'American Horror Story: Hotel' Executive Producer Talks Plot and Cutting the Musicals

The public was quick to speculate that the upcoming chapter of FX's hit horror anthology TV drama series, "American Horror Story: Hotel" will be laden with musical numbers ever since the inclusion of pop icon Lady Gaga was announced. However, this might not be the case.

Showrunner Ryan Murphy clarified that the forthcoming installment won't have a musical aspect to it.

"No. People, keep saying to me, 'What numbers are they singing, what numbers are they singing,' and I say there will be no numbers," the executvie producer told Deadline.

"The interesting thing is we cast a lot of singers this season but I like that singers, for the most part, are always great actors because they know how to sell a story through song, through a scene. I'm excited about that and I think that's why Gaga was excited about it; it's not something that she's ever done before. It's a pure acting part. I think people expect that she's going to be sitting in a bar in a white silk gown sort of singing songs — she is not," he explained.

Murphy notes further that Season 5 will be "much more horror-based."

"It's much more dark. It's about a theme and an idea that's very close to my heart that I've always wanted to do that's a little bloodier and grislier I think than anything that we've done before; it's straight horror this year," Muphy added.

As where Hotel draws inspiration from, Murphy said that it is basically "based in the hotel in horror movies and horror tropes.

"We've researched several real-live hotels in downtown LA where absolutely horrifying things happened," he said.