Bubble Dreams: Lady Gaga @ The Wiltern in Los Angeles on March 13, 2009
Ok, so I’m still in a state of awe and that’s why it has taken me so long to post a blog about Lady GaGa’s concert. This past Saturday, the new pop tartlet performed her 2nd show of the Fame Ball Tour at the Wiltern in Los Angeles. The performance was nothing short of amazing. Her 1st stop took place the night prior in San Diego at the House of Blues. This girl is definitely a force to be reckoned with in the Pop game. The Fame Ball tour isn’t just any concert with a singer standing before an audience belting out songs from their album. Lady GaGa & her very own creative team, the “Haus of GaGa” (close-knit friends of LG and all below the age of 26), put on a pop show mixed with technology, over-the-top costumes, stage props and short Andy Warhol-esque film clips. She also ocasionally throws in story lines between songs that piece together the audience’s journey from beginning to end with avant garde artistic expressions such as, “Some say Lady Gaga is a lie, and they’re right: I am a lie, and every day I kill to make it true.” Miss Gaga definitely leaves an imprint on your soul. You’ll leave the show thinking about the entire performance for days – it’s a major assault on the senses!
Lady GaGa and her disco stick
Gaga is a true performance artist and the girl can sing! No lip syncing for this lady, every song was performed live and she never broke away once from her futuristic robotic-like character throughout the show. We were given access into the mind of GaGa and the performance art she was trying to convey with repeated references to the the future as if she were on a mission sent back 1,000 years earlier to give us a glimpse of what things are like in the year 3009.
At the end of the show, our favorite Lady got a surprise visit from close friend, celebrity blogger & self-proclaimed “Queen of all Media”, Perez Hilton. He annointed her the new “Princess of Pop” and presented her with a plaque in honor of her song, “Just Dance”, reaching triple platinum status. Lady GaGa was filled with emotion and let out a few tears in the process. It was definitely a sincere moment and the crowd went wild with excitement.
Could it be true? Will GaGa strip away the throne from Britney Spears as the new Princess of Pop? We’ll just have to wait and see. Perez may have got it right this time!
Here’s a video of her intro leading into the first song of the night: “Paparazzi”. FABULOUS!
The D Lounge. 