Gaga + Doechii surprise single

Lady Gaga and Doechii did not announce this one with a long rollout. The track, “Runway,” arrived on April 10, 2026 as an official release tied to *The Devil Wears Prada 2*, after 20th Century Studios had already slipped part of the song into the film’s final trailer on April 6. (variety.com) That trailer mattered because it told people exactly what this song was for. *The Devil Wears Prada 2* is a 20th Century Studios sequel opening in theaters on May 1, 2026, with Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci all back in the cast. (20thcenturystudios.com) The movie is returning to the same fictional fashion magazine that powered the 2006 original. The official film site says the sequel brings Miranda Priestly, Andy Sachs, Emily Charlton, and Nigel back to New York and the offices of Runway Magazine nearly 20 years later. (thedevilwearsprada.co.uk) The new plot is built around a more modern problem than the first film had. Variety reports that Miranda is now dealing with the decline of print journalism and facing Emily, who has become an executive with the luxury-ad money Miranda needs. (variety.com) That setup helps explain why Gaga and Doechii make sense together here. Gaga has spent years moving between pop and fashion-world spectacle, while Doechii arrived with a sharper rap voice that can cut through a glossy campaign instead of getting buried inside it. (variety.com) The release credits show this was not a throwaway soundtrack extra. The YouTube release page lists Bruno Mars and Andrew Watt as producer-composer-lyricists, with Cirkut and D’Mile also credited as producers, and the track is released under Lil Monsters, Top Dawg Entertainment, Interscope Records, and Capitol Records. (youtube.com) There is also a second layer to the crossover: Gaga is not only on the song. Variety reported on April 6 that she also appears in the film itself, making her first major big-screen appearance since *Joker: Folie à Deux*. (variety.com) So this is not just “two stars dropped a song.” It is a soundtrack single, a trailer reveal, a cast-adjacent Gaga appearance, and a sequel campaign for a movie arriving three weeks later on May 1, all folded into one release. (20thcenturystudios.com)