The long-awaited first full-fledged release from Lady Gaga in five years. All three singles are already hits: Die With a Smile refuses to leave the charts, while Disease and Abracadabra are going viral online and racking up millions of streams. Gaga hinted that Mayhem would resemble her early style—and it seems she wasn’t wrong. Even the laziest comparisons link Abracadabra to Bad Romance. The tracklist includes 14 songs, including Killah, a duet with French electronic producer Gesaffelstein.

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I get it. Gaga wants to reclaim the wild, anything-goes energy of her early years. But at this point, the meat dress is rotting, and the shock factor isn’t shocking—it’s just kind of there. Would’ve been a bigger cultural reset if she dropped a folk acoustic album instead. Imagine that. Now that would’ve been a flex.

Two cupcakes out of five, and they’ve been sitting out for too long.