Lady Gaga – MAYHEM (Official Album)
For months now, Lady Gaga has been building up to the release of her new album.
This won’t be like Harlequin, the full-length jazz-standards Joker: Folie à Deux tie-in that Gaga released back in September.
She’d probably be OK if we all forgot that one existed. Instead, this rollout has been happening since before Harlequin came out. It’ll be Gaga’s first proper pop opus since 2020’s Chromatica.
Today, Gaga’s new album gets a title and a release date. It’s called Mayhem, and it drops March 7.
Lady Gaga didn’t announce Mayhem with a press release or a social-media post. Instead, she shared the news by buying billboards that went up in New York and Las Vegas this morning.
Hours later, Lady Gaga dropped a press release with a bit more info on Mayhem. The album has 14 songs, and Gaga serves as executive producer alongside Michael Polansky and Andrew Watt.
It’s got production from Gaga, Watt, Cirkut, and Gesaffelstein.
The album’s as-yet-untitled third single is coming 2/2, and its video will debut in a commercial break during the Grammys. The tracklist is coming later.
In that press release, Gaga says, “The album started as me facing my fear of returning to the pop music my earliest fans loved.” She says that making it was like “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.”
The album was recorded at Rick Rubin’s studio Shangri-La, in Malibu, California. The lead single “Disease” was released on October 25, 2024.
The album also includes “Die with a Smile,” a duet with Bruno Mars, which was released in August 2024 and spent eight weeks atop the Billboard Global 200 and four weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100.
Initially intended as a standalone single, it was later revealed to be featured on the album.
