Not too long ago my friend Andrea dragged me into her bedroom…

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Not too long ago, my buddy Dave’s girlfriend, Andrea (who also happens to be my friend as well), dragged me into her bedroom to show me something she had recorded on her DVR.   A performer she had seen on American Idol…one “Lady Gaga”.   Andrea had gone goo goo for Gaga,  and really wanted me to see her…presumably because Andrea knows I appreciate a good entertainer (that’s what I’m sticking with, anyway).

It was a memorable performance, and I remembered it well.  Twice remembered, in fact.  Two times, once before and then a second time after the first time.  Remembrances in all totaling two.

Fast forward.  The year is 2010.   Where is Lady Gaga?    Everywhere.

Amanda Palmer recently held an entire web chat discussing Lady Gaga which culminated in a song which Amanda Palmer called “Gaga, Palmer, Madonna”.

So I finally started learning a Lady Gaga song, a ballad called “Speechless”: