Lady Gaga: Clips from new album 'leak' on Amazon - BBC News

Snippets of Lady Gaga's new album Joanne have been shared online after fans "tricked" Amazon's virtual assistant into playing preview clips. Previews can commonly be heard on Amazon when an album is available for pre-order, but they had been disabled for Gaga's highly-anticipated comeback. Owners of Amazon's Echo speaker then discovered they could access songs by issuing the instruction: "Play Joanne by Lady Gaga." The 30-second clips have been recorded and shared online by several fans, with one video showing Amazon's speaker lighting up and responding to the voice commands. Among the leaked songs are Hey Girl, in which Gaga duets with Florence Welch of Florence The Machine over a stomping, staccato piano line reminiscent of Elton Johns's Benny and the Jets.