# Best Pokerface cover: Glee or Daughtry **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 9, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pokerface-cover-glee-or-daughtry/549715 "2010-08-09T15:06:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pokerface-cover-glee-or-daughtry/549715/1 "2010-08-09T15:06:42Z")
I’m a sucker for a good bizarre cover that twists the original… For example: glee: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYkfAjWyOwg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYkfAjWyOwg) daughtry: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqT4VnnEU0M](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqT4VnnEU0M) Which is better? discuss. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pokerface-cover-glee-or-daughtry/549715/2 "2010-08-09T15:10:17Z")
Neither: Eric Cartman! ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pokerface-cover-glee-or-daughtry/549715/3 "2010-08-09T15:26:47Z")
The Glee cover really grossed me out. Since the song is about what you think about while having sex, and Rachel sings it to her mother. Slowly. And lovingly. Yuuuuuck. ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pokerface-cover-glee-or-daughtry/549715/4 "2010-08-09T17:44:27Z")
> [@Hello\_Again](#): > > The Glee cover really grossed me out. Since the song is about what you think about while having sex, and Rachel sings it to her mother. Slowly. And lovingly. Yuuuuuck. Precisely. They went delved deeper (no pun intended) into the lyrics and and got to the purer theme of: I have to pretend to love you because it’s expected in our situation, but I don’t really love you. It’s all a bluff. Part of what makes it so great… (the awesome vocals are another part.) ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pokerface-cover-glee-or-daughtry/549715/5 "2010-08-09T17:59:48Z")
The Glee cover is really just them copying a version of the song Gaga herself has been doing since before her record ever came out. Though it is definitely hilarious that the Glee cast is singing a song that actually has lyrics that say, “P-p-p-poker face, p-p-fuck her face” and “I’ll get him hard, show him what I’ve got.” Nicely done, Glee. Is Daughtry gay? Because the song is about fucking someone of the opposite sex while thinking of someone of the same sex. Like always, [Gaga wins.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_UUKJlPbXM) ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pokerface-cover-glee-or-daughtry/549715/6 "2010-08-09T18:01:33Z")
I’ve heard people say that’s what it’s about, but what in the lyrics show that? ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pokerface-cover-glee-or-daughtry/549715/7 "2010-08-09T18:05:19Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > I’ve heard people say that’s what it’s about, but what in the lyrics show that? There was a big scandal surrounding the song because everyone was whispering that she’s really saying “fuck her face” in parts. Gaga refused to comment on it for a long time. Then, a radio station in LA (the biggest pop station in the nation) only would air an edited version of the song, where she is clearly enunciating “PPPPoker Face” (it’s not at all like the album version, much more clear). When they asked Gaga about it, she finally laughed and said, “Well, I’m glad only one radio station decided to edit my art” or some such. In several interviews I’ve seen, she’s talked about that the song is about fucking a guy when you really want to fuck a girl, so you’re just hiding what you’re really thinking about behind your poker face. And at the concert I went to, she very clearly said “I’ll get him HARD” and “Fuck her face” a few times in the song (alternating back and forth with a smile and a wink). ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pokerface-cover-glee-or-daughtry/549715/8 "2010-08-09T18:08:31Z")
But even if she is saying “Fuck her face,” what about that means that the person in the song is thinking about having sex with a girl while having sex with a guy? I do remember reading about her saying that, but it sounded to me more like something to drum up attention for the song because nothing in the lyrics made it sound like that. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pokerface-cover-glee-or-daughtry/549715/9 "2010-08-09T18:13:20Z")
_shrug_ I believe her if she says that’s what she wrote it about. She tends to be pretty straight forward with that stuff in regards to her songs. All the Googling shows that her big “coming out” for the song was at a fabulous gay white party in Palm Springs, so I mean, that’s a fitting venue to admit what the song is about, I suppose. [One little linky poo.](http://www.examiner.com/x-3366-Bisexuality-Examiner~y2009m4d17-Lady-GaGa-admits-her-hit-song-Poker-Face-is-about-her-bisexuality) ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pokerface-cover-glee-or-daughtry/549715/10 "2010-08-09T18:16:32Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > But even if she is saying “Fuck her face,” what about that means that the person in the song is thinking about having sex with a girl while having sex with a guy? > > I do remember reading about her saying that, but it sounded to me more like something to drum up attention for the song because nothing in the lyrics made it sound like that. “Fuck her face” to me sounds like chick on chick oral. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pokerface-cover-glee-or-daughtry/549715/11 "2010-08-09T18:17:45Z")
But I’ve heard guys say that, too, in regards to oral sex. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pokerface-cover-glee-or-daughtry/549715/12 "2010-08-09T18:17:59Z")
> [@zweisamkeit](#): > > > [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > > > But even if she is saying “Fuck her face,” what about that means that the person in the song is thinking about having sex with a girl while having sex with a guy? > > > > I do remember reading about her saying that, but it sounded to me more like something to drum up attention for the song because nothing in the lyrics made it sound like that. > > “Fuck her face” to me sounds like chick on chick oral. Or at the very least shows that the song is actually about sex (well, that and “I’ll get him hard, show him what I got.”). So, we know they’re fucking, so what exactly is behind her poker face when fucking? Well, Gaga says it’s that she’s thinking about a woman. I’m going to believe the person who wrote the song, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pokerface-cover-glee-or-daughtry/549715/13 "2010-08-09T18:25:47Z")
The theme is not “I pretend to love you.” The theme is “I pretend to enjoy fucking you.” I think I’ll put that on my next mother’s day card! ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pokerface-cover-glee-or-daughtry/549715/14 "2010-08-09T18:49:01Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > > [@zweisamkeit](#): > > > > “Fuck her face” to me sounds like chick on chick oral. > > Or at the very least shows that the song is actually about sex (well, that and “I’ll get him hard, show him what I got.”). So, we know they’re fucking, so what exactly is behind her poker face when fucking? > > Well, Gaga says it’s that she’s thinking about a woman. I’m going to believe the person who wrote the song, I suppose. You asked if Daughtry was gay because he was singing a song one woman wrote about fucking a man and thinking about fucking a woman. I think the point people are making is that a cover song is not necessarily bound up in what the songwriter was thinking about and what inspired the song if the text of the song allows for a broader interpretation - fucking one person and thinking of another. Thus, a hetero dude can sing it. Now obviously, sometimes the inspiration of a song is so present in the lyrics that it is inescapable but an ambiguous hook might lead to some ironc use (think _Born in the USA_). I don’t think this is one of those cases though. There’sa long tradition of revising a song to correspond with the singer’s gender. Why not sexual preference too? ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pokerface-cover-glee-or-daughtry/549715/15 "2010-08-09T19:24:17Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > > [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > > > I’ve heard people say that’s what it’s about, but what in the lyrics show that? > > There was a big scandal surrounding the song because everyone was whispering that she’s really saying “fuck her face” in parts. Gaga refused to comment on it for a long time. Then, a radio station in LA (the biggest pop station in the nation) only would air an edited version of the song, where she is clearly enunciating “PPPPoker Face” (it’s not at all like the album version, much more clear). When they asked Gaga about it, she finally laughed and said, “Well, I’m glad only one radio station decided to edit my art” or some such. > > In several interviews I’ve seen, she’s talked about that the song is about fucking a guy when you really want to fuck a girl, so you’re just hiding what you’re really thinking about behind your poker face. > > And at the concert I went to, she very clearly said “I’ll get him HARD” and “Fuck her face” a few times in the song (alternating back and forth with a smile and a wink). I don’t really care what she now claims the song is about and what she has now altered her live performances to in order to fit what people have said. She’s all about generating shock to increase sales. She left them vague when she wrote them, which is usually done so that listeners can make their own interpretation. If you, YOU, read the lyrics, I think you’ll be a lot better off. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pokerface-cover-glee-or-daughtry/549715/16 "2010-08-09T19:34:36Z")
I said “other” as my vote goes to [Mr. Christopher Walken.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJDx3H_hvI8) ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pokerface-cover-glee-or-daughtry/549715/17 "2010-08-09T20:04:49Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > [ If you, YOU, read the lyrics, I think you’ll be a lot better off. Well she’s bluffin’ _someone_ with her muffin, and I still hold, for that person to be her mother, is super gross. Truthfully, when the song started I thought it was a bit clever. But it went on and on and on and on and on and got creepier every second. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pokerface-cover-glee-or-daughtry/549715/18 "2010-08-09T20:20:06Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > If you, YOU, read the lyrics, I think you’ll be a lot better off. Lulz, omigawd! I hadn’t tried that! THANK YOU!!! ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pokerface-cover-glee-or-daughtry/549715/19 "2010-08-09T20:24:23Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > I don’t really care what she now claims the song is about and what she has now altered her live performances to in order to fit what people have said. She’s all about generating shock to increase sales. She left them vague when she wrote them, which is usually done so that listeners can make their own interpretation. If you, YOU, read the lyrics, I think you’ll be a lot better off. **Diosa** is a huuuuge Gaga fan and has made _no_ secret of it on these boards. The fact that she says she has watched multiple interviews _and_ has gone to see her in concert _and_ has started more than one Gaga thread here on the Dope means that, no offense, I’d think she’s a lot more informed about Gaga and Gaga’s songs than you are. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pokerface-cover-glee-or-daughtry/549715/20 "2010-08-09T20:26:17Z")
> [@zweisamkeit](#): > > > [@needscoffee](#): > > > > I don’t really care what she now claims the song is about and what she has now altered her live performances to in order to fit what people have said. She’s all about generating shock to increase sales. She left them vague when she wrote them, which is usually done so that listeners can make their own interpretation. If you, YOU, read the lyrics, I think you’ll be a lot better off. > > **Diosa** is a huuuuge Gaga fan and has made _no_ secret of it on these boards. The fact that she says she has watched multiple interviews _and_ has gone to see her in concert _and_ has started more than one Gaga thread here on the Dope means that, no offense, I’d think she’s a lot more informed about Gaga and Gaga’s songs than you are. But…I can’t read. Thus, I can’t read the lyrics. Thus, I fail.☹ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pokerface-cover-glee-or-daughtry/549715.md?page=2)