It's one of the most tweeted, blogged and hyped pop singles in recent memory. The title was announced more than six months ago, with the lyrics leaked piecemeal by the lady herself. Elton John has claimed it's "the new gay anthem", Justin Bieber and James Blunt tried to predict what it would sound like, while others have criticised the racial terminology in the lyrics. It was due to premiere on US radio at 6am EST, but has since been shoved online by Perez Hilton. 
 
 So what does it sound like? Well, a lot like Madonna's Express Yourself, so much so that those two words are currently trending on Twitter. There's also some spoken-word bits a la the Material Girl (as no one calls her any more), but it doesn't sound copycat, more a knowing nod and a cute wink. 
 
 Born This Way is a thumping, almost disco anthem that stomps along until the chorus crashes in with the weight of a discarded meat dress. Lyrically, it's all love yourself whoever you are and "don't be a drag, just be a queen". Within the ridiculously camp musical context, the lyrics sound a lot less heavy-handed than it would suggest. One suspects it will probably shift a few copies. 
 
 ||||| Intro 
 
 It doesn't matter if you love him, or capital H-I-M 
 
 Just put your paws up 
 
 'cause you were Born This Way, Baby 
 
 Verse 
 
 My Mama told me when I was young 
 
 We are all born stars 
 
 She rolled my hair and put my lipstick on 
 
 In the glass of her boudoir 
 
 "There's nothing wrong with lovin' who you are" 
 
 She said, "Cause he made you perfect, babe." 
 
 "So hold your head up girl and you'll go far, 
 
 Listen to me when I say" 
 
 Chorus 
 
 I'm beautiful in my way 
 
 Cause God makes no mistakes 
 
 I'm on the right track baby 
 
 I was born this way 
 
 Don't hide yourself in regret 
 
 Just love yourself and you're set 
 
 I'm on the right track baby 
 
 I was born this way 
 
 Post-Chorus 
 
 Ooo there ain't no other way 
 
 Baby I was born this way 
 
 Baby I was born this way 
 
 Ooo there ain't no other way 
 
 Baby I was born this way 
 
 Baby I was born this way 
 
 Ooo there ain't no other way 
 
 Baby I was born this way 
 
 I'm on the right track baby 
 
 I was born this way 
 
 Don't be a drag, just be a queen 
 
 Don't be a drag, just be a queen 
 
 Don't be! 
 
 Verse 
 
 Give yourself prudence 
 
 And love your friends 
 
 Subway kid, rejoice your truth 
 
 In the religion of the insecure 
 
 I must be myself, respect my youth 
 
 A different lover is not a sin 
 
 Believe capital H-I-M (hey hey hey) 
 
 I love my life I love this record and 
 
 Mi amore vole fe yah (love needs faith) 
 
 Repeat Chorus and Post-chorus 
 
 Bridge 
 
 Don't be a drag, be a queen 
 
 Whether you're broke or evergreen 
 
 You're black, white, beige chola descent 
 
 You're Lebanese, You're Orient 
 
 Whether life's disabilities 
 
 Left you outcast, bullied or teased 
 
 Rejoice and love yourself today 
 
 Cause baby you we're born this way 
 
 No matter gay, straight, or bi 
 
 Lesbian, transgendered life 
 
 I'm on the right track baby 
 
 I was born to survive 
 
 No matter black, white or beige 
 
 Chola or Orient made 
 
 I'm on the right track baby 
 
 I was born to be brave 
 
 Repeat Chorus 
 
 Outro/Refrain 
 
 I was born this way hey! 
 
 I was born this way hey! 
 
 I'm on the right track baby 
 
 I was born this way hey! 
 
 I was born this way hey! 
 
 I was born this way hey! 
 
 I'm on the right track baby 
 
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 Good news about Lady Gaga: She’s smart enough to know precisely when to stop acting smart. 
 
 Consider this: I just woke up, at five-thirty in the morning, to attend to the unveiling of her big new single, “Born This Way.” (Big enough that there was basically no question, before anyone even heard the thing, that it would run straight to No. 1 on the charts  Billboard’s 1,000th official chart-topper, actually.) I dragged diligently out of bed. I made a serious pot of coffee. I got all psyched to bring as much high-level analytical skill as I could muster to whatever this song turned out to be. Time to make the critical doughnuts, etc.  no point in rolling out of bed early just to say “nice song.” 
 
 And this one seemed like it might be complicated, too. Because we’d already seen the lyrics to “Born This Way,” and I can’t even tell you how skeptical they made me. “You’re black, white, beige, chola descent / You’re Lebanese, you’re Orient?” Gaga said she wrote this in ten minutes; rhyming “chola descent” with “Orient” is what happens when you do that. The main hook  “don’t be a drag, just be a queen”  that’s a good one, good for pop, applicable to all. But it comes after months and months of what one terrific critic has already called “The Great Gay Pander-Off of 2010”: A long run of housey dance tunes in which half the women of pop sing reassuringly about embracing and celebrating ourselves for whoever we are. 
 
 These songs are all fundamentally good-hearted and probably good for the world, but they’re also strange. They nod to gay struggles, or all the attention that’s been paid to bullying and suicide. (Ke$ha has variously claimed that “We R Who We R” was inspired by teen suicide, or else by seeing a drag show long before “It Gets Better” was a thing.) But the real goal is to do what pop does, and open up that circle of self-acceptance to anyone who wants in. And that’s something worth thinking about, and maybe even being skeptical of, because at some point we might all start using gay men as simple totems or avatars for whatever little personal struggles we go through, right down to the point where some horrible egomaniac on a reality-TV show starts talking about having been born that way. This is a weird amount of pop songs in which, to put it really bluntly, white women point to gay men to explain to all of us how to survive. Not bad, just weird. Because all of these songs get to look like they're giving something to a community they're really taking something from. 
 
 “Born This Way” opens up the circle as wide as it can, shouting out ethnic backgrounds with fascinating specificity, and working in a line about the disabled. Never mind that I guarantee you Lady Gaga will eventually make some aesthetic choice that offends or disappoints members of every community she reaches out to. Consider instead that the greatest trick Lady Gaga has pulled  the thing that makes her a genuinely impressive pop star  is creating an atmosphere where people can legitimately feel like revolutionary all-embracing gender-queering “little monsters” by listening to one of the most popular artists in the country. That’s rare and makes for vital pop. 
 
 And it’s with all this in mind that I sit down with the serious pot of coffee and listen to “Born This Way,” wondering what all will be in there and how it will make me feel about all these issues, wondering what kind of musical presentation can possibly pull off these somewhat bonkers lyrics about being-who-you-are  (the only people excluded by this type of song are those who are not exactly sure who they are in the first place)  and the answer comes and it’s bonkers mecha-disco! The sound of Lady Gaga shouting in my ear that I am totally overthinking things, this time. The song’s so disco that the mention of a mother’s “boudoir” in the first verse becomes totally natural and hilarious. The song’s so disco that the line about people being “Orient-made” barely even registers, because it sounds like something nobody would have thought twice about saying in 1978. The vocals are so bonkers disco that I almost wish we could make them extra-bonkers by having Christina Aguilera sing them. Beyond which, this song has Gaga, an artist constantly compared to Madonna, cheerfully swiping some melodies from Madonna's "Express Yourself"  because this is not the kind of song where that feels like a big deal, or anything much at all seems like a big deal. 
 
 I guess I’d forgotten that this is the thing to do when you’ve reached the top, and everyone is celebrating you and awaiting your next move: Just sort of celebrate back. “Born This Way” is loose and uncomplicated and fundamentally just fun; it uses fans’ goodwill toward Gaga to throw a party instead of an art happening. After a year of everyone up to Camille Paglia bringing all kinds of intense critical thought to everything Gaga does  what does she mean, what is she saying, what is her effect on the culture  this is smart: Come raging back with something simple, gleeful, and straightforward. 
 
 My bad! ||||| Finally! Hear Lady Gaga's New Song 'Born This Way' 
 
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 After months of hype and teasing, Lady Gaga debuted her new single, 'Born This Way,' this morning. The track, written by Gaga and produced by DJ White Shadow, Gaga and Fernando Garibay, makes good use of the diva's big voice and penchant for drama, combining powerhouse vocals with in-your-face lyrics about race and sexuality. It also sounds an awful lot like Madonna's 'Express Yourself,' which is 
 
 
 
 I wrote ['Born This Way'] in 10 f**king minutes," Gaga told She's on the right track, baby!After months of hype and teasing, Lady Gaga debuted her new single, 'Born This Way,' this morning. The track, written by Gaga and produced by DJ White Shadow, Gaga and Fernando Garibay, makes good use of the diva's big voice and penchant for drama, combining powerhouse vocals with in-your-face lyrics about race and sexuality. It also sounds an awful lot like Madonna's 'Express Yourself,' which is causing a commotion on Twitter.I wrote ['Born This Way'] in 10 f**king minutes," Gaga told Vogue . "And it is a completely magical message song. And after I wrote it, the gates just opened, and the songs kept coming. It was like an immaculate conception." 
 
 The pop star will perform the song on Sunday at the Grammy Awards, where she is nominated for six prizes, including Album of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.Gaga has been hyping the track for months. She sent her fans into a frenzy in September at the MTV Video Music Awards by launching into an a cappella take on the song's chorus. In late January, she leaked the lyrics to 'Born This Way' on Twitter, and soon thereafter announced that she was moving up the single's release date from Feb. 13 to Feb. 11, tweeting , "Can't wait any longer.""I think 'Born This Way' is the kind of record that if you are really paying attention you will get the full depth of Gaga as a songwriter," Akon, a frequent Gaga collaborator who signed the pop star to his Kon Live Distribution label in 2007, recently told. "Sometimes, the creative image hides the element of her lyrical content. That's why she wanted to give people a better idea of what she was saying outside of her image when she dropped those lyrics."Gaga's new album, also titled 'Born This Way,' drops on May 23.So, are you loving 'Born this Way' as much as we are? Let us know in the comments.
– Lady Gaga’s new single is here (click here to listen), and, shockingly, the Guardian notes, the throngs of people freaking out over it has not yet broken the Internet. Early reactions: It sounds "a lot like Madonna’s 'Express Yourself,'" writes Michael Cragg for the Guardian. “So much so that those two words are currently trending on Twitter.” The spoken-word parts definitely hearken back to the Material Girl, but ultimately Cragg deems the song less a copycat, more “a knowing nod and a cute wink.” And while it might be “ridiculously camp ... one suspects it will probably shift a few copies.” The Sun is slightly less forgiving, concurring with many Twitter users that the song “bears more than a passing resemblance” to Madonna’s 1989 track. The newspaper notes that one Twitter user even claims, “you can literally sing the original over this one.” Nitsuh Abebe went into his first listen of the track completely prepared to analyze its deeper meaning, especially in regards to the gay community, but was soon overwhelmed by the fact that the song is “bonkers mecha-disco,” he writes in New York. “The song’s so disco that the line about people being ‘Orient-made’ barely even registers, because it sounds like something nobody would have thought twice about saying in 1978.” The Huffington Post notes that some believe this will become “a legendary anthem.” One of those people is Elton John, who told Rolling Stone he believes “Born This Way” will “obliterate 'I Will Survive.' I can't think of how huge it's going to be." Click for more on the song, or to listen.