“Mayhem” puts the lie to that idea: Brash, squirmy, full of detailed grooves and expertly crafted hooks, it’s a winning reclamation of her trademark sound — her best since 2011’s “Born This Way” and precisely the album you’d want her to drop before headlining Coachella, as Lady Gaga will do next month.

Instead, she’s made one of her most sonically challenging and uniform albums yet: a mix of Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie, Prince and her Fame Monster -era self, rolled into the year’s strongest pop release yet.

She dances on the line between clever self-referentiality and less inspired rehashing on her new LP, committing to the over-the-top excess that first made her a star.

The singer made the ill-fated sequel the butt of her jokes after the film royally bombed among critics and at the box office.

The pop superstar, who took on the roles of both host and musical guest, also performed tracks from her new album, Mayhem.

Lady Gaga made her acting career the center of the jokes in her Saturday Night Live monologue — roasting her own movie, “Joker 2,” which flopped historically hard in theaters last fall. The New York-born pop star pulled double-duty at 30 Rock on Saturday as host and musical guest,