New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Lady Gaga unveiled the music video for her new single "
Hold My Hand" from the upcoming major motion picture Top Gun: Maverick. The video was directed by Top Gun: Maverick's director Joe Kosinski, and features
Lady Gaga along with epic scenery from the new film, as well as emotional scenes from the original 1986 Top Gun. The video for "
Hold My Hand" made its global broadcast premiere on MTV, MTV Live, and MTVU, as well as on the Paramount Times
Square billboards earlier today.
The "
Hold My Hand" single made its epic debut earlier this week via Interscope Records/Universal
Music Canada, with Billboard declaring "Lady Gaga soars with "Hold My Hand," and Vanity Fair raving the song "catapults her [Gaga] into next year's Oscar race." The single was written for the motion picture and is featured throughout the film. "
Hold My Hand" was produced by
Lady Gaga and BloodPop©, with additional production by
Benjamin Rice. The motion picture version of "
Hold My Hand" features additional production and score by Harold Faltermeyer and Academy Award-winner Hans Zimmer. "
Hold My Hand" marks Gaga's return to writing and producing original music for film, after the success of 2018's A Star is Born soundtrack that earned Gaga an Academy Award, four Grammys, a BAFTA Award, a Golden
Globe Award, and Critics' Choice Award.
Set to hit theaters on May 27th, Paramount Pictures' Top Gun:
Maverick visits Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise) after more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy's top aviators.
Maverick is where he belongs -pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. When he finds himself training a detachment of TOPGUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen,
Maverick encounters Lt. Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), call sign: "Rooster," the son of Maverick's late friend and Radar Intercept Officer Lt. Nick Bradshaw, aka "Goose." Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of his past,
Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.