What the heck is Chromatica?

[skedaddleBItCh 2,806]

3 hours ago, lompavibl said:

I see where you‘re coming from. I love Chromatica but in my mind the album is tightly connected to Gaga‘s psychosis and other mental health struggles she faced after Joanne. It‘s the album Gaga had to make in order to fully heal and move onto Mayhem. She seemed so down and depressed in almost all interviews she did back in 2020. Something just felt very off imo. 

Mayhem feels completely different. She seems to be calm, happy, full of energy and finally satisfied. Her spark is back. I‘m so proud of her and her growth, when I look back at Chromatica, it almost feels like a nightmare, even though I love the album, and I believe she does as well, it‘s very different to previous albums and Mayhem. I don‘t even know what I‘m trying to say, it‘s something I‘ve been thinking about for a while. Her latest performances, interviews, she‘s in a much better place and I‘m so glad she has overcome such a difficult period in her life. 

It's a misconception that Gaga was still depressed during the Chromatica era 😭 it was during COVID so it made sense that anyone would be down but if anything, she was quite happy during the era and wasn't depressed anymore during that time 

[lastpopicon 25,959]

it's fascinating for me how much conversation chromatica creates everywhere, this is not only a ggd thing.

Keep debating divas For her second best album.

[skedaddleBItCh 2,806]

2 hours ago, Lord Mayhem said:

Then again...Chromatic and the cringe (Dawn of Chromatica) very much felt like a forced effort from BloodPop rather than an authentic concept from Gaga

Remember....she didn't come up with the name until AFTER the album was finished...so she was just making songs with no real concept. 

Idk what Gaga was hearing when she said the music "sounded" happy but the message and lyrics weren't that lol

Mayhem feels more like a polished Chromatica 2.0 imo...

Enough with this fanfiction

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And disliking Chromatica is homophobic

[HelloHangoverz 17,166]

4 hours ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

IMO, I think Gaga felt so disconnected from her persona and the way she used to create that she had to create a concept to reverse engineer her understanding of what she used to do. So Chromatica is a meta concept she used (both a reference to the chromatic scale in music and the chromatic color scale) as a way of reintroducing and reintegrating the idea that she could use fantasy through visuals and music to tell her story again.

I think, to some degree, it was just a way of recreating a safe space where she could create from that vantage point without fear of judgement because I think she felt pretty traumatized from the more fantastic/surreal elements of her work being both misunderstood in the past and also having served as a vehicle for some of her more self-destructive inclinations. 

omfg

[Ladle Ghoulash 21,238]

41 minutes ago, HelloHangoverz said:

omfg

I thought you might appreciate that one, divatron xoxo

[HelloHangoverz 17,166]

51 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

I thought you might appreciate that one, divatron xoxo

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3 hours ago, Borisapillar said:

How does it explore the boundaries of art and pop and the points where they converge?

 

Be specific.

by trying to create music that didn't fit into traditional pop trends of the time, trying to expand the definition of pop by incorporating other things in it (which is where creativity occurs, aka art). I personally don't think the music was all that "artistic" (because to me, artistic music corresponds more to cinematic or classical genres, "timeless" music) but I understand that she felt it was the case and that's why it fits the concept.

[candydarling 1,701]

i like the title but it has nothing to do with the album

[LauraPalmer 616]

i think it’s such a cool concept that just never got the chance to be fully fleshed out sadly

[angelduuh 432]

It's a planet, right? 

[Ladle Ghoulash 21,238]

26 minutes ago, angelduuh said:

It's a planet, right? 

It’s a pink chocolate cookie sandwich with a green cream filling, actually! 

[Lord Axel 810]

ALRIGHT, lemme summarize for y'all 

Chromatica is both the state of Gaga's mind as a means of escapism (from both the world and herself) as well as the name of a fictional planet in Gaga's "universe" (detailed in the map included in the fanzine from the gatefold vinyl) - The tribes introduced in the Stupid Love video, with their different symbols & colors, represent the chromatic scale (basically the rainbow in layman's terms lol) and align with different schools of thinking and ways of dealing with your negative feelings like depression, etc.

Notice how the Chromatica album cover is devoid of most colors other than hot pink shining through grey & black surroundings - This is because the album is a journey of Gaga dancing though the pain of her darkened mind; starting with the struggle of attaining happiness then eventually ending in Babylon where she has survived the trials that her own thoughts had created

Going one layer deeper: the Dawn of Chromatica cover is an explosion of color and the tribe symbols are much more relevant, in contrast to the Chromatica cover, where there's not a huge variety of color and the symbols are practically invisible - This is because the remix album showcases the origin ("dawn") of the planet Chromatica and basically embodies how life was like before Gaga's negative feelings took over; you can also see how the sine wave symbol is underneath Gaga's body, as opposed to Chromatica where the symbol is holding her down.

You're welcome

[Gerrard174 649]

You guys didnt read right. The theme and explanation are up in her website.

 

"Chromatica features Gaga dancing through her pain, alongside an upbeat tempo and electronic production. The album explores themes of healing and finding happiness through music, providing a sense of escapism and resilience during an unprecedented era in modern history."

 

So it is both recognising the pains she gone through as well as healing and overcoming those pains

 

 

[llemesm 1,479]

Chromatica is her version of a "happy place", colorful (actually that's what it means in greek) to escape the real world. This "world" is ideal and fierce but FAKE. It's an idea. It's made up for her for a temporary escape. That's why the darkness leaks through some densely dark songs and for the obvious rejection of not wanting to face the darkness, something that she finally does in MAYHEM.