When Lady Gaga sat down for an interview in February, she made a surprising confession about her 2020 album, Chromatica. "I wouldn't say I made my best music during that time," she told The New York Times Magazine. Sorry, Little Monsters, but it's true. Did Chromatica, a dance project about mental health and healing, get a lot of people through the pandemic? Yes. Is it Gaga's weakest album? Also yes. But just a few weeks after the Q&A, Gaga redeemed herself with the release of Mayhem, her best album since 2011's Born This Way.