Lady Gaga's needle-drop paid homage to the OG 'Top Gun' while setting the tone for the infamous Tom Cruise sequel.

If you've now found a new vocal stim in “Making beats ... without a doubt, an earworm. A couple listens and it's stuck with you. It's catchy in a wildly raucous way — and, hey, not every song ...

Tony [Kanal, No Doubt’s bassist] had split up with me, and I was about ready to die, and I wrote the words ... "I wouldn’t be here without that song." Pat Pope/Shutterstock No Doubt assembled ...

When I arrived at her house with sandwiches, we ate lunch and then got right to work on writing a song — made possible by her sheer talent, matched by my enthusiasm and love of words.