The most outré thing the singer has done for her latest album is to sing duets with Tony Bennett. Is there a commercial angle to her current persona?Two years ago,Lady Gaga released an album of relentless Eurodisco titled Artpop. She appeared at its launch party in an outfit that hovered – “Volantis, the world’s first flying dress”. She fired her manager even before the album – which tanked – was released. These were the death throes, or critics concluded,of a career overburdened by artifice and spectacle.Now Gaga has fashioned a comeback: not with a current act of overt transgression, but singing jazz standards with Tony Bennett, and embracing red-carpet Hollywood style,and broadly rejecting the excess of the past.Continue reading...,
Source: theguardian.com