Through recessions, social movements, and pandemics, the pop star has always swooped in to deliver anthems that seem tailor-made for the worst of times. Here she comes again.

Morgan Thompson had Lady Gaga's new single "Abracadabra" on repeat the morning after it premiered at the 2025 Grammy Awards.As she listened to the song over and over again, she started to hear the lyrics of the first verse: "Pay the toll to the angels/ Drawin’ circles in the clouds.

Lady Gaga has cycled through many iterations in the time we've known her: disco diva, Warholian punk, country-inflected barroom balladeer, star of movies both successful and not. But with the Grammy-night debut of her video for the new single "Abracadabra,

Lady Gaga debuts at No. 1 on the Feb. 15-dated Hot Dance/Pop Songs tally with "Abracadabra," becoming the second chart-topper in the survey's five-week history. Tate McRae's "It's Ok I'm Ok" drops to No.