Born This Way

by Lady Gaga

Overview

Lady Gaga's drama club ambition to marry rock & roll rebellion with her disco beats turns Born This Way into Like a Prayer by way of Bat Out of Hell. She knowingly recontextualizes Madonna for a postmodern collage, the sly similarities offering tangible reminders that Gaga is the heir to the diva throne. Her true gift is her considerable dexterity at delivering the basics. "Marry the Night" glistens with a neon pulse, "Born This Way" has a giddiness to its self-importance, "Judas" turns "Alejandro" into towering gothic disco, she achieves her metal-disco fusion on "Bad Kids," and she even shows vulnerability on "Yoü and I."

Product Details

Release Date:	05/23/2011
Label:	Interscope Records
UPC:	0602527641249
catalogNumber:	001537302
Rank:	2370

Tracks

1. Marry the Night
2. Born This Way
3. Government Hooker
4. Judas
5. Americano
6. Hair
7. Scheiße
8. Bloody Mary
9. Bad Kids
10. Highway Unicorn (Road To Love)
11. Heavy Metal Lover
12. Electric Chapel
13. Yoü and I
14. The Edge of Glory

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Lady Gaga   Primary Artist,Keyboards,Background Vocals
Brian May   Guitar
Clarence Clemons   Saxophone
Julio Hernández   Violin
Harry Kim   Trumpet
Robert John "Mutt" Lange   Background Vocals
Carlos Murguía   Background Vocals
Brian Gaynor   Bass,Keyboards
DJ Snake   Bass,Drums,Keyboards
Mario Hernandez   Guitarron,Vihuela
Andy Abad   Requinto
Fernando Garibay   Guitar,Keyboards,Background Vocals
Clinton Sparks   Keyboards
Kareem Devlin   Guitar
RedOne   Background Vocals
David Gomez   Background Vocals
Trevor Muzzy   Guitar
DJ White Shadow   Keyboards
Suemy Gonzalez   Violin
Jorge Alavrez   Background Vocals
Paul Blair   Guitar
Brian Lee   Background Vocals
Peter Van Der Veen   Background Vocals
Stephanie Amaro   Guitar

Technical Credits

Vincent Herbert   Executive Producer
Robert John "Mutt" Lange   Producer
Bill Malina   Engineer
Olle Romo   Programming,Engineer
Tom Ware   Engineer
Justin Shirley-Smith   Guitar Engineer
DJ Snake   Producer
Nick Knight   Creation
Rafa Sardina   Engineer
Dave Russell   Engineer
Horace Ward   Engineer
Gretchen Anderson   Producer
Fernando Garibay   Arranger,Composer,Programming,Producer,Engineer,Musical Director,Instrumentation
Clinton Sparks   Producer
Cheche Alara   Arranger,Composer,Instrumentation
Wendi Morris   Management
Dyana Kass   Marketing
RedOne   Composer,Programming,Producer,Engineer,Vocal Arrangements,Instrumentation,Vocal Editing
Lady Gaga   Arranger,Composer,Producer,Musical Director,Instrumentation
Kamau Georges   Programming
Nicola Formichetti   Creation
Troy Carter   Management
Amanda Silverman   Publicity
Trevor Muzzy   Engineer,Vocal Editing
Jeppe Laursen   Composer,Producer
DJ White Shadow   Composer,Programming,Producer,drum programming
Todd Tourso   Creation
Laurieann Gibson   Creation
Bobby Campbell   Marketing

Editorial Reviews

The album is as catchy and euphorically overblown as the music that made her a sensation.... "Born This Way" is an album of bangers; every song, give or take an introduction, picks up and roars.... She draws on club beats like trance and techno but never settles for the repetitiveness of much dance music; it’s a funhouse of an album, with sonic jolts and gimmicks that she spent months on. The album has abundant echoes of the 1980s: not just Madonna, Lady Gaga’s obvious predecessor in many things, but also the heft and piano pounding of ’80s heartland rock.

New York Times - Jon Pareles