Gaga Chromatica Ball

Gaga Chromatica Ball (2024)

The journey continues.

In front of a sold-out crowd of 52,000 people, Lady Gaga delivers a career-defining performance at Los Angeles's Dodger Stadium during her 2022 Chromatica Ball Tour.

Date of release
2024-07-19
TMDB
8.4 / 10 (33)
Runtime
1h 53m
Genres
Music
Director
Lady Gaga, Nick Knight

Casting

Interesting facts

The Chromatica Ball was the seventh headlining concert tour by American singer Lady Gaga in support of her sixth studio album, Chromatica (2020). Comprising 20 shows, it began on July 17, 2022, in Düsseldorf and concluded on September 17, 2022, in Miami Gardens. Initially conceived as a six-date-long, limited tour, new dates were added after it was delayed by two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Production

The show is structured as a journey through trauma and healing, reflecting the themes of the promoted Chromatica album. On the day of the tour's first date, Gaga shared a video on Instagram explaining that the stage drew inspiration from brutalist architecture and raw materials, aiming to create a "savage and hard" visual exploration of one's personal struggles.

The "imposing" stage set prompted media comparisons to a nightclub or S&M club in Germany. For The Telegraph's Neil McCormick, the black and white brutalist architecture invoked a "nightmarish Soviet dystopia as imagined by Fritz Lang", an opinion shared by Billboard's Joe Lynch, who found shades of Lang's 1927 expressionist film, Metropolis in the design.

Christian Allaire of Vogue observed that Gaga omitted the pink cyberpunk look from the "Stupid Love" music video, embracing her signature "Mother Monster" image, which "favors a darker, edgier aesthetic". She called The Chromatica Ball "a glorious return to freaky-deaky dressing", and compared her outfits to those from The Monster Ball Tour (2009–2011) and the Born This Way Ball (2012–2013) concert tours, which were "ominously sci-fi (but high-fa…

Gaga's hard-structured sarcophagus costume in the opening sequence was inspired by David Bowie's 1979 Saturday Night Live performance. The sculptural outfit opened to reveal reflective surfaces inside, creating a dramatic visual effect. A later part of the show sees Gaga showcasing various golden looks.

Gaga also wore a blood-red gown with peak-shoulders, along with black leather boots and fingerless gloves. Removing the garment revealed a nude latex bodysuit splattered in red, blood-like goo, with taped X's over Gaga's nipples, along with a big, spiked necklace. This was later complimented with a sparkly red cropped puffer jacket and oversized sunglasses.

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