Lady Gaga is ready to cause some Mayhem. The star’s new album arrived March 7, featuring “Abracadabra,” “Disease,” and “Die With a Smile.” And many more chaotic choices.
Impending Mayhem
January 27: 2024 was, among many things, the year of the pop girlie. It seemed like everybody and their opening act put an album out last year, including Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, and Charli XCX — and those are just the ones nominated for Album of the Year (sorry, Ariana, you got an Oscar nom). As such, the slate for this year was looking a little blank. Thank goodness, then, that Lady Gaga is ready to step up and cause some Mayhem. Gaga’s next album is coming out March 7, she told the world via billboards in New York and Las Vegas on January 27. With both coming in the morning, they kind of preempted the intended reveal that was scheduled for 11 a.m. on her website via a countdown clock for that same morning. “The album started as me facing my fear of returning to the pop music my earliest fans loved,” Gaga said in a press release.
The album will include both “Disease” and her duet with Bruno Mars, the current number-one song in America, “Die With a Smile.” Plus, a third single and music video debuts on February 2, during the Grammys. For those confused, please note that while Gaga did kind of release an album last year (Harlequin) that was a companion album to Joker 2 and should be forgotten along with the rest of that film. This time around, we’re getting pop, we’re getting electroclash, and we’re getting non-Jokerfied Gaga.
Mayhem is here
March 7: You feel that? In the air? Pure Mayhem, baby. Lady Gaga’s new album is here and full of chaos. (Just don’t call it LG7.) Many of the songs, like “Garden of Eden” and “Perfect Celebrity,” throw it back to Gaga’s early, dirty synth-pop style of The Fame and The Fame Monster. There’s also a good dose of the ’80s on tracks like “Killah” and “How Bad Do U Want Me.” Gaga worked with producers Andrew Watt and Cirkut across the album, while Gesaffelstein is featured on “Killah” and also contributed to “Garden of Eden,” “Perfect Celebrity,” and “Blade of Grass.” And Gaga’s fiancé, Michael Polansky — possibly the man we have to thank for this entire project — also co-wrote seven songs. But amid all that chaos, no, Taylor Swift isn’t featured. One perfect celebrity is enough here.