“Yoü and I” is a song by recording artist Lady Gaga and will be released as the fourth single from her second studio album, Born This Way (2011). Written by Gaga and co-produced with Robert John “Mutt” Lange, “Yoü and I” is a rock and roll influenced song that samples Queen‘s “We Will Rock You“ (1977) and features electric guitar by Brian May. The song was debuted by Gaga in June 2010 during her performance at Elton John‘s White Tie and Tiara Ball. Footage of the performance appeared on the Internet, and positive response encouraged her to incorporate the song into her setlist for The Monster Ball Tour. She subsequently performed the song on Today to a record crowd in July 2010, and on The Oprah Winfrey Show in May 2011. Watch the official music video below and be amazed…
“Yoü and I” was inspired by Gaga’s relationship with former boyfriend Lüc Carl, and is a slow tempo song featuring instrumentation from electric guitars and piano, with Gaga and Lange providing background vocals. The song received positive critical appreciation, with reviewers listing it as one of the highlights from Born This Way. After the release of the parent album, “Yoü and I” charted in Canada, United Kingdom and the United States, due to digital downloads from the parent album. Season ten American Idol contestant Haley Reinhart performed “Yoü and I” in May 2011 prior to its release, earning positive reviews. Her studio recording was released to the iTunes Store as a single, and appeared on the compilation album, American Idol Top 5 Season 10.
The single cover for “Yoü and I” was released on August 5, 2011, via TwitPic, accompanied with the line: “You will never find what you are looking for in love, if you don’t love yourself.” It features two black-and-white images of Gaga’s male alter ego Jo Calderone, while smoking a cigarette and sporting sideburns. Previously the character of Calderone had made an appearance in June 2011, when Gaga posed as him for a series of photos in London by photographer Nick Knight and arranged by stylist Nicola Formichetti.A writer for The Daily Telegraph of Australia described the images as giving a moody and scruffy look, and felt that Gaga had become “bored with being an outrageous woman and has decided to switch gender instead.” Rap-Up commented that Gaga’s Calderone character looked similar to musician Bob Dylan on the cover.
The music video for “Yoü and I” was filmed in Springfield, Nebraska. In the video, Gaga walks from New York City to Nebraska to get her boyfriend back. According to Gaga: “I’m walking with no luggage and no nothing and it’s just me and my ankles are bleeding a little bit and there’s grass stuck in my shoes and I’ve got this outfit on and it’s real sort of New York clothing and I’m sprinting… And the video is about the idea that when you’re away from someone you love, it’s torture,” she continued. “I knew I wanted the video to be about me sprinting back and walking hundreds of thousands of miles to get him back.”
The music video will be released alongside the 1,000th message posted by Gaga on her Twitter account. Gaga confirmed to MTV News that the video is set to premiere August 18, 2011 on MTV at 7:49 ET. So as you can see from the screen shot above. The link to the new video was the 999th tweet by Lady GaGa. I am wondering if she meant that her 1,000th tweet will be for the link to her VEVO account on Youtube.
Gaga told MSNBC that “‘Yoü and I’ was written about the most important person that I ever met.” Although Gaga did not confirm who that person is, People magazine revealed it to be Lüc Carl, her former boyfriend she had made amends with. They clarified that “Yoü and I” talked about how they had got back together in their relationship. She further explained how the relationship became the inspiration of “Yoü and I”, to Don Sheffield of Rolling Stone, in their July 2010 issue: “I wouldn’t have been as successful without him [Lüc Carl]. I’ve never really loved anyone like I loved him. Or like I love him. That relationship really shaped me. It made me into a fighter. After I broke up with him, I promised myself I would never love again and would make him rue the day he doubted me. But then I again moved back to him. [It was] love. But, you know, I don’t really know much about love… I suppose if I knew everything about love, I wouldn’t be good at making music, would I? I wrote this new song ‘Yoü and I’, it talks about us, me and him.” What do you all think about the video? I think its really beautiful and artistically done with the genuine GaGa swag as is characteristically seen in most of her videos…
