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I'm alone in my house.

I'm out on the town.

I'm at the bottom of the bottle.

I'm knocking them down. Yeah. Hey, everybody. This is Chris Malanfi, host of Hit Parade, Slate's podcast of Pop Chart History. Welcome to The Bridge.

But look what I found.

Look what I found.

That is Look What I Found from the soundtrack to the movie A Star is Born, performed by Lady Gaga in the part of Allie.

A recent Vulture magazine feature calls this song

a stylistic bridge between Allie's bluesier songs with Jackson Main

and her slick pop productions.

It's one final callback to our last episode about the career of Lady Gaga

and the way that career is reflected in A Star is born.

And as always, these mini episodes bridge are full-length monthly episodes and give us a chance to catch up with our listeners and enjoy some trivia.

This month, I am delighted, as always, to be joined by the colleague who helps me take it to the bridge, Slate Podcast Senior Producer, T.J. Raphael. Hey, T.J. Hey, Chris. Welcome back. Great to have you as always. Thank you so much for having me on. I feel like we have so much to talk about today, especially me being a Gaga super fan. I know. I don't know that you've ever been more excited about a hit parade episode than you were about the Gaga episode. Am I wrong? Yeah. I mean, when you first email me about it,

I was like, yes, please, let's do it. So I'm really glad that you chose that as a topic. But one thing

that you mentioned in the show is that Lady Gaga has come under fire recently for her collaboration, her 2013

collaboration with R. Kelly, and her comments kind of following that in her defense of him,

she kind of said something to the effect of people make up a lot of things about me and kind of

deflected really the allegations,

the very serious allegations that have followed Arkellie's career for a very long time.

And it kind of surprised me in a way given Gaga's 2015 song till it happens to you,

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