Andrew Watt talks about working with Gaga

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Gaga’s single “Abracadabra” came together spontaneously. “She just heard something immediately, and grabbed the microphone and started flowing in the room,” says Watt. “Once there’s this initial kind of thing she always runs to the piano because then it becomes a song, and then what are the chords and there’s this crazy fun synth part and then where can it go… Once you came up with the chords for the other parts then we recorded that on other synths… You keep running between the control room and the live room, the control room and the live room.” 

The making of “Die With a Smile” was as old-school as it gets. “It was a really long day and night,” says Watt. “Bruno was there with [producer/songwriter] James Fauntleroy, and they just started playing together. Gaga wrote out all the chords and all the changing bass notes so she could know what she was going to play, Bruno was on the guitar, and they kind of just started breaking down the song together, really singing together and organically arranging their harmonies… Everything on that song is live. Live drums, live bass, live guitars, live vocals. Listen to them sing — it’s raw.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/lady-gaga-mayhem-rolling-stones-grammy-andrew-watt-interview-1235276727/

Edited 14 hours ago by monketsharona

[Jill 29,197]

8 minutes ago, monketsharona said:

Listen to them sing — it’s raw.

just like good sex x

[Lextyr97 19,328]

13 minutes ago, monketsharona said:

Gaga wrote out all the chords and all the changing bass notes

wait does this mean she just wrote what they were playing orrrrr

Edited 14 hours ago by Lextyr97

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Gaga wrote out all the chords and all the changing bass notes so she could know what she was going to play, Bruno was on the guitar, and they kind of just started breaking down the song together, really singing together and organically arranging their harmonies… Everything on that song is live

 

We can put to rest the doubts DWAS was mostly a bruno song, this shows an extraordinary level of involvement, this is her song and bruno is lucky to have her 

Like bruno mars said on the grammies: Thank you Lady Gaga 

[Ladle Ghoulash 17,463]

2 minutes ago, Lextyr97 said:

wait does this mean she just wrote what they were playing orrrrr

Sounds like she was transcribing something that had already been written 

[Ladle Ghoulash 17,463]

Just now, lastpopicon said:

Gaga wrote out all the chords and all the changing bass notes so she could know what she was going to play, Bruno was on the guitar, and they kind of just started breaking down the song together, really singing together and organically arranging their harmonies… Everything on that song is live

 

We can put to rest the doubts DWAS was mostly a bruno song, this shows an extraordinary level of involvement, this is her song and bruno is lucky to have her 

Like bruno mars said on the grammies: Thank you Lady Gaga 

Not really lmao. This says that she transcribed something that had already been written so she could play on the recording. She helped arrange it, but sounds like the bulk of the song had already been written. 

[Ladle Ghoulash 17,463]

DWAS aside, love hearing about how genuinely inspired it sounded like she was writing Abracadabra. 

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Just now, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Not really lmao. This says that she transcribed something that had already been written so she could play on the recording. She helped arrange it, but sounds like the bulk of the song had already been written. 

But she put the all the chords together, and help with the bass 

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Your quest to disliking DWAS is honestly inspiring 

[Killa 16,500]

4 minutes ago, lastpopicon said:

But she put the all the chords together, and help with the bass 

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Your quest to disliking DWAS is honestly inspiring 

this is not hating, it's not what's written. She was breaking down the song...so she could know what she was going to play

She didn't help writting the bass. The way it's written, it was a memo for her to play. So it seems that bruno and the producer basically played them the song and gaga took notes to join in. As we basically already knew. 

[CautiousLurker 17,868]

25 minutes ago, Jill said:

just like good sex x

Precisely, sex is only good raw, I can attest 

Pictured: me taking it raw 

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4 minutes ago, Killa said:

this is not hating, it's not what's written. She was breaking down the song...so she could know what she was going to play

She didn't help writting the bass. The way it's written, it was a memo for her to play. So it seems that bruno and the producer basically played them the song and gaga took notes to join in. As we basically already knew. 

I'm mostly joking bestie, for the laymen (like me) he gives the impression she had a bigger part in it, maybe that's one of the intentions of the article 

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I'm still using this article when people mention DWAS isn't a gaga song 

[Melodean 8,241]

I can’t keep up with all this news   

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6 hours ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Not really lmao. This says that she transcribed something that had already been written so she could play on the recording. She helped arrange it, but sounds like the bulk of the song had already been written. 

Plus when Bruno called her he said he had this song shed be great in suggesting the foundational bulk of the song was in fact already done.

 

She may have added to it or changed some things but I wouldnt delude myself into the narrative that its "her" song.

[LeafBug 7,943]

Did you know Andrew Watt dated Rita Ora? 

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[MadArchitect 682]

1 hour ago, LeafBug said:

Did you know Andrew Watt dated Rita Ora? 

so thats where he got all his talent from!