{"id":217922,"date":"2025-12-06T03:54:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/217922\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T03:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T03:54:15","slug":"bruno-mars-lady-gagas-die-with-a-smile-was-almost-scrapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/217922\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Mars & Lady Gaga’s ‘Die With a Smile’ Was Almost Scrapped"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThis year, \u201cDie With a Smile\u201d by Lady Gaga<\/a> and Bruno Mars<\/a> spent five weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a> and won a Grammy for best pop duo\/group performance \u2014 but apparently, the track almost didn\u2019t see the light of day.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an interview with Variety<\/a> published Thursday (Dec. 4), producers James Fauntleroy and Dernst \u201cD\u2019Mile\u201d Emile II revealed that after first writing parts of the song three years ago, the Silk Sonic star scrapped it and forgot about it entirely. That is, until Mars learned that Mother Monster would be starring in Joker: Folie a Deux opposite Joaquin Phoenix, which he thought would be the perfect project for the long-shelved ballad.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe was such a genius for pulling that out of the back of his subconscious memory because of the timing of that movie, which is also how Lady Gaga came into his mind as a collaborator,\u201d Fauntleroy told the publication. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe team had initially thought \u201cDie With a Smile\u201d could pair well with the film or Gaga\u2019s accompanying concept album, Harlequin, but it ended up as a cut on the singer-actress\u2019 Billboard 200<\/a>-topping Mayhem album instead. \u201cWhen we found out that wasn\u2019t gonna be a thing, he had already kind of started the ball rolling, because the power of Bruno compels you,\u201d Fauntleroy continued.<\/p>\n

\n\tGaga apparently loved \u201cDie With a Smile\u201d as soon as she heard it. \u201cI knew she could play the piano, but watching her actually sit down like a musician and learn the chords, so much so that she actually asked for a pen and paper and wrote the chords down \u2026 This is unheard of,\u201d the hitmaker added to Variety. \u201cShe learned the f\u2013king song, dude, right there. And they were performing, singing it together. And that\u2019s when I should have known it was going to be something special.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to its Hot 100 reign, \u201cDie With a Smile\u201d spent an eye-popping 18 weeks atop the Billboard Global 200<\/a>. Gaga is now up for a bevy of fresh Grammy awards, including album of the year for Mayhem.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut in a 2024 interview with Billboard<\/a>, producer Andrew Watt \u2014 who also helped out on the song \u2014 revealed that commercial and critical accolades were the last things on Gaga and Mars\u2019 minds when they jumped into the studio together. \u201cThis was a pure, organic thing that both these artists who respect each other so much wanted to do together,\u201d Watt said at the time. \u201cThis was about the love of making great music.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOf watching the two superstars do a surprise performance of the duet at Mars\u2019 Los Angeles concert that August, Watt added at the time, \u201cIt was this wow factor of \u2018Holy crap, [they\u2019re] like the Avengers of music.\u201d<\/p>\n


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