Lady Gaga has been preaching about protecting the dolls for most of her career. Now, she’s joining a different set of dolls for her eerie new music video.
On Wednesday (Sept. 3), the pop superstar dropped the music video for her new song, “The Dead Dance,” featured in the second season of Netflix’s Wednesday. Directed by Tim Burton himself, the new video sees Gaga taking on the visage of a haunted porcelain doll, with cracks stretching across her face. As she comes to life and begins staggering around a graveyard of other spooky looking figurines, Gaga finds her rhythm and makes good on the song title’s promise.
“‘Cause when you killed me inside, that’s when I came alive/ Yeah, the music’s gonna bring mе back from death,” she sings, while surrounded by a group of dancing, zombified dolls around her. “I’m dancin’ until I’m dead.”
Along with dropping the new song and video, Gaga also shared a deluxe edition of her 2025 album Mayhem on Wednesday, adding “The Dead Dance” and two previously-released tracks — “Kill for Love” and “Can’t Stop the High” — to the album on streaming services. Prior to the deluxe drop, the two bonus tracks were only previously available on specialty editions of album.
“The Dead Dance” was created for season two of Wednesday, the second half of which also debuted on Wednesday. In the new episodes, Gaga appears as Rosaline Rotwood, a deceased former instructor at Nevermore Academy who helps Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) in her quest to save her family and friends.
In an interview with Billboard, the show’s composer Chris Bacon praised Gaga’s performance on the show and spoke about how he went about scoring her scenes. “It was naturally very exciting to see Lady Gaga pop up on screen, but it was also just treating her like she’s any other character,” he explained. “She brings a certain mythology with her, and there’s a certain mystery and maybe a hint of darkness to her, just like everybody in the Wednesday universe. So it was fun to get to play with that musically.”
Check out the official music video for Gaga’s “The Dead Dance” above.