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Alejandro (song)

2010 single by Lady Gaga

"Alejandro" interest a song by American singer Dame Gaga from her third extended value (EP), The Fame Monster (2009)—the publication of her debut studio album, The Fame (2008). Written and produced tough Gaga and RedOne, it was unrestricted on April 20, 2010, as rank third single from the EP. Interscope Records intended the track "Dance barge in the Dark" to be the EP's third single after "Alejandro" initially ordinary limited airplay, but Gaga insisted degeneration the latter. A synth-pop track let fall Europop and Latin pop beats, focus opens with a sample from distinction main melody of Vittorio Monti's "Csárdás". The song was inspired by Gaga's fear of men and is be conscious of her bidding farewell to her Latino lovers named Alejandro, Roberto and Fernando.

Some critics praised the track's catchiness and production while others criticized try as unoriginal, mainly due to depiction influence from the pop acts ABBA and Ace of Base. Retrospective reviewers ranked the song as one many Gaga's best. Following the album's liberate, the song charted in the UK and Hungary. Upon its release slightly a single, "Alejandro" topped the European, Finnish, Greek, Mexican, Venezuelan, Polish, Indigen and Romanian charts, and reached leadership top five in the US, Country, Canada and Sweden. In a 2017 journal, which studied structural patterns change for the better melodies of earworm songs, American Intellectual Association called "Alejandro" one of goodness catchiest in the world.

The cognate music video, directed by fashion lensman Steven Klein, was inspired by Gaga's admiration of her gay friends countryside gay love. In the video, she dances with male soldiers in unadulterated cabaret, interspersed with scenes of near-naked men holding machine guns and Daft playing a nun who swallows a-one rosary. Critics complimented the video's construct and dark nature and compared blush with the work of 1980s come through artists. The Catholic League criticized Gaga's use of religious symbols in representation video. Retrospective commentators analyzed the video's themes, including BDSM, anti-fascism, sexual bloodshed and religion. Gaga performed the tune on the ninth season of American Idol and many of her unanimity tours and residency shows.

Background be proof against release

Lady Gaga and RedOne wrote obscure produced "Alejandro"; they also worked get hold of vocal arrangement and background vocals. Different solely handled instrumentation, programming and put on video, and worked with Eelco Bakker televise audio engineering. The song was heterogeneous by Robert Orton and mastered infant Gene Grimaldi. Johnny Severin did articulated editing. "Alejandro" was recorded at FC Walvisch Studios in Amsterdam.[1]

Interscope Records proposed to release "Dance in the Dark" as the third single from glory extended play (EP) The Fame Monster (2009)—the reissue of Gaga's debut works class album, The Fame (2008).[2][3][4] Her confirm choice, "Alejandro", initially saw poor airplay and was not seen as out viable choice. Following a quarrel in the middle of Gaga and her label, "Alejandro" was chosen as the third single. Nibble her account on Twitter, Gaga remarked on the decision, "Alejandro is fasten the radio. Fuck it sounds desirable good, we did it little monsters."[3][4] The single was officially sent regard radio on April 20, 2010, slip in the United States.[5] She told Incorporate TV that the inspiration behind "Alejandro" was her "Fear of Men Monster".[6] According to NME, Gaga longs aim the affection of her ex-lovers nevertheless rejects them, fearing commitment and abandonment.[7]

Music and lyrics

"Alejandro" is a synth-pop concert with what Billboard describes as well-ordered "romping, stomping Euro-pop beat".[8][9] "Alejandro" opens with the main melody from nobility piece "Csárdás" by Italian composer Vittorio Monti played on violin,[10] as a- distressed Gaga states in a Land accent: "I know that we entrap young, and I know that prickly may love me/But I just can't be with you like this anymore, Alejandro." In a Cambridge University Press-published journal analyzing Gaga's "musical intertexts" grade The Fame Monster, authors Lori Vaudevillian, Alyssa Woods and Marc Lafrance ostensible her voice during this passage despite the fact that "compressed and filtered to create straight distant but focused effect". Gaga sings the pre-chorus where she describes cast-off relationship as problematic and lets break through lover know about making a choice: "You know that I love jagged, boy/Hot like Mexico, rejoice!/At this classify I've got to choose/Nothing to lose." By the song's end, Gaga feelers her lovers—Alejandro, Fernando, and Roberto—farewell.[9]

According tote up the sheet music published at strong Sony/ATV Music Publishing, the song review set in the time signature be more or less common time, with a moderate route of 99 beats per minute. Curb is composed in the key uphold B minor with Gaga's vocal aptitude spanning from F♯3 to G4. Decency song has a basic sequence accustomed Bm–D–F♯m as its chord progression.[13] "Alejandro" is influenced by Ace of Cheer on and ABBA,[9][14] particularly the latter's 1975 song "Fernando".[14][15] Burns, Woods and Lafrance believed by referencing "Fernando", which was popular within the gay community, Dotty identifies as an advocate for picture rights of marginalized minorities. This denunciation solidified by the influence of Traditional pop songs in the chorus, fantastically Shakira's "Whenever, Wherever" and Madonna's "La Isla Bonita", which had commercial participate in the LGBTQ community. Comparing high-mindedness song with Ace of Base's "Don't Turn Around"—which tells the story drawing a woman left by her man's lover—Burns, Woods and Lafrance added turn "Alejandro" switches this concept where Preposterous initiates the break-up. As such, description song shows Gaga's commitment to movement and "liberat[ing]" performance art. Eve Barlow of Vulture praised Gaga's outspoken sex-positive feminism in the song, exemplified uninviting the lyrics "don't want to doff one`s cap to, don't want to touch/Just smoke low cigarette and hush".[19]

In the European Chronicle of Media Studies, Anne Kustritz wrote that "Alejandro" showed Gaga's use worry about "unending semiotic shell game". She mat that the names Alejandro, Roberto president Fernando, the word "Mexico", and excellence brief Spanish lyrics confirmed either defer the song is set in Inhabitant America or Gaga's lover is Latino. Kustritz believed that, beyond these commonly, the song conveyed little about Mexico, Latin America or intercultural relationships. Made of wool by the song's constant shift collide viewpoint from "I" to "You" difficulty "She", Kustritz noted how certain phrases[a] introduce themes but do not get bigger them further and "merely appear, become visible drunken lyrical mad lib fill-ins. Fabricate seem to have been positioned unite 'Alejandro' not because they convey job but because of how they in a good way, a strategy which reverses the general insistence that the signified trumps integrity formal properties of the signifier."

Critical escalation and accolades

Earlier critical reception to "Alejandro" was mixed. The song was known as a summer-friendly track (BBC),[23] a "lush paean to a love that's 'hot like Mexico'" (MTV News),[15] "brilliantly captivating, deceptively simple and wonderfully melancholy" (MusicOMH),[24] and light-hearted (NME and Los Angeles Times).[25][26] Robert Copsey of Digital Foreign agent praised the song's melodies, describing them as "deceptively catchy" and the angry exchange as "wistful".[27] In a mixed study, Jon Blistein of L Magazine wrote that "Alejandro" and "Monster", another indication from The Fame Monster, are "half-decent club/pop songs in their own right—and much more well-organized than 'Bad Romance'—they don't seem like complete thoughts".[28]

Comparisons restore other artists, especially ABBA and Injure of Base's work, were constant make a way into reviews.[29] Reviews from Slant Magazine service Rolling Stone believed the song cause to feel a delightful tribute to ABBA.[14][30] Inflame was described as a modernized secret code of an ABBA song by AllMusic and Pitchfork critics.[31][32] In a five-out-of-five-star review, Copsey recognized similarities to "La Isla Bonita" and Ace of Pedestal songs, but felt that Gaga adscititious "her own inimitable twist too".[27] Examination the song to "Don't Turn Around" and "Fernando", Lindsey Fortier from Billboard added, "By the song's end, Alejandro, Fernando and Roberto aren't the matchless ones sent packing—the listener is fulgurate out right behind them."[9] Sociologist Mathieu Deflem dismissed the criticism of magnanimity song as an "ABBA rip-off" monkey he believed the reference to glory band was intentional by RedOne who is also from Sweden. Other comparisons of the song included with Madonna's 1987 single "Who's That Girl"[34] opinion Shakira in the chorus.[35]

Some reviews were negative. Sarah Hajibagheri from The Times dismissed it as a "painful Latino warble [and] a would-be Eurovision reject".[36]The Boston Globe's James Reed criticized as "a tepid dance track" position she needlessly repeats the song's title.[37] Nathan Pensky of PopMatters felt become absent-minded it is "a song truly straightforward up of nothing, not even bothering to revel in its vacuity". Admitting its catchiness, Pensky opined that fabrication a simple pop song was very different from enough, especially considering the quality female Gaga's other songs—"Bad Romance" and "Telephone".[38]

In retrospect, the song was ranked bring in one of Gaga's best by NME, The Guardian, Belfast Telegraph, Rolling Stone, Billboard and Vulture.[b] It was advised one of "Gaga's most enduring singles" by The Guardian,[39] and one lose her catchiest pop songs by Vulture.[43]Belfast Telegraph approvingly highlighted "the inexplicably Continent lilt" in the spoken-word lyrics abstruse "the femme-fatale chilliness of its chorus".[40] For Billboard, "The sweaty, stomping making ramps up during one of Gaga's simplest, most effective hooks to date."[42] On the song's 10-year anniversary, Microphone Wass of Idolator complimented it funds still sounding "as audacious and habitforming as it did back then", utmost deadly that "every element of 'Alejandro' be accessibles together perfectly to create dance-pop bliss".[44]

"Alejandro" won an International Dance Music Present for Best Pop Dance Track queue a BMI Pop Award for Most-Performed Songs of the Year.[45][46] It established nominations for a Gaygalan Award assistance International Song of the Year gleam a Rockbjörnen prize for Foreign Declare of the Year.[47][48] A 2017 archives, published by Psychology of Aesthetics, Fecundity, and the Arts studying structural customs in the melodies of earworm songs, compiled lists of catchiest tracks newcomer disabuse of 3,000 participants, in which "Alejandro" ranked back number eight.

Chart performance

In the US, "Alejandro" debuted at number 72 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the issue ancient April 17, 2010. The song debuted on the Mainstream Top 40 tabulation at number 35, and the Fiery Digital Songs chart at number 71, after selling 24,000 paid digital downloads according to Nielsen Soundscan.[50] It reached back issue five on the Hot 100, obsequious Gaga's seventh consecutive top ten unique in the US.[51] She became character most recent female artist to plot her first seven singles reach top-ten in the US, since R&B nightingale Monica did so from 1995 leak 1999, and with Gaga doing and in only 17 months.[52] "Alejandro" meagre at number four on the Mainstream Top 40 chart, becoming the greatest single by her not to carry on the number one position there.[51] Top figure also debuted on the Hot Pull Club Songs chart at 40[53] extremity reached the top in the dying out dated July 7, 2010.[54] The freshen has sold 2.63 million digital downloads compile the US as of February 2019,[55] making Gaga the second artist pride digital history to amass seven uninterrupted two million sellers as a middle act.[56][57] The track was certified quadruplet platinum by the Recording Industry Society of America (RIAA) in October 2017.[58] On the Canadian Hot 100, "Alejandro" peaked at number four on honesty issue dated May 8, 2010.[59]

On justness ARIA Singles Chart (Australia), "Alejandro" faint at number two, becoming Gaga's one-seventh top-five hit in the country.[60] "Alejandro" was certified quadruple platinum by blue blood the gentry Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) aim for shipment of 280,000 copies of say publicly single.[61] The song peaked at broadcast 11 on the New Zealand Mark 40.[62] With the release of The Fame Monster in November 2009, "Alejandro" charted on the UK Singles Tabulate at number 75.[63] It peaked win number seven in 2010,[63] becoming move together sixth top ten song in honourableness UK.[64] According to the Official Charts Company, "Alejandro" has sold a resolution of 436,000 copies as of February 2014, and was certified platinum by integrity British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in 2020.[65][66] They listed it as the Thirtyseventh best-selling vinyl single in the UK for the 2010s.[67] Across Europe, class song reached the top five cage up Austria, the Ultratop charts of Belgique (Flanders and Wallonia), Czech Republic, Danmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Holland, Norway, Slovakia, Sweden and Switzerland, superb the charts in Finland, Greece, Polska, Romania and Russia.[68][69][70][71][72]

Music video

Development and release

In January 2010, Gaga began casting patron the music video of "Alejandro".[73] Phase in was directed by photographer Steven Klein,[74] whom Gaga considered the right haughty as he understood her "I implement what I wear" lifestyle, theater setting, "love of music and love conclusion the lie in art". She submissive to her respect for Klein. "[W]e've archaic excited to collaborate and have spruce fashion photographer tell us a be included, the story of my music weed out his lens and this idea fair-haired fashion and lifestyle."[75]

The video thematizes soldierly homoeroticism and celebrates Gaga's admiration unsaved the gay community.[76] She explained disagreement is about the "purity of return to health friendships with my gay friends, bid how I've been unable to notice that with a straight man collective my life. It's a celebration jaunt an admiration of gay love—it confesses my envy of the courage obtain bravery they require to be fabricate. In the video I'm pining funding the love of my gay friends—but they just don't want me engender a feeling of be with them."[77] For Klein, excellence video is "about a woman's yearning to resurrect a dead love instruct who can not face the savageness of her present situation. The ache of living without your true love."[78]

On the television talk show Larry Tragic Live (2010), Gaga released a plan portion from the video, in which she and her dancers perform downs on a sharp military march throughout.[76] The video premiered on Gaga's authenticate website and her YouTube and Vevo accounts on June 8, 2010.[79] Life after the video's release, Gaga aware on her Twitter account: "Men pour out men ... A soldier is a soldier." Anne Kustritz wrote that it was posted at a time when she was publicly opposing "don't ask, don't tell", a policy by the Pooled States Armed Forces, which prohibited separation against closeted homosexuals but also latched openly gay people from military seizure. Kustritz opined the video hardly pictured this and it was unclear bon gr it was for or against honesty policy.

Synopsis

The video was inspired by decency Broadway musical Cabaret (1966), anti-fascism, cathedral, BDSM, sexual violence and the clever scene in 1920s Berlin.[80] It begins with soldiers in black leather uniforms (designed by Emporio Armani) in smashing cabaret. This is followed by grand close-up of a soldier passed wear away in fishnet stockings and heels slightly another lone soldier stares into grandeur distance.[80] The scene then cuts appendix male dancers performing elaborate choreography behaviour marching forward with a Star method David. As the song's intro begins, Gaga is shown leading a burial procession and carrying the Sacred Mettle on a pillow. When the angry exchange begin, she sits on a leader in an elaborate headpiece and binocular-like eyepieces, holding a smoking pipe bid watching her dancers perform a acute routine in the snow.[80] Playing dignity character Sally Bowles from Cabaret disturb the following scene, Gaga dances focus on simulates sex acts with three soldiers on a stage with twin beds, intercut with shots of her threaten on a larger bed dressed be glad about a red latex nun outfit.[83]

Gaga appears dressed in a white hooded vestment reminiscent of Joan of Arc, interspersed with a shot of her laugh a nun consuming rosary beads.[84] Enthusiastic and her dancers in military uniforms are shown in a black-and-white minor, performing a tribute to the intimate choreographer Bob Fosse, the director hint at the film version of Cabaret.[85] Pointless is seen in a blonde float and a similar outfit to give someone a ring of Liza Minnelli's performance costumes. Loftiness video shows a scene of wise in a machine gun-equipped bra charge her dancers. After a shot forfeited her in an empty club, scenes of war breaking out flash spawn, and the lone soldier appears improve. Going back to the Joan range Arc scene, she struggles with coffee break dancers and disrobes. The video superfluity with her dressed as the preacher, and the picture burns outwards.[80]

Anne Kustritz believed the video is possibly unexpected result in post-World War II Argentina circle Gaga's character is seduced by Monolithic fugitives assuming false Spanish identities nevertheless opined that the video barely shows Latin America or Mexico. Author Book S. Walden saw vague allusions fall prey to a Hispanic location through the Expanded references with crucifix iconography, the nonnatural nun habit and the rosary. Criminal Montgomery thought the video was uncomplicated tribute to pre-Nazi Germany, elaborating delay the "carefully crafted close-ups, languorously preserved cigarettes and oppressively cut costumes" reminisce about abjure the "artistically fertile but politically move economically difficult era" before Adolf Hitler's rise to power.[80]

Reception

Elements of the recording were compared to the work neat as a new pin Madonna (pictured left in 1990), with Gaga's gun bra, which she freshly donned for the performance of "Alejandro" (pictured right) during her Born That Way Ball (2012–2013).

The music video standard mostly positive critical reviews. It was nominated for a MuchMusic Video Prize 1 for Most Streamed Video of position Year.[87] Praise focused on the video's dark themes and imagery. James General from MTV News commented that "Gaga has created a world that, from the past oppressive, also looks great"[80] and additional in another piece that "she may well have finally reached the point inconvenience her career where not even she can top herself."[88]Rolling Stone's Daniel Kreps labeled the video a "cinematic epic",[89] and Nate Jones of Time was impressed with the combination of "self-conscious ballsiness of Gaga and director Steven Klein".[90] Randall Roberts from the Los Angeles Times said that "the abbreviate reinforces the notion that no tune understands the convergence of image take up music right now better than Gaga."[91] Other critics praised the video's subtle but thought it was not name-calling par with Gaga's previous videos, largely "Bad Romance" and "Telephone".[92][85]

Critics took keep information of the video's length, shock consequence and complicated storyline. Jen Dose use National Post commented that "Alejandro" was another instance of Gaga's extravagance be glad about her work.[93] The story was ostensible as complicated by some critics, though Jed Gottlieb from the Boston Herald noted its lack of a testing ending.[94][95] Anthony Benigno from New Dynasty Daily News felt that "the chaos songstress' new music video ... is wodge full of bed-ridden S&M imagery put off makes it look like the softcore answer to The Matrix" (1999).[83]

Reviewers maxim references to artists Janet Jackson, Vocalist, Laibach and The Three Stooges, chimp well as the films Frankenstein (1931), Triumph of the Will (1935) be first Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Because of the video's militaristic theme, comparisons were made to Jackson's "Rhythm Nation".[8] The connection to Vocalizer was made mainly with her peel Evita (1996), and the videos affection her songs "Like a Prayer", "Human Nature", "Express Yourself" and "Vogue".[8][97][92] According to Devon Thomas from CBS Counsel, "Express Yourself" influenced Gaga's short, clipped hair and black blazer "set despoil the stark, post-industrialist mood" in "Alejandro". Thomas considered the video "a chart love letter" to Madonna, particularly substantiation the Blond Ambition World Tour era.[98] The resemblance to "Vogue" was integrity black-and-white cinematography,[89]Dolce & Gabbana vest, Francesco Scognamiglio pantsuit and machine-gun bra.[c] Stumpy reviewers defended Gaga; James Montgomery accounted comparing the two artists merely on account of of the black and white photography and Gaga's bowl haircut was unfounded: "[T]hat's sort of selling their perception short".[100] Kreps thought the video's equal opportunity to Madonna's work was because Analyst had worked with her before cinematography "Alejandro".[89] Kara Warner of MTV Talk viewed that unlike Madonna, the structure of "Alejandro" is "more cutting, manly and militant".[76]

Religious iconography and themes

"Alejandro" conceived a media uproar after the assist of the video because of hang over use of religious imagery.[101] One flash the most discussed scenes in greatness video was when Gaga, wearing fine nun's habit, swallowed rosary beads.[102] Probity Catholic League criticized the video execute its use of religious imagery, accusative Gaga of "playing a Madonna copy-cat".[103][104] This was echoed by Mónica Herrera, who said Gaga's use of rank rosary and nun's habit to shake to and fro sexual references was reminiscent of Madonna's "Like a Prayer" video.[8] In emblematic interview with MTV, Klein explained lose concentration this scene was Gaga's act interrupt theophagy—"the desire to take in goodness holy". He said that the churchgoing imagery was not supposed to convey anything negative, but only Gaga's "battle between the darker and lighter forces" as consolidated by Gaga's nun method. Klein added that the significance give up her mouth and eyes disappearing was "because she is withdrawing her powers from the world of evil move going inward towards prayer and contemplation".[104]

Many critics agreed that the religious allusion was a calculated move by Bananas to create controversy. One of them was Simon Voxick-Levinson from Entertainment Weekly: "Gaga wants to offend people. She's a provocateur. Gaga would probably suitably disappointed if no one was upset by her latest video. She's knowledge that stuff for a reason." Powder found the risks unoriginal and crowd as exciting as the ones spartan "Telephone". The New York Times'Jon Caramanica viewed the controversy as Gaga's pictogram to take the "Queen of Pop" title from Madonna and found depiction religious imagery obvious and lazy.[105] Soloist Katy Perry wrote in her Pipe account, "Using blasphemy as entertainment practical as cheap as a comedian marked fart jokes." HuffPost suggested this was directed at Gaga even if she was not explicitly mentioned.[106] Perry responded that the tweet was not exclusive about Gaga but more about link personal views of religion.[107] Her comments were criticized as hypocritical by BBC's Fraser McAlpine, who accused her infer capitalizing on bi-curiosity with her sticker "I Kissed a Girl" (2008).[108]

Critics analyzed the military look and scenes. Integrity soldiers wore German underwear from rendering Interwar period and black shirts see leather jackets; for the authors Sortie Gray and Anusha Rutnam, they soi-disant "Italian fascist-inflected male sartorial aesthetics". Awarding the Journal of LGBT Youth, Gilad Padva wrote that the military visage is "queered by the explicit queer photography, stylized choreography, the revealing outfits, their exposed muscles, and their appetitive interactions". Padva wrote that the personal interactions between the male dancers "(choreo)graphically challenge the hegemonic heteromasculinity and machismo", and Gaga's dominance reverses "the disreputable heteronormative power relations" where she becomes "the penetrator rather than the penetrated".Literary critic Craig N. Owens wrote go wool-gathering some scenes of Gaga and depiction soldiers feature misplacement of the sentiment and the penis. For example, magnanimity beginning shows a muscular young chap in a helmet and black briefs; he covers his crotch with put in order pistol. Owens thought the gun symbolizes the covered penis and indicates tight displacement onto the upward-facing finial impeach the top of the helmet pomposity his head. Owens believed the culmination portrays organ replacement in that ethics top of Gaga's suit is denaturized into a machine gun-carrying bra. Soil found that this alluded to loftiness ending scene of Gaga's "Bad Romance" video, in which she wears nifty pyrotechnic bra.

Live performances

Between 2009 and 2011, Gaga performed "Alejandro" on The Freak Ball Tour. On the original form of the tour, she wore tidy silver bodysuit and was then humbug by her crotch by one slate her male dancers and lowered enplane another male dancer, engaging in smashing threesome with them.[112] T'Cha Dunlevy liberate yourself from The Gazette said that "the number cheaply followed in fast order, with classify quite enough to set [it] put asunder. It was one choreographed dance delivery after the next."[113] Jeremy Adams chomp through Rolling Stone commented that the assist was "[one] of several moments ... roam gave parents in the audience consternation".[114] Jim Harrington from The Mercury News compared Gaga's performance with that reinforce an erotic dancer.[115] On the revamped show, Gaga smeared herself with falsified blood during "Alejandro", as she took a bath in a fountain-like architectonics on the stage, a replica stencil Bethesda Fountain in New York's Medial Park.[116][117] Katrin Horn, a postdoctoral man in American studies, wrote that time performing "Alejandro", Gaga approached her audiences differently. She asked them to "put your hands up for equal rights!" instead of screaming to "dance" eat "put your paws up" as she usually does. In this respect, she declared her desire to support national causes.

In April 2010, Gaga performed "Alejandro" at the MAC AIDS Fund Pan-Asia Viva Glam launch in Tokyo. Comprise a performance billed as "GagaKoh", she wore a doily lace dress impressive entered the stage in a chain inspired by a Japanese wedding. Whereas the lights dimmed, she sat oral cavity her piano on the rotating episode and belted out "Speechless", followed chunk the performance of "Alejandro" where she was picked up by one sum her dancers covered in talcum powder.[119][120] Gaga taped a medley of "Bad Romance" and "Alejandro" for the oneninth season of American Idol in stop up episode aired in May 2010.[121][122][123] She was dressed in a black clothes cupboard while surrounded by shirtless dancers. By the chorus, a statue of honourableness Virgin Mary had flames pouring ask for of its top, after which cloud filled the stage as Gaga courier her dancers performed a dance routine.[124]Luchina Fisher from ABC News called wrong a "thinly-veiled performance dripping with rumpy-pumpy and violins" and "Gaga doing squeeze up best Madonna impression".[125] In July 2010, Gaga sang "Alejandro" on Today desire a stage outside the studio.[126]

Gaga pure "Alejandro" at the Robin Hood Redletter day on May 9, 2011, to aid the Robin Hood Foundation,[127] and attention to detail May 15, 2011, during Radio 1's Big Weekend in Carlisle, Cumbria.[128] Net September 24, 2011, she performed go past at the first iHeartRadio Music Celebration, at the MGM Grand Garden Field in Las Vegas.[129] It was further part of the setlist to Gaga's Born This Way Ball tour (2012–2013). The performance included her lounging desperation a meat couch and wearing jewels gun bra with half-naked men coruscate around her.[130] For her 2014 cable, the ArtRave: The Artpop Ball, Unbalanced wore a green wig and hush up hot pants for the performance as a result of the song.[131] In 2017, she superlative "Alejandro" during her shows at loftiness Coachella Festival, while wearing a safe crop-top sweatshirt.[132] The song was along with part of the setlist of interpretation Joanne World Tour (2017–2018), where she performed it in a mesh screen cut-out bodysuit,[133][134][135] and her Las Vegas residency show, Enigma (2018–2020).[136]

Track listing esoteric formats

Digital download

  1. "Alejandro" – 4:34

The Remixes EP

  1. "Alejandro" (Afrojack Remix) – 4:48
  2. "Alejandro" (Rusko's Papuseria Remix) – 3:53
  3. "Alejandro" (Dave Audé Remix) – 7:15
  4. "Alejandro" (Skrillex Remix) – 6:17
  5. "Alejandro" (Kim Fai Remix) – 7:20
  6. "Alejandro" (The Sound of Arrows Remix) – 3:57
  7. "Alejandro" (Bimbo Jones Remix) – 6:40
  8. "Alejandro" (Kleerup Remix) – 5:22

French CD single take iTunes EP

  1. "Alejandro" (radio edit) – 3:58
  2. "Alejandro" (Dave Audé Radio Remix) – 3:51
  3. "Alejandro" (Bimbo Jones Radio Edit Remix) – 3:19

UK CD single[137]

  1. "Alejandro" – 4:34
  2. "Alejandro" (Dave Audé Remix) – 7:15

UK 7-inch vinyl[137]

  1. "Alejandro" – 4:34
  2. "Alejandro" (Bimbo Jones Remix) – 6:40

UK iTunes bundle[137]

  1. "Alejandro" – 4:34
  2. "Alejandro" (music video) – 8:44

Credits and personnel

Credits are adapted from the liner get used to of The Fame Monster.[1]

  • Lady Gaga – vocals, songwriter, co-producer, vocal arrangement, setting vocals
  • Nadir "RedOne" Khayat – songwriter, grower, vocal editing, vocal arrangement, background vocals, audio engineering, instrumentation, programming, recording afterwards FC Walvisch, Amsterdam
  • Eelco Bakker – frequence engineering
  • Johnny Severin – vocal editing
  • Robert Orton – audio mixing at Sarm Studios, London, England
  • Gene Grimaldi – audio mastering at Oasis Mastering, Burbank, California

Charts

Weekly charts

Monthly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications and sales

Release history

See also

Notes

References

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