Lady Gaga Reveals Whether She Plans to Drop Her Stage Name

Mar. 15, 2025

Lady Gaga for the February 2025 cover of ‘ELLE’.Photo:Gray Sorrenti

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What’s in a name? AskLady Gaga.In a new cover story forELLEpublished on Tuesday, Jan. 28, the"Disease"singer, 38, spoke about her upcoming albumMayhemalong with her famous moniker.When asked if Gaga — whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta — would ever change her stage name, she expressed her admiration for it.“No! I love being Lady Gaga. I love being me,” she said. “I became a star when I was 20. Everything gets reflected back to you that this persona is what makes you special.“Shereportedlytook on the iconic name when her ex-boyfriend and music producer Rob Fusari called her Gaga because her voice and style reminded him of Queen’s song “Radio Ga Ga.“Lady Gaga for the February 2025 cover of ‘ELLE’.Gray SorrentiElsewhere in the cover story withELLE, Gaga spoke about working on herseventh studio album, which comes out in March.“The chaos I thought was long gone is fully intact and ready to greet me whenever I’d like,” she said of the process.Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.“Part of the message of even the first song on the album is that your demons are with you in the beginning and they are with you in the end, and I don’t mean it in a bleak way.“Gaga mused that perhaps there’s a way to “make friends sooner with this reality instead of running all the time” as she leans into the darkness with her new music.In a press release shared with PEOPLE, Gaga said thatMayhem’s style is similar to “reassembling a shattered mirror.““Even if you can’t put the pieces back together perfectly, you can create something beautiful and whole in its own new way,” she told the outlet.Lady Gaga for the February 2025 cover story of ‘ELLE’.Gray SorrentiThe 13-time Grammy winner previouslyteased the range of music her upcoming albumwould have, again mentioning the chaos surrounding it. She toldThe Los Angeles Timesin December that there will be “so many different genres, so many different styles, so many different dreams.““It leaps around genre in a way that’s almost corrupt. And it ends with love. That’s the answer to all the chaos in my life is that I find peace with love,” she added of the aptly titled record.“Every song that I wrote, I just kept getting kind of swept away in these different dreams I was having about the past — almost like a recollection of all these bad decisions that I made in my life,” Gaga concluded.Mayhemwill be available to stream Mar. 7.

What’s in a name? AskLady Gaga.

In a new cover story forELLEpublished on Tuesday, Jan. 28, the"Disease"singer, 38, spoke about her upcoming albumMayhemalong with her famous moniker.

When asked if Gaga — whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta — would ever change her stage name, she expressed her admiration for it.

“No! I love being Lady Gaga. I love being me,” she said. “I became a star when I was 20. Everything gets reflected back to you that this persona is what makes you special.”

Shereportedlytook on the iconic name when her ex-boyfriend and music producer Rob Fusari called her Gaga because her voice and style reminded him of Queen’s song “Radio Ga Ga.”

Lady Gaga for the February 2025 cover of ‘ELLE’.Gray Sorrenti

Elsewhere in the cover story withELLE, Gaga spoke about working on herseventh studio album, which comes out in March.

“The chaos I thought was long gone is fully intact and ready to greet me whenever I’d like,” she said of the process.Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

“Part of the message of even the first song on the album is that your demons are with you in the beginning and they are with you in the end, and I don’t mean it in a bleak way.”

Gaga mused that perhaps there’s a way to “make friends sooner with this reality instead of running all the time” as she leans into the darkness with her new music.

In a press release shared with PEOPLE, Gaga said thatMayhem’s style is similar to “reassembling a shattered mirror.”

“Even if you can’t put the pieces back together perfectly, you can create something beautiful and whole in its own new way,” she told the outlet.

Lady Gaga for the February 2025 cover story of ‘ELLE’.Gray Sorrenti

The 13-time Grammy winner previouslyteased the range of music her upcoming albumwould have, again mentioning the chaos surrounding it. She toldThe Los Angeles Timesin December that there will be “so many different genres, so many different styles, so many different dreams.”

“It leaps around genre in a way that’s almost corrupt. And it ends with love. That’s the answer to all the chaos in my life is that I find peace with love,” she added of the aptly titled record.

“Every song that I wrote, I just kept getting kind of swept away in these different dreams I was having about the past — almost like a recollection of all these bad decisions that I made in my life,” Gaga concluded.

Mayhemwill be available to stream Mar. 7.

source: people.com