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Chromatica I<\/p>\n
\u201cThe beginning of the album symbolizes for me the beginning of my journey to healing. It goes right into this grave string arrangement, where you feel this pending doom that is what happens if I face all the things that scare me. That string arrangement is setting the stage for a more cinematic experience with this world that is how I make sense of things.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alice<\/p>\n
\u201cI had some dark conversations with BloodPop\u00ae about how I felt about life. \u2018I\u2019m in the hole, I\u2019m falling down\/So down, down\/My name isn\u2019t Alice, but I\u2019ll keep looking for Wonderland.\u2019 So it\u2019s this weird experience where I\u2019m going, \u2018I\u2019m not sure I\u2019m going to make it, but I\u2019m going to try.\u2019 And that\u2019s where the album really begins.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stupid Love<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the \u2018Stupid Love\u2019 video, red and blue are fighting. It could decidedly be a political commentary. And it\u2019s very divisive. The way that I see the world is that we are divided, and that it creates a tense environment that is very extremist. And it\u2019s part of my vision of Chromatica, which is to say that this is not dystopian, and it\u2019s not utopian. This is just how I make sense of things. And I wish that to be a message that I can translate to other people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rain on Me (With Ariana Grande)<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we were vocally producing her, I was sitting at the console and I said to her, \u2018Everything that you care about while you sing, I want you to forget it and just sing. And by the way, while you\u2019re doing that, I\u2019m going to dance in front of you,\u2019 because we had this huge, big window. And she was like, \u2018Oh my god, I can\u2019t. I don\u2019t know.\u2019 And then she started to do things with her voice that were different. And it was the joy of two artists going, \u2018I see you.\u2019 Humans do this. We all do things to make ourselves feel safe, and I always challenge artists when I work with them, I go, \u2018Make it super fucking unsafe and then do it again.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Free Woman<\/p>\n
\u201cI was sexually assaulted by a music producer. It\u2019s compounded all of my feelings about life, feelings about the world, feelings about the industry, what I had to compromise and go through to get to where I am. And I had to put it there. And when I was able to finally celebrate it, I said, \u2018You know what? I\u2019m not nothing without a steady hand. I\u2019m not nothing unless I know I can. I\u2019m still something if I don\u2019t got a man, I\u2019m a free woman.\u2019 It\u2019s me going, \u2018I no longer am going to define myself as a survivor, or a victim of sexual assault. I just am a person that is free, who went through some fucked-up shit.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
911<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s about an antipsychotic that I take. And it\u2019s because I can\u2019t always control things that my brain does. I know that. And I have to take medication to stop the process that occurs. \u2018Keep my dolls inside diamond boxes\/Save it till I know I\u2019m going to drop this front I\u2019ve built around me\/Oasis, paradise is in my hands\/Holding on so tight to this status\/It\u2019s not real, but I\u2019ll try to grab it\/Keep myself in beautiful places, paradise is in my hands.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Sine From Above (With Elton John)<\/p>\n
\u201cS-I-N-E, because it\u2019s a sound wave. That sound, sine, from above is what healed me to be able to dance my way out of this album. \u2018I heard one sine from above\/I heard one sine from above\/Then the signal split into 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.\u2019 That was later in the recording process that I actually was like, \u2018And now let me pay tribute to the very thing that has revived me, and that is music.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cThis music actually healed me.\u201d That\u2019s the hopeful message Lady Gaga brings with her as she emerges from something of a career detour\u2014having mostly abandoned dance pop in favor of her 2016 album Joanne\u2019s more stripped-back sound and the intimate singer-songwriter fare of 2018\u2019s A Star Is Born. She returns with Chromatica, a concept album […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,30],"tags":[323,324,3],"class_list":["post-3115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-streamapse-reports","tag-actually","tag-healed","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}