Girl Gaga has introduced her new album, Mayhem, out March seventh. Pre-orders are ongoing.
Marking Gaga’s return to the “darker pop” of The Fame Monster, the 14-track mission options “Illness” and the Bruno Mars collaboration “Die with a Smile.” A 3rd single will debut on February 2nd throughout a business break on the 2025 Grammy Awards. Andrew Watt, Cirkut, and Gesaffelstein served as producers on the mission.
Gaga described the sound of Mayhem in a November interview with Vogue. “The album is chaotic from a style perspective — it’s genre-bending, and I believe in that manner is a deeply private look into my thoughts as a producer and the best way I take into consideration music,” she defined. “Once I write and produce and sing songs, I’m all the time drawing upon my information of the historical past of music, and so many artists and producers that got here earlier than me. In that manner, this album is a celebration of a variety of the music that made me who I’m, as a result of after I returned to a darker pop fashion of pop, all my early experiences with music got here out.”
“The album began as me dealing with my concern of returning to the pop music my earliest followers cherished,” Gaga added in an announcement. “Removed from a nostalgic throwback, Mayhem reinvents her early sound with a kaleidoscopic strategy that attracts from her expansive musical library whereas embracing a recent and fearless creative perspective. Gaga describes the inventive course of as “reassembling a shattered mirror: even in case you can’t put the items again collectively completely, you possibly can create one thing lovely and entire in its personal new manner.”
Main as much as the Mayhem album cycle, Gaga dropped Harlequin, a companion album to her starring function in Joker: Folie à Deux.
Gaga is ready to play the FireAid Profit Live performance in Los Angeles later this week. In April, she’s going to headline Coachella 2025 (get tickets right here).