![]() But amidst the EDM overload, Gaga manages to humanize things with one of her raspier, rawer vocal performances. Īfter the song was made available online, Idolator website contributor Carl Williott compared it to her iTunes Festival performance and said, "That rendition was particularly wild, and the studio version is even more schizophrenic and rave-ready." Furthermore, he wrote of the song, "It's a sonic onslaught of synth washes, a ground-churning bass line, jittery keyboards, hiccuping vocal samples and crescendos leading to drops in all the expected places. However, she ended up "screaming and squealing throughout the track." The dance nature of the song vanishes when the chorus is reached, with Gaga belting the lyrics backed by the "chaotic" synths shouting, "You're just a pig inside a human body / Squealer, squealer, squealer, you're so disgusting / You're just a pig inside", finally uttering the word "Swine" continuously as the groove "thrashed". Gaga wanted to lessen the harshness of the lyrics developed for the track by making it sound more lighthearted. Lyrically, the recording denounces a suitor by comparing them to a pig. The song has a basic sequence of C/G–Gm–C/G–Gm as its chord progression. It is composed in the key of G minor, with Gaga's harsh vocals ranging from G 3 to D 5. Bradley Stern saw the music as "several hair-raising, teeth-gritting, heart-stopping acid techno-laced beat drops." According to, the song is set in the time signature of common time with a fast tempo of 120 beats per minute. Gil Kaufman of MTV News described the track as a "rock-heavy" song. Based on the "teaser" of Gaga rehearsing for the iTunes Festival, Entertainment Weekly 's Nick Catucci described "Swine" as a "real shocker with Nine Inch Nails lyrics and bull-in-a-bong-shop Deep Purple groove." Consequence of Sound noted the creation of the Twitter hashtag #swinefest, and called the song a "melancholy piano ballad that eventually erupts into a raging pop-rocker, backed by piercing guitar and synths." Musically, "Swine" is a dubstep and industrial song. "Swine" was recorded at the Record Plant studio. The song is about rage and fury and passion, and I had a lot of pain that I wanted to release." Recording and composition I'm able to laugh now because I've gone through a lot of mental, physical and emotional therapy I wasn't even willing to admit that anything had even happened I saw him one time in a store, and I was paralyzed by fear." She confirmed that the incident further inspired "Swine", saying, "I wrote a song called 'Swine' the song is about rape. During her conversation with Stern, the singer recalled, "I went through some horrific things. In December 2014, Gaga revealed on The Howard Stern Show that she was raped at age 19 by a producer twenty years older than her. One of the songs on Artpop was "Swine", which the singer explained was personal, and dealt with challenging and troubling sexual experiences she had encountered in her life. By the following year, the album's concepts were "beginning to flourish" as Gaga collaborated with producers Fernando Garibay and DJ White Shadow. Background and writing ĭevelopment of Gaga's third studio album, Artpop, began shortly after the 2011 release of her second record, Born This Way. "Swine" was featured in the 2015 documentary The Hunting Ground, along with Gaga's " Til It Happens to You" (2015), which focuses on rape at American universities. The latter performance received criticism for promoting bulimia when artist Millie Brown vomited paint on Gaga onstage. Gaga performed the song during her iTunes Festival show, the ArtRave: The Artpop Ball tour (2014) and at the South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival in Austin, Texas. In the United States, "Swine" reached a peak position of number 23 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Songs chart. It debuted at number 94 on the Gaon International Digital Chart in South Korea, selling 2,430 copies. "Swine" was critically appreciated for its harsh composition and craziness. Throughout the song, Gaga screams out the lyrics, which talk about denouncing a suitor by comparing them to a pig. A dubstep and industrial track, "Swine" was inspired by the singer's sexual experiences and the rage she felt from being raped when she was 19 by an unidentified record producer. It was written and produced by Gaga, Paul "DJ White Shadow" Blair, Dino Zisis, and Nick Monson. " Swine" is a song by American singer Lady Gaga, recorded for her third studio album, Artpop (2013).
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