ANVEEROY 61,266 Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 In 1987, David Bowie staged the most ambitious failure in touring pop history. At the time, the Glass Spider Tour was dismissed as preposterous and pretentious, one man’s ego expensively recreated on stage. A couple of decades later and those eight footprints have imprinted on arena tours the world over. Gaga, Bowie’s closest millennial heir, has long aped the spectacle of his Spider. There was her 2009 Monster Ball tour with its animatronic sea monster that drove her to bankruptcy. Three years later, she shuffled a stadium-filling castle across the globe. While concept-driven concert tours are par for the course of today’s stars, Gaga’s have always been more extraordinary than the standard confetti-cannon fodder. The audience were kept rapt by bridges that floated between her tiltled stages (she is the latest in a string of stars including Lorde, Kanye West and Katy Perry to use one) while Gaga risked her elaborate pin-curls with a series of headbangs and shoulder-shimmies. The familiarity of her alien dance routines can only be seen as a mark of her success. While other pop stars ask for audience participation, Gaga demands it. “It’s only polite to stand at a party and dance!” she bellowed, with the perfervid fury of an Evangelical preacher. She delivered the message she always has, one that has defined her career: that people, regardless of their gender, race or sexuality, are equal and welcome to love. The crowd, many sporting pink stetsons, offered their hands, held in heart-shapes, in worship. Instead, it was an older hit that lingered. Edge of Glory - written, this time, for Gaga’s grandfather - was performed against an arena of iPhone torches and the wisdom that if you feel lonely, there is someone else out there feeling alone, too. Here lay the depth of Gaga’s appeal: not gimmicks or dramatic reinventions, but that she stays the same beneath them all. Delightfully weird, undeniably authentic, Gaga remains a rare beast in pop. More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/older-wiser-still-fabulous-lady-gaga-arena-birmingham-review/ Stream Kylie-Janet Discographies! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatfoxyfeeling 13,027 Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 “Gaga remains a rare beast in pop.” People starting to realise she’s a legend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr S 8,689 Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Loved that last quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Temptation 11,209 Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Bowie was right in NOT calling Gaga the future of music. I think he was intimidated. Gaga is in fact the future of Bowie himself. Plus the spirit of MJ, Freddie Mercury and Janis Joplin rolled into one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KleineMonster10 160 Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Wow... Truly a really good Report. More of that please. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miel 15,009 Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Nice read. "Delightfully weird" is a fantastic way to describe the Joanne era as a whole. Though, you'd think he'd give it 5 stars, considering he was gushing about her through the whole piece. 3 points in and ready for more Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoomKack 6,588 Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 "Here lay the depth of Gaga’s appeal: not gimmicks or dramatic reinventions, but that she stays the same beneath them all." Why does literally every review say something like this? As if dramatics, concepts or "gimmicks" are a bad thing? It's called art people Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoremonLove 8,147 Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 "Alien dance routines" what do they mean Y did they give 4 stars n not 5 after all the praise How can anoyone not love gaga Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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