Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars sing collectively for the primary time of their love track ballad “Die With a Smile,” a new standalone single and music video launched Thursday.
Within the video, Gaga and Mars carry out the track on a retro stage with guitar and keys. Mars dons a cowboy hat, and Gaga makes a assertion in brilliant crimson tights.
The duo additionally shocked followers with a particular dwell efficiency of their new collaboration at Mars’ Thursday grand opening present on the new Intuit Dome in Los Angeles.
Rumors relating to a Gaga-Mars collab have circled the web for a number of days, and the 2 singers confirmed the information with a submit on social media earlier Thursday.
In her announcement, Gaga stated the track was for followers “while you wait for LG7,” her hotly anticipated new album which doesn’t but have a launch date.
“Die With a Smile” can be a few of the first new music launched in years from each artists. Lady Gaga launched a collaborative album with Tony Bennett in 2021 and her High Gun: Maverick hit “Hold My Hand” in 2022, however her final main solo music was Chromatica in 2020. Mars received two Grammys for his Silk Sonic venture with Anderson .Paak in 2022, and his final main solo launch was practically a decade in the past in 2016.
“Bruno and I have a lot of mutual respect for each other and were talking about collaborating,” Gaga stated in a press launch. “I was finishing up my own album in Malibu and one night after a long day he asked me to come to his studio to hear something he was working on. It was around midnight when I got there and I was blown away when I heard what he had started making. We stayed up all night and finished writing and recording the song. Bruno’s talent is beyond explanation. His musicianship and vision is next level. There’s no one like him.”
Mars added, “Getting to work with Gaga has been an honor. She’s an icon and she makes this song magical. I’m so excited for everyone to hear it.”
“Die With a Smile” is co-produced by the pair together with D’Mile and Andrew Watt. The video is direted by Daniel Ramos and Mars.
Gaga will subsequent be seen alongside Joaquin Phoenix in within the upcoming Joker: Folie À Deux, which is able to function her singing, although she teased just lately it is going to be “unlike anything I’ve done before.”
“People know me by my stage name, Lady Gaga, right? That’s me as that performer, but that is not what this movie is,” Gaga informed Empire. “I’m playing a character. So I worked a lot on the way that I sang to come from Lee, and to not come from me as a performer…How do you take music and have it just be an extension of the dialogue, as opposed to breaking into song for no conceivable reason?”
