Girl Gaga and Bruno Mars sing collectively for the primary time of their love track ballad “Die With a Smile,” a brand new stand-alone 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 an announcement in shiny pink 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 concerning a Gaga-Mars collab have circled the Web for a number of days, and the 2 singers confirmed the information with a put up on social media earlier Thursday.
In her announcement, Gaga mentioned the track was for followers “when you watch for LG7,” her hotly anticipated new album which doesn’t but have a launch date.
“Die With a Smile” can also be among the first new music launched in years from each artists. Girl Gaga launched a collaborative album with Tony Bennett in 2021 and her High Gun: Maverick hit “Maintain My Hand” in 2022, however her final main solo music was Chromatica in 2020. Mars received two Grammys for his Silk Sonic mission with Anderson .Paak in 2022, and his final main solo launch was almost a decade in the past in 2016.
“Bruno and I’ve a variety of mutual respect for one another and have been speaking about collaborating,” Gaga mentioned in a press launch. “I used to be ending up my very own album in Malibu and one evening after a protracted day he requested me to return to his studio to listen to one thing he was engaged on. It was round midnight after I bought there and I used to be blown away after I heard what he had began making. We stayed up all evening and completed writing and recording the track. Bruno’s expertise is past rationalization. His musicianship and imaginative and prescient is subsequent stage. There’s nobody like him.”
Mars added, “Attending to work with Gaga has been an honor. She’s an icon and he or she makes this track magical. I’m so excited for everybody to listen to it.”
“Die With a Smile” is co-produced by the pair together with D’Mile and Andrew Watt. The video is directed by Daniel Ramos and Mars.
Gaga will subsequent be seen alongside Joaquin Phoenix within the upcoming Joker: Folie À Deux, which can characteristic her singing, although she teased just lately will probably be “not like something I’ve performed earlier than.”
“Individuals know me by my stage identify, Girl Gaga, proper? That’s me as that performer, however that’s not what this film is,” Gaga advised Empire. “I’m taking part in a personality. So I labored rather a lot on the way in which that I sang to return from Lee, and to not come from me as a performer…. How do you are taking music and have it simply be an extension of the dialogue, versus breaking into track for no conceivable cause?”
