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Chris Daughtry Goes Gaga!

Posted Thu Jul 2, 2009 12:32pm PDT by Lyndsey Parker in Reality Rocks

American Idol's Chris Daughtry is a scruffy, soul-patched, denim-clad, boy-next-door type who traffics in heartland-friendly, somewhat Nickelbackian arena rock. Lady Gaga is an artsy, avant-garde, Brooklynite electro-goddess with a penchant for neon leotards, zippered eyepatches, hairbows fashioned out of actual hair, and divalicious dance-a-teria beats.

Nope, it doesn't seem like these two would have anything in common, musically or culturally. It's pretty difficult to imagine Chris Daughtry ever uttering the line "I wanna take a ride on your disco stick," for instance, or Lady Gaga ever covering a Fuel tune.

But the bottom line is, a good song is a good song is a good song. And there's no denying that Gaga's "Poker Face" is a great song. Even Chris can't deny it. So recently when he performed acoustic and solo on a German radio station, he put on his best poker face and played this dead-serious, surprisingly solid version of Lady Gaga's big crossover pop hit:

Wow!

While it's doubtful that Chris will be working with Gaga's producer RedOne any time soon (as fellow Idol rocker Adam Lambert is currently doing), I must commend Chris for--as Simon Cowell or Paula Abdul might say--making this song his own.

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487 Comments

21. Yahoo! Music User -
Love it!!! There's something about Chris that reaches further than Lady gaga!

22. rod q -
Chris, Chris, Chris.... you are an awesome genius! Just for the record, you will continue your success forever. Sounded it was your music. Prolific!

23. KB -
Fantastic!!

24. Tammy -
AMAZING!!!!!! Better than the original - Chris, you're freakin' awesome!

25. Yahoo! Music User -
LOL dat was good music I like when Lady Gaga sings it though.Don't abuse me

26. Antennas -
Are you kidding that remake Fu*(&^ing sucked big a$$. Wow you all suck...

27. Gary -
Daughtry could sing me the phone book. As far as Lady GAGA is concerned, I'm glad someone made sense of that crap.

28. DEBRA -
Chris Daughtry is amazing! Loved him from the first time I saw him on Idol singing, he's pure talent and it shows in his version of this song. This is the second time Chris has sung a tune that I've loved better done by him. I would love to see this man sing!
Good Job Chris!

29. cityofbones76 -
sounds great

30. Jessica S -
I didn't think it could be done!!!!!!!!!

Lady Gaga and Daughtry are tied on this one!

31. Yahoo! Music User -
chris's version of poker face stinks DON'T touch original artists songs ever again,lady gaga is the ultimate.

32. Lesley -
I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

33. Melissa -
Chris totally rocks this song!! And come on ladies is Chris not smokin hot?? He was the whole reason I watched Idol lol.. amazing voice!!

34. Steve -
kol here with my 2 cents..
im damned sure that the beautiful lady gaga would be honered..chris loves her song so much that he decided to give tribute to her and her tune in his own artistic way..if i had one wish it would be that she has a chance to actually see this herself...
and yes i guess that everone is entitled to his or her own views on all kinds of whatevers in this world..but for those who arent a fan of lady gaga as there seems to be here on this list..let me say that she is getting to the A list real quickly where rockers are conserned.
she has the look she has the vocals she has the moves and she certainly has the look...whoa deja again.

and in closing how the hell can this song be considered annoying when you hear it on almost every radio station..

35. Mandeep -
How about something sorta the same (by Ga Ga on Ellen)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qZfvaVrBrc - a bit more show tune though.

36. Nattie -
I agree, this is much better!

37. -
This song has been covered acoustically by numerous people on Youtube for sometime so not exactly original for Daughtry to do it. Best version I saw was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQDxGBMF4sY. Check it out.

38. fangvampire56 -
I like it more then the other one sounds less slutty lol

39. Yahoo! Music User -
chris can sing any song and i would love it! he did a great job with poker face!!

40. Warren W -
Brilliant!
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