Lady Gaga goes back to basics on industrial-pop rager Disease

Did someone call a doctor? Lady Gaga is back and rah-rah'ing once again on Disease, the lead track from her forthcoming seventh album and the most Gaga she's sounded in quite some time.

Co-written by Gaga, her fiancee Michael Polansky (thank you for your service, king!) and the song's producers, Cirkut (Ava Max, Miley Cyrus) and watt (Rita Ora, Justin Bieber), Disease is a pop song with a heavy gothic and industrial-rock influence, all kick snares and terrifyingly large syth-wobbles.

"I could play the doctor," Gaga howls on the chorus, her voice cut like gravel, "I can cure your disease. If you were a sinner, I could make you believe."

If we were to directly compare it to anything, it seems like a deepening and darkening of her material, especially her work on The Fame Monster, given the single's obvious macabre influences. 

Gaga famously 'returned' to the dancefloor on her 2020 lockdown record Chromatica, but Disease is dirtier than a straight club-pop record. It's great to have her back.

Listen to Disease by Lady Gaga below

Little to nothing is known about the direction LG7 will take - the snippets Gaga has chosen to play publicly have not been named, but they all seem to sound like industrial-pop through an electronic, Gothic lens - although it's been rumoured Gaga's hit the studio with French auteur Gesaffelstein, as well as regular collaborator BloodPop.

This is a very exciting time to be a Gaga fan, she's currently flying high in the UK, with Bruno Mars collab Die With A Smile eyeing a jump to Number 2 this week, challenging Sabrina Carpenter's Taste for Number 1.

Disease by Lady Gaga is out now via Interscope. LG7 drops February 2025.