Little Monsters, Rejoice! Lady Gaga is Weird Again!
PUT YOUR PAWS UP! Lady Gaga, famous queer advocate and icon, dropped her new single, Abracadabra, along with the music video, during a commercial break at the 2025 Grammys ceremony. The dark dance-pop track is the third single from her upcoming March 7 album, Mayhem—and it came alongside a message of hope for trans people on music’s biggest night.
The music video for Abracadabra is absolutely captivating, even from an objective critics perspective. It opens to the one and only Mother Monster in a wide-brim crimson hat and matching ensemble, announcing “the category” to the audience: “dance or die.” A press release describes the music video as a “dance battle between the light and dark sides of Gaga.”, which explains the stunningly juxtapositional dance-pop video perfectly. The dance moves that Gaga and her dancers execute flawlessly in the video have gone wildly viral, leading to recreations on TikTok as well as Instagram Reels.
The track, as well as the forthcoming Mayhem, is deeply personal to Lady Gaga. She began the construction of the album, she says, in order to face her fears surrounding her return to the extravagant pop music that she became famous for and that her fans adored. Recent releases, such as Joanne (2018) and the soundtrack for A Star is Born (2018), honed in on a more raw, soulful Gaga—a complete jump from the quirky, fast-paced tunes the star is known for. Her release of Chromatica in 2020 seemed to signal the beginning of the comeback of “weird Gaga,” as some fans are putting it, and finally, five years later, she’s back to her roots—in the arms, ballrooms and bedrooms of her Little Monsters (her pet name for her fans) once again.
As she received her Grammy for Best Pop Duo alongside collaborator Bruno Mars, Gaga used her speech to signal hopefulness in the dark times we live in to her fanbase, largely comprised of members of the LGBTQ+ community since her rise to fame in the early 2010s due to tracks such as Born This Way. She said on the stage, “Trans people are not invisible. Trans people deserve love. The queer community deserves to be lifted up.”
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