{"id":645286,"date":"2026-05-02T16:52:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/645286\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T16:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:52:25","slug":"lady-gaga-doechii-runway-track-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/645286\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Gaga \/ Doechii: \u201cRunway\u201d Track Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

When RuPaul<\/a> released \u201cSupermodel (You Better Work)<\/a>\u201d through Tommy Boy Records in 1992, it felt like it was speaking to a moment. New York\u2019s gritty downtown scene was exploding, high-camp drag queens and nightclub personalities like Kevin Aviance and Lady Bunny were becoming icons, and house and ballroom music were filtering into the mainstream. While indubitably cheesy, \u201cSupermodel\u201d was irresistible, thanks to a skippy beat and RuPaul\u2019s quirky ad-libbing: Sashay, Shante! Produced by Eric Kupper, who had previously worked on fizzy house tracks for Whitney Houston<\/a> and Bj\u00f6rk<\/a>, the song was engineered to turn a dancefloor out\u2014and for years, in gay clubs, it did.<\/p>\n

You can hear its obvious influence on \u201cRunway,\u201d the new Devil Wears Prada 2 single by Doechii and Lady Gaga. The cadence of the pre-chorus, where Doechii instructs us to \u201cDo a lil twirl\u201d before drawling \u201cYes!,\u201d honors RuPaul\u2019s famous hook, sans groove or club savvy. In the bridge, Gaga pays more direct homage, purring \u201cSashay, Ga-gay!\u201d But instead of rolling off her lips, the phrase is comically awkward, as if she momentarily stuttered saying her own name. The rest of the lyrics are queer word salad: \u201cYou gon\u2019 burn your tongue on this tea \/ Might show up late, might be on time \/ Just wait, I\u2019m coming, kiki.\u201d (The last bit makes me yearn for a better song about a kiki<\/a>.) \u201cRunway\u201d also takes cues from Madonna’s \u201cVogue<\/a>,\u201d as Gaga and Doechii urge us to \u201cpoooose.\u201d Doing that successfully, however, would require songwriting that adds something novel to the queer pop canon, or a beat that sounds less like the ghost of more interesting hits that preceded it. You won\u2019t hear \u201cRunway\u201d on reputable dancefloors any time soon, but you might the next time you step into H&M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When RuPaul released \u201cSupermodel (You Better Work)\u201d through Tommy Boy Records in 1992, it felt like it was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136,39746,1672],"class_list":["post-645286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-tracks","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}