Sinner's Prayer" -- perhaps the best fusion of country and pop here.

Rollingstone: Gaga gets some grit into the songwriting, especially the hands-down highlight "Sinner's Prayer," a faux-country family melodrama.

Ew: Consider “Sinner’s Prayer” as the record’s principal example of the clashing of worlds between country’s down-home mellowness and Gaga’s celestial plane. ... Sinner’s Prayer,” a sprightly torch song about heartbreak that makes the finest use of country’s plucky acoustic strings.

Nowtoronto:  Sinner’s Prayer is full-on nu-country; John Wayne bluntly acknowledges the Americana references in the music.

Idvice: : A song perfect for the Coyote Ugly soundtrack, Sinner's Prayer is more like a simulacrum of country music, rather than country itself. It's a lead-ish track from the record, and it encapsulates Joanne's intentions more conspicuously than any of the other songs on the album. To its credit, the popularisation of country-r'n'b-pop is something which is seldom attempted, and seldom successful.

Themuse jezebel: ... the ultra-country “Sinner’s Prayer''.

 

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The Guardian: ” Beck co-wrote Dancin’; in Circles, a country-reggae nod to self-pleasure.

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Andpop about Grigio Girls: Keeping with the country-overarch of some of the songs, you might just be humming the lyrics “Pinot Grigio girls keep it real cold. Cause it’s a fired up world.”

Drownedinsound:  'Grigio Girls' is laced in country roots.

 

 

 

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[juju 18,907]

A-YO reminds me of New Orleans and such a good time, so I'll go with her. 

Although Speechless is my favorite Gaga song, it's not country. Nor is Teeth. 

[Red 97,564]

I voted for Yoü and I and Sinner's Prayer

[buttsicle 6,484]

JW and DIC naturally 

[MaryJaneHolland 77,348]

Teeth is in no way, shape or form a county influenced song lmao

Speechles too. Joanne is folk. Not sure about John Wayne tho, but I'll go with it since it's my favorite from the list.

[Mirages 20,259]

5 minutes ago, MaryJaneHolland said:

Teeth is in no way, shape or form a county influenced song lmao

Yeah I don't see that either  For me it has more of a tribal sound or I don't know how to explain it, I mean all the chanting in the background.

[Henri Bardot 3,990]

Yoü and I obviously  and Dancin' in Circles because it's an underrated bop

[Lucas 25,716]

You & I, Million Reasons and Sinner's Prayer. Impossible to decide

[Ziggy 11,354]

4 minutes ago, MaryJaneHolland said:

Teeth is in no way, shape or form a county influenced song lmao

Yeah it's soul with a lil bit of southern gospel sounds in the production. So strange for Gaga to go that route so early in her career lol

 

im personally laughing more at DiC which, if you listen to the insutrmenal, sounds more middle eastern inspired than anything else. FAR AND AWAY from country.

[HANZ 4,380]

You and I, this song never gets old

imagine if this song was from Joanne and not BTW and was the second or lead single from Joanne

it could have been a #1 smash hit tbh and it fits Joanne better than BTW tbh

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1 minute ago, Mirages said:

Yeah I don't see that either  For me it has more of a tribal sound or I don't know how to explain it, I mean all the chanting in the background.

It took me 2 hours to write the things in the spoiler in order create an interesting well-explained on this cult site only to find out nobody reads it and everybody questions the choices.  Interesting. 

[Gagadonna 10,801]

I read what you said but for me, Yoü & I, BTW country road version, and Stuck are more country than Joanne album itself. 

[DeanWinchester 41,390]

John Wayne sounds more pop rock to me than country. DiC sounds more like reggaeton.

 

I chose Joanne, A-Yo, Sinner's Prayer and Grigio Girls even though I like the other songs because I feel like these are the ones with the strongest country influences

[JoanneMonster 8,931]

I don't see country on DIC

[Mirages 20,259]

Just now, FfFfFfFF said:

It took me 2 hours to write the things in the spoiler in order create an interesting well-explained on this cult site only to find out nobody reads it and everybody questions the choices.  Interesting. 

I read it, but I still can't hear it  sorry