4/5
Die Another Day.
Japan. Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars have a lot in common with this land of the rising sun that this writer currently resides in. Coming out of COVID, both pop music superstars took Tokyo by storm with their sold out live shows that welcomed everyone back to the live concert circuit. And two of the world's most famous, and greatest live performers really put on a show. Gaga finally giving us her 'Chromatica Ball' out of the shallows of a reborn star. Mars, on the other hand, attacking the Tokyo Dome like a Giant at bat, selling it out more times than a championship game heading for home. So much so, the newly adopted "Kawaii King" had to do it twice, coming back last year.
Don Quixote, Japan's famous sell anything store, also has the two megastars in its floor by floor rapture. Gaga racked up the registers in Shibuya's MEGA Donki store after two hours of shopping. Whilst, Bruno has even made a music video in said store for a Donkey promotional campaign, rocking the house beat. But it's Lady Gaga's latest collaboration which we are really wanting to shop for...and we aren't talking about what's to come with Joaquin Phoenix as she plays Harley Quinn in the new sequel musical 'Joker: Folie à deux' next month (although we can hardly wait for that too). In-between all of this, Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars give us a definitive debut worthy of the greats like Marvin and Tammi. 'Die With A Smile' really puts one on our face for life, even if we're not sure if this soft rock throwback classic will find an album home. 'LG7' has just been announced via Vogue for a February release. Whereas soon it will be unbelievably a decade since Bruno boasted '24K Magic'. Although he did give us 'An Evening With Silk Sonic' and Anderson .Paak back in 2021. Collaboration anyone?
"Wherever you go, that's where I'll follow/Nobody's promised tomorrow/So I'ma love you every night like it's the last night/Like it's the last night", Bruno sings in a cowboy hat 'Joanne' would be proud of, as her daughter counters "Ooh, lost, lost in the words that we scream/I don't even wanna do this anymore/'Cause you already know what you mean to me/And our love's the only war worth fighting for" in matching crushed blue suit with red accents. Filmed like a fifties TV special that even The King would be proud of, this one and the Queen are set to light up the Sin City strip the next time Mars knocks this out of the park at his Vegas residency...all the way to the Hoover Dam. Damn! It feels so good when two amazing artists get down like this. Singing together, "If the world was ending/I'd wanna be next to you/If the party was over/And our time on Earth was through/I'd wanna hold you just for a while/And die with a smile," for all the lovers who feel this to the letter.
Retro fitted in unison and perfect harmony, this is the kind of song we need right now in this world where people would rather swipe than turn the page on revealing how they really feel. Number one in Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore. Top ten in Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, the Middle East and North Africa, the Netherlands, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. From a 2016 Victoria's Secret fashion show, to being invited to the studio for a session, this work in progress has come to pure and beautiful bloom fruition. Outside of Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, these are the two biggest pop stars on the planet. Rocking each other's t-shirts whilst going chord for chord through this progression. This western, country leaning standout, standalone single is as soulful and seventies as they come. Making melodies over the kind of love you'd die for. The one that always leaves you with a smile, like the first time you ever saw their face. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
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