UK iTunes:

 

96. Cheek to Cheek - Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

 

250. Anything Goes - Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

304. I Can't Give You Anything But Love - Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

I just can't get myself to LOVE this. It starts off great and I get excited, but I'm bored half-way through.

UK iTunes:

 

90. Cheek to Cheek - Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

 

258. Anything Goes - Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

298. I Can't Give You Anything But Love - Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

 

ICGYABL is also featured on the flawless Eau de Gaga advert :wub:

Daily Mail:

She's the poster girl of cheeky pop! Lady Gaga leaves Athens' in leather hotpants - after fly-posting advert for new Tony Bennett album on shop window

 

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She isn't known for being conventional or shy.

 

So it won't be remotely surprising that Lady Gaga was neither of these things when she left the Greek city of Athens on Saturday afternoon.

 

Wearing a three-piece leather ensemble, she commanded a serious crowd as she made her departure displaying plenty of flesh.

 

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Not shy! Lady Gaga leaves Athens in typical exhibitionist style - and black leather

 

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Letting it all hang out: The chart-topping singer bared lots of skin in her two-piece

 

Carrying a riding crop while teetering on stiletto leather boots, she certainly. looked dominatrix-inspired as she stepped out.

 

Although that wasn't the most eyebrow-raising element of her final moments in the country.

 

Determined to score a big hit with her new duet album with Tony Bennett, Gaga went to the Exarchia region and stuck a poster of the LP on a shop window.

 

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Lady Gaga went to the Exarchia region and stuck a poster of her new album with Tony Bennett on a shop window

 

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Doing her own marketing: The brunette singer is happy to self-promote

 

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Cheeky! Showing off some serious flesh, Gaga also showed her cheeky side

 

The album, Cheek To Cheek, is a covers collection of classics by George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin.

 

According to Daily Mail critic Adrian Thrills it 'reiterates Bennett’s easy charm and flawless pitch — and shows Gaga in a fascinating new light: as an authentic jazz vocalist with decent phrasing and a winning appetite for playful, sassy interjections.'

 

He added: 'Refreshingly, without all the electronic bells and whistles that usually submerge her natural talent, Gaga enjoys herself.

 

'In fact, Cheek To Cheek serves both singers well. For Bennett, it continues a process of introducing the classics of yesteryear to a younger audience that began with 1994’s MTV Unplugged; for Gaga, it puts music above her desire to shock. And that, perversely, is the most surprising move she has made in ages.'

 

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She's the poster girl of pop! The quirky singer clearly wants a hit record with the iconic crooner

 

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Active PR! Lady Gaga leaves Athens, before she leaves she went to the region Exarchia and stuck a poster on a shop window

 

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Paying homage... Lady Gaga dressed as a caryatid on Friday afternoon in Athens as she headed to the Olympic Stadium for a performance as part of her tour ArtRave: The Artpop Ball

 

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Stunning: The Grammy award-winning singer looked angelic in a white gown and a jeweled headdress

 

Just a few days earlier Gaga attracted attention when she wore an entablature made up of three large silver skulls topped with one faux diamond, pearls and five crystals.

 

Similar to the statues which are used throughout Greek architecture in the place of columns or pillars, the Born This Way singer wore her blonde locks down in a braid while slipping into a sheer flowing layered chiffon gown.

 

Somewhat opting for simple make-up, the charttopper highlighted her eyes with brown eyeliner and coated her lips with a nude shade of gloss.

 

Taking to her Instagram account to share her look, the singer posted two pictures of her outfit and in one she appeared to be holding an indigo bowling bowl.

 

Excited to get on the stage, one of her captions read: 'Like many who inspired and came before us, tonight we put ART in the front'.

 

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Not exactly a plain jane: Gaga highlighted her eyes with brown eyeliner and coated her lips with nude gloss

 

Earlier this week, Gaga became overwhelmed with the success of her career so far and sent out several heartfelt tweets to her followers on the micro-blogging site.

 

She wrote: 'Spent a lot of time crying today, happy tears, but many. I can't believe my life. Being able to buy nice things, travel, it's overwhelming.

 

'Some days it hits me so hard, reality, I can't express my gratitude enough to monsters +team for believing in me. U changed my families life.

 

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'#artraveAthens': The singer took to Instagram to post a few pictures of her look for the evening

 

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'We put ART in the front': In another image Gaga appeared to be holding a bowling ball on her shoulder

 

'I hope with my music, shows, and message I can share with you all these blessings though the beauty of art. Love, a very humbled Lady.'

 

On September 23, Interscope Records will finally drop her album of jazz standards with Tony Bennett, Cheek to Cheek.

 

In the process of recording the album, the Applause songstress said the 88-year old music legend saved her life.

 

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'U changed my families life': Earlier this week, Lady Gaga took to Twitter to thank her fans for believing in her

 

Six months ago I didn't even want to sing anymore,' she told Parade.

 

'Tony said, "I’ve never once in my career not wanted to do this." It stung. Six months ago I didn’t feel that way. I tell Tony every day that he saved my life.

 

'I was so sad. I couldn’t sleep. I felt dead. And then I spent a lot of time with Tony. He wanted nothing but my friendship and my voice.'

 

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Her fans await: The crowd gather to get autographs and pictures with Gaga

 

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Classic: The singer looked stoic as she carried a blue ball with her into the hotel

 

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Helping hand: A minder leads Lady Gaga towards the hotel in Athens

 

This is exactly why I f***ing love her FFS http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ed2305b7.png

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I Can't Give You Anything But Love

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Anything Goes

#14 Argentina

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#135 Spain

#147 Brazil

#192 Italy

#205 United States

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Gaga and Tony will be on 60 Minutes Australia shortly as part of the CTC promo campaign there and they're also doing a live iTunes chat on Sept 24th! :cheer:

Her recent looks are absolutely AMAZING. I really adore her outfits which are creamy/white orientated recently! :wub:

ICGYABL is #2 on Billboard Jazz Digital Songs this week, 'Anything Goes' is #3 while 'Nature Boy' is #1 on Billboard's Real-Time Chart! :bounce:

Album: Cheek to Cheek

#21 United States

#102 United Kingdom

 

I Can't Give You Anything But Love

#223 United States

#345 United Kingdom

 

Anything Goes

#219 United States

#297 United Kingdom

The critical acclaim is pouring in :cheer:

 

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The Times: 4/5 for Cheek to Cheek

Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga: Cheek to Cheek

 

The odd couple: Lady Gaga and Tony

Bennett

Rated to 4 stars

 

Things might so easily have turned out differently for Lady Gaga. Had she not fallen in with a bunch of Lower East Side performance-art types in the early stages of her career, had she not met pop producers who knew how to turn those avant-garde ideas into mainstream success— she could have been a habitué of Upper Manhattan piano bars and supper clubs, wearing a slinky dress, holding a silver slimline microphone and drawing on her Italian-American roots as Stefani Germanotta, classy singer of standards.

Chicago Tribune Cheek to Cheek Review

Can a 28-year-old pop star and an 88-year- old jazz singer make beautiful music together?

 

More specifically, does the partnership of Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett on their new duets album, "Cheek to Cheek," amount to something more than a stunt?

 

The answers are apparent on nearly every track of "Cheek to Cheek," which shows the seriousness of intent one expects from Bennett and a vocal assurance in jazz-swing idioms one might not have anticipated from Lady Gaga (not withstanding her lively duet with Bennett on "The Lady is a Tramp" from his earlier "Duets II" album).

 

There's no question that the singers establish a bona fide artistic partnership on "Cheek to Cheek," an album that starts off a bit breathlessly but soon digs into substantive music-making at a variety of tempos and moods. Better still, Lady Gaga meets Bennett on his musical territory, not the other away around, the accompanying jazz instrumentalists underscoring the point. This is not an attempt, in other words, to dilute jazz traditions for Lady Gaga fans with other musical priorities. To the contrary, "Cheek to Cheek" serves up the real thing, start to finish. If you didn't know the name of the vocalist and the kind of publicity that surrounds her, you'd surely say: Who's that swing singer, and why haven't I heard of her before? Not that Lady Gaga turns in anything remotely resembling scat singing, the wordless improvisations that jazz vocal virtuosos often dispatch, evoking the solo flights of a brilliant trumpeter or saxophonist. But you don't have to excel in scat to be a real jazz singer, as Billie Holiday and Bennett himself proved long, long ago.

 

Instead, Lady Gaga and Bennett simply address repertoire that jazz musicians have played for ages, recasting it to suit the distinctiveness of each of their instruments. Heard in a jazz environment, Lady Gaga demonstrates that she has loads of voice and a natural feel for swing rhythm, if occasionally a bit much vibrato. Bennett continues to defy the passage of time, his control of phrase, tone and vocal nuance a marvel for a singer of any age, let alone one with a 90th birthday not so far away. Perhaps surprisingly, the two turn in some of their best work in duo passages.

 

Or at least there's genuine pleasure in hearing the youthful radiance of Lady Gaga's soprano, especially her soaring high notes, alongside Bennett's characteristically grainy, gravelly sound. Satin and grist, youth and age, insouciance and experience come together here in ways not often encountered in everyday life. "Cheek to Cheek" is being released in standard and deluxe versions, the latter including 15 songs compared to 11 and emerging as the preferred album by far (additional bonus tracks are available on iTunes). But even the core material that appears on both versions makes for engaging listening.

 

Each opens with Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" and Irving Berlin's "Cheek to Cheek," immediately establishing the joyousness of Lady Gaga's approach and the enduring exuberance of Bennett's. Time and again, Lady Gaga reaches for the stratospheric note and bang-on hits it, Bennett anchoring the music from his darker, deeper registers. Both singers revel in swing rhythm, eager to buoy from one offbeat to the next and the next. They achieve considerable energy.

 

But it's when things slow down that you can hear what these artists are capable of as interpreters, alone and together. Lady Gaga's voice turns dusky in the opening phrases of "Nature Boy," revealing subtle colors and delicacies of

inflection that are worth savoring.

 

Bennett responds with a tenderness and depth of feeling that enriches his partner's work and deepens our understanding of the song. When they come together in the coda, with gorgeous orchestral accompaniment, they create an emotionally charged moment unique to them.

 

"But Beautiful" long has been a key Bennett ballad, meaning that Lady Gaga has taken a chance by joining him on it. As expected, Bennett commands attention, expressing profundities on life and love. But Lady Gaga contributes, too, floating a phrase at one moment, evoking Nancy Wilson in another.

 

No doubt Lady Gaga takes her biggest risk of the venture singing solo in Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life," one of the most revered and demanding ballads in the jazz repertoire. Some listeners might find her reading hyper-emotional, and indeed she lavishes too much vibrato on select notes. But she clearly has studied the dramatic structure of the song and conveys it eloquently. Yes, there's a great deal of Ella Fitzgerald's gauzy sound in this "Lush Life" and elsewhere on the album. Yet there's also a gutsiness to Lady Gaga's interpretation, a willingness to lay emotions bare, that cannot be denied. Bennett, too, gets his solo moments, nowhere more effectively than in Duke Ellington's "Sophisticated Lady." The song may have long since been relegated to cliché by too many generations of bad lounge singers, but Bennett's raw, searing account – with a devastating finale – deepens his catalog of profound balladry.

 

It's a pity that those who get the standard version of the album won't hear Bennett's autumnal reflections in "Don't Wait Too Long" or Lady Gaga's plaintive, Ella-inspired account of Porter's "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye."

 

On the other hand, there's no loss in missing "Goody Goody," included on the deluxe version but basically a one-joke routine in which Bennett sings and Lady Gaga speaks.

 

But that's the rare misfire in "Cheek to Cheek," which amounts to so much more than a marquee commercial partnership. Lady Gaga and Bennett have created a jazz album that will reach far wider than most and, more important, has something valuable to say

 

60 Minutes Australia Interview:

 

 

Loved it! :cheer: And CTC is back in the iTunes top 10 in Australia now thanks to it! :cheer:

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I Can't Give You Anything But Love

#25 Argentina

#54 Greece

#61 Taiwan

#81 Moldova

#92 Finland

#119 Russia

#146 Belgium

#148 Spain

#174 Thailand

#180 Indonesia

#209 United States

#326 United Kingdom

 

Anything Goes

#26 Argentina

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Album: Cheek to Cheek

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Gave this a listen and it's pleasantly surprised me. Not really the sort of thing i'd listen to normally and probably won't return to it too often but it's cute.

 

Would sound so lovely around Christmas time too, so will have to put it on my festive playlist :D

I only have a half day at college tomorrow, so will give this a spin and see if I wanna take the plunge and buy it.

Interview on Good Morning Britain this Friday.

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga Go 'Cheek To Cheek' On New Album

 

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You might think they go together like oil and water, or chalk and cheese.

 

"I think it's probably what a lot of people are thinking when they hear Tony Bennett wants to do a jazz album with Lady Gaga," says Gaga herself of her new collaborative album with the legendary crooner, Cheek To Cheek.

 

"They say, 'Huh? What are you talking about?'" It's not the first time they've worked together. The pair collaborated on "The Lady Is A Tramp" for his album Duets II, which won a Grammy. Bennett says Lady Gaga's up to the challenge of a full album of standards.

"She's actually a very authentic jazz singer," he says. "She'll turn a phrase, she'll make it different, because of the moment that she's singing. And so, what happens is it keeps the songs alive; the interpretations become very intimate and everlasting."

 

Like Bennett, Lady Gaga was born in New York City. She's actually been singing jazz since she was a kid — but of course, she's best known for her pop songs and over-the-top stage shows, which draw sell-out crowds around the world. So, why did she decide to record with Tony Bennett?

 

"He's brought out a subtlety in me that I've missed for a while, because my life is very noisy," Gaga says. "It's a lot harder to sing with auto-tune, in a way, you know? It's a lot harder to sing with rigid electronic music and lots of spectacle. It can be very difficult, because it's not always extremely natural."

 

But the new record is natural, says New Yorker pop-music critic Sasha Frere Jones.

 

"You know, her records have become increasingly so crowded, so noisy — but not with noise, just sort of noisy with information that I don't understand what's going on exactly," Frere-Jones says. "And this is a wide-open, fairly natural record. I'm sure there's some editing involved in there, but, you know, she's there. I don't know what the world will make of it, but it's actually pretty good!" Frere-Jones also points out that Lady Gaga is more than pop spectacle; she can really play piano and sing. She says working with the 88-year-old Bennett has been a real education.

 

"I love watching Tony perform," she says. "I always sit in the theater and watch when he's performing without me, with his quartet." Bennett hopes the learning experience extends to Lady Gaga's audience. "It's the first time that young people that love [her] so much will fall in love with George Gershwin, with Cole Porter, with Irving Berlin," Bennett says.

 

"And most of them, a lot of them, surprisingly, know some of those songs," Gaga says. "And they're sort of getting more and more and more excited and it's becoming cooler for them to talk about who wrote what. Tony's really opening up a whole new generation.

 

"I feel very validated by this," the pop singer says. "You know, he's given my fans a gift by saying to them that he likes the way I sing jazz." The two singers also seem to genuinely like each other. In addition to the album, PBS will be broadcasting a concert of Gaga and Bennett singing duets in October. And — in case any of Lady Gaga's fans are curious about who wrote what — Bennett promises there will be visuals, identifying the songwriters, at the start of every song.

 

Source

Interview on Good Morning Britain this Friday.

FAB interview and she looks stunning :wub: but why the f*** Good Morning Britain when she can do Loose Women or This Morning which would be so much better?!

The Guardian:

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga review – Gaga is a wonder

 

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Caroline Sullivan

Thursday 18 September 2014 23.33 BST

 

These two Italian-Americans have more in common than you would think. Both have been immersed in jazz from childhood – Gaga, many will be surprised to learn, won a jazz competition at school – and share a reverence for the Great American Songbook. But it’s Gaga who will benefit most from this album, which has the pair finding joyous common ground as they swing through 11 standards. She has been musically hamstrung by the common assumption that her talent begins and ends with the Auto-Tune switch; Cheek to Cheek reveals the considerable warmth and depth of her voice. She and Bennett play it absolutely straight – there are no radical reboots, just two accomplished vocalists having fun. The ballad Nature Boy is treated with the greatest delicacy –underlit by a haunting flute motif, it provides the album’s primary study in contrasts, with Bennett at his most assured and Gaga at her most vulnerable. They bond best on the uptempo tracks, though, where the 60 year age gap is immaterial. Flirting and ad libbing on Goody Goody, while Bennett keeps it suave, Gaga is a wonder. She should do this kind of thing more often.

 

4/5

 

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The Lady Is a Tramp

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