Poker Face is set in a common time time signature, with a fast tempo of 120 beats per minute. It is written in the key of G ♯ minor with Gaga's vocal range spanning from the note F ♯3 to the note B 4. It begins with a medium tempo followed by electronic chord arrangement and the 'Mum-mum-mum-mah' hook. The game of poker is a card game played among two or more players for several rounds. There are several varieties of the game, but they all tend to have these aspects in common: The game begins with each player putting down money allocated for betting. During each round of play, players are dealt cards from a standard 52-card deck, and the goal of each player is to have the best 5-card hand at.

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Advisory - the following lyrics contain explicit language:

(Kid Cudi)
I Make Her Say
(Lady GaGa)
Oh Ah Oh Oh Oh Ah Oh Oh (When I)
Pa-Pa-Pa Poker Her Face Pa-Pa Poker Her Face (I Make Her Say)
Oh Ah Oh Oh Ah Ah Ah Oh Oh(What Up)
Pa-Pa-Pa Poker Her Face (Me First) Pa-Pa Poker Her Face

(Kid Cudi)
She Wanna Have Whatever She Like
She Can If She Bring Her Friend
And We Can Have One Hell Of A Night
Threw The Day
Ay I Mean Stand Like A Grouper Cuz You Gotta Beeper
I Mean Prime Might Be Sayin You Ain't Joggin Either
But Man Ol' Girl Gotta Phat Ol' Ass
Yeah The Type To Make You Tell A Bitch Just Dance
And Fuck Them Otha Niggas Cuz You Down For Her Bitches
And Fuck Them Otha Niggas Cuz She Down For The Stickin
And Fuck Them Otha Niggas Cuz Hope Down For Sum Lickin
And Fuck Them Otha Bitches Cuz She Down For The Trickin
I'm Hoping She A Rider
When It's Said And Done She Spit It Up And Swallow
Nooow I Ain't Got Trip Bout Them Niggas Who Like Her
Cuz Me And Mommy Know, Could Really Make Her Go

(Lady GaGa)
Oh Ah Oh Oh Oh Ah Oh Oh (When I)
Pa-Pa-Pa Poker Her Face Pa-Pa Poker Her Face (I Make Her Say)
Oh Ah Oh Oh AH AH AH Oh Oh(When I)
Pa-Pa-Pa Poker Her Face Pa-Pa Poker Her Face

(Kanye West)
She Say She Want Whatever She Like
She Say She Gonna Bring Her Friend
And We Gonna Have A Hell Of A Night
Threw The Day
I made Her Say
Hold up(Yea), Born In 88(Word)
How Old Is That(Damn)
Old Enough
I Got Seniority, With The Sorority
So, That Explains Why I Love College
Getting Brain In The Library Cause I Love Knowledge
When You Used Your Medulla Oblongata
And Give Me Scoliosis Until I Comatosest
And Do While I'm Sleep, Yeah A Lil Osmosis
And That's My Commandment, You Ain't Gotta Ask Moses
More Champagne, More Toastest
More Damn Planes, More Coastest
And Fuck A Bus, The Benz Is Parked Like Rosa
OZA

(Lady GaGa)
Oh Ah Oh Oh Oh Ah Oh Oh (When I)
Pa-Pa-Pa Poker Her Face Pa-Pa Poker Her Face (I Make Her Say)
Oh Ah Oh Oh AH AH AH Oh Oh(When I)
Pa-Pa-Pa Poker Her Face Pa-Pa Poker Her Face(I Make Her Say)

(Common)
She Said She Want Whatever She Like
But You Gotta Bring Your Friend
And We Can Have One Hell Of A Night
Through The Day
She Blamed It On The Al-A-A-Al-A-Alcohol
She Had Her Hair Did, It Was Bound To Fall
Down Down For A Damn, Cudi Already Said It
Her Poker Face Book I'd already read it
But Man Her Head Was Gooder Than A Music
Electro Body, Known To Blow Fuses
A Stripper From The South
Lookin For A Payday
Said, Bitch You Should Do It For The Love Like Ray-J
But They Say You Be On The Conscious Tip
Get Your Head Right And Get Up On This Conscious Dick
I Embody Everything From The Godly To The Party
Its The Way I Was Raised On The Southside Safari
So

(Lady GaGa)
Oh Ah Oh Oh Oh Ah Oh Oh (When I)
Pa-Pa-Pa Poker Her Face Pa-Pa Poker Her Face (I Make Her Say)
Oh Ah Oh Oh AH AH AH Oh Oh(When I)
Pa-Pa-Pa Poker Her Face Pa-Pa Poker Her Face(I Make Her Say)

(Lady GaGa)
Can't Read My, Can't Read My,
No He can't Read On My Poker Face,
(she's Got Me Like Nobody)

Lady Gaga’s percussive “Poker Face” (“P-p-p poker face, p-p-p poker face”) has the staying power to echo in your brain hours after you’ve heard it, and scientists know why. There are two reasons, actually.

Gaga’s music often incorporates two major musical elements, write the scientists behind a study in the journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, published Wednesday.

“These musically sticky songs seem to have quite a fast tempo along with a common melodic shape and unusual intervals or repetitions like we can hear in the opening riff of ‘Smoke On The Water’ by Deep Purple or in the chorus of ‘Bad Romance,’” says Kelly Jakubowski, Ph.D., of Durham University, who’s the lead author of the study, “Dissecting an Earworm: Melodic Features and Song Popularity Predict Involuntary Musical Imagery.”

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1. A Common Melodic Shape

The first crucial element of an especially catchy track, the team of European scientists reported after analyzing the earworms of 3,000 participants, is an emphasis on common melodic shapes. In particular, there’s something special about musical phrases that rise and fall. Think about the chorus on Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance”: On the “Oh-oh-oh-oh-ohs,” the melody soars upward into higher notes, falling back downward with “Caught in a bad romance.” On a musical staff, the notes would form a little hill; in our ears, they add up to a predictable tune that’s easy to digest. A similar melodic shape, the authors write, is heard in the opening riff to Maroon 5’s annoyingly catchy “Moves Like Jagger,” suggesting that Adam Levine is an earworm lord himself — perhaps a joker in Lady Gaga’s court.

2. Unusual Interval Structure

No less important, in the scientists’ recipe for earworms is the presence of what they call “unusual interval structure,” which is another way of saying the music is predictable enough to create catchy patterns but not so much that it seems boring. Often, this takes the form of “unexpected leaps or more repeated notes than you would expect to hear in the average pop song,” the scientists explain. Take, for example, Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face.” The verses largely consist of the same note repeating for several measures at a time, which makes the sudden melodic leap in the chorus seem all the more surprising.

Though the new study represents the first time that the elements of an earworm have ever been formally dissected, efforts to balance surprises and predictability in music have long been considered, most recently by A.I. researchers attempting to program algorithms to craft pop songs.

So yes, producers of the future (or now) will predict which songs are going to be global hits: “You can, to some extent, predict which songs are going to get stuck in people’s heads based on the song’s melodic content,” Jakubowski says. “This could help aspiring song-writers or advertisers write a jingle everyone will remember for days or months afterwards.”

But actually doing that is harder than it might seem. Understanding the element of surprise requires that the listener knows how it feels to get bored of a song.

There’s a reason the French refer to earworms as musique enttante, or “stubborn music,” and the Italians refer to them as canzone tormentone, or “tormenting songs”: Whether you love or hate Lady Gaga’s music, having the same song stuck in your head can be debilitating.

The good thing about know what makes an earworm is that you can avoid them. Monotonous, droning songs are less likely to hook onto brain, as are endlessly repetitive tracks with little or no sonic interruptions.

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Gaga, though, has a knack for keeping us on our toes.