Garden of Eden (Lady Gaga song)

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"Garden of Eden"
Song by Lady Gaga
from the album Mayhem
ReleasedMarch 7, 2025 (2025-03-07)
Studio Shangri-La (Malibu)
Genre
Length3:59
Label Interscope
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Audio video
"Garden of Eden" on YouTube

"Garden of Eden" is a song by American singer-songwriter Lady Gaga. It was released on March 7, 2025, through Interscope Records, as the third track from Gaga's studio album, Mayhem (2025).

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Release and promotion

Following the announcement of her studio album Mayhem , Gaga revealed the song title as part of the tracklist on February 18, 2025. [1] Lyrics from the song circulated a day earlier on her official website in a string of cryptic teasers. [2] On March 5, she previewed the song through an ESPN commercial that features the song over clips and montages of Formula One racing. [3]

Composition

"Garden of Eden" is an electro, [4] synth-pop, [3] and dance-pop [5] track co-produced by French DJ Gesaffelstein that combines influences from some of her earlier works, including The Fame (2008), [4] [6] Born This Way (2011) and Artpop (2013). [7] An "eclectic" club song, it sees the singer incorporating ideas from her "expansive career" as she "rushes into 2000s pop" with a request to follow her. [7]

Critical reception

Upon release, "Garden of Eden" received positive reviews from music critics with many declaring the song a standout. In a ranking of all songs on the album for Billboard , Stephen Daw placed it second, calling the track an "A+ pop gem" as well as a conglomeration of "all the sounds that have helped make Gaga the icon that she is". [7] Alexis Petridis of The Guardian viewed the song as an example of "the fleeting clubland hook-up as balm for the soul". [8] Vogue editor Christian Allaire called it one of the album's two "sexy pop bangers certain to be hits in all the gay clubs". [9] In a review for Pitchfork , Walden Green praised the track on which "Gaga invokes MDMA, nine-inch stilettos, and some good old-fashioned blasphemy, envisioning the site of original sin as a warehouse rave with God in the DJ booth." [10]

Alexa Camp at Slant Magazine thought the track was "an attempt to revive the messy party-girl shtick" hailing from The Fame with a "shamelessness of someone half her age". [4] Variety 's Steven J. Horowitz went as far as saying the song was "so aligned with that aesthetic" that it could have appeared on either The Fame or The Fame Monster (2009). [6]

References

  1. ↑ Phillips, Lucy (February 18, 2025). "Lady Gaga has revealed the full tracklist for her seventh studio album Mayhem". Dork . Retrieved March 7, 2025.
  2. ↑ Paul, Larisha (March 5, 2025). "Lady Gaga switches gears on ESPN Formula 1 anthem "Garden of Eden"". Rolling Stone . Archived from the original on March 7, 2025. Retrieved March 7, 2025.
  3. 1 2 Wilkes, Emma (March 5, 2025). "Lady Gaga previews sassy new song 'Garden of Eden' in F1 advert". NME . Retrieved March 7, 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 Camp, Alexa (March 6, 2025). "Lady Gaga Mayhem Review: A Pop Comeback That Fails to Live Up to Its Title's Promise". Slant Magazine . Retrieved March 7, 2025.
  5. ↑ Daw, Stephen (March 7, 2025). "Lady Gaga Brings Anarchy to Pop Music With Chaotic New Album 'Mayhem': Stream It Now". Billboard . Retrieved March 8, 2025.
  6. 1 2 Horowitz, Steven J. (March 6, 2025). "Lady Gaga Returns to Her Dance Floor Roots — and Has a Blast — on Mayhem: Album Review". Variety . Archived from the original on March 7, 2025. Retrieved March 7, 2025.
  7. 1 2 3 Daw, Stephen (March 7, 2025). "Every Song From Lady Gaga's Mayhem Album, Ranked". Billboard . Retrieved March 7, 2025.
  8. ↑ Petridis, Alexis (March 6, 2025). "Lady Gaga: Mayhem review – a fabulous return to her freaky first principles". The Guardian . Retrieved March 7, 2025.
  9. ↑ Allaire, Christian (March 6, 2025). ""I Didn't Want to Box Myself In": On Mayhem, Lady Gaga Crafts Perfect Pop for a Chaotic World". Vogue . Retrieved March 7, 2025.
  10. ↑ Green, Walden (March 7, 2025). "Lady Gaga's "Garden of Eden" Commits to Sin". Pitchfork . Archived from the original on March 8, 2025. Retrieved March 7, 2025.
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