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Shit, where do I begin?
It's hard to believe it was just a short six months ago, that the 23-year-old New Yorker was playing a club show at Kool Haus. At the time, she didn't even have a band and the biggest prop on stage was a scooter.
Since then, she's released a follow-up to her 2008 blockbuster debut, The Fame, which has spawned such hits as Just Dance, Love Game, Poker Face, and Paparazzi, with The Fame Monster which features eight new songs including the breakout single, Bad Romance.
Opening with Dance in the Dark, Lady Gaga launched into a raucous and racy set that featured almost as many costume changes as songs.
At first blush, it might seem the real driving force behind Gaga's meteoric rise to fame is her hand-picked cadre of costume and set designers -- dubbed Haus of Gaga -- who seemingly know no bounds when it comes to pushing the envelope of haute couture and the theatre of the absurd.
But what really sets Gaga apart from the middling masses of lip-synching Britney clones and Idol wannabes is her pure, unadulterated musical talent.
The Lady can sing.
After an understated opening, the stage vacated of dancers following the hit single Just Dance to facilitate the first of many wardrobe changes, and the show really heated up.
Wearing a glittering ribbed blouse and matching headpiece, Gaga stormed back on stage with Love Game, featuring the cheeky lyric "I wanna ride your disco stick."
Lady Gaga oozed sexuality, channelling her obvious hero Madonna as dancers grooved and groped alongside the bleached blonde diva.
"I'm about to be very wicked," she promised.
Then, lying prone at centre stage, her legs splayed in the air, she cooed, "I'm kinda like Tinkerbell."
Toying with the crowd, she added "Don't you all look amazing? Has anybody passed out yet? Don't pass out. It distracts me. It makes me nervous. Are you drunk? Are you with your mom?"
Of course, lots of costume changes in the form of a black feathered jacket for the new song Monster, with dance moves reminscent of Michael Jackson, and, and a gold Cleopatra-like crown and matching body suit for Fashion and The Fame.
She also wore bondage-inspired black leather gear for Boys Boys Boys and donned multiple blond braid extensions, a la Rapunzel, for Paparazzi.
When I commented to her backstage about all the costumes, she just laughed and gave me "Gaga is just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time."
Great show and what a treat to be backstage.
SET LIST
Dance In The Dark
Just Dance
Love Game
Alejandro
Monster
So Happy I Could Die
Teeth
Speechless
Poker Face (on piano)
Fashion
The Fame
Money Honey
Beautiful Dirty Rich
Boys Boys Boys
Paper Gangsta
Poker Face (with band)
Paparazzi
Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)
Bad Romance
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