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You and I (Lady Gaga song)

January 01, 1970

"You and I" (stylized as "Yoü and I") is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Lady Gaga, taken from her second studio album, Born This Way (2011). She also co-produced it with Robert John "Mutt" Lange. The track samples Queen's "We Will Rock You" (1977) and features electric guitar by Queen's Brian May. Gaga debuted "You and I" in June 2010 during her performance at Elton John's White Tie and Tiara Ball. Footage of the performance appeared on the Internet, and positive response encouraged her to include the song on her setlist for The Monster Ball Tour. She later performed the song on Today to a record crowd in July 2010, and on The Oprah Winfrey Show in May 2011. On August 23, 2011, Interscope Records released the song as the fourth single from the album.

"You and I"
Single by Lady Gaga
from the album Born This Way
ReleasedAugust 23, 2011 (2011-08-23)
Recorded2010
Studio
  • Warehouse Productions (Omaha, Nebraska)
  • Allertown Hill (United Kingdom)
Genre
Length5:07
Label
Songwriter(s)Stefani Germanotta
Producer(s)
Lady Gaga singles chronology
"3-Way (The Golden Rule)"
(2011) 		"You and I"
(2011) 		"The Lady Is a Tramp"
(2011)
Music video
"You And I" on YouTube

"You and I" is a downtempo song featuring instrumentation from electric guitars and piano, with Gaga and Lange providing background vocals. The song received critical acclaim, with reviewers listing it as one of the highlights from Born This Way. After the release of the parent album, "You and I" charted in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States, due to digital downloads from the parent album. After being released as a single, "You and I" reached the top ten in the US, Japan, and seven additional countries. The song was also certified Triple Platinum in the US for selling three million units. Season ten American Idol contestant Haley Reinhart performed "You and I" in May 2011 before its release, earning positive reviews. Her studio recording was released to the iTunes Store as a single, and appeared on the compilation album, American Idol Top 5 Season 10. "You and I" was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance at the 54th Grammy Awards, which was held on February 12, 2012.[1]

The accompanying music video for "You and I" was also met with a positive response. It was shot by Gaga's long-time collaborator Laurieann Gibson in Springfield, Nebraska, and it was released on August 16, 2011. It features Yüyi, Gaga's mermaid alter ego, and Jo Calderone, Gaga's male alter ego, who also appears on the single's cover. Gaga later performed the song dressed as Jo Calderone at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards. The song has subsequently been performed on the singer's concert tours and residencies.

Background and release edit

 
Lady Gaga, as her alter ego Jo Calderone, at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards

"You and I", written by Lady Gaga and produced by Gaga and Robert John "Mutt" Lange,[2] was one of the first songs previewed from the album. Gaga said she wrote the song in New York, while she was busy playing her old piano. The singer first played "You and I" at Elton John's White Tie and Tiara Ball in June 2010.[3] She said that the song was a bit of a "rock-and-roll tune" and, as such, was unlikely to be released as a single from Born This Way. She said that it "is very dear" to her heart.[3] Footage of the performance appeared on the Internet soon after, and positive response encouraged Lady Gaga to perform the song during the first concert of the North American leg of The Monster Ball Tour in Montreal.[4] Gaga told MSNBC's Meredith Vieira and Ann Curry that "'You and I' was written about the most important person that I ever met",[5] allegedly Lüc Carl, her ex-boyfriend.[6]

Gaga announced "You and I" as the fourth single from Born This Way on July 22, 2011.[7] Its cover, released on August 5, 2011, via TwitPic, was accompanied by the line: "You will never find what you are looking for in love, if you don't love yourself." It features two black-and-white images of Gaga's male alter ego Jo Calderone smoking a cigarette and sporting sideburns.[8] The Calderone character made a previous appearance in June 2011, when Gaga posed as him in London for a series of photos by photographer Nick Knight, arranged by stylist Nicola Formichetti.[9] One shot features him wearing a blazer and white T-shirt with his head down smoking a cigarette. The other image is of Jo Calderone in silhouette exhaling a cloud of smoke.[10]

A writer for Australia's The Daily Telegraph described the images as having a moody and scruffy look, and felt that Gaga had become "bored with being an outrageous woman and has decided to switch gender instead."[8] Rap-Up's David Jones commented that Gaga's Calderone character appearing on the cover looked similar to musician Bob Dylan.[11] Steve Pond of Reuters stated about the artwork: "Lady Gaga loves herself even when she's dressed as a guy."[12]

Composition edit

 
"You and I"
A sample of "You and I", where Gaga sings the bridge, which includes the lines "Sit back down on the couch where we made love the first time, and you said to me", a reference to the couch on which she had sex with her boyfriend, Lüc Carl.
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"You and I" was written solely by Gaga.[13] The song has rock, arena rock, and country music influences,[3][14][15] and features British rock band Queen's guitarist Brian May.[16] It was recorded by Tom Ware and Horace Ward at the Warehouse Productions Studio in Omaha, Nebraska, and Allertown Hill in the United Kingdom, respectively.[17] Along with May, Justin Shirley Smith also played guitars; Gene Grimaldi mastered the track. Olle Romo did additional recording and programming.[17] Gaga teased that "someone legendary" would be producing the track before production credits were announced in April 2011.[18] Gaga, a Queen fan (even taking her stage name from the Queen song "Radio Ga Ga"), admitted to "[falling] to the floor crying and laughing" when she found out that May agreed to the collaboration.[19] Lange asked Gaga to record a "rough lead vocal" for the track while she was touring. Gaga later recalled: "I had about 30 cigarettes and a couple of glasses of Jameson and just put on a click track and sang my face off, thinking we'd redo the vocals."[20] However, Lange was satisfied with her recording and used it on the track.[20] Ware recalled that the song was recorded the night after Gaga's March 17, 2011, concert for The Monster Ball Tour. She welcomed his opinions and encouraged his input which he said helped make the four-hour session the best working experience he has had with a celebrity. "She was flattering toward the studio — and Omaha, too, for that matter. She is a bright young lady with remarkable music instincts who charts her own path," he added.[21]

According to the sheet music published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, "You and I" is set in common time with a slow tempo of 60 beats per minute. It is written in the key of A major. During the song Gaga's voice spans from the notes of E3 to C♯5. The song begins with an A–G–A chord progression, which changes to A–Bm/A–D/A–B♯m during the chorus, and back to the former chords afterwards.[22] The opening lyrics—"It's been a long time since I came around/ It's been a long time, but I'm back in town/ And this time, I'm not leaving without you"—describe a whiskey-breathed lover for whom she is pining. Gil Kaufman of MTV News described it as the "tune eschewed most of her dance flavor, right down to a rollicking barrel-house piano solo." Her voice sounded like growling during the main verses, where she sings the lines: "He said, 'Sit back down where you belong, in the corner of my bar with your high heels on, Sit back down on the couch where we made love the first time..."[3]

Noting the differences between live performances of the song and the studio version, Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph observed that the piano parts were replaced mostly by "fizzing synths, a stomping beat sampled from "We Will Rock You", thundering electric guitars and backing vocals stacked into shimmering choral walls."[23][24] Kitty Empire of The Guardian described the song as an "umlaut-toting digital country power ballad" with two Bruce Springsteen references: "born to run" and Nebraska.[25]

Critical reception edit

 
Brian May, guitarist for rock band Queen, played guitars on "You and I".

"You and I" received acclaim from music critics. After hearing the White Tie and Tiara Ball performance, Entertainment Weekly's Leah Greenblatt complimented the song for its "torchy, slow-burn cabaret quality" and for lacking "Auto-Tune, fancy production, or performance gimmicks."[26] McCormick, noting the differences between Gaga's live and studio versions of the song, described the studio version as "bigger, bolder and less quirkily emotive, a custom-built radio rock ballad to induce hand claps in packed stadiums. This is not music for the underground: it is cheesy, high-gloss, pop rock for the mainstream middle, a kind of instant Eighties retro classic to seduce middle-aged rockers – possibly the last demographic to remain sceptical about her appeal."[23] Jody Rosen of Rolling Stone called the song a confessional power ballad "with a torrid, Sturm und Drang vocal turn".[27] In his review for The Guardian, Tim Jonze said the song "aims for a 'Hey Jude' style singalong but – owing to its determination to have someone playing kitchen sink in the background – ends up as bloated as Oasis' 'All Around the World'."[28] Kitty Empire said the song is Gaga's "unlikely heartland moment – a bid, perhaps, to locate herself as an all-American balladeer as well as an art-disco avatar with tent pegs under her skin", referring to the prosthetics featured in the music video for the song "Born This Way".[25]

The Dartmouth's Kate Sullivan wrote that "You and I" may be Gaga's most honest song to date.[29] Shirley Halperin of The Hollywood Reporter wondered whether pop radio would play the song, considering Gaga's popularity. Halperin felt that the track emoted "a sense of grandness that listeners don't always get with Gaga's RedOne-produced heavily synthetic sounds." Conversely, she felt that the live piano and background vocals by Gaga and Lange added "an undeniably lush quality, while the lyrics drives the song home and potentially into hit territory."[30] Kerri Mason of Billboard felt that the "country ballad" made no contextual sense.[31] Nekesa Mumbi Moody, while reviewing Born This Way for Florida Today, compared the song to "Speechless", a similar tempo song included on The Fame Monster (2009).[32] Robert Copsey, a writer for the website Digital Spy gave the song four out of five stars calling it a "torchy, retro-classic, all-American power ballad custom-built for the masses – and one we suspect Stefani would be proud to call her own."[33] Amy Sciarretto of Artistdirect concluded that the song was "a bit bluesier than anything you'd expect from the dance floor icon."[34] AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine chose the song as a highlight on Born This Way saying that Gaga shows her vulnerability in it.[35]

"You and I" was nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, which was held on February 12, 2012.[1]

Chart performance edit

 
Lady Gaga performing "You and I" in Manchester on the Born This Way Ball tour

In the United States, "You and I" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 36 on the June 11, 2011 chart, having sold 83,000 downloads.[36][37] The song re-entered the August 27, 2011, Billboard Hot 100 at number 96, while debuting on the Pop Songs chart at number 35.[38][39] The following week, the song was the greatest gainer on the digital chart, entering at number 24 having sold 56,000 copies, while moving to number 35 on the Hot 100. It also gained airplay and became the highest debuting song on the Radio Songs chart, entering at number 58 with 22 million audience impressions.[40] Following her performance on the MTV Video Music Awards, "You and I" moved up to number 16 on the Hot 100, with a 92% increase in digital sales to 109,000 and a 50% increase in airplay to 32 million, according to Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems.[41] The following week, it moved to number six on the Hot 100 with a 61% increase in digital sales to 175,000 and a 32% increase in radio play to 41 million audience impressions, reaching number four and number 23 on the Digital Songs and Radio Songs charts, respectively. "You and I" became Gaga's eleventh consecutive top ten single on the Hot 100.[42] In October 2011 it became Gaga's tenth song to sell 1 million in the U.S.[43] As of February 2018, "You and I" has sold 2.4 million digital downloads in the US becoming Gaga's tenth two-million seller.[44][45] In February 2016, "You and I" received a triple platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America.

In Canada, the song entered the Hot Digital Songs chart at number 14, subsequently debuting on the Canadian Hot 100 at number 27.[46] It entered the charts again at number 45, and has reached a peak of number 10.[47] Before the single was officially released in Australia, digital downloads were sold, consequently it entered the ARIA Singles Chart at number 56 on August 15, 2011.[48] The following week, the song moved up to number 34, and has reached a peak of number 14.[49] Following the album's release on May 23, 2011, "You and I" entered the UK Singles Chart at number 89, thanks to digital downloads from Born This Way.[50] The song jumped up to number 70 from its previous week's position of number 187, in the issue dated September 3, 2011, and has reached a peak of number 23.[51] In Japan, the song had initially entered the digital chart at number 98, but after the MTV Video Music Awards performance, it entered the Japan Hot 100 at number eight.[52][53]

Music video edit

Background edit

"It was so sweet, and I looked out and it's so beautiful, that tall corn... Then all of a sudden you start to see these monsters pop up. I love this place [Nebraska] so much, and it really comes from a genuine place. The person who I wrote this song about has been my buddy and my best friend since I was 19 years old, and he's from here."[54]

—Gaga talking about her love for Nebraska, and the shooting of the video.

"You and I"'s music video was filmed in Springfield, Nebraska in July 2011, and was directed by Lady Gaga's then choreographer Laurieann Gibson.[55][56] In the video, Gaga walks from New York City to Nebraska to get her boyfriend back. According to Gaga: "I'm walking with no luggage and no nothing and it's just me and my ankles are bleeding a little bit and there's grass stuck in my shoes and I've got this outfit on and it's real sort of New York clothing and I'm sprinting... And the [video is about the] idea that when you're away from someone you love, it's torture," she continued. "I knew I wanted the video to be about me sprinting back and walking hundreds of thousands of miles to get him back."[55][57]

She announced that the video would be the 1,000th tweet on her Twitter account.[58][59] Gaga confirmed to MTV News that the video would premiere on August 18, 2011, on MTV.[60] However, two days before it was to air, parts of the clip leaked on the Internet, prompting Gaga to post three tweets which, together, read "FUCK THURS DAY".[61][62] The messages were followed immediately by her 1,000th Twitter message: "You must love all + every part of me, as must I, for this complex + incomprehensible force to be true," including a link to the full music video, uploaded to Gaga's YouTube channel two days earlier than its scheduled première.[61][63] The video features Gaga's two alter egos: Jo Calderone, Gaga's male ego, and Yüyi, a mermaid she had hinted would appear in the video in July 2011.[61][64]

Following the video's premiere on MTV, Gaga explained some of its scenes and her inspiration: "The video is quite complex in the way that the story is told, and it's meant to be slightly linear and slightly twisted and confusing, which is the way that love is."[65] Regarding the sexual intercourse scenes between actor Taylor Kinney and the singer as a mermaid, Gaga explained that it emphasized metaphorically that sometimes relationships did not work. "No matter what you do, there's this giant boundary between you and someone else. So that's what it's about, perceiving in your imagination that there's something magical inside of you that you can make it work," she said.[65] After revealing that the wedding dress shown in the video belonged to her mother, Gaga explained the scenes involving the ice cream truck. According to her, they represented the destruction of her youth, experiences she had shared in earlier interviews.[65] Explaining her decision to include them, Gaga said:

That's how I wanted to open the video, because I think it really sets up the rest of the story. It allows you to imagine you yourself are not just one person; you're so many. That person has so many stories and memories to draw from, and they all affect your journey profusely. I'm battered quite brutally at the beginning of the video, but at the end, I'm not battered; I'm a bit strange. It's not meant to be an answer video; it's meant to be a profuse number of the question.[65]

Synopsis edit

The music video begins with Gaga, dressed in black clothing, sunglasses, bloody feet, and seemingly bionic features, walking through a field in Nebraska; having returned on foot after years of absence. Gaga goes to buy ice cream from an ice cream truck, but she suddenly drops it as a toothless man with a doll in his hand grins at her. She begins to have flashbacks to an earlier time spent in Nebraska as scenes of Gaga having a wedding, being tortured by a man inside a barn, and being inside a water tank appear in quick succession. The song starts playing as the camera zooms slowly towards Gaga, who is standing bent forward as she begins singing. The video continually switches to scenes where Gaga, with little make up, a simple gray-colored hair style, and a white dress, plays a piano in the middle of a cornfield, while her male alter ego, Jo Calderone, sits on top of the piano, smoking and drinking a beer. As Calderone pulls up his sleeves, present day Gaga is still walking through the desert.

 
Lady Gaga as Yüyi the Mermaid in the music video

During the second verse, a mad scientist, portrayed by Kinney, seemingly tortures Gaga, who is wearing a yellow dress with glasses made of barbwire, as another version of the singer, with teal-colored hair, performs a dance routine with her backup dancers in a barn. As the chorus begins for the second time, Gaga appears as Yüyi the Mermaid, with gills on her face and neck, as she lies in a tub filled with dirty water. At the end of the chorus, the camera zooms to a brunette Gaga inside a water tank while she sings "You and I" in the desert scene, and in the cornfield with Calderone. Interspersing scenes again show Gaga having her wedding, Yüyi in her tub, and Gaga seated on a chair with a conveyor belt. During May's guitar solo, Gaga dances in the cornfield with other dancers dressed in the same white dress, as Yüyi and the scientist kiss. While singing the chorus for the final time, Gaga kisses Calderone in one sequence and runs across the field in another. As the video reaches its conclusion, the tortured Gaga is being slid down as the conveyor belt turns on. The video ends with Yüyi and the scientist together in the bath tub, as a depiction of their dream wedding flashes across, before a last shot of the barn as the screen turns black.

Reception edit

Following its premature release on the Web, the music video for "You and I" met with positive reviews. Matthew Perpetua of Rolling Stone felt the video was an improvement over her earlier videos, "Judas" and "The Edge of Glory", saying, "the best moments of the video put a distinctly Gaga-ish spin on the iconography of Americana and traditional love stories."[66] Jillian Mapes of Billboard wrote the video has: "torture contraptions, mermaid sex, a wedding, bondage in a barn, an ice cream truck, and to top it all off, 'Children of the Corn' and religious overtones thrown in for good measure," and thought the video setting was the strangest representation of Nebraska.[61] Leah Collins of Dose felt the video was a "great opportunity for the singer to finally find out what it's like to make out with herself."[67] Kyle Anderson of Entertainment Weekly noted of the scene in which Gaga plays a piano in a cornfield beside her male alter ego: "She's just Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, playing a piano in the middle of a corn field—with a little making out on the side, of course."[68] Gil Kaufman of MTV News believed that Gaga was not joking when she talked about the video being about the "torture" of being away from the one you love. "And, man, based on the bruising final product, she wasn't kidding," Kaufman concluded.[54]

Jocelyn Vena of MTV found influences of Gaga's past videos in the various avatars she plays in "You and I". She explained that:

when [Gaga] stands at a crossroads in a big hat, the image is reminiscent of 'Telephone' Gaga. When she sits nearly makeup-free at her piano in the cornfields, there are touches of the teary-eyed makeup-less Gaga from the 'Bad Romance' video. Flashes of her wedding may remind fans of the wedding dress she wore in the 'Judas' clip. Robot Gaga's facial structures recall some of the steampunk looks of her 'Alejandro' video. Those are only a few of the nods to past personae from her own videography.[69]

Devin Brown of CBS News felt that Gaga had finally returned to form with the video. "After some visually pleasing but generally lackluster videos, she has finally come out with something to write home about. 'You and I' is arguably the best song on her sophomore release, Born This Way, and now has a video to match."[70] A Slant Magazine writer commented that the publication had a mixed reaction to the video, saying that it "is essentially a collection of disconnected images we couldn't make heads or tails of."[71]

Fashion films edit

On September 1, 2011, Gaga announced on her Twitter account that she had shot five "fashion films" related to the song's music video with Dutch photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. The characters for each of the videos are: Jo Calderone (Gaga's alter ego), Yüyi (a mermaid), Nymph, Bride, and finally Barn Hooker and Mother.[72] After the tweet, Gaga released the first video, titled "Haus of Ü featuring Nymph". The two-minute black-and-white video featured Gaga with minimal make-up, wearing a short dress, performing ballet choreography. As wind blows around her, the singer looks intently toward the camera, with the parting shot in color.[72] The second video featured her as the bride from the opening sequence of the music video. The fashion film portrayed her in the same costume, gradually removing it and her wig. At the end, she is topless with her hand covering her breasts. Interspersed between are scenes portraying people dressed like Gaga, and appearances by Taylor Kinney, who was in the music video, and the singer's stylist Nicola Formichetti.[73] The third fashion film portrayed the singer as the mermaid Yüyi. She sits in a director's chair, flopping her tail. It also shows two crew members carrying Yüyi toward the barn, where the music video was filmed. Formichetti also makes a cameo in this video.[74]

Live performances edit

 
Gaga performing "You and I" on the Today show on July 9, 2010

After the first performance of "You and I" at Elton John's White Tie and Tiara Ball, Gaga performed the song live on the television program Today on July 9, 2010, before an estimated crowd of 18,000–20,000 people, the largest ever to pack Rockefeller Plaza.[75][76] It was next performed on the July 31, 2010, Phoenix stop of the Monster Ball Tour, where Gaga protested Arizona's immigration law SB 1070—which mandates that state police officers "question any person they suspect to be an illegal immigrant and imprison any aliens not carrying one of four allowed forms of proper identification"—and dedicated her performance of "You and I" to a boy whose family had been affected by the law.[77] Gaga performed the album version of the track on The Oprah Winfrey Show on May 5, 2011, using a piano constructed from a wire high-heel structure while sitting on a high stool.[78] The "less organic" version for the final "Harpo Hookups" episode featured an electric guitar and modified lyrics to include Oprah's name.[79][80]

The song was on the set list of the HBO television special, Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden, which aired originally on May 7, 2011, in the United States.[81] Gaga's performance of "You and I" from the HBO special aired on American Idol, the night after she mentored the four remaining contestants, and the week following Haley Reinhart's performance of the song.[82][83] She performed a jazz version of "You and I" at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Carlisle, Cumbria on May 18, 2011.[84] The third performance of the album version of the song was on the Paul O'Grady Live show in London, on June 17, 2011. Wearing a dress by the late Gianni Versace, Gaga perched atop a New York City-inspired fire escape, where she sang the song. Ryan Love of Digital Spy had a preview of the show's recording, and said that it was a "real treat" to hear Gaga sing the song.[85] In August 2011, Gaga performed "You and I" on the American TV talk show program The View.[86] On August 28, 2011, Gaga attended the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards dressed as Jo Calderone. As Calderone, she opened the show with a four-minute monologue, explaining his broken relationship with Gaga. Following the monologue, joined on stage by Brian May, she performed "You and I".[87] On October 6, 2011, she filmed a pre-recorded interview and performance for the single on The Jonathan Ross Show.[88] Later, on October 16, 2011, she performed the song during a concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles for the Clinton Foundation.[89]

 
Gaga performing "You and I" during her Las Vegas residency show, Enigma

On the ABC special, A Very Gaga Thanksgiving, the singer performed the song backed by a "piano-and-trumpet arrangement".[90] On November 30, during the CBS special titled The Grammy Nominations Concert Live! – Countdown to Music's Biggest Night—where the nominations for the 54th Grammy Awards were revealed—Gaga performed "You and I" along with Jennifer Nettles of the country band Sugarland while Kristian Bush played the guitar. During the performance, she changed the lyrics to fit the occasion: "With your high cowboy boots on. Oh Sugarland, it's been six whole years."[91] According to James Montgomery of MTV News, she performed a "husky, musky version" of "You and I".[91] She performed the song on the Born This Way Ball tour (2012–2013) by playing it on the piano before running around the stage. Like previous concert tours, the piano, fused to a motorcycle, was an elaborate prop that tied into the theme of her show, in keeping with the hair metal theme of Born This Way.[92] The song was also part of the setlist of Gaga's 2014 residency show at Roseland Ballroom.[93]

In July 2016, Gaga performed "You and I" at the "Camden Rising" concert at the BB&T Pavilion in Camden, New Jersey, which was part of the 2016 Democratic National Convention.[94] The performance of the song was later included in her documentary film, Gaga: Five Foot Two (2017).[95] In 2017, Gaga performed the song during both of her shows at the Coachella Festival,[96] and included it in her set at the Deep From the Heart: The One America Appeal benefit concert in Texas, where she joined former US presidents Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and other performers in raising money to victims of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria.[97] During the latter, she changed up the lyrics to address each president with the song.[98] Gaga has also performed the song on her 2018–2020 Las Vegas residency show, Enigma.[99] On November 2, 2020, Gaga performed "You and I" along with "Shallow" at president-elect Joe Biden's final campaign rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[100]

Cover versions edit

Prior to the release of Born This Way, season ten American Idol contestant Haley Reinhart sang "You and I" as one of two performances for the "Songs from Now and Then" episode.[101] Jimmy Iovine, head of Gaga's record label, asked for the song and Reinhart received her permission before the performance.[101][102] Reviews of Reinhart's performance were mostly positive. Len Melisurgo of The Star-Ledger considered it a risky choice, since the song had not been released, but accepted that Reinhart "sounded amazing" by hitting "some really high notes".[103] Brian Mansfield of USA Today described Reinhart's performance as an "old-fashioned dance-hall groove, kind of like a mid-'70s Elton John number. It's perfectly suited to that slippery growl that such a distinctive part of Haley's style. By the end of the song, she turns it into a gospel-style rocker, and she takes it to the house." Mansfield also noted that the American Idol judges—Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler—reacted positively to it.[104] On the contrary, Jim Farber of the New York Daily News considered the choice risky and was thankful when Reinhart performed a more familiar song for her second round.[105] On May 5, 2011, Reinhart's studio recording of "You and I" was released as a digital single to the iTunes Store, and appeared on the compilation album American Idol Top 5 Season 10. Mansfield, who initially had misgivings about Reinhart as a singer, complimented her studio recording of the track, feeling that if she could "get another 10 songs this good when it comes time to cut the record, then all my initial misgivings about this girl will vanish into thin air."[106]

British singer Amelia Lily covered the song in November 2011 during her time on UK talent show The X Factor.[107] On November 15, 2011, comedy-drama, musical TV series Glee featured a mash-up of Gaga's "You and I" and Eddie Rabbitt and Crystal Gayle's "You and I", performed by Matthew Morrison and Idina Menzel (as their respective characters Will Schuester and Shelby Corcoran) in the episode "Mash Off".[108] The mash-up sold 23,000 digital downloads, and debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at number 69, in the issue dated December 3, 2011.[109]

On June 25, 2021, Ben Platt released a cover version of the song as part of the tenth anniversary edition of Born This Way.[110]

Track listing edit

Digital download[111]

  1. "You and I" (Radio Edit) [Main] – 4:06
  2. "You and I" (Mark Taylor Radio Edit) – 3:55

CD single[112]

  1. "You and I" (Radio Edit) – 4:07
  2. "You and I" (Mark Taylor Radio Edit) – 3:56

UK 7-inch picture disc[113]

  1. "You and I" (Wild Beasts Remix) – 3:51
  2. "You and I" (Metronomy Remix) – 4:20

You and I – The Remixes[114]

  1. "You and I" (Wild Beasts Remix) – 3:51
  2. "You and I" (Mark Taylor Remix) – 5:02
  3. "You and I" (10 Kings Remix) – 4:29
  4. "You and I" (ATB Remix) – 8:08
  5. "You and I" (Metronomy Remix) – 4:20
  6. "You and I" (Danny Verde Remix) – 7:48
  7. "You and I" (Hector Fonseca Remix) – 8:03

Credits and personnel edit

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Born This Way.[17]

Recording and management edit

Personnel edit

Charts edit

Certifications and sales edit

Certifications and sales for "You and I"
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[153] 2× Platinum 140,000‡
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)[154] 3× Platinum 180,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ)[155] Gold 7,500*
United Kingdom (BPI)[156] Silver 200,000‡
United States (RIAA)[157] 3× Platinum 3,000,000‡

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history edit

Release dates and formats for "You and I"
Region Date Format Version(s) Label(s) Ref.
United States[a] August 23, 2011 Contemporary hit radio Original
[159]
Italy September 2, 2011 Radio airplay Universal [160]
Various September 18, 2011 Digital download Remixes Interscope [114]
United Kingdom Original
  • Streamline
  • KonLive
  • Interscope
 [161]
September 26, 2011 7-inch picture disc
[113]
Germany September 30, 2011 CD Original Interscope [112]
Various December 18, 2012 Digital download Jazz Universal [162]

See also edit

References edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ The lyrics differentiate depending on the state where it is played.[158]

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You and I stylized as You and I is a song written and recorded by American singer songwriter Lady Gaga taken from her second studio album Born This Way 2011 She also co produced it with Robert John Mutt Lange The track samples Queen s We Will Rock You 1977 and features electric guitar by Queen s Brian May Gaga debuted You and I in June 2010 during her performance at Elton John s White Tie and Tiara Ball Footage of the performance appeared on the Internet and positive response encouraged her to include the song on her setlist for The Monster Ball Tour She later performed the song on Today to a record crowd in July 2010 and on The Oprah Winfrey Show in May 2011 On August 23 2011 Interscope Records released the song as the fourth single from the album You and I Single by Lady Gagafrom the album Born This WayReleasedAugust 23 2011 2011 08 23 Recorded2010StudioWarehouse Productions Omaha Nebraska Allertown Hill United Kingdom GenreCountry rock arena rockLength5 07LabelStreamline KonLive InterscopeSongwriter s Stefani GermanottaProducer s Lady Gaga Robert John Mutt LangeLady Gaga singles chronology 3 Way The Golden Rule 2011 You and I 2011 The Lady Is a Tramp 2011 Music video You And I on YouTube You and I is a downtempo song featuring instrumentation from electric guitars and piano with Gaga and Lange providing background vocals The song received critical acclaim with reviewers listing it as one of the highlights from Born This Way After the release of the parent album You and I charted in Canada the United Kingdom and the United States due to digital downloads from the parent album After being released as a single You and I reached the top ten in the US Japan and seven additional countries The song was also certified Triple Platinum in the US for selling three million units Season ten American Idol contestant Haley Reinhart performed You and I in May 2011 before its release earning positive reviews Her studio recording was released to the iTunes Store as a single and appeared on the compilation album American Idol Top 5 Season 10 You and I was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance at the 54th Grammy Awards which was held on February 12 2012 1 The accompanying music video for You and I was also met with a positive response It was shot by Gaga s long time collaborator Laurieann Gibson in Springfield Nebraska and it was released on August 16 2011 It features Yuyi Gaga s mermaid alter ego and Jo Calderone Gaga s male alter ego who also appears on the single s cover Gaga later performed the song dressed as Jo Calderone at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards The song has subsequently been performed on the singer s concert tours and residencies Contents 1 Background and release 2 Composition 3 Critical reception 4 Chart performance 5 Music video 5 1 Background 5 2 Synopsis 5 3 Reception 5 4 Fashion films 6 Live performances 7 Cover versions 8 Track listing 9 Credits and personnel 9 1 Recording and management 9 2 Personnel 10 Charts 10 1 Weekly charts 10 2 Year end charts 11 Certifications and sales 12 Release history 13 See also 14 References 14 1 Notes 14 2 CitesBackground and release edit nbsp Lady Gaga as her alter ego Jo Calderone at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards You and I written by Lady Gaga and produced by Gaga and Robert John Mutt Lange 2 was one of the first songs previewed from the album Gaga said she wrote the song in New York while she was busy playing her old piano The singer first played You and I at Elton John s White Tie and Tiara Ball in June 2010 3 She said that the song was a bit of a rock and roll tune and as such was unlikely to be released as a single from Born This Way She said that it is very dear to her heart 3 Footage of the performance appeared on the Internet soon after and positive response encouraged Lady Gaga to perform the song during the first concert of the North American leg of The Monster Ball Tour in Montreal 4 Gaga told MSNBC s Meredith Vieira and Ann Curry that You and I was written about the most important person that I ever met 5 allegedly Luc Carl her ex boyfriend 6 Gaga announced You and I as the fourth single from Born This Way on July 22 2011 7 Its cover released on August 5 2011 via TwitPic was accompanied by the line You will never find what you are looking for in love if you don t love yourself It features two black and white images of Gaga s male alter ego Jo Calderone smoking a cigarette and sporting sideburns 8 The Calderone character made a previous appearance in June 2011 when Gaga posed as him in London for a series of photos by photographer Nick Knight arranged by stylist Nicola Formichetti 9 One shot features him wearing a blazer and white T shirt with his head down smoking a cigarette The other image is of Jo Calderone in silhouette exhaling a cloud of smoke 10 A writer for Australia s The Daily Telegraph described the images as having a moody and scruffy look and felt that Gaga had become bored with being an outrageous woman and has decided to switch gender instead 8 Rap Up s David Jones commented that Gaga s Calderone character appearing on the cover looked similar to musician Bob Dylan 11 Steve Pond of Reuters stated about the artwork Lady Gaga loves herself even when she s dressed as a guy 12 Composition edit nbsp You and I source source A sample of You and I where Gaga sings the bridge which includes the lines Sit back down on the couch where we made love the first time and you said to me a reference to the couch on which she had sex with her boyfriend Luc Carl Problems playing this file See media help You and I was written solely by Gaga 13 The song has rock arena rock and country music influences 3 14 15 and features British rock band Queen s guitarist Brian May 16 It was recorded by Tom Ware and Horace Ward at the Warehouse Productions Studio in Omaha Nebraska and Allertown Hill in the United Kingdom respectively 17 Along with May Justin Shirley Smith also played guitars Gene Grimaldi mastered the track Olle Romo did additional recording and programming 17 Gaga teased that someone legendary would be producing the track before production credits were announced in April 2011 18 Gaga a Queen fan even taking her stage name from the Queen song Radio Ga Ga admitted to falling to the floor crying and laughing when she found out that May agreed to the collaboration 19 Lange asked Gaga to record a rough lead vocal for the track while she was touring Gaga later recalled I had about 30 cigarettes and a couple of glasses of Jameson and just put on a click track and sang my face off thinking we d redo the vocals 20 However Lange was satisfied with her recording and used it on the track 20 Ware recalled that the song was recorded the night after Gaga s March 17 2011 concert for The Monster Ball Tour She welcomed his opinions and encouraged his input which he said helped make the four hour session the best working experience he has had with a celebrity She was flattering toward the studio and Omaha too for that matter She is a bright young lady with remarkable music instincts who charts her own path he added 21 According to the sheet music published by Sony ATV Music Publishing You and I is set in common time with a slow tempo of 60 beats per minute It is written in the key of A major During the song Gaga s voice spans from the notes of E3 to C 5 The song begins with an A G A chord progression which changes to A Bm A D A B m during the chorus and back to the former chords afterwards 22 The opening lyrics It s been a long time since I came around It s been a long time but I m back in town And this time I m not leaving without you describe a whiskey breathed lover for whom she is pining Gil Kaufman of MTV News described it as the tune eschewed most of her dance flavor right down to a rollicking barrel house piano solo Her voice sounded like growling during the main verses where she sings the lines He said Sit back down where you belong in the corner of my bar with your high heels on Sit back down on the couch where we made love the first time 3 Noting the differences between live performances of the song and the studio version Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph observed that the piano parts were replaced mostly by fizzing synths a stomping beat sampled from We Will Rock You thundering electric guitars and backing vocals stacked into shimmering choral walls 23 24 Kitty Empire of The Guardian described the song as an umlaut toting digital country power ballad with two Bruce Springsteen references born to run and Nebraska 25 Critical reception edit nbsp Brian May guitarist for rock band Queen played guitars on You and I You and I received acclaim from music critics After hearing the White Tie and Tiara Ball performance Entertainment Weekly s Leah Greenblatt complimented the song for its torchy slow burn cabaret quality and for lacking Auto Tune fancy production or performance gimmicks 26 McCormick noting the differences between Gaga s live and studio versions of the song described the studio version as bigger bolder and less quirkily emotive a custom built radio rock ballad to induce hand claps in packed stadiums This is not music for the underground it is cheesy high gloss pop rock for the mainstream middle a kind of instant Eighties retro classic to seduce middle aged rockers possibly the last demographic to remain sceptical about her appeal 23 Jody Rosen of Rolling Stone called the song a confessional power ballad with a torrid Sturm und Drang vocal turn 27 In his review for The Guardian Tim Jonze said the song aims for a Hey Jude style singalong but owing to its determination to have someone playing kitchen sink in the background ends up as bloated as Oasis All Around the World 28 Kitty Empire said the song is Gaga s unlikely heartland moment a bid perhaps to locate herself as an all American balladeer as well as an art disco avatar with tent pegs under her skin referring to the prosthetics featured in the music video for the song Born This Way 25 The Dartmouth s Kate Sullivan wrote that You and I may be Gaga s most honest song to date 29 Shirley Halperin of The Hollywood Reporter wondered whether pop radio would play the song considering Gaga s popularity Halperin felt that the track emoted a sense of grandness that listeners don t always get with Gaga s RedOne produced heavily synthetic sounds Conversely she felt that the live piano and background vocals by Gaga and Lange added an undeniably lush quality while the lyrics drives the song home and potentially into hit territory 30 Kerri Mason of Billboard felt that the country ballad made no contextual sense 31 Nekesa Mumbi Moody while reviewing Born This Way for Florida Today compared the song to Speechless a similar tempo song included on The Fame Monster 2009 32 Robert Copsey a writer for the website Digital Spy gave the song four out of five stars calling it a torchy retro classic all American power ballad custom built for the masses and one we suspect Stefani would be proud to call her own 33 Amy Sciarretto of Artistdirect concluded that the song was a bit bluesier than anything you d expect from the dance floor icon 34 AllMusic s Stephen Thomas Erlewine chose the song as a highlight on Born This Way saying that Gaga shows her vulnerability in it 35 You and I was nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards which was held on February 12 2012 1 Chart performance edit nbsp Lady Gaga performing You and I in Manchester on the Born This Way Ball tour In the United States You and I debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 36 on the June 11 2011 chart having sold 83 000 downloads 36 37 The song re entered the August 27 2011 Billboard Hot 100 at number 96 while debuting on the Pop Songs chart at number 35 38 39 The following week the song was the greatest gainer on the digital chart entering at number 24 having sold 56 000 copies while moving to number 35 on the Hot 100 It also gained airplay and became the highest debuting song on the Radio Songs chart entering at number 58 with 22 million audience impressions 40 Following her performance on the MTV Video Music Awards You and I moved up to number 16 on the Hot 100 with a 92 increase in digital sales to 109 000 and a 50 increase in airplay to 32 million according to Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems 41 The following week it moved to number six on the Hot 100 with a 61 increase in digital sales to 175 000 and a 32 increase in radio play to 41 million audience impressions reaching number four and number 23 on the Digital Songs and Radio Songs charts respectively You and I became Gaga s eleventh consecutive top ten single on the Hot 100 42 In October 2011 it became Gaga s tenth song to sell 1 million in the U S 43 As of February 2018 You and I has sold 2 4 million digital downloads in the US becoming Gaga s tenth two million seller 44 45 In February 2016 You and I received a triple platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America In Canada the song entered the Hot Digital Songs chart at number 14 subsequently debuting on the Canadian Hot 100 at number 27 46 It entered the charts again at number 45 and has reached a peak of number 10 47 Before the single was officially released in Australia digital downloads were sold consequently it entered the ARIA Singles Chart at number 56 on August 15 2011 48 The following week the song moved up to number 34 and has reached a peak of number 14 49 Following the album s release on May 23 2011 You and I entered the UK Singles Chart at number 89 thanks to digital downloads from Born This Way 50 The song jumped up to number 70 from its previous week s position of number 187 in the issue dated September 3 2011 and has reached a peak of number 23 51 In Japan the song had initially entered the digital chart at number 98 but after the MTV Video Music Awards performance it entered the Japan Hot 100 at number eight 52 53 Music video editBackground edit It was so sweet and I looked out and it s so beautiful that tall corn Then all of a sudden you start to see these monsters pop up I love this place Nebraska so much and it really comes from a genuine place The person who I wrote this song about has been my buddy and my best friend since I was 19 years old and he s from here 54 Gaga talking about her love for Nebraska and the shooting of the video You and I s music video was filmed in Springfield Nebraska in July 2011 and was directed by Lady Gaga s then choreographer Laurieann Gibson 55 56 In the video Gaga walks from New York City to Nebraska to get her boyfriend back According to Gaga I m walking with no luggage and no nothing and it s just me and my ankles are bleeding a little bit and there s grass stuck in my shoes and I ve got this outfit on and it s real sort of New York clothing and I m sprinting And the video is about the idea that when you re away from someone you love it s torture she continued I knew I wanted the video to be about me sprinting back and walking hundreds of thousands of miles to get him back 55 57 She announced that the video would be the 1 000th tweet on her Twitter account 58 59 Gaga confirmed to MTV News that the video would premiere on August 18 2011 on MTV 60 However two days before it was to air parts of the clip leaked on the Internet prompting Gaga to post three tweets which together read FUCK THURS DAY 61 62 The messages were followed immediately by her 1 000th Twitter message You must love all every part of me as must I for this complex incomprehensible force to be true including a link to the full music video uploaded to Gaga s YouTube channel two days earlier than its scheduled premiere 61 63 The video features Gaga s two alter egos Jo Calderone Gaga s male ego and Yuyi a mermaid she had hinted would appear in the video in July 2011 61 64 Following the video s premiere on MTV Gaga explained some of its scenes and her inspiration The video is quite complex in the way that the story is told and it s meant to be slightly linear and slightly twisted and confusing which is the way that love is 65 Regarding the sexual intercourse scenes between actor Taylor Kinney and the singer as a mermaid Gaga explained that it emphasized metaphorically that sometimes relationships did not work No matter what you do there s this giant boundary between you and someone else So that s what it s about perceiving in your imagination that there s something magical inside of you that you can make it work she said 65 After revealing that the wedding dress shown in the video belonged to her mother Gaga explained the scenes involving the ice cream truck According to her they represented the destruction of her youth experiences she had shared in earlier interviews 65 Explaining her decision to include them Gaga said That s how I wanted to open the video because I think it really sets up the rest of the story It allows you to imagine you yourself are not just one person you re so many That person has so many stories and memories to draw from and they all affect your journey profusely I m battered quite brutally at the beginning of the video but at the end I m not battered I m a bit strange It s not meant to be an answer video it s meant to be a profuse number of the question 65 Synopsis editThe music video begins with Gaga dressed in black clothing sunglasses bloody feet and seemingly bionic features walking through a field in Nebraska having returned on foot after years of absence Gaga goes to buy ice cream from an ice cream truck but she suddenly drops it as a toothless man with a doll in his hand grins at her She begins to have flashbacks to an earlier time spent in Nebraska as scenes of Gaga having a wedding being tortured by a man inside a barn and being inside a water tank appear in quick succession The song starts playing as the camera zooms slowly towards Gaga who is standing bent forward as she begins singing The video continually switches to scenes where Gaga with little make up a simple gray colored hair style and a white dress plays a piano in the middle of a cornfield while her male alter ego Jo Calderone sits on top of the piano smoking and drinking a beer As Calderone pulls up his sleeves present day Gaga is still walking through the desert nbsp Lady Gaga as Yuyi the Mermaid in the music video During the second verse a mad scientist portrayed by Kinney seemingly tortures Gaga who is wearing a yellow dress with glasses made of barbwire as another version of the singer with teal colored hair performs a dance routine with her backup dancers in a barn As the chorus begins for the second time Gaga appears as Yuyi the Mermaid with gills on her face and neck as she lies in a tub filled with dirty water At the end of the chorus the camera zooms to a brunette Gaga inside a water tank while she sings You and I in the desert scene and in the cornfield with Calderone Interspersing scenes again show Gaga having her wedding Yuyi in her tub and Gaga seated on a chair with a conveyor belt During May s guitar solo Gaga dances in the cornfield with other dancers dressed in the same white dress as Yuyi and the scientist kiss While singing the chorus for the final time Gaga kisses Calderone in one sequence and runs across the field in another As the video reaches its conclusion the tortured Gaga is being slid down as the conveyor belt turns on The video ends with Yuyi and the scientist together in the bath tub as a depiction of their dream wedding flashes across before a last shot of the barn as the screen turns black Reception edit Following its premature release on the Web the music video for You and I met with positive reviews Matthew Perpetua of Rolling Stone felt the video was an improvement over her earlier videos Judas and The Edge of Glory saying the best moments of the video put a distinctly Gaga ish spin on the iconography of Americana and traditional love stories 66 Jillian Mapes of Billboard wrote the video has torture contraptions mermaid sex a wedding bondage in a barn an ice cream truck and to top it all off Children of the Corn and religious overtones thrown in for good measure and thought the video setting was the strangest representation of Nebraska 61 Leah Collins of Dose felt the video was a great opportunity for the singer to finally find out what it s like to make out with herself 67 Kyle Anderson of Entertainment Weekly noted of the scene in which Gaga plays a piano in a cornfield beside her male alter ego She s just Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta playing a piano in the middle of a corn field with a little making out on the side of course 68 Gil Kaufman of MTV News believed that Gaga was not joking when she talked about the video being about the torture of being away from the one you love And man based on the bruising final product she wasn t kidding Kaufman concluded 54 Jocelyn Vena of MTV found influences of Gaga s past videos in the various avatars she plays in You and I She explained that when Gaga stands at a crossroads in a big hat the image is reminiscent of Telephone Gaga When she sits nearly makeup free at her piano in the cornfields there are touches of the teary eyed makeup less Gaga from the Bad Romance video Flashes of her wedding may remind fans of the wedding dress she wore in the Judas clip Robot Gaga s facial structures recall some of the steampunk looks of her Alejandro video Those are only a few of the nods to past personae from her own videography 69 Devin Brown of CBS News felt that Gaga had finally returned to form with the video After some visually pleasing but generally lackluster videos she has finally come out with something to write home about You and I is arguably the best song on her sophomore release Born This Way and now has a video to match 70 A Slant Magazine writer commented that the publication had a mixed reaction to the video saying that it is essentially a collection of disconnected images we couldn t make heads or tails of 71 Fashion films edit On September 1 2011 Gaga announced on her Twitter account that she had shot five fashion films related to the song s music video with Dutch photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin The characters for each of the videos are Jo Calderone Gaga s alter ego Yuyi a mermaid Nymph Bride and finally Barn Hooker and Mother 72 After the tweet Gaga released the first video titled Haus of U featuring Nymph The two minute black and white video featured Gaga with minimal make up wearing a short dress performing ballet choreography As wind blows around her the singer looks intently toward the camera with the parting shot in color 72 The second video featured her as the bride from the opening sequence of the music video The fashion film portrayed her in the same costume gradually removing it and her wig At the end she is topless with her hand covering her breasts Interspersed between are scenes portraying people dressed like Gaga and appearances by Taylor Kinney who was in the music video and the singer s stylist Nicola Formichetti 73 The third fashion film portrayed the singer as the mermaid Yuyi She sits in a director s chair flopping her tail It also shows two crew members carrying Yuyi toward the barn where the music video was filmed Formichetti also makes a cameo in this video 74 Live performances edit nbsp Gaga performing You and I on the Today show on July 9 2010 After the first performance of You and I at Elton John s White Tie and Tiara Ball Gaga performed the song live on the television program Today on July 9 2010 before an estimated crowd of 18 000 20 000 people the largest ever to pack Rockefeller Plaza 75 76 It was next performed on the July 31 2010 Phoenix stop of the Monster Ball Tour where Gaga protested Arizona s immigration law SB 1070 which mandates that state police officers question any person they suspect to be an illegal immigrant and imprison any aliens not carrying one of four allowed forms of proper identification and dedicated her performance of You and I to a boy whose family had been affected by the law 77 Gaga performed the album version of the track on The Oprah Winfrey Show on May 5 2011 using a piano constructed from a wire high heel structure while sitting on a high stool 78 The less organic version for the final Harpo Hookups episode featured an electric guitar and modified lyrics to include Oprah s name 79 80 The song was on the set list of the HBO television special Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour At Madison Square Garden which aired originally on May 7 2011 in the United States 81 Gaga s performance of You and I from the HBO special aired on American Idol the night after she mentored the four remaining contestants and the week following Haley Reinhart s performance of the song 82 83 She performed a jazz version of You and I at Radio 1 s Big Weekend in Carlisle Cumbria on May 18 2011 84 The third performance of the album version of the song was on the Paul O Grady Live show in London on June 17 2011 Wearing a dress by the late Gianni Versace Gaga perched atop a New York City inspired fire escape where she sang the song Ryan Love of Digital Spy had a preview of the show s recording and said that it was a real treat to hear Gaga sing the song 85 In August 2011 Gaga performed You and I on the American TV talk show program The View 86 On August 28 2011 Gaga attended the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards dressed as Jo Calderone As Calderone she opened the show with a four minute monologue explaining his broken relationship with Gaga Following the monologue joined on stage by Brian May she performed You and I 87 On October 6 2011 she filmed a pre recorded interview and performance for the single on The Jonathan Ross Show 88 Later on October 16 2011 she performed the song during a concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles for the Clinton Foundation 89 nbsp Gaga performing You and I during her Las Vegas residency show Enigma On the ABC special A Very Gaga Thanksgiving the singer performed the song backed by a piano and trumpet arrangement 90 On November 30 during the CBS special titled The Grammy Nominations Concert Live Countdown to Music s Biggest Night where the nominations for the 54th Grammy Awards were revealed Gaga performed You and I along with Jennifer Nettles of the country band Sugarland while Kristian Bush played the guitar During the performance she changed the lyrics to fit the occasion With your high cowboy boots on Oh Sugarland it s been six whole years 91 According to James Montgomery of MTV News she performed a husky musky version of You and I 91 She performed the song on the Born This Way Ball tour 2012 2013 by playing it on the piano before running around the stage Like previous concert tours the piano fused to a motorcycle was an elaborate prop that tied into the theme of her show in keeping with the hair metal theme of Born This Way 92 The song was also part of the setlist of Gaga s 2014 residency show at Roseland Ballroom 93 In July 2016 Gaga performed You and I at the Camden Rising concert at the BB amp T Pavilion in Camden New Jersey which was part of the 2016 Democratic National Convention 94 The performance of the song was later included in her documentary film Gaga Five Foot Two 2017 95 In 2017 Gaga performed the song during both of her shows at the Coachella Festival 96 and included it in her set at the Deep From the Heart The One America Appeal benefit concert in Texas where she joined former US presidents Jimmy Carter George H W Bush Bill Clinton George W Bush and Barack Obama and other performers in raising money to victims of Hurricanes Harvey Irma and Maria 97 During the latter she changed up the lyrics to address each president with the song 98 Gaga has also performed the song on her 2018 2020 Las Vegas residency show Enigma 99 On November 2 2020 Gaga performed You and I along with Shallow at president elect Joe Biden s final campaign rally in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 100 Cover versions editPrior to the release of Born This Way season ten American Idol contestant Haley Reinhart sang You and I as one of two performances for the Songs from Now and Then episode 101 Jimmy Iovine head of Gaga s record label asked for the song and Reinhart received her permission before the performance 101 102 Reviews of Reinhart s performance were mostly positive Len Melisurgo of The Star Ledger considered it a risky choice since the song had not been released but accepted that Reinhart sounded amazing by hitting some really high notes 103 Brian Mansfield of USA Today described Reinhart s performance as an old fashioned dance hall groove kind of like a mid 70s Elton John number It s perfectly suited to that slippery growl that such a distinctive part of Haley s style By the end of the song she turns it into a gospel style rocker and she takes it to the house Mansfield also noted that the American Idol judges Randy Jackson Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler reacted positively to it 104 On the contrary Jim Farber of the New York Daily News considered the choice risky and was thankful when Reinhart performed a more familiar song for her second round 105 On May 5 2011 Reinhart s studio recording of You and I was released as a digital single to the iTunes Store and appeared on the compilation album American Idol Top 5 Season 10 Mansfield who initially had misgivings about Reinhart as a singer complimented her studio recording of the track feeling that if she could get another 10 songs this good when it comes time to cut the record then all my initial misgivings about this girl will vanish into thin air 106 British singer Amelia Lily covered the song in November 2011 during her time on UK talent show The X Factor 107 On November 15 2011 comedy drama musical TV series Glee featured a mash up of Gaga s You and I and Eddie Rabbitt and Crystal Gayle s You and I performed by Matthew Morrison and Idina Menzel as their respective characters Will Schuester and Shelby Corcoran in the episode Mash Off 108 The mash up sold 23 000 digital downloads and debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at number 69 in the issue dated December 3 2011 109 On June 25 2021 Ben Platt released a cover version of the song as part of the tenth anniversary edition of Born This Way 110 Track listing editDigital download 111 You and I Radio Edit Main 4 06 You and I Mark Taylor Radio Edit 3 55 CD single 112 You and I Radio Edit 4 07 You and I Mark Taylor Radio Edit 3 56 UK 7 inch picture disc 113 You and I Wild Beasts Remix 3 51 You and I Metronomy Remix 4 20You and I The Remixes 114 You and I Wild Beasts Remix 3 51 You and I Mark Taylor Remix 5 02 You and I 10 Kings Remix 4 29 You and I ATB Remix 8 08 You and I Metronomy Remix 4 20 You and I Danny Verde Remix 7 48 You and I Hector Fonseca Remix 8 03Credits and personnel editCredits adapted from the liner notes of Born This Way 17 Recording and management edit Recorded at Warehouse Productions Omaha Nebraska and Allertown Hill United Kingdom Mastered at Oasis Mastering Burbank California Contains elements of the composition We Will Rock You written by Brian May and originally recorded by band Queen Published by Stefani Germanotta P K A Lady Gaga Sony ATV Songs LLC House of Gaga Publishing Inc GloJoe Music Inc and Sony ATV Music Publishing All rights on behalf of itself and Interscope Records a division of UMG Recordings Inc Brian May appears courtesy of Hollywood Records for US and Canada distribution and Universal International for worldwide distribution Personnel edit Lady Gaga lead vocals songwriter producer background vocals piano and keyboards Robert John Mutt Lange producer background vocals audio mixing Tom Ware and Horace Ward recording Olle Romo programming recording Brian May Electric guitar Justin Shirley Smith guitar recording Gene Grimaldi audio masteringCharts editWeekly charts edit Weekly chart performance for You and I Chart 2011 2013 Peakposition Australia ARIA 49 14 Austria O3 Austria Top 40 115 8 Belgium Ultratip Bubbling Under Flanders 116 4 Belgium Ultratip Bubbling Under Wallonia 117 4 Brazil Billboard Brasil 118 19 Canada Canadian Hot 100 119 10 Canada AC Billboard 120 22 Canada CHR Top 40 Billboard 121 17 Canada Hot AC Billboard 122 3 CIS TopHit 123 172 Czech Republic Radio Top 100 Oficialni 124 26 France SNEP 125 98 Germany Official German Charts 126 21 Hungary Mahasz 127 24 Iceland Plotutidindi 128 20 Ireland IRMA 129 32 Israel Media Forest 130 5 Italy FIMI 131 19 Japan Japan Hot 100 53 8 Lebanon The Official Lebanese Top 20 132 5 Netherlands Dutch Top 40 Tipparade 133 2 Netherlands Single Top 100 134 83 New Zealand Recorded Music NZ 135 5 Scotland OCC 136 18 Slovakia Radio Top 100 Oficialna 137 18 South Korea International Singles Gaon 138 66 Switzerland Schweizer Hitparade 139 32 UK Singles OCC 51 23 US Billboard Hot 100 140 6 US Adult Contemporary Billboard 141 15 US Adult Top 40 Billboard 142 6 US Dance Club Songs Billboard 143 1 US Mainstream Top 40 Billboard 144 7 Venezuela Record Report 145 67 Year end charts edit 2011 year end chart performance for You and I Chart 2011 Position Canada Canadian Hot 100 146 65 UK Singles OCC 147 170 US Billboard Hot 100 148 71 US Adult Pop Songs Billboard 149 41 US Hot Dance Club Songs Billboard 150 45 US Pop Songs Billboard 151 45 2012 year end chart performance for You and I Chart 2012 Position US Adult Contemporary Songs Billboard 152 48Certifications and sales editCertifications and sales for You and I Region Certification Certified units sales Australia ARIA 153 2 Platinum 140 000 Brazil Pro Musica Brasil 154 3 Platinum 180 000 New Zealand RMNZ 155 Gold 7 500 United Kingdom BPI 156 Silver 200 000 United States RIAA 157 3 Platinum 3 000 000 Sales figures based on certification alone Shipments figures based on certification alone Sales streaming figures based on certification alone Release history editRelease dates and formats for You and I Region Date Format Version s Label s Ref United States a August 23 2011 Contemporary hit radio Original StreamlineKonLiveInterscope 159 Italy September 2 2011 Radio airplay Universal 160 Various September 18 2011 Digital download Remixes Interscope 114 United Kingdom Original StreamlineKonLiveInterscope 161 September 26 2011 7 inch picture disc Wild Beasts remixMetronomy remix 113 Germany September 30 2011 CD Original Interscope 112 Various December 18 2012 Digital download Jazz Universal 162 See also editList of Billboard Hot 100 top ten singles in 2011 List of Billboard Dance Club Songs number ones of 2011References editNotes edit The lyrics differentiate depending on the state where it is played 158 Cites edit a b 54th Annual Grammy Awards Grammy com National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Archived from the original on July 1 2012 Retrieved December 2 2011 Vena Jocelyn April 11 2011 Lady Gaga Recorded You And I With Producer Mutt Lange MTV MTV Networks Archived from the original on June 24 2012 Retrieved May 10 2011 a b c d Kaufman Gil June 28 2010 Lady Gaga 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