Lady Gaga opens up about the beautiful chaos of artistry, navigating mental health, and the mayhem of creative expression in her latest The New York Times feature."

In a new interview with The New York Times, Lady Gaga shares some thoughts about the character of the sound of her latest album "MAYHEM" :

"My sound is an amalgamation of the music that helped me fall in love with music. So it’s got classic rock in it, disco, electronic music, ’80s synth. It’s sort of like picking and choosing my favorite fragments of songs that I loved throughout my childhood. It is everything I love about music but all in one place."

During the interview, Lady Gaga agreed with Chappel Roan’s Grammy speech, in which she criticised record labels for failing to provide artists with healthcare or a living wage:

“I think Chappell Roan is speaking the truth, and she is courageous to do so.”

Gaga revealed that she nearly turned the whole record into a grunge album, but Michael, her fiancée, convinced her otherwise:

" There was one point where I almost turned the whole album into a grunge record.

He talked you out of that? I would have listened to that! There’s plenty of grunge on the album. It was right after I did “Perfect Celebrity,” that song, and I was like, “Oh, everything should be this,” and he said, but there’s so much other amazing music that you’ve made, and it’s all you. You don’t have to try to be something. I thought that was really astute, and I was happy it happened because often I will run with my crazy idea and then sometimes regret that."

On Finding Happiness: “I feel a lot more at ease with my artistry and also comfortable creating some boundaries around how to prioritize things.”

Lady Gaga also acknowledges the important role of her fans, the Little Monsters:

"They give me so much strength.They remind me of who I really am."

Later on in the interview, the artist opened up about her mental health issues for a period of 5 years:

"Yeah, I mean, I had psychosis. I was not deeply in touch with reality for a while. It took me out of life in a big way, and after a lot of years of hard work I got myself back. It was a hard time, and it was actually really special when I met my partner because when I met Michael, I was in a much better place, but I remember him saying to me, pretty early on, “I know you could be a lot happier than you are.” It was really hard for me to hear him say that because I didn’t want him to think that of me. I wanted him to think I was like this happy, totally together person."

Gaga again expressed her wish to become a mother:

"I would love to have kids one day. I’m excited to be a mom. I used to have a lot of apprehension about it. The thing that’s the most important to me is to not force my children to live a life that they are not choosing. So the more that we can give them space to discover who they are on their own, that’s the thing that I believe in the most. If our children only understand Mommy’s job, that’s a very narrow view of life. There’s so much in the world, and I want them to be able to choose for themselves who they want to be."

Full interview: HERE.

Podcast of the whole interview: HERE.