Lady Gaga Unveils Title, Cover and Release Date for Her Upcoming Seventh Album
The Grammy winner's new album will feature 14 tracks returning Gaga to her pop roots
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After dropping a series of teasers on her official website, Gaga, 38, announced on Monday, Jan. 27 that her seventh studio album Mayhem will be released on March 7.
The project will feature 14 tracks, including the previously released songs "Disease" and "Die With a Smile" with Bruno Mars.
In a press release, the Grammy winner revealed Mayhem will be all about returning to her roots in a new way. "The album started as me facing my fear of returning to the pop music my earliest fans loved,” Gaga said in a statement.
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Rather than simply re-creating the sound of her early hits, however, Gaga describes her new album's style as being akin to "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.”
Per the release, Mayhem is about "chaos and transformation, celebrating music’s power to unite, provoke, and heal."
Gaga fans won't have to wait long to hear another new track off her upcoming album. The "Bad Romance" singer will debut the third single from Mayhem, alongside a music video, during a commercial break at the 2025 Grammy Awards on Feb. 2.
The complete Mayhem track list will be unveiled at a later date.
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In December 2024, the singer teased her then untitled seventh album in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. At the time, she said her new album would feature "so many different genres, so many different styles, so many different dreams."
"It leaps around genre in a way that’s almost corrupt. And it ends with love. That’s the answer to all the chaos in my life is that I find peace with love," she continued.
"Every song that I wrote, I just kept getting kind of swept away in these different dreams I was having about the past — almost like a recollection of all these bad decisions that I made in my life," she added, noting that the album "ends in this very happy place."
Mayhem is just the start of what's set to be a busy year for Gaga. On Jan. 30, she's joining artists including Billie Eilish, Joni Mitchell and Olivia Rodrigo at FireAid, a concert benefiting the people and communities impacted by the ongoing fires in Los Angeles.
From there, she'll be honored with the innovator award at the 12th annual iHeartRadio Music Awards on March 17, before her scheduled headlining performance at Coachella on April 11 and 18.
Gaga's seventh album, Mayhem, is available for pre-order now.
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