It was November 2023 when Lady Gaga and Will.i.am were spotted mysteriously leaving a restaurant with giant folders in their hands. A PopCrave tweet reported the occasion to be a "four-hour dinner," and the pair of musicians were photographed leaving separately.

On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are marveling at the high-wire act Gaga pulled off with her seventh studio album.

The idea of big fun suggests the existence of little fun, and Lady Gaga is now the kind of pop star who can do both. “Just Dance.” Meat dress. Being carried down the red carpet at the Grammys inside an egg.

It is as complete a statement about who Lady Gaga is in 2025 as anything could be. MAYHEM repositions Gaga as a dance diva heavily indebted to the icons who came before her to an audience as likely to know her for wearing a meat dress as for performing with Tony Bennett.

“Mayhem” puts the lie to that idea: Brash, squirmy, full of detailed grooves and expertly crafted hooks, it’s a winning reclamation of her trademark sound — her best since 2011’s “Born This Way” and precisely the album you’d want her to drop before headlining Coachella, as Lady Gaga will do next month.

We started working on that song after we got engaged,” Gaga tells USA TODAY. “A long time ago, we were in the backyard and he said, ‘If I ever propose to you, what should

She dances on the line between clever self-referentiality and less inspired rehashing on her new LP, committing to the over-the-top excess that first made her a star.

MAYHEM, Gaga’s new and highly anticipated album has just been released this past Friday, March 7, 2025, and stands at 53 minutes long. This release makes MAYHEM Gaga’s eighth studio album and sixth solo album.

Lady Gaga made her name bringing a touch of strangeness to whatever she does, and on Saturday Night Live last night, where she played the host and musical guest, she delivered with over-the-top costumes and theatrical choreography in performances of songs off her new album,