The pop icon shared how a backyard conversation with her fiancé Michael Polansky inspired the second-to-last track on her new record, "Mayhem."

Blade of Grass’] is about when Michael proposed to me,” Gaga said. “We were in the backyard and he said, ‘If I proposed to you one day, what am I supposed to do?

Lady Gaga ends Mayhem with love. On Friday, the pop singer will release her seventh studio album, Mayhem. On a recent call with Rolling Stone ahead of the album, she shared that the second-to-last song, “Blade of Grass,” is a track she wrote after her engagement to fiancé Michael Polansky last spring.

It’s a love song between the two of us," singer says of the track, composed in the backyard with the venture capitalist she plans to marry.

On “Blade of Grass,” from her new album 'Mayhem,' Lady Gaga tells the story of her engagement to Michael Polansky, metaphorically and literally.

News of Gaga’s engagement broke in June 2024, but the couple first met in 2019. They were introduced by the singer’s mother, Cynthia Germanotta, who met Polansky through her work in philanthropy. Read the full lyrics to “Blade of Grass” below, courtesy of Genius.

Michael Polansky didn't have a massive engagement ring when he first popped the question to Lady Gaga. "Michael actually proposed to me with these blades of grass," the pop star, 38, revealed in an interview with the BBC published on Thursday,

The story Rexha referred to was revealed during Gaga’s wide-ranging interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. The star said that “Blade of Grass” was inspired by her fiancé, Michael Polansky, and a charming moment the two shared shortly before he proposed.