Girl Gaga has revealed that the lyrics to ‘Poker Face’ have a secret – homosexual – which means (Getty Photos)
Girl Gaga has revealed that the lyrics to her smash hit single “Poker Face” have a really homosexual hidden which means.
Launched in 2008, “Poker Face” is one among pop icon Girl Gaga’s most immediately recognisable songs, with gambling-themed lyrics crammed with metaphorical references to intercourse.
However, acting at her ‘Jazz & Piano’ residency in Las Vegas, Gaga was filmed sat behind a piano, and earlier than launching into the tune, which reached primary on varied charts, teased that the actual which means of the lyrics are an entire lot gayer than at first hear.
“I wager you didn’t know this tune was about having intercourse with males and serious about girls,” she stated, to rapturous applause from the group.
“Now that’s my sort of poker face,” she added.
The tune consists of the traces: “Can’t learn my, can’t learn my/ No, he can’t learn my poker face/ (She’s acquired me like no person).”
Within the video, Gaga stated to the viewers: “Come on, sing alongside, I do know you’ve carried out it” – with ‘it’ being having intercourse with a person and imagining it’s a girl.
Gaga spoke in regards to the tune being a reference to bisexuality in 2009, shortly after the one’s launch, telling Jonathon Ross she’d “take into consideration girls” whereas “having intercourse along with her boyfriend.”
The icon then additional referred to as the banger an “ode to bisexuality” in 2021.
In 2013, Gaga proudly got here out bisexual. Throughout a 2013 launch get together for her album Artpop she stated: “You recognize what? It’s not a lie that I’m bisexual and I like girls, and anybody that wishes to twist this into ‘she says she’s bisexual for advertising and marketing’, it is a f**king lie. That is who I’m and who I’ve all the time been.”
Girl Gaga hasn’t simply been teasing queer meanings to her songs in current months; she’s additionally carried out on the Olympics opening ceremony in Paris 2024, and starred in one other trailer for Joker sequel, Folie à Deux, reverse Joaquin Phoenix.
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