Lady Gaga is having a ball… and so are we. It’s been a hell of a 2025 for her: A few months ago, she put out what might be the most purely enjoyable album of her career, “Mayhem.” Now, she’s fairly freshly embarked on what will stand as the quintessential large-scale tour of the year (or at least go down as caught up in a tie with Beyonce’s), the Mayhem Ball. She no longer dominates the cultural conversation quite the way she did when her most outlandish outfits made her the target of late-night TV jokes; she’s become too normalized to keep an entire nation’s rapt attention. Yet the
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