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Lady Gaga Returns to Her Dance Floor Roots — and Has a Blast — on ‘Mayhem’: Album Review
Lady Gaga returns to her dance floor roots — and has a blast — on her seventh album 'Mayhem.'
“Shadow of a Man” struts with the type of cool of wearing sunglasses at night; the David Bowie-referencing “Vanish Into You” builds towards its chorus with the same tension as “Bad Romance.” Lyrically, she’s often back to where she started, falling over in her nine-inch heels on “Eden” and assessing the dark side of fame a la “Paparazzi” on “Perfect Celebrity.” Gaga sat at the helm for “Mayhem,” executive producing alongside her fiancé Michael Polansky and Andrew Watt, the former Miley Cyrus collaborator who’s become a classic rock revitalizer for Elton John, the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney. There’s bits of funk, greasy grunge and Antonoffian synth-pop, and Gaga doesn’t try hard to play hide-the-influence: “Killah” featuring Gesaffelstein has the industrial throb of Nine Inch Nails’ “Closer”; “Zombieboy” is ripped out of the Chic handbook; and “How Bad Do U Want Me” is, quite plainly, cast in the same mold as Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space.”
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