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YOU CAN PLAY ALONG WITH THE 1st VIDEO in GCEA tuning, if you put your capo on the 3rd fret! Lady Gaga sings it in a higher key, starting on [Fm].
On its release day, "Abracadabra" recorded 4.92 million streams on Spotify, marking Gaga's biggest debut on the platform with a solo song. "Abracadabra" was written and produced by Gaga, Andrew Watt, and Cirkut. Additionally, Siouxsie and the Banshees members Susan Janet Ballion, Peter Edward Clarke, Steven Severin, and John McGeoch received songwriting credits, as it incorporates elements from their 1981 single "Spellbound". Musically, it is a dance-pop, synth-pop, and electropop track whose lyrics, according to Gaga, reflect on facing life’s challenges and finding a sense of magic in them. The song was released through Interscope Records on February 3, 2025, as the album’s second single.
The track received critical acclaim, with reviewers praising its production, rhythm, songwriting and chorus, which were described as "catchy", "brilliant", and "energetic". Commercially, it peaked at #5 on the Billboard Global 200 and reached the top ten in several countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, while charting within the top twenty in the United States.
An accompanying music video, co-directed by Gaga, Parris Goebel, and Bethany Vargas, depicts a dance battle between two contrasting personas of the singer and premiered on February 3, following a teaser aired during a commercial break at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards. Critics praised its theatrical style and cinematography, drawing favorable comparisons to some of Gaga’s earlier work. Gaga performed "Abracadabra" on Saturday Night Live, The Howard Stern Show and the MTV Video Music Awards 2025. She also sang it as part of the opening act for several concerts promoting Mayhem, including during The Mayhem Ball tour, and incorporated a remix of the track by French producer Gesaffelstein as a show interlude, which was released on digital platforms.
The words appear in the song's chorus – "Abracadabra, amor-ooh-na-na, abracadabra, morta-ooh-ga-ga" – which references Gaga's own name (...ga-ga) and also includes the Latin words "amor" and "morta", which can be translated as "love" and "death" respectively. In addition, the term "abracadabra" is incorporated into the song's post-chorus, albeit with "broken syntax".