In a 2009 interview with Rolling Stone, Gaga recalled her relationship with a heavy metal drummer called Luke, who became an inspiration for most of the songs on The Fame, including "Paparazzi". "Paparazzi" was one of the songs written by Gaga and Fusari who also produced the track. īy 2008, Gaga relocated to Los Angeles to work extensively with her record label to complete her debut album, The Fame, and set up her own creative team called the Haus of Gaga. Towards the end of 2007, Gaga's management company introduced her to songwriter and producer RedOne, whom they also managed. Although the musical relationship between Fusari and Gaga was unsuccessful at first, the pair soon started writing more songs for Gaga. He also created the "Lady Gaga" moniker after the Queen song " Radio Ga Ga". While working together, he compared some of her vocal harmonies to those of Freddie Mercury, lead singer of Queen. Gaga traveled daily to New Jersey to work on songs she had written and compose new material with Fusari. īefore she rose to fame, Lady Gaga met music producer Rob Fusari in March 2006 and began dating him in May. Gaga talking about the different aspects of the song. They're not necessarily doing fine arts – something they put in the museums – but it's an art form. What am I really trying to say here? What will the act of me writing this song really do? Me making a conscious decision to write about the paparazzi – I thought about performance art and shock art and how Paris Hilton and her sister and Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie are shock artists in their own way. Additional live performances of the song took place on her concert tours, more recently the Joanne World Tour (2017–2018). Gaga performed the song at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards in a performance art piece symbolizing the negative effect of fame leading to death. The video won two MTV Video Music Awards in 2009 for Best Art Direction and Best Special Effects. It shows her survival, comeback, revenge on her boyfriend, and experiences on the way to fame. The accompanying music video was directed by Jonas Åkerlund and portrays Gaga as a doomed starlet, hounded by photographers, who is almost killed by her boyfriend (played by Alexander Skarsgård). It was also commercially successful, reaching top-ten positions in the music charts of Australia, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States and topping the charts in the Czech Republic, Germany and Scotland. "Paparazzi" was critically acclaimed for its "fun-filled" and club-friendly nature. " LoveGame" initially had been planned as the third single release in the UK, but when its lyrics and music video were deemed potentially controversial, it was decided that "Paparazzi" would be released instead. On July 6, 2009, it was released digitally in Ireland and the United Kingdom and four days later physically in Australia. The single was released on May 29, 2009, through the music video.
Musically, it is an uptempo techno-pop and dance-pop song whose lyrics describe a stalker following somebody to grab attention and fame. The song portrays Gaga's struggles in her quest for fame, as well as balancing success and love. Gaga wrote and produced the song with Rob Fusari. It was released as the album's fifth and final single by Interscope Records. In so doing, they remind the viewer that although she may perceive female music video stars as objects of fantasy, as fantasies they are not always under her control." Paparazzi" is a song by American singer Lady Gaga from her debut studio album, The Fame (2008). These “errors” open up intervals of frustration-and potential critical reflection-in the playback and, by extension, in the temporal structures of fantasy. Working inside the genre of corporate music video and the logic of the glitch, performers like Madonna and Lady Gaga make visible their ambivalent relationships to patriarchal, heterocentric video culture through simulated freezes and drop outs in the streaming image. Some female performers recognized the potential of this electronic disruption to interrupt the male gaze and the traditional objectification of the female body. During the ascension and commodification of Web 2.0, online music videos became host to a new kind of glitch: the digital stutter of insufficient buffering in Adobe Flash Player and other streaming media software.
This article appears in the Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media edited by Carol Vernallis, Amy Herzog, and John Richardson.
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