Lady Gaga details Michael Polansky’s romantic proposal in her new song ‘Blade of Grass’.
The 38-year-old pop star released her latest album ‘Mayhem’ on Friday (07.03.25) and she’s now revealed she poured her personal life into the tracks – explaining ‘Blade of Grass’ is about the “special moment” when her partner Michael proposed marriage.
During an appearance on Apple Music 1, she told Zane Lowe: “I have good people in my life. I fell in love with Michael.
“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 centre of the backyard.”
The couple are believed to have been together since 2019 and news of the engagement went public at the Olympic Games in France last summer when the singer was seen on video introducing Michael as her fiance when meeting former French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal.
During the Apple Music 1 interview Lady Gaga – whose real name is Stefani Germanotta -also insisted she put “so much” of herself into the new album and she wants to be remembered as a “real artist”.
She said: “Something I want my fans to know now, which is why I said I love being Lady Gaga, is I actually returned back to my artistry recently in a huge way of making this album.
“I put so much of myself as a musician, as a producer, as a songwriter into everything … And that is who Lady Gaga is to me.
“Maybe to someone else it might be the meat dress or something that I did that they remember as me. But for me, I always want to be remembered for being a real artist and someone that cares so much about a life of art.”