Chromatica Written Reaction
Chromatica, Lady Gaga's newest album, is suddenly out and I am excited to listen.
I have both Spotify and a free 3-month trial for Tidal, so I will listen on Tidal because they pay the artists more. I hope Tidal pays artists during the trial period. I bet they do or Taylor Swift wouldn’t have her catalog on there.
Here we go:
Chromatica I – Good movie-esque intro. Short and good.
Alice – I don’t like the song, but I enjoy the song. The beat and the lyrics just make sense, but I don’t like it or dislike it.
Stupid Love – I didn’t really like Stupid Love when it came out, but now that I have listened to Rain on Me, Sour Candy, and Alice, Stupid Love just makes sense. It goes with the rest of the album. I guess this is a dance album.
Rain on Me – Rain on Me is growing on me, but I still don’t like the guitar at the beginning of the song. That’s the only thing that I don’t like about the song, that guitar part. Otherwise the song is ok. The music video was fun to watch.
Free Woman – Song with a message that’s kind of corny. I hate the pre-chorus. Not having listened to the rest of the album, I assume all the tracks are pretty generic, but this one is super generic.
Fun Tonight – Giving me Disney Original Movie. This is a story of how she likes her fans, but suffered at the beginning of her career. She’s using her Fame and Fame Monster voice, which is soft; young. I like the voice, but she’s using this song to tell the fans that The Fame and The Fame Monster are for us to enjoy.
Chromatica II – Good instrumental. It takes you to the movie theater. I mean I guess Chromatica is a story.
911 – Gave me an orgasm. The beginning. I love this song so much! It’s so pop. So catchy. Is she talking about drugs? I don’t know, I’m stupid. The transition between Chromatica II and 911 catches you by surprise, and it’s magnificent. Sad part is that once you know it’s coming, it’s not as enjoyable.
Plastic Doll – The intro reminds me of Just Dance. This song is for Trixie Mattel. I’m still processing 911. This one is alright. Like Free Woman with the message, but not as explicit. Very long for what it is.
Did I mention 911 was great? Fuck that song was great.
Sour Candy – I’ve been listening to Sour Candy all day, since she released it early today. I like it, this might get me into K-Pop. I also like that Lady Gaga doesn’t hog the entire song just because it’s her album, and instead all the girls get their turn to sing. Same with Ariana Grande song. I want to listen to this song backwards, it probs has a subliminal message.
Enigma – She said “AUTOTUNE my voice right now, Ricky!” There’s a part that sounds like another song, yet no samples are credited. Anyway, this is an alright song. This album is very ARTPOP, but grown. I swear this is what ARTPOP 2 was going to be, but better. She had time to learn from ARTPOP.
Replay – Futuristic intro. 70’s chorus. Nice beat. This song is full of great sounds. I like it. I really like the mix of futuristic with old sounds. Just listen to it. I will probably replay.
Chromatica III – Another great instrumental. Let’s see what this is going to lead us to. All Chromatica instrumentals transition into other songs.
Sine From Above – This one is with Elton, but he barely sings. I don’t like it. This is what these greats artists came up with? Good club music, but it sounds like any other club song. Damn, they said GarageBand at the end.
1000 Doves – This one is whatever. At this point all the songs are starting to sound the same. I feel like the piano demo of this song at the end of the album might be better than this one; however, that’s exclusive to Target, and Target is burning right now, and for good reason. Let’s take a moment to remember that Black Lives Matter.
Babylon – I’m writing this before listening to the song because 1000 Doves is not it. I’m expecting a lot from this song because Rivers of Babylon by Boney M. is a great song, so for some reason I expect the same. OH DAMN this sounds like Vogue by Madonna, but the Rusical version. Literally. Go listen to the Season 12 Rusical, the last song of the Rusical is very much this song. No joke. It’s not a good thing.
Love Me Right – Target exclusive. I feel like this is a ballad for her fans, and I haven’t heard it, but from the lyrics, it seems like it could be like Dope from ARTPOP, but the version she sang at the iHeart Radio concert before ARTPOP came out. That version of Dope was better than the album one.
1000 Doves (Piano Demo) – Target exclusive. Like I said, the piano is more fitting for this song.
Stupid Love (Vitaclub Warehouse Remix) – Target exclusive. I don’t really like remixes, but this one could be good since the point of this album is dance music. I just found it on YouTube, and it’s the type of song that is played in the background of a Netflix show as a character makes her way through a club as she loses awareness of the stuff going on around her.
So, as a whole this album is good. It’s not her best, but I do like some of the songs in it. My rating for it is 7/10.