Lady Gaga Says New Album Is a ‘Recollection’ of All the ‘Bad Decisions’ She’s Made in Her Life

Lady Gaga fans are going to learn a lot more about the pop star’s life once her seventh studio album drops in February.

In a new interview with the Los Angeles Times published Thursday (Dec. 19), Gaga spilled details about the highly anticipated LP, a life-spanning project that she says is “full of [her] love of music” and contains “so many different genres, so many different styles, so many different dreams.”

“It leaps around genre in a way that’s almost corrupt,” the 13-time Grammy winner told the publication. “And it ends with love. 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.”

She added, “But it ends in this very happy place.”

The A Star Is Born actress first revealed in a September interview with Vogue that her long-awaited seventh album would arrive at the beginning of next year, just a couple months before she headlines Coachella 2025. She also shared at the time that her fiancé, tech businessman Michael Polansky, was the person who convinced her it was time to return to pop music following 2020’s Chromatica.  

Gaga has since dropped LG7’s lead single, November’s “Disease,” a dark dance-pop track that reached No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100. Three months prior, she and Bruno Mars teamed up for cinematic duet “Die With a Smile,” which the “Rain on Me” singer confirmed to the Times is definitely on her new album’s tracklist.

“It’s a huge part of my album,” she told the publication of the ballad, which spent eight weeks atop the Billboard Global 200. “It was like this missing piece.”

“It was the lyrics — this idea of a song that was about what we would do if the world was ending,” Gaga added of making “Die With a Smile” with the Silk Sonic star. “I just remember feeling like it was a song that people needed to hear. I write music all the time, and sometimes you feel like you’re making something that some people will like. But there’s other times that you work on something and you just know it’s gonna deeply speak to all different kinds of people. I knew it right away.”