This Is The Hidden Meaning Behind The Lyrics Of Lady Gaga's New Song “Abracadabra”

Lady Gaga’s infectious new single “Abracadabra” is a return to form for the Grammy-winning star – in more ways than one.

Not only does the heavy, industrial-inspired pop production hark back to her The Fame Monster and Born This Way days, and the accompanying video is easily among the best of her career, but the song’s chorus also includes some of the nonsense “jibberish” style singing previously heard on the early hits like “Bad Romance” and “Poker Face.”

Or, at least, that’s how it might appear. But Gaga being Gaga, she managed to sneak a hidden meaning into the mix.

“Abracadabra, amor-ooh-na-na, abracadabra, morta-ooh-ga-ga,” she sings on the chorus, and while it might seem like she’s just put words together to get us dancing, there’s actually more to the song than first appears.

“Amor” and “morta” are both Latin terms referring to “love” and “death”, the song’s two main themes, which are both overarching ideas Gaga will explore on her much-hyped new album Mayhem.

She also says in the final line of the chorus that the character known as the “lady in red” sings “in her own tongue, ‘death and love’ tonight”, confirming the Latin terms’ use is very much deliberate.