Lady Gaga has always had a love affair with electronic music, and it seems her upcoming LG7 album will push that passion into bold new territory.
Gaga today revealed that her long-awaited seventh studio album will heavily feature collaborations with DJs and dance music producers, including the French electro icon Gesaffelstein.
“I loved collaborating with all the DJs and Gesaffelstein on my new album,” Gaga told the Los Angeles Times. “I loved learning about industrial music and about all the different crevices of electronic music.”
Revered for her ability to reinvent herself, Gaga’s dive into industrial electronic sounds could mark her most daring evolution yet, even after 2020’s cyberpunkian Chromatica album. A neon-soaked odyssey through heartbreak and healing, that record featured production from Skrillex, Madeon, Axwell, Boys Noize and Tchami. She twisted the knife in the album’s hyperactive remix package, recruiting Arca, Mura Masa, A. G. Cook and more.
Gesaffelstein stands as an ideal Gaga collaborator after releasing his first album in five years, GAMMA, back in March. Embracing a similar approach to Chromatica, his virtuosic command of texture and timbre felt both alien and intimately familiar.
Speaking with Vogue in September, Gaga revealed that LG7 is set to release in February 2025, just a few months before her hotly anticipated headlining set at Coachella. She has since released the album’s lead single, “Disease,” a dark midtempo track; and “Die With a Smile,” a ballad with Bruno Mars that became the fastest song to reach a billion streams on Spotify.
