--- title: Lady Gaga Releases 'Perfect Illusion' Single description: The new song, Lady Gaga's first pop single in three years, is the lead track off of her as-yet-untitled upcoming fifth album. canonical: https://time.com/4484748/lady-gaga-perfect-illusion-listen/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-09T03:11:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:21.060Z og:title: Lady Gaga's New Single, "Perfect Illusion," Is Finally Here og:description: Debuting on BBC Radio 1, it's the pop star's first big single in three years. og:url: https://time.com/4484748/lady-gaga-perfect-illusion-listen/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6cdd5e50d39bdea3/6988a54af887dcf685e9757e/pi_single_10x10.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: pi_single_10x10 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Lady Gaga's New Single, "Perfect Illusion," Is Finally Here twitter:description: Debuting on BBC Radio 1, it's the pop star's first big single in three years. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6cdd5e50d39bdea3/6988a54af887dcf685e9757e/pi_single_10x10.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Lady Gaga's New Single _Perfect Illusion_ Is Finally Here  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 9, 2016 3:11 AM UTC  Courtesy of 42 West  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 9, 2016 3:11 AM UTC Lady Gaga finally released “Perfect Illusion,” her brand new single from an upcoming, as-yet-untitled fifth album on Friday morning. While co-hosting BBC Radio 1’s morning show with presenter Nick Grimshaw, the multi-talented star debuted the new track, her [first proper pop single](http://time.com/4481171/lady-gaga-perfect-illusion-new-single-2/?iid=sr-link4) in nearly three years (excluding the Academy-Award-nominated “[Til It Happens To You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmWBrN7QV6Y),” which soundtracked the documentary _The Hunting Ground_ in 2015). Gaga [first started teasing](http://time.com/4455864/lady-gaga-perfect-illusion-new-single/?iid=sr-link2) “Perfect Illusion” in August, filling her social media profiles with cryptic messages. To craft her return to the pop stage, she enlisted Mark Ronson (of “Uptown Funk” fame), Kevin Parker from Tame Impala, and BloodPop (a producer of Justin Bieber’s “Sorry”), building a team with serious hit-making experience. “Perfect Illusion” is available on [iTunes](https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/perfect-illusion-single/id1151629578?i=1151629589), [Apple Music](http://smarturl.it/PerfectIllusion.ap), [Google Play](http://smarturl.it/PerfectIllusion.gp), Amazon and [Spotify. ](http://smarturl.it/PerfectIllusion.sp) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4484748/lady-gaga-perfect-illusion-listen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4484748/lady-gaga-perfect-illusion-listen/"},"headline":"Lady Gaga's New Single Perfect Illusion Is Finally Here","datePublished":"2016-09-09T03:11:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:21.060Z","description":"It's her first proper pop single in nearly three years","url":"https://time.com/4484748/lady-gaga-perfect-illusion-listen/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6cdd5e50d39bdea3/6988a54af887dcf685e9757e/pi_single_10x10.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6cdd5e50d39bdea3/6988a54af887dcf685e9757e/pi_single_10x10.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"pi_single_10x10","caption":"","creditText":"Courtesy of 42 West","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4484748/lady-gaga-perfect-illusion-listen/","name":"Lady Gaga's New Single Perfect Illusion Is Finally Here"}}]}] ```