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Lady Gaga’s 'Mayhem' and the Art of Pop Nonconformity April 24, 2025
Five years after pandemic lockdowns disrupted the rollout of Chromatica, Lady Gaga has blessed our ears with her gigantic, return-to-form seventh studio album: Mayhem. The past years for the star have been action-packed with everything but giving us ...
Lady Gaga’s Return to Form March 14, 2025
In the spring of 2011, Lady Gaga, then twenty-five years old and on the cusp of releasing her second full-length studio album, “Born This Way,” did something unexpected—at least for a pop star of snowballing fame. I’m not talking about the way she’d ...
Lady Gaga Throws Everything in the Pot March 13, 2025
Lady Gaga blew through Saturday Night Live over the weekend, weaponizing boisterous vocal runs and skinny fringe dresses that suggested the 38-year-old singer-songwriter, producer, and actor had put in the proverbial 10,000 hours studying zesty mid-2...
Lady Gaga and the Mayhem of Modern Music March 12, 2025
Do you remember when studio albums told stories? When you bought a CD and listened to every song on it, in order? There was no shuffle, and if you wanted to make a playlist you had to burn it onto a disc, so musicians gave their albums narrative arcs...
Lady Gaga Sounds Like Herself Again March 12, 2025
The anxiety of influence, a phrase that the literary critic Harold Bloom coined in 1973 to describe the struggle to write innovative poetry, lives on today in the form of reheated nachos. In internet slang, to reheat someone else’s nachos is to take ...
