Watch Lady Gaga Perform "Christmas Tree" for the First Time in 16 Years

Happy holidays, Lady Gaga just came through _{over a decade in the making} with a performance of her song "Christmas Tree." If your initial reaction to this news is "what is 'Christmas Tree,' I don't know her," that might be because Gaga hasn't performed the song in 16 full years. So naturally the reaction amongst fans is very much this:

"Christmas Tree" is one of several songs Gaga performed for Carpool Karaoke's holiday special (feat. Dua Lipa and Chappell Roan) on Apple TV+. She also sang "Die With a Smile" and talked about recording with Bruno Mars while working on LG7, saying, “It was crazy. I went to see him at like 10 o’clock at night. He played me the idea and then we wrote the second verse, then we cut it at 2 in the morning. Bruno had me singing for four hours. He had an exact way that he wanted to hear it and I wanted to give him that."

On top of that, Gaga performed a cover of “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” which was released on all platforms as a surprise:

She's truly feeding us.

Also, some details on LG7 real quick before we go: The album drops in February, and Gaga told Vogue that it's “genre-bending.” As she explained, “When I write and produce and sing songs, I am always drawing upon my knowledge of the history of music, and so many artists and producers that came before me. In that way, this album is a celebration of a lot of the music that made me who I am, because when I returned to a darker pop style of pop, all my early experiences with music came out.”

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