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How Lady Gaga Tuned Out the ‘Noise’ of Industry Expectations to Create Chaos on ‘Mayhem’
Lady Gaga talks to Billboard about the creation of her long-awaited album 'Mayhem,' the success of 'Die With a Smile' and more in a new interview.
When some of those projects fell commercially short of the stratospheric bar she’d set at the foundation of her career, that speculation curdled into declarations: Gaga’s reign as pop music’s paragon must be over. As she began piecing her music together, Gaga created a mantra for her work on the album: “Go with the chaos.” Instead of laboring under the expectation of finding a sonic or thematic subject, she instead opted to embrace the tumult itself and see where it took her. That’s not to say all of Mayhem is shrouded in darkness — later tracks on the album, like the campy disco banger “Zombieboy,” show Gaga shrugging off that self-seriousness to embrace pure pop hedonism.
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