Like singles from Rihanna, it's at least two days since we had a new Lady GaGa single and video, so here is 'The Edge of Glory'.
Starting with a slowed down version of the original 'Super Mario Kart' track countdown sounds, it's a much more sober and straightforward affair than her usual ditties, with a quite subdued video even if subdued for Lady GaGa means flaunting on an American fire escape in a revealing costume that looks like a cross between a snooker player, pearly queen and a bondage artist.
Wearing its dance roots on its sleeve its catchiness is difficult to ignore but the chorus is so repetitive it's like YouTube is stuck.
Throw in a saxophone solo half way through and it makes an unusual Lady GaGa experience: a song that is disco, not controversial and a video that it's mildly acceptable in polite circles. Perhaps not up to the standard of 'Poker Face' or 'Born This Way', but thankfully not as formulaic as her single 'Judas' which sounded like the answer to the question 'can you write a song that's so typically Lady GaGa you could mash-it-up with any of her other previous hits?'
In summation a refreshingly different track from GaGa that's much more disco and dance than previous hits.
6.5/10
Sunday 19 June 2011
REVIEW: Lady GaGa - The Edge of Glory
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