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On the midway level of Girl Gaga’s latest album, Mayhem, is a music that feels like the rest however the file’s name. “How Dangerous Do U Need Me” is poppy and lyrical — a mid-tempo serenade now not just about as funky because the album’s signature tracks (“Abracadabra,” “Illness,” “Best Famous person”) nor as weepy as its later ballads (“Blade Of Grass,” “Die With a Smile”). Maximum particularly, its opening synth line calls to thoughts any other semi-recent favourite, Taylor Swift’s “Stunning,” off the singer’s 2016 album popularity.
Inside of hours of Mayhem’s unencumber, Twitter was once abuzz with theories that, at their maximum coherent, recommend Swift was once secretly featured on Gaga’s monitor, and, at their least coherent, make some use of the word “reheated nachos.” Would Gaga in reality come with Swift on a music? It doesn’t appear out of the query, as each stars have made it transparent through the years that they prefer every different and their respective song. Whilst Gaga’s options generally tend to pop up for her extra upbeat, dancier tracks, Taylor ceaselessly brings out a function for slower songs. (If there’s any sonic overlap, it’s of their respective paintings with Florence Welch.) However sooner than someone may just theorize an excessive amount of, a supply (hello, Tree!) instructed “Web page Six” the function rumors weren’t true.
As for whether or not Gaga is ripping off “Stunning,” those two songs do sound equivalent, no less than in the beginning. There’s a specific beep-boop-beep-boop that might be laborious for someone however religious fanatics of both artist to inform the adaptation between. Each additionally percentage a mid-aughts sentimentality and a percussive synth line that pitter-patters all the way through. However “How Dangerous” is a ways from a Swift knockoff. Whilst this isn’t Gaga’s standard sound, it does bring to mind “The Remedy,” a not-quite-Gaga, not-quite-Best friend unmarried from 2017, in addition to one of the vital lesser-known tracks from Artpop like “Gypsy.”
“How Dangerous Do U Need Me” is ready two variations of Gaga — the nice and the dangerous — and for the majority of it, she performs that woman within the topic’s head sooner than in brief revealing herself as one thing uglier and stranger in key and sound. The music is an act of artifice in and of itself. Like Jo Calderone and Best friend Maine, the singer in “How Dangerous Do U Need Me” is a model of Gaga that she will be able to’t decide to, no less than now not for terribly lengthy. It sticks out amid Mayhem’s clubbier bops as it finds the pop big name that Gaga isn’t and wouldn’t be, even if she tries. That stated, if Swift desires to make a music that feels like “911” someday, we’re all ears.
