MAYHEM included on Paste Magazine's "Best Albums of 2025 So Far"

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https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/best-albums/the-40-best-albums-of-2025-so-far

When Lady Gaga says that Mayhem is a “pop album,” she’s using that description loosely. It’s not a sibling of The Fame, or Born This Way, or Chromatica—even though all of those titles have mothered Mayhem into existence. Gaga, who is knocking on the doorstep of 40, has finally drawn from her greatest wellspring of inspiration, be it the chaos of counterculture punk, the panging, crushing metallic walls of Nine Inch Nails, Prince’s output with the New Power Generation or, unequivocally, David Bowie’s discography, namely Fame. She returns to the spaces of Chromatica, pulling from boogie and French house; she restores the sleazy, crooked divinity of The Fame with a potent dose of sex, power and resistance. “Vanish Into You” is her best song since “Judas”; “Zombieboy” welds a stupefying, Chic-like, four-on-the-floor rhythm with a head-splitting, angular guitar stroke; “How Bad Do U Want Me” summons the synths of Vince Clarke; power-balladry lights a fire within “Blade of Grass”; “Garden of Eden” soothes Gaga’s pleasured, bad-romantic soul after her slow-dance with sinners on “Disease”; the fist-pumping “Perfect Celebrity” calls back to her 2009 VMAs performance, where she bled from her stomach while singing “Paparazzi”—leaving a lot of people asking the same question then that I have now, as I listen to Mayhem front-to-back: How the hell did she pull this off? This is some of the most joy Gaga has felt making music, all but confirmed not just by her tone of voice when speaking to me about Mayhem, but in “Vanish Into You”‘s emphatic, “We were happy just to be alive” chorus. And it’s going to make a lot of her longtime fans happy too. Just like how her unpredictable outfits during the awards show cycle of 2010/2011 kept everyone guessing, the songs of Mayhem are just as capricious, strange and rewarding. —Matt Mitchell 

Edited Friday at 07:54 PM by lastpopicon

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Who's next? 

[andy232000 11,132]

Another one thank you!!!

They are starting the FYC Grammy campaign. This is wonderful and intelligent. They’ll probably do a second publication later on the year with a more definitive “best albums of 2025”, instead of “Best albums of 2025 so far”. Which works cause it provides something for now AND when actual Grammy voting begins.

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and they sing so much praise, as they should, but it's nice to see 

MAYHEM is really the strongest album of the year, the Grammy voters need to see that. 

[Gagaplayer315 13,931]

Oh we love to see the praise 

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MAYHEM also included on consequence's list of top 2025 albums  

https://consequence.net/list/30-best-albums-of-2025-so-far/

 

And vulture included Perfect Celebrity in the best songs of 2025 

https://www.vulture.com/article/best-songs-2025-new-music.html

[Ladle Ghoulash 21,717]

AOTY did that 

[River 114,668]

"we were happy just to be alive" it's her best lyrics of all time.

fight me.

[andy232000 11,132]

I wrote a full think piece myself that I was going to post about how Interscope Records has AOTY in the bag with either Kendrick or Gaga, and how they will campaign harder for Gaga because their strategy will be to widen the lead between her and other nominees, but NOT surpass Kendrick, hence Kendrick would get a more lowkey and whisper campaign while Gaga an offensive and very visible campaign. These articles are not coincidences, it’s part of a very airtight and massive set up the Interscope is making. They have the leading man and lady ready to go.
 

I was going to post it here but then I thought “ya’ll don’t care about my thoughts lololol”. But it seems this is exactly what is happening. 

If my theory is correct, we will see a spike of Gaga content and promo starting October all the way through December. In contrast, we won’t see much of Kendrick because they are avoiding voter fatigue. 

Edited Friday at 10:00 PM by andy232000

[andy232000 11,132]

Harper Bazaar, Consequence and even Pitchfork just praised the album too! They are going ALL out

Edited Friday at 10:31 PM by andy232000

[Ladle Ghoulash 21,717]

1 hour ago, River said:

"Gonna make the curtains cream, believe me” is her best lyric of all time.

fight me.

TEAAAAAA

Edited Friday at 10:35 PM by Ladle Ghoulash

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Grammy’s Album of the Year incoming!