Lady Gaga says Bruno Mars collaboration was the "missing piece" of LG7

Speaking of the duet, "Die With A Smile", which is likened to a love song at the end of the world, Lady Gaga shares: "I was thinking about Carole King and James Taylor. There was something so special when they performed together — it was all about what they were saying to each other." The track is unlike much else on radio at the moment, and Lady Gaga likes that it stands out for being different.

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At the time of release, Lady Gaga had been working on Harlequin – the companion album to her forthcoming film, Joker: Folie à Deux. While the track wasn't related to the worlds that she was building with those, it does fit into her forthcoming seventh studio album; the follow-up to 2020's Chromatica.

"“Die With a Smile” is on my record — it’s a huge part of my album. It was like this missing piece," she said. "The record is full of my love of music — so many different genres, so many different styles, so many different dreams. It leaps around genre in a way that’s almost corrupt. And it ends with love. That’s the answer to all the chaos in my life is that I find peace with love. Every song that I wrote, I just kept getting kind of swept away in these different dreams I was having about the past — almost like a recollection of all these bad decisions that I made in my life. But it ends in this very happy place."