Review: Lady Gaga's Chromatica Album

  As a little monster myself (in my mind the biggest of them all) I couldn’t be happier to be writing this review article right now. You might think my opinion doesn’t count since I already like Lady Gaga’s sound but let me tell you why this is a huge mistake. If there’s one thing I learnt from all these years (more than ten) following this woman’s career and fandom is that if Mother Monster (that’s how we call her) doesn’t serve it like we know she can, they’ll eat her up, non-fans and more fiercely her fans, trust me. For some that may sound funny but the truth is, the bar is set very high for an artist like Lady Gaga and that’s partially her fault, she set the bar very high when she first appeared in the scene in 2009, she changed the game and now she’s back ten years later to do THE SAME.

  Chromatica is Lady Gaga’s sixth studio album, released on May 29, 2020 via Interscope Records. On March 2, 2020, Gaga originally announced the title of the album and its release date of April 10, but on March 24, she announced the album would be postponed due to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. On May 6, Gaga confirmed the final release date of May 29. On April 22, 2020, Gaga revealed the complete tracklist for the album and announced collaborations with Ariana Grande, Elton John and BLACKPINK on some of the tracks.

Tracklist

1.       Chromatica I

2.       Alice

3.       Stupid Love

4.       Rain On Me With Ariana Grande

5.       Free Woman

6.       Fun Tonight

7.       Chromatica II

8.       911

9.       Plastic Doll

10.     Sour Candy With BLACKPINK

11.     Enigma

12.     Replay

13.     Chromatica III

14.     Sine From Above With Elton John

15.     1000 Doves

16.     Babylon

17.     Love Me Right

18.     1000 Doves (Piano Demo)

19.    Stupid Love (Vitaclub Warehouse Remix) by Lady Gaga, BloodPop® & Burns (Ft. Vitaclub)

20.     Stupid Love (Ellis Remix) (Ft. Ellis)

  Overall the album bring us back and take us forward as far as Lady Gaga’s sound is concerned. You can see elements of her early hits and non-hits songs. The “Old Gaga” is back to show us why we fell in love with her in the first place but also to take her well-deserved spot in the hall of legends in the music industry. She’s proved countless times to be THAT b****. She’s fought for all the right things and stood up for her and other female artists throughout her career and now we can all sit back and enjoy the songs from an artist who knows herself better than anyone and is here to be the first one to start the important conversations in society through her music. Well done GAGA!

My favorite quotes from some of the songs.

Alice:

-         “Could you pull me out of this alive? (Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah)

Where's my body? I'm stuck in my mind (Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah)”.

P.s. As an advocate for mental issues myself these lines hit home for me, big time.

Stupid Love:

-         “Gotta quit this cryin', nobody's gonna

Heal me if I don't open the door

Kinda hard to believe, gotta have faith in me”.

Rain On Me With Ariana Grande:

-         “Gotta live my truth, not keep it bottled in

So I don't lose my mind, baby, yeah”.

Free Woman:

-         “I'm not nothing without a steady hand

I'm not nothing unless I know I can

I'm still something if I don't got a man

I'm a free woman, oh-oh (Be free)".

911:

-         “My biggest enemy is me, pop a 911

My biggest enemy is me ever since day one

Pop a 911, then pop another one”.

Sour Candy With BLACKPINK:
 “I'm hard on the outside

But if you give me time

Then I could make time for your love”.

Enigma:

-         “We could be lovers, even just tonight

We could be anything you want

We could be jokers, brought to the daylight

We could break all of our stigma”.

Replay:

-         “I don't know what to do, you don't know what to say

The scars on my mind are on replay, r-replay

The monster inside you is torturing me”.

Sine From Above With Elton John:

-         “Then the signal split in two

The sound created stars like me and you

Before there was love, there was silence

I heard one sine

And it healed my heart, heard a sine”.

1000 Doves:

-         “Lift me up, give me a start

'Cause I've been flying with some broken arms”.

Babylon:

-         “Strut it out, walk a mile

Serve it, ancient-city style

Talk it out, babble on

Battle for your life, Babylon

That's gossip, what you on?

Money don't talk, rip that song

Gossip, babble on

Battle for your life, Babylon”.

Love Me Right:

-         “I'm sick of hiding from myself

I don't wanna feel this pain

I don't wanna run far from my home

I don't wanna lose my way

I don't wanna be my friend no more

I don't wanna play this game”.

My Top 5 Songs From Chromatica:

1.Sour Candy With BLACKPINK

2.Babylon

3.Rain On Me With Ariana Grande

4.Sine From Above With Elton John

5.Alice

That’s All!

Hugs,

Douglas Migliassi