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Lady Gaga and Doechii have recorded a new song titled “Runway” for the final trailer of “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” turning a beloved fashion film franchise into a cross-generational music moment built on mutual admiration and image-making power.
The original “The Devil Wears Prada” captured the glossy, ruthless magic of fashion magazines for a generation that still remembers saving every issue. Now “The Devil Wears Prada 2” returns to that world, only this time the story arrives with a brand-new runway anthem from Lady Gaga and Doechii, two artists who treat style as part of their storytelling.
Their collaboration, “Runway,” debuts in the film’s final trailer. Over a beat made for strutting, Doechii issues her instructions: “Serve a little sass, with a little side of ass, do a little twirl.” Gaga enters with bright affirmations, singing, “I’m feeling fab, I’m feeling free, I feel exceptionally.” By the final moments of the trailer, both voices merge on the line that feels aimed at every character and every viewer: “You were born for the runway.”
The new film is set in a harsher media landscape. “Runway” magazine is no longer at its untouchable peak, and the industry that once crowned Miranda Priestly now faces digital disruption and diminished power. Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci reunite, joined by Simone Ashley, Caleb Hearon, Donatella Versace, and other fashion-world faces. Gaga herself was spotted on set in Milan, a fitting city for an artist who once turned every red carpet into performance art.
Both singers arrive at this project with carefully built fashion legacies. Gaga’s history of theatrical dressing, from sculptural gowns to museum-worthy Met Gala looks, made her a natural muse for a story about image and authority. Doechii, meanwhile, has become one of music’s most intriguing new stylists, switching between high glamour and street edge as easily as she shifts flows on a verse. “Runway” lets those aesthetics collide inside a single hook.
The collaboration is also a chapter in a very public mutual admiration story. Speaking to British Vogue, Gaga once praised Doechii’s writing, saying, “You don’t often see someone come out of the gate with a pen that feels immediately legendary. That’s Doechii to me. I fell in love with her music and her raw, deeply personal perspective. The power in her words, her vulnerability, the way she rhymes with this wild mix of audacity and emotional precision, it struck me to the core.”
Doechii told People that hearing those words felt surreal. “I audibly gasped, literally,” she said. “I’m the biggest Lady Gaga fan, and she is so dedicated to her creativity and pushing the limits, so for a legend like that to say that about me, it really, really validated me in a humbling way.” She added that when you meet Gaga, “you just kind of listen,” describing how the superstar “pours herself naturally onto people.”
For Gaga, “Runway” reinforces a reputation that now spans chart-topping pop, Oscar-winning film music, and fashion-house campaigns. For Doechii, it is a high-profile bridge from buzzy newcomer to global name, attaching her voice to a film that helped define the 2000s for many moviegoers. The pairing reads like a deliberate handoff, from one era’s rule-breaking style icon to the next generation’s fearless storyteller.
As the trailer’s final refrain repeats “You were born for the runway,” it plays more like a character cue than a mere cue. It nods to every fan who discovered the first film in crowded theaters or on well-worn DVDs, and who now watches this sequel with a different life, a different closet, and perhaps the same secret wish to walk into a room and own it.
What does a Gaga and Doechii duet add to “The Devil Wears Prada 2” for you, and does “Runway” make you more curious to revisit that world on the big screen?
