Who is Gesaffelstein? Lady Gaga has reportedly worked with French DJ and producer for her upcoming album LG7

Lady Gaga is reportedly releasing her upcoming album LG7 in February 2025. The singer spoke to Vogue in November 2024 and mentioned that her seventh solo album would fall into the dark pop genre. PopCrave also shared a tweet stating that Lady Gaga worked with French producer Gesaffelstein for LG7.

The A Star is Born star also confirmed that she has collaborated with Gessaffelstein, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times on December 19, 2024. During the interview, she said she "loved collaborating with all the DJs and Gesaffelstein" for the upcoming album.

According to the Famous Birthdays website, Gesaffelstein is a French DJ, techno artist, and producer. He is known for his collaborations with several artists like The Weeknd, Kanye West, A$AP Rocky. While he worked with The Weeknd on My dear Melancholy, he and West worked on two albums - Donda and Yeezus, meanwhile, he worked with Rocky on the soundtrack for the Divergent.

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More details about Lady Gaga's LG7 collaborator Gessaffelstein explored

Gessaffelestein is a French DJ, producer, and techno artist, who discovered techno music after finding Green Velvet's Flash CD in his sister's bedroom when he was 15. The producer, who is also known as Levy, had to work several times to find his sound.

He said that the "revelation came" to him when he did the first EP Variation "on Turbo in 2010." He added that after he finished, he knew it was his sound and that it was the "first rock of [my] building."

According to Palomosa, Gessaffelstein released his debut album Aelph in 2013 and received a positive response, which took him to music festivals around the globe.

Gessaffelstein comprised the original soundtrack of Alice Winocour's film Maryland in 2015 and released his second album HYPERION in 2019. The album featured collaborations from Electric Youth, Pharrell Williams, Haim, The Weeknd, and The Hacker.

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"Die With a Smile is on my record": Lady Gaga confirms track on LG7

Lady Gaga spoke to the Los Angeles Times on December 19, 2024, and confirmed that her song Die With a Smirk will be a part of LG7. Gaga recorded the song with Bruno Mars and told the interviewer that the song was a "huge part" of the upcoming album.

"Absolutely. “Die With a Smile” is on my record — it’s a huge part of my album. It was like this missing piece. The record is full of my love of music — so many different genres, so many different styles, so many different dreams."

The Just Dance singer said that the new release leaps around genre "in a way that's almost corrupt" and ends in love. She added that is the answer to all the chaos in her life, that she finds peace with love.

As she discussed the songs she had written, Lady Gaga added that each one of the songs swept her away in the different dreams she had about the past. The singer said the dreams were a recollection of the bad decisions she made in her life, "but it ends in this very happy place."

In the interview, Lady Gaga was asked if her track Die With a Smile existed in a world connected to the Joker or Harlequin. This was because the singer released a companion album called Harlequin in September 2024, in connection to the movie Joker: Folie à Deux.

However, Gaga denied that Die With a Smile was related to the movie or the companion album.

"But that was happening in my life at the time we wrote it and made it, so it’s hard to say no entirely because these things always ricochet off each other," she noted.

Gaga added that the humor present in the Die With a Smile video must have had something to do with an idea bouncing around inside her head. She said that the idea was of a sad story with some comedy and that singing about dying is not usually associated with smiling.

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According to a September 2024 report by Vogue, the publication mentioned that Lady Gaga spent a lot of time at Shangri-La, the Malibu recording studio in 2024. The article mentioned that Gaga's upcoming album LG7 is set to come out in February 2025 and that the singer released its first single, Disease, in October 2024.