This will be Lady Gaga’s first tour since the end of 2018.
Gaga shared an exclusive look behind-the-scenes video from Merkur Spiel-Arena in Düsseldorf before the Chromatica Ball kicked off her 2022 world tour. The clip showed Gaga addressing her excitement and apprehension about returning to the stage, as well as what the event meant to her.
“I want to allow you all to interpret this show in the way that you want to, but I will say that it really documents the many different stages and sides of grief and the manic energy of grief that I feel that I’ve experienced in my life,” she said. “I really want to thank you for sticking it out with me and loving me through all the different iterations of my artistry as well as me as a person.”
She went on to say, “I feel more clear today than I have in a long time and more pain free than I have in ages. And being free of pain on stage is a real healing experience because I’m able to dance and sing and enjoy the audience, enjoy the show, and really tell a story.”
“I don’t know that I’ve been as speechless as I am today, knowing what we’re about to do,” she said. “But if you know people ask me all the time what ‘Chromatica’ was about and in ‘Babylon,’ I say battle fair life and when I made ‘Chromatica’ I was really battling from my life.”
Even though she admitted it would be a “difficult situation” for anyone, the Chromatica Ball was “made in the spirit of that battle to win oneself back,” she wanted her followers aware of that.
She told him, “There’s no greater prize than you,” she said. “There’s no thing more important than your own heart and your own ability to heal, and we don’t heal on our own, I don’t think, but I think it’s possible to at some point have your own back. And having your own back takes a lot of strength and time.”
After the COVID-19 pandemic forced the postponement of the Chromatica Ball in 2020, Lady Gaga released some specifics about the stage, which was influenced by “brutalist architecture, materials, textures, crudity, transparency — a very savage and hard look at oneself, what you’ve been through.”
“I want to tell a story but with abstractions and art, so this show celebrates things that I have always loved,” she added. “Art and fashion and dance and music and technology, poetry, and the way all of those things work together.”
To conclude the touching video, Lady Gaga wished all of her fans at the show a fun time, adding, “I hope you love this thing that we made you….
I’ll see you on the dance floor.”
The Grammy-winning singer’s honest video comes just two days after she expressed her fears of returning to the stage in a tweet on Friday, July 15.
Lady Gaga ended the heartfelt video by saying, “I hope you adore this item that we made you… I hope you have a great time during the show.”
Lady Gaga has been open about her PTSD and fibromyalgia suffering in the past, and how it has affected her personal and professional life. Due to the singer’s chronic pain and health issues, she had to cancel the European leg of her Joanne World Tour in 2017 as well as the tour’s last 10 dates in early 2018.
In her Netflix documentary, “Five Foot Two,” her severe discomfort was also a major focus.
A few days before the Toronto International Film Festival, Lady Gaga held a press conference where she discussed her health and remarked, “It’s hard, but it’s liberating too.”
“There is an element and a very strong piece of me that believes that pain is a microphone,” she said. “My pain really does me no good unless I transform it into something that is. So I hope that people watching it that do struggle with chronic pain know they’re not alone.”
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