Congrats, GAGA!

2026-05-18T01:55:17Z

Okay, I was traveling internationally, also at the end of my semester, grading, assignments, everything all at once, and then I watched MAYHEM: REQUIEM, and was just like… wow. Amazing. Such an experience. I was genuinely mesmerized by the visuals. It felt so immersive and addictive, and I really loved the creative direction she took. The reinterpretation of the songs worked so well for me!

Honestly, I don’t really have any major complaints. I just genuinely enjoyed the entire experience. I want to congratulate Gaga and everyone involved because you can feel the amount of vision and care behind it. More than anything, I’m glad she seems confident enough again to just do whatever she wants creatively. At some point, it felt like she maybe lost confidence in herself a little or felt pressured to constantly prove something groundbreaking. But it doesn’t always have to be that. Sometimes an artist can just create, experiment, be theatrical, weird, excessive, emotional, and that itself is enough.

I also think people don’t always have to love everything, and constructive criticism is completely fair, but sometimes the conversations become unnecessarily mean. I really hope Gaga doesn’t absorb too much of that negativity because I genuinely appreciate the steps she keeps taking creatively. I hope she continues doing exactly that.

I’m especially obsessed with the new version of “Die With a Smile.” I was literally on my flight, exhausted and stressed, and whenever I got Wi-Fi, I kept replaying it. The new version of “Disease”, "Abracadabra" also incredibly intoxicating. “Shadow Of A Man” too. They just hit in a very specific way.

Aesthetically? Wow. I genuinely want the posters, the visuals, the album imagery everywhere. I think the sound and visual world she created here is incredible. My one disappointment? I wish this were her LG8, not a reinterpretation of MAYHEM. Still works very fine with me!