Lady Gaga's says new pop album 'feels unhinged'

Lady Gaga says her "unhinged" next album is "nothing like Chromatica".

While Gaga has just released the Joker 2 companion record Harlequin, she admitted her upcoming pop album, with the working title LG7, would represent a "time in (her) life" and "feels unhinged".

"The pop album is nothing like Chromatica," she told Rolling Stone.

"It's a completely different record.

"I don't know that I'm even ready to talk about it yet, but it's coming out soon, and I will."

Gaga said the album was "all for me".

"It's meant to be ingested as a time in my life and I'm also really excited about this idea that I don't have to adhere to an era if I don't want to," she said.

"I can have a few going at once.

"That feels unhinged and more like me or Harley - or whoever."

Gaga, 38, also spoke about the Harlequin record, inspired by her Joker 2 character Harley Quinn.

"It is my record," she said.

"It's a Lady Gaga record, but it's also inspired by my character and my vision of what a woman can be.

"It's why the album does not adhere to one genre.

"I called it 6.5 because it's not my next studio album that's a pop record, but it is somewhere in between, and it's blurring the lines of pop music."

Gaga said her collaborator, the late Tony Bennett, "was young singing this music".

"It was just pop music and I thought it was so interesting, the songs that were chosen to create this film," she said.

"I wanted to explore what this music could mean today through the lens of her.

"We talked a lot about her being somebody that you can't clarify because she is too unpredictable and rare.

"(We) used genre as a way to express that something is rare - by not adhering to one and going heavily into the avant-garde.

"I'm basically saying, 'as a woman, I choose to be whatever and whoever I want to be at any given moment, no matter how I feel and no matter what you want from me, I will be myself'."