I used to joke that Lady Gaga was cycling through concepts so quickly that she'd get to a point where the most radical thing she could do would be go back to singing piano ballads. Apparently, that point has arrived more quickly than I expected:
Don't you think Michelle Branch and Vanessa Carlton are kicking themselves for not thinking of the studded bras and throwaway references to drinking whisky first? This isn't that different than Gaga's latest: