Heavy Metal Lover

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"Heavy Metal Lover"
Song by Lady Gaga from the album Born This Way
Released May 23, 2011
Genre Electropop[1]
Length 4:12
Label Streamline, Interscope, Kon Live
Writer Stefani Germanotta, Fernando Garibay
Producer Fernando Garibay, Stefani Germanotta

"Heavy Metal Lover" is a song by American recording artist Lady Gaga from her second studio album, Born This Way (2011). It was written and produced by Lady Gaga herself and Fernando Garibay. Musically, "Heavy Metal Lover" received generally positive reviews from music critics, with some commending its lyrical content and production whilst others dismissed it as forgettable. Many critics have praised the song's opening lyric. Due to digital sales after the album's release, the song charted at numbers 21 and 127 in Belgium and South Korea. On February 12, 2012, Clinton Sparks released his own remix of the song.

Composition

The song begins with a clapping sound, following Lady Gaga chanting "heavy metal lover" in an Auto-Tuned voice. She then follows by saying "I want your whiskey mouth all over my blonde south". According to the sheet music published on Musicnotes.com by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, It has a tempo of 116 beats per minute. It is composed on the key of F minor, with Gaga's voice spanning from Eb3 to C♯5.

Critical reception

"Heavy Metal Lover" has received generally positive reviews from music critics, with some commending its lyrical content and production. Many critics have also praised the song's opening line, "I want your whiskey mouth all over my blonde south". Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine called "Heavy Metal Lover" an anthem for "the typically flouted watersports-enthusiast community".[2] Caryn Ganz of Spin was impressed with the track, calling it "grimy doom disco, along with 'Scheiße' and Government Hooker, while praising the line 'I want your whiskey mouth all over my blonde south', calling it "awesomely ludicrous"[3] Jody Rosen from Rolling Stone called the song "smutty talk, set against a wall of fuzzy synthesizer sound".[4] Kitty Empire of The Observer gave 'Heavy Metal Lover' a positive review, calling it one of the album's "sweet" moments.[5] James Montgomery of MTV lauded the song, calling it the second best of 2011 behind Rolling in the Deep. He described the song as having "a masterful mix of Transformer-sized techno whomp and supple", and that it was "far and away the best song off Born This Way". He also praised the lyric "I want your whiskey mouth all over my blonde south" as an "added bonus" and that it "may very well be the best line of the year".[6]

Evan Sawdey from PopMatters gave the song a negative review, saying "('Heavy Metal Lover' is) more producer’s showcase than actual song".[7] Kerri Mason from Billboard was mixed with the review, calling it "relatively forgettable leather & lust" although praised the first line "I want your whiskey mouth all over my blonde south".[8] Neil McCormick from The Daily Telegraph described the song as "an electropop ode to smelly dudes in leather jackets" powered by overloaded synths.[1] NME's Dan Martin felt that the song was "a brutish cousin of 'Teeth' from The Fame Monster, as more mechanised rave woofs pummel underneath. It’s all very nice and Berlin-inspired, but all the filthy-filthy sexy-sexy growling (“I want your whiskey mouth/All over my blonde south”) all just get a bit too much".[9] Robert Copsey of the website Digital Spy called the song "one of the less hectic efforts on the record" which according to him provide a momentary breather after the string of full-throttled club-pop stompers.[10][10]

Live performances

Lady Gaga performing "Heavy Metal Lover" "fused" with a motorcycle on The Born This Way Ball Tour.

Gaga performed a medley of Heavy Metal Lover/Marry The Night/Born This Way on December 31, 2011 at the New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest. A month after the performance, there was much speculation about this song being released as a single or not.[11][12][13] "Heavy Metal Lover" was also performed at The Born This Way Ball. She is "fused" with a motorcycle, reminiscent of the Born This Way album cover, in which she "drives" around the Monster Pit.

Track listing

Digital download

  • "Heavy Metal Lover" – 4:12

Credits and personnel

Charts

Chart (2012) Peak
position
Belgium (Ultratip 50 Flanders)[14] 21
South Korea Gaon International Chart[15] 127

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 McCormick, Neil (2011-05-23). "Lady Gaga's Born This Way: track-by-track review". The Daily Telegraph (Telegraph Media Ltd). Retrieved 2011-06-24. 
  2. ↑ Cinquemani, Sal (2011-05-18). "Lady Gaga: Born This Way". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 2011-05-21. 
  3. ↑ Ganz, Caryn (2011). "Lady Gaga, 'Born This Way'". Spin. Spin Media LLC. Retrieved 2 June 2011. 
  4. ↑ Rosen, Jody (2011-05-18). "Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way': A Track-by-Track Breakdown". Rolling Stone (Jann Wenner). Retrieved 2011-06-24. 
  5. ↑ Empire, Kitty (2011-05-22). "Lady Gaga: Born This Way – review | Music". The Observer. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 2011-11-25. 
  6. ↑ Montgomery, James (2011-07-06). "Britney Spears, Adele And More Best Songs Of 2011 (So Far)". MTV. Retrieved 2012-05-19. 
  7. ↑ Sawdey, Evan (2011-05-27). "Lady Gaga: Born This Way < PopMatters". PopMatters. Retrieved 2011-05-27. 
  8. ↑ Mason, Kerri (2011-05-23). "Lady Gaga 'Born This Way': Track-By-Track Review". Billboard (Prometheus Global Media). Retrieved 2011-06-26. 
  9. ↑ Martin, Dan (2011-05-18). "Lady Gaga, 'Born This Way' – Track-By-Track Album Review". NME (IPC Media). Archived from the original on 2011-06-26. Retrieved 2011-06-24. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Lady GaGa's 'Born This Way' album: First listen". Digital Spy. Hachette Filipacchi UK. 2011-05-18. Retrieved 2011-11-25. 
  11. ↑ http://popcrush.com/lady-gaga-heavy-metal-lover-next-single-grammys/
  12. ↑ http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/66095693.html
  13. ↑ http://idolator.com/6157091/lady-gaga-new-single-heavy-metal-lover
  14. ↑ "Lady gaga - Heavy Metal Lover (song)" (in French). Ultratop. Hung Medien. February 18, 2012. Retrieved May 18, 2012. 
  15. ↑ "South Korea Gaon International Chart (Week, May 22, 2011 to May 25, 2011)" (To access the applicable chart, change "년 (Year)" to "2011" and select the week) (in Korean). Gaon Chart. Retrieved 2012-05-17. 
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