Frank LeBon
Nearly five years have lapsed since Lady Gaga released her last studio album, Chromatica, in 2020. Now, the pop veteran is readying her seventh record. Titled Mayhem, it's due to arrive on March 7.
After months of teasing the album with a countdown on her website and dominating the charts again with her latest single "Die With A Smile" featuring Bruno Mars, Gaga formally unveiled Mayhem on January 27 with billboards in Times Square (which dropped about two hours before the countdown indicated).
In a press statement, she called the album a return "to the pop music my earliest fans loved." The album will contain 14 songs, and she described the process of making the new music 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."
Over the past few years Gaga's main music releases revolved around her projects in Hollywood, Joker 2 and Top Gun: Maverick, for which she received an Oscar nomination. In 2021, she shared Love For Sale, a joint album with Tony Bennett. It's exciting to hear that Gaga will be returning with music that sounds like a return-to-form, and already there's been some intriguing tidbits shared about the project — like her fiancé Michael Polansky's surprise involvement.
Ahead, see everything we know about Mayhem.
The Mayhem album cover.
Courtesy of Lady Gaga
When will Mayhem be released?
Mayhem arrives March 7. Pre-order the album here.
What's the meaning behind the title Mayhem?
Thankfully it's not a reference to her Joker 2 character Harley Quinn. Instead, Mayhem is supposed to describe the themes of the music, which will explore "chaos and transformation, celebrating music’s power to unite, provoke, and heal," per a press release.
What's the album's tracklist?
The album will contain 14 songs. Three singles, "Disease," "Die With A Smile," and "Abracadabra" have already been released. See the tracklist below.
1. Disease
2. Abracadabra
3. Garden of Eden
4. Perfect Celebrity
5. Vanish Into You
6. Killah ft. Gesaffelstein
7. Zombieboy
8. LoveDrug
9. How Bad Do U Want Me
10. Don’t Call Tonight
11. Shadow Of A Man
12. The Beast
13. Blade of Grass
14. Die With A Smile (feat. Bruno Mars)
Who's featured on Mayhem?
The new record is largely a solo Gaga effort with only two noted features, Bruno Mars and the French dark techno producer Gesaffelstein.
Notably, according to a press release, we know that Gaga executive produced the album with her fiancé Michael Polansky and Grammy-winning producer Andrew Watt, who's produced hits with Justin Bieber, Dua Lipa and Miley Cyrus. The producer Cirkut is also credited on the album.
