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Lady Gaga – Hold My Hand (From “Top Gun: Maverick”) [Official Music Video]
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Lady Gaga’s Hold My Hand (Official Music Video) from the upcoming “Top Gun: Maverick” Motion Picture.
Hold My Hand by Lady Gaga is a track from “Top Gun: Maverick” the Motion Picture. The soundtrack, which will be released simultaneously with the movie on 2022-05-27.
Released: 2022-05-03
Genre: Arena rock
Length: 3:45
Label: Interscope
Songwriter(s): Lady Gaga, Michael Tucker
Producer(s): Lady Gaga, Blood Pop, Benjamin Rice
The Song
“Hold My Hand” is a song by American singer Lady Gaga, released on May 3, 2022, through Interscope Records. It is the lead single to the soundtrack for the upcoming film Top Gun: Maverick (2022).[1] The song was written and produced by Gaga and BloodPop as “a love letter to the world during and after a very hard time”. Benjamin Rice received additional production credits.[2]
Background and release
In April 2021, gossip website ShowBiz 411 reported that Lady Gaga would be involved with the soundtrack for Top Gun: Maverick.[3] The rumor spread to other publications, including W magazine.[4]
In April 2022, Gaga began posting cryptic messages on Twitter, which fans interpreted as lyrics to the rumored song.[5][6] She formally announced “Hold My Hand” and its release date on April 27, 2022.[1][7] During the announcement, Gaga shared that she was working on the song for years, and “didn’t even realize the multiple layers it spanned across the film’s heart, my own psyche, and the nature of the world we’ve been living in” while writing it.[8] A preview of the song was released on April 30, followed by the release of the full track on May 3, as the first single from the soundtrack for Top Gun: Maverick.[9] A week after the release, “Hold My Hand” received airplay through adult contemporary and contemporary hit radio stations in the US.[10][11]
Music
“Hold My Hand” has been described by music and film critics as a “hopeful, anthemic” arena rock power ballad.[12][13][14] Lars Brandle of Billboard noted that the song has a close lineage to Berlin‘s “Take My Breath Away” and Kenny Loggins‘ “Danger Zone“.[15] Jazz Tangcay of Variety called “Hold My Hand” a “soaring rock tune with violins and guitar licks that harken back to the power ballads of the ’80s.”[16]
Hold My Hand – Lyrics
Its lyrics sees Gaga reassuring someone that she will always be there for them “without question.”[17][18] The words and music were written by Stefani Germanotta and Michael Tucker. The song was originally published in the key of G major and starts with G/D/C/G/D chord progression with three intro bars before singer starts to sing with the lyrics “Hold my hand, every thing will be okay, I heard from the heavens that clouds have been grey. Pull me close, wrap me in your arching arms”.[19]
Hold My Hand
Tell me you need me
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
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
To tell me you need me? I see that you’re bleeding
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
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
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
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
Raise your head, look into my wishful eyes
That fear that’s inside you will lift, give it time
I can see everything you’re blind to now
Your prayers will be answered, let God whisper how
That fear that’s inside you will lift, give it time
I can see everything you’re blind to now
Your prayers will be answered, let God whisper how
To tell me you need me, I see that you’re bleeding
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
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
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 you’ll just hold my hand
But don’t you let go of my hand
You can cry every last tear
I won’t leave ’til I understand
Promise you’ll just hold my hand
Hold my hand, hold my
Hold my hand, my hand
I’ll be right here, hold my hand
Hold my hand, hold my
Hold my hand, my hand
I’ll be right here, hold my hand
Hold my hand, my hand
I’ll be right here, hold my hand
Hold my hand, hold my
Hold my hand, my hand
I’ll be right here, hold my hand
I know you’re scared and your pain is imperfect
But don’t you give up on yourself
I’ve heard a story, a girl, she once told me
That I would be happy again
But don’t you give up on yourself
I’ve heard a story, a girl, she once told me
That I would be happy again
Hold my hand
Hold my hand
Hold my hand, hold my hand
Hold my hand, hold my hand
Hold my hand
I heard from the heavens
Hold my hand
Hold my hand, hold my hand
Hold my hand, hold my hand
Hold my hand
I heard from the heavens
Critical reception
Robin Murray of Clash called the song “a triumph of bombast” which “finds Lady Gaga cutting loose as a vocalist”.[20] Stuart Heritage of The Guardian thought that the song is “bombastic and emotional, and includes everything you could possibly want from a Lady Gaga power ballad”.[21] Variety‘s Jazz Tangcay found the song a “catchy earworm” with a “strong guitar solo”, and argued that it is “on track to being an Oscar frontrunner in the original song race.”[22] Alexa Camp of Slant Magazine was more negative in her review, thinking that “for a song the artist claims she’s been perfecting ‘for years’, ‘Hold My Hand’ struggles to take flight.”[23]
Chart performance
Due to being released on a Tuesday, in its first week “Hold My Hand” did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but entered at number 17 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100.[24] A week later it debuted at number 82 on the Billboard Hot 100.[25] The song entered at number six on the Canadian Digital Song Sales chart with just three days of tracking.[26] It charted on the Swiss Hitparade at number 13 and Hungary’s Single Top 40 slágerlista at number 14, the highest for a top 40 chart.[27][28]
“Hold My Hand” Music Video
The accompanying music video was helmed by Joseph Kosinski, director of Top Gun: Maverick, and it was released on May 6, 2022. It was partially shot in black and white. It pulls imagery from the 1986 Top Gun in nostalgic flashback form – at one point, the music video emotionally notes Tom Cruise as test pilot Maverick with Anthony Edwards‘ character, Nick “Goose” Bradshaw, holding him after the character tragically dies – as well as theatrical film edits from Top Gun: Maverick. The music video embodies Gaga in a theatrical performance, playing a grand piano on a military air-force runway and singing around an airplane hangar.[22][29]
During the video, Gaga is wearing the original aviation bomber jacket that Cruise wore as Maverick in the original Top Gun film. When the song hits its climax, Gaga switches the tank-top underneath the aviator bomber jacket for a nude gown that explodes off the singer and into the wind. The dress was created by Ukrainian designer, Lessja Verlingieri for her brand Lever Couture.[30]
Chart performance for “Hold My Hand”
| Chart (2022) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australia (ARIA)[31] | 36 |
| Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[32] | 38 |
| Canada AC (Billboard)[33] | 19 |
| Canada CHR/Top 40 (Billboard)[34] | 36 |
| Canada Hot AC (Billboard)[35] | 29 |
| Croatia (HRT)[36] | 52 |
| France (SNEP)[37] | 123 |
| Germany (Official German Charts)[38] | 95 |
| Global 200 (Billboard)[39] | 62 |
| Hungary (Single Top 40)[28] | 14 |
| Ireland (IRMA)[40] | 63 |
| Italy (FIMI)[41] | 70 |
| Netherlands (Single Tip)[42] | 24 |
| New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ)[43] | 6 |
| Slovakia (Rádio Top 100)[44] | 45 |
| Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[45] | 66 |
| Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[46] | 13 |
| UK Singles (OCC)[47] | 51 |
| US Billboard Hot 100[25] | 82 |
| US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[48] | 13 |
| US Adult Top 40 (Billboard)[49] | 16 |
| US Mainstream Top 40 (Billboard)[50] | 31 |
Release history
| Region | Date | Format(s) | Label | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Various | May 3, 2022 | Interscope | [1] | |
| Italy | May 6, 2022 | Radio airplay | Universal | [51] |
| United States | May 9, 2022 | Adult contemporary radio | Interscope | [10] |
| May 10, 2022 | Contemporary hit radio | [11] |
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