Just In: Lady Gaga On ‘MAYHEM,’ New Lyrics, and a Special Spotify Gift for Little Monsters…. Check In

The singer teases two new songs (“Beast” and “Perfect Celebrity”) off her seventh studio album—plus, details on ‘Spotify Presents: Little Monster Press Conference.’

The category is: dance or die. Since Lady Gaga uttered those words at the start of her now-viral “Abracadabra” music video, Mother Monster has been on fire, testing her way around the Scoville scale on Hot Ones (in Thom Browne, no less) and dropping one viral clip after the next. In November, “Die With a Smile” (feat. Bruno Mars) became the fastest song to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify, and just this week, Gaga became the female artist with the most monthly listeners in the history of the music service.

Gearing up for the March 7 release of her seventh studio album, MAYHEM, the pop icon has shown up and shown out, dressing in avant-garde fashion at the Grammys, publicly gushing about her relationship with fiancé Michael Polansky, and remaining booked and busy—bus, club, ‘nother club. Gaga is also scheduled to appear as a host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live come March 8.

So what’s next? A surprise for fans. Gaga has partnered with Spotify to host a first-of-its-kind event called Spotify Presents: Little Monster Press Conference. The private event will invite Gaga’s top Spotify listeners in New York City to ask Mother just about anything IRL before dancing to MAYHEM in its entirety. The press conference will be simulcast on March 6 at 3 p.m. PST / 6 p.m. EST on Spotify’s official Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube accounts; fans can access Spotify’s Little Monster Press Conference Hub to submit their own questions for Lady Gaga, or drop comments across Spotify, Gaga, and InStyle’s social channels.

In an exclusive interview led and moderated by InStyle, Gaga catches up with Spotify’s Head of Global Editorial, Sulinna Ong, to discuss Spotify Presents: Little Monster Press Conference.

Since the beginning of my career, the most important thing has always been community to me. It was the community of musicians, artists, photographers, and club promoters, all my friends that I lived with on the Lower East Side—they ushered me into being the artist that I am today. The reason I really wanted to do this with Spotify was to celebrate the community that I have with my fans now, and who we are today, and give the fans the chance to ask me all of the questions that they might have garnered for the past almost 20 years. I’m always happy to do interviews, but I do think that there will be something unique and rare and special for it to come from the fans.