20 May 2010
Inevitably, Lady Gaga’s influence comes to market. ‘All Night Long’ is clearly a record that loves ‘Just Dance’ from its dance-centric lyrics to its robotic-verse-melodramatic-chorus EDM architecture and back around by its house party video. Alexandra in her video (below) also throws some Gaga-esque Weimar-cyborg shapes. If only Gaga herself had followed ‘Just Dance’ so faithfully.
Anyway, ‘All Night Long’ is what it is. I can’t say it’s bad, but nor does it excite me. Perhaps it scratched an itch for fellow fans of ‘Just Dance’ who, like me, found Gaga’s gargantuan follow-ups a wilfully clunky bore. On a more positive note, the Pitbull content here is kept low; we don’t get the full brunt of his nightclub-asshole persona. Alas, we’ll meet him twice at number one in 2011 and I’m not looking forward to it. For now, ‘All Night Long’ is inoffensive, a quality we’ll find more and more appealing as we continue through the ’10s.
