Everything We Know About Lady Gaga’s Seventh Album

After months of teasing, Lady Gaga is ready to reveal more information about her long-awaited seventh album. This will be the Grammy winner’s first LP since 2020’s Chromatica (though she released a standards-forward companion soundtrack to the film Joker: Folie à Deux titled Harlequin in the fall). Though she hasn’t given an exact release date yet, Gaga did tell Vogue in September that her new album will be out this February.

Gaga started hyping up LG7 just as the accidentally extended Chromatica era finally came to a close. At the end of her concert special Gaga Chromatica Ball, the screen flashed with the words “LG7. Gaga Returns.” She began offering up information on the new project as she promoted the film, which was recorded during her 2022 tour. And as she began promoting Joker, she gave even more details, leading up to the release of lead single “Disease.”

Here’s everything we’ve learned about LG7 so far.

The new album is fueled by “the art of intensity”

During a Q&A following a screening of Gaga Chromatica Ball back in May 2024, the singer spoke a bit about her writing process for her new music. She was already deep into writing and recording her Chromatica follow-up at the time.

“I am in the studio every single day. I have written so many songs, I’ve been producing so many songs, and it’s nothing like anything that I’ve ever made before,” she said at the time. “I love to break genre, and I love to explore music. There’s something really beautiful about knowing that you will be loved no matter what you do.”

She pointed out that the tour itself inspired much of her new music. “Something I’m definitely exploring right now is sort of the art of intensity and I think that the art of intensity actually began during this tour,” she continued. “But I’m not done with it yet.”

Her fiancé Michael Polansky encouraged her to make a pop record

Gaga met businessman Polansky back in 2019, at Napster founder Sean Parker’s birthday party. They got engaged during COVID lockdowns, and he would end up going on tour with her in 2022. Gaga pointed out in Vogue last fall that she had been in a pretty dark place while working on Chromatica. Things are much different now, and it’s largely due to Polansky’s encouragement.

“Michael is the person who told me to make a new pop record,” she revealed. “He was like, ‘Babe. I love you. You need to make pop music.’ ” In the same interview, Polansky pointed out that seeing his fiancé perform on tour is what made him push for her to return to the studio. “On the Chromatica tour, I saw a fire in her,” he explained. “I wanted to help her keep that alive all the time and just start making music that made her happy.”

“I feel like this new album, in a lot of ways, is about that time but from a place of happiness instead of misery,” Gaga continued. Polansky’s impact has been so big that he even gets a writing credit on lead single “Disease.”

The sound is a return to the “dark-pop” of The Fame Monster

Single “Disease” was a perfect introduction for fans into Gaga’s musical headspace at the moment. The heavy industrial song picked up lyrically where songs like “Bad Romance” and “The Cure” left off. “I can be your doctor/I can cure your disease,” she sings on the chorus.

In a November interview with Vogue about the song, she pointed out that her signature dark-pop sound will be an integral part of her new album.

“The album is chaotic from a genre perspective — it is genre-bending, and I think in that way is a deeply personal look into my mind as a producer and the way I think about music,” Gaga said. “When I write and produce and sing songs, I am always drawing upon my knowledge of the history of music, and so many artists and producers that came before me. In that way, this album is a celebration of a lot of the music that made me who I am, because when I returned to a darker pop style of pop, all my early experiences with music came out.”

The songs’ lyrics are mostly “fantasies”

“I wrote a lot of various fantasies and escapes,” Gaga told Vogue. “The only place reality is really present is that these fantasies are coming from a real person, trying to soothe their inner chaos. That’s where I found the reason for why I make this music. Each song is an exercise in personal chaos — a way to deal with myself.”

She made sure to point out, however, that it will still be fun. “The album is not extremely serious in that it’s very fun and meant to be enjoyed at a party, in a club, or at home having personal fun time — to be free of your worries at home or walking through life,” she said.

Number One single “Die With a Smile” will appear on LG7

Gaga’s duet with Bruno Mars, “Die With a Smile,” was originally released as a one-off collaboration for the pair. But she has since realized it was the “missing piece” of the album. “It’s a huge part of my album,” she told LA Times. “The record is full of my love of music — so many different genres, so many different styles, so many different dreams. It leaps around genre in a way that’s almost corrupt. And it ends with love.”

She continued, “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.”