Lady Gaga talks LG7, Coachella and confirms DWAS and Gesaffelstein on the album

[monketsharona 54,786]

Is the song connected to whatever’s happening on LG7?

Absolutely. “Die With a Smile” is on my record — it’s a huge part of my album. It was like this missing piece. The record is full of my love of music — so many different genres, so many different styles, so many different dreams. It leaps around genre in a way that’s almost corrupt. And it ends with love. That’s the answer to all the chaos in my life is that I find peace with love. Every song that I wrote, I just kept getting kind of swept away in these different dreams I was having about the past — almost like a recollection of all these bad decisions that I made in my life. But it ends in this very happy place.

You’re headlining Coachella in April, which will be your second time there after performing in 2017. When the announcement came out, you said, “I’ve had a vision I’ve never been able to fully realize at Coachella” and that you’ve “been wanting to go back and to do it right.” Can you elaborate?

Well, for reasons totally outside of my control, there was a cancellation —

Beyoncé pulled out in 2017 because she was pregnant, and you stepped in.

I really wanted to be there for music fans, and at the time there was all this excitement to be able to film bits of “A Star Is Born” at Coachella. But I only had two weeks [to prepare for the show]. And so to design a stage, to have it made, all of those things — I didn’t have the time to totally do what I really wanted to do. I love music. I love performing. I love music fans. And I was so excited to film pieces of our movie there. So I did it, and I loved it. But you know when you have a vision in your mind of how you want to do something? It’s time to make it happen.

You’ve returned to ballads regularly throughout your career.

I’m thinking of one record I didn’t put on my [upcoming] album that’s actually… I might put it out so I don’t want to share the name. You almost got me [laughs]. It’s actually very fragile and not big — one of the first times I’ve ever done that. But I like big ballads. You can sing along about love in a big way. I love emotional, dramatic music, whether it’s James Taylor and Carole King or it’s David Lee Roth.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2024-12-19/lady-gaga-die-with-a-smile-bruno-mars-grammys-coachella-interview

Edited 5 hours ago by monketsharona

[PMM 3,149]

 

No one wants to wake up to the news I woke up to this morning

[Lady Rah Rah 1,957]

She really meant it when she said there’s gonna be so many different genres!  I really can’t wait!

[Red 94,835]

Wouldn't that technically make DWAS the lead single?

[littlepotter 74,527]

HUH?

[lastpopicon 4,124]

 

 

DWAS is the "missing piece" of the album.

 

@gerrygaga we are vindicated 

[littlepotter 74,527]

Just now, Red said:

Wouldn't that technically make DWAS the lead single?

Oh my god

[rvfzme 5,343]

Similar situation with HMH on Chromatica. I think it's a good promotion for LG7. DWAS and Disease deserve together 

[Red 94,835]

1 minute ago, littlepotter said:

Oh my god

The gays must be running to the Gaga Thoughts to make a new "Rank the lead singles" thread as I type this

[Bronco 6,122]

Not surprised it's on. And by the sounds of it, its the album closer track. 

Her talking about the genre fusions and bending coming on LG7 make me think the collab rumours around the Weeknd and Rosé may have more truth to them than we realise. She just seems to be in a very collaborative and exploratory mood. 

[thatfoxyfeeling 12,704]

"Is the song connected to whatever’s happening on LG7?

Absolutely. “Die With a Smile” is on my record — it’s a huge part of my album. It was like this missing piece. The record is full of my love of music — so many different genres, so many different styles, so many different dreams. It leaps around genre in a way that’s almost corrupt. And it ends with love. That’s the answer to all the chaos in my life is that I find peace with love. Every song that I wrote, I just kept getting kind of swept away in these different dreams I was having about the past — almost like a recollection of all these bad decisions that I made in my life. But it ends in this very happy place."

Well that's just diminished my hype for LG7. DWAS and Disease sound nothing alike so the album isn't gonna be cohesive at all, I understand from a business point of view DWAS being such a success it's good for the album's streaming numbers etc. but yeah this is a mess. 

[pizzamick 81]

Didn't she say herself some time ago that Die With A Smile was a standalone single somewhere?!

 

[clownery 3,800]

STREAMING GAYS WON AND THE ARTISTIC GAYS LOST??? 

[Emily 655]

she said It was a standalone project, wtf gurl 

[AndiGaga 6,042]

Her most successful lead single then! 😂

In all seriousness: That was never planned but it is a smart move and it will boost the album numbers a lot, lets be grateful. DWAS rescued 2024 for her narrative of a successfull mega star