Girl Gaga, “Mother Monster” herself, has gone gothic with the discharge of her new tune and video, “The Dead Dance.” The observe was written for the second season of Netflix’s Wednesday, the place Gaga makes a cameo look because the ghostly professor Rosaline Rotwood.
Persevering with their collaboration, Wednesday’s personal Tim Burton directed the black and white video for “The Dead Dance,” in a real fusion of the 2 artists’ artistic sensibilities. Gaga seems as a cracked porcelain doll come to life, dancing by way of an eerie, marionette-filled forest. Burton instructed Netflix’s Tudum that the undertaking got here collectively naturally: “I’ve been a fan of her work for a long time,” he defined. “She makes great music, and she’s a great actress, so for me it was very easy. She’s a real artist, and I’m grateful for what she contributed to the show.”
Gaga’s affiliation with Wednesday started in the course of the present’s first season, the place followers on TikTok paired the dance Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) initially carried out to The Cramps’ “Goo Goo Muck” with the Born This Manner observe “Bloody Mary.” The tune noticed a large increase in recognition, regardless of having been launched a decade earlier.
Gaga debuted “The Dead Dance” on the Wednesday Graveyard Gala occasion forward of the discharge of the season’s second half. On the Gala, she instructed Tudum: “the inspiration for ‘The Dead Dance’ was a breakup, and it was all about the way that we sometimes feel when it’s over; how a relationship ending can kill our ability to feel hopeful about love. It’s got this really cool, funky beat underneath it. And that is when the song becomes not just about the relationship; it becomes about having fun with your friends when you’ve been through something tough and amazing. I can’t wait for people to listen to it.”
“The Dead Dance” was produced by Gaga with Mayhem collaborators Andrew Watt and Cirkut. The observe has been added to an prolonged model of Mayhem, alongside the beforehand unavailable songs “Can’t Stop the High” and “Kill for Love.”
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