Lady Gaga's MIXED METER Star Spangled Banner?!

Analyzing Lady Gaga's version of the star spangled banner she sang for Joe Biden's inauguration. It's pretty cool!

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[jasonfieler]

This is the best video about Lady Gaga's mixed meter star spangled banner that I've seen all day

[nicolasscarfo]

When his piano slid out from the desk that was so cool lol

[yuvinkang]

i feel like i walked into the wrong class but sticked around just out of curiosity, and then became a believer

[johnk.atchley]

Thank you Adam. I am 79, so I've heard a lot of Star Spangled Banners. Many of them seemed tricked up and hokey, pop music influenced, but the ones that were sung in operatic mode also seemed somehow heavy, clumsy. I had no idea what Lady Gaga would do, assumed it would be pop style. But when I heard her, I was just knocked out, very impressed. It just seemed perfect, somehow a classic version for ages, interesting sounding, but avoiding the pitfalls of either too many pop flourishes or too deadly an operatic style. But as a non-musician, I had no idea why my ear was so pleased. You have broken it all down and explained it to me. Wonderful. Thank you again. (And I am a great fan of yours.)

[modalinterchange]

Adam had to
1.) transcribe Lady Gaga’s national anthem
2.) edit an entire video for 14 minutes
3.) write a script for the video
4.) All in less than a goddamn day!

[jeffreyjamison]

Me, when I heard her start to sing: Oh, she's doing it in 4.

Me, when I heard the first meter change: Ooh, there's going to be an Adam Neely video.

That didn't take long!

[rangamsarmah]

Everybody gangsta till Adam Neely pulls out a keyboard from under his keyboard.

[hisdudeness]

At this rate, King Gizzard is gonna play the next inauguration with a 7/4 microtonal rendition of the Star Spangled Banner and instead of the traditional woodwinds they’ll just have an army of Turkish zurnas.

[scalzmoney]

Shout out to the United States Marine Band accompanying Lady Gaga for all the amazing music they played that day. It wasn't just Gaga and her musical director behind this.

[aloysiussd]

jazzheads listening to one chord with more than three notes : YEA BABYYY THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT

[deathbower]

When Adam Neely can't say the chord name, you know you've hit Jazz.

[Sithcario]

Just something about the line "that our flag was still there": while the camera cuts to the flags on the Mall, Lady Gaga is turning to gesture at the flag above the Capitol. Between that and the break in "land", it feels safe to say that she was drawing a parallel between the words of the Anthem and the events two weeks prior.

Also, shoutout to the Marine Band for absolutely nailing it, as always!

[BanDaniel]

You’re like a star spangled banner musical historian

[bigmichael]

“Used normally in... math rock”

_cries in prog_

[NATcha]

A lot of people don’t know Gaga went to NYU Tisch School of Arts for a few years. She definitely has the theater background

[Guitargate]

I was thinking the same thing when I was watching it! Dude you're ON IT.

[isaacdomini]

I understood about 10% of the words he was saying, but I feel like everything made sense.

[Triairius]

I love how people are still discovering the artistic force that is Lady Gaga and her team. She never does anything thoughtlessly.

[colevano]

OH MY GOD. WHEN HE SLIDES THAT KEYBOARD OUT... 🥵 I need that.

[XX-uunv]

As a vocalist, I see the brief melisma on "oh" as a healthy way to place her where she needs to be for the next note. Preparation is key.