Fever by Adam Lambert

Album: For Your Entertainment (2009)

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This song was written by Lady Gaga together with producer Jeff Bhasker for Lambert. However the Poker Face singer did not sing on this piece of carnival pop.
On his Twitter, Lambert revealed that Gaga came with music she'd crafted specifically for him. "Gaga wrote the song a while ago and she thought it would be a good fit for me. It's a solo track. I feel so honored and lucky to be asked," Lambert tweeted. "GaGa just gets it, ya know?"
Lady Gaga told Dallas radio station Kiss 106.1 about how this collaboration came about. "I worked with Adam. I think it was last week," Gaga said. "They called me. They asked me to write for him. I was actually like, 'Geez, I got this record that I wrote a while ago.' It's, like, a total hit, smash record, but for some reason, I couldn't get it right with me doing it, and I said, 'Gosh, it would be perfect for him.'"
Lambert revealed to MTV News that while recording the song with Gaga and Jeff Bhasker, there was a party atmosphere and alcohol was consumed: "There might have been some libations passed around, maybe," he laughed. "That's real rock and roll."

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Hannah from Gustavus, OhTo put it quite simply, this song is about sexual passion. The "fever" can be taken to be this passion, or its physical manifestation - an erection. It should also be noted that toward the end of the song there is a line that says "I got this fever I can't sweat out," which could well be a reference to Panic! At The Disco's debut album, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out.

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