If there’s one thing we know about Lady Gaga, it’s that she loves her little monsters — so much so that she held a fans-only press conference ahead of the release of her seventh studio album, Mayhem, where her fans were able to ask her questions directly. A dream! Of course, Gaga couldn’t help but share that one track has a special connection to her fiancé, venture capitalist Michael Polansky, and their engagement story.
“[‘Blade of Grass’] is about when Michael proposed to me,” Gaga said. “We were in the backyard and he said, ‘If I proposed to you one day, what am I supposed to do?’ and I said, ‘You can just get a blade of grass from the backyard and wrap it around my finger,’ and he did actually propose to me with these green bands,” she said, holding one up to the crowd. “He also gave me an [engagement] ring.”
The pair began dating back in 2019, spent the pandemic together at Gaga’s home in Malibu, and have since been seen together at high-profile events such as Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration and the 2024 Super Bowl. She was seen wearing a large diamond on her ring finger in April 2024. The pair’s engagement was accidentally confirmed via a TikTok video that showed Gaga introducing Polansky as “my fiancé” to French prime minister Gabriel Attal at an Olympic swimming event last summer. Whoops!
Polansky apparently convinced Gaga to return to her pop music origins — for that, we thank him — and has seven writing credits on her new album. “It’s been one of the most incredible parts of this chapter of my life, to live with and coexist alongside someone making art and being creative in ways that very few people get to experience,” he previously told Elle. “I think of myself as really lucky to have been there for it.”
While we now know their engagement story, we don’t know what their actual wedding celebration will look like. Will it be a simple trip to the courthouse? Or a no sleep, bus, club, another club, another club, party marathon? Either way, I bet Mother Monster will surprise us all.
