Lady Gaga has revealed new details about her upcoming seventh album – see what she had to say below.
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In October, the ‘Born This Way’ singer shared dramatic new pop single ‘Disease’ – which served as the lead single of her new album. Little is known about the record yet, although it has been dubbed as ‘LG7’ by fans and is expected to arrive next February.
The track saw Lady Gaga make her return to pop, and was preceded by the Bruno Mars collaborative power ballad ‘Die With A Smile’ in August.
Now, Gaga has revealed more about ‘LG7’ in a new interview with the L.A. Times. Touching on the new record, she said that like the juxtaposition between its lead singles, the album will explore “so many different genres, so many different styles, so many different dreams”.
She continued, explaining: “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.”
Elsewhere in the chat, she said that ‘Die With A Smile’ is “a huge part” of ‘LG7’, likening it to “this missing piece”. She’s also teased that she’s begun putting together a visual representation of the record that will be showcased at her Coachella 2025 headlining slot.
Reflecting on her short-notice headlining set in 2017 after Beyoncé had to pull out due to pregnancy, Gaga said: “I didn’t have the time to totally do what I really wanted to do… I did it, and I loved it. But you know when you have a vision in your mind of how you want to do something? It’s time to make it happen.”
Explaining what fans can expect from the upcoming LP, she said earlier this month that ‘Disease‘ felt like “a way into the chaos of the album, which is kind of exercises in chaos – different sides of who I am as a person”.
Prior to ‘Disease’, Gaga shared ‘Harlequin’ – a companion album to her film Joker: Folie à Deux. The film – though praised by critics – flopped at the box office. In a four-star review of the film, NME wrote about her performance: “Lady Gaga is equally good as Harleen, sparking palpably insane chemistry with Phoenix, and there’s strong support from both Keener and Brendan Gleeson as Jackie, a prison guard with a fondness for musicals.”
