Lady Gaga has arrived in Australia and called up WSFM Sydney this morning to talk to Jonesy and Amanda.
Gaga is about to release her duets album ‘Cheek To Cheek’ album with veteran crooner Tony Bennett.
“I’ve been singing jazz since I was 13 years old. It was sort of my secret,” she told Jonesy and Amanda. “No-one knew about it. Tony happened to hear me sing jazz at a private event for charity and that’s how this whole thing happened”.
‘Check To Cheek’ with Tony Bennett evolves the music of Lady Gaga from Pop to Jazz. “He said ‘hey Lady, you’re a jazz singer’. He calls me Lady. It’s very funny. He said we should make an album together. So many people around me didn’t know I could sing jazz but Tony knew,” she said.
Bennett doesn’t have an issue with Gaga’s costumes. In fact, he thinks she is rather conservative. “Tony thinks people now are more conservative than they used to be,” she said. “I don’t thing the things I wear are too sexy sometimes. I always put art in the front and Tony is an artist. He always thinks things are so beautiful and he always tells people ‘she is always dressed so nice’. He just really gets me”.
Listen to the Lady Gaga interview from WSFM here.
http://www.wsfm.com.au/shows/jonesy-amanda-morning/listen/lady-gaga-speaks-with-jonesy—amanda#138864002_10-jpg
Lady Gaga’s The Artpop tour Australian tour starts tonight in Perth.
Cheek To Cheek tracklisting
1. Anything Goes – Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
2. Cheek to Cheek – Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
3. Don’t Wait Too Long – Tony Bennett
4. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love – Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
5. Nature Boy – Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
6. Goody Goody – Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
7. Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye – Lady Gaga
8. Firefly – Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
9. I Won’t Dance – Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
10. They All Laughed – Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
11. Lush Life – Lady Gaga
12. Sophisticated Lady – Tony Bennett
13. Let’s Face the Music and Dance – Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
14. But Beautiful – Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
15. It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) – Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
16. Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) [Live from Jazz At Lincoln Center] – Lady Gaga
