Lady Gaga, the Oscar-winning global pop icon who famously once asked her followers what Fortnite was via Twitter, has teased a potential appearance in the online game's Fortnite Festival.
The upcoming Joker: Folie á Deux actress shared an image of a digital recreation of herself to social media Tuesday in a quote-tweet of her memorable 2019 post that posed the question: "What's fortnight."
Gaga corrected her spelling error in the original note nearly five years later, captioning the new Fortnite image — which sees her clad in an outfit similar to one she wore on the 2022 Chromatica Ball tour — with a one-word statement: "*fortnite."
Lady Gaga; Gaga in 'Fortnite'. Photo: SAMIR HUSSEIN/GETTY IMAGES; EPIC GAMES
Many took this as an indication that Gaga would follow in the footsteps of The Weeknd, who partnered with the Epic Games title in 2023 to create a playable headlining festival set featuring his music.
EW has reached out to Epic Games and representatives for Gaga for more information.
Billed as a "music-driven, rhythm-based game" that is "playable as two unique experiences: Fortnite Festival Main Stage and Fortnite Festival Jam Stage," the Fortnite Festival offshoot from the main battle royale-style original allows players to enter the game's popular environment and "play through a licensed soundtrack of some global hits and Fortnite originals," per Epic's website.
The Fortnite teaser comes amid Gaga's repeated teases about a potential upcoming album, studio sessions for which she has previewed online in recent weeks.
Fellow pop star Kesha joined in on the excitement over the thought of new material from Gaga after the latter wrote "Tik tok tik tok" underneath a photo of herself at work. "READY MOTHER," Kesha — who roared onto the pop music scene in 2009 with her No. 1 smash titled "Tik Tok" — commented.
In a 2021 interview with EW, Gaga said that new music was always on her mind.
"There's always music in my heart, in the works. It's just about [asking], 'What will it be?'" she explained. "I'm not ready to answer that yet. But what I will say is that ... I'm always thinking about music. It just comes out in different forms."
