Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga in the MV Die with a Smile
If we talk about the most bizarre pop music moments of the 2010s, we definitely cannot forget the image of Bruno Mars and a group of dancers wearing monkey masks, shirts, and sunglasses, nodding and dancing to the song: "Today I don't feel like doing anything. I just want to lie in bed..." in the MV The Lazy Song.
And of course, we cannot forget the image of Lady Gaga wearing a strange white rubber suit emerging from a white cocoon shaped like a... coffin in the MV Bad Romance.
Die with a Smile is a love song
When the MV Die with a Smile was released, everyone was surprised. It had been years since the two had released a new song.
Especially with Lady Gaga, people thought she was focusing all her energy on promoting Joker: Folie à Deux, which will premiere at the Venice Film Festival this September, the movie in which she will appear as Harley Quinn, making everyone look forward to it.
Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars - Die With A Smile (Official Music Video )
We are also surprised because Die with a Smile is a love song, a soul ballad that is somewhat nostalgic, not strange, not shocking, not unique or different enough to be immediately imprinted in the viewer's memory.
Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars on stage, Mars wearing a cowboy hat and holding a guitar, Gaga with a signature 1960s beehive hairstyle, cigarette in her mouth and playing the piano.
They sing passionate declarations of love as they imagine the end of the Earth and the final end of humanity’s glorious feast. It all seems so ordinary, but there’s something unique about the music video.
Because all the usual elements are perfect here: Bruno Mars's soulful crooning; Lady Gaga's colorful, sometimes fierce, sometimes sweet vocals; the perfect blend and mutual concession of the two leading voices; the way Lady Gaga suddenly stands up from her guitar and starts dancing alone.
And of course, the intense melody and universal lyrics about love foretell that this song will be played and listened to over and over again by audiences, with more and more empathy.
The song's lyrics somehow remind people of the final images in the official trailer of Joker: Folie à Deux, Lady Gaga's Harley Quinn and Joaquin Phoenix's Joker - two crazy people who see the world as a stage for crazy things - singing a classic gospel song, Get Happy, specifically this line:
"Sing Hallelujah. Come on, be happy. Get ready for Judgment Day." Both works imply the end of the world, only one is endlessly romantic, the other is dark and insane.
And if the new part of Joker revolving around Joker and Harley Quinn is called Folie à Deux - crazy couples, then with Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga, can we call it good couples?
Lady Gaga and the "heaven-fallen" collaboration with Bruno Mars
Over the years, Lady Gaga's most memorable releases have been those that come in pairs.
Her most recent solo studio albums, Joanne (2016) and Chromatica (2020), have not been as explosive as expected. The bigger mark belongs to her jazz standard duets with the gentleman Tony Bennett and their long-standing friendship.
Her biggest hit in recent years is the ballad Shallow from the movie A Star Is Born, this time she sang a duet with Bradley Cooper, so romantic that the audience eagerly paired them up as a couple.
And now there are two more collaborations: a much-heralded collaboration with Joaquin Phoenix on the Joker sequel and a "sky-high" collaboration with Bruno Mars. There are even rumors that she's about to collaborate with Beyoncé - a combination that will go down in history.
Lady Gaga may have passed her prime, her most sublime, her peak in music, but spiritually speaking, her "luck" with friends is something that everyone would envy.
Source: https://tuoitre.vn/lady-gaga-va-bruno-mars-hay-co-doi-co-cap-20240825091812401.htm
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