Lady Gaga Shares How Being in Love With Fiancé Michael Polansky Inspired Her ‘Blade of Grass’ Track

Lady Gaga is in a new era, and while her upcoming album is called Mayhem, she has found peace at home thanks to her fiancé Michael Polansky.

The superstar sat down with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe to discuss her eighth studio album, where she revealed that she’s been “healthier” recently. “I have good people in my life. I fell in love with Michael,” she explained, before sharing a special moment with Polansky that inspired a song on Mayhem. “As a songwriter you need life to inspire your writing and if everything is promotion, then I’ll write about promotion and I won’t write about that special moment I shared with you where Michael asked me how I would want him to propose to me one day. We were in our backyard and I said, ‘Just take a blade of grass and wrap it around my finger’ and then I wrote ‘Blade of Grass’ because I remembered the way his face looked and I remembered the grass in the backyard and I remember thinking he should use that really long grass that’s in the center of the backyard.”

She continued of now feeling confident in her artistry, “I needed to go live life to have a full life and also to give back to my true gift. That’s one of the sweetest things that I think Michael ever said to me as my partner is he was like, ‘You who you are is that you’re an artist. That’s the thing that makes you the most happy, so we need to nurture that part of you.’ He reminded me that the other stuff was maybe sometimes hard for me and making it more difficult, so keeping me away from what I love.”

The “Rain on Me” singer and businessman started dating shortly after meeting at a party in 2019, five years after which Polansky proposed in April 2024. The Joker: Folie à Deux actress has previously credited her fiancé with pushing her to make a new pop album, and while speaking to Elle in January, she revealed that Polansky helped pen “like, seven songs” on Mayhem — including single “Disease,” on which he’s credited as a songwriter.

“My home used to only be the stage,” she told Lowe. “It was so lonely. And also it is so much more fun to take somebody up there with you, someone that loves you, that knows what you’re capable of in all the various aspects of life. I think that there’s nothing that could bring a tear to my eye than knowing that I mean so much to somebody in a way that isn’t about what I’m doing on stage or my song or what I’m wearing. He’s so grateful if I make him a double decaf espresso over ice because that’s his favorite, and that’s a huge part of who I am.”

Gaga concluded, “Mattering to somebody just for being me, like a girl, that means a lot. […] He just wants me to be OK and he’s my real friend.”

Watch the full interview below via The Zane Lowe Show on Apple Music 1. Mayhem arrives on Friday (March 7).