Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars Channel ‘70s Nashville in Video for ‘Die With a Smile,’ Their Soulful New Song
variety.comJem Aswad Executive Editor, Music After a week full of teases the wait is over: Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ duet, “Die With a Smile,” dropped on Thursday night and it’s as big a song as one would expect from this mega-tag-team.
While the look for the video is ‘70s country, the song itself is a soulful ballad in the mold of Mars’ Soul Sonic project of 2021 — soaring vocals, a big chorus, gently strummed guitars and a sky-scraping climax on the final chorus.
He takes the first verse and Gaga the second, and from there the two play off of each others’ powerful vocals. The video, however, is styled more like a ’70s Nashville television appearance, with all of the players in matching light blue suits with red shirts — Gaga’s hair is stacked into a Dolly Parton-style pile while Mars sports a white cowboy hat and strums a beautiful vintage hollow-body electric guitar.
She delivers the last verse with a cigarette clenched in her teeth and the clips concludes with the pair inside an animated heart.
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