Lady Gaga is clearly in her 80s phase. After releasing tunes like “Judas” and “The Edge Of Glory” that sound straight out of the Reagan era, Gaga has revealed her fourth Born This Way single, the saxophone-featuring, synth-heavy “Hair”, which should have shampoo companies getting into fist fights over who gets to buy the rights of the song for their ads. Show it, glow it, long as she can grow it (or design it), try on Gaga’s RedOne-produced “Hair” below.
Lady Gaga – “Hair”
“Whenever I dress cool my parents put up a fight / And if I’m a hot shot, mom will cut my hair at night / And in the morning I’m short of my identity / I scream Mom and Dad, ‘Why can’t I be who I want to be?’” sings Gaga, employing the same sax found on her previous single “The Edge Of Glory”. (See the complete “Hair” lyrics here).
“‘Hair’ is a really amazing song,” Gaga recently told Ryan Seacrest. “It’s a club record, but it’s sort of got this Bruce Springsteen vibe to it. I actually had Clarence Clemons from the E Street Band come in and he played saxophone on the record. It’s really interesting because [we're] putting saxophone on this really huge electronic record.”
Besides taking cues from The Boss, she also seems to be inspired by Steve Winwood’s synthy classic “Valerie”. This music video better feature a frizzed out perm in it. (If not, Katy Perry appears to have that one covered in her next vid.)
What do you think of the pop star’s latest? Is the song similar to her hair (over-the-top, fantastical) or, er, like her hair (fake and absurd)? Should the bald community be upset by Gaga excluding them? At the very least, this anthem should serve as an interesting counterpoint to Indie.Arie’s song “I Am Not My Hair”.
[Via Ryan Seacrest]
It SUCKS!
Love the song!
There is no substance left in her music.
I actually really like it! I love the direction she is going with “Edge of Glory” and now “Hair.” I was EXTREMELY worried after “Judas” came out . . .but it looks like her album won’t be a dissapointment after all! Thanks GaGa for making fun and different pop music!
I love it! I feel a bit old to be listening to it given the lyrics, but I’ll admit I still sing along to “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” whenever it comes on the radio so I suppose I can swallow my pride and sing along to this song too. It’s a great song!
Its Awesome….If it Didnt say Hair – By lady gaga…It wount get Hate at all…BUt hey! ITS awesome i like it….I Still dont get why people didnt like Judas…LOl it stilll wounders me…I really loved that song…..
this is probably gonna be the BIGGEST HIT OF 2011!! i LLLOOVVVEEE ITT! edge of glory, born this way, and judas are soo amazing but this is GOLLDD!! thank you soo much GAGA! i AM my hair!
this song is awesome!!!!!
don’t feel it. sorry, but she’s boring.
Yea, kinda boring..nothing special..very, very, very typical pop song…
I love the 80s sound. I like it.
The words are odd though.. I deff didn’t like Judas.
But Born This Way is amazing :)
Rachel Berry’s My Headband.
HA! So true. I’d LOVE to hear Lady Gaga remix that one.
This is exactly what I thought. When I head Judas, I was like “What jungle did this come out of!” lol!