Poker Face

2008 single by Lady Gaga

"Poker Face" is a song by American singer-songwriter Lady Gaga. It was first released in 2008 in her debut album, The Fame. Later, it was released as the album's second single, after "Just Dance".

"Poker Face"
Single by Lady Gaga
from the album The Fame
B-side"Just Dance"
WrittenJanuary 2008
ReleasedSeptember 23, 2008 (2008-09-23)
RecordedJanuary 2008
StudioRecord Plant, Los Angeles
Genre
Length3:58
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)RedOne
Lady Gaga singles chronology
"Just Dance"
(2008)
"Poker Face"
(2008)
"Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)"
(2009)
Music video
"Poker Face" at YouTube

The song has been very successful worldwide, reaching #1 in over 20 countries, including the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and Germany. It finished as the best-performing single of 2009 in the United Kingdom and the second-best performing in the US and Canada. "Poker Face" has sold over 7.5 million copies in the United States as of February 2018.[1]

The song has won Gaga several awards, including Best Dance Recording at the Grammy Awards in 2010. On November 30, 2015, the song was certified Diamond (10× Platinum) in the US for sales and streams equal to 10 million copies in that country alone.

In an interview with Barbara Walters, she said that this song is about dealing with bisexuality. The lyrics "Bluffin' with my muffin" are about her fantasizing about women when having sex with her boyfriend. In a Carpool Karaoke segment of The Late Late Show with James Corden, where Corden and Gaga sang several of her songs as they played on the radio, Gaga revealed that she wrote "Poker Face" in only ten minutes.[2]

Gaga has performed the song at all of her major concert tours, at her Super Bowl LI Halftime show, and at the Coachella Music Festival in April 2017, and at her Enigma/Jazz + Piano residency in Las Vegas.

Music video

The song's music video features Gaga at a resort performing choreography with dancers. Two Great Danes are shown at the beginning of the video.[source?]

On June 11, 2022, the music video passed one billion views on YouTube, becoming Gaga's third music video to reach this, after "Bad Romance" and "Shallow".[3]

Certifications

CountryCertifications
Australia3× Platinum
Austria4× Platinum
BelgiumPlatinum
BrazilPlatinum
Canada4× Platinum
DenmarkPlatinum
Europe3× Platinum
FinlandGold
France2× Platinum
GreecePlatinum
Germany6× Platinum
Hungary2× Platinum
IrelandPlatinum
Italy2× Platinum
JapanPlatinum
Mexico3× Platinum
New Zealand2× Platinum
NorwayPlatinum
Poland3× Platinum
PortugalGold
Russia4× Platinum
SpainPlatinum
SwedenPlatinum
Switzerland3× Platinum
United Kingdom2× Platinum
United StatesDiamond

References