- TONY BENNETT LADY GAGA CHEEK TO CHEEK ITUNES MOVIE
- TONY BENNETT LADY GAGA CHEEK TO CHEEK ITUNES SKIN
Nothing matters except that we are together and we are having a conversation with jazz." And Cheek to Cheek is the most simple and most beautiful way you can describe this relationship. "It's meant to be sung till the end of time. She smiles reverently at him before carrying on. Gaga is dressed demurely, for her: today's wig is one colour (black) and one length (long).īennett, sitting in an adjacent armchair, is smartly suited and coiffed. Her New York accent is strong, but she seems to be dialling down her normal impassioned speaking style in deference to a man of whom she's clearly in awe. "This is the Great American Songbook," she continues.
Those are big shoes to fill and to her credit, Gaga does a genre-appropriate and respectful job.
TONY BENNETT LADY GAGA CHEEK TO CHEEK ITUNES MOVIE
"Well, that was the first record we talked about actually," says Gaga of a song written for the 1935 Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie Top Hat. lang.īut on Cheek to Cheek, both the song and the album, it only takes two to tango. It was a crowded compilation that had the elder statesman partnering with 16 other singers, including Amy Winehouse, Michael Bublé, Aretha Franklin and k.d. The jumping-off point for the project was "something they did together": a recording of The Lady Is a Tramp that opened Bennett's 2011 album Duets II. Presented close-up with this evidence of her devotion, I swear the old-school singer blanches a little.
TONY BENNETT LADY GAGA CHEEK TO CHEEK ITUNES SKIN
The skin is still red, raw and angry-looking. True to form, she has put her art on her sleeve – a Bennett sketch of Miles Davis's trumpet, including the artist's signature ("Benedetto"), is tattooed on her arm. Their simpatico relationship is also evident on Gaga's flesh. Five songs from that "whole collaboration", a covers album called Cheek to Cheek, are today being unveiled through giant speakers. This is evident in an uptown recording studio, where Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett are sitting together. "And I've been sitting in the studio and it has just been incredible. "Tony heard her, they did something together, and then he said, 'Let's do a whole collaboration,' " recounts a pleased-as-punch Mr Germanotta.
He also called her "the Picasso of pop", a claim that holds slightly more water than it might otherwise given Bennett's status as a keen painter. When Bennett first heard her, he confidently predicted she'd be "bigger than Elvis". The quintessential modern pop star, with her 42 million Twitter followers – or, Little Monsters, as they proudly and devotionally style themselves – myriad costume changes, outrageous wigs, over-the-top concert spectaculars, admissions of emotional and narcotic weakness and dresses made of meat. Credit:Steven KleinĪnd then there's Lady Gaga.
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