New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Lady Gaga announced on Apple Radio's Beats 1 that new fifth album, Joanne, will be out Oct. 21. This comes right in the aftermath of the premiere of American Horror Story season six, which features Lady Gaga in some mysterious role that will probably give her many opportunities for wild and crazy costumes. This album, on the other hand, sounds a little more down-to-earth than what most people expect from Lady Gaga-at least on a thematic level.
This comes from reports, which says the album is named Joanne after Gaga's aunt. The real-life Joanne died when she was 19 from lupus, and the interior art for Gaga's album will feature examples of her handwriting and "images of various objects from her life." As for the songs themselves, we already know that Josh Homme did some guitar work for "Perfect Illusion" (the aforementioned first single), but media says that other songs will feature guest appearances from Florence Welch, Beck, "Girl Crush" and "Jesus Take The Wheel" songwriter Hillary Lindsey, and human meme machine Father John Misty Joanne will be in stores on October 21, 2016. All of Gaga's Little Monsters will have new music just in time for Halloween.
"The day the album comes out will be such a day of healing for me and my family, and my father," she said."
The singer revealed there would be 11 songs on the main album and 14 songs on the deluxe edition, though she cautioned Lowe, "don't quote me on that."