Lady Gaga released her new album Mayhem. Nobody asked my opinion, but I think it kicks ass. Gaga has been out promoting the album hard — hard enough that she took the time to do a Stereogum interview,

But, at the core of Gaga’s songs are rock-solid songwriting, which she demonstrated on The Howard Stern Show today (March 11), with acoustic performances of Mayhem highlights “Abracadabra” and “Perfect Celebrity” ( the performances can be heard here ). Gaga turned the latter into a piano ballad and gave the latter a guitar-based arrangement.