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Lady Gaga officially releases Born This Way – Country Road Version
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 6 April 2011
Today will forever be remembered as the momentous day that pop provocateur Lady Gaga officially released the country-fied rework of her smash hit ‘Born This Way’. Yes, indeed. Having unveiled the track on Twitter, an overwhelmingly positive fan response prompted Gaga to put out the ‘Country Road’ version of her song properly, with a portion of all proceeds going to support the Gay, Lesbian And Straight Education Network charity. Well that’s nice of her. And by slowing down the tempo and smothering the song in twanging guitars and rootsy harmonica blasts, she’s almost managed to make it sound quite unlike Madonna’s ‘Express Yourself’. Almost.
