Lady Gaga Poker Face Meaning

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The album also yielded Lady Gaga five Grammy nominations, including for album of the year and song of the year (“Poker Face”); she captured two Grammys—best dance recording (“Poker Face”) and best electronic/dance album (The Fame)—and her opening duet with Sir Elton John was among the most talked-about elements of the 2010 Grammys. Gaga went on explaining more about ‘Poker face’ to Fashionista101, she explained that the song is about her playing with guys as if she was a poker player. She said: “The song speaks in reference to the poker game, ‘Texas Hold Em.’ So I said, ‘I wanna hold him like they do in Texas, please.’.

A blank, emotionless expression that gives no indication of one's thoughts or intentions. Poker players use such an expression so as not to give their opponents any clues about which cards they are holding. I kept looking over to see if she was impressed, but she wore a poker face throughout the performance.Now, make sure you keep your poker face on for these negotiations—we can't let them know where we stand.
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poker face

A visage lacking any expression that can be interpreted, as in Whenever Betty attended one of her children's performances, she managed to keep a poker face . This term alludes to the facial expression of a poker player who is expert at concealing his feelings about his hand. [c. 1880]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

poker face, a

Total lack of expression; deadpan. This term comes from gambling, where the astute player tries not to betray the quality of his or her hand by remaining expressionless. Originating in the late nineteenth century, the term was transferred to other areas in which individuals tried hard not to betray their thoughts. C. E. Mulford used it in his western novel, Rustler’s Valley (1924): “He glanced around the circle and found poker faces.”
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ON THE surface these songs have obvious meanings, but once you discover what they’re really about you’ll never be able to hear them the same way again.

Here are the true stories behind some very famous songs:

Lady Gaga — Poker Face

What it’s actually about: Lady Gaga revealed during a concert that her hit song is actually about bisexuality.

“This song is actually about when I was making love to this guy that I was dating a long time ago,” Gaga said.

“I was thinking about chicks every time we had sex, and I just didn’t want him to figure it out because I felt so bad.”

Lady Gaga Poker Face Real Meaning

Lady gaga poker face real meaning

Some of the lyrics:

I won’t tell you that I love you

Kiss or hug you

Cause I’m bluffin’ with my muffin

Maroon 5 — Harder to Breathe

What it’s actually about: Adam Levine told MTV that the song actually describes the frustration he felt with his record label before the band released their first album, Songs About Jane.

“That song comes sheerly from wanting to throw something,” Levine said.

“It was the 11th hour, and the label wanted more songs. It was the last crack. I was just pissed. I wanted to make a record and the label was applying a lot of pressure.”

Some of the lyrics:

So condescending unnecessarily critical

Lady Gaga Poker Face Lyrics Song Meaning

I have the tendency of getting very physical

So watch your step ‘cause if I do you’ll need a miracle

Bryan Adams — Summer of ‘69

What it’s actually about: According to Adams, the song isn’t as innocent as everyone thinks.

“Some parts are autobiographical, but the title comes from the idea of 69 as a metaphor for sex,” Adams said.

“Most people thought it was about the year 1969.”

Some of the lyrics:

Man we were killin’ time

We were young and restless

We needed to unwind

Semisonic — Closing Time

What’s it actually about: The band’s singer, Dan Wilson, told concertgoers that he wanted to write a song about his newborn baby. But he knew his band mates would find that cheesy, so he made it sound like the song was actually about something else.

“They think it’s about being bounced from a bar but it’s about being bounced from the womb,” Wilson said.

Some of the lyrics:

Time for you to go out to the places you will be from

Closing time

Lady Gaga Poker Face Song Meaning

This room won’t be open till your brothers or your sisters come

The Beatles — Ticket to ride

What it’s actually about: According to journalist Don Short, this Beatles classic could actually be about prostitutes.

“The girls who worked the streets in Hamburg had to have a clean bill of health and so the medical authorities would give them a card saying that they didn’t have a dose of anything,” Short was quoted as saying in A Hard Day’s Write.

“I was with The Beatles when they went back to Hamburg in June 1966 and it was then that John told me that he had coined the phrase ‘a ticket to ride’ to describe these cards.

“He could have been joking — you always had to be careful with John like that — but I certainly remember him telling me that.”

Some of the lyrics:

She’s got a ticket to ride

But she don’t care

Australian Crawl — Boys Light Up

What it’s actually about: James Reyne was quite open when he was asked during an ABC interview what the song’s actually about.

Lady Gaga Poker Face Meaning

“It’s about fellatio,” he said.

Some of the lyrics:

Her back is arched, those lips are parched

Repeated blow by blow

Lady Gaga Poker Face Meaning

Poker

Bob Marley — I Shot the Sheriff

What it’s actually about: Bob Marley was furious that his girlfriend was prescribed birth control pills. According to the documentary Bob Marley: The Making of a Legend, the doctor who prescribed the pills went on to become the Sheriff.

Some of the lyrics:

Sheriff John Brown always hated me,

For what, I don’t know:

Lady Gaga Poker Face Lyrics Meaning

Every time I plant a seed,

Face

He said kill it before it grow