LIVE: Lady GaGa’s Monster Ball

Don’t you hate when people over-hype things?

Like, for instance, some loser in a newspaper will say ‘TAKE THAT WERE AMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHZING!’ so you’ll buy tickets. However, once you see the show, you’re actually like ‘wait, why did I buy tickets for this crap? OH WAIT, that stupid fucking newspaper told me to.’

That’s why, although I always knew it would be brilliant, I didn’t expect a lot when going to see Lady GaGa this week.

But I promise you now that anything I say in this review is not over-exaggerated whatsoever. You’ll see why I’ve said that in asecond…

Okay, where to start?! Well actually, the support act before GaGa was ‘Semi Precious Weapons’; a New York City based band with a transvestite frontman. Sounds weird, right? They were actually freakin’ amazing.

The look was particularly awesome, but the songs were catchy and often funny. For example, one contained the lyric ‘I can’t pay the rent, but I’m fucking gorgeous.’ LOVE IT, SISTAH.

After a brief 15 minute wait that actually seemed like an hour, the lights suddenly went out. A white screen covered the front of the stage, as videos of the Lady herself were projected onto it in all her glory. When the video finished… THERE WAS GAGA’S SILHOUETTE. GaGa was actually behind that screen.

And then came the squealing…

I don’t know how to describe it, but it seems like her general presence was so over-whelming that the excitement immediately kicked in. Seriously, she didn’t even have to do anything but stand there and the crowds went crazy.

She kicked it off with the rave-esque ‘Dance in the Dark’, which was perfect to get the party started. The set was amazing too: the first one we saw was a set of stairs with gigantic syringes being used as the bannister. Also on stage was a rusty, old car (which contained a piano under the bonnet, of course) and several sexy ass dancers.

The set changed continuously throughout the show, from big, moving ‘trees’ to a metallic subway line, and there was often a display of neon words such as ‘implants’, ’sedation’ and ‘dentistry’ filling up the walls.

Changing just as much as the set was GaGa’s outfit. Among the list was a mexican looking sombrero costume, a leather bikini and of course the firecracker crotch. Sounds mental and it was. Which is was it was so astounding.

I also expected her to be quite distant. As in, I didn’t think she’d speak to the audience much. However, I was pleasantly surprised. When she began to play her piano (which was set light, obviously), she told us a story about her sick Grandpa. Then, she sang the first verse of the exceptional ballad ‘Speechless’. In between each verse, she’d stop, just to tell us all how much she loves us. And the best thing is: we all believed her. She screamed ‘PAWS UP!’, to which everyone put their hands up in the air in a claw-like fashion and swayed along.

My personal favourite performances included ‘Teeth’, ‘Monster’ (in which GaGa had her heart ripped out and bloodied by a sexy leather-clad dancer) and ‘Alejandro’. The latter saw GaGa jump into a fountain of bloody water as the angel statue on the top of the fountain set on fire.

Fire again? Must be a love of GaGa’s.

I feel like there are literally no words that can describe this concert. In between songs, Lady GaGa gave her inspirational words of wisdom to her ‘Little Monsters’, in which she told them all to be themselves, no matter what and to be who they want to be and not who others want you to be. Chants of ‘GAGA! GAGA! GAGA!’ resounded throughout the arena, as GaGa blew a kiss to the fans she loves and the fans caught the air kiss to return the feeling.

So, like I said, I hate it when people big up things by saying they’re amazing when actually… they’re really not.

But this is different: if you choose to buy any tickets to a live show this year, attempt to get your hands on a Lady GaGa Monster Ball ticket. She is perfect, seriously. And after a showing like that, she is definitely now one of my idols.

SHOW ME YOUR TEETH.