Lady Gaga has shared a music video for ‘Disease’, the lead single from her upcoming seventh album. The Tanu Muino-directed visual features Gaga facing different versions of herself, some freakier than others. She’s also shared a video for a live rendition of the Bruno Mars duet ‘Die With a Smile’, performed in Las Vegas. Check out both clips below.
On Instagram, Gaga wrote:
I think a lot about the relationship I have with my own inner demons. It’s never been easy for me to face how I get seduced by chaos and turmoil. It makes me feel claustrophobic.
Disease is about facing that fear, facing myself and my inner darkness, and realizing that sometimes I can’t win or escape the parts of myself that scare me. That I can try and run from them but they are still part of me and I can run and run but eventually I’ll meet that part of myself again, even if only for a moment.
Dancing, morphing, running, purging. Again and again, back with myself. This integration is ultimately beautiful to me because it’s mine and I’ve learned to handle it. I am the conductor of my own symphony. I am every actor in the plays that are my art and my life. No matter how scary the question, the answers are inside of me. Essential, inextricable parts of what makes me me. I save myself by keeping going. I am the whole me, I am strong, and I am up for the challenge. Happy Halloween.
Gaga’s as-yet-untitled seventh record, the proper follow-up to Chromatica, is expected to arrive in February. Last month, she released Harlequin, an album inspired by her role as Harley Quinn in the film Joker: Folie à Deux.
