Lady Gaga – MAYHEM (Japan Edition) (FLAC + MP3 320)
Name: Lady Gaga – MAYHEM (Japan Edition) (FLAC + MP3 320)
Genre: Pop
Media: CD
Country of disc (release): Japan
Year of publication: 2025
Publisher (label): Interscope Records, Universal Music
Catalog number: UICS-9185
Audio codec: Mp3 | FLAC
Duration: 00:56:43
Description: Lady Gaga’s seventh album, MAYHEM, crashed onto the scene March 7, 2025—yeah, she’s back, and honestly? She’s not playing it safe. It’s like she raided a synth-pop rave and then threw it in a blender with industrial dance beats. The Japan Deluxe Edition dropped a few weeks later, March 28, and, as usual, Japan got the cool extras—bonus tracks, wild packaging, all that jazz. Very on brand for Gaga: make it big, make it weird.
This album’s all over the place, thematically speaking—love, chaos, identity, fame, desire. You know, typical Gaga existential spiraling. She’s tossing around metaphors about transforming, being two things at once, blah blah. But the sound? Man, it’s a glorious mess. One minute you’re in a disco, next you’re at a Nine Inch Nails show, then—bam!—electro, funk, pop rock, the works. She’s just doing whatever she feels like, and honestly, it works.
Critics ate it up. Seriously, the reviews were glowing—everyone loved that she circled back to her pop roots but didn’t just rehash old stuff. People compared her to Bowie, Madonna, even a dash of Trent Reznor in there. Scored an 84 on Metacritic, which is wild—her best yet. Guess the gamble paid off.
Oh, and sales? Forget about it. MAYHEM debuted at number one in 23 different countries. In the US alone, it moved 219,000 album-equivalent units that first week. Not too shabby. Japan was a little slower on the uptake—started at #14 on the Oricon chart but then climbed to #43 on Billboard Japan’s Hot Albums chart in week two. Go figure.
Bottom line: the Japan Deluxe Edition isn’t just some throwaway cash grab. It’s Gaga going full maximalist—extra tracks, insane visuals, the whole shebang. Easily one of the most memorable drops in her discography. If you’re a fan, you’re eating good.
Tracklist:
01. Disease (3:50)
02. Abracadabra (3:43)
03. Garden of Eden (4:00)
04. Perfect Celebrity (3:49)
05. Can’t Stop the High (3:31)
06. Vanish Into You (4:05)
07. Killah (3:31)
08. Zombieboy (3:33)
09. LoveDrug (3:13)
10. How Bad Do U Want Me (3:59)
11. Don’t Call Tonight (3:46)
12. Shadow of a Man (3:20)
13. The Beast (3:54)
14. Blade of Grass (4:17)
15. Die With a Smile (4:12)