Chewing on Pearls

On this episode of Chewing on Pearls, we continue our series celebrating 15 years of Born This Way!
Join us as we discuss the aesthetically rich and biblically referential music video for Lady Gaga's "Judas," directed by Gaga in tandem with Laurieann Gibson. We journey to neo-Jerusalem with Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and their crew of motorcycle gang apostles, dissect the visual treatment's references, choreography, fashion, and beauty, and bear witness to what Gaga called a "cultural baptism"... all as she negotiates her relationship to criticism, romantic love, and her Catholic upbringing.
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Hosted and produced by Tom and Patrick.
Intro and outro created using Lady Gaga's "I Like it Rough" and SFX from freesound.org.

On this episode of Chewing on Pearls, we kick-off our series celebrating 15 years of Born This Way!
Join us as we discuss the fantastically bizarre and visually dense psychedelic space opera that is the Nick Knight directed film "Born This Way". Steeped in surrealism, camp, and primordial goo, the music video explores Gaga's vision of a new race born without prejudice through otherworldly fashions, choreography inspired by modern dance pioneers, and the punk ethos of owning exactly who you are.
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Hosted and produced by Tom and Patrick.
Intro and outro created using Lady Gaga's "I Like it Rough" and SFX from freesound.org.

On this episode of Chewing on Pearls, we spit fact and spew fiction in another installment of our current events series, THAT’S GOSSIP. We discuss Gaga's appearance at the Super Bowl in Bad Bunny's monumental halftime show, the final leg of The MAYHEM Ball, rumors about Gaga's masters and The MAYHEM Ball tour film, recent Liza-related press, and The Devil Wears Prada 2.
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Hosted and produced by Tom and Patrick.
Intro and outro created using Lady Gaga's "I Like it Rough" and SFX from freesound.org.

On this episode of Chewing on Pearls, we discuss Lady Gaga's appearance at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards, including her performance of "Abracadabra", her win for Best Pop Vocal Album, and her fashions throughout the event. We also chat about our Grammys viewing party and speculate about Gaga's evolving relationship to her craft.
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Hosted and produced by Tom and Patrick.
Intro and outro created using Lady Gaga's "I Like it Rough" and SFX from freesound.org.

On this episode of Chewing on Pearls, we're back with an installment of our series ~CHEWED~ where we break down our favorite live performances where Gaga... well, chewed!
Since Gaga is currently touring The MAYHEM Ball in Japan, we decided to discuss three of our favorite acoustic performances she's given over the years on the Japanese morning talk show Sukkiri: 2009's "Poker Face", 2013's "Applause", and 2016's "Perfect Illusion". We find each of these performances uniquely powerful, so check them out at the links below:
Poker Face – 2009
Applause – 2013
Perfect Illusion – 2016

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Hosted and produced by Tom and Patrick.
Intro and outro created using Lady Gaga's "I Like it Rough" and SFX from freesound.org.