Lady Gaga got us to the other side of life, even before ‘Chromatica’ - Brownwood Bulletin
Lady Gaga got us to the other side of life, even before ‘Chromatica’ - Brownwood Bulletin Lady Gaga got us to the other side of life, even before ‘Chromatica’ - Brownwood Bulletin Posted: 29 May 2020 07:34 AM PDT We screamed "rah rah" and "ooh la la" from the bottom of our chests at, of all places, a Christian fraternity party. This is the power of Lady Gaga, whose new album, "Chromatica," came out May 29. Her songs, like "Bad Romance," reliably provide a portal from one side of your life to another. For a lot of people like me in 2009, that meant a safety valve of queerness. I could huddle around other sweaty college guys, flick my wrists, coil my fingers into a claw and sing "I'm a free bitch, baby" to a Top 40 hit on Friday night. I could meet those same fraternity brothers for prayer group and clove cigarettes after church on Sunday night. (My friend Daniel actually remembers listenin