Overview

• Lady Gaga's song 'Blade of Grass' from her seventh studio album 'Mayhem' was inspired by her fiancé Michael Polansky's unique backyard proposal.
• Polansky proposed in 2024 with a blade of grass, fulfilling a playful promise Gaga had made about how he could ask her to marry him.
• The song intertwines themes of love and loss, as Gaga reflects on past grief, including the death of a close friend who once married in the same backyard where the proposal occurred.
• 'Blade of Grass' features a haunting and tense tone, contrasting with the hopeful energy of the album's closing track, 'Die With a Smile.'
• Michael Polansky, a venture capitalist, contributed to the creation of 'Mayhem,' co-writing multiple songs and encouraging Gaga's return to pop music.