Lady Gaga - Abracadabra

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello everybody, it's Megabilly, the host of Megabilly's music commentary
and welcome you to my podcast. So today I'll be
commenting to Abracadabra by Lady Gaga. Abracadabra is a song

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by American singwriter sing songwriter Lady Gaga. It was released
on February third, twenty five through Interscope Records as the
second single from Gaga's studio album My Helm. The song
stands pop energy and theritical visuals have drawn comparisons to

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her earlier works. In addition to chatting at number or
one in Luthenia, Abracadabra has reached the top ten in Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Crutilla,
the carig Republic, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Island, Like Silbag, Norway, Podgirl,

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San Marino, Solviga, Surgeon, Suzerland, the United Kingdom, and the
bill Board Global two hundred, as well as the top
twenty in Australia, in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Iceland, the Netherlands,

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New Zealand, then the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, the United Arab
Emirates and the United States. It's music video premier during
the sixty seventh annual Grimmy Howurd Ceremony. It's composition Okay.
It is a dance pop track with electronic and house influences.

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It features pals baits, hypotic synth, and a dramatic vocal
delivery reminiscent of Gaga's e songs. Some journalists have compared
its style to her the famed Monster two thousand and
Chromatica two thousand twenty ears with a dark theritical edge.

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A part of Abracadabra uses the melody of Spellbound by
Sikh and the Bunches. Throughout the song. The term Abracadabra
is used to represent Mengi and a lady dressed in
red is mentioned, which Gaga describes as a symbol of

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everything that challenges you and makes and makes you question
whether you can overcome it. She rather explained, in many ways,
it's about how you deal with that within yourself and
often the world around you can reflected it as well.

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I wanted to explore the question what does it feel
like to thrive rather than just survive all the time.
Shortly after, Gaga announced on January twenty seven, twenty five,
that her next video album will be titled my Hem.
It was revealed Shoe premiere a new single and video

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during their sixty seventh annual Remy Hours on February second.
According to the reading, Abracadabra is a first I impletancer okay.
On its release, Abracadabra recorded four point ninety two million
streams on spoty five, making Gaga's biggest Billboard Global two

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hundred with forty seven Comma seven million streams, becoming the
second top entry for my Hem and of Gaga's career
after Die with a Smile. In its second week, the
song rose to a new peak off number five on
the Billboard globel And with seventy eight point four million streams.

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The music video of Abracadabra was directed by Gaga alongside
Perris Goobel and Benethy Vegas. The video premier during a
commercial break in conjunction with Master Court at the sixty
seventh Annual Grammy Award and was later released on the

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Singers platforms. Gaga explained that the concept for the video
originated after filming Disease, when she and Goebbel discussed continuing
the album's narrative. Exploring this conflicting side of ourself, that
really don't make us, that really don't mix and spat.

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Just keep having this discussion. The creative processed preparations and
rehearsals I lasted approximately three weeks, while the actual shoot
took place over two days ago at a studio in
Santa Monica in early December twenty twenty four. Daga highlighted

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that sustainability was a chy factor in the videos production,
enshowing that the only necessary materials were used and minimizing
new manufacturing. Several white costubes well repurposed from old wedding
dressed deep stock for brick, and discarded textiles from her

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previous projects. So from the toatix sticks, Aproacadabra was a
huge sheet for Lady Gaga. So today I wm bit
in the references because there are too many. References are
too many and they are not important as the news.

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The music video received positive reviews upon release. Dennis of
Billboard stated that the clip evokes bet romance with its
meticulous display of the intersection of various art forms, along
with jaw dropping high fashion aesthetics. Rolling Stone writer Poem

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highlighted the videos frenetic chography describing it as an eruption
of chaos and movement, while also noting that it's as
aesthetics rainfalls the concept of my home and along with
the song, recall the famed Monster era with its dark

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and theretical visual style Green of Peace. Fogg remarks, like
the music video for Disease, it is a high concept
production with impecable styling. Gaga remains a step above the
average pop star. Her trio computition is the short Ghost

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of her own past ever Blanco med Dinner of Vogue.
Please It's taking, It's taking open nothing that the video
begins with a C a clear message. Dan's or dive
settings the setting the stage for a high voltage character

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choreographic showcase. Daniel Way is declared to be one of
the best music videos of Hey Carrier. So this is
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