Instead, she’s made one of her most sonically challenging and uniform albums yet: a mix of Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie, Prince and her Fame Monster -era self, rolled into the year’s strongest pop release yet.

Mayhem technically concludes with its juggernaut hit “Die With A Smile,” but its true farewell comes in the piano ballad “Blade of Grass.” Inspired by a conversation with her now fiancé about proposals, the track imagines how wrapping a blade of grass around her finger would be enough.