Hold My Hand (2022) – Lady Gaga

Hold My Hand is the second song from Lady Gaga to be presented here after Always Remember Us this Way from the film A Star is Born. Today’s song was featured as the end piece of last year’s mega hit – Top Gun: Maverick. I have remarked about my fascination with this movie a few times and relayed the interview with Actual Top Gun, Dave Berke who reacted to Top Gun Maverick with Jocko Willink.

Lady Gaga said the following about her making Hold My Hand at the 2023 Oscars:

I wrote this song with my friend Bloodpop for the film Top Gun: Maverick in my studio basement. It’s deeply personal and I think we all need each other. We need a lot of love to walk through this life. And we all need a hero sometimes. There are heroes all around us and assuming places. But you might find you can be your own hero even if you feel broken inside.

[Verse 1]
Hold my hand, everything will be okay
I heard from the heavens that clouds have been grey
Pull me close, wrap me in your aching arms
I see that you’re hurtin’, why’d you take so long

[Pre-Chorus]
To tell me you need me? I see that you’re bleedin’
You don’t need to show me again
But if you decide to, I’ll ride in this life with you
I won’t let go ’til the end

[Chorus]
So cry tonight
But don’t you let go of my hand
You can cry every last tear
I won’t leave ’til I understand
Promise me, just hold my hand

In April 2021, it was reported that Gaga would potentially be involved in the soundtrack for Top Gun: Maverick (2022), after Tom Cruise, the film’s star and producer, was seen among the audience at one of Lady Gaga’s concerts: Enigma 2.

The video clip for Hold My Hand was released on May 6, 2022 and was directed by Joseph Kosinski, who was also in charge of directing Top Gun: Maverick. The video shows Gaga singing at an airfield in the middle of the desert, while various scenes from Top Gun (1986) and Top Gun: Maverick are interspersed. Throughout the clip, the artist uses two costumes; first a military aviator jacket, the same one used by Cruise during Top Gun, and later a more modern version accompanied by a toga.

References:
1. Hold My Hand (canción de Lady Gaga) – Wikipedia

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