Chromatica trivia | 60 facts about Lady Gaga’s studio album

Chromatica is Lady Gaga’s new music album, which has already been one of the best works of the famous singer.

How many things do you know about Chromatica though? If not enough, then it’s time to change that, so keep on reading!

1. Chromatica is the sixth studio album by American singer Lady Gaga.
2. It was released on May 29, 2020, by Streamline and Interscope Records.
3. Originally scheduled for April 10, 2020.
4. The album’s release was delayed for seven weeks, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
5. Lady Gaga and BloodPop served as the album’s executive producers.
6. Chromatica is a dance-pop, synth-pop and electropop record, incorporating elements of house, disco and many other electronic genres.
7. It covers themes such as mental health, depression, loneliness, finding love through hardship, the trauma of sexual assault and self-worth.
8. Lady Gaga opened about sexual assault as victim previously in the year in her interview.
9. In general these issues stand in contrast with the positive and uptempo sound of the record.
10. The album features guest vocals from Blackpink, Ariana Grande and Elton John.
11. Lady Gaga and the K-Pop girlband, Blackpink, collaborated for the song, and the music video title “Sour Candy”.
12. It was released for digital download and streaming on May 28, 2020
13. It is the first promotional single off of Chromatica
14. It is a dance-pop, electropop and deep house song with a house and dance beat
15. The lyrics compare a relationship to the titular sour candy
16. In an interview for Japanese entertainment site TV Groove, Gaga talked about the genesis of the song
17. In the same interview Gaga said she called Blackpink and asked if they wanted to write a song together
18. Gaga added: “I wanted to celebrate them because they love powerful women like us, and they also wanted to celebrate me, and we had a great time together with this song. I was excited to hear them interpret the song in Korean, and told them that the part was so creative and fun. I was impressed when I heard their singing voice”
19. The members of Blackpink later talked about how the song came about: “We listened to each other’s music and became fans of each other, so we naturally carried out this project”
20. “Sour Candy” was officially announced on April 22, 2020
21. It was then that Gaga posted the tracklist of her Chromatica album
22. The release of the song was announced by Gaga via her social media platforms a day before the release of Chromatica
23. The song was released without any prior announcement after an internet leak spawned on Twitter the night before
24. Its lyrics show Gaga and Blackpink trading off flirty lines in English and Korean
25. The post-chorus features Gaga performing a speak-rap,while the K-pop group’s verses include tight, almost mechanical melodies
26. Joey Nolfi from Entertainment Weekly called the song an “epic collaboration” with “a mouthwatering serve of mammoth dance beats”
27. Michael Roffman from Consequence of Sound said that “‘Sour Candy’ is another banger from the Oscar winner, proving Chromatica will bring the party to our pandemic”
28. Claire Shaffer from Rolling Stone found it “a sugar-sweet club track for all our at-home parties”
29. Zoe Haylock from New York magazine opined that “when the lyrics can basically all be Instagram captions, you know it’s a good pop song!”
30. Jem Asward from Variety found it “a sparkling combination of the two artists’ styles”
31. The audio for the song on YouTube had over 4million views after only five hours of release
32. It has garnered over 1.3 million likes on YouTube
33. It was #1 on the Itunes Charts of 38 countries at the same time, when it was first released.
34. The title of the song was trending #1 on Twitter worldwide, when it was first released.
35. There was a fan theory that a music video for the song will be released on June 2nd.
36. The theory wasn’t correct, as the music video was released earlier, and more specifically on the 29th of May.
37. The theory started when Lady Gaga posted a photo on Instagram of a weather forecast and numbers on the weather forecast post were the track lengths of the tracks on the ‘Chromatica’ album
38. Jisoo posted an Instagram story wearing a shirt with the word “Tuesday” on it
39. “Sour Candy” is the second collaboration with a foreign act for Blackpink after their collaboration with Dua Lipa on the song “Kiss and Make Up”
40. The song is the tenth song on the “Chromatica” album
41. Three singles were released to support the album.
42. The lead single was “Stupid Love”.
43. It leaked a month before its release, but nevertheless, peaked inside the top-ten in over fifteen territories following its official release on February 28, 2020, reaching number five in the United Kingdom and United States.
44. The second single, “Rain on Me”, was released on May 22, 2020, and debuted atop the charts in the UK and the US.
45. “911” was released as the third single, and the music video was released on September 18th, 2020. It appears as the album’s eighth track, preceded by a string arrangement, “Chromatica II”.
46. The music video was shot in August 2020. According to the singer, the concept for the story of the video came from Tarsem, who shared the 25-year-old idea with Gaga as her “life story spoke so much to him.
47. “911” is the emergency phone number in the U.S.A.
48. “911” was written by Gaga, Justin Tranter, BloodPop and Madeon, with the latter two also producing along with Benjamin Rice.
49. Lyrically, it talks about mental health and the antipsychotic medication the singer has to take.
50. Lady Gaga mentioned that the short film, meaning the music video, is very personal to her.
51. Numerous music critics called the track one of the best from the album, praising both its production and songwriting.
52. The seamless transition between “Chromatica II” and “911” was also highlighted, and was turned into several memes upon the album’s release.
53. The accompanying music video was directed by Tarsem Singh.
54. It features a surreal dreamscape and a twist ending.
55. It was largely inspired by Armenian film director Sergei Parajanov’s 1969 Soviet art film The Color of Pomegranates.
56. Gaga performed “911” at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards as part of a medley.
57. Upon release, Chromatica received generally positive reviews from music critics and debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart with 274,000 album-equivalent units, including 205,000 pure sales, becoming Gaga’s sixth consecutive number-one album in the US.
58. The album also topped the charts in many other countries, including Australia, Finland, France, Mexico, Ireland, Canada, Portugal, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Scotland and the UK.
59. It became the fastest selling album of the year in the UK.
60. It was also the year’s fastest selling vinyl record.