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Elle
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Elle
Lady Gaga Debuted New Track ‘Kill For Love' at Last Night's Mayhem Ball in Las Vegas
Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. THE RUNDOWN Mother Monster has returned. On July 16, Lady Gaga kicked off her highly anticipated Mayhem Ball Tour at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Of the many songs on the set list, one was a surprise. She performed 'Kill For Love,' the Mayhem bonus track, in full for the first time. In the song, Gaga is a 'monster on the prowl' and sings about how she would 'kill for love.' In the first verse, she sings: 'The moon is callin', all the bad boys come to play / You caught me howlin', there's a wolf inside of me / You know what I am, baby, and I know you're gonna be mine.' In her ELLE February 2025 cover story, Gaga spoke about the making of Mayhem. 'The chaos I thought was long gone is fully intact and ready to greet me whenever I'd like,' she said. 'Part of the message of even the first song on the album is that your demons are with you in the beginning and they are with you in the end, and I don't mean it in a bleak way. Maybe we can make friends sooner with this reality instead of running all the time.' The Mayhem Ball Tour is set to continue in Las Vegas on July 18 and 19 before heading to San Francisco, California for shows at the Chase Theater on July 22, 24, and 26. You can still get tickets here. 'Kill For Love' is not yet available to stream on Spotify (for now, it only appears on the Target exclusive CD), but you can read the full lyrics below:
Yahoo
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The best albums of 2025 so far
With the first half of 2025 behind us, it's time to… uhh, forget most of it. But there's still much to celebrate, especially when it comes to the stuff that's been emanating nonstop from our speakers and earbuds for months. In addition to the long-awaited return of Mother Monster (whoa! she's making pop songs again?!), we saw some brilliant pivots from music's greatest poets and visionaries. It all offered a much-needed escape from the headlines (excluding ours) and a soundtrack to those occasional highs that kept us pressing on. Here, Entertainment Weekly's top 10 albums so far this year (in very diplomatic alphabetical order).Bad Bunny may be a global superstar, but he's never forgotten where he came from. After years of being swept up in the limelight, the three-time Grammy winner returned to Puerto Rico and allowed his roots the space to bloom in vivid color for his genre-defying sixth album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos ("I should have taken more photos"). Recorded entirely on the island, the 17-track reggaeton and Latin pop master class not only serves as his love letter to his homeland, but also captures the 31-year-old singer deftly blending his modern stylings with music near and dear to its cultural identity, including plena ("Debí Tirar Más Fotos"), salsa ("Baile Inolvidable"), and jíbaro ("Lo Que Le Pasó a Hawaii"). A joyous opus binding an artist to his heritage, Debí Tirar Más Fotos will only feel more meaningful — for him and his listeners — as time goes on. Not unlike a photograph. —Emlyn Travis In the opening lines of last year's Sable, Bon Iver's Justin Vernon stares into the mirror and sees an anxious stranger trapped in a prison of his making. But that EP, which also serves as the prelude to his fifth full-length, was a red herring. Over the nine tracks that follow, Vernon — a lonesome troubadour who launched his career with an album he recorded in a secluded Wisconsin cabin in the dead of winter — sheds his pensive sadness. Backed by pedal steel, lapping beats, and gospel-style vocals, he turns his gaze outward with gratitude and childlike wonder ("Damn, if I'm not climbing up a tree right now," he declares in the exultant "Everything Is Peaceful Love"). He's hopeful, elated, even a little horny ("Get your fine ass on the road," he commands in the Danielle Haim collab "I'll Be There"). On Sable, Fable, the winter frost has melted. Vernon is ready to face the world and, more important, face himself. —Jason Lamphier Three decades into his career, Destroyer's Dan Bejar remains a reliable purveyor of dense, dazzling compositions. The band's 14th LP, produced by bassist John Collins, clocks in at just 36 minutes but feels sprawling. An onslaught of orchestration fuels the title track, while others ("Bologna," "Cataract Time") are languid and layered. Bejar's smoky alto is our anchor, sounding like an omniscient ghost serenading us in a liminal space. His honest, often sardonic observations ("women fill out and men crumble inwards") echo through a thick cloud of dizzying pianos, jazz horns, and glistening synths. Maximalist and mesmerizing, the record unfolds like live commentary for a bustling metropolis — ah, look at all the lonely people! It makes a compelling case for stopping to breathe in the urban smog. It may smell like shit, but at least you're living in the moment. —Allaire Nuss After years spent demolishing demogorgons with a nailed baseball bat, Stranger Things' Joe Keery (a.k.a. Djo) reintroduced himself to the world as the next indie-rock darling with his vulnerable, varied third full-length, The Crux. A nostalgia-drenched exploration of love and grief following the end of a relationship, the 12-track album offers sees Keery marrying his conflicting emotions with a medley of different genres, setting his sorrows to the tune of dreamy '80s pop on "Delete Ya," recreating late-night loneliness through Fleetwood Mac–esque fingerpicking guitar on "Potion," and expressing his devotion to his family, both lyrically and through a soaring orchestral arrangement, on "Golden Line." The shoulder-shimmying doo-woppers of the 1960s weren't lying when they sang that breaking up is hard to do, but Keery manages to make it through to the other side with his heart still intact — and his music sounding better than ever. —Emlyn Travis "I'm obsessed with alternative cultures and subcultures," FKA Twigs told guest host RuPaul on an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live last year, describing how she found herself in the thrall of Prague's underground techno scene while filming The Crow. The British singer, producer, dancer, and actress has always operated from the periphery, eschewing straight-up bangers for steely, elusive mood pieces; what her songs lack in top 40 appeal they more than make up for in vision. But her third studio album strikes the perfect balance between accessibility and experimentation, with Twigs slipping snugly into whatever genre she tries on before bending it to her will. That includes, yes, techno but also house, drum and bass, industrial, trip-hop, new age, Ray of Light–era electronica, and — with the 2024 single "Perfect Stranger" — sleek, low-frills pop. Eusexua's power lies in its interplay of the cerebral and the alluring, of dominance and submission, of tension and release. It's enough to push Twigs from the outer limits to the dead center. —Jason Lamphier Though it registers as a breakup record, the breezy fourth LP from Los Angeles' foremost sister act embraces the entire emotional spectrum of messy modern romance, channeling frustration ("Relationships"), desire ("All Over Me"), heartache ("Try to Feel My Pain"), and unabashed sentimentality ("Million Years") into near-impeccable pop-rock tunes. I Quit doubles down on the summery sounds that populate Haim's best work, drawing focus to their live drums, slick guitar riffs, bouncy basslines, and fuzzy synths. But the rich, sunny production, from former Vampire Weekend multi-instrumentalist Rostam Batmanglij and lead vocalist Danielle Haim, continually modulates over the course of a track, leaving many songs with strikingly different arrangements than they started with. Plus, it's lovely to hear the trio's other siblings take the wheel, with Alana shining on the album's bubbliest song ("Spinning") and Este driving home its most melancholy ("Cry"). —Wesley Stenzel After experimenting with stripped-back Americana on Joanne and cyberpunk dance music on Chromatica, Lady Gaga triumphantly emerged from the quickly forgotten shadow of Joker: Folie à Deux with Mayhem, her most eclectic album to date. Across 14 intensely energetic tracks, our preeminent gonzo pop princess delivers her take on Prince- and Bowie-inspired funk ("Killah"), industrial grunge ('Perfect Celebrity"), retro glam-rock ("Vanish Into You"), flirty Halloween party bops ("Zombieboy," "The Beast"), moonstruck soft-rock ("Die With a Smile"), and the best Taylor Swift song not written by Taylor Swift ("How Bad Do U Want Me"). Meanwhile, the album's opening trifecta — "Disease," "Abracadabra," and "Garden of Eden" — finds Gaga revisiting the Gothic theatricality and hyper-catchy, stuttering choruses of her earliest hits. The result is both a return to form and a breath of fresh air from one of the most reliable voices in the biz. —Wesley Stenzel Over the past 15 years, Mike Hadreas' discography has evolved from sparse, lo-fi piano ballads to baroque-pop mosaics and back, and on his seventh LP as Perfume Genius, he is once again a conduit for the sublime. Though stylistically elastic, Glory remains thematically consistent as Hadreas, a vocal contortionist, tightens his breathy bellows into a whimpering falsetto as he sings about being hopelessly tangled in his past traumas ("I still run and hide when a man's at the door"). His output has always felt uncannily intimate, like secrets shared in confidence, but this album is his most collaborative release to date. Along with longtime producer Blake Mills and his co-writer and romantic partner, Alan Wyffels, Hadreas brings New Zealand folk artist Aldous Harding into the fold for the standout single "No Front Teeth," which teeters between quaint Americana and rapturous rock. The entire record is a high-wire balancing act, but it never buckles under the weight of its beautiful contradictions. —Allaire Nuss Turnstile is your favorite band's favorite band. A well-kept Baltimore secret for far too long, the hardcore heavyweights made massive waves with 2021's Glow On, propelling them beyond the purview of die-hard insiders and introducing them to the rock-starved masses. Anticipation was sky-high for their next outing, and Never Enough delivers seismic goods. Like its predecessor, the album is a genre-bending odyssey, skating through house music ("Look Out for Me"), bubblegum for bruisers ("I Care"), ceremonial woodwinds ("Sunshower"), disco ("Seein' Stars"), and, of course, furious, breakneck guitar riffs. These are kinetic and kaleidoscopic songs seamlessly woven together like a tapestry that keeps changing color. Never Enough never feels bloated or overly ambitious; in this fable, Icarus flies away. —Allaire Nuss What a f---ed-up time to be alive. Kali Uchis' solution? Close the curtains, pour the Cab, draw the bath, and spend the next hour basking in impossibly sexy, sophisticated slow jams that conjure Motown, doo-wop, golden-age R&B, and the soundtrack to some private striptease. The Columbian American artist has said her fifth album is about "finding beauty in the pain and taking the good" — it is dedicated to her late mother and inspired by the birth of her son — and it is best appreciated as a whole. This is a record to get lost in. That's never more apparent than on the highlight "Lose My Cool," which switches tempos halfway through to luxuriate in lush, spine-tingling harmonies that call to mind Ultravox's '80s classic "Vienna." Surrender to Sincerely's charms and you'll swear you've brushed shoulders with the sublime. —Jason Lamphier Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly
Time Out
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Lady Gaga could be coming to Hong Kong in 2026 for ‘The Mayhem Ball' Tour
Yeah, we had Coldplay take over the entire territories, the comeback of Nicholas Tse, and Mandopop king Jay Chou coming later this month, but let's be real – we're also still smarting over the fact that Singapore got both Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga but not us! However, the tide might be turning, as there are now rumours swirling that Lady Gaga could be coming to Hong Kong next year. Back in March, Mother Monster announced her upcoming eighth concert tour 'The Mayhem Ball' which is set to commence on July 16. The plan was for the concert to travel across North American, European, and Australian cities, but on June 10, Lady Gaga also announced five dates for Japan, running from January 21 to 29 in Osaka and Tokyo. The plot twist here is that the Lady Gaga news fan account @MayhemBallTour on X had previously already proclaimed on April 9 that the artist will have Tokyo dates. When asked for hints on the whole Asia leg of the tour, they posted emoji flags of Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong – so we're keeping our fingers crossed that we'll actually get Gaga in Kai Tak Stadium or AsiaWorld-Expo come 2026! Interestingly, Hong Kong singer Joey Yung went to Lady Gaga's recent 'The Art of Personal Chaos' concert in Singapore recently and posted on Instagram in Chinese that she 'hopes she'll be able to enjoy it again in Kai Tak'. These industry insiders know something we don't… If the online rumours are anything to go by, Lady Gaga might be putting on three Hong Kong shows in February 2026. Stay tuned for more information as we learn them!
Daily Mail
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Lady Gaga fans go WILD as she invites Wednesday star Jenna Ortega on stage
Lady Gaga thrilled fans with a surprise mini-concert at a Netflix Tudum event - and the crowd excitement reached fever pitch when she brought out a special guest. The performer, 39, lit up the Kia Forum in Los Angeles with a medley of hits in honor of the streamer's smash series Wednesday. Emerging from a coffin labeled 'Here Lies The Mother Queen,' Gaga leaned into the spooky esthetic, surrounded by dancers channeling the Addams Family before welcoming the show's lead actress Jenna Ortega to the stage. The performance was a clear nod to Gaga's newly confirmed cameo in Wednesday Season 2, which Netflix announced at the event. She even busted out the viral dance from Season 1, originally performed by Ortega to The Cramps Goo Goo Muck - which famously went viral when it was mashed up with Gaga's own track Bloody Mary. Closing the dramatic medley Gaga strutted back to the coffin, blowing a kiss as it sealed shut behind her. After the performance, the singer hopped on Instagram to share a striking snap of her and Ortega standing side by side in a coffin, arms folded and totally in character. She captioned it, '#DEAD @jennaortega love u lady.' Wednesday follows Ortega as the psychic Addams Family daughter navigating life at Nevermore Academy. Netflix officially confirmed Gaga's cameo in Season 2 during the Tudum event, posting: 'Welcome to Nevermore, Mother Monster.' It added: 'Lady Gaga will guest star in Wednesday Season 2 Part 2 as Rosaline Rotwood - a legendary Nevermore teacher who crosses paths with Wednesday.' The streaming giant revealed the singer shot her role in a single day while filming on location in Ireland. LADY GAGA FULL PERFORMANCE AT TUDUM IN HD — Gaga Crave 🌷 (@AMENARTPOP) June 1, 2025 In 2022, Ortega revealed that she was given two days to choreograph her own moves for the iconic dance scene in the Netflix show. While visiting The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. The actress said that two days before the scene was shot, the director Tim Burton had asked her to choreograph her own dance. She admitted that while Burton had thought she had been working on something for a while, she actually 'had no plan'. She told Jimmy that she 'didn't sleep for two days' and watched numerous videos to gather ideas, such as watching 'archival footage of Goth kids dancing in clubs in the '80s.' Ortega also revealed she took inspiration from the original Wednesday Addams, Lisa Loring. She said that Netflix had told her that the dance would go viral on TikTok but that she didn't believe it. 'And then they were right,' she humorously added. The role of Wednesday Addams in the film adaptations was previously made iconic by Christina Ricci. Netflix also dropped the first six minutes of the Season 2 premiere at the event. Part 1 of the new season premieres August 6, with Part 2 dropping September 3.
UPI
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- UPI
Look: Lady Gaga to guest star in 'Wednesday' S2
1 of 2 | Lady Gaga has signed on to guest star in the Netflix series "Wednesday." File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo May 31 (UPI) -- Pop music icon Lady Gaga is set to guest star in Wednesday Season 2, Netflix announced Saturday. "Welcome to Nevermore, Mother Monster," the streaming service wrote on X. Welcome to Nevermore, Mother Monster. Lady Gaga will guest star in Wednesday Season 2 Part 2 as Rosaline Rotwood - a legendary Nevermore teacher who crosses paths with Wednesday. #TUDUM— Netflix (@netflix) June 1, 2025 "Lady Gaga will guest star in Wednesday Season 2 Part 2 as Rosaline Rotwood -- a legendary Nevermore teacher who crosses paths with Wednesday." Jenna Ortega plays the title character in the series, which is a spin-off of The Addams Family film and TV franchise. Season 1 of Wednesday aired in 2022. Season 2 Part 1 is to premiere on Aug. 6 and Part 2 is to debut on Sept. 3. Make yourself uncomfortable. Here's the first 6 minutes of Wednesday Season 2. #TUDUM Netflix (@netflix) June 1, 2025
