At the recent premiere of her concert film Gaga Chromatica Ball in Los Angeles, Lady Gaga revealed exciting news about her upcoming music. Speaking to Access Hollywood’s Scott Evans, the pop superstar shared that she has been “in the studio every single day” crafting songs that are a significant departure from her previous work.
“I have written so many songs, I’ve been producing so many songs, and it’s nothing like anything that I’ve ever made before,” Lady Gaga said. “I love to break genre and I love to explore music. There’s something really beautiful about knowing that you will be loved no matter what you do.”
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Gaga’s new creative journey began during her Chromatica Ball Tour in 2022. Reflecting on this period, she explained, “Something I’m definitely exploring right now is sort of the art of intensity, and I think that the art of intensity actually began during this tour. But I’m not done with it yet.”
The Gaga Chromatica Ball film, which premiered on HBO Max on May 25, captures her electrifying performance at Dodger Stadium in September 2022. Gaga described the tour as “such a special time,” particularly because it took place amid the pandemic, overcoming numerous challenges to bring her music to packed stadiums worldwide.
“This tour went on during a time that people didn’t think you could tour,” she said. “Stadiums were packed all over the world, and they were sold out, all dressed up and dancing and singing. I’m just so excited for you all to see what we made up close.”
Lady Gaga also shared a personal anecdote from the tour, revealing that she performed five shows while battling COVID-19. “I shared it with everyone on my team,” she recalled. “I said, ‘I don’t want anyone to feel uncomfortable at work and you don’t have to perform and you don’t have to work that day, but I’m going to do the show’ because I just didn’t want to let all the fans down.”
The Chromatica Ball Tour marked the end of one era in Gaga’s life and the beginning of a new one. “This tour and the album, in a lot of ways, was the end of a time of my life and the beginning of a totally new one,” she reflected. “I think I felt brave enough to embrace this brutalist aesthetic in a way that I wasn’t brave enough to do when I first put the album out.”
As Lady Gaga continues to work on her new music, fans can anticipate an exciting evolution in her sound. Earlier this year, she hinted on Instagram that she has been “writing some of my best music in as long as I can remember,” and the anticipation is building for what promises to be a groundbreaking new chapter in her illustrious career.
