Lady Gaga opened up in a PAPER cover story about how navigating PTSD, depression, and chronic pain inspired the sound of her sixth studio album, Chromatica.
, Gaga confirmed that her sixth studio album is full of upbeat, danceable tracks—and for a specific reason.
The singer—who suffers from fibromyalgia, a condition that causes chronic full-body pain as a reaction to a trauma response—said that her album served as a therapeutic release of her"dancing through her pain." Gaga hasabout actively living with PTSD stemming from sexual assault, as well as clinical depression throughout her career.
The singer said that while recording her album, she"couldn't get off the couch" because she was in so much pain, but her collaborator, producer BloodPop, encouraged her to make music."I'd start out the day so down and I'd end up dancing, looking in the mirror, practicing my moves, singing along. Every day was an enlightening experience, but it had to happen every day," she told the magazine.
"Some days are way worse, some days aren't. But you know what I can do? I can go, 'Well, my hands work; my arms work; my legs work, even though they are sore; my back works; my brain works; my heart works; I'm taking breaths, my lungs work.' You can just be grateful for what you can do," Gaga later added."It's a smack across the face throughout the album. We don't stop being that happy.
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