Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars have released the country-inspired music video for their new collaborative song “Die With A Smile” – watch it below.

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Today (August 16th) the two released the video for “Die With A Smile”. The music video is themed around old-school country performances that were recorded for television in the 1970s. Mars plays guitar while Gaga sits at the piano with a cigarette in her mouth.

The song, however, is not inspired by country music, but takes the form of a soulful ballad, similar to Mars’ side project with Anderson .Paak, Silk Sonic, and features a soaring chorus and hair-raising build-ups throughout its running time.

Watch the music video for “Die With A Smile” by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars below.

“Die With My Smile” is the first song Gaga has released since she appeared on the Rolling Stones track “Sweet Sounds Of Heaven” last year, and it’s also Mars’ first release since Silk Sonic’s debut album, An Evening With Silk Sonic, came out in 2021.

The song is a one-off collaboration. Lady Gaga explained in a press statement how it came about: “Bruno and I have a lot of mutual respect and talked about collaborating. I was finishing up my own album in Malibu and one night after a long day he asked me to come to his studio to listen to something he was working on. It was about midnight when I got there and I was blown away when I heard what he had started doing. We stayed up all night and finished writing and recording the song. Bruno’s talent is indescribable. His musicianship and vision are on a whole new level. There is no one like him.”

“Die With A Smile” comes after Gaga performed at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics last month, singing Zizi Jeanmaire’s “Mon Truc en Plumes.” It was later revealed that her performance had been recorded and the 300,000 viewers had watched it on a screen, although it appeared to be live to viewers at home.

Olympic choreographer and dance director Maud Le Pladec later explained why the piece was not performed live, citing the unfortunate weather conditions that day.

“Unfortunately, it was the only (performance) that we had to pre-record for safety reasons in the late afternoon when we knew for sure it was going to rain – we were updated minute by minute, we had never followed the weather report so closely in our lives,” she recalls.

It was also reported that the singer stayed on site to watch the performance and later said that she “wanted nothing more than to create a performance that warms the heart of France and celebrates French art and music.”