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How Lady Gaga Managed to Conjure the Past & Look to the Future on ‘Mayhem’


On the new Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, Katie & Keith are marveling at the high-wire act Lady Gaga pulled off with her seventh studio album 'Mayhem.'

There is so much pressure on pop stars to simultaneously evolve as artists while retaining what made them a beloved musician in the first place. And somehow, in that unforgiving landscape, Lady Gaga managed to thread the needle with her seventh studio album, Mayhem, and create a project that both honors the past and moves toward the future. Plus, Blackpink’s LISA notches a top 10 debut on the Billboard 200 with her first solo full-length studio album Alter Ego, while Gracie Abrams gets her first No.

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