The other artists who recorded tracks penned by Mother Monster might surprise you.
11/18/2025
Lady Gaga asiste al SNL50: The Anniversary Special el 16 de febrero de 2025 en Nueva York.
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No one doubts that Lady Gaga is a top-notch songwriter. With six No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hits that she wrote to her name – 2008’s “Just Dance” featuring Colby O’Donis and 2009’s “Poker Face” (both from her debut album The Fame); 2011’s “Born This Way,” the title track of her sophomore full-length; 2018’s “Shallow” off of the original soundtrack for A Star Is Born; “Rain on Me,” her 2020 duet with Ariana Grande from Chromatica; and “Die with a Smile,” her 2024 collab with Bruno Mars, later released on Mayhem.
Gaga is not just topping charts with the powers of her pen. She’s achieved countless accolades and nominations over her career, including four Grammy nods for song of the year – an award that specifically honors the writers – for “Poker Face,” “Shallow” “Die With a Smile” and 2025’s “Abracadabra” from Mayhem. “Shallow” won the Academy Award for best original song in 2019 (shared with Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt), and Gaga earned two more Oscar nods in the same category for 2015’s “Till It Happens to You,” cowritten with Diane Warren for the 2015 documentary The Hunting Ground and 2023s “Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick.
But she doesn’t just do it for herself. And while Gaga’s focus seems to be mostly on pushing her own creative concepts these days — not to mention acting, art, fashion and other pursuits — her career accomplishments are stacked with impressive behind-the-scenes work for artists ranging from Britney Spears to Michael Bolton, Jennifer Lopez and more. Here are eight songs you may not have known Gaga was behind.
Britney Spears: “Quicksand” (2008)
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}Britney Spears’ chart-topping 2008 album, Circus, includes a bonus track called “Quicksand” Gaga cowrote with Fernando Garibay. Gaga also wrote her hit “Telephone” for this album, but it didn’t make the cut and wound up a hit for herself, with some help from Beyonce.
New Kids on the Block: “Full Service” (2008)
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}New Kids on the Block‘s 2008 comeback album, The Block, included a guest feature from Gaga on the track “Big Girl Now,” but also included her writing credits on the New Edition-featuring “Full Service,” which she cowrote with frequent collaborator RedOne and Donnie Wahlberg.
Michael Bolton: “Murder My Heart” (2008)
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}Michael Bolton and Gaga may seem like an unlikely pairing, but the ’80s icon brought the budding pop star on board to help with his 2008 album, One World One Love, on the ballad “Murder My Heart.” When Newsweek asked Gaga about the collaboration, she recalled, “The record label called me and said, ‘Michael is doing a new album, and who better to write an ’80s love song than Lady Gaga?’”
We’ll say they were right.
Adam Lambert: “Fever” (2009)
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}Adam Lambert‘s 2009 debut album, For Your Entertainment, got some of Gaga magic touch on its debaucherous fourth single, “Fever.”
Trina: “Let Dem Hoes Fight” (2010)
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}Rapper Trina‘s fifth album, Amazin’, might not be where you’d expect to find the pop-focused Gaga contributing, but the megastar pitched in on the 2010 album’s “Let Dem Hoes Fight.” The track blends pop and hip-hop, just as you might expect a Gaga rap track to sound, and even included her vocals on early leaked demos, but those parts were later replaced by Kalenna Harper.
Heidi Montag: “Fashion” (2010)
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}Gaga originally recorded the high-energy track cowritten with RedOne, which landed on the 2009 original soundtrack for Confessions of a Shopaholic. The Hills star later created her own version for her 2010 album, Superficial. (Of course, it’s not to be confused with “Fashion!” from Mother Monster’s Artpop.)
Jennifer Lopez: “Hypnotico” (2011)
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}“Hypnotico” was originally written by Gaga with RedOne, Akon, Claude Kelly and Tami Chynn for Chynn’s second studio album in 2007, but the album was never released, and the song nearly never saw the light of day. But once Jennifer Lopez began working with RedOne on her 2011 album Love?, the song found new life.
Cher: “The Greatest Thing” (Unreleased)
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}In 2011, RedOne and Gaga gave Cher a song for her then-upcoming album. The “Believe” singer clarified that it wasn’t a duet, however, Gaga responded with a tease to a potential duet, saying, “you truly are ‘the greatest thing to me.’” Unfortunately, “The Greatest Thing” went unreleased, although 2013 leaks caused a frustrated Cher to complain on what was then Twitter, writing: “Just heard TGT ! F–K ! IT’S NOT EVEN THE RIGHT F—–G VERSION!!! WHY DO PPL THINK THIS KINDA LEAKING S–T IS OK ! I’m so Fg DISSAPOINTED.”
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