Lady Gaga drops new song, music video for ‘Stupid Love’

Lady Gaga lives for the applause, applause, applause — and her Little Monster fan base is certainly clapping now.

The 33-year-old singer-turned-actress has returned to her quirky musical roots with her newest release, “Stupid Love,” which she dropped at midnight on Friday.

The New York-born Stefani Germanotta, who’s now romantically linked to a Harvard grad named Michael Polansky, made a splash in 2018 for her role in Bradley Cooper’s “A Star Is Born,” for which she earned an Oscar in 2019 for Best Original Song, “Shallow.”

Outside of the movie realm, “Stupid Love” is the singer’s first new solo single since “The Cure” in 2017.

As was typical in her early career, with the debuts of her “Alejandro” and “Telephone” music videos, Gaga built up anticipation for this latest one by tweeting a teaser on Thursday, which quickly went viral among her nearly 81 million followers.

The video, which she says was shot on an iPhone, shows two men fighting in a desert alien world — until a pink-haired and -clothed Gaga shows up to put an end to the fuss. Seemingly a leader of this planet, she uses the power of her mind to lift the two men up in the air before dropping them on the hard ground.

“All I ever wanted was love,” reads a subtitle as Gaga then crosses her arms and seems to cry.

“WE ARE FINALLY GETTING FED!” tweeted one fan account in response to the teaser.

The song reportedly leaked online in January, prompting Lady Gaga to respond via Twitter, “can y’all stop,” along with a stock image of a masked person listening to music.

“Stupid Love” is the lead single for the forthcoming album, her sixth, which is rumored to be entitled “Chromatica.” Her last album was 2016’s “Joanne.”