Chris Daughtry and Lady Gaga Do Acoustic "Poker Face"

[liz_marcs]

I admit it. I rather like Lady Gaga's performance artist pop-tart thing that she's doing. There's something vaguely Bowie-esque about it, only with more of a sense of humor and less with the "I am an artiste!" 'tude of Bowie's that used to get up my nose.

I also think she's a better pop lyricist ("Poker Face" was written in collaboration with producer Red One) than people give her credit for.

Below is Chris Daughtry doing a live acoustic version of "Poker Face" that really is quite good. Okay, there are pronoun changes (which I find irritating) and I'm sad to report that the line "bluffin' with my muffin" does not get sung (really, really sad since the line makes me giggle like a loon). But otherwise, quite captivating really.

If anyone wants to know how deeply uncool I am, I had no idea Chris Daughtry was a failed American Idol contestant, despite the fact I actually have a copy of the band's CD somewhere kicking around on a hard drive.

(Just as an aside: A failed AI contestant? Seriously? For fuck's sake. Who the hell beat him? Someone actually talented, I hope. Although if I were a betting woman, I'd bet it was someone less talented with a little more pretty. And this, in a nutshell, is why AI irritates me and why I don't watch it.)

ETA: Per atlantisgrrrl, who said I really needed to post the actual Lady Gaga doing a vaguely torch-y acoustic version of "Poker Face." I really do dig this version.

Comments

[rainkatt]

That was the only season I watched AI, and I've never given a damn since. Taylor Hicks? REALLY??

[liz_marcs]

Yeah, I looked up Taylor Hicks when someone over on LJ mentioned he was the winner that year.

It's like listening to Kenny Rogers lite.

It's kind of mystifying that Hicks won. I would've thought someone was kidding had I not read it on several sites for myself/

[hendrikboom]

I liked the Lady Gaga version better than Chris Daughtry's. She's livelier, and she enunciates more clearly. There's more of her in her performance, whereas Daughtry seems merely to be doing a supremely competent job of getting from one end of the song to another. But then, I've always preferred female vocalists to male. And maybe I'm just a sucker for her flirt.

[liz_marcs]

Yeah, there's something very sparkly and raw about Lady Gaga doing a different torch-y take on her own song. I agree that I like Lady Gaga's version better. :-)

It actually makes me kind of sad that AutoTune is one of the instruments she uses on her CD, because I think a raw performance of those same songs would be positively awesome.