Lady Gaga finally confirmed the existence of LG7 — and announced its title, release date and more.
The Grammy winner, 38, revealed on Monday, January 27, that her seventh album is titled Mayhem and will arrive on Friday, March 7.
“The album started as me facing my fear of returning to the pop music my earliest fans loved,” Gaga said in a press release, which noted the album “reinvents her early sound with a kaleidoscopic approach that draws from her expansive musical library while embracing a fresh and fearless artistic perspective.”
Gaga went on to note that making the album 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.”
Rich Fury/Getty Images Lady Gaga released her last studio solo album in 2020, but fans won’t have to wait too much longer for the next one. The 13-time Grammy winner, 38, teased the upcoming project, which she calls LG7, in a profile with Vogue, published Friday, September 6. In it, she reveals that the album […]
Her fiancé, Michael Polansky, is listed as an executive producer on the project along with Gaga and Andrew Watt. The album will include last year’s single “Disease” as well as her chart-topping duet with Bruno Mars, “Die With a Smile.”
The Oscar winner is set to premiere Mayhem’s third single and music video during a commercial break at the 67th Grammy Awards, which air Sunday, February 2.
Gaga initially teased her new album last fall in a Vogue cover story promoting her turn as Harley Quinn in Joker: Folie à Deux. “There’s a lot of pain associated with this adventure,” she told the outlet in September 2024. “And when I start to explore that pain it can bring out another side to my artistry. When I’m here at this studio, I’m relaxed and I am able to face my demons and what’s remarkable is … that’s the music. I’m able to hear it back.”
That same month, she surprised fans with the release of Harlequin, which she described as a companion album to Folie à Deux rather than a traditional Gaga solo album. The project featured covers of American standards from the film’s soundtrack as well as two original songs by Gaga. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, the pop star explained that Harlequin was partly inspired by her own experience of becoming famous at a young age.
“Playing a strung-out girl my whole career was a way for me to split off from my true self, but, it’s all me,” she told the outlet in September 2024. “Where I was in my life for a long time, I was on a path that was pretty futile because I was so split off from reality. My dedicated fans know this about me, that playing a persona had a price, and it has a price for Lee and her love of Joker. There’s definitely a way that I address that on this record.”
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