Lady Gaga offered fans a glimpse at her upcoming album, Mayhem, during the 2025 Grammy Awards.
The pop star, 38, debuted “Abracadabra,” the third single from her seventh studio album, and the song’s music video in a commercial break during the Sunday, February 2, awards show. “The category is dance or die,” Gaga says at the beginning of the video, which features numerous dance sequences and the kind of outlandish looks that the singer favored in the early years of her career.
Fans are already living for the new song, which is a return to the upbeat dance music that originally made Gaga famous — think “Poker Face” and “Bad Romance.” “THIS IS EVERYTHING,” tweeted one fan. “LADY GAGA IS SO BACK.”
Another listener added, “OH MY GOD ABRACADABRA SOUNDS LIKE VINTAGE LADY GAGA MOTHA MONSTA IS BACK YALL #GRAMMYs.”
Gaga is nominated for two Grammys this year, with her “Die With a Smile” collaboration with Bruno Mars receiving nods for Song of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. While the duet was initially promoted as a standalone single upon its August 2024 release, it was later included on Mayhem.
Earlier in the evening, Gaga and Mars teamed up for a performance of “California Dreamin’” in tribute to those affected by the Los Angeles wildfires.
In November 2024, Gaga and Mars, 39, reacted to their double nomination.
“I’m so grateful for these 2 GRAMMY NOMINATIONS! 😭,” Gaga gushed via Instagram at the time. “Because of our amazing fans we are so blessed to be nominated for Song of the Year and Best Pop Duo recording for Die With A Smile!! @recordingacademy We love y’all! 😭Monsters and Hooligans did that! 🥂.”
Mars added in the comments section, “(Monsters 🤝 Hooligans) Thank you! We love you!”
Days before the Grammys, on Monday, January 27, Gaga announced that Mayhem will be released on March 7. The 14-track record will include “Die With a Smile” and Gaga’s October 2024 single, “Disease.”
Gaga teased the project in a press release at the time, noting that “the album started as me facing my fear of returning to the pop music my earliest fans loved.”
She went on to describe Mayhem as “resembling a shattered mirror: even if you can’t put the pieces back together perfectly, you can create something beautiful and whole in its own new way.”
According to the press release, the album is about “chaos and transformation, celebrating music’s power to unite, provoke and heal.”
As for Gaga’s history with the Grammys, she had 13 trophies and 38 nominations under her belt prior to Sunday’s ceremony, previously winning for Best Electronic/Dance Album for The Fame and Best Dance Recording for “Poker Face” in 2010, Music Video/Short Form and Female Pop Vocal Performance for “Bad Romance” and Pop Vocal Album for The Fame Monster in 2011, Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Cheek to Cheek in 2015, Best Song Written for Visual Media and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Shallow” and Best Pop Solo Performance for “Joanne (Where Do You Think You’re Goin’?)” in 2019, Best Song Written for Visual Media for “I’ll Never Love Again (Film Version)” and Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media for A Star Is Born in 2020, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Rain on Me” in 2021 and Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Love for Sale in 2022.
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