Friday, March 25, 2011

Lady Gaga Releases Country Version Of 'Born This Way'. Will Lady Gaga Concert Ticket Sales Increase?

She has done it again.  Lady Gaga's hit song "Born This Way" has just been released as a country version.  I think this is another great publicity move by the artist and will sure increase sales of Lady Gaga concert tickets, Lady Gaga costumes, merchandise, t-shirts, and more.  Will they be cheap tickets?  We will have to see.

Read the announcement from MTV below:

Lady Gaga - TelephoneYou can take all those Madonna comparisons and throw them out the window of your Ford F-150 truck, because on Thursday night Lady Gaga released a new version of her global smash "Born This Way" that featured a totally unexpected spin.

After tweeting to her Little Monsters that she was preparing to release "Born This Way (The Country Road Version)," Mother Monster dropped the tune at midnight PT on Friday (March 25) via her Twitter account ... and it did not disappoint.



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The new rendition of the hit opens with ominous, swirling guitars and then introduces a fuzzed-out slide guitar and harmonica wheeze, with all of the thumping disco beats replaced by restrained brush drumming and a more laid-back vibe. Once it kicks into the first chorus, the song continues to take its time, choogling along on live-sounding, laconic drumming and lots of soulful harmonica.

Just before the three-minute mark, Gaga mixes in some new lyrics, drawling, "If I wanna make it country, baby, then it's OK, cuz I was born, I was born, I was born this way," over picked mandolin. "From London, Paris, Japan back to USA/ I was born on the road, I was born to be brave," she adds, as the song breaks into full-on country-rock mode reminiscent of late-period Bon Jovi in the final minute.
w at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts this week, which is what Gaga said prompted her to drop the surprise remake on her fans.

Source: Gil Kaufman at MTV.com