SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for Wednesday Season 2 Part 2.
Mother Monster Lady Gaga has made her appearance in Wednesday Season 2.
While the “Disease” singer didn’t show up as of Part 1 of the hit Netflix show’s sophomore season, she has now graced the show with her gothic presence in Part 2.
On the eve of Netflix’s live Tudum 2025 event, Netflix’s official Wednesday Addams X account tweeted about the singer during her concluding performance of the celebration.
“Rosaline Rotwood. Cloaked in mystery with a reputation that preceds her,” the account tweeted May 31, 2025. “Our paths will surely cross. Welcom to mayhem @LadyGaga.”
“Mysterious and enigmatic, Rosaline Rotwood is a legendary Nevermore teacher who crosses paths with Wednesday,” Netflix’s official character description also read.
Rotwood herself, teased as a vision in venom, first appears in Episode 6 of Wednesday Season 2 Part 2. It turns out the cozy cottage in which Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Gomez Addams (Luiz Guismán) are staying was her home long ago.
After Wednesday asks her grandmother for another way to access her psychic gift, Hester recommends she go to the grave of Rosaline Rotwood, recite the inscription there and connect with the late Nevermore professor, who was also a Raven and whose psychic talent was the stuff of legend. Rotwood was a professor when Hester was a student at Nevermore, teaching Runes and Ancient Cryptology as well as and Advanced Possessions. As an amateur tomb raider, Hester gravitated toward Rotwood like a moth to flame.
Wednesday follows her Grandmama’s advice which Hester serves with a small warning to be careful. In the graveyard, Rotwood’s headstone, which is imbued with her dark energy, looks like the one from Wednesday’s vision, with a Raven perched atop it, wings spread. The inscription reads “In the Raven’s shadow, grant me use of your ephemeral sight Be warned. Should my gaze be broken, a deadly trick I will play.” As Hester told her granddaughter, uttering this would take help her gain temporary second sight.
After reciting the inscription, Wednesday is transported into a chamber in what looks like Rotwood’s cottage, where Gaga appears as the mythical Nevermore professor, wearing all white and ethereal. She tells Wednesday not to break the Raven’s Gaze by keeping her palm above a flame burning via black candle. Unfortunately, Enid goes to get Wednesday from the graveyard because curfew checks are happening, so she breaks the gaze. Rotwood had told Wednesday that there would be “a price to pay” should this happen, and the ghost of the teacher also said that Hester was desperate for her approval while Wednesday reeked of arrogance rather than any sentimentality like Hester displayed when she fell head over heels for a huckster because she wanted a family.
The price, it turns out, is a body swap situation between Wednesday and Enid. Wednesday in Enid’s body sneaks into Rotwood’s old secret séance chamber — where she had visited her at the grave — at the cottage to try and look for clues about switching back. Rotwood appears in another ghostly apparition and tells Wednesday in Enid’s body that they must unravel the secrets of the lives they’ve entered and be willing to die in their respective skins.
In addition to appearing in Season 2, Gaga also wrote a new song for the show, “The Dead Dance,” which released along with the arrival of Part 2 on Netflix. Variety first reported news of the song, and The Hollywood Reporter added that the series director Tim Burton also directed the music video.
When Season 1 of Wednesday came out, Gaga filmed herself doing the viral goth dance that Jenna Ortega did to The Cramps’ “Goo Goo Muck.” The songstress is no stranger to having her music featured in movies and tv shows, either. One of her first singles “Poker Face” was featured in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), and her song “Disease” was just featured in the Season 2 finale of The Buccaneers on Apple TV+. She also wrote a companion album of songs for Joker: Folie À Deux (2024), and she contributed “Hold My Hand” to Top Gun: Maverick (2022).
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