Pop stars spend their careers impaled on the horns of a perennial dilemma: whether or not to reinvent themselves and present vary, or persist with core worth variations. With Mayhem, her sixth solo album, her tenth total, Girl Gaga has dumped the previous technique, which was stuttering of late, for an emphatic reiteration of the latter.
Mayhem marks a wholesale return to dancefloor freakiness, full with self-quotes (Abracadabra) and a hard-edged digital takedown of fame (Excellent Superstar) that might not have been misplaced on her debut album, 2008’s The Fame.
Virtually the whole lot right here has Little Monster claws. Goth Gaga brings together with her zombies, beasts and illness, plus a handful of convincing funk diversions (Killah). However different spectres hover over this banquet: Madonna, most clearly, but in addition Charli xcx – who has been channelling genuine outsider club-pop for the last decade Gaga has been pursuing jazz and performing – plus Chappell Roan, self-made convenor of the queer occasion individuals. Most unexpectedly of all, it’s exhausting to inform whether or not the Taylor Swift-alike How Unhealthy Do U Need Me is meant as homage or satire, however it sits a contact oddly on a file that purports to know who the true Gaga is.
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