Lady Gaga returns to pop: all about the new album “Mayhem”
The countdown launched in recent days on his official website has ended at 5 pm today, effectively formalizing what the fans already know: Lady Gaga’s new album will be titled “Mayhem“And the March 7th. But already on February 2 Gaga It will present the new single and the related music video, during an advertising break from the Grammy Awards 2025. To ruin the surprise to the followers of the US pop star were in the previous hours the announcement some advertising signs that appeared in some US cities: The Billboard have revealed both the title and the release date of the seventh album of unreleased albums of the “Poker Face” item.
To date, the album brought “LG7” as a provisional title: LG as the initials of Stefani Germanotta’s name of art, 7 as the number of records published by the artist during his career, including the outgoing one. In these days on the official website of the singer -songwriter, the graphic theme of the countdown has retraced. All the record eras of the Mother Monsterjust as fans have always called Gaga: from the beginning with “The Fame” (the album of “Poker Face” and “Paparazzi”) to “Chromatica”, passing through “Born This Way”, “ArtPop” and ” Joanne “(the disco of the country turning point, that of” Million Reasons “).
Gaga in recent months had said that the album would be published in February: the release was postponed just a few weeks.
The title of the album, “Mayhem”, is not a tribute to the Norwegian Metal Band, the cult formation of the European scene. “Mayhem” is a term with which – according to the dictionary – in English one indicates a
situation of chaos and total confusion
. After all, the single forerunner of the album was titled “Disease”: “I know all your secrets, the ya / ah care can, cure Your Disease” “, sang in the song, released last October,
A little psychiatrist and a little stuffy, a little healer and a little megera.
About the album, Gaga says: “AND born from my fear of returning to pop music that my first fans loved“. According to the first advances of his staff, however, the return will be far from “nostalgic”: “‘Mayhem’ – reads the press release released by Universal – reinvents his initial sound with a kaleidoscopic approach that draws from his vast repertoire, while embracing a fresh and fearless artistic perspective“Gaga describes the creative process as a”Remove a shattered mirror: even if you can’t put the pieces together perfectly, you can create something beautiful and intact in its own way“.
The project will be made up of 14 tracks (LA complete tracklist of the album will be revealed later): among these also the same “Disease” and “Die with a Smile” with Bruno Mars. Among the producers of the album in addition to Gaga herself and Andrew Watt (everyone wants his millionaire flickers: from Rolling Stones to Pearl Jam, he made the Rock again current) also appears Michael Polanskythe artist’s current boyfriend: “Michael is the person who told me that I had to make a new pop disc: ‘Honey, I love you: you have to make pop music’,” she says.
Among the songs of the disc, the two will certainly also find the two that Gaga made the fans listen to, in a very punk way, when last August connected his tablet to the stereo of the Van who escorted her on the streets of Paris on the occasion of his performance at the Olympics opening ceremonyputting the ball music: temporary titles, “Abracadabra” And “Notorious Being“. “I’m writing some of my best songs. I write pop songs since I was a child and I can’t believe I can still do what I love. Music changes people’s lives, “he said. Have you kept the promise?
