“I used to play it in my apartment like a million times”: Lady Gaga says that the "electro-grunge" song on her new album, Mayhem, is inspired by a '90s track by The Cure

Lady Gaga and Robert Smith.

Lady Gaga’s new album, Mayhem, is out today, and marks a return to her electro-pop roots. As part of the promo tour, Gaga stopped off in a New York City bar to talk to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, and she revealed that track 4 on the record - Perfect Celebrity - is inspired by a specific song by The Cure.

Discussing Perfect Celebrity, which Gaga says is one of the angriest songs she’s ever written, the star says that she’s “calling out and making a mockery of this thing that I went after.”