New Lady Gaga track ‘Till It Happens to You’ leaks online
By Will Stroude
A new Lady Gaga track has appeared online.
The star recorded Till It Happens to You for the soundtrack of new documentary The Hunting Ground, which examines the lives of young people affected by rape and is released in the US today (February 27).
The sweeping, string-led number was co-written by Only Love Can Hurt Like This writer Diane Warren. Gaga referenced the song’s lyrics and content in a tweet sent last month, writing: “Till It happens to you, you don’t know how it feels.”
The 28-year-old – who recently announced she would be starring in the fifth season of American Horror Story – has previously spoken about her own experience of sexual abuse at the hands of a record producer.
Appearing on Howard Stern’s radio show last December, she said: “I don’t want to be defined by it. I’ll be damned if somebody is going to say that every creatively intelligent thing that I ever did is all boiled down to one d**khead that did that to me.
“It wasn’t until I was a little bit older that I went, ‘Wow, that was really messed up… You were 20 years older than me. I was a kid.'”
Meanwhile, Poker Face producer RedOne recently admitted it feels like “magic” to be back in the studio with the star, who is currently working on the follow-up album to 2013’s Artpop.
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