Lady Gaga confirms release date for new single ‘Disease’ and reveals lyrics

21 October, 2024

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga has confirmed the release date for her forthcoming new single ‘Disease’, and revealed some of its lyrics on a series of websites.

A Universal Music pre-save/pre-add page displays the official song title logo, along with the date “10/25” – suggesting that the track will arrive this Friday (October 25).

Additionally, the website gagadisease.com displays the line “I could play the doctor” on a black backdrop. When you type out this text as another URL – icouldplaythedoctor.com – the next lyric is revealed (“I can cure your disease“), and so on.

Upon continuing this process, what appears to be a full verse or chorus is eventually unveiled. It reads:

“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.”

The final URL (cureyourdisease.com) contains the same ‘Disease’ logo and release date as seen on the pre-save/pre-add page. Check out the screenshots in the posts above.

Last week, Gaga teased ‘Disease’ by hiding the single’s title in her Spotify discography. The singer did so by spelling out one song from each of her seven albums in upper case letters, apart from one letter which is lower case.

For example, ‘Dance In The Dark’ from 2009’s ‘The Fame Monster’ is now spelt ‘dANCE IN THE DARK’. When these are all put together, it spells “disease”. Gaga also shared a playlist called ‘.com’ on her Spotify account, arranging the songs to spell out “Gaga disease”. See it below.

The artist’s next “pop” album, known as ‘LG7’, is expected to be released in February 2025. She recently confirmed that the lead single from the record would be arriving this month.

Speaking to Rolling Stone in September, Gaga explained that she wasn’t “even ready to talk about [the album] yet”, but promised to share more details on the “unhinged” LP soon. However, she did reveal: “The pop album is nothing like [2020’s] ‘Chromatica’. It’s a completely different record […] What I would say is, it’s all for me.”

Gaga continued: “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. That feels unhinged [laughs]…”

Last month saw the star release ‘Harlequin’,  a companion album to her new film Joker: Folie à Deux.

In August, Gaga released the standalone collaborative single ‘Die With A Smile’ with Bruno Mars.

NME gave the new Joker sequel four stars, saying that Gaga “shines in a provocative prison musical” in her role as Harleen “Lee” Quinzel.

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