Girl Gaga’s infectious new single “Abracadabra” is a return to kind for the Grammy-winning star – in additional methods than one.
Not solely does the heavy, industrial-inspired pop manufacturing hark again to her The Fame Monster and Born This Method days, and the accompanying video is definitely among the many better of her profession, however the track’s refrain additionally consists of a number of the nonsense “jibberish” fashion singing beforehand heard on the early hits like “Unhealthy Romance” and “Poker Face.”
Or, at the very least, that’s the way it may seem. However Gaga being Gaga, she managed to sneak a hidden which means into the combination.
“Abracadabra, amor-ooh-na-na, abracadabra, morta-ooh-ga-ga,” she sings on the refrain, and whereas it would seem to be she’s simply put phrases collectively to get us dancing, there’s really extra to the track than first seems.
“Amor” and “morta” are each Latin phrases referring to “love” and “demise”, the track’s two predominant themes, that are each overarching concepts Gaga will discover on her much-hyped new album Mayhem.
She additionally says within the closing line of the refrain that the character referred to as the “woman in pink” sings “in her personal tongue, ‘demise and love’ tonight”, confirming the Latin phrases’ use may be very a lot deliberate.