You need to make pop music'] She's rising up the charts with her infectious new hit Abracadabra as she gears up to release her seventh studio album (pictured in her famous 'meat dress' at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2010).
In the new music video, which premiered earlier this month, the singer cuts a bold figure in an outlandish red latex outfit that's held together with nuts and bolts.
She said: 'Michael is the person who told me to make a new pop record.
And New Zealand choreographer Parris Goebel, who worked with Gaga on her new song, gushed: 'It is cool that it reminds her fans of an era that was so iconic and groundbreaking for her.
You need to make pop music'.