Lady Gaga's New Album 'Joanne' Is Out and Contains Lyrics About Trayvon Martin
"Doesn't everyone belong/In the arms of the sacred."
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Concluding her three-date Bud Light Dive Bar Tour in New York on Thursday with a raucous six-song set, Lady Gaga has released Joanne, her first album in two years.
The 14-track record includes collaborations with Beck, Florence Welch, Kevin Parker (Tame Impala), and Father John Misty—and the song "Angel Down," which the singer said she wrote about Trayvon Martin, the unarmed Florida teen who was fatally shot by George Zimmerman.
"I was overwhelmed by the fact that people just stood around and didn't do anything about it and that the justice system continues to over and over again not seek justice for these families," she said in an interview with Beats 1's Zane Lowe, adding that she "absolutely cannot write anything that does not have a voice and a purpose in the universe."
Listen to "Angel Down" and the rest of the album here.
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Chelsea Peng is a writer and editor who was formerly the assistant editor at Marie Claire. She's also worked for The Strategist and Refinery29, and is a graduate of Northwestern University. On her tombstone, she would like a GIF of herself that's better than the one that already exists on the Internet and a free fro-yo machine. Besides frozen dairy products, she's into pirates, carbs, Balzac, and snacking so hard she has to go lie down.
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