{"id":263807,"date":"2026-02-02T11:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/263807\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:41:07","slug":"lady-gaga-brings-mayhem-back-to-2026-grammys-with-abracadabra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/263807\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Gaga Brings Mayhem Back to 2026 Grammys With ‘Abracadabra’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The artist is nominated for seven awards at this year’s show including Record, Song, and Album of the Year<\/p>\n

\n\tLady Gaga<\/a> brought the Mayhem<\/a> era full circle at the 2026 Grammys with a phenomenal performance of \u201cAbracadabra.\u201d The star, who is up for several awards, also took home the trophy for Best Dance Pop Recording soon after.<\/p>\n

\n\tTaking the stage in a dramatic ensemble featuring a jacket covered in crimson feathers above a glittering, scaly skirt and her face peering through a broken basket cage, Gaga delivered her soaring single to the ceremony on Sunday. The star finished her performance, set against a backdrop of smoke and mirrors as the camera swiveled and flipped to keep up with her, with a gaze straight into the camera, holding it long after the music stopped.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast year, Gaga unleashed the surprise global premiere<\/a> of \u201cAbracadabra\u201d during a commercial break that aired in the middle of the show. The video for the album\u2019s second single played shortly after she took the stage with Bruno Mars to perform the Mamas and the Papas\u2018 \u201cCalifornia Dreamin\u2019\u201d in a special tribute to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe category is dance or die,\u201d Gaga said at the start of the \u201cAbracadabra\u201d video. The song left its mark on more than a few other categories, garnering nominations at this year\u2019s show for Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Dance Pop Recording. Gaga scored additional nods in Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album for Mayhem, Best Pop Solo Performance for \u201cDisease,\u201d and Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for Harlequin.<\/p>\n

\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMayhem as a piece of music, I never would\u2019ve made it without the 10 years of experience that I had,\u201d Gaga told Rolling Stone<\/a> last year. \u201cNearly 30, if you count all my years of music. What would Mayhem sound like if I hadn\u2019t become a jazz singer? What would it have sounded like if I hadn\u2019t made Artpop?<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was willingly and openly running through all the nightmares of my past and my present and just finding poetry in all of it,\u201d she added. \u201cAnd that was a sign of my health as a musician. One of the things I\u2019m most grateful for is gaining all my artistic faculties back to make this record. I had to dig very, very deep, and I had to change a lot of my life and recenter around what I needed as a human being.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The artist is nominated for seven awards at this year’s show including Record, Song, and Album of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,46109,11314,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-263807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-grammys-2026","10":"tag-lady-gaga","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}