LoveGame is a single from The Fame wrote in January 2008 in one week with Just Dance and Poker Face. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Gaga explained the meaning of the song and her inspiration behind it, especially for the line "Let's have some fun this beat is sick / I wanna take a ride on your disco stick".
| “ | It's another of my very thoughtful metaphors for a cock. I was at a nightclub, and I had quite a sexual crush on somebody, and I said to them, 'I wanna ride on your disco stick'. The next day, I was in the studio, and I wrote the song in about four minutes. When I play the song live, I have an actual stick — it looks like a giant rock-candy pleasuring tool — that lights up. | ” |
—Lady Gaga | ||
LoveGame is also about the implication of a kiss ("I wanna kiss you") when you met someone on the dancefloor and you kiss them. This kiss can lead to either falling in love or just a quick fuck and never speak again with the guy or girl.
Composition
Musically "LoveGame" is an up-tempo dance-pop song with a dance-oriented beat. According to Kerri Mason of Billboard, the composition "carry the pleather-and-sequins vibe of the downtown New York scene out of the underground and onto the FM dial without losing its smut and sass." It is set in the time signature of common time and is composed in the key of B minor with a musical tempo of 104 beats per minute. Gaga's vocal range spans from the high tonal node of B3 to the low tone of G5. The song is built in the chord progression of Am–Dm–C–Am–Dm–C in the verses and choruses. "LoveGame" received a number of remix treatments, one of which featured rocker Marilyn Manson in the vocals. Gaga explained that the lyrics of "LoveGame" were very clear about what the song is all about. She thought that the lyrics portrayed a powerful message about love, fame and sexuality which was the central theme of her album The Fame.
Versions
LoveGame was remixed with some slight changes at the end of the song. This version is available on every copy except the original pressing.
Chew Fu Guettohouse Fix
Most of Gaga single receive the remix treatment but this one is special. According to Chew Fu, "She loved it so much that she asked Marilyn Manson to record over it." In fact, she even plays Marilyn Manson part at the end of her live performance of LoveGame. This extended live version started around the Glastonbury Festival in 2009.
Live performance
For more performances see "Live Performances".
Commercial Release
- Main Article: LoveGame (single)
Music video
- Main Article: LoveGame (music video)
Reference in popular culture
- In the "Dude, Where's My Groom?" episode of CSI: Miami, the song was used during the strip club scene.
Lyrics
Let’s have some fun this beat is sick
I wanna take a ride on your disco stick
Let’s have some fun this beat is sick
I wanna take a ride on your disco stick
Huh, Huh
I wanna kiss you
But if I do then I might miss you babe
It’s complicated and stupid
Got my ass squeezed by sexy Cupid
Guess he wants to play
Wants to play
A LoveGame
A LoveGame
Hold me and love me
Just wanna touch you for a minute
Maybe three seconds is enough for my heart to quit it
Let’s have some fun this beat is sick
I wanna take a ride on your disco stick
Don't think too much just bust that kick
I wanna take a ride on your disco stick
Let’s play a LoveGame
Play a LoveGame
Do you want love?
Or you want fame?
Are you in the game?
Dans the LoveGame
Let’s play a LoveGame
Play a LoveGame
Do you want love?
Or you want fame?
Are you in the game?
Dans the LoveGame
I’m on a mission
And it involves some heavy touching, yeah
You've indicated your interest
I’m educated in sex, yes
And now I want it bad
Want it bad
A LoveGame
A LoveGame
Hold me and love me
Just wanna touch you for a minute
Maybe three seconds is enough for my heart to quit it
Huh, Huh
I can see you staring there from across the block
With a smile on your mouth and your hand on your, Huh!
The story of us, it always starts the same
With a boy and a girl and a huh! and a game
And a game
And a game
And a game
A LoveGame
Music
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Personnel
Publishing(BMI) Sony/ATV Songs, LLC/ House of Gaga Publishing (BMI) |
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