Back successful April, earlier Top Gun: Maverick had landed successful theaters, Lady Gaga sent anticipation soaring when she teased conscionable however overmuch "Hold My Hand" means to her.

"I've been moving connected it for years, perfecting it, trying to marque it ours," she wrote connected Instagram April 27. "I wanted to marque euphony into a opus wherever we stock our heavy request to some beryllium understood and effort to recognize each other—a longing to beryllium adjacent erstwhile we consciousness truthful acold distant and an quality to observe life's heroes."

She added, "This opus is simply a emotion missive to the satellite during and aft a precise hard time. I've wanted you to perceive it for truthful long."

While finishing "Hold My Hand" took immoderate time, it's harmless to accidental it was worthy the wait. Tom Cruise, who produced and starred successful Top Gun: Maverick, exclusively told E! News successful May that Gaga's song "opened up doors for this film." 

"['Hold My Hand'] matches and brings a level of cinematic emotion to this," helium said. "When I heard it, I was like, ‘You're implicit there, we're implicit here, and somehow, we are telling the aforesaid communicative here,' and it conscionable works successful a mode that took those moments and they became much transcendent. So, I conscionable deliberation she's a unit of nature, and I emotion Gaga."

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