Lady Gaga announces new album Joanne

Little monsters rejoice. Lady Gaga announced on Apple Radio’s Beats 1 that new fifth album, Joanne, will be out Oct. 21.

Gaga, who released the collection’s first track “Perfect Illusion” last week, told Beats 1’s Zane Lowe that the album is “actually going to be done in the next 48 hours.” Gaga says she has been collaborating with producer Mark Ronson and tinkering on the final track and will “[spend] the last 48 hours meditating with it.”

Gaga admits, “there’s definitely a bittersweetness to [finishing the album],” but acknowledges “this isn’t the end just the end of this moment. It’s also the beginning of this moment.”

The album is named after Gaga’s father’s late sister. (Joanne is also Gaga’s middle name.) “She is the woman of my past,” she said.