Lady Gaga reveals ‘Die With A Smile’ with Bruno Mars is “huge part” of new album

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Lady Gaga’s duet with Bruno Mars, ‘Die With A Smile’, is set to be a large part of her upcoming album.The singer first teased her as-yet-untitled seventh solo studio album back in October, two months after dropping the Mars collab.Initially, the track – which has received Grammy nominations for Song of the Year and Best Pop/Duo Group Performance, was promoted as a standalone single, but Gaga told the L.A.

Times in a new interview that it’s going to be part of the album, out in February, after all.“It’s a huge part of my album,” shared Gaga, real name Stefani Germanotta. “It was like this missing piece.

When asked if the track is connected to her movie Joker: Folie à Deux, or the companion album ‘Harlequin’, the star replied: “I don’t think so.

I mean, this was not meant to be for that. But that was happening in my life at the time we wrote it and made it, so it’s hard to say no entirely because these things always ricochet off each other.She continued: “I do think that the humour we found in the video must have been something that was bouncing around inside me – this idea of a sad story that has some comedy.