Lady Gaga recalls ‘crazy’ story of landing duet with Bruno Mars

Lady Gaga took a trip into the past as she recalled landing a duet with Bruno Mars on their hit song Die With A Smile.

The 38-year-singer during a chat with DJ Zane Lowe in the car for Apple TV’s A Carpool Karaoke Christmas, shared the “crazy” story of how she got the oppotunity to duet with the Talking to the Moon hitmaker.

“I went to see him at like 10 o’clock at night,” Gaga began, adding, “He (Mars) played me the idea and then we wrote the second verse, then we cut it at two in the morning.”

“Bruno had me singing for four hours. He had an exact way that he wanted to hear it, and I wanted to give him that.”

During the same interview, which premiered on Sunday, December 15, the Bad Romance crooner also shared her story of being told not to “headbang” in the promo for their 2000 track pre-fame.

The singer-actress, who recently starred in Joaquin Phoenix starrer Joker: Folie à Deux, recalled, “I was in [the] ‘Stiff Upper Lip’ video.

“I was 17 and I was an extra in the back and I was headbanging.”

Before concluding, Lady Gaga added, “And they were like, ‘Don’t headbang. We want it to be modern.’ And I was like, ‘No, I can’t. Like, there’s only one move that I can do.’”