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AWARDS SHORTLIST: MONSTAS: Best Song of 2025

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It’s been quite the year, it’s almost Christmas and what would the festive season be without some recognition of the best of 2025? Over the next month we’ll shortlist five nominees in each of 17 categories for our Oscars, or monstas if you will, of 2025.

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AWARDS LONGLIST: MONSTAS: Best Theatre, Music, TV, Film & Podcasts of 2025 so far (Part 2 of 2)

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You, dear reader, are given the chance to vote in 17 categories from October this year to tell us your favourite theatre, music, TV, film and podcast of 2025.

  • Read on for reasons including 8 of 17 categories of our Best Theatre, Music, TV, Film and Podcasts of 2025 so far
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ALBUM OF THE MONTH: Mayhem by Lady Gaga (March 2025)

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WORTH A LOOK?: ****1/2

Tracklist: Disease; Abracadabra; Garden Of Eden; Perfect Celebrity; Vanish Into You; Killah; Zombieboy; Love Drug; How Bad Do U Want Me; Don’t Call Tonight; Shadow Of A Man; The Beast; Blade Of Grass; Die With A Smile

Lady Gaga’s 7th studio album pulls the magician’s trick of reminding fans of Mother Monster at her most successful while also pushing her boundaries musically into more credible territory before, we anticipate, a greatest hits album, world tour and then a career break.

  • Read on for reasons including Mayhem can lay claim to being the best album of 2025 so far
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SONG OF THE MONTH: Abracadabra by Lady Gaga (March 2025)

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WORTH A LOOK? *****

Mother Monster’s best single since Born This Way in 2011 finds her experimenting with industrial house and sampling/giving songwriting credits to Siouxsie and The Banshees as she tees up new album Mayhem.

  • Read on for reasons including how we haven’t been this excited in years for a new Gaga album
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9 reasons why we can’t wait for March 2025 starring James Graham’s Punch

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  1. James Graham’s Punch at the Young Vic

Author Graham (Boys From The Blackstuff, National Theatre) is enjoying a prolific run of theatre and TV writing including Brian And Maggie most recently on Channel 4. This transfers from Nottingham Playhouse and is based on a book by Jacob Dunne about an impulsive punch that leads to fatal consequences at the Young Vic. Runs 1 March through 26 April 2025. Tickets Cast includes Coronation Street‘s Julie Hesmondhalgh. Our review

  • Read on for reasons including Lady Gaga and Welly albums and double Eurovision winner Loreen live
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SONG OF THE MONTH: Disease by Lady Gaga (January 2025)

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WORTH A LOOK?: ****

This is the lead single from the album we are most excited for in 2025, Lady Gaga’s 8th studio collection expected in February.

  • Read on for reasons including why Gaga’s upcoming album is the 1 we’re most looking forward to in 2025
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FILM REVIEW: Joker: Folie à Deux starring Joaquin Phoenix & ALBUM OF THE WEEK Harlequin by Lady Gaga

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By Neil Durham

WORTH A LOOK?: *** (film)/ **** (album)

Harlequin tracklist: Good Morning; Get Happy; Oh, When The Saints; World On A String; If My Friends Could See Me Now; That’s Entertainment; Smile; The Joker; Folie à Deux; Gonna Build A Mountain; Close To You; Happy Mistake; That’s Life

Lady Gaga is definitely the best thing about this sequel to the 2019 original Joker film which won Oscars for Best Actor for Joaquin Phoenix and Best Score.

  • Read on for reasons including how this film proves what a musical talent Lady Gaga is
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PREVIEW: 9 reasons why we can’t wait for October 2024 featuring Oedipus starring Mark Strong

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  1. Oedipus starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville

Director Robert Icke gave us Oresteia (Almeida Theatre) and reimagines another Ancient Greek tragedy starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville (Talking Heads, Bridge Theatre and film Back To Black) at the Wyndham’s Theatre 4 October through 4 January 2024. Tickets Our review

  • Read on for reasons including Steve Coogan in Dr Strangelove, Mark Rylance & Lady Gaga
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SONG OF THE WEEK: Die With A Smile by Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars (week beginning Friday 13 September 2024)

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WORTH A LOOK?: ***1/2

Next month is a big 1 for Lady Gaga with the release of the film in which she stars with Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix – Joker: Folie à Deux – and the launch of the 1st single from her upcoming album currently known as LG7 and due February 2025.

  • Read on for reasons including everything we know about LG7
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AWARDS SHORTLIST: MONSTAS: Best Gig of 2022

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It’s been quite the year, it’s almost Christmas and what would the festive season be without some recognition of the best of 2022? Over the next month we’ll shortlist five nominees in each of 16 categories for our 8th annual Oscars, or monstas if you will, of 2022.

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