Mayhem, Lady Gaga’s new album is finally out and it marks a distinct move back to that original explosive artist we know and love. An actress, a beauty mogul, an activist, and, of course, a Grammy winning singer — there’s very little Stefani Germanotta aka Lady Gaga hasn’t done.

If Lady Gaga’s seventh studio album, Mayhem, is any indication, the superstar has spent the last five years doing some serious creative self-reflection. We’ve seen a number of different iterations of the superstar in the last few years: box-office-darling Gaga and Oscar-winning Gaga with A Star Is Born,

Her new album is a work of self-citation, rummaging around in Gaga’s own past for inspiration. It’s also, somehow, the freshest collection of songs she has released in years.

Lady Gaga has been known to keep fans on their toes, and it seems as though the star had been keeping a big secret from the world for her whole life - but some are just finding out

The star singer returns with her first solo LP since 2020, and it’s full of typically irresistible hooks and her signature sense of drama.

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

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.

"I was not sure that I should put that on the record, and Michael was like, ‘You have to — your fans are going to love that song,' " Gaga said