{"id":27754,"date":"2021-06-25T18:10:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T18:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=27754"},"modified":"2021-06-25T18:10:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T18:10:22","slug":"ben-platt-highwomen-lady-gaga","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/ben-platt-highwomen-lady-gaga\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Platt and The Highwomen Round Out The Artists Re-Imagining Lady Gaga\u2019s Tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27757\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27757\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-27757\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1202191164-e1624638203841.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Ben Platt\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Platt (Photo: Kevin Winter\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/lady-gaga-pregnant-sexual-assault\/\">Lady Gaga<\/a>\u2019s special tenth anniversary edition of her sophomore album <em>Born This Way<\/em> is finally here, and along with it come the last two \u201cre-imagined\u201d tracks from <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/dear-evan-hansen-trailer\/\">Ben Platt<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/every-winner-2021-grammy-awards\/\">The Highwomen<\/a>. Platt\u2019s take on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/X9YMU0WeBwU\" target=\"_blank\">Yo\u00fc and I<\/a>\u201d maintains the original\u2019s bluesy vibe, with the addition of some strings, and is the first of the tracks to get the full music video treatment. The clip finds the singer and his band performing in a wood paneled saloon, bathed in the golden light of a summer sunset.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ben Platt - Yo\u00fc And I (From Born This Way Reimagined)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nUhKNj6C4kw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love u @ladygaga,\u201d Platt wrote on Twitter, neglecting to add the extremely necessary umlauts. \u201cThank you for letting me part of #BornThisWay reimagined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, all-female country supergroup The Highwomen give their version of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-Q0m-48Sjok\" target=\"_blank\">Highway Unicorn (The Road to Love)<\/a>\u201d more of a distinct spin. Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby, <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/best-dressed-red-carpet-fashion-2020-cma-awards\/\">Maren Morris<\/a> and Amanda Shires are joined by guests Brittney Spencer and Madeline Edwards on the cover, which, with the addition of piano and acoustic guitars, is a dusty, jangly reflection of Gaga\u2019s arena rock-tinged original.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the road to love let\u2019s remember to be kind to ourselves, be of service to someone else at least once a day, and be present,\u201d the band said in a statement to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1835398\/exclusive-hear-the-highwomen-cover-lady-gagas-highway-unicorn-road-to-love\/\" target=\"_blank\">CMT<\/a>. \u201cFollow your dreams. Chase them down and own them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Highwomen, Brittney Spencer, Madeline Edwards - Highway Unicorn (Road To Love) [Official Audio]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eRKw1doXGwU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The two tracks are the last in a series of six covers of songs that originally appeared on Lady Gaga\u2019s 2011 album <em>Born This Way<\/em>. For the tenth anniversary edition, Gaga tapped queer and ally artists to \u201cre-imagine\u201d her work, and has been steadily rolling out the tracks all month. Big Freedia led the pack with her bounced-up \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/big-freedia-judas-lady-gaga\/\">Judas<\/a>,\u201d followed by Orville Peck\u2019s update of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/orville-peck-lady-gaga-born-this-way\/\">Country Road Version<\/a>\u201d of the album\u2019s title track. In the following weeks, we got Kylie Minogue\u2019s disco-influenced version of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/music-megan-doja-jessie-j-lorde\/\">Marry the Night<\/a>\u201d and a new version of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/years-years-lady-gaga-edge-glory\/\">The Edge of Glory<\/a>\u201d that became an \u201980s fantasia thanks to Years &amp; Years\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/elton-john-years-years\/\">Olly Alexander<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Born This Way The Tenth Anniversary <\/em>is out now, along with all kinds of very necessary limited edition merch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29097,"featured_media":27757,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[38,3292,16],"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>Ben Platt and The Highwomen Round Out The Artists Re-Imagining 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