If you’re listening to this album and you’re suffering in any type of way, just know that that suffering within itself is a sign of your humanity and you are not broken. You are connected to the whole world and we are one giant body. We are one full entity. And the whole you is having a whole human experience and there might be parts of your life that feel completely shallow or robotic or ancillary and unimportant, and that’s okay, but that suffering is a sign that you’re real and it’s a way to ground yourself.

– Lady Gaga, “Chromatica” album

Image header: Lady Gaga performing “Alice” during The Chromatica Ball in London 2022, Raph_PH, CC-BY-2.0

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