Chromatica
| Lady Gaga
Chromatica
American singer Lady Gaga released her sixth studio album—Chromatica—on May 29, 2020 with the help of Interscope Records and Streamline. The album was originally scheduled to be released on April 10, but got delayed by seven weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic. Gaga and Bloodpop are the main executive producers of the album.
Chromatica incorporates disco and house elements into its electropop genre, covering themes of loneliness, depression, mental health, self-worth, trauma associated with sexual assault, and finding love through a series of hardships. Blackpink, Elton John, and Ariana Grande serve as guest vocals in the album. Read Lady Gaga’s new album reviews here!
Critic Reviews
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NME
Pure pop celebration from an icon in a world of her own.
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Rolling Stone
Her dive back into disco, electro-pop, and house music couldn’t come at a better time.
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Uproxx
Lady Gaga is successful on Chromatica because she doesn’t flinch away from the darkest parts of the world, or herself, but instead drills down beneath the surface until she finds something bright and molten, something she can shape a new universe from.
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NY Post
Lady Gaga’s dance party is a pumping lockdown release.
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The Guardian
Gaga rediscovers the riot on her most personal album.
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Wall Street Journal
The superstar’s latest album features throwback sounds that put the groove front and center.
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Billboard
Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica’ is the Summer Dance-Pop Escape We Needed.
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A Bit of Pop Music
Some might think this is her best work to date while others might prefer early days Gaga, she definitely brought something that we haven’t heard from her yet. Lady Gaga still keeps me on my toes over ten years into her career!
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The Independent
Big, brazen pop with an introspective side.
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No Ripcord
Chromatica has its moments, but it isn't an album to play on repeat.
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Medium
On the surface, it marks a return to her dance floor roots. But underneath the surface, it is a musically complex and psychologically rich masterwork.
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The Irish Times
A star is reborn in this return to fully fledged pop.
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MSN
now she sounds like she knows exactly who she is, what she wants to say and how she wants to say it — and with “Chromatica,” she’s laid a rock-solid foundation for the next phase of her remarkable career.
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The Upcoming
Despite some of the more serious subject matter, this is ultimately a light and fluffy affair that doesn’t ask for much, except that we get up and dance. In times like these, surely that’s all we need.
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Louder than War
Chromatica is a delight in the current times, allowing people to escape into a fantasy they believed no longer existed due to the current state of affairs.
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Metro News
It has some sturdy songs. It serves as a neat mini-compendium of electronic dancefloor styles. And if anyone cares to listen, it is shot through with the pain of abuse and addiction. But the weather? Unchanged.
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Vulture
Chromatica doesn’t quite achieve space travel, but it lifts us up nevertheless.
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The Young Folks
Chromatica is at least a sign that Gaga still knows how to have fun. She’s created a wild party for herself in the 12 years since her breakthrough, but she could still get lost with her little monsters rather than hover above them.
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Canoe
with Chromatica, she’s laid a rock-solid foundation for the next phase of her remarkable career.
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Telegraph
Dance away your troubles with pop's queen of the glitterball.
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Daily Mail
Lady Gaga is lording it again with Chromatica... She has made the music for a party that we’re all invited to, and it’s not her fault that we can't attend.
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The Digital Fix
Chromatica is a damn good pop album. A 90s dance aesthetic runs through almost the entire thing, which is definitely my era, but it’s missing the usual flair of the Mother Monster. The lyrics are still clever, and the construction of the tracks is still arguably genius, but the darker edge of her work is notable in its absence.
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Exepose
The sense of personal journey and self-growth in Chromatica may seem like a cliché, but it’s actually raw and artistic. Lady Gaga has certainly had her fair share of eras, and this might be one of my favourites. I loved being whisked away to the planet of Chromatica and I think you will too. Just be prepared to come back down.
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All Music
Maybe she's lost her appetite to be a weird provocateur, but she has learned how to sharpen and stylize her attack, and that focus makes Chromatica one of her most consistent and satisfying albums.
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The Post
Though Gaga doesn’t seem to have a track on the album that encompasses the caliber of some of her highly acclaimed songs, the album is fun, trusting and, most importantly, discusses relevant issues through something everybody can enjoy: lively music with praiseworthy vocals.
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Gay Times
It might not be her most groundbreaking work, but it’s a solid and consistent addition to her discography that merges the best of Born This Way and ARTPOP. Gaga wanted to make the world dance, and we believe she’s succeeded.
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Entertainment
It's an album that we'll need to go back to a few more times, but as things stand, Dua Lipa remains the Pop Queen of 2020. Hail Dua!
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Cherwell
In terms of purely musical innovation, I don’t know if Chromatica will make a massive impact on the sounds making up future dance numbers. But thematically and conceptually, I think this album has the potential to encourage us to deal with what’s real.
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inews
The singer’s sixth record is a reminder of the healing, revelatory and revolutionary power of dance music.
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Vada Magazine
Chromatica will still sit nicely in Lady Gaga’s legacy of all-round entertainer, however. Her earlier work’s spikier and more artful edges may have been sandpapered off for good now, but this was probably part of Stefani Germanotta game-plan all along.
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The Needle Drop
Chromatica is an enjoyable homage to dance-pop's most classic sounds.
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Vinyl Chapters
Chromatica is another new departure from the legend that is Lady Gaga and shows she’s still got a plethora of ideas on which she can put her own, electrifying twist.
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Thomas Bleach
The contrasting of these emotions is beautiful, euphoric and empowering, and it makes for such an engaging and impressive listen. From start to finish ‘Chromatica’ is addictive, and It’s pop escapism at it’s finest. It’s so perfect for the current global condition and will have you re-falling in love with Lady Gaga like you did in 2008.
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attitude
After experimenting with her public image over the last few years, Chromatica proves that Gaga the pop star is still at her best when carving out a cathartic, inclusive disco for her legions of of Little Monsters. Now we just need to hang on until there's a dancefloor open to enjoy it on.
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Vancouver Weekly
Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica’ is extravagant and personal.
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Soundigest
All in all, Chromatica is a truly impressive album. It’s not perfect, by any means, but it’s stacked with powerhouse tracks that both Little Monsters and pop music fans will love, including Stupid Love, 911 and Alice.
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Celeb Mix
Chromatica is a return to pop basics that will not only have fans raving, but sounds like Gaga is at her most comfortable ever.
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The Edge
Chromatica is a dancy and pop-filled collection of collaborations that is definitely the energy we need right now!
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Metro Weekly
Chromatica marks a return to that eclectic, conceptual-yet-accessible pop that she originally built her brand on, less of an Artpop and even less of a Joanne.
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scmp
This is still a solid release from Lady Gaga, and reminds us why she has become a world-beater in her own right.
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Backseat Mafia
Lady Gaga returns to her dance pop roots with a solid set in her new album Chromatica.
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Brooklyn Vegan
Chromatica succeeds at what it set out to do. It's got a handful of cool production turns -- from the clubby house of "Alice" to the Robyn-esque synthpop of lead single "Stupid Love" to some classic '80s Madonna worship on "911" -- and Gaga continues to prove herself as one of this generation's true powerhouse vocalists.
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Stereoboard
Above all else, though, as the album unfolds it becomes increasingly euphoric to hear Gaga’s impassioned self-revelations thrown into relief with each emotional breakthrough, particularly during Rain on Me.
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Steemkr
Chromatica is a celebration of Pop (an album with impeccable production and that in the future will be remembered as something almost iconic for other generations of listeners) and that brings Lady Gaga on a steady and upward climb back to the top that she once reached, betting on her truth and her essence (as a person and singer) as an essential operational tool for her career.
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Hot Press
This is the Gaga the world fell in love with a decade ago.
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First Post
Lady Gaga returns to familiar turf of disco-pop with new album that has a slight hint of novelty.
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USA Today
Lady Gaga's euphoric dance-pop return is her best album in a decade.
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Pitchfork
With incomparable flair, the pop diva returns to her dance-pop days with a fabulously fun and deeply personal album that is at turns bizarre, theatrical, and ambitious.
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PopMatters
Lady Gaga may be hiding behind a different mask this time, but she's never sounded like she's having so much fun as in this shiny new persona.
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AV Club
Her choices can be puzzling, and not every song is a success, but that unpredictability is what makes her exciting and leaves us coming back for more. So maybe Gaga doesn’t know who she truly is yet. It’s still enjoyable to watch her figure it out.
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Beats Per Minute
She is a very talented pop songwriter and a strong vocalist, but sometimes her ideas sometimes get the best of her, and Chromatica is emblematic of that, in all its highs and lows.
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Sputnik Music
A solid return to pop, but one that inevitably fails to overthrow her peers in the game.
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The Line of Best Fit
Lady Gaga, has returned to the electro-pop suite with Chromatica, a record no one could have expected even from someone who so full of surprises.
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US Magazine
It’s a shame the world is in quarantine because Chromatica is one big dance party waiting to happen.
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The Morning Call
"Chromatica" is a letdown from one of pop's best voices. The production, which is basic, is the album's biggest problem — and the flat sound doesn't help bring the heavy themes of the album to life like Gaga has been able to do in the past.
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Slant Magazine
The singer continues to mine the same territory, both musically and conceptually, suggests the empress truly has no clothes.
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Stereogum
A thrilling return to the dancefloor.
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The Arts Desk
Tracking back over the album, even when the songs are iffy that foghorn voice is on impressive form. What a singer! Just wish she’d had a few more songs this time round.
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Chicago Sun Times
The album released Friday delivers on its energetic, empowering concept, making it Mother Monster’s catchiest and most cohesive body of work since 2011’s ‘Born This Way.’
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musicOMH
At 16 songs and a mere 43 minutes, Chromatica can feel a tad frenzied, but in the round marks a deft return to Lady Gaga’s club-pop roots, resplendent with much ’90s influence.
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The Boar
Lady Gaga's empowering pop manifesto.
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The Standard
A non-stop pop rocket into space.
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The Student Playlist
While there’s highlights aplenty, the slightly over-calculated nature of the production prevents ‘Chromatica’ from going full Lady Gaga.
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Euphoriazine
With theatrical flair and a consistent adventurous streak, Lady Gaga returns to pop music with the sad bangers, club anthems, and everything in-between on her much-anticipated sixth studio album Chromatica.
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The Spinoff
Chromatica finds her back in her comfort zone, and both clubs and pop fans will love her for it, but it’s missing the edges and the conflict that made her great to start with.
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Esquire
we agree that it can offer escape, and for the foreseeable future, you’re going to need it. With Chromatica in May 2020, the artist has met her moment. It would do you good to join her.
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Love London Love Culture
Lady Gaga’s sixth album is bold, confident and filled with brilliant songs.
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Metro
Lady Gaga understands pop music like no other, but sometimes she’s guilty of letting the art overshine the pop. With Chromatica, she both makes a comeback and an artistic re-birth. No pop album this year has made us happier to listen to.
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The Times
Now Gaga has entered a new phase that, were she from Europe and not the Upper West Side, would surely become a reality: potential Eurovision Song Contest winner.
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App
Lady Gaga's euphoric dance-pop return is her best album in a decade.
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The Pop Break
In a world that has gone crazy, Lady Gaga unleased a little ray of fun. Time will tell if this album will join the ranks of The Fame and Born This Way or fade away like Artpop and Joanne.
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DIY Mag
Infectious, exciting and even a little hedonistic during some of the most confusing of modern times, now's never been a better time to get lost in this new destination.
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Daily Bruin
In its entirety, “Chromatica” is not only ideal for the dance floor, but it also highlights the fragile and vulnerable side of Gaga’s life as a pop star. She returns to the disco beats that established her as the pop diva she is while lyrically exploring her own identity outside of the spotlight.
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Remo News
It is the same record that has fueled dance music, from the disco to the house in Gaga, transforming an intensified, more fantastic moment and, even in its most strobe and artificial light, in some way entirely human.
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Stack
Chromatica is movement and celebration, but also a request to be heard and supported despite human flaws – and it also is, in turn, a promise to return the embrace with total devotion.
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Student Edge
It’s a triumphant return to form.
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EW
Lady Gaga's Chromatica offers a glitter-dusted escape from strange times.
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Time
Lady Gaga’s New Album Chromatica Is the Soundtrack for 2020's Most Epic Bedroom Dance Parties.
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Nylon
LADY GAGA'S 'CHROMATICA' IS PURE, SANITIZED ECSTASY.
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Happy Mag
In her music and beyond, Gaga has crafted an oasis amongst the chaos, given a voice to the voiceless, inspired audiences to dare, pushed the bounds of creativity, and bared her soul in order to guide others.
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Our Culture
Chromatica might not be the fully-realized world that its instrumental interludes try to hint at, but it certainly succeeds in delivering more than a few fabulously larger-than-life, nostalgic dance bops. This might not be Gaga shedding the artifice, but it feels like a liberating affirmation that she can paint the world without being anything less than herself.
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New Wave Magazine
Dance-floor divinity, a triumphant return to club.
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The DePaulia
“Chromatica” as a whole did not fully live up to my expectations, but I do not view it as a failure. Rather, I see it as Gaga’s attempt to represent her roots in dance-pop, which serves as a fun escape, with real feelings of pain and loneliness. It’s a little messy and doesn’t always come together perfectly, but neither does real life.
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Spark Chronicles
Chromatica beyond the excellent premises — the sound of music as a symbol, as a space for the movement of potentially infinite — is a good example of “Gagasfera” without too much shock.
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Insider
Lady Gaga returns with triumphant, electro-pop bangers, but 'Chromatica' fails to maintain its high notes.
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Clash Magazine
More than ten years after she burst onto the scene with her Madonna-worshipping, take-no-prisoners maximalist dance-pop, Gaga has finally made a worthy follow-up to the album that made us fall in love with her in the first place.
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Aura
Instead of following what she has in the past in popularising a style of music, Lady Gaga instead reverts back to the style that brought her to the status of an icon she still holds today.
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Sound Bite Reviews
Despite my issues though I do think Chromatica is a fantastic album and one of the strongest from the year so far. It helps to firmly resetablish Gaga as one of the biggest names in pop and show a lot of creative growth.
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Total Ntertainment
Built around a fictional world, her sixth album sees the Queen of big, bombastic pop going all out to create a stunning piece of work.
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Riot Magazine
Chromatica is a collection of infectious and joyful dance tracks that’ll have you grooving all night long (alone in your bedroom, but still).
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New Wave Magazine
Gaga makes a statement that she refuses to let the fake people and gossip rule her life anymore and we end Chromatica with her seeming re-invigorated with pride, power and prowess, more confident and artistically inspired than ever.
Listeners Reviews
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Lady Gaga leaps back into her pop ways with Chromatica. Almost a decade from her album Born This Way, Chromatica is a continued expression of power, insight, and invigoration. Gaga's rich voice is dominant in both her singing voice and the messages she's telling. 4/5
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