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T's and C's eligibility criteria and geographical restrictions apply. You're going to. Welcome to Hit Parade, a podcast of Pop Chart History from Slate magazine, about the hits from

Coast to Coast. I'm Chris Malanfe, chart

analyst, pop critic, and writer of Slates Why Is This Song Number One series. On today's

show, 10 years ago this month, the Queen of the Little Monsters scored her first number one hit in America.

And at first, all she wanted us to do was dance. In January of 2009 it was easy to think of Lady Gaga as a delightful fluke,

a young new artist singing party. as a hip-hop still ruled the Billboard charts and Electro- Dance Pop was mostly for clubs,

this chart-topper was infectious, irresistible, and probably impermanent, surely going into a new decade, nobody would be talking about

Lady Gaga for long, right? Yeah, about that. In the Shah Shahhah Shadow

in January of 2019, we're still talking about Lady Gaga. Her cultural impact has been

astonishing, but over the last 10 years her influence has waxed and waned.

Gaga was loved, imitated, but also scorned.

It was total drama, the stuff of Synonym. There's something fitting about Lady Gaga having her first official frontline movie

role in a Starsboro. It's not just a showcase for Gaga's skills as a singer and remarkably as an actress.

It's because a star is born is Hollywood's ultimate meta movie, a reflection of the lead actress's own career in real life.

Whether that career belonged to a stage and screen legend? And all because of the man that got away.

Or the top singer of her day, powering her way to film stardom. of ageless and ever good.

Like all of these women, maybe even more than any of them, Lady Gaga in A Star is Born asks the public to reflect

on her persona. The moon, the segue in the parlet cupa,

the cupa,

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