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Chromatica
Studio album by
Lady Gaga
ReleasedMay 29, 2020 (2020-05-29)
Recorded2017–2020
Studio
Genre
Length42:59
Label
Producer
Lady Gaga chronology
A Star Is Born
(2018) 		Chromatica
(2020)
Lady Gaga studio album chronology
Joanne
(2016) 		Chromatica
(2020)
Singles from Chromatica
  1. "Stupid Love"
    Released: February 28, 2020
  2. "Rain on Me"
    Released: May 22, 2020

Chromatica is the sixth studio album by American singer Lady Gaga. It was released on May 29, 2020, by Streamline and Interscope Records. Originally scheduled for April 10, 2020, the album's release was delayed for several weeks, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Musically, Chromatica marks a departure from Gaga's fifth studio album, Joanne (2016), with the singer intending the album to be a reminder of her "absolute love for electronic music". Incorporating elements of dance-pop, EDM and other pop-focused genres, many commentators compared it favorably to earlier works. Gaga collaborated with various producers on the record, including BloodPop, BURNS, Axwell and Tchami. Lyrically, the themes of the album revolve around mental health, healing, and finding happiness and love through hardship.[1] It also features guest vocals from Ariana Grande, Blackpink and Elton John.

"Stupid Love" was released as the lead single on February 28, 2020, and was a success, achieving a top 10 placement on music charts in over 15 territories and reached number five in both the United Kingdom and United States. "Rain on Me" was released as the second single on May 22, 2020. "Sour Candy" was released as a promotional single on May 28, 2020.

Background

In press interviews after it was announced she would embark on one final performance of her 2016 Dive Bar Tour, Gaga hinted new music would be performed and released during the new leg's stop. However, the Dive Bar Tour performance was later postponed indefinitely due to scheduling conflicts.[2] Later, Gaga hinted the release of new music during the globe-crossing Joanne World Tour,[3] however, in an August 2017 interview with Entertainment Weekly, the singer revealed that due to the constraints of the tour production, specifically the strictly-scheduled synchronization of its various technologies with the performances, there most likely will not be any new material performed on the Joanne World Tour, let alone any deviation from the structure of the show itself.[4] It was also revealed in the same interview that production had begun on the follow up to Joanne, with Gaga offering that the album was still in the initial writing stage.[4]

Talking about previous record Joanne, Gaga admitted that it was an album that she made for her father, trying to heal his and her family's trauma. She later realized she "can't fix [her] dad", and called the album a "futile effort" to heal him. Her disappointment drove her into depression and chain-smoking, and writing new music was her way for healing.[1]

Conception and artwork

Talking about the album's title, Gaga described Chromatica as a planet[5] and also as a location in her mind where all sounds and colors mix and stated: "I live on Chromatica, that is where I live. I went into my frame. I found Earth, I deleted it. Earth is canceled. I live on Chromatica."[6] The dystopian planet of Chromatica appears in the music video for the song "Stupid Love", where Gaga portrays a warrior leader, and "follows a narrative about tribes battling for dominance in a world riddled with conflict".[7][8] Gaga also confirmed how the concept of the planet Chromatica came about, saying:

BloodPop brought it up, and we talked about how Chromatica was essentially on its own when you first look at it, it seems to be about colors and all the different colors and also music is made of a chromatic scale, you know? So it's all the colors, all the sounds, you know, so we, we're talking about inclusivity and life and also a lot of what we see around us and what we're experiencing is math, which is very much like music and sound is math as well. So we talked about that, and then I sort of went back and I said, 'OK, well, yeah, it's inclusivity but it's really a way of thinking,' you know, it's not just, 'Oh, Chromatica, we're being inclusive with all the colors, all the people,' and when I say, 'All the colors, all the people' I mean way more than we could possibly fathom."[9]

A temporary cover art was released along with the album preorder, showcasing a symbol over a pink background. It received comparison to the yin and yang symbol.[10] The singer explained that the Chromatica logo "has a sine wave in it, which is the mathematical symbol for sound. And, for me, sound is what healed me in my life period, and it healed me again making this record, and that is really what Chromatica is all about."[9]

On April 5, 2020, the album's official cover was revealed.[11] It shows the singer with "cotton candy pink" hair, wearing a "metallic bodysuit with spikes and studs sticking out of it", "a pair of platform boots with a tusk and a knife for its heels" and a "shoulder-to-fingertip sleeve covered in spikes" on one of her hands. She is attached to a large metal grate illuminated by "hot pink neon" light.[12][13][14] It also involves the previously showcased Chromatica symbol.[10] Trey Alston from MTV described the cover art as "part-Mad Max, Mortal Kombat, and cyber-punk fantasy",[15] while Hilary Hughes from Billboard also found inspiration from the Alien films.[14] The cover photograph was taken by German photographer Norbert Schoerner, with creative direction by Nicola Formichetti.[16][17]

Writing and recording

“What I'm making now is a reminder of the freedom that I have as an artist, but also my absolute love for electronic music, my absolute love for ability for a computer to make something that is so visceral and soulful. The bulk of this album was made inside a computer… I played with modular synths, I played with real synth. I gave Bloodpop what I would play on the piano, we input it as midi, and then we would play with inversions and produce the record and make the song…

—Gaga on the production of the album[1]

In the first seven months of 2018, Gaga was seen at various recording studios in and around Los Angeles and New York City. The earlier recording sessions have been attributed to post-production work for the soundtrack to Bradley Cooper's A Star Is Born, a remake of the 1937 film of the same name in which she has top billing. The later recording sessions have mostly been attributed to further production for Chromatica. Producer BloodPop, who had co-produced every song on the standard edition of Gaga's previous studio album Joanne (2016), shared on various social media platforms that he and Gaga had been recording at the singer's Malibu estate with German electronic music producer Boys Noize.[18] BloodPop continued to post similar updates through the entirety of 2019 and January 2020, indicating production had continued for nearly three years. In July 2018, experimental electronic music producer Sophie confirmed that she had contributed production work for the upcoming project but was unaware if her collaboration would make the final cut.[19]

In an interview with Beats 1's Zane Lowe, Gaga confirmed the album will be a dance record, saying "We are definitely dancing… I put all my heart, all my pain, all my messages from the other realm that I hear of… what they tell me to tell the world and I put it into music that I believe to be so fun and you know, energetically really pure. I want people to dance and feel happy. I would like to put out music that a big chunk of the world will hear, and it will become a part of their daily lives and make them happy every single day."[20] She divulged how her intuition had evolved since the production of her last album, especially with the "real" and "honest" nature of this record's production virtually halting her inclination to second guess her creative output.[20] Gaga also went into great detail about how the collaborative process of creating the album helped her overcome her internal struggles:

We made a lot of the record in my studio house. So I have a house where it's Frank Zappa's old studio, it's a live room, it's a big studio, it's beautiful. And I would be upstairs on the porch, outside the kitchen, and Bloodpop would come up and he'd go, 'Okay, come on, that's enough, off the porch,' and I would cry and I would say, 'I'm miserable, I'm sad, I’m depressed,' and he'd go, 'I know, and we're gonna go make some music now. And then I'd go downstairs and I would write. This album is such a display of not only how you can reframe the way that you view the world, but I promise and I hope, that the love that was around me in the process of making this album is something that other people feel, that they know that artistically, like, you know how producers are, if one guy's working on it, or one girl's working on it, they don't want anyone else to work on it, they don't wanna share, they, everybody gets cocky, there was none of that. These records got passed around to so many different people, there were so many different iterations of these songs because we all wanted it to be perfect and literally nobody cared who put their fingerprints on it, as long as it was the dopest thing that we could give to the world and that it was meaningful, authentic, and completely me.[20]

Gaga collaborated with Ariana Grande on the track "Rain on Me".

In an interview with Justin Moran of Paper magazine, released in March 2020, Gaga talked at length about numerous topics, including the recording process for Chromatica, and confirmed that BloodPop was the "centre" and her "nucleus" of production while creating the album and that he had a hand in the creation of every track.[7] Gaga worked with a wide array of producers, such as Burns, Axwell of Swedish House Mafia, Skrillex, Madeon (who had previously worked with Gaga on her third studio album, Artpop), Ryan Tedder, Justin Tranter, Tom Norris, Madison Love, Tchami, Benjamin Rice, and Rami Yacoub,[21][22] to create an album described as an "electronic tapestry" by Moran.[7] In discussing the large collaborative atmosphere that enveloped the album's production, Gaga said, "It's easy to go into a computer and find a cool loop, but the producers I work with don't work this way. When they're inspired, they embroider things."[7] She later added:

“I’ve been in this business a long time… I’ve never seen so many producers be willing to pass around music and be like ‘What do you think, man?’, and have it be a conversation. And if we didn’t use somebody’s production, it was no big deal… Everybody was in service of the song, which made me feel so loved, as the writer. Because when I write a song, I want it to sound the best that it could be, I also want it to interpret what I’m saying the best that it can interpret.”[1]

Gaga collaborated with Elton John on the song "Sine from Above". Talking about their work together, she described him as her “mentor” and explained how he played a significant role in her road to recovery: "Elton’s always really challenged me to take care of my artistry and to really take care of myself. And I really, really honour that about him. He is so, so uniquely special. And I cannot tell you how instrumental in my life he’s been to showing me that you can go all the way in life and… be authentic and be you and do good things in the world and take care of yourself and be there."[23] The album also includes a collaboration with Ariana Grande on the track, "Rain On Me", whom Gaga described as an artist "who [had similarly experienced] immense trauma while in the public eye", which brought them together for the creation of the song.[7][24] Gaga collaborated with K-Pop girl group Blackpink on a song titled "Sour Candy". In an interview for Japanese entertainment site TV Groove, Gaga stated that "when [she] called them and asked if they wanted to write a song with [her], they were so happy and motivated" and that she wanted "to celebrate them". The group's members sing in both English and Korean on the song.[25]

Music and lyrics

Chromatica is a '90s-influenced[26] dance-pop,[5][27][28][29] electropop,[26][30] and synth-pop record,[31] containing elements of house,[26] techno,[32] disco,[33] funk,[26] trance,[34] Eurodance,[34] EDM,[35] new wave,[33] and bubblegum pop music.[36] It is a departure from the country-rock music of its predecessor Joanne (2016) and a return to the music of her early albums.[37] A major theme behind Chromatica is being able to feel happiness and dance to it even at the same time when one's experiencing difficulties and sorrow.[7] The album is divided into three unique segments and begins with a string arrangement, "Chromatica I", which the singer described this way:

"The beginning of the album symbolizes for me the beginning of my journey to healing. It goes right into this grave string arrangement, where you feel this sort of pending doom that is what happens if I face all the things that scare me. This string arangement is setting the stage for a more cinematic experience with this world that is how I make sense of things."[1]

This theme continues in the song "Alice" with the line "My name isn't Alice but I'll keep looking for Wonderland”, meaning that the singer is not giving up, she is "not throwing in the towel".[1] The song talks about mental illness[1] over industrial synths,[38] and an EDM beat.[39] "Stupid Love" is a "disco-infused"[40] dance-pop[41] and electropop[42] song, which is about the "joyful foolishness of loving someone".[7] Talking about the song, Gaga said the following:

I’m pretty sure that when we all decide to be vulnerable, it’s really scary, and I think it’s very scary for a lot of people and there’s all kinds of laws and constructs and things that have built all around us and you know what?...I’d love for it to collapse as many of those walls as possible and people to be saying, ‘I want your Stupid Love. I love you.'[20]

"Rain on Me" contains elements of French house,[43][44] while blending multiple genres including dance-pop,[45] disco,[46] house[47] and electropop.[48] It features an upbeat production consisting of a synth-disco beat, catchy synth claps, steady bass lines, funk guitar strums and rolling synths.[49][50][51][52] The song talks about "persevering through hardship" and healing, and uses the metaphor of rain for alcohol used to numb pain.[44][53] It was described by Gaga as a "celebration of all the tears": "I sat with [Ariana] and we talked about our lives. It's two women having a conversation about how to keep going and how to be grateful for what you do."[7] Vocally, it includes robotic spoken word deliveries by Gaga,[43] Grande's "signature" high note octave,[54] and the two of them "belting" their lines in the final chorus.[55] The Eurodance[38] fifth track "Free Woman" contains elements of acid house[56] and sees Gaga answer what it means "to be a free woman [in 2020]".[7] Gaga talked about the origin of the song, saying it "came from thinking on some days I was going to die. I was like, 'I'm going to die soon, so I better say something important.' Now I listen to it and know that I'm going to live." The song tackles her need to be with someone "in order to survive" while trying to be a free woman, a topic she discusses in the lyrics "I'm not nothing without a steady hand".[7] "Fun Tonight" continues the Eurodance of its predecessor[56] and is about how there were many nights when people who loved her would try to make her smile or be optimistic, but she had no ability to be happy.[1]

"911" is a techno[57] song dealing with the singer's antipsychotic medication,[1] while "Plastic Doll" sees Gaga confronting how she is objectified, taking form in Eurodance.[58] Gaga's Blackpink collaboration sees the singers informing a potential lover on their damage,[59] while being a blend of dance-pop,[60] electropop,[61] bubblegum pop[62] and deep house.[63] The groovy disco-influenced electropop[57] track "Enigma" emphasizes Gaga's desire for mystery.[58] The record continues with the hispanic-influenced French house, nu-disco and electropop track "Replay", where Gaga sings about her past[58][38][64] over disco synths,[37] containing deep house elements.[57] The electronica-influenced[39] electropop[65] track "Sine from Above", Gaga's collaboration with Elton John, talks about the healing power of music[1] over trance synths.[66] "1000 Doves" contains a piano-driven house beat where Gaga professes her love for her fans.[58] The closing track, "Babylon" is a disco-influenced[35] '90s-house[58] and hi-NRG[64] track about gossip, something that "used to run" the singer's life and made her feel "small and chained".[1] The Target and international deluxe edition contains bonus track "Love Me Right", a downtempo vulnerable song, differing from the album's standard edition.[67]

Release and promotion

In response to tabloid reports saying she might be pregnant, Gaga tweeted on March 12, 2019, "Rumors I'm pregnant? Yeah, I'm pregnant with #LG6."[68][69][70] Several news outlets speculated the tweet alluded to a release within a nine-month window, the typical span of a human pregnancy, but the anniversary has since come and gone, proving the theory to be false.[69] In October 2019, she jokingly announced via Twitter that the album would be called Adele after the English singer-songwriter of the same name.[71][72][73] In January 2020, several news outlets reported that the album's lead single was scheduled to be released in early February, with the album's release following soon afterwards.[74]

On March 2, 2020, Gaga announced that the album is named Chromatica and that it will be released on April 10, 2020. The pre-order for the album was made available with the announcement.[75][76] On March 24, Gaga announced in a statement on Instagram and other platforms that the release would be postponed until later that year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[77] She later elaborated on the decision: "It's been a very difficult time for a lot of people, and we stopped the drop of the record and everything that we were doing because I really wanted to be more specific at one point. I wanted to do something to help the world, that was very focused. And working with the World Health Organization and Global Citizen (on the virtual concert series, Together at Home) was a way for me to talk about kindness, and the things that I believe in, in a very focused way, as opposed to a more abstract way, which for me, is what Chromatica is."[78] The album was released on May 29, 2020.[79]

Singles

"Stupid Love" was released as the album's lead single on February 28, 2020.[80] It received positive response from music critics, who compared it favorably to the singer's earlier works.[40][81] Commercially it had a number five peak position both in the US and the UK.[82][83] The accompanying music video was directed by Daniel Askill and was released on the same day as the single.[84][85] The Target/deluxe edition bonus track Vitaclub Warehouse remix of the song was released on May 15, 2020.[86]

"Rain on Me" was released as the album's second single on May 22, 2020.[87] It received praise for the vocal skills of both Gaga and Ariana Grande, and for its uplifting nature.[88][89][24] The accompanying music video, directed by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez, was released on the afternoon of the same day.[90][91] One day ahead of the album's release, Gaga released "Sour Candy", without any prior announcement as a promotional single.[92]

Tour

On March 5, 2020, Gaga announced that she would embark on The Chromatica Ball tour to support the album.[93] The six-date long, all-stadium concert series is currently scheduled to begin on July 24, 2020, in Saint-Denis, France and end on August 19, 2020, in East Rutherford, United States.[94]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic79/100[96]
Review scores
SourceRating
The A.V. ClubB[26]
Clash8/10[97]
The Guardian[38]
The Independent[56]
The Irish Times[37]
Slant Magazine[98]
Evening Standard[99]
NME[5]
The Times[100]
The Telegraph[101]
The Guardian[102]

Upon its release, Chromatica was met with generally positive reviews by music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 79 based on 12 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[96]

Jason Lipshutz of Billboard dubbed the album a "summer [escape] of the highest quality".[27] Clash gave the album a rating of 8/10 stating, "Across its sixteen tracks, Chromatica is entirely over-the-top, but in the best possible way. Every song is an anthem of defiance and empowerment, turned up to 11 and genetically engineered for maximum danceability."[97] Patrick Gomez of The A.V. Club gave the album a "B", writing that although it is "at times frenetic and disjointed", the songs are generally strong and varied.[26]

Track listing

Chromatica track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Chromatica I"
  • Kibby
  • Gaga
1:00
2."Alice"
2:57
3."Stupid Love"
3:13
4."Rain on Me" (with Ariana Grande)
3:02
5."Free Woman"
  • Gaga
  • BloodPop
  • Hedfors
  • Klahr
3:11
6."Fun Tonight"
  • Gaga
  • BloodPop
  • Burns
  • Yacoub
  • BloodPop
  • Burns
  • Rice[a]
2:53
7."Chromatica II"
  • Gaga
  • Kibby
  • Kibby
  • Gaga
0:41
8."911"
  • BloodPop
  • Madeon
  • Rice[a]
2:52
9."Plastic Doll"
  • Gaga
  • BloodPop
  • Skrillex
  • Yacoub
  • Jacob "Jkash" Hindlin
3:41
10."Sour Candy" (with Blackpink)
  • BloodPop
  • Burns
  • Rice[a]
2:37
11."Enigma"
  • Gaga
  • BloodPop
  • Burns
  • Hindlin
  • BloodPop
  • Burns
  • Rice[a]
2:59
12."Replay"
  • Gaga
  • BloodPop
  • Burns
3:06
13."Chromatica III"
  • Gaga
  • Kibby
  • Kibby
  • Gaga
0:27
14."Sine from Above" (with Elton John)
4:04
15."1000 Doves"
  • Gaga
  • BloodPop
  • Bresso
  • Yacoub
3:35
16."Babylon"
  • Gaga
  • BloodPop
  • Burns
2:41
Total length:42:59
Target/International deluxe edition bonus tracks[103]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
17."Love Me Right"  2:51
18."1000 Doves" (Piano Demo)
  • Gaga
  • BloodPop
  • Yacoub
  • Bresso
 2:49
19."Stupid Love" (Vitaclub Warehouse Mix)
  • Gaga
  • BloodPop
  • Martin
  • Bresso
  • Weisfeld
3:41
Total length:52:20
Japanese standard and deluxe edition bonus track[104]
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
20."Stupid Love" (Ellis Remix)
  • Gaga
  • BloodPop
  • Martin
  • Bresso
  • Weisfeld
4:11
Total length:56:31

Notes

  • ^[a] signifies a vocal producer
  • ^[b] signifies a co-producer and vocal producer
  • ^[c] signifies an additional producer

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Chromatica.[105]

Recording locations

Vocals

  • Lady Gaga – vocals (2–6, 8–12, 14–16)
  • Ariana Grande – vocals (4)
  • Blackpink – vocals (10)
  • Elton John – vocals (14)
  • Madison Love – backing vocals (10)
  • Rami Yacoub – backing vocals (15)
  • Adryon De Leon – choir backing vocals (16)
  • Daniel Ozan – choir backing vocals (16)
  • India Carney – choir backing vocals (16)
  • Jantre Christian – choir backing vocals (16)
  • Jyvonne Haskin – choir backing vocals (16)
  • Laurhan Beato – choir backing vocals (16)
  • Matthew Bloyd – choir backing vocals (16)
  • Ronald O'Hannon – choir backing vocals (16)
  • Shameka Dwight – choir backing vocals (16)
  • Tia Britt – choir backing vocals (16)
  • Vanessa Bryan – choir backing vocals (16)
  • William Washington – choir backing vocals (16)

Instrumentation

  • Ian Walker – bass (1, 7, 13)
  • Giovanna M Clayton – cello (1, 7, 13)
  • Timothy E Loo – cello (1, 7, 13)
  • Vanessa Freebairn-Smith – cello (1, 7, 13)
  • Allen Fogle – french horn (1, 7, 13)
  • Dylan Hart – french horn (1, 7, 13)
  • Katelyn Faraudo – french horn (1, 7, 13)
  • Laura K Brenes – french horn (1, 7, 13)
  • Mark Adams – french horn (1, 7, 13)
  • Teag Reaves – french horn (1, 7, 13)
  • Nicholas Daley – trombone (1, 7, 13)
  • Reginald Young – trombone (1, 7, 13)
  • Steven M. Holtman – trombone (1, 7, 13)
  • Andrew Duckles – viola (1, 7, 13)
  • Erik Rynearson – viola (1, 7, 13)
  • Linnea Powell – viola (1, 7, 13)
  • Meredith Crawford – viola (1, 7, 13)
  • Alyssa Park – violin (1, 7, 13)
  • Charlie Bisharat – violin (1, 7, 13)
  • Jessica Guideri – violin (1, 7, 13)
  • Luanne Homzy – violin (1, 7, 13)
  • Lucia Micarelli – violin (1, 7, 13)
  • Marisa Kuney – violin (1, 7, 13)
  • Neel Hammond – violin (1, 7, 13)
  • Shalini Vijayan – violin (1, 7, 13)
  • Songa Lee – violin (1, 7, 13)
  • Axwell – bass, drums, keyboards (2, 5, 14), guitar, percussion (5, 14)
  • Bloodpop – bass, drums, keyboards (2–3, 5–6, 8–10, 14–16), guitar (3, 5–6, 8–9, 14–15), percussion (3, 5–6, 8–10, 14–16)
  • Klahr – bass, drums, keyboards (2, 5, 14), guitar, percussion (5, 14)
  • Tchami – bass, drums, guitar, keyboards, percussion (3, 15)
  • John "JR" Robinson – drums (3)
  • Burns – bass, drums (4, 6, 10–12, 16), guitar (4, 6, 11–12, 14), keyboards (4, 6, 10–12, 14, 16), percussion (6, 10, 12, 14, 16)
  • Leddie Garcia – percussion (4, 11)
  • Rachel Mazer – saxophone (4, 11, 16)
  • Madeon – bass, drums, keyboards (8), guitar, percussion (8–9)
  • Skrillex – bass, drums, keyboards (9)
  • Liohn – bass, drums, guitar, keyboards, percussion (14)

Production

  • Lady Gaga – executive production, production (1, 7, 13)
  • Bloodpop – executive production, production (2–6, 8–11, 14–16)
  • Axwell – production (2, 5, 14)
  • Burns – production (4, 6, 10–12, 14, 16)
  • Morgan Kibby – production (1, 7, 13)
  • Klahr – production (2, 5, 14)
  • Liohn – production (14)
  • Madeon – production (8)
  • Skrillex – production (9)
  • Tchami – production (3, 15), additional production (4, 16)
  • Rami Yacoub – additional production (14)
  • Max Martin – co-production, vocal production (3)
  • Benjamin Rice – vocal production (3–4, 16)

Technical

  • Amie Doherty – conductor, orchestra leader (1, 7, 13)
  • Gina Zimmitti – orchestra contractor (1, 7, 13)
  • Whitney Martin – orchestra contractor (1, 7, 13)
  • Axwell – programming (2)
  • Bloodpop – programming (2, 15)
  • Klahr – programming (2)
  • Tchami – programming (15), mixing (3)
  • Mike Schuuppan – mixing (1, 7, 13)
  • Scott Kelly – mix engineer (2, 5, 9, 11–12, 14–16), assistant mixing (4, 6, 10)
  • Tom Norris – mixing (2–6, 8–12, 14–16)
  • Benjamin Rice – mixing (2–6, 8–12, 14–16), recording engineer (3–4, 10), engineering (16)
  • Randy Merill – mastering (1–2, 4, 10)

Design

  • Norbert Schoerner – photography
  • Nicola Formichetti – fashion direction
  • Bryan Rivera – creative direction, design
  • Isha Dipika Walia – creative direction, design
  • Travis Brothers – creative direction, design
  • Cecilio Castrillo – outfit design
  • Gasoline Glamour – shoe design
  • Gary Fay – finger design
  • Marta Del Rio – design selection

Release history

Release dates and formats for Chromatica
Region Date Format Edition Label Ref.
Various May 29, 2020
Standard Interscope [106][107]
CD Target/International deluxe [108][109]
Japan Japanese Universal Japan [104]

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