Woman 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 on the 2025 Grammy Awards.
Gaga stated in a press launch that the album “began as me dealing with my concern of returning to the pop music my earliest followers cherished,” likening the method to “reassembling a shattered mirror: Even if you happen to can’t put the items again collectively completely, you may create one thing lovely and entire in its personal new method.” Woman 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 report Harlequin LG6.5—ramped up final September, when Gaga revealed, throughout promotion for Joker: Folie à Deux, that the brand new album could be out in February 2025. (Shut sufficient!) She adopted the information with a track and video, “Illness,” and a collection of teasers, together with a Occasions Sq. billboard and a countdown clock on her web site that ended in the present day 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 lined “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 in regards to the new album to Vogue, she stated, “There’s plenty of ache related to this journey, and once I begin to discover that ache it may possibly convey out one other aspect 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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