Gaga Talks Bloody Mary & The Dead Dance On New Interview With TUDUM

[RAMROD 115,657]

Before Wednesday Season 1, Lady Gaga’s brooding electro-dance track “Bloody Mary” was the kind of fan-favorite deep cut you bragged about knowing — a pulsating gem from her 2011 album Born This Way. “It’s such an interesting, beautiful record,” says Gaga, reflecting on the surprise resurrection of “Bloody Mary.” “But it was considered too weird and too hard for radio — too much of everything.”

The song trended worldwide, transforming it into a TikTok phenomenon and weaving it into the show’s DNA as tightly as Wednesday’s black braids. Gaga noticed. She re-created the dance on TikTok, cementing a connection between herself and the world of Wednesday that made her appearance in Season 2 feel inevitable.  “I still don’t understand why fans took ‘Goo Goo Muck’ off her dance and put it on my song, but thank you,” Gaga says of the remix that brought the track back into the zeitgeist.

After “Bloody Mary” had a viral moment during the initial airing of Season 1, co-creators and showrunners Miles Millar and Alfred Gough approached Gaga to work on a new song for Season 2.  “Lady Gaga emerged as a big fan of Season 1 when ‘Bloody Mary’ became the de facto song on TikTok for Wednesday’s viral dance,” Gough reiterates. “And in the gala [scene] this season, we have another dance sequence, and we wanted to use a Lady Gaga song.”

The timing couldn’t have been more perfect. When Millar and Gough reached out, Gaga already had a new idea for a song haunting the Gothic hallways of her mind. “I got a phone call that the show was looking for music,” Gaga recalls. “I immediately had a song in mind called ‘The Dead Dance.’ Once I knew it would be for Wednesday, I decided to work on it even more and made it extra special for the show.”

Millar and Gough were immediately hooked. “Her team sent us the most incredible song, and we fell in love with it the first time we heard it,” Gough recalls, confident the song would be the perfect spiritual successor to “Bloody Mary.”

But “The Dead Dance” isn’t a gloomy song for the deceased. In fact, Gaga hopes the song is affirming and full of life. “The inspiration for ‘The Dead Dance’ was a breakup, and it’s about how we sometimes feel when it’s over — how a relationship ending can kill our ability to feel hopeful about love,” she says. “In the song, I say, ‘I’ll keep on dancing till I’m dead,’ meaning that I’m acknowledging that, and I’m going to keep going. I’m also saying, ‘I’m taking the power back.’”

And the real power of the song perhaps rests in the moment when, as Gaga says, its meaning is transformed, shifting from heartache to celebration: “In the middle of the song, it says, ‘’Do the Dead Dance, the Dead Dance’ over and over. And that is when the song becomes not just about the relationship. It becomes about having fun with your friends when you’ve been through something tough and amazing.”

Millar and Gough wanted to bring Gaga fully into the Wednesday world, and what better role than the ghost of former Nevermore professor Rosaline Rotwood? “The reason that I am in Wednesday really has to do with music,” Gaga explains. “After [‘The Dead Dance’] happened, they asked me if I wanted to be on the show, and I said, ‘Absolutely.’ ” 

It’s a deliciously twisted plot, and one that came to life when Gaga stepped into director Tim Burton’s gothic Addams playground. “Being on the set was such a trip — it was just so sick,” Gaga says. “The art direction, the craftsmanship, the attention to detail. I feel like I got to see something coming into Wednesday that I bet everyone would love to see.” That magic didn’t stop at the set design. To achieve Gaga’s floating scene as the ghost of Rotwood, the team implemented a teeter-totter, which is essentially a seesaw that lifted the pop star six feet in the air.

To no one’s surprise, Gaga and Burton hit it off between takes, discovering a similar sense of humor. “One of my favorite things about working with him was that we thought the same things were funny,” Gaga says. “We’re in this dark world, and we’re all kind of laughing about me floating across the room. I don’t know how to explain it, but when you have a kindred, shared interest in this type of artistry, there’s a certain vibe — and it’s nice.”

It’s the same against-the-odds magic that fuels her official Wednesday debut. Gaga didn’t just drop in for a cameo in Season 2 — she slipped into the series’ bloodstream, delivering a ghostly performance and an anthem that feels like it was always meant to be there. “To me, when you know that music and pop culture and Tim Burton all come together… that’s a very special recipe,” Gaga says. “That’s why I’m here.” If “Bloody Mary” was the spark, “The Dead Dance” is the fire.

https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/lady-gaga-dead-dance-wednesday-viral-dance

Edited April 15 by RAMROD

[The Breast 4,973]

6 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

If “Bloody Mary” was the spark, “The Dead Dance” is the fire.

if only 

[Ultimecia 6,543]

8 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

If “Bloody Mary” was the spark, “The Dead Dance” is a wet fart.

Fixed! 

[Murakami27 7,836]

10 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

If “Bloody Mary” was the spark, “The Dead Dance” is the fire.

[Jill 31,328]

11 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

If “Bloody Mary” was the spark, “The Dead Dance” is the fire.

man fvck trump

[dynamite 65,752]

Putting The Dead Queef in the same sentence as Bloody ****ing Mary...

[Borislshere 53,471]

Just got mad all over again thinking about how she cut the dead dance out of the second leg of the tour. I went to another show just to hear it but she cut right into love drug. I was so sick 

[hamartia 2,584]

I guess that clarifies that TDD already existed in some form and wasn't a reheated Mayhem nacho per say, just a nacho that was picked up off the floor 

[Horny Chicken 10,549]

Bloody Mary walked so The Dead Dance could fall flat on her face. 

[Killa 18,600]

I knew this would be come a roasting session. Not dissapointed

[PartySick 171,122]

Y'all are some haters. TDD is such a bop. I can't imagine Mayhem without it now.

I'm so glad I got to see her perform it twice at The Mayhem Ball.

[nATAH 55,100]

interesting, i wonder how long ago she wrote it

[FFXIV WhiteMage 6,184]

Sorry Gags but Bloody Mary is a unique  and a Masterpiece of a song!!!

 

TDD is a song.

Edited April 15 by FFXIV WhiteMage

[RoadToLouis 175]

I really wish they’d gone with Zombieboy instead. It’s such a good song and it deserved a great music video. It’s got a similar vibe to DD, just better execution. 

[huttont 5,930]

Idc I love TDD