Lady Gaga confirmed that she’s releasing a new album this year, shortly after winning a Golden Globe for her performance on American Horror Story: Hotel.
Speaking to the press backstage at the 73rd annual awards ceremony, the pop star and actor teased new material but wouldn’t say when it’s coming out. Gaga’s last album, released in 2014, was a jazzy collaborative effort with Tony Bennett titled Cheek to Cheek. She did reveal that her role as the Countess on Ryan Murphy’s hit show for FX influenced the new music.
“Playing the Countess reminded me that in my music I’m playing a character,” she said. “Living inside her was liberating, because she doesn’t give a shit about anything. I’m a little bit different, but I think that confidence will stay with me.”
Asked what it was like to tap back into the darkness that characterized her earlier work for American Horror Story, Gaga said: “For many people darkness is just that – they see it as a vacant space. For me darkness is an expression of pain. You can create things that are so beautiful out of things that make you sad. It was thrilling to return to it.”
Gaga could possibly also be up for an Oscar this year for her song from the campus rape documentary, The Hunting Ground, which she co-wrote with Diane Warren. With the nominations being announced on Thursday, Gaga was asked what the honor would mean should she hear her name called.
“Shall we just take it a day at a time dear?” she said, with a big smile. “This is a lot. An Oscar nomination would be tremendous. But the true win is in the work, and I really truly feel that. The win is always in the creative process.”
