Lady Gaga is seemingly teasing the imminent reveal of her highly anticipated seventh album – find out more below.
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Gaga’s seventh album, currently referred to as ‘LG7’, has been teased for several months with the singer-actor confirming in July that she was still in the studio. In August, she and Bruno Mars teamed up for the power ballad ‘Die With A Smile’.
In October, Gaga officially kicked off the road to ‘LG7’ with the record’s first official single, ‘Disease’. Little information has been shared about the album since, save for Gaga confirming that ‘Die With A Smile’ will be “a huge part of my album”.
Yesterday (January 21), Lady Gaga’s website began displaying a countdown clock that’s set to end on January 27. Yesterday, the site was designed to reflect the themes of Gaga’s debut album, and clicking and dragging through the site revealed the words ‘LG1’. Today, the site has been updated to read ‘LG2’.
The countdown clock and incorporation of her past albums seemingly point toward the impending reveal of ‘LG7’ on January 27. Additionally, Rolling Stone has reportedly confirmed with a source that details of the upcoming album will be revealed when the countdown clock comes to an end. It is worth noting that the album itself will not be released on the 27th.
Elsewhere, Gaga has described the album as being “full of my love of music,” with multiple genres and styles. She 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. 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.”
Gaga has also said that the album’s lead single ‘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.”
Her last album, aside from the Joker 2 soundtrack and the ‘Harlequin’ companion album, was 2021’s ‘Love For Sale’ with the late crooner Tony Bennett, a close friend of the singer.
Her most recent solo LP was 2020’s ‘Chromatica’, which NME gave a four-star review, writing: “On ‘Chromatica’ Gaga has fully embraced creating a pure pop album. The record is littered with catchy choruses and glossy production – but it goes deeper than that. ‘Chromatica’ is “about healing and it’s about bravery”, she explained before the album came out, adding: “sound is what healed me in my life period, and it healed me again making this record”. You can certainly hear that. From the exhilarating melodies to the positive, hope-filled lyrics, ‘Chromatica’ is a celebration – and a well-deserved one at that.”
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