Lady Gaga MAYHEM review: ‘Gaga in her most straight forward pop star mode since The Fame’

Lady Gaga’s cover art for ‘Mayhem’ album (Image: Frank LeBon)

Both little monsters and the pop music world have been waiting with bated breath for the release of Lady Gaga‘s seventh studio album Mayhem, and finally the day is upon us. The LP lands in our laps after a peculiar period in the singer’s career. Fresh off the back of a career low with critically-panned Joker: Folie A Deux, which looked like it could have put a bullet in the star’s once promising acting career, and its duff companion album Harlequin, new album Mayhem promised a return to the sort of balls to the wall pop extravaganza that cemented Gaga’s status as a once in a generation kind of pop star.

The album’s singles campaign had its peaks and troughs.

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