Lady Gaga hopes 'Chromatica' album will help people 'dance through all their pain'
Little Monsters, rejoice! After years of waiting, Lady Gaga's "Chromatica" is finally here, and from the way she describes it, making the new album was just as good as several years of therapy.
In Gaga's lengthy interview with Zane Lowe for Apple Music, she revealed she didn't understand why she was writing such upbeat dance music while she was in a depressive spiral over things in her personal life.
She said being in the public eye and the pressures of fame that came with it robbed her of her humanity.
"On a subconscious level, I was experiencing joy, while consciously, I was experiencing an immense amount of depression as a result of this objectification, lack of feeling like a human," she told Lowe.
So the album, she said, is about "how do I get back to people and how do I connect with people and go, like, 'Hey, I'm over here! I'm a person. I'm not a celebrity!'"
She said personal issues in her life made her feel like she was "just sleeping through life."
"I was just angry, so angry. And then you find gratitude," she noted. "Look at the love I have around me. Look at the friends that I have that cared!"
She said getting back to the music made her "more of a fighter." It's that journey back to personhood and to womanhood that Gaga sings about on "Chromatica."
She told Lowe that she is ready to dance with her fans to her new music.
"Until then, I hope that they listen to this record and go on -- not only my personal journey with me and dance through all the pain -- but also go through their own journey and dance through all their pain," she said.
"If you're listening to this album and you're suffering in any type of way, just know that suffering...is a sign of your humanity and you are not broken," Gaga told fans. "You are connected to the whole world."
