Music Mix: Lady Gaga collaborates with Michael Bolton

It’s music’s most unlikely pairing yet. Lady Gaga collaborated with Michael Bolton for the crooner’s upcoming album. Lady Gaga says she found it exciting. “I love Michael Bolton, and I always have. The record label called me and said, ‘Michael is doing a new album, and who better to write an ’80s love song than Lady Gaga?’ I said, ‘You’re absolutely right.’ I looked at it as an exciting opportunity, especially after I wrote ‘Just Dance’ and I was writing for other artists, everybody wanted me to write them the next ‘Just Dance.’ It was always dance music. It was an exciting opportunity to work with someone as timeless as Michael and do a ballad. Do something that I’m really good at that I don’t get to show very much.” Gaga has written for songs for artists like Fergie, Britney Spears and the Pussycat Dolls in the past, and now she’s making songs for other people, though the she won’t disclose who they are. She told New York Magazine, “I am working on other people’s work right now. I’m always writing. I couldn’t tell you who, I like to honor the artists. Some artists don’t like other people to know they’re collaborating. So I want to be honorable and take care of the artist. When I’m a writer, it’s not about me. It’s about them.”