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.

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.

"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