Lady Gaga Shares New Electro-Pop Single, ‘Disease’

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Thania Garcia Lady Gaga debuted her introspective new single “Disease” — an electro-pop song about curing a lover’s “tortured” disease — on Thursday night.

The upbeat track was written by Michael Polansky, Gaga, Andrew Watt and Cirkut, with the latter three also credited as producers. “Disease” is the first single from Gaga’s seventh studio album, which she first teased back in July, and confirmed in September ahead of the premiere of “Joker :Folie et Deux.” Her new album is due spring of 2025, according to a press release. “I could play the doctor/I can cure your disease,” Gaga sings in “Disease.” “If you were a sinner/I could make you believe/Lay you don’t like 1, 2, 3/Eyes roll back in ecstasy/I can smell your sickness/I can cure ya/Cure your disease.” In an interview with Vogue, Gaga said of her new album, “I feel like this new album, in a lot of ways, is about that time but from a place of happiness instead of misery.” Gaga is fresh off starring in “Joker: Folie à Deux,” which was critically panned and underperformed at the box office.

She released a surprise companion album for “Joker” dubbed “Harlequin,” and inspired by her character in the film. Consisting of nearly all classic American Songbook favorites like “Get Happy,” “That’s Life” and “That’s Entertainment,” with the exception of a pair of originals, “Harlequin” debuted at No.

20 on the overall Billboard 200. Before that, Gaga’s last album was 2020’s “Chromatica,” which became her sixth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 upon its release.