While her new album Joanne is influenced by a wide variety of genres, from rock and country to funk and soul, Lady Gaga wants you to know that it's still a very pop record. Speaking to Ryan Seacrest, Gaga said that the much buzzed-about album, due out on October 21st, is filled with "sugary-sweet hooks," but it's not your normal pop project.

"At the center of it all, it is a pop record," she explained. "I will carve it into my chest... because I don't know if people forget this about me, or if it's just the way I am, but I'm never aiming to make a pop record that is of the status quo or what's happening in music. My aim is to always be different and to push things further. Not necessarily forward or backwards, but just push them in a new direction and it alway has a positive message behind it."

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"I'm just completely involved with every aspect of it," Gaga continued. "I don't just walk into a studio and someone goes, 'Here's the record. We think you should sing this. Go in the booth, let's see how it sounds. The tracks done.' That's not how it works for me. I go in the studio and I have nothing and me and Mark sit there and stare at each other, 'What are we going to do now?' and then we make a record, and I work on the arrangements. I co-produced the whole album, I co-wrote the whole album, if not all the music coming from my soul and spirit."

She added: "It's one of those things where I kind of found myself in interviews bringing myself back to the message of The Fame, because it's almost like I need to remind people that I'm not interested in making normal pop music. I never have been and my interest has always been to burst the bubble and be the fist that gashes through the window because that's what's exciting and fun and it's what I love to do."

Listen to Gaga's interview with Ryan Seacrest, as well as her acoustic performance of "Perfect Illusion," below...