Welcome to Switched On Pop. I'm producer Rihanna Cruz.

I'm songwriter Charlie Harding and I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.

So I gotta tell you guys, I just saw one of the best shows of my life at Dodger Stadium, Lady Gaga's Chromatic of All.

Fine. Lady Gaga was the first big pop act I ever saw in a stadium. It was the one of the best shows of my life.

I mean, understandably so. She is a performer of the highest caliber.

I was looking around and I realized it felt like home. It felt sort of like quasi-spiritual experience.

But it also felt like I was in the center of community. I saw people that were exactly like myself. And that is Latin Little Monsters.

For those of you that don't know, Lady Gaga fans called themselves Little Monsters. And being in that environment at Chromatic of All, surrounded by people like myself, got me thinking about how much me and many others in my community appreciate her work.

Of course, a lot of artists have Latinx fans and fan bases, right? But Gaga specifically has been incorporating this audience consistently her whole career, while also I think genuinely appreciating the culture that she pulls from.

And maybe you've noticed that maybe you haven't, but listening to the references to Latin music she makes helps us understand Gaga in a way.

And how she may be heard by some of her Latinx fans.

I wanted to explore that connection primarily through the Latin influences in her music.

Well, I've never been to a Lady Gaga concert, much less the chromatic of all. But, Ryan, I did watch your Instagram stories documenting the event.

And I think what surprised me was to learn that Gaga is not just a pop star who makes hits. Her concerts are a place of belonging of community.

Where people have a cathartic experience. So I'm pretty curious to learn about what Gaga and her fandom offers her Latino fans.

I mean, I tried to track the source of it. And I thought maybe part of it was that she was a featured plot point on one of Latin America's most popular Tha Linovelas, La Rosa de Guadalupe.

There's like a plot point in which the kid on the show was bullied because he loves Lady Gaga and he's a little monster.

I'm very excited to be a Lady Gaga fan.

Oh, yes, I'm also.

I thought maybe it was also because she was sort of pandering with Chola Makeup in the Judas video.

Though iconic was maybe the not the best choice appropriation was, but I digress.

Throughout her career, I realized though that ultimately this is not a new thing.

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