Lady Gaga and the evolution of the pop icon
The New Statesman | UK politics and culture
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🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Lady Gaga rewrote the rules of female pop stardom. Now she's back with a new album. Can she do it again?
Kate Mossman reviewed Lady Gaga's latest album, Mayhem, for the New Statesman and joins Tom Gatti on the Culture podcast to discuss the changing face - and powerful influence - of pop music.
Read Kate's review here: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music/2025/03/on-mayhem-lady-gaga-makes-a-chaotic-return-to-form
Mayhem by Lady Gaga is published by Insterscope Records.
Excerpts used in this episode are taken from the following for the purposes of criticism and review:
Disease (Lady Gaga)
Abracadabra (Lady Gaga)
Killah (Lady Gaga feat. Gestaffelstein)
Die with a smile (Lady Gaga feat. Bruno Mars)
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