Lady Gaga: ‘We must roll with punches of pandemic’
STAR SAYS LOCKDOWN ‘IS WHAT IT IS’ AS SHE RELEASES ALBUM
LADY GAGA says she is “rolling with the punches” during the pandemic.
The singer, 34, released her new album, Chromatica, yesterday, which features guest spots from Sir Elton John and Ariana Grande.
She told The Graham Norton Show: “I am so excited, I’ve been making it for two-and-a-half years.”
Asked if it was strange to be launching the album, which was originally set for release earlier in the year but rescheduled because of the coronavirus pandemic, she said: “It’s not odd. What is odd is being in the middle of a global pandemic.
“It is the way it is, and we don’t always get to have things go the way that we see them in life,” she told the BBC One chat show.
“I’ve always had instilled in me that life can, and will, get very hard, so it’s very important to roll with the punches and deal with it.”
The show also features screen stars Chris Evans, Michelle Dockery, Josh Gad and Michaela Coel, as well as singer Niall Horan.
Former One Direction singer Horan says he is baking in lockdown. He told Norton: “At the beginning I was putting a lot of pressure on myself to write and then I thought, ‘Just take your time and if you don’t feel like it, don’t do it. I have done bits and pieces so when I do get back into a studio, I am ready to go, but for the most part I have been cleaning, baking, reading and sitting in the sunshine. Apart from that, I’m not doing much.”
Last night’s episode of The Graham Norton Show is available on BBC iPlayer now.