Lady Gaga, "Why did you do that?" – Rolling Stone

For Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga, the most controversial and criticized element of A star is born is a simple plot point. After spending the first half of the film in Ally, Gaga falls in love with rock rock star and alcoholic Cooper, Jackson Maine, and plays his songs across the country with him during his tour, she gets her own contract. A famous manager, Rez (Rafi Gavron), decides to take her as a client and puts her for the first time in the studio. Under Rez's direction, Ally eventually drifted away from Jackson's sound to become that of a full-fledged pop star. Her hair is orange, she is supported by two dancers and is seen for the first time in makeup and designer dresses. This is not the Ally we met, but it is the Allied who is doing it alone and without the help of a famous husband, although less well now.

This part of the film has been interpreted in many ways. On the one hand, Jackson is more supportive of Ally's career than previous incarnations of A star is born men leads. He helps him record his first song, the catchy love song "Look What I Found," and encourages him to stay and finish recording his album instead of coming to Memphis with him. However, watching her play "Why did you do that?" In an episode of Saturday Night Live pushes him to drink after a brief period of half-sobriety.

A little dramatic, no? Of course, the moment Ally dives into the song is meant to be discordant on many levels. This is the first time we meet the pop star in its own right. This is the point where she feels the farthest from modest Ally, the audience and Jackson met at the beginning. While she's rebuffed the idea of ​​using dancers on stage, she has several against which she turns and turns on herself. No piano in sight for the girl who had trouble performing without playing a single during her first studio session. Plus, the lyrics are of an extreme level of over-the-top. "Why do you come around me with a donkey like this?" She asks, a line designed to catch you off guard.

This moment, as well as a few others during Jackson's drunken stupor, seem to make an argument against pop, which intrinsically feels like an argument against Lady Gaga herself, one of the biggest advocates of the brilliant catch-dance Ally. When the song gets a Grammy nomination, a bleeding blackout, Jackson is not only baffled, but angry at Ally for letting go of the person he thought was the happiest. Ally herself, however, struggles primarily with the presentation but seems truly delighted with the music that she produces and interprets.

In film and television, many "bad" songs have been written, but very few have been written by true pop stars. It's so intoxicating to listen to "Why did you do that?": Here's Gaga trying to make a Grammy-worthy song, that someone like Jackson will hate. it's really great. This is his "sold bop" as fans have called on Twitter. Its peak Fame-a Gaga: a vampy flirt with a penchant for a hook that you will not forget for years. This is no different than "Just Dance", "Poker Face" or "Love Game". She argues convincingly not only that Ally is an overnight success in the movie, but she actually made it plausible that the Ally would succeed now, on the charts and on radio today.

Gaga did not have a French pop-pop hit that sounded like, "Why did you do that?" For a while ASIBshe has become amazing enough to hit a power ballad in recent years. But in pure Gaga style (or maybe even ironic), he had to embody someone else completely to find the root of one of his greatest skills: a pop inventive and avant-garde. artist.