Scheiße (song)
"Scheiße" (German for "shit") is a song by American singer Lady Gaga from her second studio album, Born This Way (2011).
It was originally recorded on a tour bus in Europe in 2010, and was later remixed at Larrabee Sound Studios in North Hollywood, California by Trevor Muzzy.
"[4] On January 20, 2011, Mugler's creative director Nicola Formichetti premiered a short film featuring a remix of the song.
[8][9][10] Andrew Unterberger of PopDust noted that the song was influenced by Madonna's music, notably "Justify My Love," which, like "Scheiße," has sections in which the artist speaks rather than sings.
[10] "Scheiße" has been described as "a strange mash up of digestible, American shopping mecca music and the thud of German nightclub electronica."
[8][9][13] The song starts with Gaga saying, "I don't speak German, but I can if you like", then immediately launches into a spoken verse in faux-German.
The next verses, containing lyrics of Gaga being a strong woman, are all backed by "growling, guttural" synths, and are mixed with German and English.
"[18] Rolling Stone's Jody Rosen, however, felt the chorus was "a whisp" and called the song's beat "generic Eurodisco thump".
"[9] Caryn Ganz from Spin called the opening lines of the song ("I don't speak German, but I can if you like") "hilariously ludicrous.
[20] McCall also noted Gaga's gibberish lyrics and compared them to what a high school student group's version of Cabaret would sound like.
[20] Prefixmag's Craig Jenkins said the song, along with album tracks "Bloody Mary" and "Government Hooker", "cuts the karaoke crap and kicks ass on the dance floor" and "eschew[s] Born This Way's time traveling ethos in favor of a more modern approach.
"[22] Nathan Heller from Slate compared the song to Mediterranean dance tracks, while declaring it as being "custom-tailored to an international audience".
[23] Adam White of The Independent felt that "Scheiße" is "naked pandering to the Berghain crowd, with its gibberish German lyrics and rampant, aggressive absurdity.
"[24] While reviewing Born This Way The Tenth Anniversary in 2021, Owen Myers of Pitchfork dubbed "Scheiße" "the best non-single of Gaga’s career".
[27] Following the release of Born This Way, "Scheiße" peaked at number 13 on the International Digital Download chart in South Korea, jumping 21 positions from the previous week.
And their presentation was no exception and this time she was seen dancing across a row of cutters labeled with the words 'money', 'sex' and 'vanity' while scantily clad dancers threw her around the stage notes"[32] and Charlie Amter of The Hollywood Reporter stated that "Gaga dazzled German fans".
Gaga, with long blonde pigtails, performed a complex dance routine wearing a black top and pants, described by Miguel Dumaual of CBS News as containing "solid dance-beats".
For the duration of the song, Gaga is seen sitting on top of a metallic, clawed, robot-like equipment, which journalists compared to a Transformer,[43][44] and to a giant spider.
