Lady Gaga confirms ballroom influence on Mayhem: ‘I was a student of Paris Is Burning’

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Lady Gaga has been spilling tea about her upcoming seventh studio album MAYHEM which sounds more exciting the more we hear.

Many fans will already have been wondering if the singer’s utterance of “Category is: dance or die” on her current single ‘Abracadabra‘ suggests Gaga may have taken influence from the NYC ballroom scene whilst making the record, a suspicion she seems to have confirmed in a recent interview with InStyle.

“I grew up in New York City and I also was a student of Paris Is Burning when I was really, really young,” Mother Monster told the publication. “And I was always inspired by the tremendous amount of grace, freedom, expression, and joy of ballroom culture. I was lucky enough to be around some dancers that

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