MAYHEM!
Photo: Lady Gaga via YouTube
2024 was, among many things, the year of the pop girlie. It seemed like everybody and their opening act put an album out last year, including Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, and Charli XCX — and those are just the ones nominated for Album of the Year (sorry, Ariana, you got an Oscar nom). As such, the slate for this year was looking a little blank. Thank goodness, then, that Lady Gaga is ready to step up and cause some Mayhem. Gaga’s next album is coming out March 7, she told the world via billboards in New York and Las Vegas on January 27. With both coming in the morning, they kind of preempted the intended reveal that was scheduled for 11 a.m. on her website via a countdown clock for that same morning. “The album started as me facing my fear of returning to the pop music my earliest fans loved,” Gaga said in a press release.
The album will include both “Disease” and her duet with Bruno Mars, the current number-one song in America, “Die With a Smile.” Plus, a third single and music video debuts on February 2, during the Grammys. For those confused, please note that while Gaga did kind of release an album last year (Harlequin) that was a companion album to Joker 2 and should be forgotten along with the rest of that film. This time around, we’re getting pop, we’re getting electroclash, and we’re getting non-Jokerfied Gaga.
