Songfacts®:

• "Stupid Love" is a joyous dance-floor anthem that finds Lady Gaga returning to her electropop roots. The energetic tune follows the more stripped-down sound on her 2016 Joanne album. "We are definitely dancing," Gaga told Apple Music's Zane Lowe, "I think the best way to describe all of the things that you just said is that I put all my heart, all my pain, all my messages from the other realm that I hear of what they... what they tell me to tell the world and I put it into music that I believe to be so fun and you know, energetically really pure, and I want people to dance and feel happy."
• Lyrically the song finds Gaga falling for a guy and desiring his love.
  
  I don't need a reason (Oh)
  Not sorry, I want your stupid love
  
  Gaga cannot deny her passion - even if it's irrational. "I think that for some of us, it's easier to love and for others it's harder to love and the more vulnerable we are, the more brave we are to open ourselves up, to really, really love each other," she told UK's KISS FM. "I think that love heals the world, I think it keeps us together. It's how we survive as a planet and I wanted to make a song that really celebrated love and reminded us all how important it is."
• Gaga wrote the song with Max Martin; it was the first time she worked with the Swedish hitmaker. Ely "Rise" Weisfield (Adam Lambert's "Aftermath," Alisan Porter's "Down That Road") also has a writing credit.
• Lady Gaga's longtime collaborator BloodPop and Paris DJ Tcham produced the track.
• Gaga explained to Zane Lowe that the song started off with her singing over a track that BloodPop had made. They sent over what Gaga had sang to Martin, who picked some parts out, returned it to her with his modifications, and then she wrote lyrics. Once she was happy it couldn't be bettered, Gaga hit the studio. "I warmed up my voice, got in the booth, I sang it, and what you're hearing on 'Stupid Love' is what we did that day," she explained.
• Daniel Askill directed the video that sees Gaga assuming the role of a pink-haired alien seeking love. Shot entirely on an iPhone 11 Pro, the futuristic clip finds Gaga joined by a huge cast of equally colorful backing dancers. According to Askill, shooting the visual on an iPhone created a "lot of new possibilities and freedoms for us to explore."
• Gaga performed this on a brain piano at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards where she won the newly renamed Tricon Award, which used to be the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. She also won for Artist of the Year and took Song of the Year for her Ariana Grande collaboration "Rain On Me," which the pair performed on the show.