The BTW Ball Premiere

[Hookah 0]

Exactly how I feel TBH. Manchester (again) would be great, or maybe even Cardiff, but London is going to be so expensive, and that's before you buy the tickets. :(

I'm from Cardiff and if I'm honest they wouldn't be able to fit the stage in arena, even without the catwalk. They ****ed up the MBT show there in March 2010.

[croboy 1,212]

i really love the MTN ending with her playing the.keytar.

but she needs to dance !! with all the dancers! where are the dancers during MTN ? it was so awkward when she sings and dances like a crazy b---h around the pit .. imagine the last part choreography will all.dancers. EPIC

the dancers are in front of the castle dancing actually.. so if you are in front of the catwalk its pretty epic.

if you are in the monster pit you wont look at the dancers lol

[JeffSwift 314]

The horse was obviously fake, if you ride a horse on a stadium full with 50,000 screaming koreans the poor animal would freak out and jump into the Monster Pit

50,000 screaming fans is enough. When you add Koreans... that horse would spontaneously combust right on stage.

[HausOfHarlow 380]

WAIT. DIDN'T SHE WEAR DIFFERENT OUTFITS FOR THE FIRST MONSTERBALL THEN RETIRE THEM AND USED DIFFERENT OUTFIT FOR THE REST OF THE SHOW? MAYBE SHE'LL HAVE NEW OUTFITS FOR THE REST OF THE BTW BALL'S.

[My Little Phoney 658]

50,000 screaming fans is enough. When you add Koreans... that horse would spontaneously combust right on stage.

Don't give Gaga any ideas

You know what would be epic? If the horse would stagger in the middle of the runway.

[Ethan 2,051]

WAIT. DIDN'T SHE WEAR DIFFERENT OUTFITS FOR THE FIRST MONSTERBALL THEN RETIRE THEM AND USED DIFFERENT OUTFIT FOR THE REST OF THE SHOW? MAYBE SHE'LL HAVE NEW OUTFITS FOR THE REST OF THE BTW BALL'S.

YES SHE DID BUT GAGA'S BEEN PLANNING THIS TOUR FOR ABOUT A YEAR NOW SO WHO KNOWS WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN CAPSCAPS

[My Little Phoney 658]

WAIT. DIDN'T SHE WEAR DIFFERENT OUTFITS FOR THE FIRST MONSTERBALL THEN RETIRE THEM AND USED DIFFERENT OUTFIT FOR THE REST OF THE SHOW? MAYBE SHE'LL HAVE NEW OUTFITS FOR THE REST OF THE BTW BALL'S.

MAYBE SHE WILL AND MAYBE YOU SHOULD TURN OFF CAPS LOCK

[Guest anki]

WHAT IS GOING OOON?

[Vanilla 664]

WAIT. DIDN'T SHE WEAR DIFFERENT OUTFITS FOR THE FIRST MONSTERBALL THEN RETIRE THEM AND USED DIFFERENT OUTFIT FOR THE REST OF THE SHOW? MAYBE SHE'LL HAVE NEW OUTFITS FOR THE REST OF THE BTW BALL'S.

That's not gonna happen. She wore different outfits at the first Monster Ball because the original ones were stolen or didn't arrive in time or something.

Edited April 29, 2012 by Vanilla

[Guest]

My final thoughts & criticism:

- Costumes. She needs to drop the Versace obsession. It's tacky. Return to McQueen and young designers, plz. Also, the outfits don't fit the songs thematically, except for Bad Kids. She needs to rethink the costumes altogether.

- Stage. There needs to be more lights on the stage. Put some video walls behind the castle to create atmosphere, some screens inside the doors & windows of the castle etc. Also, put some LED lights on the floor and on the catwalk, etc. Add lasers, too. Who doesn't love lasers?

- Piano playing. She needs to return to the way it was done on TMB, an entire section on the piano. On this tour, she starts off a song on the piano and then suddenly starts jumping around the catwalk and it makes the piano playing seem like a gimmick instead of actual playing, especially when she does it in the middle of the song and the piano magically resumes playing.

- Choreography. More of it and more rehearsal please. At times she moved like Britney Spears during this show. It's bound to get better as the show goes, though. I believe in her skills as a performer. She just needs to put in more effort into dancing.

- Guitar playing. It seemed weird. Electric Chapel should be performed like Teeth was on TMB. She needs to make it very personal and soulful and intense. She was just standing there strumming the guitar and it was awkward, IMO.

- The Finale. Marry The Night can work great as the final track, but she needs to BRING IT more hard. That performance seemed messy and not epic enough for the last performance. All the dancers should be out on the catwalk during the last performance doing the hard choreography with Gaga. What was the point of the random keytar that she picks up in the end of the song? She needs to have a severe dance breakdown during the last portion of the song and end it with a BANG. If she can't pull that off, just make Born This Way the final song. It is the Born This Way Ball. It will work.

- Extra thought. I think this show was shortened because of the train situation in Korea. People already started leaving during the last segment because they needed to catch their trains, so I think they cut out a lot of things and shortened many songs. I also think the costumes she was wearing were toned down because of censorship and stuff. I believe the show will be dramatically better on the following dates.

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The thoughts above are the things I want changed. Everything else I loved. The setlist is pretty much flawless and while I wouldn't mind her adding a track here and there (Dance In The Dark, Stuck On ****ing You, etc), I still think it's great that she's doing all the BTW songs + all her singles.

The castle itself is really epic and I love the way it moves around and transforms. I didn't expect that. Also, the holographic flying narrator? Revolutionary.

All in all, it's a pretty epic show that has the potential to be her best tour yet. Looking back at how The Monster Ball started out and what it later became I can only imagine how awesome this tour will be in time.

This is my exact though thank you.. I just dont know how to put it in words so I say things like its bad or horrible but this is how it should be and like you said "it has the potential to be her best tour yet. Looking back at how The Monster Ball started out and what it later became"

[MelbHawker 6,583]

My final thoughts & criticism:

- Costumes. She needs to drop the Versace obsession. It's tacky.

[JDi 1,495]

So she didn't perform The Queen or is it just that there aren't any recordings of it?

[MelbHawker 6,583]

i really love the MTN ending with her playing the.keytar.

but she needs to dance !! with all the dancers! where are the dancers during MTN ? it was so awkward when she sings and dances like a crazy b---h around the pit .. imagine the last part choreography will all.dancers. EPIC

This.

But she needs to do the whole song - she cut off the last chorus, and didn't sing 'THE NIIIGHT' part and to me, that's ending on a **** note. It's underwhelming. All the dancers should be on the runway with her, she should be at the front, the castle should be lit up with colours. She should sing the whole thing, do the choreography - finish it, wait for the massive applause she'll get and then she should bow, and then disappear. Then the castles lights should dim to a more neutral colour when the dancers walk back in through the castle.

:legend:

[Ethan 2,051]

Anyone else feel like something wrong happened during Highway Unicorn? Because I feel like there should've been a spotlight on Gaga. And it sounded like she was having trouble singing. :confused:

[Khashoggi 1]

So she didn't perform The Queen or is it just that there aren't any recordings of it?

The Queen was a madley with Fashion of his love.