![]() His ease provides a welcome tonic to Gaga's eager glee club theatrics and there are some sparks that arise from this contrast. Comparatively, Bennett takes things perhaps a shade too casually, relying on charm as much as skill. Gaga also is occasionally betrayed by her taste for camp - it's fetching when she's re-creating the splendor of 1976 within the album art but when she begins throwing out flirty asides on "Goody Goody" ("I'm no goodie, I'm a baddie"), she slips on the thin ice she's skating upon. ![]() She has the chops to sing these warhorses but she sometimes seems unsure of her skills, relying on sheer power when she'd be better off easing into a lyric. lang in 2002, while Gaga is grounded in music theater and cabaret, a background that is perhaps too apparent on Cheek to Cheek even when it serves her well. Bennett naturally has a long track record not just in regards to the Great American Songbook, but in presenting it to modern audiences, freshening it up for an MTV Unplugged in 1994 and cutting a full album with k.d. Furthermore, the two aren't such an odd pair. Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett sang before 2014's Cheek to Cheek - she popped up on his 2011 collection Duets II - so this standards album isn't exactly out of the blue. Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs.
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