Talk:Abracadabra (Lady Gaga song)

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Is this second sinlge

A lot of articles saying this single is third single and i'm so confused on this. Camilasdandelions (talk) 04:55, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Die with a Smile was originally supposed to be a standalone single, but was revealed to actually be Track 14 on Mayhem. As such, it is technically also a single from Mayhem, which is the likely source of the confusion. Flip^and Flopped ツ 06:56, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Then do you think "Die With A Smile" should be lead single of MAYHEM? Camilasdandelions (talk) 08:40, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I posted this on the Disease talk page and I’ll post it here as well. In Gaga’s September post, she referred to Disease as the LG7 lead, so that’s what it should be considered as. 2601:48:8100:6920:B453:9210:AF60:3202 (talk) 13:19, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Universal Music (Gaga's label) called it the third single, as well as some other sources.[1][2][3][4] I know that "Die with a Smile" was supposed to be a standalone release. But it's still actively charting everywhere during the album's marketing campaign, thus making it essentially a single "promoting" the album. It would be different story if the single peaked long time ago, long before the album's campaign. Bluesatellite (talk) 23:05, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Then should we call this as promo single? Camilasdandelions (𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴) 23:11, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No, promotional single is a different thing. See WP:SINGLE? Bluesatellite (talk) 23:13, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gaga has also referred to the album as LG7 but Wikipedia clearly doesn’t always abide by what the artist or their label says. DWAS was always marketed as a promo single, I don’t see how you can just retroactively change it just because it did well so you decided to put it on your album that sounds nothing like it lol. 199.219.203.2 (talk) 16:01, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Single cover

Even if the cover used is the same as the standard cover for the album, it is still the cover used in all streaming platforms for the single: Apple, Spotify, YouTube Music and it is not taken from the album tracklist, it's a separate release. So I don't know why it gets removed.

I doubt it'll get any other cover once the album comes out, but the single will keep this cover. Is there a rule that says that singles cannot have the same cover art as the album? Or will this be then considered a promo single instead?

Pokémon Spears (talk) 01:17, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As MAYHEM's cover was promoted as this cover, this cover indicates her seventh album MAYHEM's, not Abracadabra's.

Maybe we can refer this example as Sabrina Carpenter's "Please Please Please". This single is also second single of an album and pre-released single like "Abracadabra". When it was released, it didn't contain its own cover; it was released with her sixth studio album Short n' Sweet cover.

After its release, Sabrina released Please Please Please EP and we use this cover as single cover nowdays. Camilasdandelions (𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴) 16:07, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Useful links

- Composition:

- Music video (Reception)

CHr0m4tiko0 (talk) 21:54, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

For background/release section:

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/29/lady-gaga-shares-snippets-new-lg7-album-paris/

infsai (talk) 08:29, 17 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Siouxsie reference

As a big Siouxsie and the Banshees fan, I definitely hear the beginning of their song "Peek-a-Boo" at the start of "Abracadabra." I do not hear any trace of Spellbound as mentioned in the caption under the picture of Siouxsie Sioux. Liverpoolwalrus (talk) 01:18, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's just the beginning of the 'lady in red' melody. here's the two compared. In any case, we don't do original research here, we follow the sources, and all I can find that's published is that Spellbound was sampled/interpolated. The Savage Norwegian 02:32, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Drag Race

The song was used during the lip-sync on an episode of Drag Race:

Grand Finale (RuPaul's Drag Race season 17)

---Another Believer _(Talk) 16:58, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Unless this usage receives significant media coverage, it wouldn't pass the guidelines set out in WP:SONGCOVER ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 17:51, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Honey Balenciaga

Honey Balenciaga suggests she appeared in the music video for this song, if this is worth mentioning. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 16:03, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]