“How bad you want me” has quickly turned into a Favorite track of the fanatics since Lady GagaThe new album, DownfallBut he almost left the song on the floor of the studio.
“I almost didn’t put this on the album,” the 38 -year -old pop star revealed Bowen Yang and Matt RogersPodcast “Las Culturists”. Oscarscar’s winner explained that the song, despite having a “total hyperpop” sound, is much more personal than listeners could realize.
)(My promise) Michael (Polansky) And I started this song at home, but I started it first and heard me sing. And he goes from the kitchen and he goes, “It’s about me?” And I was like “no”, he recalled with a laugh. “And then he went in and we started to finish,” together. This song embodies the feeling that I probably had all my life, which is that I always felt archetype like the “bad girl”.
Gaga acknowledged that the lyrics of the song are “a bit fun” with their references to “Jeans torn” and tattoos, but they reflect their own mixed feelings about his so -called “bad girl” image.
“I have always felt this … Shame I have always been at war, this feeling that if I am interested in someone who really wants a good girl, but they are stuck with me,” he said. “And I am to whom they want, but we are in this relationship with three sides and there is no other real girl. The good girl is on your head and they are a bit comparing -all the time me. “”
She added, “It’s also so fun because it’s a fun pop song, but I cried when I wrote it.”
Once the song was over, Gaga said he doubted to put it DownfallBut Polansky encouraged her to keep her on the final track list.
“Michael was like” you have to do it, your fans will love this song, “he said.” Sometimes, when things are really super pop, I have a strange reaction. I felt like this about “just dancing”, thanks to God I didn’t hear then. “
Since Downfall Dropped Friday, March 7, “How Bad Do y Want Me” has become one of the most discussed songs on the album. The track initially made headlines when fans began to ask -if they heard Taylor Swift Singing background vowels in the melody, which in First Listen sounds a bit like some of Swift’s work with frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff.
A privileged confirmed at Use weeklyBut, that Swift, 35, does not appear to the song. Gaga has previously expressed his love for Swift, so it is not too distant to imagine that a collaboration could still spend a day.
“I go to the Internet and, like, I cry,” Gaga said Fashion of Swift in September 2024, emphasizing that it is also fan of Billie Earth, Charli xcx and Chappell Roan. “And I also love Taylor Swift. And Kesha. I see everything and I am like “, yes. Go! Just go.”
