{"id":27415,"date":"2021-06-22T17:13:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T17:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=27415"},"modified":"2021-06-22T17:13:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T17:13:37","slug":"years-years-lady-gaga-edge-glory","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/years-years-lady-gaga-edge-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"Years &amp; Years Cover Lady Gaga\u2019s \u201cThe Edge of Glory\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27411\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-27411\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1322144495-e1624378258858.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Years &amp; Years\u2019 Olly Alexander\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Years &amp; Years\u2019 Olly Alexander (Photo: Dave J Hogan\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All month, we\u2019ve been enjoying the steady release of cover songs from <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/lady-gaga-house-of-gucci-wedding-gown-photos\/\">Lady Gaga<\/a>\u2019s forthcoming tenth anniversary edition of her sophomore album, <em>Born This Way<\/em>. The latest to drop is <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/elton-john-years-years\/\">Years &amp; Years<\/a>\u2019 \u201creimagined\u201d version of \u201cThe Edge of Glory,\u201d and it is, in a word, glorious!<\/p>\n<p>Where Gaga\u2019s hard charging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QeWBS0JBNzQ\" target=\"_blank\">original<\/a> nodded to a bygone era of sax-heavy Top 40 tunes \u2014 late E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons played on the track \u2014 Years frontman Olly Alexander\u2019s version gestures heavily toward the glittery Euro-pop techno of Erasure and Pet Shop Boys. You can also hear echoes of Limahl\u2019s deliriously chintzy \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2WN0T-Ee3q4\" target=\"_blank\">Never Ending Story<\/a>\u201d in the track\u2019s tinkling flourishes, firmly establishing its \u201980s <em>bona fides<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Years &amp; Years \u2013 The Edge of Glory (From Born This Way Reimagined) [Official Audio]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sLeHpCrsDVo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cwhen @ladygaga asked me to remake her iconic track Edge Of Glory for born this way reimagined i said YES MOTHER and my paws flew into the atmosphere,\u201d Alexander, who is now the sole member of Years &amp; Years following the departure of bandmates Mikey Goldsworthy and Emre T\u00fcrkmen in March, wrote on the band\u2019s official Twitter account. \u201ci\u2019m so happy i got to be a part of this, i hope you enjoy this version\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">when <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ladygaga?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@ladygaga<\/a> asked me to remake her iconic track Edge Of Glory for born this way reimagined i said YES MOTHER and my paws flew into the atmosphere. i\u2019m so happy i got to be a part of this, i hope you enjoy this version  \ud83d\udc95\u2728\ud83d\udcd0\ud83d\udd25<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/weRlaFIWit\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/weRlaFIWit<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h16SAYCTXS\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/h16SAYCTXS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Years &amp; Years is \ud83c\udf1fSTARSTRUCK\ud83c\udf1f (@yearsandyears) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yearsandyears\/status\/1407231885378416641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">June 22, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEdge of Glory\u201d is the latest in a series of six covers to be featured on the special edition of <em>Born This Way<\/em>, due out on June 25. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of her landmark second album, Gaga enlisted a who\u2019s-who of queer and ally artists to \u201cre-imagine\u201d songs from the album. Years &amp; Years\u2019 track follows Big Freedia\u2019s bounced-up \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/big-freedia-judas-lady-gaga\/\">Judas<\/a>,\u201d Orville Peck\u2019s countrified\u2014and <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/orville-peck-lady-gaga-born-this-way\/\">lyrically revised<\/a>\u2014\u201cBorn This Way\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/kylie-minogue-time-magazine-dua-lipa\/\">Kylie Minogue\u2019<\/a>s disco-infused \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/music-megan-doja-jessie-j-lorde\/\">Marry the Night<\/a>.\u201d With two more tracks yet to be released, we can\u2019t wait to see who\u2019s going to try their hands at \u201cHighway Unicorn (Road to Love)\u201d and the bluesy \u201cYo\u00fc and I.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29097,"featured_media":27411,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[38,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Years &amp; Years Cover Lady Gaga\u2019s \u201cThe Edge of Glory\u201d<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"All month, we\u2019ve been enjoying the steady release of cover songs from Lady Gaga\u2019s forthcoming tenth anniversary edition of her sophomore album, &#039;Born This Way.&#039; The latest to drop is &#039;Years &amp; Years\u2019 \u201creimagined\u201d version of \u201cThe Edge of Glory,\u201d and it is, in a word, glorious!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/years-years-lady-gaga-edge-glory\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Years &amp; Years Cover Lady Gaga\u2019s \u201cThe Edge of Glory\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"All month, we\u2019ve been enjoying the steady release of cover songs from Lady Gaga\u2019s forthcoming tenth anniversary edition of her sophomore album, &#039;Born This Way.&#039; The latest to drop is &#039;Years &amp; Years\u2019 \u201creimagined\u201d version of \u201cThe Edge of Glory,\u201d and it is, in a word, glorious!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/years-years-lady-gaga-edge-glory\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Grazia USA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1322144495.jpg?resize=1024,682\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"682\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/years-years-lady-gaga-edge-glory\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/years-years-lady-gaga-edge-glory\/\",\"name\":\"Years & Years Cover Lady Gaga\u2019s \u201cThe Edge of Glory\u201d\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-22T17:13:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-06-22T17:13:37+00:00\",\"description\":\"All month, we\u2019ve been enjoying the steady release of cover songs from Lady Gaga\u2019s forthcoming tenth anniversary edition of her sophomore album, 'Born This Way.' 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