After every week of teases, the wait is lastly over: Girl Gaga and Bruno Mars’ duet “Die With a Smile” was launched Thursday night time, and it is each bit as large a tune as anybody has come to count on from the tremendous tag group.
Whereas the look of the video is ’70s nation, the tune itself is a soulful ballad that mimics 2021’s Mars’ Soul Sonic venture – hovering vocals, large refrain, gently strummed guitar, and The hovering climax of the ultimate refrain. He sang the primary verse and Gaga sang the second, and from there the 2 started to faucet into one another’s highly effective vocals.
Nevertheless, the clip’s model is extra akin to a Nineteen Seventies Nashville TV present, with all of the gamers sporting matching gentle blue fits and purple shirts – Gaga’s hair is tied up like Dolly Parton pile, whereas Mars wears a white cowboy hat and performs. She holds a cigarette between her enamel as she sings her closing verse, and the clip ends with each of them inside an lively coronary heart.
The truth is, in keeping with a press launch, the tune began on Mars. Gaga mentioned: “Bruno and I’ve plenty of respect for one another and have been speaking about collaborating. I used to be ending my album in Malibu, and one night time on the finish of a protracted day, he invited me to his studio to hearken to what he was engaged on. It was round midnight after I acquired there and I used to be shocked after I heard what he had began engaged on. We stayed up late to write down and document this tune. His expertise as a musician is inexplicable. And there isn’t any one like him.
Mas added, “It was an honor to work with Gaga. She’s an icon and he or she makes this tune magical. I am so excited for everybody to listen to it.”
The tune was produced by D’Mile (who additionally co-produced and co-wrote a lot of the Silk Sonic album) and 2021 Grammy-winning producer Andrew Watt (Submit Malone, Elton John, Mike Leigh Cyrus) and different artists. D’Mile additionally performs bass and drums, with Watt on lead guitar. Gaga, Mars, D’Mile and Watt co-wrote the tune with James Fauntleroy (Mars, Rihanna, Frank Ocean, Beyonce, SZA, Kendrick Lamar, and so on.).
Gaga, in fact, is starring within the upcoming comedian ebook musical Joker: Folie À Deux, which options singing however is “completely different from something I’ve executed earlier than,” she lately informed Empire in an interview. The Grammy and Oscar winner stars within the movie reverse Joaquin Phoenix as Lee, a reimagined model of Harley Quinn.
Mars’ new tune appears fully unrelated to the film, though its title is definitely a Joker theme.
