Meaning of show ending

[GerMonsterNotta 1,321]

So we see Gaga in a joyful sequence of HBDYWM, and the choir mention Mistress Mayhem won’t like that and tell on her….. Mistress Mayhem goes mad with FIND HER, WAKE HER UP….

We then get the SOAM-BTW-Piano-VIY sequence, and then Gaga post-surgery for Bad Romance…..

what is going on here? What’s your interpretation…..? 

Does Mistress Mayhem try to crush Gaga’s joyful dreams, is she jealous? only wants to inflict the pain she feels… Does mistress Mayhem then realise what’s most important and where the shared purpose and values really lie, ie Equality, love, finding peace, finding a lover.. during the SOAM-VIY stretch 

Is Gaga woken up in the real world but with Mistress Mayhem’s heart transplanted into Gaga.. to become mother monster… as someone reborn who celebrate the balance of dark and light? The BAD AND the ROMANCE… What do you think?? 

Edited 4 hours ago by GerMonsterNotta

[River 113,002]

so the whole PF to Paparazzi is all about the hip surgery and how Richy is the blame, then it's all about her inner struggle to come back to popga, she got rid of all the bad seeds around her. richy was the last nail in the coffin.

[Virgin Ryan 1,339]

Here:

https://vigilantcitizen.com/musicbusiness/lady-gagas-2025-coachella-performance-was-nothing-less-than-a-satanic-megaritual/

[nerdfacekillah 4,477]

I’m not very sure if my interpretation is correct, but this is how I understand it.

So we have two characters, the blonde and the brunette one. The blonde represents the ‘character’ of gaga that she created and the brunette one represents ‘mistress mayhem’ that symbolises her inner demons.

The blonde character fell into a dream because of all the success she has gained during the years and it feels surreal to her that’s why she doesn’t want to wake up.

On the other hand, mayhem wants to discourage her by giving orders as bringing her to her or killing her or waking her up, etc.

In the end, the surgery symbolises the acceptance that she accepts her inner demons and the balance between light and dark as you mentioned yourself.

Basically it symbolises the duality within us.

[TimotheeChalamet 5,462]

16 minutes ago, nerdfacekillah said:

Basically it symbolises the duality within us.

This. 

[andy232000 10,936]

I honestly think the whole surgery theme is just a style choice for the performance and there is nothing narratively there. However, the interlude that plays during Bad Romance is what contributes to the story. Essentially when she says “Monsters Never Die”, it’s like saying that Mayhem will never leave her alone, but that’s ok cause when you understand your own personal Mayhem you can tame it. It’s like leaving with a manejable disease and that’s also why Bas Romance worlds cause it’s about the toxic relation with that mayhem but it feels sexy at times. 

[Starmie25 17,277]

Does this tie into the final act? Why u no embed

https://x.com/sadkoesque/status/1919511941581509055

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[OliviaRodrigoStan 5,698]

TBH, I interpreted the show as "Mayhem" just being Stefani and the blonde girl being GaGa. The show hammers the idea of one of them being "fake/not-real", and I believe it is just Stefani's fear of being consumed, or completely defined by, her stage persona. 

GaGa is blonde and happy, and full of light, because she is the onstage persona: carefully crafted to be appealing, and amplify Stefani's more luminous traits. But Stefani is Mayhem: just a woman, mortal, dark, imperfect, affected by injuries, with scars, etc. 

She tries to get rid of GaGa (in her actual life: by dropping the crazy costumes, making a "relatable" country inspired album, going for an acting career, etc), but at the end, her stage persona resurrects, because it is a part of who she is, and it is also the vehicle for her connection with little monsters, her fans. 

The show is about her accepting GaGa back into her life, and "Mayhem" is not evil, is just Stefani, her true flawed self, IMO . 

TLDR: It's all an illuminati ritual, wbk 

[Nagini 1,300]

I think it's just the Disease video. Lady Mayhem rounding up/chasing all the fractures of Gaga like an annoyed babysitter. Ultimately Gaga accepts them all as a part of herself and there is no "winner" suggested in the opening act.

[NemoMyName 504]

The piano section happen over an eye projection in the floor, I just wanted to add that

[Quartz 12,338]

1 hour ago, OliviaRodrigoStan said:

TBH, I interpreted the show as "Mayhem" just being Stefani and the blonde girl being GaGa. The show hammers the idea of one of them being "fake/not-real", and I believe it is just Stefani's fear of being consumed, or completely defined by, her stage persona. 

GaGa is blonde and happy, and full of light, because she is the onstage persona: carefully crafted to be appealing, and amplify Stefani's more luminous traits. But Stefani is Mayhem: just a woman, mortal, dark, imperfect, affected by injuries, with scars, etc. 

She tries to get rid of GaGa (in her actual life: by dropping the crazy costumes, making a "relatable" country inspired album, going for an acting career, etc), but at the end, her stage persona resurrects, because it is a part of who she is, and it is also the vehicle for her connection with little monsters, her fans. 

The show is about her accepting GaGa back into her life, and "Mayhem" is not evil, is just Stefani, her true flawed self, IMO . 

TLDR: It's all an illuminati ritual, wbk 

Wait, this actually makes the most sense to me. 

[OliviaRodrigoStan 5,698]

5 minutes ago, Quartz said:

Wait, this actually makes the most sense to me. 

The blond girl on the show is deliberately depicted as naive, is the one wants to stay in a fantasy world, and doesn't want to wakeup to reality. The black haired girl is seen in far less glamorous situations: signing a contract, walking with a cane, etc. 

To me that's just Stefani, and the conflict she faced of maybe not wanting to be a Pop Star anymore. That's why "Mayhem" is darker: she's just the other side of the mirror, the ugly truth, with all the fear, insecurity and anger that the audience never gets to see. 

Lady GaGa on the other hand will always be this platinum blonde princess associated with joy and happiness. And she is the one that dies time and time again during the show: she can die and return, because she's the one that's not real, she's the stage persona. 

But as long as the audience is still there for her, she'll always return. Hence the last statement of the show: "Monsters never die". 

Lady GaGa is an idea, and she won't die as long as the audience is still there for her. The entire show is Stefani coming to terms with this, in my opinion 

[Bronco 9,066]

I personally read it as Mistress of Mayhem being the monster that kind of consumed Gaga in the early years of her fame which ultimately destroyed her health for a very big chunk of time. 

I think the ending & the outfit signify both her resurrection as Mother Monster/Lady Gaga post-Chromatica and represents the damage fame did to her with the visible chest wounds and obvious hip surgery scar on the outfit. 

I genuinely think the current Mayhem Ball show should be read in conjunction with the imagery we saw in TCB. I feel like Mayhem & the Mayhem Ball directly follow on from what TCB became in 2022. 
Especially the opening sequence and first act which feels like the birth of Mayhem and we see Gaga really represent that early stage of her career as a very restrictive time. Followed immediately by Act 2 where it begins with the surgery visuals and then she's literally on a big operating table looking contraption in an outfit that makes her look skinned alive or at least heavily wounded. 

Feel like everything Gaga is doing at the moment creatively is essentially a creative biopic of how Gaga came to be.