"Just one day after tearing up the MTV VMAs stage with her performance of "Abracadabra" and "Dance Dead," Lady Gaga hath returned with a stripped-back performance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert of "Vanish Into You." The VMAs was all showmanship, featuring tons of dancers and a heightened sense of theatricality, but the acoustic "Vanish," no less considered, calls back to her Tony Bennet days when Gaga highlighted her vocal capabilities."
"In the new version of "Vanish Into You," Gaga edits how the song starts - the original begins with a forceful, a cappella rendition of the chorus, while this version goes directly into the verse. The biggest change in the arrangement, however, comes during a pre-chorus in which she's desperately pleading, "Do you see me? / Do you see me now? / I've been waiting for you / Crying out," low and slow, plucking minor keys."
"It leads into a chiller version of the chorus, building power toward the end of the song when she finally reaches for the limits of her register with "Saw your face and mine / In a picture by our bedside / It was cold in the summertime / We were happy just to be alive." By the time she finishes, the strength of Gaga's voice has been laid bare."
Lady Gaga delivered a stripped-back, acoustic performance of "Vanish Into You" on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, accompanied only by piano and two guitars. The acoustic rendition contrasts with her previous MTV VMAs performance that emphasized showmanship, dancers, and theatricality. On the Mayhem Ball tour, she closes the acoustic segment with a piano ballad version before transitioning into the electronic original while interacting with the audience. The Colbert performance changes the song's opening by moving from an a cappella chorus start to a direct verse entry. The arrangement alters a pre-chorus into a low, slow pleading line that builds to a powerful vocal climax, exposing the full strength of her voice.
Read at Vulture
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]