Andrew Watts talks about working with Gaga and making The Dead Dance

[monketsharona 84,113]

Gaga’s “The Dead Dance” for Wednesday is such a fun surprise, with a great disco-influenced feel.

She is unbelievable. Every one of these songs that we ever made together, the concepts are so effortlessly her. Lady Gaga, “The Dead Dance.” It’s just such a her concept. Because of the title and the way that she was singing, the production morphed and shifted a lot. We worked very hard on that production to make it sound original and also feel like something that you could really dance to. 

What I really love about that song is the live instrumentation mixed with the track instrumentation. There’s some really good bass in there and cool guitar inversions and stuff and great synths and the way everything works together. I remember when we were making that bridge, that’s where it got really funky. “Do the dead dance” — that was invented from the bridge music. That was a big telltale for the song. And then everything got morphed around that.

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[ImMatt 1,809]

I get the feeling that Gaga really enjoyed working with Watt. He's got such a cool vibe, very old school rock style actually and he's modest. Reminds me a lot of Mark Ronson and we know how much Gaga loved working with him too 

[pynkri 187]

We need more songs produced by him and Gaga.

[thisboyisamonster 915]

TDD does have very good production and a unique juxtaposition of sounds 

[Addison Rae 16,912]

definitely i thought it was fun, i liked that beat