There were some interesting things going on with that number, for sure. At first I was confused about why they turned an up-tempo dance song into a ballad, but it turns out that that's GaGa's own acoustic arrangement of it that she does when it's just her and a piano. So it's interesting to me that they selected that more obscure version of it to cover rather than the bigger, more bombastic studio version; but it sort of makes sense in the context of this intimate moment between these characters. And I think one can read the song, in that context, as a number about performance (musical/theatrical performance to be sure, but also about the performance of public persona vs. the sharing of things that go unspoken.) Plus, if they're keeping within the confines of the show theme/assignment to do GaGa numbers, and they're going to pick the famous ones, well, there's not a lot of choice once the list gets narrowed down.

But yeah... the way they lingered together on the line "I'm just stunning with my love glue-gunning"? AWK-ward.