Lady Gaga Channels Wednesday Addams in New ‘Abracadabra’ Performance

Lady Gaga delivered a blast of glammed-up gothic horror with her performance of “Abracadabra” at Netflix’s Tudum live event this past weekend in Los Angeles.

Gaga took the stage for an eight-minute performance, and right after, Netflix shared the first six minutes of the long-awaited new season of Wednesday. To match the Addams Family mood, Gaga performed a special three-song set of horror-tinged tunes starting with Mayhem’s “Zombieboy” before going into her Born This Way favorite, “Bloody Mary.”

The performance closed with “Abracadabra,” the lead single from Mayhem, and the new clip Netflix has shared finds Gaga barreling through the end of the song alongside a troop of dancers and a smidge of deep red lipstick (or is it blood?) smeared on her face. The performance ends with Gaga returning to a coffin alongside the beloved disembodied hand, Thing, as the Addams Family theme plays. 

Along with her performance, Gaga was able to finally share some new details about her cameo role in Season Two of Wednesday. She’s set to play Rosaline Rotwood, described as a “legendary Nevermore teacher who crosses paths with Wednesday” at some point during the second half of the season. Wednesday Season Two is set to premiere on Sept. 3. 

Gaga released her most recent album, Mayhem, back in March, marking her first proper album of all new material since 2020’s Chromatica. (Though in between, she released several projects, including a second collaboration with Tony Bennett and a companion album for Joker: Folie à Deux.) Gaga has since taken the album on the road, headlining Coachella, playing shows in Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and Singapore, and prepping for the North American leg of her tour, which kicks off July 16 in Las Vegas.