The album started as me facing my fear of returning to the pop music my earliest fans loved,” she said about the upcoming project.

Lady Gaga has kept fans waiting since 2020 for a pop album, but they'll get their wish for new material with the March release of "Mayhem."

Expect some mayhem this spring, courtesy of Lady Gaga. The Grammy-winning songwriter and actor will release her seventh studio album March 7, which press materials say will explore “themes of chaos and transformation.

“People just sometimes don’t like some things,” Gaga said in her first public comments about reactions to the film, although she did not mention it by name. “It’s that simple. And I think to be an artist, you have to be willing for people to sometimes not like it. And you keep going, even if something didn’t connect in the way that you intended.”

The singer is breaking her silence on why she believes the 2024 film was a critical and commercial failure.

The Joaquin Phoenix-led film was dubbed one of the "worst" movies of 2024: "You have to be willing for people to sometimes not like it."