Lady Gaga’s Top Gun: Maverick song is more “Take My Breath Away” than “Danger Zone”
It's a dramatic jet ballad, not a full-throttle jet battle song

Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games & Anime Site from Paste
Lady Gaga Photo: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
Not enough movies have a theme song these days. There’ll be some orchestral melody you hear a few times, or they’ll co-opt an existing song like The Batman did, but it seems rare to hear a famous artist write and record a hot new track explicitly for a movie in 2022, especially if it’s not a movie about music. Luckily, with Top Gun: Maverick already being an explicit ‘80s throwback since it’s a 30-years-later sequel to an iconic ‘80s movie (one that maybe didn’t deserve a sequel), it has now gone a step further by getting a famous artist—Lady Gaga, in this case—to write and record a cheesy Top Gun-ass ballad.