Lady Gaga reveals LG7 release date, describes fiance's orders: 'You have to make pop music'

Start your engines Little Monsters because now we know when Lady Gaga's seventh album will descend from pop heaven. According to a news Fashion The cover feature, LG7 – still officially untitled – will be released in February, with the untitled first single coming in October.

“There's a lot of pain associated with this adventure,” the singer told the magazine about the album. “And when I start to explore that pain it can bring out another side of my art. When I'm here in this studio [Rick Rubin’s Shangri-La]i am relaxed and i can face my demons and what is remarkable is… this is it the music. I can hear it back.”

The profile opens at Rubin's famous studio in Malibu — just down the road from Gaga's home — where Gaga recorded in 2016 Joannaas well as some of the music for the 2018 soundtrack to her feature film debut, A star is born. It reveals that Gaga has spent “the better part of 2024 here” working on both her new pop record and a second “surprise project” whose details have yet to be revealed.

What's more, the star's very public conundrum reveals that her fiance Michael Polansky – to whom she got engaged in April after a day of climbing – was the one who pushed her to return to her pop roots. “Michael is the man who told me to make a new pop record. He was like, “Baby. i love you You have to make pop music,” he said, with Polanski adding, “As anyone would do for the person they love, I encouraged her to lean into her joy. at Chromatica tour, I saw a fire in it; I wanted to help her keep it alive all the time and just start making music that made her happy.”

The writer then describes hearing a new, untitled, song from the upcoming album, writing that it's a “stark and ominous… old Gaga hairdo, unsettling yet powerful.”

Earlier in the article, Gaga noted that she feels “so happy” and healthy these days, unlike back in the day. Chromatica time. “This album was an absolutely horrible time for me with my mental health,” he said. “I was in a really dark place. I fought for many years before that.” The album was released in May 2020, just months after the COVID-19 pandemic, when Little Monsters had to dance at home alone for the singles 'Stupid Love' and 'Rain on Me'.

After breaking her hip during the Born This Way Ball tour ten years earlier – causing years of muscle pain due to fibromyalgia – pain-free Chromatica the exit was a revelation. “Michael and I did this tour together,” he said. “I did it without pain! I haven't smoked pot in years. Well, I changed. A lot. I feel like this new album, in many ways, is about that time, but from a place of happiness instead of misery. And now, Michael and I are really excited to organize our lives – and our marriage – around our creative output as a couple.”

Which, he said in an allusion to the music industry, was “really different from doing what other people want you to do.”