Following her stunning Super Bowl halftime show, Lady Gaga dropped a music video for her new single “John Wayne”.
The track, written by Gaga, Josh Homme, M Tucker and Mark Ronson, describes the singer’s attraction to rugged, cowboy-types that are the opposite of the city boys she usually encounters in Manhattan.
The colourful clip, directed by Jonas Åkerlund, picks up where “Million reasons” left off and we see Gaga riding a horse and being hit by a beer can.
About this renewed collaboration with Jonas, the Born this way hitmaker said: “I have known Jonas for a really long time and we’ve been wanting to work together again”.
“He directed the music video, but the way we usually work is he likes to download from me all the visions of the song. I took him from a bunch of different scenarios and he helped to weave it together into a story. That’s what I like about him too, he has a very cinematic approach, but he doesn’t forget to make it a real music video.”
Lyrics:
It’s like, I just love a cowboy
You know
I’m just like, I just, I know, it’s bad
But I’m just like
Can I just like, hang off the back of your horse
And can you go a little faster?!
3 am, mustang speedin’
Two lovers, headed for a dead end
Too fast, hold tight, he laughs
Runnin’ through the red lights
Hollerin’ over, rubber spinnin’
Big swig, toss another beer can
Too lit, tonight, prayin’
On the moonlight
Every John is just the same
I’m sick of their city games
I crave a real wild man
I’m strung out on John Wayne
(dat – doo – deet – doe)
(dat – doo – deet – doe, dat – doo – deet – doe)
Baby let’s get high, John Wayne
(dat – doo – deet – doe)
(dat – doo – deet – doe, dat – doo – deet – doe)
Baby let’s get high, John Wayne
Blue collar and a red-state treasure
Love junkie on a three-day bender
His grip, so hard, eyes glare
Trouble like a mug shot
Charged up, ’cause the man’s on a mission
1-2 ya, the gears are shiftin’
He called, I cried, we broke
Racin’ through the moonlight
Every John is just the same
I’m sick of their city games
I crave a real wild man
I’m strung out on John Wayne
(dat – doo – deet – doe)
(dat – doo – deet – doe, dat – doo – deet – doe)
Baby let’s get high, John Wayne
(dat – doo – deet – doe)
(dat – doo – deet – doe, dat – doo – deet – doe)
Baby let’s get high, John Wayne
So here I go
To the eye
Of the storm
Just to feel your love
Knock me over
Here I go
Into our love storm
(dat – doo – deet – doe)
(dat – doo – deet – doe, dat – doo – deet – doe)
Baby let’s get high, John Wayne
(dat – doo – deet – doe)
(dat – doo – deet – doe, dat – doo – deet – doe)
Baby let’s get high, John Wayne
