Lady Gaga shares her inspiration to return to her wild image after Superbowl gig
Lady Gaga had fans in tears when she sang Hold My Hand at a pre-Super Bowl performance in New Orleans on Sunday, dedicated the number to the victims of the New Year's Day terror attack
Lady Gaga had fans in tears when she sang Hold My Hand at a pre-Super Bowl performance in New Orleans on Sunday, dedicated the number to the victims of the New Year's Day terror attackLady Gaga is shooting back up the charts (
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Lady Gaga has returned to her bold pop ways - after being reportedly spurred on by her fiancé.
Gaga’s hubby-to-be Michael Polansky, 41, urged her to go back to her roots, it is understood, after years of toning down her Âheadline-grabbing antics. The 38-year-old singer shocked the world by wearing a meat dress to the MTV Video Music Awards in LA 15 years ago but changed her image since then.
Speaking this week, Gaga said: "Michael is the person who told me to make a new pop record. He was like, 'Babe. I love you. You need to make pop music'."
And in the video for new song Abracadabra, the superstar, born in New York, wears spiked latex and lace. Abracadabra reached 17th in the UK charts last week, despite only being out for five days.
Since its release, Gaga, real name Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, gave a moving pre-Super Bowl performance in New Orleans - dedicating it to the victims of the New Year's Day terror attack.
Lady Gaga is pictured in the video for new hit Abracadabra
The new look echos the singer's wild image she portrayed - with a red meat dress - in 2010 (
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Michael, who has a writing credit on Gaga’s 2024 single Disease, says seeing her perform some of her classic hits on the road made him push for her to get back in the Âstudio.
The businessman The Sun : "On the ÂChromatica tour, I saw a fire in her. I wanted to help her keep that alive all the time and just start making music that made her happy."
But Gaga has not had a solo chart-topper in the UK since 2009's Bad Romance, back when she had a risqué persona and wild public fashion sense. Abracadabra is a step in that direction as the video features the singer in a red latex cape held together with real nails. She also dons matching spiked latex hat and long black latex fetish gloves in the footage.
At the Grammys earlier this month, she looked characteristically eccentric in a long black wig, gothic gown and stilettos as she and Bruno Mars picked up the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance award for their duet Die With A Smile.
When Gaga shocked the world with the red meat dress, she claimed the look was a statement about equality and fighting for what you believe in. However, the release of her fifth album Joanne in 2016 saw a change in the singer’s outlandish style, as she adopted ripped denim shorts and cowboy hat in line with the album’s country theme.