The Many Colors of Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica’

Switched on Pop

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Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Lady Gaga’s 6th album is a conceptual release about a future that is neither utopian nor dystopian. Despite its sci-fi visuals, the album looks more to the past and present than the future. Chromatica gives us a world that sounds like 90s house music made for this summer’s cancelled Pride parties. It is lyrically somber, but musically upbeat, a productive tension that inspires hope. Gaga shared that she made this album to help her and her ‘little monsters’ dance through the pain. So we called on our listeners to dig up the most meaningful moments on the album and help us tour the world of Chromatica. SONGS DISCUSSED Lady Gaga - Chromatica I, 1000 Doves, Alice, Bad Romance, Stupid Love, Fun Tonight, Paparazzi, The Fame, Rain On Me, Since From Above, Babylon Gwen McCray - All This Love Cassius - Feeling For You Avicci & Sebastien Drums - My Feelings For You MORE "Welcome To Chromatica" playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6nIb85jPqtjhjuOB3DUI49?si=Vy9LLNWcSAeih_V2Amq6Aw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.2	Welcome to Switched on Pop, I'm songwriter Charlie Harding, and I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.
1:10.0	Nate, I would like you to join me on a journey into the world of chromatica.
1:15.9	Charlie, I thought you'd never ask.
1:18.8	Hello, String Orchestra. That's pretty, isn't it?
1:32.8	So Lady Gaga has released her sixth studio album to follow up from her Oscar win,
1:39.5	the song Shallow, from a star is born, and her 2016 album Joanne that took a bit of a country term.
1:49.1	This album chromatica is what people are calling a return to form as in dance music,
2:08.6	she's got a bunch of amazing collaborators here, executive produced by Bloodpop,
2:13.5	we've got Ariana Grande, Alton John, and Blackpink are on the album.
2:18.4	Yeah, this is a BFZ. Excuse me? A ballad free zone.
2:25.7	There's some things that approximate ballads. What approximates a ballad on here?
2:30.7	Oh, the um, thousand doves?
2:43.6	Ballads don't have house drums, Charlie.
2:49.4	Okay, this is a ballad free zone.
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