After teasing LG7 for what feels like forever, Lady Gaga kept us on the edge of glory and our seats one last time with one last cryptic tease that ensured us the countdown to her latest era is inching closer.
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As Gaga’s Little Monsters are well aware, LG7 has been expected to drop next month. And while aside from dropping its first single, and sharing the upcoming project will be her most “chaotic” and “genre-bending” yet, as well as noting the record is "full of my love of music, so many different genres, so many different styles, so many different dreams,” that “leaps around genre in a way that’s almost corrupt,” and “ends with love,” in a recent interview, we don’t know much else about the album.
That being said, last week, Gaga launched a countdown clock on her official website (which randomly changes looks and colors) and had us all wondering what will arrive when time runs out. Would it be another single, maybe a reveal of the tracklist and cover art, or perhaps, do we dare even mention it, Gaga would finally announce LG7’s official title. Slated to run out at 11AM ET on Monday, January 27, the reveal has finally arrived.
As it seems, the skilled sleuth-y folks on the internet who guessed the name of her album via source code on the superstar's website were right, Lady Gaga is indeed getting ready to unleash MAYHEM on her Little Monsters.
Gaga confirmed as much with billboards in New York City and on Instagram, revealing her seventh studio album MAYHEM is “coming March 7.”
Gaga also confirmed, per a press release announcement, that the project will feature 14 tracks, with a new single and music video arriving February 2 during a commercial break midway through the 2025 GRAMMYs broadcast.
“The album started as me facing my fear of returning to the pop music my earliest fans loved,” Gaga stated in the press release, describing the songwriting process as “reassembling a shattered mirror,” which is artistically depicted in the black-and-white cover art. “Even if you can’t put the pieces back together perfectly, you can create something beautiful and whole in its own new way.”
Not counting Harlequin, the companion album to Joker: Folie à Deux that Gaga dropped back in September, her upcoming album will be her first full-length solo LP since 2020’s Chromatica. To date, she’s released several versions of the album’s first single, “Disease,” as well as her No. 1 smash duet with Bruno Mars, “Die With a Smile,” which according to Gaga will be included in the new album’s tracklist.
Ahead of releasing her next single, Gaga is set to take the stage alongside Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, No Doubt, Katy Perry, Jelly Roll, Sting, Stevie Nicks, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dave Matthews, Green Day and many more at the FireAid Benefit Concert on Thursday, January 30. Lady G is also set to headline at Coachella this year on April 11 and 18.