Review: Lady Gaga's “Disease” Is A Throwback To Her Heier Days
Lady Gaga has released “Disease,” the lead single from her upcoming seventh studio album, due early next year. The song is the artist's first solo single since 2022's “Hold My Hand” and comes just a month after its release. HarlequinFrom the companion album Joker: Folie à DeuxWhich came and went quietly amid the film's lackluster performance at the box office.
Just in time for Halloween, “Disease” sees Gaga fall back on some of her earliest tricks—like 2009's macabre imagery and brash EDM stylings. The Fame Monster And of 2011 Born this way. Produced by Gaga, Sirkut and Andrew Watt, the track is driven by a heavy industrial beat and squelchy bassline with enough heft to support Gaga's characteristically bombastic performance.
The lyrics rely heavily on cliches, echoing similar themes as “Bad Romance” and “The Cure”: “Scream for me, baby/Like you're gonna die/Poison inside/I can be your antidote tonight.” Like “Teeth” and “Born This Way,” though, the track's dungeon-deep production proves satisfying enough to withstand even a line like “I can smell your sickness.”
Listen to “Disease” below:
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