# Lady Gaga rocks her nachos with 'Mayhem,' a pop culture masterpiece

**By Kofi Mframa**

**USA TODAY**  
**2025-03-11 05:14 EST**

In a time of such uncertainty and unrest, many of us are looking backward for some respite from everything. The rose-colored lenses of nostalgia offer a somewhat false sense of how things used to be – and how far we’ve strayed. This is particularly evident in the pop culture landscape.

Last fall, I wrote about Katy Perry’s mediocre album “143” and pop culture’s obsession with nostalgia, which has often meant forgoing progress for rehashing dated ideas. So many people want Perry to recreate the magic of her seminal 2010 album “Teenage Dream,” but it’s clear that the Culture™ has moved on since that album was released.

Our current nostalgia fix comes as Y2K and other early-2000s cultural markers re-enter the zeitgeist, and most attempts to recreate and rehash them read hollow and uninspired to me.

If you’ve spent any time on the internet you’ve probably heard the term “reheating nachos.” Thrust from the linguistic ingenuity of Stan Twitter, this term is mainly aimed at pop stars who revisit older elements of their career and revive them in an attempt to replicate previous success.

Recently, pop juggernaut Lady Gaga has found a way to revisit her past, or “reheat her nachos” as some would say, without it coming off too trite.

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