“Just Dance” put her on my radar, and now Lady Gaga ups the ante with “Poker Face,” the second single from her recently released debut, The Fame.

The budding electro-pop diva delivers the verses with a delicious near-robotic detachment (“I’ll get him hot, show him what I got”) as she ticks off gambling metaphor after metaphor. But it’s the chorus that’s the real winner: Lifting the veil on that chilly veneer to show her hand, the melody reveals a more vulnerable side to this Lady Luck (“He’s got me like nobody”). That might be digging deep for a pop song, but “Poker Face” is, on its face, insanely hooky and way worthy of InfiniteRepeat™ status on my iPod.

Check out Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” video below (courtesy of new crush MTVMusic.com, which has thankfully vanquished my YouTube enemy, “Embedding disabled by request”). For those playing along at home, the too-hot-for-MTV words are “Russian,” “gun,” and “muffin.” Oh, that cheeky Lady Gaga!

Purchase Lady Gaga – “Poker Face” via iTunes, Amazon MP3.