After many years of Gaga going off and extending her performing range into jazz and film acting, she returns to her bread and butter. Recent recorded output has been good to patchy. This song, however, is an instant four carat classic, in that it gives a fresh twist to what is really old style Gaga. A heavy club thump of a rhythm, with enough catchy musical phrases to fill four average songs. But here we have just the composite. The video is set up as though it were a competitive themed ball from the 1990's - here the catagory is 'dance or die'. As with all Gaga's best work it operates somewhere just to the left of conventional dance music. Its not just the costumes and dance routines, its in those musical rave breaks where something distinctly more edgy resides. Her affinity for her gay/trans fan base seems undiminished by any of the sort of spineless Trumpian conformity going on at the moment. This song is blissfully confrontational and decadent.
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