Venus (Lady Gaga song)

"Venus"

One of three covers released alongside the track.
Promotional single by Lady Gaga from the album Artpop
Released October 27, 2013 (2013-10-27)
Format Digital download
Recorded 2013
Genre
Length 3:54
Label
Writer(s)
Producer(s) Lady Gaga
Artpop track listing

"Aura"
(1)		 "Venus"
(2)		 "G.U.Y."
(3)

"Venus" is a song recorded by American singer Lady Gaga for her third studio album, Artpop (2013). It was written and produced by Gaga, along with other songwriters including Paul "DJ White Shadow" Blair, Madeon, Dino Zisis, Nick Monson, and Sun Ra. The song also includes a sample from the French electropop duo Zombie Zombie's cover of Sun Ra's song "Rocket Number 9", from his studio album, Interstellar Low Ways (1966). Sun Ra was thus given a co-writing credit on the track. Originally intended to be the second single from the album, it was released as the first promotional single from Artpop on October 28, 2013 to iTunes Store, after the positive reception of "Do What U Want", which was planned to be a promotional single only.

"Venus" is a synthpop and dance-pop song with four hooks and references Sandro Botticelli's painting The Birth of Venus. Gaga worked on the song with Madeon and was inspired by a number of things for the track, chief among them being the Roman goddess of love, Venus, the same named planet, as well as having sexual intercourse. Lyrically it also name-checks the planets in the solar system. Three different artworks were done by Steven Klein, including one with a scorpion attached to her head, a picture of a dead bat and a third seeing her standing naked with an open clam shell superimposed above her shoulder and covering her lower face. A music video was initially conceived for the song, but never materialized, instead the track was later used during a sequence in the music video for Artpop's third single, "G.U.Y."

Upon its release, "Venus" received mixed reviews from music critics, who called the song catchy, but preferred the previously released "Do What U Want", and had mixed feelings towards the lyrics. It attained moderated success on charts around the world, reaching the top of the charts in Hungary and Spain, and the top ten in France and Italy. The song debuted and peaked at number 32 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Gaga performed the song on the tenth series of The X Factor (UK), along with a suggestive performance of "Do What U Want", which prompted complaints to the broadcaster and British media regulator, Ofcom. Other notable performances happened at The Graham Norton Show, ArtRave promotional event, and Gaga's ArtRave: The Artpop Ball tour in 2014.

Background and development

Madeon co-wrote and co-produced "Venus" with Gaga and the other songwriters

Development of Lady Gaga's third studio album, Artpop, began shortly after the release of her second one, Born This Way (2011), and by the following year, the album's concepts were "beginning to flourish" as Gaga collaborated with producers Fernando Garibay and DJ White Shadow.[1][2][3] In the meantime Gaga also worked with French DJ Madeon. This was his first experience collaborating with a vocalist in real life face-to-face.[4] With MTV News he clarified that he had "always wanted to work with pop artists and my #1 on my list was Lady Gaga. So when I had the opportunity to do that, I was really thrilled".[5] Having mutual respect for each other's work, Gaga praised Madeon's production skills saying, "He is so amazing. He has such an understanding of music at such a young age. He reminds me of myself so much. He's obsessed, so obsessed with music".[6]

Madeon was associated with co-writing and co-producing three songs on Artpop—"Venus", "Mary Jane Holland" and "Gypsy".[5] During her interview with SiriusXM radio, Gaga confirmed that "Venus" was the first song developed for Artpop and it set the mood and tone for the rest of the album to follow.[7] Gaga produced the track entirely by herself with some co-producing endeavor from Madeon. The inspiration behind the song comprises a number of things. First among them is the Roman goddess of love, Venus, the same named planet, as well as having sexual intercourse.[7] Further explanation was given by the singer:

So, this song is about faith, but it's also about finding faith in other places, in the beyond, and my experience with love being something that took me up a really long time to find. So it's really psychedelic and it really takes you on a journey... I kinda got this lot of different inspiration from this sort of futuristic disco meets late 70s and jazz and this really really kinda gooey deep groove. (...) This song is really about sex, but it's about sex on the most mythological way.[7]

Recording and composition

"Venus" samples "Rocket Number 9" released by French duo Zombie Zombie, which itself was a cover of jazz artist Sun Ra's "Rocket Number 9 Take Off to the Planet Venus".

For the song's recording Gaga did not spare any free time and would usually start the sessions after the Born This Way Ball show performances were over, to which Madeon noted: "She would still give everything – even on the demo take! She's really impressive".[4] Madeon's production in Artpop was different than his usual endeavours, and he helped take the mood of the song from being a ballad to being an anthem, but still retaining the sentimental and inspirit aspects of it.[8] "Venus" was written and produced by Gaga, with additional songwriting from DJ White Shadow, Nick Monson and Dino Zisis. The song also includes a sample from the French electropop duo Zombie Zombie's cover of jazz musician Sun Ra's song "Rocket Number 9", from his studio album, Interstellar Low Ways (1966). Sun Ra was thus given a co-writing credit on the track.[9][10]

The song was recorded by Dave Russell, Bill Malina and Ghazi Hourani at Record Plant Studios, with additional recording carried out by Benjamin 'Ben' Rice at CRC Studios. Andrew Robertson and Daniel Zaidenstadt assisted Rice in the recording sessions, while Steve Faye assisted Malina. Gaga did the bass arrangements for the song alongside Monson, who also worked on the synth arrangement with Madeon and worked on additional production. Tim Stewart was responsible for the guitars played for the song. It was mixed by Manny Marroquin at Larrabee North Studios; further mixing was carried by Chris Galland and Delhert Bowers. Gene Grimaldi mastered the song at Oasis Mastering Studios, in Burbank, California.[11]

"Venus" is a synthpop and dance-pop song consisting of four hooks.[12][13] The structure and Gaga's vocal delivery is similar to that of singer David Bowie in his persona Ziggy Stardust, as well as Bananarama's 1986 single of the same name. Along with the Bowie-esque verses, there's one hook where the beat drops, then another hook where it starts building up, and finally it reaches the chorus. As Bradley Stern from MuuMuse reviewed the single, he described the chorus as "total pop euphoria" with Gaga belting the lyrics: "When you touch me I die just a little inside / I wonder if this could be love!"[14] The song written in the key of F minor and composed in the time signature of common time, with a tempo of 122 beats per minute. Gaga's vocals range from F3 to E♭5, and the song follows a basic sequence of Em–D–Em–D in the first verse, G–D–Em–D in the second hook, Em–A–Em–A in the third verse, and finally Em–G–D–C in the chorus.[15]

According to Jon Pareles from The New York Times, it is a "mutating, episodic dance-floor track, [in which] the singer presents herself as the goddess of love in the 'seashell bikini' painted by Botticelli [in The Birth of Venus]."[16] The lyrics of "Venus" are space-themed, name-checking the planets in the Solar System, with references to the planet's mythical counterpart, Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love.[13][17] The extraterrestrial themes draw comparisons to Katy Perry's "E.T." (2011) in the Entertainment Weekly review of the track.[13] John Walker from MTV News noted that "During Gaga's futuristic ballroom emcee moment, where she channels something straight out of Paris Is Burning she utters the line 'Uranus!/ Don't you know my ass is famous!?' That's like, the greatest version of 'Don't You Know Who I Am!?' that we've ever heard."[18]

Release and artwork

Gaga was inspired by Sandro Botticelli's painting The Birth of Venus, which was also featured in the cover art for Artpop.[19]

Gaga announced that "Venus" would be the second single from Artpop on October 10, 2013, through her Twitter account.[20][21] However, on October 22, 2013, Gaga announced that she would release "Do What U Want" featuring R. Kelly as the second single instead of "Venus", due to the former's overwhelming success on iTunes Store. "Venus" was relegated as the first promotional single, with Gaga tweeting, "Don't worry monsters! We are still scheduled to release #Venus this Monday with a snippet on Friday! AND it will STILL have its own video".[22][23] After two successive previews, the full track was made available for streaming on October 27, 2013 through Vevo. It was released for purchase on Monday October 28, 2013.[24]

Prior to the release Gaga release three cover artworks, which were photographed by fashion photographer Steven Klein.[25] The first one shows Gaga naked with a scorpion balanced on her head inspired by performance artist Marina Abramović, the second sees Gaga also standing naked with a kebab in her mouth, while another shows a dead bat lying flat on its back.[26] A writer for Rap-Up called the artworks "striking", while Metro commented that the covers were only "another photo[s] of Lady Gaga doing something weird."[27][28] John Walker from MTV News found it difficult to understand the meaning behind the artworks, but nevertheless found them compelling.[29] When the song debuted on YouTube, yet another picture was used to accompany the audio, showing Gaga in metallic paint with a scorpion attached to her head.[17]

Gaga had announced that the music video for "Venus" would be directed by filmmaker Ruth Hogben, who previously collaborated with Gaga on interludes for The Monster Ball Tour and photographed her for the October 2013 issue of Elle magazine.[30][31] However, the music video was never released. A shortened version of the song was later included in the full-length music video for Artpop's third single, "G.U.Y." It is played as Gaga enters Hearst Castle and is lowered into the Neptune Pool. This was followed by a shot of five of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills playing musical instruments while lip-synching the lyrics to "Venus" in matching pink dresses, encrusted with chains and jewels.[32]

Critical reception

During the performance of "Venus" on ArtRave: The Artpop Ball tour, large inflatable flowers cropped up on the stage.

Upon its release, "Venus" received mixed reviews from music critics. Shirley Li from Entertainment Weekly was positive in her assessment of the song, describing it as "catchy".[13] Lars Brandle from Billboard gave a positive review to the song, noting its "catchy, radio-friendly chorus."[17] Philip Sherburne from Spin wrote that Artpop gets "a lot artier" with "Venus".[33] Mikael Wood from Los Angeles Times expressed that its "throbbing disco-glam" groove "feels like a throwback to her 'Just Dance' days", calling it "fun, kind of, but hardly extraordinary".[34] Spencer Kornhaber from The Atlantic commented that with the song packing four separate choruses, it makes the music sound "enormous".[35] Christina Lee from Idolator gave a positive review, saying that "'Venus' doesn't waste a single moment dealing with subtlety or nuances of any kind. 'Venus' swings like a pendulum from one emotional extreme to another, from its deadpan hashtag rap to its glittering dance balladry.[12] John Walker from MTV Buzzworthy called the song "crazy, otherwordly, barely intelligible sense, but still — sense!"[18] Bradley Stern from MuuMuse described "Venus" as "a track just weird and stupid and messy and catchy enough to work". He compared the chorus to that of "Bad Romance" adding that " no matter how weird Gaga gets with her music (and her music is finally getting as weird as her image), she'll always bring it back to that undeniably massive pop chorus".[14]

While reviewing Artpop, Jerry Shriver from USA Today recommended "Venus" as one of the songs audience can download.[36] Rob Sheffield from Rolling Stone gave the song 3 stars out of 5 rating, and wrote that Gaga's "space-disco ode to the planet of sex sounds even more like Madonna than you'd expect, especially 'Papa Don't Preach'".[37] Philip Matusavage from MusicOMH called the song an attempt to be "self-consciously epic", but it is a "disjointed mess" instead.[38] Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine felt that the song confirms that the singer knows how to write catchy hooks, but she does not know what to do with them.[39] In a separate review, Alexa Camp from the same magazine, called the song a "tongue-in-cheek album filler" with non-sense lyrics, adding that "[the track] is a solar system away from smashes like the hook-laden 'Telephone' and the epic 'Bad Romance'; at best, it's sorta fun, tongue-in-cheek album filler. Listen for yourself".[23] Michael Cragg from The Guardian expressed that "Venus" was not "good enough to support the weight of the clanging metaphors" of the album, and called the song "almost parodical".[40]

Chart performance

In the United States, "Venus" debuted at number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 with 108,000 copies of digital downloads sold, enabling it to enter the Hot Digital Songs chart at number 12.[41][42] The song also entered the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs at number 13 on the week of Artpop's release, and was present on the chart for a total of 10 weeks.[43][44] "Venus" also debuted and peaked at number 19 on the Canadian Hot 100, and was present for one week only.[45] "Venus" performed moderately in Oceania, debuting and peaking at numbers 31 and 20 in Australia and New Zealand respectively.[46][47] The song reached a peak of number 37 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, remaining on the chart for two weeks.[48] In South Korea, "Venus" debuted at number four on the GAON International Downloads Chart with sales of 11,985 copies,[49] and has sold 21,016 digital downloads by November 2013.[50]

In the United Kingdom, "Venus" was not allowed to chart when it was first released, since the Official Charts Company only allows independent song releases. Tracks released as part of the album pre-order are considered as free downloads by the company and hence barred. Following the official release of Artpop, "Venus" sold 3,174 digital downloads independent of the album, to debut at number 76 on the UK Singles Chart.[51] In Ireland it debuted and peaked at number 13,[52] while in Scotland it reached number 74.[53] Across Europe, the song reached the top of the charts in Hungary and Spain,[54][55] top-ten of the download charts in Finland, Greece and Sweden, and top-ten of the main charts in France and Italy.[56][57][58][59] This enabled the song to debut and peak at number seven on the Euro Digital Songs chart.[60]

Live performances

Gaga performing "Venus" on ArtRave: The Artpop Ball tour, wearing the clamshell bikini and large wig.

Gaga performed "Venus" for the first time at London's G-A-Y nightclub on the October 26, 2013, stripping naked in the process and provoking a media frenzy.[61][62] The next day, she performed the song along with "Do What U Want" on the tenth series of The X Factor (UK), with a flurry of backup dancers and seashells covering her breasts.[63] At the end of the performance, the singer removed the blond wig she wore and started singing "Do What U Want".[64] Gaga briefly sat in front of a piano while singing an acoustic version of the track, before climbing atop the instrument.[65] ITV, which aired the performance, and Ofcom, the British media regulator, received around 260 complaints regarding the performance, due to Gaga's costume and the suggestive lyrics of the track, which was broadcast before the 9pm watershed.[66] A spokesperson from the channel released a statement that they did not believe the performance to be inappropriate.[67] The UK's Office of Communications (Ofcom) said that they will assess the complaints and would investigate based on their results.[68]

Two weeks later Gaga performed "Venus" and "Do What U Want" on The Graham Norton Show, which was aired on November 8, 2013. Gaga went barefoot for the performance wearing similar blond wig and seashell bikini like the performance on The X Factor; the look was compared by Kirsty McCormack from Daily Express as comparable to The Birth of Venus.[69][70] "Venus" was next performed at Gaga's ArtRave one-off concert on November 8, 2013 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, on the main stage adjacent to a Jeff Koons sculpture of the singer.[71] Before starting the performance Gaga announced to the audience that they were "blasting off to a new dimension" and then stepped onto a rotating three-tiered stage.[72]

During the opening for the Lady Gaga and the Muppets' Holiday Spectacular, Gaga performed the song with The Muppets as backup singers. The singer was dressed in nude colored seashell and rhinestone bra and underwear, with her hair coiffured high and wearing a septum piercing.[73] Gaga also the song on Japanese variety show SMAP×SMAP on November 28, 2013.[74] The song was included on the setlist for the ArtRave: The Artpop Ball tour in 2014. She performed it wearing a mop-top wig and clam-shell bikini, while playing the Gibson Flying V guitar.[75] During the performance, 15 large inflatable flowers rose up from below on stage.[76] The flowers were created using air hose to create a garden on the stage.[77] Rob Sheffield from Rolling Stone described it: "Gaga did 'Venus' in a clamshell bikini and a wig evoking Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C., while her dancers wore sad little white costumes that made them look like Woody Allen and Christopher Guest playing sperm cells in Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)."[78]

Credits and personnel

Management

Personnel

  • Lady Gaga – songwriter, lead vocals, producer, guitars, piano
  • Madeon – songwriter, producer, mixing
  • RedOne – songwriter
  • Paul "DJ White Shadow" Blair – songwriter
  • Dave Russell – recording
  • Benjamin Rice – recording
  • Bill Malina – recording
  • Ghazi Hourani – recording
  • Daniel Zaidenstadt – recording assistant
  • Andrew Robertson – recording assistant
  • Steve Faye – recording assistant
  • Manny Marroquin – mixing
  • Chris Gallant – mixing assistant
  • Delhert Bowers – mixing assistant
  • Tim Stewart – guitar
  • Nicole Ganther – background vocals
  • Natalie Ganther – background vocals
  • Lyon Gray – background vocals
  • Ivy Skoff – union contract administrator
  • Gene Grimaldi – mastering

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Artpop.[11]

Charts

Charts (2013) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[46] 31
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[79] 36
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[80] 22
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia)[81] 11
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[45] 19
Denmark (Tracklisten)[82] 23
Euro Digital Songs (Billboard)[60] 7
Finland Download (Suomen virallinen latauslista)[56] 3
France (SNEP)[59] 9
Germany (Official German Charts)[83] 35
Greece Digital Songs (Billboard)[57] 2
Hungary (Single Top 40)[54] 1
Ireland (IRMA)[52] 13
Italy (FIMI)[84] 7
Japan (Japan Hot 100)[48] 37
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[85] 30
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[47] 20
Portugal Digital Songs (Billboard)[86] 8
Scotland (Official Charts Company)[53] 74
South Korea International Downloads (GAON)[49] 4
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[55] 1
Sweden (DigiListan)[58] 7
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[87] 18
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[88] 76
US Billboard Hot 100[89] 32
US Hot Dance/Electronic Songs (Billboard)[44] 13

See also

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