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How Lady Gaga Embraced ‘Exercises in Chaos’ to Make New Single ‘Disease’

If there’s a concept that seemed to be on Lady Gaga’s mind as she was making her upcoming seventh studio album, it was chaos

And the legendary pop star went deeper into that world as she dissected the as-of-yet untitled album’s lead single, “Disease,” on the latest episode of Rolling Stone ‘s “ The Breakdown.” Gaga broke down the baseline and synths and talked about making “Disease” with producers Cirkut and Andrew Watt, as well as with her fiance, Michael Polinksy, who co-wrote the song with her. Gaga called “Disease” emblematic of the spirit of the rest of the album, which swings between beautiful dainty moments and sounds to more extreme sensory overload.

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