Lucy Dacus has performed a stripped back version of Lady Gaga‘s hit single ‘Abracadabra’.
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The Boygenius star played her downbeat take on Radio 1’s New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
Unlike the disco-pop original, Dacus’ version was more haunting and soothing. You can listen to it below.
She also performed ‘Ankles’ and ‘Best Guess’ from her recent album ‘Forever Is A Feeling‘.
Lucy Dacus covering ‘Abracadabra’ by Lady Gaga for BBC Radio 1 New Music Show with Jack Saunders!
She also played ‘Ankles’ and ‘Best Guess’ and did a short interview. Listen here: https://t.co/8FIfIsNj1r pic.twitter.com/EKICVJIVtR
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That record was given a four-star review, and described by NME as being an album that sees her “switch spiky indie for grand chamber-pop and deliciously details the rush of a new romance”.
“Though it exudes plenty of joy along the way, ‘Forever Is A Feeling’ doesn’t shy away from the more daunting aspects of being totally obsessed with somebody; ‘This is bliss, this is hell,’ Dacus sings on the title track. ‘Forever is a feeling, and I know it well,’” it read. “Though longing and mortality have long been recurring themes in Dacus’ music, the stakes feel even higher – and even more gripping – when there’s so much to lose.”
Elsewhere, Dacus recently revealed that Taylor Swift texted her ahead of the release of ‘The Tortured Poets Department’, asking for approval to mention her name in the lyrics to the title-track.
“This [was] the first Taylor record to come out since meeting her, and listening to a friend’s record feels so much different than a stranger’s record,” she said.
“So I was like, ‘This is really weird. This voice that I’ve heard basically what feels like my whole waking life saying my name’,” she added. “It was definitely an experience. I sat down and I was like, ‘Huh. Wow.’ But I think that that record of hers is super open-hearted, and I don’t know how many people at her level, if anyone is at her level, are writing from the heart that openly.”
Gaga meanwhile, was recently hit with a $100m (£77.4million) lawsuit by a surf company who claimed she ripped off their logo.
She also recently announced a world tour, which will see her make stops across the UK, Europe and North America.
These dates include three nights at The O2 in London – on September 29, 30 and October 2 – as well as a show at the Co-op Live arena in Manchester on October 7.
Tickets go sale this Thursday (April 3). Visit here for UK tickets and here for international tickets.
