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 Sunday, February 2, with a music video premiering throughout a industrial break at the 2025 Grammy Awards.
Gaga mentioned in a press launch that the album “began as me going through my worry of returning to the pop music my earliest followers liked,” likening the method to “reassembling a shattered mirror: Even in the event you can’t put the items again collectively completely, you possibly can create one thing stunning and entire in its personal new means.” Girl Gaga executive-produced the album alongside Michael Polansky and Andrew Watt, with particular person producers together with Watt, Cirkut, and Gesaffelstein.
Hypothesis in regards to the Chromatica follow-up—she jokingly calls her 2024 file 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 sequence of teasers, together with a Occasions Sq. billboard and a countdown clock on her website that ended in the present day with the announcement. Her 2024 Bruno Mars collaboration, “Die With a Smile,” may also 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 lined “Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town,” carried out at a Kamala Harris election rally, and lined up a headline slot at this yr’s Coachella. Talking in regards to the new album to Vogue, she mentioned, “There’s quite a lot of ache related to this journey, and after I begin to discover that ache it could possibly deliver out one other facet to my artistry. Once 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 in a position to hear it again.”
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