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All The Best New Music From This Week That You Need To Hear

Keeping up with new music can be exhausting, even impossible. From the weekly album releases to standalone singles dropping on a daily basis, the amount of music is so vast it’s easy for something to slip through the cracks. Even following along with the Uproxx recommendations on a daily basis can be a lot to ask, so every Monday we’re offering up this rundown of the best new music this week.

This week saw a pair of very different collaborations: Wale and J. Cole, as well as Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett. Yeah, it was a great week for new music. Check out the highlights below.

For more music recommendations, check out our Listen To This section, as well as our Indie Mixtape and Pop Life newsletters.

Wale — “Poke It Out” Feat. J. Cole

A couple weeks ago was a big week for J. Cole collaborations and he continued that trend last week, too. A few days ago, he reunited with Wale on “Poke It Out,” which interpolates the beat from J. Dilla’s 1999 single “Vibrant Thing.” While the pair deliver updated lyrics here, they honor the original track by keeping the themes similar to those of the original.

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett — “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”

“I’ve Got You Under My Skin” is one of the most enduring classics of the 1930s, so it was a natural inclusion on Love For Sale, the second and final collaborative album between Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett that was released last week. On the jaunty rendition of the track, Gaga and Bennett go back and forth like the unparalleled vocal pair they are, showing how much both singers still have left in their respective tanks.

Skylar Grey — “Last One Standing” Feat. Polo G, Mozzy, and Eminem

Eminem and Skylar Grey go together like… well, Eminem and Skylar Grey are actually an established and beloved enough team to be their own “peanut butter and jelly”-like cliché comparison. The pair linked up yet again last week on Grey’s triumphant single “Last One Standing,” which also features contributions from Polo G and Mozzy.

Meek Mill — “On My Soul”

After a few years of waiting, Meek Mill fans got to eat last week when he dropped his latest album, Expensive Pain. Alongside the album’s release, he dropped videos for a couple of its highlights, including “On My Soul,” which Uproxx’s Wongo Okon describes as “a song laced with the rapper’s Auto-Tuned vocals that delivering brief stories about life’s hardships with the promise that these anecdotes are nothing but the truth.”

Megan Thee Stallion, Maluma, and Rock Mafia — “Crazy Family”

Before providing an Austin City Limits highlight with a surprise Miley Cyrus appearance, Megan Thee Stallion had another collaboration, linking up with Maluma and Rock Mafia on “Crazy Family.” It’s a song for the animated family feature The Addams Family 2, yes, but that doesn’t mean anybody involved dumbs down what they’re good at, instead bringing their best for the fun, colorful track.

Grimes — “Love”

Grimes’ latest song, “Love,” is more diaristic than most, a claim further boosted by the fact that she only shared it on social media and not on streaming music platforms. The two-minute was written, as she says, “in response to all the privacy invasion, bad press, online hate and harassment by paparazzis I’ve experienced this week.” She opens the synth-driven tune, “It f*cking sucks to be awake / Oh Lord I pray my soul to take / nobody understands because / everything they hate / is everything I love.”

Kali Uchis — “Fue Mejor” Feat. SZA

Uchis’ 2020 album Sin Miedo (Del Amor Y Otros Demonios) has enjoyed some renewed interest as of late thanks to some of its songs blowing up on TikTok. To capitalize on the moment, Uchis dropped a new version of album highlight “Fue Mejor,” this time featuring fresh contributions from SZA. Taking PartyNextDoor’s place, SZA achieves a personal first on the song: singing in Spanish.

Courtney Barnett — “Write A List Of Things To Look Forward To”

While making her upcoming album Things Take Time, Take Time, Courtney Barnett found herself in a rut. A friend came in clutch with the recommendation that Barnett “write a list of things to look forward to,” and that’s just what Barnett did. She did it in song form, though, yielding a track that optimistically highlights some of life’s positives.

Burna Boy — “Want It All” Feat. Polo G

Burna Boy is a shining light in afropop and he made a new friend in hip-hop last week by securing one of his biggest collaborations yet, recruiting Polo G to feature on “Want It All.” For Burna, this one has been a long time coming, as he noted, “I’ve been watching him for some time, and I just knew this had to get done, but it had to get done in the perfect way where the whole world gets to feel the reality of both of us.”

Phoebe Bridgers — “That Funny Feeling”

On her current tour, Phoebe Bridgers has taken to covering a Bo Burnham song from his comedy special Inside: “That Funny Feeling,” the song from the special that sounds most like it could be a Bridgers song. Now, it sort of officially is, as she has shared a studio recording of the cover, which runs for nearly 7 minutes and has a comedic voice that’s a natural extension of Bridgers’ personality.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

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Billie Eilish Is Headlining Glastonbury, Making Her The Youngest Solo Artist To Ever Do So

Billie Eilish has firmly earned her place as a top-tier pop star over the past few years. Over the course of her career, Eilish has broken records upon records, and now she has another one to add to her trophy case: Next year, she will become the youngest solo artist to headline Glastonbury. Eilish is 19 years old now, but when her festival performance takes place on June 24, she will be 20.

Festival organizers shared the news on social media today, noting, “We are very excited to confirm that @billieeilish will headline the Pyramid Stage on the Friday night at Glastonbury 2022, to become the Festival’s youngest ever solo headliner. This will be her first UK festival headline performance.”

Eilish celebrated the news by sharing a selfie of herself wearing a Glastonbury hoodie, also writing on the Instagram Story, “2022.” Glastonbury organizer Emily Eavis shared that photo and wrote on Instagram, “We couldn’t be happier to announce that the wondrous @billieeilish is headlining the Pyramid on the Friday at next year’s Glastonbury Festival, becoming the youngest solo headliner in our history. This feels like the perfect way for us to return and I cannot wait!”

Revisit our recent ranking of every Eilish song here.

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Ray Liotta On The Big Surprise He Has For You In ‘The Many Saints Of Newark’

The last time I interviewed Ray Liotta was nine years ago when he was promoting Killing Them Softly (a great, deliberately paced movie that, at the time, confused viewers expecting something a little more action-packed). At the time Liotta seemed very conscious of the “slower” times in his career, going as far to cite his “up and down career.” I got the feeling Liotta was hoping for big things from Killing Them Softly, which did okay at the box office and its critical praise keeps growing.

But, now, nine years later, Liotta’s career is in a different place. He’s still coming off the glow of his scene-stealing turn as a boisterous divorce attorney in Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story and now has a key role* in the long-awaited prequel to The Sopranos, The Many Saints of Newark. Liotta was approached to pay Ralphie Cifaretto on the series but turned it down. So, now, Liotta finally joins The Sopranos universe. (It’s at this point we will get into some spoilers for The Many Saints of Newark so if you want to go in fresh, come back after you watch the movie, which you can do right now either at a movie theater or on HBO Max.)

*Key role is somewhat misleading, as Liotta plays two roles in the film. His advertised role is that of Dickie Moltisanti’s father, “Hollywood Dick” Moltisanti (aka Christopher Moltisanti’s grandfather), a loudmouth braggart who wears out his welcome with others in his presence pretty quickly. Liotta also plays Hollywood Dick’s twin brother, Sal, a more stoic figure who Dickie (Alessandro Nivola) visits in prison for life advice. And that advice is basically, hey, nitwit, you’re influence going to ruin this kid Tony Soprano’s life.

What’s funny is, before this interview, I was told we were not allowed to talk about Liotta’s role as Sal as to keep the surprise intact. Well, it turns out Liotta has a mind of his own and, frankly, I could tell he was kind of tired of not talking about Sal because he’s obviously pretty pleased with how that character turned out. What I didn’t know was Liotta was not supposed to play both roles. As he explains, another actor was supposed to play Sal but demanded too much money, so David Chase and director Alan Taylor asked Liotta if he’d like two roles in the film.

As Hollywood Dick, you look like you’re having the time of your life in this movie. How was Hollywood Dick described to you once you kind of got the idea that you were going to be doing it? Was it on the page or was this you?

I did a lot of homework with the show. I made it deeper than maybe just the lines on a page. But that’s what I try to do with all of them. And it was pretty much, it was all written. You don’t go up to David Chase and say, “Can we change this? Can you change that?” He’s just not that type. Or do you really need to? He writes what he wants you to be.

You just seem very into this role.

Well also, I mean, sometimes when you’re playing maniacs like this, there is a common thread through it all. And usually, it’s an intensity. I mean, between me and you, a lot of gangsters are like little boys, “Who you looking at? You looking at me? Fuck you.” you know? Like that’s what happens on the playground. Well, I mean, not as a put-down, they’re easily offended.

That’s kind of a put-down, but it’s not wrong.

Yeah. But if you put it in the paper, then you better watch out because I’m going to say you said it.

We both might be in some trouble.

There’s nothing wrong being sensitive about things. It’s how they go about it.

Sure.

But, whatever, that’s a business I don’t know anything about.

When you met with David Chase, was there any mention of trying to get you for Ralphie? As in, “glad you finally came around.”

No, not with this one or the other one. He came up to talk to me about a part that he hadn’t, I forgot what season it was, but Joe Pantoliano-

I think that’s season three.

That’s what I heard, three. And you know, it just didn’t feel right for me to do at the time. And Joe won an Emmy for it! But I always, I still left it, wanting to work with him. So when this came along, they didn’t even see me. They didn’t even request me. They didn’t have anything. I said, you know what, I really think I want to be a part of this. I don’t care how big the part is. I want to get at least a chance to work with David Chase. So I flew myself out to New York — I live in LA — I flew myself out here, put myself up, and had a lunch with David Chase and Alan, the director. And it just was a good little two or three hour lunch. And at the end of it, they say would you like to play Hollywood Dick? “Yeah. Yeah. That’s why I’m here. I wanted to work with you.”

Do you think there’s a chance you had to reach out to them because they had flirted with you before? Like if you invite a friend to a party and they keep saying now, you stop inviting them?

No. It was only once…

But didn’t they think about you for Tony, but they didn’t actually come to you? Do I have that right?

No. That’s not a true story.

Oh, it’s not? Okay.

I never heard that. I’ve never been approached. My agent never said, what do you think? I don’t know where that came from, but no, that’s not true at all.

With the Ralphie, you said it just didn’t feel right. How long is that process to get to the point where you decide this is not right?

It’s just something that didn’t feel right. Whether it took, two days, one day, 20 minutes or half an hour. I don’t remember per se. I just knew that it wasn’t something… I think was because I didn’t want to just keep going to a series at that time.

Oh, I see.

And I also didn’t feel like I was right for it. I mean, I’m sure they did, or else they wouldn’t have asked. Well, the point being is, so I came down here to talk to David and Alan, and it worked out. And then if you didn’t know – then I don’t know what it was when we started, or if it was something that was coming up – but then they asked if I would play his brother, too. What, really? How would we do that? Would I use prosthetics? We going to do this, we’ll do little things here or there? It was just kind of like, “trust me.” And that’s a great thing about David. He has thought everything out through and through. And it’s his sensibilities that it would work. And I like to think that it worked.

It definitely works. Oh, that’s interesting. So it wasn’t at the same initial meeting? It was only later they asked you to also play Sal?

I think we were auditioning some parts of that. Somebody was negotiating for it. I just heard that from a third party. I don’t know. So I don’t know how true it is. And the person kept asking for more money, more money, more money. To David, or anybody, if they keep asking, we can play the game. A little of a negotiation. But at the end of the day, from what they were saying, it’s like enough already. You obviously don’t want to do it, or else you would do it for X amount. And so I think that person turning it down was good for me to do it. Just like me turning down the Ralphie role, that Joe Pantoliano did. That worked out.

Before this interview, they told me not to bring Sal up.

Because I still don’t know if… there was some interview I was going to do last night…

Right, with Alan Sepinwall for that SAG screening. He texted me yesterday wondering if you’d talk about it and I assumed since people had just seen the movie it was a different situation…

Totally. But the thing is, he told everybody to put their cell phones away and nobody listens to that. But the Warner Bros. person here said, “No, now it’s cool for us. Go ahead and do it.” So I said, all right. And we just sent a little bit about it and he didn’t talk a whole deal about it. It was out there. And that was it. So when is this article coming out?

We’ll wait until the movie comes out. I don’t want to spoil it for anyone either. I would rather people experience the way I did.

Totally, totally. And that’s why I’m hoping you’ll respect that. And then we’ll have some more stuff to do later.

I re-read that interview we did for Killing Them Softly. You kept mentioning the slower period in your career. That is definitely over. But why do you think that was?

It’s a numbers game, I guess. I waited, I tried to make the best selections of movies that were coming my way. Sometimes they worked, sometimes they didn’t. But I still, luckily, I still kept working. It wasn’t at the caliber that I wanted it to be at. And I’m competitive. And I just believe that it could happen again. And maybe this little period is in a different way, and I’m a different person. But when you’ve been doing this for 40 years, there’s going to be good. There’s going to be bad. And hopefully that will carry on.

And you’re in Cocaine Bear. I don’t know if you know this, but it’s already getting a lot of attention on the internet. People are very excited for Cocaine Bear.

Oh my gosh, just the title alone!

You started filming this right?

Yeah. They’ve been doing it for about a month. I just was there a few days ago. I’m going to go back tonight. Yeah, it’s really an interesting, different story. And it definitely resonates with me. What are you doing? Like, Cocaine Bear! What is that? Just the title alone.

Yeah, you don’t have to sell anyone on a movie called Cocaine Bear.

Exactly!

When they came to you for Cocaine Bear, or however that worked, where you like, well yeah of course I’m going to do a movie called Cocaine Bear if you offer it to me.

Something like that. At first, I said, man, I don’t know about this. It’s only like a couple of scenes and I didn’t want to be in that rut like I was before. You know, it’s like a couple of things in a studio movie that’s about a cocaine snort and blow. I like Elizabeth Banks. I’ve worked with her in a movie before, but we didn’t have any scenes. And sometimes you’ve got to say, we just came off the pandemic, which for a whole year there’s no income coming in. But, again, this wasn’t a money decision. This was hopefully their decision.

Over the pandemic, I obviously re-watched Goodfellas more than once. But I also re-watched My Blue Heaven. Have you seen that movie? It’s basically a sequel to Goodfellas with Steve Martin playing Henry.

Literally, that’s what the movie was about?

Yes, because Nora Ephron was married to Nicholas Pileggi, who wrote Goodfellas. They did a lot of research together, so she basically made My Blue Heaven based on what happens to Henry Hill after Goodfellas.

Really? I did not know that, nor have I seen it. So I’ll put that on my list.

Yeah, you should. Rick Moranis is in it. It’s a great movie.

That’s funny.

Last time we spoke you said you’ve never seen Field of Dreams because at the time your mom was sick and it was a tough time in your life. Did you get to watch the Field of Dreams game this summer?

The game? Yeah! I thought it was great. And just the weightiness of guys playing baseball? To them or somebody who dedicates their life to that sport. I’m really about your connection with your parent and a parent’s connection with their kid. And I didn’t know that it resonated, I didn’t know. I thought they were going to do it on the field that we used.

Yeah, I did too. I didn’t even know they made a different field.

Even I hit a home run!

No offense to your baseball talents, but I guess that’s why they couldn’t do it on that field.

I think they knew well and good. And the guy that probably owned the house and the field and the corn, where we shot, they just moved some more corn away. Yeah, they put up that field. I just thought it was beautiful. The way they did it, how they walked out. It was a Field of Dream, or two.

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Young Thug Debuts A New Song With Elton John At Givenchy’s Paris Show

As hip-hop and fashion become more intertwined, it looks like music fans will have to stay tapped into the clothing world to stay abreast of their favorite artists’ latest moves. Young Thug, who performed at Givenchy’s Paris Fashion Week show yesterday (October 3), used the opportunity to preview a trio of new songs from his upcoming album Punk (out October 15 through 300, Atlantic, and his own YSL), including a second collaboration with Elton John, with whom he previously released “High.”

Titled “More,” the song also features Thug’s YSL artist Gunna. You can hear it below. The two other songs Thug performed are called “Hate the Game” and “Police” according to Givenchy creative director Matthew M. Williams, who shared the new songs on his Instagram ahead of the show. “Honored and excited to announce the soundtrack for my first physical @givenchyofficial show tonight,” he wrote in the caption, “Is an original score by my friend @thuggerthugger1 with unreleased music from his upcoming album PUNK.”

Thug previously debuted songs from Punk at his own NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert featuring Travis Barker. In addition to playing “Hate The Game,” he also debuted “Die Slow” and “Droppin Jewels.” A month later, he dropped the first official single, “Tick Tock.”

Watch Young Thug perform his new tracks at Givenchy’s Paris show above and stream Punk on 10/15.

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Andrew Garfield Plays The Creator Of ‘Rent’ In Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Tick, Tick… BOOM!’ Trailer

tick, tick… BOOM! tells the story of Jonathan Larson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and playwright of Rent who passed away before the musical became a Broadway sensation. In the film (based on the musical of the same name), Larson is played by Andrew Garfield, with supporting performances from Alexandra Shipp, Vanessa Hudgens, Robin de Jesús, Joshua Henry, Judith Light, and Bradley Whitford.

Rent is close to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s heart, so he made tick, tick… BOOM! his directorial debut. “Rent rocked my perception of what musical theater could be in several ways. It was the first musical I had ever seen with a cast as diverse as the subway riders I saw on the way to school. It was the first musical I had ever seen that took place in the present day, and sounded like the present day,” the Hamilton star wrote for the New York Times. Now he’ll pay his respects to Larson’s legacy on the big screen.

Here’s the official plot summary:

The film follows Jon (Andrew Garfield), a young theater composer who’s waiting tables at a New York City diner in 1990 while writing what he hopes will be the next great American musical. Days before he’s due to showcase his work in a make-or-break performance, Jon is feeling the pressure from everywhere: from his girlfriend Susan, who dreams of an artistic life beyond New York City; from his friend Michael, who has moved on from his dream to a life of financial security; amidst an artistic community being ravaged by the AIDS epidemic. With the clock ticking, Jon is at a crossroads and faces the question everyone must reckon with: What are we meant to do with the time we have?

tick, tick… BOOM! comes out in select theaters and on Netflix this November.

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The ‘Fox & Friends’ Gang Is Already Complaining That Christmas Is Ruined Because ‘Nobody Wants To Work Anymore’

It’s not even four days into October, but already the hosts of Fox & Friends are convinced that Christmas is ruined, and naturally, they’re trotting out the tired conservative talking point that it’s because “nobody wants to work anymore.”

The situation unfolded on Monday morning as the hosts started to tackle the real issue of the pandemic causing a massive global supply chain disruption that could very easily make this year’s holiday shopping a tad more unpredictable. However, that issue is, again, worldwide, and not tied to the enhanced unemployment offered to Americans who were out of work or lost hours. A benefit that ended in September, by the way.

While complaining about the potential of Christmas being ruined by people who “don’t want to work,” Steve Doocy actually starts to set the record straight that the supply chain issues are a global problem, but Brian Kilmeade and Ainsley Earhart swing the conversation back to everyone “getting things for free” from the government. Doocy, who has been a voice of reason lately, didn’t even put up a fight, and quickly joined in on griping about products missing on store shelves. Specifically, “pods,” apparently for a Keurig machine, and now, they might have to switch coffees during this national travesty. (That was sarcasm. You can still get coffee everywhere.)

You can watch the Fox & Friends hosts freak out about Christmas below:

(Via Bobby Lewis on Twitter)

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Dave Grohl Suggests Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ Album Cover Could Change For Reissues

A dominant narrative around Nirvana in recent days has been the cover art for Nevermind, which famously features a naked baby boy underwater. Spencer Elden, the then-baby who appeared on the cover, is now suing the band and has expressed a desire for the band to use a different image for subsequent reissues of the album. The band has stayed mostly quiet on the issue, but now Dave Grohl has finally spoken about it.

In a conversation with The Sunday Times (as NME notes), Grohl indicated the band is open to changing the album art and even said he has some ideas for how Nevermind could look going forward, saying, “I have many ideas of how we should alter that cover but we’ll see what happens. We’ll let you know. I’m sure we’ll come up with something good.”

In terms of litigation, Grohl also said, “I think that there’s much more to look forward to and much more to life than getting bogged down in those kinds of things. And, fortunately, I don’t have to do the paperwork.”

During a recent conversation with Chris Cuomo, Maggie Mabie, a lawyer representing Elden, attested, “The focal point of the image is the minor’s genitalia. And here in that image along with all of the other factors as we pled in our complaint, it is a very over-sexualized image, and does constitute child pornography. More importantly, it was child exploitation in the way that they created it, and the way that they continue to distribute the image today.”

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It’s Looking Like ‘Squid Game’ Will Be The Most Popular Halloween Costume This Year

Squid Game is a worldwide sensation. The addictive South Korean series is on its way to becoming the most-watched Netflix show ever; it’s so popular that the streaming service is being sued for hogging too much internet traffic, and Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, completely missed the point of the show when praising its success.

Squid Game is also about to everywhere this Halloween.

The show’s staggering success caught everyone off guard (“We always knew it was going to be a signature title for Korea, but there’s no way to have anticipated it would be this big,” Bela Bajaria, Netflix’s head of global television, told Vulture), so costume manufacturers are racing to keep up with demand for Squid Game-inspired looks.

Netflix hasn’t released any officially licensed costumes (Spirit Halloween also comes up empty), but there’s plenty of red tracksuits, black masks, and tracksuits on Amazon. Two of the five most popular costumes on the online retailer’s “Costumes & Accessories” page are for Squid Game, and many websites, including the Hollywood Reporter, the New York Post, and CNET, have published how-to guides.

The show’s signature looks are relatively easy to replicate — they’re also instantly recognizable, and even though Halloween isn’t for a few more weeks, Squid Game will still be popular. It’s not like when people dressed up as Tiger King‘s Joe Exotic last Halloween, even though it came out in March and everyone was sick of it by May.

Here’s a glimpse at October 31, 2021:

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Dave Chappelle Isn’t Exactly Here For Morgan Freeman Narrating The Trailer For ‘The Closer’ On Netflix

Dave Chappelle’s stand-up comedy run with Netflix has been a lucrative one for both parties. This combined body of work includes The Age of Spin, Deep in the Heart of Texas, Equanimity, The Bird Revelation, and Sticks & Stones, and the supposed final chapter is called The Closer. It’s coming soon, very soon (this week, in fact) with a teaser revealing that Dave’s absolutely had it up to here while enduring the guiding and authoritative voice of God Morgan Freeman during a road trip.

This special, of course, follows a high-profile clash between Chappelle and multiple streaming services. In the end, he thanked Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos for helping him get paid after a sketchy licensing deal involving The Chappelle Show and the place where it originally aired, Comedy Central. This not only gave Chappelle his license back to his widely popular classic sketch-comedy brainchild, but he received millions of dollars. There’s no telling whether Chappelle and Netflix’s common goodwill will result in a re-upping of a deal beyond this sixth stand-up special, but for now, the The Closer (with returning, Emmy-award winning director Stan Lathan) is closing things out.

Enter the voice of Freeman: “This is Dave. He tells jokes for a living. Driving down these country roads is a lot like a meditation. He’s deep in thought. Back in the trance… [insert fed-up, shouty moment from Chappelle]… Carry on, Dave.”

Netflix’s The Closer streams on October 5.

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Lady Gaga Says Tony Bennett Remembering Her Name On Stage Was An Emotional Moment

A few years ago, legendary singer Tony Bennett was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Understandably, it was announced earlier this year that the 95-year-old singer was retiring from touring. He got some final performances in, though, with Lady Gaga at Radio City Music Hall, in promotion of their new album Love For Sale. Those concerts are the subject of a new 60 Minutes profile, and in it, Gaga speaks about how emotional it was when Bennett called her by name.

She told Anderson Cooper, “For the first couple of weeks that I saw Tony since COVID, he called me ‘Sweetheart.’ But I wasn’t sure he knew who I was.”

On stage at Radio City, Bennett said Gaga’s name, which Gaga said was “the first time that Tony said my name in a long time.” She continued, “I had to keep it together, because we had a sold out show, and I have a job to do. But I’ll tell you, when I walked out on that stage, and he said, ‘It’s Lady Gaga,’ my friend saw me. And it was very special.”

She also spoke about how her relationship with Bennett has changed, saying, “If I were to say, ‘Tony, would you like to sing ‘Love for Sale,” he’ll say, ‘Yeah.’ And if I say, ‘Tony, would you like to sing ‘Love for Sale’ or ‘It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got That Swing,” he might not have as easy of a response. When that music comes on, it’s… something happens to him. He knows exactly what he’s doing. And what’s important for me, actually, just to make sure that I don’t get in the way of that.”

Watch the full segment here.