But the collection was made available on September 30, so it is officially eligible to compete for the 2022 Grammys. “Love for Sale” was released to major music platforms on October 1, the day after the current Grammys eligibility period ended. Their collaboration of “complement and contrast” “works surprisingly well,” and they perform like they’re “having a blast.” Reviewers say Bennet sings like he’s “got these songs under his skin,” like he was “born this way,” while Gaga “does a brilliant job” of accompanying him. Those three mixed reviews, though, score the album 60 out of 100, which is right on MetaCritic’s cutoff line between positive and mixed, so there’s affection all around for the album. Though they’re vastly different icons, from entirely different generations, it’s testament to their power that both artists find their own voices in such timeless classics.SEE Lady Gaga songs, ranked: Her top 25 greatest hits including ‘Rain on Me,’ ‘Shallow,’ ‘Born This Way’ and moreĪs of this writing the album has a MetaCritic score of 72 based on seven reviews counted thus far: four positive and three somewhat mixed, but none outright negative. These subtle touches liven up what might otherwise be a fairly wholesome covers record. In Gaga’s hands, certain lyrics take on a tongue in cheek contemporary meaning: “But baby, if I’m the bottom, you’re the top” she sings with a smirk on the album closer. ‘Love For Sale’ is best when Bennett and Gaga playfully trade lines and sing in unison, with the veteran singer countering his collaborator’s belting vocal with artful restraint. And though Bennett’s voice has become rougher and raspier with age, it lends the record a pleasing rawness. On ‘Love For Sale’, she channels the arm-swinging enthusiasm of a milkmaid dancing through an Oliver! show tune: “Who will buy?” she hollers.
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At times, it all feels very jazz-hands singing solo on ‘Let’s Do It’, Gaga goes full musical theatre, humming appreciatively as trumpeter Brian Newman lets rip with a solo.
Spanning some of Porter’s best-known classics, the tracklist also includes Frank Sinatra’s Porter-penned signature songs ‘I’ve Got You Under My Skin’ and ‘I Get a Kick Out of You’. A celebration of Cole Porter’s parping Broadway tunes, the album is also something of a swan song for Bennett, who recently announced that he’s retiring.
Seven years later, the unlikely pals have teamed up a second time for ‘Love For Sale’. It could’ve easily been a schmaltz-fest in lesser hands, but the pairing seemed to invigorate both artists instead, tapping into the jazz clubs Gaga sang in as a teenager in New York, and re-contextualising Bennett’s crooning cool for a new generation. After recording a cover of ‘The Lady Is The Tramp’ for Bennett’s album ‘Duets II’ they joined forces for the collaborative ‘Cheek to Cheek’ in 2014. Lady Gaga, meanwhile, has long been a master of exploring the many facets of boundary-pushing pop, drawing on everything from Eurotrash (second album ’Born This Way) and country-tinged soft-rock (2016’s ‘Joanne’) to the futuristic cyberpunk of her most recent studio album 2020’s ‘Chromatica’.ĭespite their obvious differences, the two originally clicked a decade ago, when Bennett watched Lady Gaga performing Nat King Cole’s ‘Orange Colored Sky’ at a charity do. Immaculately dressed in a procession of smart suits, Bennett is as classic as it gets the 95-year-old bringing timeless big band tunes to life with his effortlessly smooth pipes since the late 1940s. At first glance, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga seem like polar opposites.
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