Do what you want review gaga năm 2024

As anticipation builds for Lady Gaga’s new album, Artpop, the superstar seems to be throwing out singles and teasers to fans left, right and centre in the lead up to one of the year’s biggest releases. First came Applause, the fantastic lead single for the record. Since the release of Applause in August we have been garnished with fellow album track Aura, a song also featured in the new Robert Rodriquez flick Machete Kills in which Gaga plays a memorable role, and the recently unveiled audio of Venus. So many song plugs kind of puts a little bit of a reduced-hype shadow over the albums 2nd official single which has also recently dropped.

Do What U Want is a collaborative effort between Gaga and RnB crooner and I Believe I Can Fly hit-maker R.Kelly and unlike Applause which was a full throttle, pop monster of a lead single for Artpop, this new track carries a much more ghetto vibe thanks to the guest appearance of Kelly.

The song isn’t one that grabbed me straight away. Admittedly, Do What U Want is a grower. Within the track is a plethora or 80’s influences, notably the synth beat that forms the songs strong backbone. Its sensual, down-tempo club quality also stands out while the vocals of Gaga and R.Kelly together suit the style of the song as they work off each other’s contrasting delivery.

Do What U Want may not be as timeless as previous Lady Gaga tracks like Bad Romance, Poker Face or Telephone but Do What U Want does deliver in terms of being radio-friendly with its commercial glazing, bridging the gap between two successful genres as well as teasing us with another fine cut from the icons latest studio album.

Lady Gaga’s new single isn’t just a song. It’s a protest against the countless snarks of the Twitterverse.

Over a thick and bulbous electro-beat, the star lashes out at everyone who ever had a tart comment about her — which, by now, involves half the planet.

“You can’t stop my voice/you don’t own my life,” she bellows in the song, which hit the Internet early Monday.

But her screed has a witty twist. After asserting herself, the singer qualifies: “But you can do what you want with my body.”

In other words, we can have our way with her image. That won’t have any effect on her essence. It’s a clever way of shifting the expected sexual implication of the lyric and taking control.

Her attempts to promote the song — Gaga’s second single from her forthcoming album “Artpop,” due out Nov. 11 — follow suit, with the singer tweeting her own versions of common critiques she faces, from ripping off -Madonna to charting below Katy Perry.

The music provides its own quirk. To match the R&B-style beat — and the guest appearance by R. Kelly — Gaga finds a new soul edge to her voice. She belts, scoring a hit in every sense.

Lady Gaga's ARTPOP campaign didn't get off to the start most would expect from one of the world's most famous pop superstars. Despite declaring a "pop emergency" and hyping the release of lead single 'Applause', the track failed to hit the top spot in any of the major music sales territories. It was by no means a flop, but the star's misjudged message of seeking adoration and its rollercoaster soundscape didn't seem to completely click with the general public.

However, it's the less-equals-more approach of new R Kelly hook-up 'Do What U Want' that has seemingly enticed the casual listener back. "Write what you want/ Say what you want about me/ If you're wondering/ Know that I'm not sorry," Gaga tells her detractors over a simple mix of stuttering synths and beats, while the ear-snagging melody revives some of her earlier pop perfection. It's proof that behind the art-meets-pop hoo-hah and overwrought concepts, there is still a very good popstar.

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Listen to Lady Gaga's 'Do What U Want' featuring R Kelly below:

Following in the dance steps of Madonna’s secretprojectrevolution, Lady Gaga announced she was teaming up with BitTorrent and VICE Media to premiere the music video for “Do What U Want,” the second single from her latest album, Artpop, featuring R. Kelly. Gaga posted a message on Twitter, in which she appears to have coined the term “quelped,” suggesting that the media would be “shocked” by the video, directed by photographer and frequent Gaga collaborator Terry Richardson. But a month later, the clip has mysteriously failed to materialize.

Joining forces with Uncle Terry, never mind Kelly, for a song whose lyrics repeatedly implore, however ironically, “Do what you want with my body,” has already resulted in some raised eyebrows given the glorified shutterbug’s recent history, but just as the video was being readied, The Village Voice may have delivered a fatal blow to the project (at least in its intended form) by releasing the “stomach-churning” details surrounding 15-year-old accusations that Kelly had sex with “dozens” of teenage girls. Add that to the stills that emerged from the “Do What U Want” set, picturing the “Sex in the Kitchen” crooner suggestively straddling Gaga, who appears to be crawling submissively on all fours in a g-string and bra, and, well, an already creepy collaboration instantly became a PR nightmare.

Undeterred, Gaga released a remix of “Do What U Want” featuring Rick Ross and performed the song on the season finale of The Voice last month, trading verses with one of the show’s judges, Christina Aguilera. On Christmas Eve, Xtina tweeted that she was “working on something special” in Carly Simon’s living room (don’t ask), leading many to speculate that a studio version might be in the works. Replacing Kelly’s lyrics, in which he boasts of being Gaga’s drug dealer and dubiously compares his relationship with Gaga to that of the ill-fated JFK and Marilyn Monroe, Aguilera’s new verse favors safer, more generic platitudes about the duo’s love of the spotlight and devotion to their profession: “My bones hurt from all the shows, but I don’t feel the pain ‘cause I’m a pro/I sink in and then I’m okay ‘cause my body belongs to you when I’m on stage.” Reportedly intended for the original incarnation of “Do What U Want” before Kelly came aboard, the new—or, rather, the old—lyrics are a better fit for the song’s ostensible message.

The vocal coupling, on the other hand, is less than ideal given that Gaga’s voice on the track is so reminiscent of Aguilera’s in the first place. But the extent of the “Dirrty” singer’s chart success in the last five years has consisted entirely of duets or guest spots (Maroon 5’s “Moves Like Jagger,” Pitbull’s “Feel This Moment,” and most recently, A Great Big World’s “Say Something”), and “Do What U Want” has thus far failed to crack the Top 10, so the collaboration seems, at least on paper, to be a potentially savvy move for both parties.

This article was originally published on The House Next Door.

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