Is Taylor Swift singing on Girl Gaga’s new track “How Dangerous Do U Need Me”?
After the discharge of Gaga’s seventh studio album, Mayhem, on Friday (March 7), followers shortly started to invest that the 35-year-old pop celebrity might have secretly contributed vocals to the mission’s ninth monitor, “How Dangerous Do U Need Me.”
Though Swift isn’t credited on the dreamy tune, followers took to social media to share their theories. One consumer on X wrote, “how dangerous do u need me being a straight up taylor swift track,” whereas one other questioned, “why was gaga taking part in in taylor’s vault,” suggesting that the track may very well be a part of the singer’s unreleased music assortment.
On “How Dangerous Do U Need Me,” which interpolates the 1982 track “Solely You” by Yazoo, Gaga strikes away from the darker pop sounds featured on earlier Mayhem tracks. As an alternative, she embraces a sugary, ’80s-inspired synth-pop sound, singing from the attitude of the “dangerous woman” being cherished by a person who usually prefers “good ladies.”
One other fan on X urged that Swift “secretly wrote” the track, noting, “the manufacturing? the vocal fashion? the lyrics?? it’s screaming 2014-2019 Taylor so dangerous.”
One fan chimed in, writing, “I all the time hear Taylor once I take heed to this track.” And one other argued that it was “clearly” Gaga singing on the monitor, however the comparisons to Swift’s fashion endured.
One other X consumer shared a put up combining Gaga’s Mayhem cowl with a photograph from Swift’s Popularity album shoot, writing, “THERES TAYLOR SWIFT BACKGROUND VOCALS ON HOW BAD DO YOU WANT ME BY LADY GAGA #MAYHEM.” One other individual agreed, including, “Wait, why does how dangerous do u need me by woman gaga sound like a taylor swift track??? i used to be so satisfied it was hers i needed to examine the credit. is simply me????”
Regardless of the continued fan theories, sources confirmed to Rolling Stone that Swift doesn’t seem on Gaga’s “How Dangerous Do U Need Me.” Billboard confirmed this and has reached out to Gaga’s representatives for additional remark.
Mayhem arrives following a profitable 2025 for Gaga, marked by her chart-topping collaboration with Bruno Mars, “Die With a Smile.” The track reigned atop the Billboard Sizzling 100 chart for 5 weeks, making it her second-longest-running No. 1 hit after 2011’s “Born This Means.” Gaga additionally gained a Grammy for greatest pop duo/group efficiency alongside Mars.
Her new album options an eclectic mixture of manufacturing collaborators, together with Andrew Watt, Cirkut, and Gaga’s fiancé, Michael Polansky. In a current interview with Billboard, Gaga mentioned the inventive course of behind Mayhem, explaining that the album’s chaotic vibe was intentional.
“There have been instances in my profession the place I had an thought when it comes to how one can conceptually strategy a report. However I’d say that this album, from begin to end, was like items coming collectively,” she mentioned. “I didn’t wish to flip it into something synthetic, I actually needed to permit myself to simply comply with the music. By doing that, it began to slowly remind me of my earlier work.”
