Shallow
is the song that two years ago, elevated Lady Gaga to the top of the charts and sales.
The theme was the soundtrack of the movie
A Star is Born
, the remake of the classic, which he starred in alongside Bradley Cooper, who was the director of the film.
A performance that managed to change the image of Gaga and turn her into much more than a singer of dance floors.
For this reason,
Shallow
has been the subject chosen by Gaga for the closing of the electoral campaign of the Democratic candidate for the presidency of the United States, Joe Biden, for whose followers of the key state that is Pennsylvania the New Yorker has acted.
The artist had appeared shortly before, during the event in Pittsburgh, to give a short speech in support of the Democrats.
But the main course came at the end.
Dressed in black pants and a white sweatshirt on which the applicant's name, "Joe" was embroidered inside a heart, a very blond Gaga has sat at a white piano to perform her great success.
"Hello everyone!" He greeted as he took the stage to the cheers of the audience.
“We are not going to celebrate anything yet because I need you all to vote.
Are you going to vote?
Encouraging the audience to raise their hands, he asked them: “Who do you love Joe?
And Kamala? ", Also referring to the aspiring vice president, Kamala Harris." It's clear who we love, "he said.
Once seated at the piano, Gaga took off her gloves despite the fact that, she explained, she knew it was very cold.
"Gloves off, because this is a fight," he said.
“It is a fight for what you believe in.
This is a fight for what you speak out for.
You know what?
It is not a question of politics.
It's not red or blue, ”he stated, referring to the colors that represent Republicans and Democrats, respectively.
“This is a question of people.
It is a matter of the heart.
And I know that the people of Pennsylvania - do you live here?
Joe [Biden] is from here - you have a lot of heart, ”he assured, to applause.
Referring to the title of the song she was starting to play,
Shallow
, which means shallow, shallow (both literally and figuratively), Gaga stated: "This is not something superficial, people."
"I'm going to sing this song in the hope that everyone can hear me," he explained, to perform the theme of the film and also the song
You and I,
from his 2011 album
Born this way.
Between one and the other, he would say to Biden, whom he says he has known for a long time: “We need you.
Because we need someone to unite us all at this very important moment.
It has to be clear what this country needs tomorrow ”.
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Gaga even gave a personal wink, stating that she had spent seasons of her life in Lancaster, one of Pennsylvania's major cities of 60,000.
“Anyone from Lancaster around here?
I was engaged to a man from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
I know, I know, it didn't work, ”he said with a sad smile.
“I loved him very much, but it didn't work out.
But I still want my man from Pennsylvania.
I want Joe!
Joe is my new Pennsylvania boy! "Gaga shouted to the audience. She was referring to Taylor Kinney, whom she dated since 2011. They got engaged in 2015 but broke up in the summer of 2016. In fact, during the performance of the song she stopped a moment to remind him and tell him how much he loved him.
She herself had already announced through her social networks her support for the Democratic candidate and had anticipated this performance.
It was no surprise: the intention was to gather voters and the curious.
She announced it by hanging a picture of her next to Biden and wearing a mask that read the word “Vote”, vote.
Donald Trump did not miss the opportunity to attack the pop diva, with veiled threats towards her.
"So now you have Lady Gaga," said the still president in reference to his rival at the polls.
"I could tell you many stories, stories of Lady Gaga, I know a lot about Lady Gaga." A statement from her communications director stated that Gaga was "an activist against
fracking,
" the extraction of oil by hydraulic fracturing. The question divides Biden and Trump and came to light in the last election debate.
"Nothing exposes Biden's disdain for Pennsylvania's forgotten workers like campaigning with the anti-
fracking
activist
Lady Gaga," Tim Murtaugh said in a tweet on Sunday. "This desperate effort to generate enthusiasm is actually a beam in the eye for 600,000 residents of the state who work in the
fracking
industry
." Gaga, for her part, then shut up in response, explaining the excitement of singing in Pennsylvania: “Let's talk about how America will be with a friendlier president. We need every vote. I'm with Biden. "