Lady Gaga

[palemoonbaby 15,428]

this song is so good. it feels like old Gaga but in reinvented way.

ABRACADABRA ABRACADABRAAAAA ABRACADRABA ABRACADABA- this literally stucked in my head

[Embach 48,790]

I really loved the new song and video. I loved Disease more but this is also good, especially the video! Very clubby and dancey song!

[Bubble Dreams and Cola 97]

2 hours ago, Let the Light In said:

Maybe the lady in red/mayhem character is LMs themselves shouting her to Dance or Die. 

I feel like the Mayhem character represents her workahoolic persona. That's why she said in her ELLE interview, that she wish she could have been be advised to not be too hard on herself.

In "Disease" MV she clearly tries to purge herself from the pain by making her traumas personas work hard till a healthier one appears. But it end badly cause she realize that her traumas are a part of her and she can't get rid of it. 

In "Abracadabra" it seems like she wants the blonde "Lady Gaga" persona to fit to the public and academic expectations. In the lyrics she addresses the phantom of the dance-floor to create a pop song bc that's what the lady in red wants. But it also seems like there's a sort of duality between the attempts to succeed and the reality : Mayhem in red represents a kind of dominatrix, evil force despite the fact that she was supposed to be a doctor. While "Lady Gaga" persona embodies the purity, she's dressed in white, her outfit are noble, she even wear a cross on her outfit and even did the Christ pose, etc... It seems like she wants to chose the right path so that's why she confronts Lady in Red at the end.

https://youtu.be/vBynw9Isr28?t=260&si=l48cowpFywToTHzO

 

I'm surprised that we didn't saw the car of Mayhem, I feel like the car crash symbolism is an important aspect of LG7 

 

[Come With Me 4,287]

28 minutes ago, Bubble Dreams and Cola said:

I feel like the Mayhem character represents her workahoolic persona. That's why she said in her ELLE interview, that she wish she could have been be advised to not be too hard on herself.

In "Disease" MV she clearly tries to purge herself from the pain by making her traumas personas work hard till a healthier one appears. But it end badly cause she realize that her traumas are a part of her and she can't get rid of it. 

In "Abracadabra" it seems like she wants the blonde "Lady Gaga" persona to fit to the public and academic expectations. In the lyrics she addresses the phantom of the dance-floor to create a pop song bc that's what the lady in red wants. But it also seems like there's a sort of duality between the attempts to succeed and the reality : Mayhem in red represents a kind of dominatrix, evil force despite the fact that she was supposed to be a doctor. While "Lady Gaga" persona embodies the purity, she's dressed in white, her outfit are noble, she even wear a cross on her outfit and even did the Christ pose, etc... It seems like she wants to chose the right path so that's why she confronts Lady in Red at the end.

https://youtu.be/vBynw9Isr28?t=260&si=l48cowpFywToTHzO

 

I'm surprised that we didn't saw the car of Mayhem, I feel like the car crash symbolism is an important aspect of LG7 

 

What a beautiful and well thought take!!!

[Bubble Dreams and Cola 97]

2 minutes ago, Come With Me said:

What a beautiful and well thought take!!!

Ty 

[ldrzodiac 1,672]

I’m so obsessed with Abracadabra I can’t stop listening!!!

[finalgirl 2,425]

anwhfnsncnsnsnkemfkskdk. like oh my gooood. abracadabra's giving me the same rush when judas was released. now i need someone to l*ak garden of eden IMMEDIATELY.

[Platinum Greenwich 13,927]

she TORE

[Anonymcomenter 4,703]

I do like the song, specially that pre-chorus! But that last chorus is missing another repetition, i kinda wanted her to go full on gaga crazy on the adlibs… Maybe repeat the Death or Love tonight part a few times 

 

also, she really stepped up in the MV since that mess of Disease… This feels much more well thought and executed (féminas me of Alejandro and i love it) 

[PARADIXO 33,310]

4 hours ago, Bubble Dreams and Cola said:

I feel like the Mayhem character represents her workahoolic persona. That's why she said in her ELLE interview, that she wish she could have been be advised to not be too hard on herself.

In "Disease" MV she clearly tries to purge herself from the pain by making her traumas personas work hard till a healthier one appears. But it end badly cause she realize that her traumas are a part of her and she can't get rid of it. 

In "Abracadabra" it seems like she wants the blonde "Lady Gaga" persona to fit to the public and academic expectations. In the lyrics she addresses the phantom of the dance-floor to create a pop song bc that's what the lady in red wants. But it also seems like there's a sort of duality between the attempts to succeed and the reality : Mayhem in red represents a kind of dominatrix, evil force despite the fact that she was supposed to be a doctor. While "Lady Gaga" persona embodies the purity, she's dressed in white, her outfit are noble, she even wear a cross on her outfit and even did the Christ pose, etc... It seems like she wants to chose the right path so that's why she confronts Lady in Red at the end.

https://youtu.be/vBynw9Isr28?t=260&si=l48cowpFywToTHzO

 

I'm surprised that we didn't saw the car of Mayhem, I feel like the car crash symbolism is an important aspect of LG7 

 

 

You took the words out of my mouth. This album is shaping up to be amazing.

[DeadSeaOfMercury 24,186]

I didn’t realize the Japanese CD is the “mini LP 7” packaging” Like Taylor’s.

And it’s the Walmart version’s artwork

 

EDIT:

So now I’m at,

STD Black 2LP-

Target CD-

Japanese CD-

Store Exclusive CD-

[DinahLee 6,303]

God I really want to know more about the album... damn.

 

[Coney Island King 26,258]

[Charlottexseax 8,167]

16 hours ago, Let the Light In said:

Unfortunately, this is because of her fans. Every time she tried to evolve as an artist, they requested her to go back to her old art. Even this album rollout, the way she talks about going back to pop and putting pieces of broken mirror reflects this. Notice everyone saying Gaga is back, implying that what she’s been doing for years is not Gaga. 

I definitely think that’s part of the problem but my issue is with the music itself… even Chromatica felt like something “new” even though I didn’t like it. This feels like she’s rehashing her old stuff, and I don’t really care for it. It’s like if Lana started making BTD music again. 
 

i wish Gaga utilized her creativity to push the boundaries of pop music and of her own artistry again instead of just playing it safe

[Charlottexseax 8,167]

13 hours ago, TrashMagiq said:

The whole “she’s just rehashing her old sound” argument is so dumb to me considering she’s done So many different sounds since TFM/BTW. Just recently she released a jazz album and at this current moment she has a song like Die With A Smile charting at number 1. Why would her doing dark pop again be a bad thing? And I don’t think she’s just copy+pasting what she did 10+ years ago. This is a return to form but it sounds fresh and elevated. Gaga is the last artist that a “she’s inauthentically trying to replicate what she’s already done!” argument would make sense for.

I’m not saying she is inauthentic, I think she’s extremely talented and it she wants to go back to her roots she can do that and abracadabra is perfectly fine as a song/video. I’m just saying it’s not as boundary breaking as TFM/BTW/Artpop were and that is what set them apart truly, not the fact that they were simply good (although they also were). Obviously again she doesn’t HAVE TO be boundary breaking it was just my two cents on it

[Rocket0212 2,110]

I will never understand why going back to the sound that your fans like and made you popular is a bad thing. I don't ever want to hear Adele's EDM album or Britney's Jazz album...like what are you all even talking about here? If this was her 7th album with the same sound that would be a problem (see Katy Perry) but she put this sound to rest for 12 years so I don't see how it's tiring or same old.

[daphnedinkley 14,027]

so the pre-chorus interpolates spellbound by siouxsie and the banshees, right?

 

edit to add: i am truly obsessed w this song oh my god

Edited 12 hours ago by daphnedinkley

[Evergreen 9,021]

I don't see comparisons to her old sound, but more to how “cool” the old Gaga was, and Abracadabra definitely has that vibe. There's no way you'll hear anything like Abracadara's verses and bridge in her old material, it's fresh and new for Gaga.

[PARADIXO 33,310]

43 minutes ago, Rocket0212 said:

I will never understand why going back to the sound that your fans like and made you popular is a bad thing. I don't ever want to hear Adele's EDM album or Britney's Jazz album...like what are you all even talking about here? If this was her 7th album with the same sound that would be a problem (see Katy Perry) but she put this sound to rest for 12 years so I don't see how it's tiring or same old.

 

100%

[daphnedinkley 14,027]

i just looooove how full and intricate the song is, especially in the current pop landscape where tiktok-ability is favoured over grandiosity - don't get me wrong, a song doesn't have to be grandiose to be fantastic (i mean hello im a may jailer stan) but to have this level of maximalist pop in 2025 feels so damn good