

Because truly, the thing that I’m searching for the most is to feel connected to humanity, to feel connected as a person.

“It’s also a record about me trying to understand myself and wondering where I’m going next in life. “This record was about me trying to understand my father, and his grief,” she said in a statement announcing the album last month. Like her father’s New York City restaurant, it is named after Gaga’s aunt Joanne Germanotta, who passed away from Lupus in 1974 at the age of 19. Joanne is officially released on 21 October.

The lyrics also seem to be more personal and emotive than the high-concept self-empowerment anthems of Born This Way and The Fame Monster. Gaga has opted for a “live” feel throughout, rejecting the synthesized beats of her earlier albums for a combination of rootsy Americana and power pop. Just Another Day is a country ballad about the star’s break-up with fiance Taylor Kinney, in which she sings: “We both know I could learn a thing or two about relaxing.” Lady Gaga has been previewing the new album in a tour of American “dive bars” The 30-second clips have been recorded and shared online by several fans, with one video showing Amazon’s speaker lighting up and responding to the voice commands.Īmong the leaked songs are Hey Girl, in which Gaga duets with Florence Welch of Florence + The Machine over a stomping, staccato piano line reminiscent of Elton Johns’s Benny and the Jets. Owners of Amazon’s Echo speaker then discovered they could access songs by issuing the instruction: “Play Joanne by Lady Gaga.”
