Lady Gaga donates chaos with a new album

The essentials make Lady Gaga right on her seventh studio album: she maintains. And even very excellent, because when listening to the fourteen songs on « Mayhem » (in German: « Chaos »), it really doesn't get bored.

Together with her main producer Andrew Watt and Circut, she drives such a powerful arsenal of instruments, ideas, styles and disruptive musical turns and twists that ask itself whether it has to form a special fund.

« Mayhem » musically tends to overwhelm, sometimes also overwhelmed. All of this is not coherent, but it is definitely a brute great fun to indulge in this record. Let's take « Killah », one of just two songs with a guest, the French DJ Gesaffelstein. Starts like a commercially available radio song that uses Punk and « Kiss » by Prince, but suddenly the whole number turns towards techno and insane noise in a funny way.

Unpredictable and 80s vibes

Or « Zombieboy », immediately afterwards. The reference is disco, you are waiting for Nile Rodgers and your bass orgasm all the time, instead you get a violent electric guitar solo, not bad either. Or « The Beast », shortly before the end. There is hardly any more drama.

Anyone who was already there in the 1980s (or later got a taste, Lady Gaga will be at the end of the month 39), thinks of feeling reminded of Michael Jackson's « Dirty Diana », « Time After Time » by Cyndi Lauper and the overall work of one forgotten Taylor Dayne (« Tell It To My Heart »). « Mayhem » is certainly not predictable or easy to calculate.

Lady Gaga, born when Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta in New York, says about her album that she has been towards folk (« Joanne ») or Jazz (« Joanne ») after diverse excursionsLast year's « Harlequin » album flopped as well as the associated, really not good, Batman musical « Joker: Foil à Deux » of the also excellent actress) again want to put a pot of your artistic urban soup on the stove.

Means: Hard, crisp beats, synthesizer until you have dropped, industrial elements, concentration on her really strong, thankfully not even close to the annoying distortion software autotune-relaxed voice and in terms of content with the identities, with good and evil, with heaven and hell, love, death, lust, sex and spoiling.

From polarizing pop star to the mainstream

But « Mayhem » really doesn't sound really dark. Not abysmally either. But saucy, enjoyable, with a still fine feeling for melodic, like in the very pretty « Garden of Eden ». And with « Abracadabra » she convinces with a hits single that actually vehemently reminds of early triumph such as « Poker Face » and « Bad Romance », and in their video Lady Gaga Upper and Unterwormen in the best Madonna tradition. At that time towards the end of the nineties, Lady Gaga became the most exciting and polarizing pop star in the world.

That was fifteen years ago. Today Lady Gaga does not shock anyone. Associative excursion: In Florence there is a hippes hotel that was tempted by Dantes « Inferno » to offer rooms in the categories « Himmel » and « Hell ». The most striking difference: In the « sky » rooms there is a soft toy sheep on the bed, in which « hell » is waiting for a stuffed rat. They are both cute.

In any case, the controversies, visual times of their meat dressing, are over when she checked the MTV Video Music Awards with twenty kilos of beef in 2010. Her topics such as their emotional closeness to the LGBTQ community or their support of trans people are now deeper in the mainstream. Lady Gaga's have a new effect and importance that the rights of these and other minorities are currently being taken to the crossfire by the US government.

Classic album rashes should not be missing

So gaga became lost over the world with the years, her shock potential too, Gaga-Pop is more conventional today than ever. In fact, with all the display (starting with the album cover), « Mayhem » also documents an internal tornness that Stefani Germanotta may not yet have completely arrived in bourgeois idyll, but has at least docked.

With her fiance, the tech entrepreneur and investor Michael Polansky, she has been together for five years, many a song on « Mayhem », such as the mainstream poprock pleasure « Lovedrug », which is reminiscent of Chappell Roan, the sunny « Garden of Eden » or « Blade of Grass » are real love anthems.

« Blade of Grass » tells of engagement rings from grass and is already very piano -lady. A classic James Bond song if there should still be James Bond songs in the future. The classic album ride-up, global suicide and Bruno-Mars duet « The With A Smile », this maple syrup-sweet Diana-Ross-Lionel-Ross-Lionel-Ross-Lionel-Ross-Lionel-« Endless Love » for modern times, after all, it is no doubt that an album is no doubt that even in such a contradicting nature like Lady Gaga, the very big or very much love waiting.