Gaga makes a strong claim for pop’s crown with a bombastically hit-stacked show that also creates an intimate human connection
– is her chance to make a claim for pop’s crown once again. It certainly feels like it’s on her mind when the grinding synth riff of opener Bad Romance kicks in, only to be followed by a pulverising Just Dance – sent skywards by a roared “Stockholm put your fucking hands up” – which in turn bleeds into Poker Face. As unequivocal statements of intent go, unleashing three of the 21st century’s defining anthems in quick succession is pretty bold.
Instead we get a rousing Telephone – complete with huge, skin-melting plumes of fiery pyro – and a brilliant, disco-laced Babylon, in which Gaga sashays around in a gold lamé suit before donning a floor-length cape to take it to its gospel conclusion.
The ballad section is also where her crowd interaction shifts from sweary demands for energy to pleading insistence that everyone love themselves. Before a gorgeous Always Remember Us This Way she starts to cry remembering a time she thought she may never be able to perform live again, while an initially stripped back Born This Way is dedicated to her mum who missed the show due to illness. Keen to include everyone, she even dedicates Fun Tonight to “anyone not having fun tonight”.
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