The Devil Wears Prada 2 drops May 1st. Its lead single just landed — and it sounds exactly like it should.
There is a particular kind of song that only exists at the intersection of fashion, music and film. It doesn’t just accompany a story, it extends it. It gives you the feeling of the thing before you’ve even seen it.
Runway, the new single from Lady Gaga and Doechii released on 10 April 2026, is that kind of tune.
Written for the soundtrack of The Devil Wears Prada 2, in cinemas from 1 May, it takes its name directly from the fictional fashion magazine at the centre of both films. The magazine Runway. Miranda Priestly’s Runway. And if that sounds like an obvious move, the execution is anything but.
House, Hip-Hop and Ballroom
The production handled by Bruno Mars, Andrew Watt, Cirkut and D’Mile, the same team behind Gaga’s Die With a Smile, builds on an 80s-inspired electronic beat with deep roots in ballroom and house culture. It’s disco-influenced, French-leaning, club-ready. Critics have noted echoes of the anonymous soul singers who defined house-pop in the early 90s, a lineage that runs directly through the culture that gave the world voguing, the runway walk, and the language of serving.
Which is to say: this is not a song that was bolted onto a fashion film as an afterthought. It understands what it is.
Two Voices, One Moment
Gaga and Doechii had never collaborated before this. The connection between them, though, has been building for a while. Last year, Doechii presented Gaga with the Innovator Award at the iHeartRadio Music Awards, calling her a lifeline and speaking about her impact on young queer fans worldwide. Gaga returned the compliment in a British Vogue interview shortly after: “You don’t often see someone come out of the gate with a pen that feels immediately legendary. That’s Doechii to me.”
On Runway, that mutual admiration translates into something genuinely collaborative rather than a simple feature. Gaga sets the tone ….theatrical, self-aware, delivering a spoken opening verse in a style reminiscent of Babylon from Chromatica ….before Doechii takes over with sharp, charismatic energy. The chorus belongs to both of them.
Monday through Sunday / I can turn a dance floor into a runway.
The outro tips its hat to the fashion world with a directness that feels earned rather than forced: You were born for the runway.
Why This Matters
The Devil Wears Prada 2 arrives twenty years after the original — a film whose cultural legacy extends well beyond cinema. It changed how people thought about fashion journalism. It gave the world a particular image of the editor. It made Meryl Streep’s white-haired silhouette into an archetype.
The sequel reunites Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci — and adds Gaga, whose own presence in the film is still not fully confirmed beyond her role on the soundtrack. The story picks up with Miranda Priestly navigating the shift from print to digital. Which is, in 2026, no longer a hypothetical tension but a lived reality for everyone who has worked in fashion media.
Runway the song sits inside all of that context without being crushed by it. It is confident and fun and built for a club at 1am — but it also understands that the runway, whether it’s a catwalk in Paris or a dance floor anywhere in the world, has always been about the same thing. Visibility. Presence. The refusal to disappear.
The Soundtrack Question
This is, of course, exactly the kind of moment Fashion Soundtrack was built to notice. The overlap between fashion, music and film is rarely this explicit — a song called Runway, for a film called The Devil Wears Prada, featuring an artist who wore a meat dress to the VMAs and another who closed out 2025 as the most talked-about rapper in the world.
We will be watching closely for the full soundtrack when The Devil Wears Prada 2 lands on 1 May. If Runway is any indication of the level of thought that has gone into the music, it should be worth the wait.
Runway by Lady Gaga and Doechii is out now. The Devil Wears Prada 2 is in cinemas from 1 May 2026.