Lady Gaga new album release date: ‘Joanne’ announced, named after ‘the woman of my past’
'The death of her...left a scar that never healed.'
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Your support makes all the difference.A couple of days after releasing semi-comeback single 'Perfect Illusion', Lady Gaga has revealed details of her fifth album.
Joanne will be released on 21 October and is almost ready for mastering, with Gaga telling Zane Lowe on Apple Radio’s Beats 1 that she’s just spending a final “48 hours meditating with it”.
Joanne is named after her late aunt, whose death still hangs heavy in Gaga’s family and who also lends her name to the family’s Upper West Side Italian restaurant, Joanne Trattoria.
She explained to Zane: “When Mark [Ronson] and I wrote it, the decision to name the album that was in tribute to my father’s sister who died when she was 19.
“He was younger than her. She was very sick with lupus. The death of her in his family and life left a scar that never healed.
“As I returned to my home life and spending time with my friends and family and getting out of the mainstream limelight for a minute, the experiences of our family and our challenges that make us who we are.
“It’s everything about Joanne, which also happens to be my middle name (i was named after her) it’s all the toughness of the pain of losing her that made us all strong and made us who we are.
“She is the woman of my past who is becoming and helping me bring more of my honest woman self into the future.”
'Perfect Illusion’ is expected to appear on the album, which Gaga also collaborated with Ronson, Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker and Florence Welch on.
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