Lady Gaga knew from the very beginning of her relationship with Michael Polansky that their romance was anything but shallow. In an interview with The New York Times published Saturday (March 8) - one day after the pop star's new album Mayhem arrived - Gaga recalled how she knew from the jump that her now-fiancé's feelings for her were "genuine,

Lady Gaga, who releases her seventh studio album 'Mayhem' on Friday, March 7, confirmed her engagement to businessman Michael Polansky in 2024. See photos of the couple in love here

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.

In an interview with 'The New York Times Magazine,' the pop megastar also opened up about why meeting Polansky was such a "big blessing"

She dances on the line between clever self-referentiality and less inspired rehashing on her new LP, committing to the over-the-top excess that first made her a star.

“Mayhem” puts the lie to that idea: Brash, squirmy, full of detailed grooves and expertly crafted hooks, it’s a winning reclamation of her trademark sound — her best since 2011’s “Born This Way” and precisely the album you’d want her to drop before headlining Coachella, as Lady Gaga will do next month.

For those who have wanted the old Gaga back, her new album is a nostalgia trip that completes the journey after the 2020’s pandemic-plagued “Chromatica.”

Lady Gaga's Mayhem has stormed to No. 1 on the U.K.'s Official Albums Chart to give the pop icon her fifth chart-topper (March 14). The new LP now joins The Fame (2009), Born This Way (2010), Artpop (2013) and Chromatica (2020) as No.

As Lady Gaga’s Mayhem prepares to debut, Harlequin surprisingly returns to the Jazz Albums chart, while her classics remain strong on Billboard rankings.

It comes after Gaga hinted at impending Australian tour dates, which would mark her first in the country since 2014.