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Andrew Watt recounts working with Lady Gaga on MAYHEM in a new piece honoring her as one of @EW’s Entertainers of the Year: “When she would step up to the microphone to record her lead vocals, I was often brought to tears. I have never witnessed a human being just straight up going for it in that way before. All inhibitions had left her body, and the person I had just been talking to, checking lyrics with, was gone. She reached so deeply into the depths of her soul every time she hit that microphone. This is the difference between singing and storytelling. Lady Gaga is one of the great storytellers of our time. She is as much Carole King as she is David Bowie. Lady Gaga is not a singer…she is a force of nature. She is a virtuosic musician and producer. She knows every note, chord, synth, drum fill, and arpeggio that has ever made its way into any of her songs. If there is a part added to one of her songs, there is a specific reason for it, and she has thought deeply about it while questioning it with everything she has. She is incredibly hard on herself in her process of creating art, but that is what makes her the only artist of her generation on her level. A once-in-a-lifetime talent.”