Interscope CEO describes Gaga's forthcoming music as "spectacular"

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Interscope CEO John Janick's big project of the moment is Lady Gaga. The superstar singer has come to the studio to meet with Interscope executives. 

This meeting is part of a comeback mission.
And Janick, in his understated way, acts as both coach and cheerleader to Gaga. "She told me she was making a lot of music but just wanted to wait for the right time," Janick explains to the team. "I got to hear the music and it was spectacular."
 

Gaga arrives dressed in a long black coat and heeled boots and greets the room, giving hugs to Grainge (CEO of Universal Music) and a few others. On the screen are meticulous plans for rolling out all kinds of things that I've agreed not to write about. Some have since been announced: a song with Bruno Mars and a surprise album she made to accompany the new Joker film that she starred in.

  
Over the next few months the grand plan will have extremely mixed results.
Janick was right about "Die With A Smile". The dramatic ballad caught fire, topping the charts in 17 countries including the US.
But another key piece of the strategy fared badly. Janick had suggested that Gaga could receive another nomination for her role in Joker: Folie à Deux. When the movie landed two months later, it bombed badly with both audiences and reviewers. "Even Lady Gaga can't save this movie," wrote Slate's film critic. Despite positive reviews, the album's fate was sealed.