BPD member Chelsea Born had this to say:
Lady Gaga's show last night was mixed. Fans expecting to hear a good portion of her new album were surely disappointed. Aside from her newest hit, last night's show was no different from the one I saw 8 month's ago.
She did announce on stage that she'll be back on the road next year with her new tour, "Born This Way Ball."
She took a two-month break from her tour to work on her new album, which comes out on May 23.
I will admit that the show is tighter and runs more smoothly than before. However there was still too many dead periods in between songs.
She sang all her most popular songs but spent less time playing piano. She was more at ease and in better shape than when I saw her at Madison Square Garden last summer. Her body is more sculpted than ever; she really gives everything she's got on stage and holds nothing back.
Gaga has an incredible control over her audience, enough to make you forget she's only 24. The 13,000+ crowd knew every word to her music.
The strongest visuals of the show were the video interludes, which looked a lot like the art in fashion magazines. The videos included black and white images, sado-masochistic themes and dynamic editing.
During the first encore she warned the crowd: "You better not leave when this song is done. There may be a surprise." A few seconds later, she came back on stage with her skin-coloured latex-clad dancers and sang Born This Way, her newest single which just broke an iTunes download record.
Surprise? Not really, considering most people saw her perform the song at the Grammys. The choreography was the same -- however the infamous egg was absent.
However the setting (the giant mechanical monster, trees, neon lights and cars) was way too Disney.
Backstage, another BPD member gave her a Barbie doll; Gaga ripped its head off.
"She was the source of all my insecurities; she has no ass," Gaga told us.
I would say that at this point in her career, her (popish) music is too out of step with the avant-garde image she tries to project. That is not to take anything away from her as a performer. She's tops there.
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