Gaga x Vogue, LG7 February 2025 Release Confirmed

[ARTPOPistah 287]

1 hour ago, ARTPOPistah said:

Once again we're winning

https://www.vogue.com/article/lady-Gaga-october-2024-cover-interview

 

INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS :

- LG7 in February + Tease to a surprise project: "Gaga has spent the better part of 2024 here, recording both a surprise project and a new pop record she has taken to calling LG7, which comes out in February. (She will release its first single in October.)   [...] She does eventually play some music for me [...] She queues up a song from her new pop record. It’s intense and ominous—an old-school Gaga banger, unsettling but also buoyant. She does not want to say too much about the new record other than to tell me that it was her fiancé’s idea. “Michael is the person who told me to make a new pop record. He was like, ‘Babe. I love you. You need to make pop music.’ ” Says Polansky: “Like anyone would do for the person they love, I encouraged her to lean in to the joy of it. On the Chromatica tour, I saw a fire in her; I wanted to help her keep that alive all the time and just start making music that made her happy.”  [...] Gaga: "I feel like this new album, in a lot of ways, is about that time but from a place of happiness instead of misery";

- Gaga on Chappel Roan, Charli XCX, Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift and Kesha: "At one point, we get into a conversation about her own recent fanaticism. She rattles off a list: Charli XCX, Chappell Roan, Billie Eilish. “I mean, I really love them. I go on the internet and, like, cry. And I love Taylor Swift too. And Kesha. I watch it all, and I’m like: Yup. Go! Just Go.” Here, her voice cracks and her eyes well up with tears. “I’m not only cheering them on, I want them to know that my heart is in it with them. And I want them all to feel really happy.” I am strangely moved. “Sorry!” she shouts through a laugh as I hand her a tissue. I get it, I say. She stares at me for a second, blinks a couple of times, and says, “You and I getting together is really important.” ";

- Gaga on her engagement with Michael Polansky:“My mom met him and she said to me, ‘I think I just met your husband,’ and I said, ‘I’m not ready to meet my husband!’ I could never have imagined that my mom…found the most perfect person for me?” [...] "what I want my fans to know is that I’m just, like, so happy. I’m healthy. I feel like the last time they heard from me—in this way—was Chromatica, and that album was about an absolutely horrible time for me with my mental health. I was in a really dark place. I struggled for, like, many years before that. But everything started to change. Because I had a real friend who saw the ways in which I was unhappy and why. And he wasn’t afraid to truly hold my hand. And get to know me. On a very deep level" [...] "And now, Michael and I are really excited to organize our lives—and our marriage—around our creative output as a couple"

- Gaga on her life-career balancing: "“For a long time, for most of my career,” she says, “my life was controlled by this business: what people wanted from me; what they hoped I could achieve; how to keep me going. And that can be a lot of pressure and it’s scary. But I feel like I’m finally coming out on the other side".

- Stefani talks about Gaga : "INTERVIEWER: Is it all fantasy? Is Lady Gaga…a persona?"

Gaga: “Man. That’s a big question. You know it’s not a persona. It’s not. I am all of these things. The person that I am when I’m onstage in front of 85,000 people? That is also me. That’s like one of the freedoms of my relationship with Michael. It feels really nice to have someone value you whether there’s 85,000 people watching or…the dogs. To see the whole you. And Lady Gaga is the whole me.There was a time in my career when I…. Look….”—she cocks an eyebrow and slips into a self mocking tone—“where I spoke in an accent in interviews or told lies, but I was performing. Now, it’s a much more palatable mixture of authenticity and imagination. I feel like the world, to a fault, operates in these binaries: You’re either real or you’re fake; you’re authentic or you’re shallow. But for me, I played a lot with artifice. I was fascinated with artifice, really, truly fascinated with it as an artistic tool. I still am. But my relationship to myself as an artist now is more empowered: This is me. This. Is. Me. It’s too…complicated to split yourself in two and have to turn it off and on. It’s so much more empowering to be like, I’m a woman and I’m super complex. Michael said to me once, ‘I will know that you’re really feeling great when you know that you have you.’ I used to always be like, But who’s gonna have my back?! And now I’m like, I’ve got my back.”

Sorry to quote myself but If you're interested here I've quoted some interview highlights 

[lance13 984]

I think it's PERFECT! It would have been crazy to release LG7 super close to Joker. Space it out......make us hungry for it.

[Hennycomb 3,052]

9 minutes ago, HelloHangoverz said:

This is literally so well worded. Agree 100000%

Last time I was worried about Gaga hitting and doing well was only to throw it to Katycats faces. But we don't even need that anymore . Even Madonna fans have stopped bothering us. It's proved Gaga is a legend so beyond her pop records sales. We're good now, the charts can burn  LG7 IS COMING!!!!!!!!! (like winter in GoT, slowly but surely)

Edited September 5 by Hennycomb

[buzzkill 4,840]

i'm happy about it being a long roll out also - we havent had it since idk... joanne?

[spicemuncher 1,591]

I love everything about this! WE FINALLY HAVE A TIMELINE!!! Give the era room to breathe, have 2 singles before the album launch, there will be a lot of excitement in the stretch between October and February, and it gives a lot of time for preorders to come in.

I do think that February timeline might be related to presales if there’s a tour? “Pre-order the album before xx and get presale access” sort of deal. It works perfectly for a summer tour.

The bit in the article when she said Michael is the person who told her to make a new pop record- that made me SO happy. 

[Starmie25 12,714]

21 minutes ago, ARTPOPistah said:

what I want my fans to know is that I’m just, like, so happy. I’m healthy. I feel like the last time they heard from me—in this way—was Chromatica, and that album was about an absolutely horrible time for me with my mental health. I was in a really dark place. I struggled for, like, many years before that. But everything started to change. Because I had a real friend who saw the ways in which I was unhappy and why. And he wasn’t afraid to truly hold my hand. A

[buzzkill 4,840]

now i'm more leaning to a late october single release... maybe it's 18th for sure! 

[Putang Ina Mo 2,055]

2 hours ago, HelloHangoverz said:

What is this surprise project? 

Maybe the rumored The Weeknd collab?

[rvfzme 5,229]

It will be better than Chromatica 

More happier Gaga, true Gaga, true music 

Edited September 5 by Rafau

[Mr Oak 6,972]

15 minutes ago, lance13 said:

I think it's PERFECT! It would have been crazy to release LG7 super close to Joker. Space it out......make us hungry for it.

How much more hungry mama?

[AndiGaga 5,941]

Gaga RETURNS... 9 months later 

But i'm just happy to have the lead single next month.

but... Abracadabra has to come out before Halloween. It does not make sense. Is it the lead?

[Chlorine 47,847]

6 minutes ago, buzzkill said:

now i'm more leaning to a late october single release... maybe it's 18th for sure! 

Single Oct 25th album Feb 7th sounds nice to me 

[nodandsmile 9,758]

so what I gather from this interview is that Michael Polansky is THE man

[buzzkill 4,840]

Just now, Mr Oak said:

How much more hungry mama?

she will give some cookies on the way (singles, visual, cover, music videos)

[SHALLOW 15,700]

I wish she started the era early this year. It would've worked great.

Now we have 4 months between the single and album and it's not like she's going to do a lot of promo in December an January, which are going to be 2 very boring months. 

But I'm happy we at least know when she's releasing stuff