Born This Way

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He then commented, "Gone are the futurist sunglasses, the asymmetrical haircuts, even Gaga's newly touted magic horns; instead, a mutant motorbike with Gaga's arms and head, plus a cheesy chrome typeface. The album debuted at the top spot in Australia, becoming her second number-one album there after The Fame Monster (2009). In Lebanon, Born This Way was temporarily banned by the General Secretary Department, who deemed the album to be in bad taste and mocking of Christianity. Born This Way became the third-best-selling album of the year in the United States, with sales of 2,101,000 copies. He also referenced several messages from fans on Gaga's official forum expressing their dislike for the cover.

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In September 2021, due to the release of the CD and cassette editions of the album's special tenth anniversary reissue, it re-entered the Billboard 200 and Top Album Sales charts at numbers 162 and 10, respectively, selling 5,000 copies—all versions of Born This Way were combined and nearly all of the sum was provided by CD sales. The remix album was also issued as part of box set Born This Way: The Collection, released in the same month, which further included a 17-track version of Born This Way, and the DVD Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden. Gaga was the fifth woman to sell one million copies in a week, after Whitney Houston ( The Bodyguard Soundtrack, 1992), Britney Spears ( Oops!It includes a motorcycle gang representing the Twelve Apostles, and tells a modernized version of the Biblical story about Judas (portrayed by Norman Reedus) betraying Jesus, in which ends with Gaga as Mary Magdalene getting stoned to death.

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Songs from the album were also performed on a Thanksgiving television special A Very Gaga Thanksgiving, aired on November 24. The video was generally praised by critics, [122] [123] [124] and received two nominations at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards. In Europe, she sang "Judas" at the French show Le Grand Journal (May 12), [171] "Born This Way" and "Judas" on The Graham Norton Show (May 13), [172] and "Born This Way" and "You and I" during the private concert at Annabel's for Belvedere Vodka (May 12). of queer self-discovery," where Gaga explores her life events "through queer lens", opting for a "transcendent rather than static version of the truth".

Stuck on Fuckin' You", an outtake from the album, was released as a free YouTube stream on Christmas Day 2011 and thereafter as a free download.

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Gaga attended the ceremony wearing a Born This Way t-shirt from her own collection and thanked the LGBT community for "[being] the motherfucking key to my heart for a long time [. After her Grammy performance, on February 2011, Gaga added "Born This Way" to the setlist of The Monster Ball Tour, where she performed it as a second encore, in a very similar outfit and choreography as on the awards show. If Gaga had only spent as much time on pushing musical boundaries as she has social ones, Born This Way would have been a lot more successful.It had been certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for shipment of 750,000 copies. I want it to be an attack, an assault on the issue, because I think, especially in today's music, everything gets kind of washy sometimes and the message gets hidden in the lyrical play.