LoveGame

Vorlage:Infobox Single "LoveGame" is an electropop song recorded by American pop singer-songwriter Lady Gaga taken from her debut album, The Fame. The track was produced by RedOne, who also produced the worldwide hits "Just Dance" and "Poker Face". It is the album's third single in North America and Europe (except in France and Switzerland) and the fourth single in Australia, New Zealand, France and Switzerland after "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)".

Chart performance

In Canada, the song debuted on the Canadian Hot 100 in September 2008 at number 68 before its official release as a single. Its second appearance was on the chart of January 10, 2009. On the chart dated March 7, 2009, "LoveGame" climbed to number 29, the following week it climbed up 9 places to 20. Subsequently "LoveGame" climbed to number 9 and is currently at number 5 for the issue dated April 4, 2009, making her third straight top five single there. This is the thirteenth week in the Canadian Hot 100. On the issue dated March 6, 2009 the song entered the Irish Singles Chart at number 49 based on digital download.. Despite not being released as an official single, the song has also charted in the UK Singles Chart and has so far peaked at number 93, due to strong download's from Gaga's debut album, The Fame.

Music video

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Gaga in front of a metro station tile in the New York underground inspired music video for "LoveGame"

The music video of "LoveGame" was directed by Joseph Kahn and premiered on February 13, 2009. The video mainly takes place in a subway station. Although the video was shot in Los Angeles in January 2009 alongside with the music video for "Eh, Eh", it has a New York setting.

The video starts with the heading "Streamline presents" and three men moving through Times Square. They open a man-hole cover on which is written "HAUS OF GAGA". Gaga is then shown naked with blue and purple paint and glitter and her body, frolicking with two men who has the words "Love" and "Fame" etched on their hair. The scene shifts to a subway where Gaga starts singing in a grey-white leotard with a hood. She carries her trademark 'disco stick' and wears chain linked glasses made of barbed wire. The chorus starts with Gaga along with her dancers progressing through the subway as they dance in the station and down a staircase. Her trademark dogs, two harlequin Great Danes, are also shown on top of the staircase. They then begin to travel on a train where the second verse takes place amidst choreographed dance routines and Gaga wearing a black jacket. They then move on to a car-park. Gaga is then shown with the two men again and enters a ticket booth with an inspector. This next scene show Gaga make-shift kissing and caressing as the camera pans from right to left and the inspector changes from a man to woman in each frame. Gaga is also shown wearing a yellow watch same to that of the "Eh, Eh" music video. The final scene incorporates Gaga in a choreographed dance routine with her crew of backup dancers. The video comes to an end as Gaga and her dancers hold their groins as they gesture towards the camera.

Gaga spoke to Entertainment Weekly during the Behind the Scenes of the shoot regarding what she thinks about the video:

"I wanted to have that big giant dance video moment, I wanted it to be plastic, beautiful, gorgeous, sweaty, tar on the floor, bad-ass boys, but when you got close, the look in everybody's eyes was f---ing honest and scary. [...] The whole idea behind the subway 'Bad' thing is that me and my friends from New York, we're all, like, the dopest f---ing artists,[...] Best designers, performance artists, dancers. The dancers in the video...those are not hot L.A. people that you see in everybody's video. Those are kids who don't get cast, because they're too f---ing real. [...] I love the imagery of a downtown, bad-ass kid walking down the street with his buddies, grabbing a pair of pliers, and making a pair of sunglasses out of a fence on the street, [...] I thought that imagery was so real, and it shows that no matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you have in your pocket, you’re nothing without your ideas. Your ideas are all you have. The opening of the video is me with this chain link hood and these intense glasses. They look so hard. It looks like I plied them right out of the fence and put them on my face."

Lady Gaga also commented on how she hoped to bring back pop music with the video, in a trend not seen since the 90s:

"This is all part of a movement. My artistry is much deeper than fashion or anything like that: I love pop music, and I want to bring it back. [...] People are truly hungry for this. They generally miss the '90s and the superfans flooding Times Square, crying and wailing and doing anything to see the fingernail of a star. I want that back, and [the 'LoveGame' video] is just another move towards that.'LoveGame' is a genuine New York lifestyle video. It's got that feeling of 'gay, black New York,' of inclusion and glamour," [...] I wanted to really bring forth the girl that I was four years ago, and I wanted to put it in the setting of the underground subway. I worked with Joseph Kahn, and he did an amazing job. He didn't just capture the fashion; he captured the artist."

Track listings

Vorlage:Col-begin Canadian iTunes Remix Single

1. "LoveGame" (Space Cowboy Remix) - 3:19
2. "LoveGame" (Robots to Mars Remix) - 3:13

Vorlage:Col-begin American iTunes Remix Single

1. "LoveGame" (Robots to Mars Remix) - 3:13

Charts

Chart (2009)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart	41
Canadian Hot 100	5
Irish Singles Chart	49
UK Singles Chart	93
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	96

Release history

Region	Date	Format
Canada	March 24, 2009	digital download
Australia	March 23, 2009	Radio
	Apr 17, 2009	CD single
North America	March 31, 2009	digital download

External links

• Official website of Lady GaGa