The Mother Monster is back. Marking her return to the peak pop form that put her on the map, Lady Gaga has shared a new song, “Disease,” the first single from her forthcoming album. Stream it below.
Offering the first taste of the new project — so far dubbed LG7 — “Disease” brings to mind some classic Lady Gaga trademarks, including a catchy chorus hook and clever pop lyricism. Even the title of the song could be seen as a meta reference to her own career; with “Bad Romance,” one of her earliest hits, she sings, “I want your ugly, I want your disease/ I want your everything as long as it’s free.”
Now, though, Gaga is fighting diseases instead, singing “I could be your antidote tonight” on the verses before sharing a good prognosis with the chorus hook, “I could play the doctor, I can cure your disease.” Beneath her, the mid-tempo beat pulses with synths and samples, as a driving kick keeps the arrangement moving towards a head-bobbing, bass-heavy remedy for whatever needs curing.
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Watch the single’s lyric video below.
Gaga has been hinting at LG7 for some time, and revealed to Vogue that the new album would most likely be arriving in February 2025. Further details around the project, though, are sparse at this time.
Meanwhile, even though her most recent film venture, Joker: Folie à Deux, was largely a critical and commercial failure, Gaga made lemonade out of lemons with a solid companion album based off her character, Harley Quinn. Revisit our reviews of Harlequin and Joker: Folie à Deux.
In August, Gaga teamed up with Bruno Mars for ballad “Die with a Smile,” which spent nearly 60 days at No. 1 on Spotify’s global streaming chart.
