Disease (Lady Gaga song)

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"Disease"
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Single by Lady Gaga
from the album Mayhem
ReleasedOctober 25, 2024 (2024-10-25)
Genre
Length3:49
Label Interscope
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Lady Gaga
  • Andrew Watt
  • Cirkut
Lady Gaga singles chronology
"Die with a Smile"
(2024)		"Disease"
(2024)
Music video
"Disease" on YouTube

"Disease" is a song by American singer-songwriter Lady Gaga. It was released on October 25, 2024, through Interscope Records, as the lead single from Gaga's upcoming eighth studio album, Mayhem . She wrote and produced the song with Andrew Watt and Cirkut, while Michael Polansky provided additional songwriting. Musically, "Disease" is a dark pop, electropop, dance-pop, synth-pop, and EDM song. The melodramatic lyrics of the song discuss love's ability to heal a lover's disease.

Contents

"Disease" received positive reviews from music critics, who praised its production and Gaga's vocals, although some found the lyrics uncreative. It reached number 14 on the Billboard Global 200 chart and the top 10 in Greece, San Marino, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and the United Kingdom; top 20 in Ireland and Latvia; and top 30 in Brazil, Canada, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, and the United States. The song's music video, directed by Tanu Muino, was released on October 29, 2024. It features Gaga facing different versions of herself and trying to control her personified fears.

Development

Lady Gaga spoke of new music while celebrating her 38th birthday on March 28, 2024, saying that "I am writing some of my best music in as long as I can remember". [1] Cirkut revealed the following November to Billboard that he was invited to work with Gaga via Andrew Watt, who had already worked with her on "Sweet Sounds of Heaven", a collaboration with the Rolling Stones from their Hackney Diamonds album, during 2023. According to Cirkut, who co-produced the song alongside Gaga and Watt, the track was conceived "fairly early in the process" of their creative collaboration. He shared that the song quickly became an obvious "cornerstone" of their work together for her eighth studio album. [2] In a social media post, Gaga shared that "Disease" and its music video were inspired by facing her own fears and inner darkness. [3]

Composition

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"Disease" is 3 minutes and 49 seconds long. [4] It was written and produced by Gaga, Watt, and Cirkut, while Gaga's fiancé, Michael Polansky, co-wrote the track with them. [5] Music journalists identified "Disease" as an upbeat electropop, [6] dark pop, [7] dance-pop, [8] synth-pop, [9] and EDM song, [10] with gothic, industrial rock, rock, and rage influences. [11] [12] It features grungy guitars, ominous layered harmonies, and midtempo industrial, EDM, and techno-heavy four on the floor beats. [13] [14] [15] On the final chorus, Gaga pares everything back to her falsetto register and piano notes, before a final climactic growl. [13] Critics found "Disease" thematically similar to Gaga's singles "Bad Romance" (2009) and "The Cure" (2017)", [a] with Alexis Petridis of The Guardian particularly finding Gaga's "strident" and "imperious" vocals similar to "The Cure" and "Poker Face" (2008). [15] Roisin O'Connor from The Independent found Gaga's vocals and the "squelching" synth line similar to those of George Michael's single "Freeek!" (2002). [13]

In "Disease", Gaga sings about love's potential to cure and heal a lover's "tortured" disease. [7] [6] [8] She sings in the pre-chorus, "Screamin' for me, baby/ Like you're gonna die/ Poison on the inside/ I could be your antidote tonight", over a pulsing electronic beat. [17] Describing the lyrics of the pre-chorus, Petridis stated that "if they don't bear much resemblance to the work of the Metaphysical poets, do seem a bit dominatrix-y". [15] Gaga sings later in the 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". [5] Elle 's Erica Gonzales described Gaga's vocals in the chorus as "rock" and "growly". [7] Robin Murray from Clash considered the chorus one of Gaga's best choruses and found the song's energy and directness similar to punk music. [18] Gaga sings in the second verse to the lover, "You're so tortured when you sleep, plagued with all your memories/ You reach out and no one's there, like a god without a prayer". [16] Nick Levine of the BBC dubbed the song's lyrics "melodramatic" and believed the song's composition is a "welcome reminder" that Gaga "stormed the mainstream by making music that was catchy and freaky in equal measure". [8]

Release and promotion

Following the release of "Die with a Smile", a collaboration with American singer Bruno Mars, on August 16, and while attending the 81st Venice International Film Festival ahead of the premiere of her film Joker: Folie à Deux , Gaga announced that the lead single for her upcoming eighth studio album was to be released in October. [19] [20] On October 18, Spotify updated the titles of seven tracks from her discography to spell out the word "disease", hinting at an upcoming single. [21] [17] Three days later, the song's release was confirmed by Universal Music Group through a pre-save website. [22] The cryptic website depicted a glitch of the phrase "I could play the doctor" against a black screen. [23] Gaga revealed via her social media the official logo of "Disease", a promotional poster, and the release time for cities globally. [24] On October 25, Interscope Records released "Disease" worldwide digitally for download and streaming and in the United States to contemporary hit radio. [4] [25] Universal sent the track to Italian radio airplay on the same day. [26] On December 15, Gaga performed "Disease" during a Christmas special of Carpool Karaoke released on Apple TV+. [27]

Gaga released two live versions of "Disease", one performed on piano and the other on electric guitar. On November 13, 2024, a live version subtitled "The Antidote Live", produced by Gaga, was released for digital download and streaming by Interscope and to Italian radio airplay by Universal. [28] [29] [30] Another live version, subtitled "The Poison Live", was released digitally on November 20 by Interscope. [31] The live versions were accompanied by their respective visual videos and digital instrumental versions. [32] [29] [31] Filmed in Malibu, California at Woodshed Studios, the video for "The Antidote Live" version features Gaga performing a stripped-down rendition of "Disease" on a black grand piano with acoustic guitar accompaniment and a backing track. [33] In the video for "The Poison Live" version, she performs an electric guitar rendition with assistance from guitarist Tim Stewart. [34] [35]

Critical reception

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Andrew Watt (left) and Cirkut (right) collaborated with Gaga on the production of the song, which garnered positive feedback from music journalists.

"Disease" received positive reviews from music critics, [36] who considered it a return to Gaga's pop roots. [b] Journalists from Consequence named it the "Song of the Week" upon its release, adding that the track is "a four minute reminder that pop music is where so many elements of performance have the opportunity to coalesce". [38] In a five-star review, Evening Standard 's India Block called it as a "high gothic blast that's perfect for spooky season" and praised the production, Gaga's vocals, and the religious themes. [37] Murray rated the track nine out of ten, describing it as "lustful, salacious, and industrial" and comparing its heavy electronic production to works by Nine Inch Nails. [18] Petridis gave "Disease" four stars out of five and praised its ability to "evoke memories of late 00s Gaga and still fit with the messy, post- Brat pop climate" through its excessive mood and sound. [15] In a positive review, Harper's Bazaar 's Bianca Betancourt considered the track a more daring and mature version of "Bad Romance". [11] Rolling Stone ranked the track as the 17th best song of 2024, stating it's "a thrilling and very welcome return to form, as pop's most adventurous star sings about wanting your disease (an always welcome trope in the Gaga extended universe)" and "a sick and ferocious reminder that Gaga is one of one." [39]

Some critics found the lyrics uncreative and compared the track to Gaga's previous works. Alexa Camp from Slant Magazine and O'Connor described the lyrics as "cliché" but praised the sound and production, with the latter saying that "Disease" is "her best in a long while" in a four-star review. [10] [13] Petridis felt "Disease" is stylistically reminiscent of the music in Gaga's debut studio album The Fame (2008), while Camp felt it is more reminiscent of Gaga's subsequent releases The Fame Monster (2009) and Born This Way (2011). [10] [15] Marcus Wratten from PinkNews placed the track at number four in a ranking of Gaga's seven lead singles, considering it her darkest lead single since "Bad Romance". [40] In a ranking of Gaga's entire catalog, Vulture 's Kristen Hé placed "Disease" at number 15, adding that Gaga is "no longer consumed by darkness but in control of it". [41]

Commercial performance

"Disease" debuted at number 14 on the Billboard Global 200 chart, becoming Gaga's second top-20 entry on the chart in 2024, following "Die with a Smile". [42] In the United States, it debuted at number 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated November 9, 2024, marking her twenty-seventh top-forty song on the chart. [43] [44] The track peaked at number 22 on the Adult Pop Airplay chart dated December 7, 2024, [45] and number 18 on the Pop Airplay chart dated November 16, 2024. [46] Debuting at number 19 on the latter chart, it marked her highest debut since "Born This Way" (2011). [47] [48]

In the United Kingdom, "Disease" debuted at number seven on the UK Singles Chart on November 1, 2024, marking the sixteenth top-ten song in Gaga's career on the chart, and second in 2024, following "Die with a Smile". [49] In its second week on the chart, the track remained in the top-twenty at number 12, before descending to number 21 in its third week. [50] [51] "Disease" reached number 21 on the Brasil Hot 100 chart in Brazil and number 28 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart in Canada. [52] [53] The song additionally reached the top 10 in the Commonwealth of Independent States, [54] Greece, [55] and San Marino; [56] top 20 in Ireland [57] and Latvia; [58] and top 30 in the Netherlands, [59] Lithuania, [60] Portugal, [61] and Switzerland. [62]

Music video

Gaga in the music video, embracing a macabre version of herself with a gothic look and long fingernails, which was compared to the film Edward Scissorhands (1990). Lady Gaga - Disease (music video screenshot).jpg
Gaga in the music video, embracing a macabre version of herself with a gothic look and long fingernails, which was compared to the film Edward Scissorhands (1990).

On October 22, 2024, Gaga teased the release of the music video for "Disease", previewing a snippet from it via her social media. The 11-second video features Gaga wearing a white dress and running from a car driving directly towards her on a suburban street; Gaga turns back to the mystery driver several times throughout the video as she tries to escape. Piano notes are played during the video before a percussive hit at the end. [24] [64] Gaga's white dress in the snippet video has been compared to that of Samara Morgan from the 2002 psychological horror film The Ring . [65] The music video premiered via Gaga's Vevo channel on YouTube at 18:00 Pacific Daylight Time (UTC−07:00) on October 29. [66] [67] [68] Gaga revealed via her social media that the inspiration behind the concept of the song and music video was her personal "inner darkness" and her relationship with her "inner demons". She expanded upon this concept in the video and wanted to convey the "claustrophobic" feelings that experiences when she's seduced by the darkness in her life. She also commented that the video shows that she will always meet the darker and "scary" parts of herself once again, "even if only for a moment", and that she feels she's finally able to find answers to "scary questions" as a sense of comfort in the "plays that are [her life]". [69] [70]

Directed by Tanu Muino and choreographed by Parris Goebel, [71] [70] the four-and-a-half-minute video takes place in a quiet suburban neighborhood and finds Gaga facing different versions of herself and trying to regain control of her deepest personified fears. [72] [73] One of the versions features Gaga having red eyes and wearing an all-black leather outfit, a zippered mask, towering heels, and long fingernails studded with steel. [72] [74] The red-eyed version of Gaga runs over a "more innocent" version wearing a nightgown with a floral print. [75] A version of Gaga wearing white crop top and briefs walks over her clone while being handcuffed to the ceiling, [69] [75] and another version wearing an ombré mesh dress with dip dye appears in a dark vomit pool before being trapped between two colliding walls. [75] [63] Throughout the video, the different versions of Gaga are seen either engaging in fights, running down the street, dancing, or embracing each other. [74]

Reception

The music video received praise from fans and critics. [76] Gonzales described the "spooky" video as "haunting and at times disturbing", [69] and Attitude 's Jamie Tabberer dubbed it "dark, twisted, and deeply personal" and compared it to horror films. [77] Christian Allaire from Vogue and Gonzales praised the video's theme and avant-garde fashion costumes. [69] [75] Flisadam Pointer from Uproxx commended Gaga's performance, the production, and the elaborate wardrobe changes. [78] W 's Matthew Velasco dubbed the video "cinematic" and said that it has "almost theater-like experience". He found the video's theme reminiscent of The Fame Monster era and the music videos for Gaga's singles "Bad Romance" and "Alejandro" (2010). [79] Nylon 's Dylan Kickham also compared the video's horror-leaning artistic direction to Gaga's previous works, including her 2022 single "Bloody Mary". [80] Audra Heinrichs from Jezebel praised the video and its cinematography, comparing it to the themes of the Kill Bill and John Wick film franchises, [81] and Danielle Chelosky from Stereogum found the video stylistically similar to the gothic film Edward Scissorhands (1990). [63]

Credits and personnel

Credits are adapted from Qobuz. [82]

Charts

Release history

"Disease" release history
RegionDateFormat(s)Version(s)LabelRef.
VariousOctober 25, 2024Original Interscope [4]
Italy Radio airplay Universal [26]
United States Contemporary hit radio Interscope [25]
VariousNovember 13, 2024
  • Digital download
  • streaming
  • The Antidote Live
  • The Antidote Live Instrumental
 [29]
ItalyRadio airplayThe Antidote LiveUniversal [30]
VariousNovember 20, 2024
  • Digital download
  • streaming
  • The Poison Live
  • The Poison Live Instrumental
Interscope [31]

Notes

  1. ↑ Attributed to multiple references: [7] [10] [11] [14] [15] [16]
  2. ↑ Attributed to multiple references: [15] [18] [37] [38]

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