Lady Gaga Readies New Single for "SNL," "The Fame" Re-Release

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After witnessing Lady Gaga's violently dramatic performance at MTV's Video Music Awards earlier this month (blood! hangings!), when word broke the former Rolling Stone cover star would rock Saturday Night Live this coming weekend, fans started to prep for something suitably epic. Gaga says she'll deliver — with a brand-new track. The singer told Las Vegas and San Diego radio stations KLUC and 94.1 she'll perform the as-yet-unspecified new song along with "Paparazzi," according to MTV News.

The new track could be destined for an expanded re-release of her smash debut, which Gaga said is called The Fame: Monster and is due November 24th (the star's rep confirmed a re-release will be released that day). "I wrote almost a full album's worth of material and right now I'm kind of spending my time sifting through it all and doctoring it and making it perfect and deciding what I want everyone to hear," she reportedly said.

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“Everyday People”

Sly and the Family Stone | 1968

"Everyday People" managed to trailblaze in two different ways -- it was one of the first pop hits to deal with the subject of racial harmony, and it utilized Larry Graham's "slap" technique on the bass guitar, which would soon be copied by countless other bassists. Graham once said about his pulsating style, "I'd never done that before … that's where the freedom of creativity came in for the band, that we'd be allowed to do that." In 1978, the song's line "Different strokes for different folks" would be borrowed for the title of the hit television show Diff'rent Strokes.

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