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=== Singles ===
=== Singles ===
"[[Born This Way (song)|Born This Way]]" was released as the album's lead single on February 11, 2011.<ref name="born">{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.co.uk/artists/lady-gaga/news/252246-lady-gaga-new-single-album-born-this-way-grammys?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter|title=Lady GaGa Announces New Single Title|work =[[MTV]]|publisher=[[Viacom]]|date=2011-01-06|accessdate=2011-01-14}}</ref><ref name = early1>[http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1657389/lady-gaga-releases-born-this-way.jhtml http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1657389/lady-gaga-releases-born-this-way.jhtml]</ref> The song, written by Gaga and produced by Gaga, [[Fernando Garibay]], and DJ White Shadow,<ref name="BornThisWayLyrics">{{cite web|last=Vena|first=Jocelyn|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1656828/lady-gaga-releases-full-born-this-way-lyrics.jhtml|title=Lady Gaga Releases Full 'Born This Way' Lyrics|work=[[MTV]]|publisher=[[Viacom]]|date=2011-01-27|accessdate=2011-01-27}}</ref> is scheduled to be performed at the [[53rd Grammy Awards]] on February 13 in [[Los Angeles]].<ref name="grammy">{{cite web|url=http://www.grammy.com/news/grammy-performers-announced|title=GRAMMY Performers Announced|work=[[Grammy Award]] website|publisher =[[National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences]]|date=2010-01-13|accessdate=2010-01-18}}</ref> Its accompanying music video was shot the weekend of January 22–24, 2011.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' Video Is 'Profound,' Makeup Artist Says|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1656606/lady-gaga-born-this-way.jhtml|work=MTV|first=James|last=Montgomery|date=2011-01-25|accessdate=2011-01-25}}</ref>
"[[Born This Way (song)|Born This Way]]" was released as the album's lead single on February 11, 2011.<ref name="born">{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.co.uk/artists/lady-gaga/news/252246-lady-gaga-new-single-album-born-this-way-grammys?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter|title=Lady GaGa Announces New Single Title|work =[[MTV]]|publisher=[[Viacom]]|date=2011-01-06|accessdate=2011-01-14}}</ref><ref name = early1>[http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1657389/lady-gaga-releases-born-this-way.jhtml http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1657389/lady-gaga-releases-born-this-way.jhtml]</ref> The song, written by Gaga and produced by Gaga, [[Fernando Garibay]], and DJ White Shadow,<ref name="BornThisWayLyrics">{{cite web|last=Vena|first=Jocelyn|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1656828/lady-gaga-releases-full-born-this-way-lyrics.jhtml|title=Lady Gaga Releases Full 'Born This Way' Lyrics|work=[[MTV]]|publisher=[[Viacom]]|date=2011-01-27|accessdate=2011-01-27}}</ref> is scheduled to be performed at the [[53rd Grammy Awards]] on February 13 in [[Los Angeles]].<ref name="grammy">{{cite web|url=http://www.grammy.com/news/grammy-performers-announced|title=GRAMMY Performers Announced|work=[[Grammy Award]] website|publisher =[[National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences]]|date=2010-01-13|accessdate=2010-01-18}}</ref> Its accompanying music video was shot the weekend of January 22–24, 2011.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' Video Is 'Profound,' Makeup Artist Says|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1656606/lady-gaga-born-this-way.jhtml|work=MTV|first=James|last=Montgomery|date=2011-01-25|accessdate=2011-01-25}}</ref>

"Judas" is scheduled to be the album's second single.<ref name="vogue"/>


== Confirmed tracks ==
== Confirmed tracks ==

Revision as of 21:50, 11 February 2011

This article is about the Lady Gaga album. For the 1975 song, see I Was Born This Way.
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Born This Way is the forthcoming second studio album by American recording artist Lady Gaga scheduled for release on May 23, 2011 by Interscope Records.[1] Preceding its release, the album's lead single and title track "Born This Way" debuted on February 11, 2011.

The album's title was revealed as Gaga accepted the 2010 MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year,[6] while the release date was confirmed on her official Twitter page at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day 2011.

Background and development

Gaga performing "You and I" on Today.

By late March 2010, Gaga stated that she had begun working upon new material for Born This Way; adding that she had "already written the core of it."[7] Three months later, she commented that she "felt very strongly" that she had completed the album. Upon being interviewed, she said, "It came so quickly. I've been working on it for months, and I feel very strongly that it's finished right now. Some artists take years. I don't. I write music every day."[8]

By the last quarter of 2010, Troy Carter, Gaga's manager, and frequent collaborator/producer RedOne gave personal opinions upon the album.[9] Carter explained that they were just starting to play the album to the label. He said, "We're very excited about [Born This Way]. We're starting to play a little for people and getting a feel for it, and she's done an incredible job, a really incredible job. Well, you know what, it's not where I go from a business standpoint, it's more about where she goes creatively because, truth be told, we built the business around her creative infrastructure and that business that was built is unique to Lady Gaga."[9] RedOne added, "I think it's more of her freedom album. [... T]his album that she's making is too precious to talk about. [...] I think it's too precious for me to talk about it."[9]

Composition

"I promise you, I'll never let you down. And not for nothing: The album's finished and it's fucking really good. So whatever this is, whatever you just did for all of us […] I promise to give you the greatest album of this decade […] The funny thing is that some people have reduced freedom to a brand. They think that it's trendy now to be free. They think it's trendy to be excited about your identity. When in truth, there is nothing trendy about Born This Way. This connection that we all share is something so much deeper than a wig or lipstick or an outfit, or a fucking meat dress. […] Born This Way is about what keeps us up at night and what makes us afraid."[10]

—Lady Gaga talking to her fans about Born This Way

Gaga announced on November 26 during the Monster Ball in Gdansk, Poland, that the album could have up to 20 tracks, and promised that it would be the album of the decade. She also added that the album is completely finished. Gaga stated that it's full of "head-sledging dance beats."[11] She also explained that the album is going to be like “bad kids going to church, having fun on a high level.”[12] It was confirmed in a inteview with Vogue magazine that there will 17 tracks. [13]

In an interview with the BBC's Newsbeat Gaga commented on the album stating "The album is a marriage of electronic music with major, epic, dare I even say, metal or rock 'n' roll, pop, anthemic style melodies with really sledge-hammering dance beats. It's finished and all, it's just fine-tuning everything. It's kind of like the post-operative stage of the album. I've already done the full heart surgery. I'm just sewing myself back up again. I think that lyrically this album is more poetic. It's really written by the fans, they really wrote it for me because every night they're funneling so much into me. So I wrote it for them. Born This Way is all about my little monsters and me, mother monster."[3]

Release and promotion

Born This Way is scheduled for a worldwide release on May 23, 2011. A deluxe edition of the album, exclusive to Target, will be released on the same day with three additional songs and five remixes.[14]

While accepting the Video of the Year award (for "Bad Romance") at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, Gaga announced the album's title before tearfully declaring that she promised that she would reveal it if she won that award. This revelation was followed by Gaga singing a few lines from the title song: "I'm beautiful in my way, 'cause God makes no mistakes; I'm on the right track, baby, I was born this way."[15] Given as a Christmas "gift" to her fans,[16] Gaga announced via Twitter the release dates of the album and its lead single at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day 2011.[1] Supplementing this announcement came a black-and-white photograph in which Gaga is "nude from the waist down, with her hair blowing about, and sporting a jacket with [Born This Way] emblazoned in what looks like bedazzled jewels."[1]

Upon the performance of a ballad, "You and I", on Today's Toyota Concert Series in July 2010, Gaga confirmed that it would be featured on the album yet the song bared "a different sound than the [rest of the] album."[17] The track has since been added added to her set list at The Monster Ball Tour. Additionally contributing to a Paris fashion show, in mid January 2011, by designer Thierry Mugler for which Gaga was named musical director, she previewed a remixed version of a song that appears on the album. The song, whose title is yet unknown, "begins with Gaga repeating foreign phrases over a thumping club beat."[18] In a further atypical manner, she released the complete set of lyrics to "Born This Way" on her official Twitter page in late January 2011.[19] The names of the five songs that appear on the album were revealed in the March 2011 issue of US Vogue.[13]

Singles

"Born This Way" was released as the album's lead single on February 11, 2011.[20][21] The song, written by Gaga and produced by Gaga, Fernando Garibay, and DJ White Shadow,[4] is scheduled to be performed at the 53rd Grammy Awards on February 13 in Los Angeles.[22] Its accompanying music video was shot the weekend of January 22–24, 2011.[23]

Confirmed tracks

Release history

Region Date Format Label
Worldwide May 23, 2011[1] CD, digital download Interscope, Kon Live, Streamline

References

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  3. ^ a b Cochrane, Greg (December 20, 2010). "Lady Gaga reveals plans for Born This Way album". Newsbeat. BBC. Retrieved December 21, 2010.
  4. ^ a b Vena, Jocelyn (2011-01-27). "Lady Gaga Releases Full 'Born This Way' Lyrics". MTV. Viacom. Retrieved 2011-01-27.
  5. ^ Vena, Jocelyn (09-23-2010). "Lady Gaga's Born This Way Is Her 'Freedom Album,' Producer Says". MTV. Viacom. Retrieved 01-14-2011. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  6. ^ Kreps, Daniel (09-13-2010). "Lady Gaga Names Her New Album 'Born This Way'". Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone Music. Retrieved 01-14-2011. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)
  7. ^ Montogomery, James (March 26, 2010). "Lady GaGa: "My Next Album Will Be My Best Yet"". MTV. Viacom. Retrieved April 19, 2010.
  8. ^ Michaels, Sean (June 23, 2010). "Lady Gaga's new album 'finished'". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
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  10. ^ Dinh, James (2010-11-29). "Lady Gaga Says Born This Way Will Be 'Greatest Album Of This Decade'". MTV. Viacom. Retrieved 2011-01-15.
  11. ^ Vick, Megan (September 14, 2009). "Lady Gaga Promises 'Greatest Album of This Decade' in 'Born This Way'". Billboard. Rovi. Retrieved December 21, 2010.
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  14. ^ Lipshutz, Jason (2011-02-10). "Lady Gaga 'Born This Way' Single Out Free with Target Pre-Order". Billboard. Retrieved 2011-02-10.
  15. ^ a b Lee, Joyce (2010-09-13). ""Born This Way:" Lady Gaga's New Album Title". CBS News. Retrieved 2010-11-14.
  16. ^ Vena, Jocelyn (2010-12-27). "Lady Gaga To Make Born This Way Announcement New Year's Eve". MTV. Retrieved 2011-01-25.
  17. ^ Toor, Amar (September 14, 2010). "Lady Gaga, 'Born This Way' – New Album Preview". AOL Radio. AOL. Retrieved December 21, 2010.
  18. ^ Vozick-Levinson, Simon (2011-01-20). "Lady Gaga debuts new remix: Listen here". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2010-01-25.
  19. ^ "Born This Way Lyrics". January 27th, 2011. Retrieved January 27, 2011. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  20. ^ "Lady GaGa Announces New Single Title". MTV. Viacom. 2011-01-06. Retrieved 2011-01-14.
  21. ^ http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1657389/lady-gaga-releases-born-this-way.jhtml
  22. ^ "GRAMMY Performers Announced". Grammy Award website. National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. 2010-01-13. Retrieved 2010-01-18.
  23. ^ Montgomery, James (2011-01-25). "Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' Video Is 'Profound,' Makeup Artist Says". MTV. Retrieved 2011-01-25.
  24. ^ Copsey, Robert (2011-01-27). "Music exec teases GaGa album track". Digital Spy. Digital Spy Limited. Retrieved 2011-01-27.
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  26. ^ Graff, Gary (2011-01-22). "Lady Gaga: 2011 Album Preview". Billboard. Retrieved 2011-01-22.
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