The Legend Of Lady Gaga

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Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanott, famously known as her stage name, Lady Gaga, is a present day, modern pop artist. She dabbles in other music genres such as jazz, folk, country, dance, rock, and electronic music, but still remains as a pop legend. Her known influences ranged from Queen and Elton John to Andy Warhol and Rainer Maria Rilke. Gaga was born on March 28, 1986, in Yonkers, New York, to Italian-American parents, Cynthia and Joseph Germanotta. Joseph, an Internet entrepreneur, and Cynthia, a Verizon executive, raised Gaga in Upper West Side Manhattan where she learned to play piano at the age of four. Her parents encouraged her music talent and she became skilled in classical piano and took a full day of acting classes every Saturday …show more content…

As a whole, she’s a singer who would often have a band behind her. The instrumentation of the band can change depending on the song, but typically will consist of a drum set, several guitars, a piano, background dancers and background singers. On many occasions, however, her band would just consist of her and her piano, such as the song “Marry the Night,” where she often plays it with her voice and her own accompaniment. Lady Gaga is a lyricist where all her songs have vocals and music backing and she tends to make her music fit her lyrics. In the song, “LoveGame,” for example, the lyrics are very provocative and sexual, and the music has a very upbeat, rhythmic vibe to match. With lyrics such as, “do you want love, or you want fame, are you in the game,” she uses equivalent fast tempos, hard beats, and loud dynamics to express the party song. In another song, “Million Reasons,” she uses a more relaxed tone to let the listeners focus more on the lyrics. With only a piano in the background and the dynamics being played softly, her feelings show more through the song to convey her emotions. The complimentary words, “I’ve got a hundred million reasons to walk away,” allow the sadness and emotions that she wants the listeners to hear shine in the song. An interesting take on Gaga’s style, not just musically, but physically, is that she’ll always dress as the music she’s making. In her era of wild and provocative music with electronic instrumentation and fast beats and tempos, she could be seen wearing a meat dress and horned facial prosthetics, singing with auto-tune about themes of sex, as in “Bad Romance.” In her more recent style, however, she has a more simplistic style, in which, she wears a t-shirt and jeans and her music reflects that. Her music has very little alteration with her voice and shows her singing as she does;

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