Princess Die (A Fan-Film)

August 22, 2016

OP:

Princess Die" is a song written by Lady Gaga in 2011. Gaga debuted the song at one of the shows of The Born This Way Ball at Rod Laver Arena on June, 27, 2012. She said that the song was dedicated to 'super fans' after a tiara was thrown on stage. The song was registered on her BMI on January 29, 2013

In an interview with Vanity Fair for the January 2012 issue, it was revealed that Gaga was working on a song inspired by Princess Diana. The interviewer described Gaga playing an acoustic version of the song during the interview: "Gaga went to the piano to play us a new song she was working on about Princess Diana--a song about fame and celebrity death. Even in its rough stages, it has her trademark catchy chorus, and she sang the sad slightly bitter lyrics in full voice."

Telling the story of the day she wrote the song, Lady Gaga said "I remember I was having like a really sick day, I wasn’t feeling very well, and I was laying in bed and I got a package from Louis Vuitton. I opened up the package and there was a beautiful bag and it was from a friend from LV. And in the package, Louis Vuitton sent me a little tiara in a little bag, and I didn’t even know that they made them. So, I just remember it was this sort of bittersweet moment because I was having a really sad, depressing day, having some very deep dark thoughts. And then this lovely little sparkler came in the mail and I knew that that day I couldn’t really go outside because there was a lot of mayhem going on in the streets, so I just sat inside all day and smoked marijuana and drank wine with my tiara on my head." On June 28, she also brought the original tiara the she received and worn it along with the one she received the night before.

After debuting it at The Born This Way Ball, Lady Gaga said it did not make the cut for ARTPOP, but that it would be released through the ARTPOP application sometime after the albums release.