While appearing at the Los Angeles premiere of Lady Gaga's concert film, Gaga Chromatica Ball, the singer admitted that she was “in the studio every day” and also hinted that the song is very different from her previous work.
“I've written a lot of songs and produced a lot of songs, but this is totally different from anything I've ever done,” she said during a Q&A with Access Hollywood's Scott Evans before a screening of the film. “I love breaking genres, I love exploring musically, and it's just a really nice thing to know that no matter what I do, I'm going to be loved.”
She explained that her current creative process began during her Chromatica Ball tour in 2022. “What I'm definitely exploring right now is a kind of art of intensity, and I think this art of intensity actually started during this tour,” she explained, “but it's not over yet.”
The film focuses on Lady Gaga during her 2022 Chromatica Ball Tour tour stop at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, where she reflected on the 20-date tour during a Q&A, saying it was “a very special time.”
“This tour came at a time when no one thought tours were possible. [amid the pandemic] “Stadiums all over the world were packed, tickets were sold out, people were dressed up, dancing, singing,” she said. “I'm really excited for people to see up close what we've created.”
She also revealed that she played five shows during the COVID-19 pandemic while on tour. “I told my whole team about it,” she recalled. “I said, 'I don't want you to feel bad at work, you don't have to perform, you don't have to work that day, but I'm going to play the show,' because I didn't want to disappoint my fans. And it seemed to me like they were all putting themselves at risk every day to come to the shows.”
She added that the tour and album “was in many ways the end of a period of my life and the beginning of a whole new one.”
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“I feel like I was only a couple of albums into that, saying goodbye to some old wounds and scars and issues, and on this tour I felt like I was ready to do something completely different,” Gaga said. “I feel like I had the courage to embrace this brutalist aesthetic that I didn't have when the album first came out.”
The Chromatica Ball tour battled numerous obstacles before fully blossoming in 2022. The tour was postponed twice, first when the pandemic shut down the world in 2020, and then when only certain stops on the international tour were lined up to coincide with the return of live music in 2021. Once the ball finally began, Gaga leaned into her biggest, weirdest musical mode.
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In March, Lady Gaga shared on Instagram that she's been “writing the best songs since I can remember.” Gaga occasionally shares photos of herself in the studio and recently announced the return of her jazz and piano show in Las Vegas, where she performs jazz standards and tunes from the Great American Songbook.
Gaga Chromatica Ball premieres on May 25th at 8pm ET on HBO and Max.