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Listen up, Little Monsters — Lady Gaga might not be ruling out another Beyoncé collaboration.
While celebrating the premiere of Gaga Chromatica Ball, a film chronicling her concert tour, in Los Angeles on Thursday, May 23, the 38-year-old was asked whether she might consider a sequel to “Telephone” following widespread pleas from fans.
Attention, Little Monsters — Lady Gaga has not dismissed the possibility of another collaboration with Beyoncé.
During the Los Angeles premiere of Gaga Chromatica Ball, a film documenting her concert tour, on Thursday, May 23, the 38-year-old artist was questioned about the potential for a “Telephone” sequel in response to fan demands.
“I’m always ready to answer when Beyoncé calls,” she stated in an interview with Entertainment Tonight.
The duet, released in 2009 on Gaga’s The Fame Monster, won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Collaboration and received a Grammy nomination. Earlier this year, speculation about a sequel arose when Beyoncé, 42, released a trailer for her album Cowboy Carter in February. The trailer showed visual elements reminiscent of her and Gaga’s music video, notably a scene with Beyoncé driving a yellow taxi in the desert, though the passenger seat was obscured.
This scene evoked memories of the “Telephone” finale, where Beyoncé drives through the desert with Gaga after freeing her from prison. In that scene, Beyoncé is behind the wheel of the bright yellow P–y Wagon from Kill Bill: Volume 1, and the video concludes with the words “to be continued.”
Lady Gaga and Beyonce Courtesy of Lady Gaga/YouTube
As for her upcoming seventh studio album, Gaga shared on Thursday that she’s working on music “all the time,” telling ET, “I truly live and breathe it. … I just can’t wait to give it to the fans.”
Gaga has been hinting at her next chapter for several months, teasing new music in a lengthy Instagram post for her 38th birthday in March. “I feel like my heart is bursting with gratitude for my own health and music. I am writing some of my best music in as long as I can remember,” she wrote. That same month, she shared a photo of herself in her bedroom, sprawled out on a mattress. “Xoxo night night,” she captioned the shot, adding that she was busy “writing lyrics in bed. Sleep tight.”
While fans wait for her latest tracks, they can satiate their Gaga fix with her new film, which features the first official footage from her 2022 summer stadium tour, dubbed The Chromatica Ball, in support of her chart-topping 2020 album, Chromatica.
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During a screening of the film earlier this month, Gaga revealed that she performed five shows while sick with COVID. The tour itself was delayed by two years due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“I shared it with everyone on my team. I said, ‘I don’t want anyone to feel uncomfortable at work and you don’t have to perform and you don’t have to work that day, but I’m going to do the show,’ because I just didn’t want to let all the fans down,” Gaga said, per The Hollywood Reporter. “And the way that I saw it also is, like, the fans were all putting themselves in harm’s way every day coming to the show.”
Gaga added that she’s particularly proud that the work she did with her sixth studio album has been documented for all to see.
“I felt like the Chromatica Ball was a time where I took myself to the next level and it was something worth documenting and seeing for people that I love — not that I didn’t love my other tours,” she said. “I’m sure we all can relate to that feeling of when you personally feel proud of something is really different from when everyone around you feels that way.”
Gaga Chromatica Ball premieres on HBO and Max Saturday, May 25.
