Lady Gaga has lastly introduced her new album. Mayhem, the 14-track album previously alluded to as LG7, is due out March 7, through Interscope. A brand new track will debut on February 2, with a music video premiering throughout a industrial break on the 2025 Grammys.
Gaga says in a press launch that the album “began as me dealing with my concern of returning to the pop music my earliest followers beloved,” likening the method to “reassembling a shattered mirror: Even in the event you can’t put the items again collectively completely, you may create one thing lovely and complete in its personal new manner.” Girl Gaga govt produced the album alongside Michael Polansky and Andrew Watt, with particular person producers together with Watt, Cirkut, and Gesaffelstein.
Hypothesis concerning the Chromatica follow-up—she jokingly calls her 2024 document Harlequin LG6.5—ramped up final September, when Gaga revealed, throughout promotion for Joker: Folie à Deux, that the brand new album can be out in February 2025. (Shut sufficient!) She adopted the information with a track and video, “Disease,” and a collection of teasers, together with a Instances Sq. billboard and a countdown clock on her website that ended right now with the announcement. Her 2024 Bruno Mars collaboration, “Die With a Smile,” will even characteristic on the brand new album; that track and “Illness” bookend the in any other case unannounced tracklist.
Between then and now, she has additionally covered “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to City,” carried out at a Kamala Harris election rally, and lined up a headline slot at this 12 months’s Coachella. Talking concerning the new album to Vogue, she mentioned, “There’s loads of ache related to this journey, and after I begin to discover that ache it will possibly convey out one other facet to my artistry. After I’m right here at this studio, I’m relaxed and I’m able to face my demons and what’s exceptional is… that’s the music. I’m capable of hear it again.”
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