Lady Gaga is back with her long-awaited sixth album, Chromatica. The 16-track project includes features from Elton John, Ariana Grande, and BLACKPINK. Production is handled by the likes of Tchami, BloodPop®, BURNS, Axwell, Skrillex, and more. It’s her first release since the soundtrack to A Star Is Born, and her first solo album since 2016’s Joanne.
Gaga explained to Zane Lowe how the project’s concept came together.
“Chromatica was essentially on its own when you first look at it, it seems to be about colors and all the different colors and also music is made of a chromatic scale, you know?” she said. “So it’s all the colors, all the sounds, you know, so we, we’re talking about inclusivity and life and also a lot of what we see around us and what we’re experiencing is math, which is very much like music and sound is math as well. So we talked about that, and then I sort of went back and I said, ‘OK, well, yeah, it’s inclusivity but it’s really a way of thinking,’ you know, it’s not just, ‘Oh, Chromatica, we’re being inclusive with all the colors, all the people,’ and when I say, ‘All the colors, all the people’ I mean way more than we could possibly fathom.”
