In March, Gaga tweeted, “This is such a hectic and scary time for all of us. The album's release date was pushed from April 10 due to the COVID-19 outbreak. She also revealed what she hopes people will take away from “Chromatica,” saying, “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.” I'm totally hiding.' And then this friendship blossomed.” She was, 'You're hiding.' And I was like, 'I am hiding. Gaga added, “Eventually she called me on my sh*t. And I was too ashamed to hang out with her, because I didn't want to project all of this negativity onto something that was healing and so beautiful.” She would try over and over again to be friends with me. Gaga recently opened up on her friendship with Grande, telling Apple Beats 1, “She was so persistent. she then held my hand and invited me into the beautiful world of chromatica and together, we got to express how beautiful and healing it feels to mothaf**kinnnn cry ! i hope this makes u all feel as uplifted as it does for us both. she immediately felt like a sister to me. who cried as much as i did, drank as much wine as i did, ate as much pasta as i did and who's heart was bigger than her whole body. i met a woman who knew pain the same way i did. I'd rather be dry, but at least I'm alive.”Īriana praised Gaga on her own Twitter account. The night before the video was released, Gaga tweeted, “Thank you for reminding me I'm strong, I'm super emotional and love you so very much, I cherish you and little monsters without you I don't know how I would survive. “Rain on Me” is the second single from Lady Gaga's highly anticipated sixth album, “Chromatica,” which drops May 29. just hours after the Robert Rodriguez-directed video came out. Is it raining? I hadn’t noticed.The song shot to number one in 26 countries on iTunes and was trending at the top on Twitter in the U.S. Drawn to its brain-saturating effect, I’ve reached for Rain on Me over and over again this year, half cut with my headphones on in my living room on another dull Friday night – it takes you outside, into wet streets, into the lives of others.Īs the song finishes in a beautiful storm of vocal ad-libs and churning sound, the effect is like being teeth in a mouthwash advert, a baby in a baptismal font, Hugh and Andie at the end of Four Weddings: your mind and spirit are left quenched. That sense of transcendence makes it such a potent song in 2020, by acknowledging the rain and dancing through it.Įven the production sounds soaked: a cascade of piano house, disco strings, French Touch bass lines and wind-whipped EQ effects. The determined invitation to “rain on me” is the opposite of Rihanna’s Umbrella or Adele’s Set Fire to the Rain: instead of trying to shelter from the storm or biblically transform it, Gaga and Grande ask for the worst thing to happen so they can be delivered from it Grande also calls for the rain to wash away her sins. Rain on Me is in this lineage, with Gaga and Grande singing as if saturated – Gaga is earnest, closing her eyes and letting it drench her, while Grande is blithe, as if caught in a downpour on the way home and choosing not to care. I particularly like songs about the euphoria of getting soaked to the skin, whether romantically in Love Unlimited’s Walking in the Rain, raunchily by East 17 on Let It Rain, or with glorious absurdism in It’s Raining Men. Rain is such a rich symbol in pop, stretching from Dylan, stoic in his hard rain, to the liquid assets of dripped-out stars joyfully making it rain. That the line was often misheard as “I’d rather be drunk” is rather telling. Again there’s a broader subtext: this year of all years, we should try and see the glass as half full, and savour what’s left. That lyric also references Gaga’s relaxed approach to going sober: “I can either lash the hell out of myself every day for continuing to drink, or I can just be happy that I’m still alive and keep going,” she said in May. “I’d rather be dry / but at least I’m alive” runs the chorus – being thankful for not being dead was where we reset the bar this year, and it was thrilling to hear someone sing it so honestly. But just as YMCA isn’t really about having a nice meal at a community centre, Rain on Me isn’t about that at all – in the minds of anyone who listened to it, it’s about how bad 2020 is. Rain on Me is technically a breakup song: “At least I showed up, you showed me nothing at all,” Gaga sings in the opening verse, scorning a lover who has fallen short of expectations. Not since YMCA has text been so throughly trampled by subtext to a disco beat.
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