Come To Mama

Album: Joanne (2016)
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Songfacts®:

  • This anthemic call for peace was written by Lady Gaga with former Fleet Foxes member Josh Tillman (aka Father John Misty) and Emile Haynie (A$AP Rocky, Eminem). Gaga told Howard Stern the song describes her feeling that "people need to come together and love each other and stop fighting over the same ideas we've been fighting over for 100 years."
  • The buoyant horn-fueled girl-group homage was produced by Gaga and Haynie with Joanne producers Mark Ronson and BloodPop.
  • Fitz and the Tantrums multi-instrumentalist James King played the baritone, tenor and alto saxophones.
  • Father John Misty also contributed to another Joanne song, "Sinner's Prayer." He recalled to Zane Lowe on Beats 1: "We were hanging. It was like five in the morning, someone handing me an acoustic guitar and I'm just like, 'what are hands.' We had so much fun. Mark [Ronson] – just watching him produce, it was amazing."

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