The alien Lady Gaga is about to land on the planet of pop again
The countdown has started. The date to be circled in red on the calendar is January 27th, when the countdown launched by Miss Germanotta on her official website will expire and will reveal the artist’s new recording era to the whole world. Lady Gaga, pop’s latest alien, is about to land on planet Earth again. What until now has been provisionally baptized “LG7”, the singer-songwriter’s seventh album of unreleased songs, will soon, or rather, very soon, have a title and a release date: according to rumors gathered by the most avid fans, it should be titled “Mayhem” and arrive on streaming platforms on February 2nd, immediately after the Grammys, and then also be released in physical format on February 7th Nothing confirmed, for now.
What is certain is that next month the ideal successor to “Chromatica” will finally arrive in stores and on streaming platforms. The album, according to previews, will be .a summary of what has been the career of the multifaceted and versatile pop star to datewho has demonstrated that he knows how to do everything – and do it well: from the electronic pop of his debut with “Poker face” and “Paparazzi” to the rock of “You and I”, from the country of “Joanne” to the jazz and swing of the two records recorded with Tony Bennett and of “Harlequin”, the companion album of “Joker 2: Folie à deux”.
“The record is full of my love of music: so many different genres, so many different styles, so many different dreams. It jumps from genre to genre in a way that’s almost crazy And it ends with love.
This is the answer to all the chaos in my life: I find peace with love. With every song I wrote I kept getting overwhelmed by these different dreams I had about the past, almost like a reminder of all the bad decisions I’ve made in my life. But in the project it ends up in this very happy place, it ends up in love,” she said from the studio where she has completed work on the album in recent months. It must not have been easy to select all the material collected in these four years since the release of “Chromatica”, while at the same time carrying out a thousand projects: only an eclectic like her could – in that order -.record a record of jazz standards together with Tony Bennett (“Love for sale” released in 2021, the ideal sequel to the wonderful “Cheek to cheek” of 2014), release a remix album of the same “Chromatica” (“Dawn of Chromatica”, also released in 2021), tour Europe and the United States (“The Chromatica Ball”), perform in Las Vegas with a double residency (“Lady Gaga: Enigma + Jazz & Piano”), participate as the protagonist in two films (“House of Gucci” by Ridley Scott in 2021 and the aforementioned “Joker 2” by Todd Phillips, released this year). The album was partly conceived within the walls of the Rick Rubin’s Shangri-Lathe American music guru’s recording studio in Malibu, California: “There is a lot of pain associated with this adventure. After all, it is when I begin to explore that pain that I bring out another side of my art. When I am here in this studio, I am relaxed and able to face my demons. That’s the music. And here I can hear it again”.
Although ranging between different genres, “LG7”, which was preceded by the duet with Bruno Mars on “Die with a smile” (Gaga said that the hit, which has been at the top of the most streamed songs on Spotify for months, will occupy an important part of the album) and the single “Disease” (which between electronics and more rock veins brought Miss Germanotta back to the times of “Born this way”), will however be an album with a strongly pop attitude. The merit? It is from the singer-songwriter’s current boyfriend, Michael Polansky, also mentioned among the authors of “Disease” itself: “Michael is the person who told me that I had to make a new pop record: ‘Darling, I love you: you have to make pop music ‘” But Gaga was keen to reiterate how the album “jumps from genre to genre in a way that’s almost crazy.”
Among the songs on the album there will certainly also be a place for the two that Gaga made her fans listen to, in a very punk way, when last August she connected her tablet to the stereo of the van that escorted her through the streets of Paris on the occasion of her performance at the opening ceremony of the Olympicsputting the music on blast: provisional titles, “Abracadabra” And “Notorious Being”. “I’m writing some of my best songs. I’ve been writing 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 at the beginning of last year. Just a little while longer, then Lady Gaga’s new revolution can finally begin.
