As early as a Palm Springs performance in 2009, she explained that it was an ode to fantasizing about women. “I suppose it is whatever you hear that it is,” she said of the lyrics in a 2009 radio interview, adding that she was “quite pleased” that “none of the other stations anywhere else in the world ever edited the record.”Īs for the meaning of the song overall, Gaga has been open about that since the beginning of her career. “When you bought the tickets and you saw ‘Lady Gaga in Las Vegas’ and you thought, ‘I should bring my children,’ that’s not my fault.”Ī few years ago, “Poker Face” experienced a resurgence when TikTokers realized that in the studio version of the song Gaga actually sounds like she’s singing “fuck her face” between chants of “poker face.” This interpretation of the chorus is, in fact, as old as the song itself.
“It’s not my fault if you brought your kids to my show,” she joked.
