Is a collaboration with Lady Gaga and will.i.am on the way?

As reported by Pop Crave, Lady Gaga and will.i.am were spotted leaving a restaurant together, both with large folders under their arms. They are reported to have been in the restaurant for over four hours.

Fans are speculating that this could signify the return of Gaga, as she is yet to follow up her 2020 album, Chromatica, barring a series of remixes, a feature on the Top Gun: Maverick soundtrack, her collaborative album with Tony Bennett, and the tenth anniversary release for Born This Way.

here’s the photos btw pic.twitter.com/NYcnsZdSw9

— Common White Girl (@itgirlposts) November 22, 2023

Fans have reacted to the photos with hopes that new music is on the way. One person commented, "MOTHER IS BACK", whilst another X user said: "2010 HITS ARE BACK". Though not everybody is happy, with one user suggesting that "They don't need to collab at all", and another saying, "He needs to stay away from her music wise - cause he been ruining Britney music lately & I don’t want him near her either".

The pair previously worked together when will.i.am produced the track "Fashion!" which features on Gaga's album, ARTPOP, a decade ago. At the time, she said: "I wrote this song with will.i.am. This is the first song we ever did together. We’ve been trying to kind of work together for a few years but we’re both very picky and I just wasn’t ready. I didn’t find the right song, it wasn’t the right thing yet but this was the right song and the right groove, the right track. It just felt really good and we worked on it for a while together and we made it perfect and we really spent a lot of time editing it until it was just right".