Lady Gaga, “Hold My Hand” | Track Review 🎵

Academy & Grammy award-winning musician delivers positive, uplifting vibes on “Hold My Hand,” the theme song from Top Gun: Maverick.

“Hold my hand, everything will be okay.” So uplifting, 🎙 Lady Gaga! Those lyrics, excerpted from the first verse, hail from 🎵 “Hold My Hand”.  More context needed. Well, “Hold My Hand” serves as the theme song for the movie 🎦 Top Gun: Maverick.  If the name 🎦 Top Gun sounds familiar that is because it was ‘kind of a big deal’ back in the 80s, specifically, 1986.  Top Gun: Maverick is the sequel and Gaga was tasked with composing and performing the theme song.  She wrote and produced “Hold My Hand” alongside the talented, near-seven-foot studio extraordinaire, 🎼✍ 🎛 BloodPop®. 

Clearly, listening to “Hold My Hand,” Lady Gaga and BloodPop® had the 80s in mind.  That makes perfect sense. Gaga was born in the 80s, and Top Gun originated in the 80s.  The record features synths (keys), prominent guitars, and mammoth drums 💪.  Matching the grandiosity of the sound – particularly on the chorus – Gaga serves up big, dramatic, and emotional vocals.

“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.”

Throughout the record there is no doubt that she ‘feels it’ – she sells it well.  It’s all inspiration and good vibes from the Lady: “I can see everything you’re blind to now / Your prayers will be answered, let God whisper how” 🙏 🙌.

Final Thoughts 💭 

Does the 🏆 Academy/Grammy award-winning musician ever disappoint? Not in my eyes.  Lady Gaga has been and continues to be a force.  Is 🎵 “Hold My Hand” her best song? No, it doesn’t eclipse the sheer excellence of the top of her catalog but, it’s a welcome addition.  I like the positive message and the power she brings to this record.

🎙 Lady Gaga • 🎵 “Hold My Hand” • 🏷 Paramount Pictures / Interscope • 🗓 5.6.22

[📷: Brent Faulkner, Interscope, The Musical Hype, OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay, Paramount Pictures]