"The Cure" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Lady Gaga. She co-wrote the song with Paul Blair, Nick Monson, Lukas Nelson, and Mark Nilan; Detroit City, Gaga, and Monson produced the song. The song originated from a positive vibe between the collaborators, created as a response to atrocity happening around the world. It was developed in Los Angeles where Gaga and her team were working on some other music before the singer became busy acting in the film A Star Is Born. Consisting of finger snap and an electronic dance beat, "The Cure" is composed around an R&B sound. Lyrically it talks about the healing effects of love, with the singer advocating herself as the one administering the cure.

The song was released as a standalone single on April 16, 2017, after Gaga performed it live at the Coachella music festival where she was a main headliner. Gaga later included it as the last song before the encore on the setlist to the 2017 Joanne World Tour. Critics analysed the sudden release of the track, finding it to be a departure from the singer's previous releases, and the anthemic nature of the composition. Despite minimal promotion, "The Cure" reached the top 10 of the record charts in Australia, France, Greece, Hungary, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain and Venezuela, as well as the top 20 in the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, Lebanon, Latvia, and Malaysia. It also reached the top 40 in the United States.

"The Cure" was written after Gaga's performance at the Super Bowl LI halftime show. Gaga worked with longtime collaborator DJ White Shadow (aka Paul Blair) for the track. He recalled sitting with Gaga and feeling a positive vibe, which led them to write the track described by Blair as "upbeat and cool". Their camaraderie originated due to the "terrible stuff going on in the world right now, it's like when you're a creative person you do your best to try and combat evil with creative stuff, so that was kind of the vibe." Gaga and her team wanted to release the "one-off" single as soon as production was completed.

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