Overview

• Lady Gaga released The Dead Dance to coincide with Netflix’s Wednesday season 2, part 2, in which she appears as Rosaline Rotwood, a former Nevermore instructor.
• Tim Burton directed the new music video, which casts Gaga as a haunted porcelain doll in an eerie, largely black-and-white setting.
• A deluxe edition of Gaga’s 2025 album Mayhem arrived on streaming services featuring The Dead Dance alongside Kill for Love and Can’t Stop the High.
• The Dead Dance showed early traction, reported at No. 10 on the U.S. iTunes Top Songs chart shortly after release.
• Press materials report writing credits for Gaga, Andrew Watt, and Henry Walter, with production by Gaga, Watt, and Cirkut, and Gaga has said the song was inspired by a breakup.