Lady Gaga Gives ‘MAYHEM’ a Funeral at Film Premiere, Then Reimagines Album in ‘MAYHEM Requiem’
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The Grammy winner hosted a one-night-only screening of her filmed concert experience to celebrate the release of the new live album.
Por Billboard | 15/05/2026
MAYHEM is dead. And with MAYHEM Requiem , Lady Gaga made sure to lay the era to rest in the most extravagant (and Gaga) way possible. Related Lady Gaga’s ‘MAYHEM Requiem’ Film Is Coming: Here’s How to See It Doechii Jokes About Stealing Lady Gaga’s ‘Runway’ Wig In Hilarious TikTok: ‘I Love You GAGA!’ Lady Gaga’s The Mayhem Ball Was One of the Biggest Pop Tours Ever: By the Numbers Lady Gaga took over the AMC Theater at Los Angeles’ The Grove for a special screening of her filmed concert experience Mayhem Requiem on Thursday (May 14) night. Filmed in January at Los Angeles’ The Wiltern, MAYHEM Requiem was a one-night-only, no-phones-allowed performance during which Gaga reimagined her 2025 B illboard 200 chart-topping album MAYHEM live for a lucky group of selected fans, in partnership with Apple Music. The January show found a group of roughly 1,850 Little Monsters, many of them in costume, packed into the historic theater for the once in a lifetime show, with the mood inside the Wiltern feeling especially intimate, immediate and rare, given that everyone’s phones were tucked safely away. Now, four months later, everyone has access to MAYHEM Requiem with a new live album recorded on the night of the exclusive performance. With the live project came the filmed concert experience, which showed at one-night-only screenings in select AMC theaters on Thursday. To mark the occasion, Mother Monster took over the AMC at Los Angeles’ The Grove, an outdoor shopping mall. Decked out in black-and-red corseted dress and fishnet veil, Gaga led a gaggle of her dancers in a funeral procession through a crowd of her Little Monsters. Stopping at the entrance of the movie theater, Gaga paused among for dramatic effect, surrounded by her dancers in movement, as her devoted fans screamed and photographed the moment. All the while, a marching band performed somber, jazz renditions of Mayhem tracks including Billboard Hot 100 hits “Abracadabra” and “Disease.” Once the crowd was settled inside the AMC’s auditoriums, ready to enjoy Mayhem Requiem , Gaga stopped by to welcome the audience to experience and share a little more about the making of the show. “[Michael Polansky and I] talked about this idea that the opera house from the Art of Personal Chaos, what if it was reduced to rubble and what if it completely fell apart?” Gaga said, referencing the set and story from her recent arena tour, The Mayhem Ball. Fans who attended the ball — or watched her 2025 Coachella headlining performance — were brought to a historic-looking opera house where MAYHEM was brought to life by Gaga, her band and dancers. With MAYHEM Requiem , which was filmed in between Mayhem Ball shows, the opera house was demolished and the MAYHEM era was brought to its death — and a rebirth. Gaga continued: “What if we tore the album down and we just completel