UPDATED: As rumored, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars will drop a new song titled “Die With a Smile” tonight (Thursday, Aug. 15) at midnight ET / 9 p.m. PT, Gaga announced on social media Thursday.
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Little is known about the song at the moment, although the two appear to be dressed in country-leaning outfits in the artwork, which was released along with the announcement — if that’s the case, then the artists will be the latest of a battalion of pop artists to “go country” this year, led by Beyonce and Post Malone.
A rep tells PvNew that the song is a stand-alone single.
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It seems likely that Grammy-winning songwriter-producer Andrew Watt — who came up as a pop producer but has leaned heavily into rock, producing the Rolling Stones’ “Hackney Diamonds” last year as well as projects with Elton John, Ozzy Osbourne and others —is involved as well: He also posted on social media about the Gaga/Bruno song on Thursday.
The song is the first new headlining music in years from both artists —Mars since his Grammy-winning Silk Sonic project with Anderson .Paak two years ago, and Gaga since her 2020 “Chromatica” album, although she made a show-stopping appearance with the Rolling Stones on “Sweet Sounds of Heaven” from “Hackney Diamonds” last year.
Gaga, of course, is starring in the upcoming comic book musical “Joker: Folie À Deux,” which features singing but is “unlike anything I’ve ever done before,” she said recently in an interview with Empire. The Grammy and Oscar winner stars opposite Joaquin Phoenix in the movie as Lee, a reimagining of Harley Quinn.
“People know me by my stage name, Lady Gaga, right? That’s me asthatperformer, but that is not what this movie is,” Gaga said. “I’m playing a character. So I worked a lot on the way that I sang to come from Lee, and tonotcome 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?”
The new song with Mars seems to be completely unrelated to the film, although its title is certainly on-theme for the Joker.
