No TIK TOK On the upcoming “Janne,” Janna Pelle provides her own twist on the Lady Gaga track “Joanne.” The track’s title shift represents Pelle making the song her own, revealing a sound with heavy synths and intense drums in contrast with the acoustic-laden original. “Janne” releases on March 28th, Lady Gaga’s birthday.
“I decided to go dark with it, because the chorus of this song — ‘Girl, where do you think you’re going?’ — was something I would find myself singing in my head when I was at my lowest points… kind of not wanting to continue life,” Pelle explains. “Even though the Gaga song is also about death (the death of Joanne, her father’s sister), I’m kind of talking to myself in my version, I am Joanne, where in Lady Gaga’s version, she’s talking to Joanne.”
Pelle released another cover earlier this year on January 20th (Kevin
Parker’s birthday), of Tame Impala’s “The Boat I Row.” Both the Tame Impala and Lady Gaga covers represent sort of b-sides from these popular artists, though for Pelle “they are songs that really touched me and made me feel more seen than any of their ‘hits’ did.”
Featuring with a popular podcast, Pelle’s “Fame Impala” moniker derives from her love of both Tame Impala and Lady Gaga. The alter-ego arose after Pelle attended a Lady Gaga concert, wearing a costume as an homage to the Lady Gaga song “Perfect Illusion,” produced by Tame Impala. The moniker was adapted thereafter, with the “Fame” in “Fame Impala” referencing Gaga’s early albums The Fame and The Fame Monster. Janna Pelle is a keyboardist, singer, drummer, guitarist and producer from Miami, Florida. After a pandemic move from Brooklyn to Sullivan County, NY, Janna has set up roots and fully established her home studio in the woods.
Janna released her fourth studio album, Echolocation, in November 2022
— an exploration of the unseen and unknown through the hope that sound can travel beyond this world, reaching those who have moved on to the next. She is most heavily influenced by Tame Impala and Lady Gaga (calling herself ‘Fame Impala’ as an homage) and aspires to avenge
Karen Carpenter’s death as a fellow singing drummer.
-Official bio
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