Lady Gaga shares dystopian new single ‘Disease’
“I could play the doctor/ I can cure your disease/"
By Nick Reilly
Lady Gaga has dropped the new single ‘Disease’, which sees the singer offering up a slice of dystopian electro-pop.
The track arrives today (October 25) and marks the first preview of the singer’s anticipated next album, which is expected to arrive in early 2025 and has been appropriately dubbed LG7.
Over distorted electronic beats, Gaga sings: “Screamin’ for me, baby/ Like you’re gonna die/ Poison on the inside/ I could be your antidote tonight.”
“I could play the doctor/ I can cure your disease/ If you were a sinner/ I could make you believe/ Lay you down like one, two, three/ Eyes roll back in ecstasy/ I can smell your sickness/ I can cure ya/ Cure your disease.”
A new music video has also arrived, which you can watch in full below.
Gaga’s seventh studio album was first teased back in July. At the time, she posted a series of photos from inside a recording studio, writing, “Feel so grateful, heart is peaceful. It’s like meditation. I can’t wait for you to hear what I’m working on.”
In September, Gaga shared a few more details with Rolling Stone, saying the new record will be “nothing like” her last solo effort, 2020’s Chromatica. “It’s a completely different record. I don’t know that I’m even ready to talk about it yet, but I recognise that it’s coming out soon, and I will,” she said. “What I would say is, it’s all for me. It’s meant to be ingested as a time in my life. And I’m also really excited about this idea that I don’t have to adhere to an era if I don’t want to. I can have a few going at once.”
While it’s been four years since Chromatica, Gaga hasn’t stopped making music. In 2021, she released her second collaborative record with Tony Bennett, Love for Sale, and this past September she released Harlequin, a collection of jazz standards cut as a companion album for Joker: Folie à Deux.