This year, “Die With a Smile” by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars spent five weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and won a Grammy for best pop duo/group performance — but apparently, the track almost didn’t see the light of day.

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In an interview with Variety published Thursday (Dec. 4), producers James Fauntleroy and Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II revealed that after first writing parts of the song three years ago, the Silk Sonic star scrapped it and forgot about it entirely. That is, until Mars learned that Mother Monster would be starr

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