Lady Gaga Has the Cure on New Song ‘Disease’

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 expected to be the first song of Gaga’s forthcoming seventh studio album, which she first teased back in July but hasn’t officially announced just yet. 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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Gaga’s next album will mark her seventh studio album and follow her 2020 effort, Chromatica. In September, she shared a few more details about the record in an interview with Rolling Stone, saying it was “nothing like” Chromatica and adding: “What I would say is, it’s all for me. 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.”

Though it’s been four years since Chromatica, Gaga hasn’t stopped making music. In 2021, she released her second collaborative record with Tony Bennett, Love for Sale. And last month, she released Harlequin, a collection of jazz standards cut as a companion album for Joker: Folie à Deux.