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)".
Critical reception
Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine commented that the song has cheap lyrics and it painfully enunciates without any semblance of actual sex appeal.[1] About.com reviewer Ben Norman said that "LoveGame" continues the seige war tactical beats of previous single "Just Dance" and "assaulting us with clever lyrics like, 'Let's have some fun/This beat is sick/I wanna take a ride on your disco stick.' Interestingly enough, her live performance involves a disco stick. It's her long-handled microphone." The Dave Aude remix of "LoveGame" was also praised.[2] The Boston Phoenix music editor Daniel Brockman said that "With production help from DJ Space Cowboy [...] GaGa ups the ante in terms of catchy songwriting and sheer high-in-the-club-banging-to-the-beat abandon." He also commented on the lyrics saying that "'Let’s have some fun, this beat is sick/I want to take a ride on your disco stick' might be the trashiest-yet-awesomest refrain I’ve heard on a major-label record this year."[3] BBC, in a review for The Fame, said that the song was robotic with the line "I want to take a ride on your disco stick" deemed as brilliant as well as utterly cold which "leaves us awarding Gaga the yearbook title of 'pop star most likely to kill'"[4]
Chart performance
In Australia, the song debuted at number 91, and then moved up the charts to 41 the next week.[5] The following it again moved up the chart for a peak of eighteen.[6]
In Canada, the song debuted on the Canadian Hot 100 in September 2008 at number 68[7] before its official release as a single. Its second appearance was on the chart of January 10, 2009.[8] Subsequently "LoveGame" climbed to a peak of 5 for the issue dated April 4, 2009, making her third straight top five single there.[9] On the issue dated March 6, 2009 the song entered the Irish Singles Chart at number 49 based on digital download.[10]. 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.[11]
Music video
The music video of "LoveGame" was directed by Joseph Kahn and premiered on February 13, 2009.[12] 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.
Vorlage:Quote box Gaga spoke to Entertainment Weekly during the Behind the Scenes of the shoot regarding what she thinks about the video and the development of it including the new creative measures undertaken:
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."[13]
Track listings
Vorlage:Col-begin Canadian iTunes Remix Single[14]
- "LoveGame" (Space Cowboy Remix) - 3:19
- "LoveGame" (Robots to Mars Remix) - 3:13
Vorlage:Col-begin American iTunes Remix Single[15]
- "LoveGame" (Robots to Mars Remix) - 3:13
Charts
| Chart (2009) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian ARIA Singles Chart[6] | 18 |
| Canadian Hot 100[9] | 5 |
| Irish Singles Chart[10] | 49 |
| UK Singles Chart[11] | 93 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[16] | 96 |
Release history
| Region | Date | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | March 24, 2009 | digital download[14] |
| Australia | March 23, 2009 | RadioVorlage:Fact |
| May 01, 2009 | CD single | |
| North America | March 31, 2009 | digital download[15] |
References
External links
- ↑ Sal Cinquemani: Lady Gaga: The Fame review. In: Slant Magazine. www.slantmagazine.com, 25. Oktober 2008, abgerufen am 6. April 2009.
- ↑ Ben Norman: Lady Gaga - 'The Fame'. In: About.com. dancemusic.about.com, 2. Oktober 2008, abgerufen am 6. April 2009.
- ↑ Daniel Brockman: Lady GaGa:The Fame. In: The Boston Phoenix. Thephoenix.com, 22. Oktober 2008, abgerufen am 6. April 2009.
- ↑ Talia Kraines: Lady GaGa The Fame Review. In: BBC. BBC.co.uk, 9. Januar 2009, abgerufen am 6. April 2009.
- ↑ Australian Singles Chart. In: Australian Recording Industry Association. acharts.us, 30. März 2009, abgerufen am 6. April 2009.
- ↑ a b Australian Singles Chart. In: Australian Recording Industry Association. acharts.us, 6. April 2009, abgerufen am 6. April 2009.
- ↑ Canadian Hot 100. In: Billboard. acharts.us, 16. September 2008, abgerufen am 20. März 2009.
- ↑ Canadian Hot 100. In: Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc, 10. Januar 2009, abgerufen am 20. März 2009.
- ↑ a b Canadian Hot 100. In: Billboard. acharts.us, 4. April 2009, abgerufen am 6. April 2009.
- ↑ a b Lady Gaga - Love Game. In: acharts.us. 2009, abgerufen am 14. März 2009.
- ↑ a b "Lovegame" Chart Positions and Trajectories. In: BBC. chartstats.com, abgerufen am 2. April 2009.
- ↑ Joseph Kahn "Eh, Eh" and "LoveGame. In: josephkahn.com. Janmedia Interactive Inc, 9. Januar 2009, abgerufen am 27. Januar 2009.
- ↑ Pastorek, Whitney: On the Scene: Lady GaGa's 'LoveGame' Video. In: Entertainment Weekly. Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc, 2. Februar 2009, abgerufen am 2. Februar 2009.
- ↑ a b LoveGame Canadian iTunes remix. In: iTunes. Apple.com, abgerufen am 6. April 2009.
- ↑ a b LoveGame American iTunes remix. In: iTunes. Apple.com, abgerufen am 6. April 2009.
- ↑ The Billboard Hot 100: LoveGame. Billboard.com. March 21, 2009. Retrieved March 30, 2009.