Through recessions, social movements, and pandemics, the pop star has always swooped in to deliver anthems that seem tailor-made for the worst of times. Here she comes again.

The stock market is crashing. Egg prices are skyrocketing. And Lady Gaga has just topped Billboard’s pop dance charts with her latest single, Abracadabra, dropped during last week’s Grammys broadcast.

Lady Gaga has cycled through many iterations in the time we’ve known her: disco diva, Warholian punk, country-inflected barroom balladeer, star of movies both successful and not. But with the Grammy-night debut of her video for the new single “Abracadabra,