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Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga’s hit duet “Die With A Smile” came out back in the middle of 2024, but it’s still dominating the world: Spotify revealed their year-end stats a couple days ago and the track was the most-played song globally in 2025. For years, though, the unfinished track just sat among other Mars drafts.
In a Variety feature about the song published yesterday (December 4), James Fauntleroy, one of the song’s co-writers, said:
“He was such a genius for pulling that out of the back of his subconscious memory because of the timing of that movie, which is also how Lady G...
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