LoveGame
| LoveGame | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Lady Gaga | |
| publication | March 24, 2009 |
| length | 3:38 min. |
| Genre (s) | Electro pop |
| Author (s) | Stefani Germanotta, Nadir Khayat |
| album | The Fame |
Love Game ( "Love Game") is an electro - song of the American singer Lady Gaga , she with Nadir Khayat wrote. It comes from her debut album The Fame .
The song received good reviews for its catchy sound and the "I wanna take a ride on your disco stick" part. Musically a reflection of the New York underground clubs, the song is about love, fame and sex, the central themes of the entire album. "LoveGame" was in the top ten in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many European countries. It became Lady Gaga's third number 1 hit in a row on the Billboard Pop Song Chart .
Emergence
LoveGame was produced by RedOne. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Lady Gaga explained the background of the text, in particular the passage "Let's have some fun this beat is sick / I wanna take a ride on your disco stick":
“It's another one of my well thought-out tail metaphors. I was in a New York nightclub, had a pretty sexual encounter with a guy like that and said, 'I wanna ride on your disco stick'. The next day I was in the studio and wrote the song in about four minutes. When I sing the song live, I have a stick with me that looks like a giant candy dildo and lights up. ")
Music video
The music video for LoveGame premiered on February 13, 2009. The film was shot in Los Angeles, but the set is supposed to represent a New York subway station. Something is reminiscent of Michael Jackson's video for Bad , which is also set in a subway station. In Australia, the video for LoveGame was not shown on television because of the references to BDSM and the offensive nature of the text.
Reviews
Sal Cinquemant of Slant Magazine was derogatory: The lyrics were lyrical drivel and she sang about sex without her voice showing any sex appeal. Ben Norman from About.com, on the other hand, rated LoveGame rather positively and characterized LoveGame as a "club stomper" (for example: disco howler).
Charts
The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 96 on April 4, 2009, but fell off the charts the following week. After six weeks it reached 6th place with 107,000 downloads. Two weeks later, LoveGame ranked 5th on the Billboard Hot 100 and became Lady Gaga's third top five hit in the US. The song soon peaked at number one on the hot dance club charts and became Lady Gaga's third number 1 hit on the pop songs charts. LoveGame has been sold digitally over a million times.
| Charts | Top ranking | Weeks |
|---|---|---|
| Chart placements | ||
 Germany (GfK)
|
7th (22 weeks) | 22nd |
 Austria (Ö3)
|
6th (21 weeks) | 21st |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
|
15th (20 weeks) | 20th |
 United Kingdom (OCC)
|
19th (22 weeks) | 22nd |
 United States (Billboard)
|
5 (22 weeks) | 22nd |
Awards for music sales
| Country / Region | Award | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales) |
||
 Australia (ARIA)
|
 platinum
|
70,000 |
 Canada (MC)
|
2 × platinum
|
160,000 |
 New Zealand (RMNZ)
|
 gold
|
7,500 |
|
United States (RIAA)
|
3 × platinum
|
3,000,000 |
|
United Kingdom (BPI)
|
 silver
|
200,000 |
| All in all |
1 × silver 1 × gold 6 × platinum |
3,437,000 |
Main article: Lady Gaga / Music Sales Awards
publication
| region | Date | format |
|---|---|---|
| United States | March 31, 2009 | Download |
| May 12, 2009 | radio | |
| June 9, 2009 | Single CD | |
| Germany | June 26, 2009 | Single CD |
| Great Britain | September 21, 2009 | Single CD |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cameron Adams: The world goes crazy for Lady Gaga . In: Herald Sun , The Herald and Weekly Times, May 21, 2009. Retrieved May 27, 2009.
- ^ Austin Scaggs: The "Just Dance" singer on leotards, the first lady and raunchy lyrics . In: Rolling Stone , Jann Wenner, February 19, 2009. Retrieved March 31, 2009.
- ↑ David Knight: Lady Gaga's Love Games by Joseph Kahn. In: Promo News. March 23, 2009, archived from the original on March 27, 2009 ; Retrieved November 18, 2009 .
- ↑ Whitney Pastorek: On the Scene: Lady GaGa's 'LoveGame' video . In: Entertainment Weekly , Time Inc .. Retrieved October 31, 2009.
- ↑ Adams, Cameron: "Lady GaGa Love Game video banned from Australian TV". The Australian Daily Telegraph (News Corporation): http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/lady-gaga-love-game-video-banned-from-australian-tv/story-e6frewyr-1225696971822 (from 7. April 2009)
- ↑ Sal Cinquemani: Lady Gaga: The Fame review . Slant Magazine. October 25, 2008. Retrieved April 6, 2009.
- ↑ Ben Norman: Lady Gaga - 'The Fame' . In: About.com , The New York Times Company, October 2, 2008. Retrieved April 6, 2009.
- ↑ Keith Caulfield: Miley Cyrus, `` Climb 'Debuts High On Hot 100 . In: Billboard Magazine , Nielsen Business Media, Inc., March 12, 2009. Retrieved April 30, 2009.
- ↑ Ayala Ben-Yehuda: Lady GaGa Takes Two Top 10 Spots On Billboard's Hot 100 . In: Billboard Magazine , Nielsen Business Media, Inc., June 4, 2009. Retrieved June 5, 2009.
- ↑ a b Ayala Ben-Yehuda: Black Eyed Peas Take Top Two Slots On Billboard Hot 100 . In: Billboard Magazine , Nielsen Business Media, Inc, June 18, 2009.
- ^ Gary Trust: Lady Gaga Makes Mainstream Top 40 History . In: Billboard Magazine , Nielsen Business Media, Inc, June 19, 2009. Retrieved July 14, 2009.
- ^ Paul Grein: Chart Watch Extra: The Top 10 Songs And Albums At Mid-Year . In: Yahoo! Music , Yahoo! , June 13, 2009. Retrieved July 13, 2009.
- ↑ Kent, Vander: Michael Jackson posthumously rules the charts . In: Media Control , Media-Control.com, July 7, 2009.
- ↑ Austria Singles Top 75 . In: Ö3 Austria Top 40 . acharts.us. July 15, 2009. Retrieved July 9, 2009.
- ↑ Swiss Singles Top 100 . In: Swiss Music Charts . acharts.us. August 9, 2009. Retrieved July 10, 2009.
- ↑ LoveGame in the Official UK Charts (English)
- ↑ 2009 Single Accreditations . In: Australian Recording Industry Association . March 31, 2009. Retrieved April 30, 2009.
- ^ CRIA - Gold & Platinum certifications - June 2009. In: Canadian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on March 25, 2010 ; Retrieved July 17, 2009 .
- ↑ http://www.radioscope.net.nz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=77&Itemid=63 ( Memento from October 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ RIAA Award: Double platinum for Love Game
- ↑ BPI Award: Silver for Love Game
- ↑ LoveGame radio airing date . In: Radio & Records . May 12, 2009. Archived from the original on June 17, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 30, 2009.
- ↑ LoveGame - US CD single . In: Discogs . May 12, 2009. Retrieved November 8, 2009.
- ↑ Lady Gaga - LoveGame - Germany CD single . In: Ladygaga.com . Archived from the original on June 3, 2009. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 8, 2009.
- ↑ Lady Gaga confirms LoveGame as fourth UK single . In: Femalefirst.co.uk . Retrieved August 13, 2009.
