Lady Gaga Celebrates Halloween With Freaky “Disease” Music Video

Last week, Lady Gaga unveiled “Disease,” the lead single from her forthcoming seventh album, which she said is slated for February. “Disease” is a blast of infectious yet off-kilter pop, but oftentimes the experience of a Lady Gaga song is intensely enhanced by a freaky music video. Today, she provided one for “Disease.”

On social media, Gaga wrote:

I think a lot about the relationship I have with my own inner demons. It’s never been easy for me to face how I get seduced by chaos and turmoil. It makes me feel claustrophobic.

Disease is about facing that fear, facing myself and my inner darkness, and realizing that sometimes I can’t win or escape the parts of myself that scare me. That I can try and run from them but they are still part of me and I can run and run but eventually I’ll meet that part of myself again, even if only for a moment.

Dancing, morphing, running, purging. Again and again, back with myself. This integration is ultimately beautiful to me because it’s mine and I’ve learned to handle it. I am the conductor of my own symphony. I am every actor in the plays that are my art and my life. No matter how scary the question, the answers are inside of me. Essential, inextricable parts of what makes me me. I save myself by keeping going. I am the whole me, I am strong, and I am up for the challenge. Happy Halloween.

As usual, the music video is cinematic, set in a humdrum suburban neighborhood where several of her characters (all played by her, of course) cause mayhem, almost Edward Scissorhands-style with one particular villain dressed in all black and donning ridiculously long and sharp acrylic nails. Gaga gets hit by a car, dances handcuffed to a pole above her, and nearly gets crushed by two colliding walls.

Gaga also released a video of her and Bruno Mars’ performance of their collaboration “Die With A Smile” in Vegas. Watch that below along with the “Disease” video.