Lady Gaga has shared a preview video for her imminent new single, ‘Disease’ – you can watch it below.
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The pop star at due to release the song at 5am BST this Friday (October 25) – pre-save/pre-add here. It’ll serve as the first preview of her upcoming “pop” album, known as ‘LG7’, which is expected to arrive in February 2025.
Last night (October 22), Gaga posted a sinister 10-second snippet of what appears to be the official ‘Disease’ music video.
The brief clip sees the singer quickly running away from a car that is driving towards her on a suburban street. Donning a white dress, a panicked Gaga turns back to the mystery driver numerous times as she sprints to make her escape.
We hear some haunting piano over the footage ahead of a dramatic percussive stab at the end. The ‘Disease’ logo is then displayed above the track’s release date. Tune in here:
Additionally, Gaga has shared a poster for the new single along with the release times for cities around the globe. The image shows the star on the bonnet of a white car, further hinting at what’s to come in the video (see above).
Earlier this week saw Gaga reveal some lyrics from a verse or chorus of ‘Disease’ via a series of new web pages.
They read: “I could play the doctor/ I can cure your disease/ If you were a sinner/ I could make you believe/ Lay you down like one, two, three/ Eyes roll back in ecstasy/ I can smell your sickness/ I can cure ya/ Cure your disease.”
The singer had previously teased ‘Disease’ by hiding the track’s title within her Spotify catalogue. She did so by spelling out one song from each of her seven albums in upper case letters, apart from one letter which is lower case.
For example, ‘Dance In The Dark’ from 2009’s ‘The Fame Monster’ is now spelt ‘dANCE IN THE DARK’. When these are all put together, it reads “disease”. Gaga also shared a playlist called ‘.com’ on her Spotify account, arranging the songs to spell out “Gaga disease”.
New lyrics teaser video for Lady Gaga’s upcoming single “Disease”. pic.twitter.com/SCY3E7xu81
— Lady Gaga Now 🃏 (@ladygaganownet) October 23, 2024
New teaser image for Lady Gaga’s #LG7 lead single “DISEASE” out this Friday. pic.twitter.com/eayAbGIRgV
— Lady Gaga Now 🃏 (@ladygaganownet) October 22, 2024
During an interview with Rolling Stone in September, Gaga explained that she wasn’t “even ready to talk about [her new album] yet”, but promised to share more details on the “unhinged” LP soon. However, she did reveal: “The pop album is nothing like [2020’s] ‘Chromatica’. It’s a completely different record […] What I would say is, it’s all for me.”
Gaga continued: “It’s meant to be ingested as a time in my life. And I’m also really excited about this idea that I don’t have to adhere to an era if I don’t want to. I can have a few going at once. That feels unhinged [laughs]…”
Last month, the artist released ‘Harlequin’ – a companion album to her new film Joker: Folie à Deux.
In August, Gaga shared the standalone collaborative single ‘Die With A Smile’ with Bruno Mars.
NME gave the new Joker sequel four stars, saying that Gaga “shines in a provocative prison musical” in her role as Harleen “Lee” Quinzel.
