The Gaga is Born Edition

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Music, Music History, Music Commentary

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🗓️ 25 January 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

A Star Is Born, the movie Hollywood can’t stop remaking, is a fairy-tale about the American dream factory. But it has also, always, been a reflection of the woman in the lead role—and the latest version stars a woman who has been playing a role for more than a decade: Stefani Germanotta, a.k.a. Lady Gaga. When Gaga scored her first No. 1 hit, “Just Dance,” 10 years ago this month, critics thought her fame might be short-lived. But Gaga had a lot to say about The Fame, and within a year she had shifted the sound of the Top 40 in her electro-pop direction. And then, in the mid-2010s, she shifted her own sound, belting out pop standards for everyone from Tony Bennett to Julie Andrews. What happens if this shape-shifter pivots from Grammys to Oscars? And what will that say about the themes of A Star Is Born: artifice, authenticity and agency? This episode is brought to you by Slack, the collaboration hub for work. Learn more at Slack.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Whether it's an under the radar genre or a proper out there podcast
0:05.0	sometimes it's better when you get weird especially when it comes to switching up your soft drink
0:10.0	introducing new Dr Pepper Zero,
0:12.5	with the same blend of 23 unique flavors,
0:15.3	it tastes just as weird as regular Dr Pepper,
0:18.8	but with zero sugar and zero calories.
0:21.6	It's a taste you can't quite put your finger on.
0:24.0	Weird. But in a surprisingly good way, try more weird with Dr Pepper Zero. You're going to. Welcome to Hit Parade, a podcast of Pop Chart History from Slate magazine, about the hits from
0:52.0	Coast to Coast. I'm Chris Milanfi, Charmin. on the On today's show, 10 years ago this month, the Queen of the Little Monsters scored her first number one hit in America.
1:09.0	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
1:35.0	delightful fluke, a young new artist singing party music, a song with Just Dance right in the title.
1:39.0	At a time when hip-hop still ruled the Billboard charts and Electro- Dance Pop was mostly for clubs,
1:46.7	this chart-topper was infectious, irresistible, and probably impermanent, surely going into a new decade, nobody would be talking about
1:57.0	Lady Gaga for long, right? Yeah, about that. In the Shaha Shada,
2:06.4	We're far from the Shada.
2:09.4	In January of 2019, we're still talking about Lady Gaga.
2:15.0	Her cultural impact has been astonishing.
2:18.0	But over the last 10 years, her influence has waxed and waned.
2:23.7	Gaga was loved, imitated, but also scorned.
2:28.1	It was total drama, the stuff of Synonym. There's something something where they can't add us.
2:47.0	We're far from the show now.
2:50.0	There's something fitting about Lady Gaga having her first official frontline movie
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