Lady Gaga has explained that the "bad decisions" of her life have influenced her upcoming new record.
The 38-year-old chart-topping star will unleash her seventh studio album in February and has explained that it is a retrospective of her life so far.
Opening up to the Los Angeles Times, Gaga said, "It leaps around genre in a way that's almost corrupt. And it ends with love.
"That's the answer to all the chaos in my life is that I find peace with love. Every song that I wrote, I just kept getting kind of swept away in these different dreams I was having about the past - almost like a recollection of all these bad decisions that I made in my life."
She added, "But it ends in this very happy place."
While her lead track, Disease, stalled in the charts when it was released in October, her planned non-album duet with Bruno Mars, Die With A Smile, has hastily been added to the album track listing after it topped charts around the world when it was released in August.
Gaga gushed, "It's a huge part of my album. It was like this missing piece. It was the lyrics - this idea of a song that was about what we would do if the world was ending."
She added, "I just remember feeling like it was a song that people needed to hear. I write music all the time, and sometimes you feel like you're making something that some people will like. But there's other times that you work on something and you just know it's gonna deeply speak to all different kinds of people. I knew it right away."
