Girl Gaga has lastly introduced her long-anticipated seventh studio album: “Mayhem.”
After dropping numerous teasers on her web site, the pop star on Monday confirmed the information in an Instagram video, which options photographs of Gaga and a rising hum that culminates in a title card.
“Mayhem” is scheduled to hit shops March 7.
“The album started as me facing my fear of returning to the pop music my earliest fans loved,” Gaga advised a number of media retailers in an announcement Monday, describing the artistic course of for “Mayhem” as “reassembling a shattered mirror.”
“Even if you can’t put the pieces back together perfectly, you can create something beautiful and whole in its own new way,” Gaga stated ― an concept paying homage to the Japanese artwork of kintsugi, the place damaged glass or pottery is reassembled in a means that highlights the fractures relatively than attempting to disguise them.
“Mayhem” will reportedly function 14 tracks, together with “Disease” and “Die With a Smile” ― two beforehand launched hits with Bruno Mars, the latter of which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 earlier this month. Followers of the chameleonic singer are already clamoring for the opposite songs.
“WHERE’S THE TRACKLIST,” wrote one fan on X, previously Twitter, prompting one other to put up a screenshot from Gaga’s Instagram video the place titles like “Lovedrug,” “Blade of Grass” and “Zombieboy” might be seen.
Gaga has spent the previous 5 years on wildly disparate artistic pursuits, together with a jazz document with the late Tony Bennett, a companion album to the “Joker” sequel she starred in final yr, and a “Chromatica Ball Tour” documentary.
“Mayhem is about following your own chaos into whatever cranny of your life that it takes you to,” Gaga advised Elle UK in an interview printed Tuesday. “And in that way, it was about following the songs. Writing as many songs as I did for this album was a labour of total love.”
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“And then you just have to be very cutthroat by the end,” she added, referring to the method of whittling down the ultimate tracklist.
Gaga, whose actual title is Stefani Germanotta, stated the album’s influences embody “90s alternative, electro-grunge, Prince and [David] Bowie melodies, guitar and attitude, funky bass lines, French electronic dance, and analog synths.”
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She additionally advised Elle UK that making “Mayhem” concerned mining her personal anxiousness by “playing with transgressive and challenging themes” that she “couldn’t do… for a really long time” — solely to find throughout manufacturing that that is now “just what I naturally want” to discover.
Happily for her endearingly nicknamed “Little Monsters” fanbase, Gaga is about to debut her third single from “Mayhem” alongside a music video throughout a business break on the 2025 Grammy Awards on Sunday. The total tracklist, in the meantime, can be formally launched at a later date.
