Lady Gaga’s new song “Disease” is finally here in all its maximalist pop glory.
The track is driven by a cavernous synth line that swells and slams against industrial drums before erupting into a classic Gaga shout-along chorus: “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 your/Cure your disease.”
“Disease” is the first song of Gaga’s forthcoming seventh studio album — dubbed LG7, according to a press release — which she first teased back in July. Gaga wrote and produced the new song with pop and rock stalwarts Andrew Watt and Cirkut, while her fiancee, Michael Polansky, also has a writing credit on the track (Gaga has credited Polansky with pushing her to make a new pop album.)
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