Lady Gaga has announced her new album, Mayhem, out March 7th. Pre-orders are ongoing.
Marking Gaga’s return to the “darker pop” of The Fame Monster, the 14-track project features “Disease” and the Bruno Mars collaboration “Die with a Smile.” A third single will debut on February 2nd during a commercial break at the 2025 Grammy Awards. Andrew Watt, Cirkut, and Gesaffelstein served as producers on the project.
Gaga described the sound of Mayhem in a November interview with Vogue. “The album is chaotic from a genre perspective — it is genre-bending, and I think in that way is a deeply personal look into my mind as a producer and the way I think about music,” she explained. “When I write and produce and sing songs, I am always drawing upon my knowledge of the history of music, and so many artists and producers that came before me. In that way, this album is a celebration of a lot of the music that made me who I am, because when I returned to a darker pop style of pop, all my early experiences with music came out.”
“The album started as me facing my fear of returning to the pop music my earliest fans loved,” Gaga added in a statement. “Far from a nostalgic throwback, Mayhem reinvents her early sound with a kaleidoscopic approach that draws from her expansive musical library while embracing a fresh and fearless artistic perspective. Gaga describes the creative process 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.”
Leading up to the Mayhem album cycle, Gaga dropped Harlequin, a companion album to her starring role in Joker: Folie à Deux.
Gaga is set to play the FireAid Benefit Concert in Los Angeles later this week. In April, she will headline Coachella 2025 (get tickets here).