Lady Gaga: “The new album is a mix of different genres”

“Disease” was the last ring. It is a dance piece with dark sounds that mixes electronics with more rock veins, light years away both from the swing and jazz imagery of “Harlequin”, the “companion album” of “Joker 2: Folie à deux” and also from the ballad 70s “Die with a smile” with Bruno Mars, for several weeks at the top of the charts of the most listened to songs globally on Spotify. Lady Gaga will return with a new album in 2025. “Disease” is the first real appetizer of Miss Germanotta’s new project of unreleased songsprovisionally titled “LG7”, which will be released next February five years after the previous “Chromatica”. Interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, she spoke about the piece with Bruno Mars, the new project and the importance of live music. “Con Bruno Mars we were talking about working together and were trying to figure out what we were going to do. He called me and said, ‘I have this idea’. I really wanted to hear what he was doing, so I went there to him very late and he let me hear the beginning of this idea. He had a couple of different ideas, but I said: ‘This is a love song, I think people would like to hear us do a love song’”, the pop star told the newspaper.

But where does the imagination come from? “We were watching variety shows and imagined we were a TV couple. But I also said to Bruno: ‘I’ll still be one of the guys,’ he continued. ‘One of the great honors of being on a song with Bruno Mars is how he thinks of me.. I didn’t want to be just ‘the wife’ in the play. So in the video I take matters into my own hands.” Is the song related to “LG7”? “Absolutely – he revealed – ‘Die With a Smile’ is on my record, it’s a huge part of my album. It was like this piece was missing. The record is full of my love of music: so many different genres, so many different styles, so many different dreams. It jumps from genre to genre in a way that’s almost crazy. And it ends with love. This is the answer to all the chaos in my life: I find peace with love. Every song I wrote, I kept getting swept up in these different dreams I had about the pastalmost like a reminder of all these bad decisions I’ve made in my life. But it ends in this very happy place, it ends in love.”