Lady Gaga and the evolution of the pop icon

<p>Lady Gaga rewrote the rules of female pop stardom. Now she's back with a new album. Can she do it again?</p><br /><p>Kate Mossman reviewed Lady Gaga's latest album, Mayhem, for the New Statesman and joins Tom Gatti on the Culture podcast to discuss the changing face - and powerful influence - of pop music.</p><br /><p>Read Kate's review here: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music/2025/03/on-mayhem-lady-gaga-makes-a-chaotic-return-to-form</p><br /><p>Mayhem by Lady Gaga is published by Insterscope Records.</p><br /><p>Excerpts used in this episode are taken from the following for the purposes of criticism and review: </p><p>Disease (Lady Gaga)</p><p>Abracadabra (Lady Gaga)</p><p>Killah (Lady Gaga feat. Gestaffelstein)</p><p>Die with a smile (Lady Gaga feat. Bruno Mars)</p><p><strong>LISTEN AD-FREE:</strong></p><p>📱<a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2022/06/newapp" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Download the New Statesman app</a></p><br /><p><strong>MORE FROM THE NEW STATESMAN:</strong></p><p>❓ <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/podcasts/2022/10/you-ask-us" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ask a question</a> – we answer them every Friday</p><p>⏰ <a href="https://morningcall.substack.com/subscribe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Get our daily politics newsletter</a> every morning</p><p>✍️ <a href="http://saturdayread.substack.com/subscribe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Enjoy the best of our writing</a> via email every Saturday</p><hr /><p style="color: grey; font-size: 0.75em;"> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>