On a latest episode of Rolling Stone’s The Breakdown, Lady Gaga discussed her latest single “Disease,” and the spirit of the rest of her forthcoming album, which sonically shifts between dreamy sounds and sensory overload.
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Noting that the infectious single, released in October, acts as the official lead single for her forthcoming studio album, title yet unknown, but referred to as LG7. Gaga actually attests her summer collab with Bruno Mars, “Die With a Smile” as the true start of this new era of her music.
Talking to L.A. Times about the track, which is nominated for Song of the Year at the 2025 GRAMMY Awards, Gaga expressed, “It’s a huge part of my album.” Noting the collab will in fact appear on the record, calling it “this missing piece.”
Sharing the song came about during a late-night studio session with Mars, Gaga said, “he called me and he said, ‘I have this idea.’ I really wanted to hear what he was doing, so I went over there really late and he played me the start of this idea. He had a couple different ideas, but I said, ‘This one is a love song — I think people would love to hear us do a love song.’”
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LG7, which is expected to arrive in February, sees Gaga lean into something fresh and new, while also tapping back into the type of Pop songs she first infected the world. “The record is full of my love of music, so many different genres, so many different styles, so many different dreams,” Gaga said. “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. But it ends in this very happy place."
Back to The Breakdown, Gaga echoed the comments she the L.A. Times, about how much of her next album was inspired by the chaos of life and everything it brings. “There’s moments where we are sonically just trying to push sound as much as possible. There’s other moments where it’s all about love, and it’s super dreamy. That, to me, is true chaos,” Gaga expressed. “There are times when it’s hard to see the light, but I think sometimes what makes inner chaos harder is when you sometimes get a glimpse of the sun, because you’re like, ‘Man, I wish the sun would shine all the time,’ and then it reminds you of what you’re missing. So the album has all of that. It’s like a full experience.”
“To me, there’s some kind of chaos in all of the ways we try to analyze ourselves,” Gaga shared, and “‘Disease’ is the beginning of that. It started with this little voice on my shoulder saying ‘there’s no more tears to cry, I heard you begging for life,’ and that uncomfortable feeling that we can sometimes have when the voice in our head is not pleasant.”
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Also throughout her “breakdown” Gaga discussed recording the album at Rick Rubin’s famed Shangri-La studio in Malibu, what working with her fiancé Michael Polansky was really like, and more. Check out the entire interview below.
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