When Lady Gaga sat down for an interview in February, she made a surprising confession about her 2020 album, Chromatica.

“I wouldn’t say I made my best music during that time,” she told The New York Times Magazine.

Sorry, Little Monsters, but it’s true. Did Chromatica, a dance project about mental health and healing, get a lot of people through the pandemic? Yes. Is it Gaga’s weakest album? Also yes.

But just a few weeks after the Q&A, Gaga redeemed herself with the release of Mayhem, her best album since 2011’s Born This Way. And a couple months after that, she upped the ante with the launch of the Mayhem Ball, a statement piece of a stage show rivaled only by her career-making Monster Ball in 2010.

Lady Gaga Through the Years: From Avant-Garde Pop Star to Oscar Winner

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