Lady Gaga's 7th album 'Mayhem' - Release date, tracklist, collabs and more
27 January 2025, 16:08 | Updated: 27 January 2025, 16:41
When is Lady Gaga releasing 'Mayhem'? Here's everything you need to know about LG7.
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In November 2023, 'Bad Romance' singer Lady Gaga sparked LG7 rumours after she was papped leaving a restaurant with Black Eyed Peas singer will.i.am. The pair were carrying huge folders under their arms and it smelt like new music.
Then Gaga confirmed the rumours in a series of Instagram posts where she was seen working over a piano with the caption: 'Tik tok tik tok' Next she dropped a major clue in her Gaga Chromatica Ball film premiere in LA, May 2024. And after a mega Olympics Opening Ceremony performance she treated her French fans to snippets of her upcoming album.
In 2024 she released the album 'Harlequin' and her single with Bruno Mars 'Die With A Smile' but she hasn't put out a pop album since 'Chromatica' in 2020 and this recent hiatus has her fans itching for new music.
The first single of LG7, 'Disease', dropped in October 2024 and now, at the start of 2025 Gaga finally revealed the title and release date for LG7...
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When is Lady Gaga's new album coming out?
After Gaga updated her official website with a countdown which ended at 4pm GMT on Monday 27th January it was revealed that her album 'Mayhem' is coming March 7th!
And it has been revealed that the third single of the album will debut February 2nd with an accompanying video during a commercial break for the 2025 Grammys.
Gaga has said: "The album started as me facing my fear of returning to the pop music my earliest fans loved."
But it has been described as "far from a nostalgic throwback", as the album "reinvents [Gaga's] early sound with a kaleidoscopic approach that draws from her expansive musical library while embracing a fresh and fearless artistic perspective".
The 'Disease' singer has described her 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.”
What is LG7 called?
Lady Gaga's seventh album is officially called 'Mayhem'.
Some Little Monsters worked out the name prior to the announcement after they figured out the source code behind her website countdown, which we mentioned above.
What is the tracklist for 'Mayhem'?
'Mayhem' tracklist:
- 1. Disease
- 2. TBC
- 3. TBC
- 4. TBC
- 5. TBC
- 6. TBC
- 7. TBC
- 8. TBC
- 9. TBC
- 10. TBC
- 11. TBC
- 12. TBC
- 13. TBC
- 14. Die With A Smile
Gaga revealed that her duet with Bruno Mars 'Die With A Smile' is on the album while speaking to the LA Times, she said: "'Die With a Smile' is on my record — it’s a huge part of my album. It was like this missing piece. The record is full of my love of music — 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.
"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. But it ends in this very happy place."
At the Gaga Chromatica Ball film premiere Gaga teased one song and its lyrics were: Dance in the shadow of the night
During her interview for her Vogue cover, Gaga did reveal some more about her upcoming music. One of the songs on her album was described as "intense and ominous—an old-school Gaga banger, unsettling but also buoyant".
She said the song was her fiancé's idea, explaining: “Michael is the person who told me to make a new pop record. He was like, ‘Babe. I love you. You need to make pop music.’ ”
Michael told Vogue: “Like anyone would do for the person they love, I encouraged her to lean in to the joy of it. On the Chromatica tour, I saw a fire in her; I wanted to help her keep that alive all the time and just start making music that made her happy.”
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