Unpopular opinion: Gaga's tours

[Ladle Ghoulash 33,585]

Just now, PartySick said:

I love that, personally. Cut 'em short and get 'em out of the way. The obligatory GP service. It helps avoid a drag like TCB where the first 20 minutes of the show is filled with 10+ year old full songs  

Get to the new material, ma'am!  

OT: The Joanne Tour remains my favorite and, imo, her best produced show (that stage is insane and seeing the production in person blew my mind) but I may revise this opinion after finally, FINALLY, seeing The Mayhem Ball next month as I've still avoided all spoilers aside from Aura  

I don’t have an issue with them being medleys, I mean in terms of sequencing. It’s lazy as hell conceptually to just slap em all back to back, imo. 

I’m glad someone loves Miz JWT, but I fear almost all of her tours mop her up with ease. Even the version of TAOPC from Copa/Coachella ends the JWT. 

[Monstermilo 5,200]

gaga's known for her visuals and i feel like she doesnt spend the correct amount of money for her set/stage designs, her sets and stages have always felt kinda cheap to me. even the mayhem ball, its basically similar construction of the BTW castle except only a part of it, with bigger screens. not sure if its a label thing or if she doesnt feel the need to go all out for the biggest screens and best set design, but of all people, i feel like she should be the standard for set design, and she really isnt 

[PartySick 165,245]

Actually, hot take on The Chromatica Ball  

The fact that the only moving part of the stage itself was the lazy Susan they slapped on the middle/top part of that horrid box shape so Gaga could rotate like a hot pocket in a microwave instead of dance for Bad Romance, Just Dance, and most of Poker Face was a weird choice.

The box design itself made the first 20 minutes pointless for anyone who wasn't directly in front of the stage.

The overall stage design was basically a fake concrete wall with two tiny walkways and a box for her to stand on several yards from the main stage  

I went to that show three times and I stg the only time I actually got a good look at her directly was when she was telling us to get home safe after a rain storm made her stop the show on Miami.

And lastly, STADIUM CONCERTS SUCK. Seriously, I won't attend another show unless it's in an arena and I hope her epiphany about that fact lasts beyond the Mayhem Ball  

Worst tour for her worst album

But it was cool experiencing Monster three times  

[NUTELLA 16,593]

7 minutes ago, PartySick said:

Actually, hot take

We're calling them "bad takes" now, just FYI

[PartySick 165,245]

20 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

I’m glad someone loves Miz JWT, but I fear almost all of her tours mop her up with ease.

Maybe narrative wise but that stage is peak. The only things comparable is the angler monster at TMB, the dollhouse/castle for TBTWB, the inflatable flowers at the artRAVE, that sick ass mech at Enigma, and...idk, I guess that lazy Susan at TCB  and the big dress that rolls out at TAOPC (and TMB, but again, idk what else she's thrown into that show so I may be proven wrong in a month ).

Meanwhile, the entirety of the JWT stage moved and breathed like a huge creature on its own  the walkways, the smaller stages, the main stage fracturing with the screens in the middle, truly a stunning sight to see tbh.

I remember being truly wow'd twice by visuals at her shows and that was the lights at the artRAVE and the stage at the JWT

[PartySick 165,245]

9 minutes ago, NUTELLA said:

We're calling them "bad takes" now, just FYI

How can it be a bad take when I'm correct

[NUTELLA 16,593]

Just now, PartySick said:

How can it be a bad take when I'm correct

Now you know how I feel 

[Blackout19 13,454]

20 minutes ago, PartySick said:

Worst tour for her worst album

[dynamite 62,684]

1 hour ago, NUTELLA said:

So when you say the Killah bridge is good, it's a bad take?

I think I get it now

Unpopular. I know about Unpopular

I know you were laughing at yourself making this

[Ladle Ghoulash 33,585]

14 minutes ago, PartySick said:

Maybe narrative wise but that stage is peak. The only things comparable is the angler monster at TMB, the dollhouse/castle for TBTWB, the inflatable flowers at the artRAVE, that sick ass mech at Enigma, and...idk, I guess that lazy Susan at TCB  and the big dress that rolls out at TAOPC (and TMB, but again, idk what else she's thrown into that show so I may be proven wrong in a month ).

Meanwhile, the entirety of the JWT stage moved and breathed like a huge creature on its own  the walkways, the smaller stages, the main stage fracturing with the screens in the middle, truly a stunning sight to see tbh.

I remember being truly wow'd twice by visuals at her shows and that was the lights at the artRAVE and the stage at the JWT

I get the appeal from a technical standpoint, but aesthetically the show is kinda meh for me. 

[dynamite 62,684]

I don't think I have any bad or controversial opinions about her tours . I only saw ArtRave, JWT, Chromatica and Mayhem and loved them all.

My favourite one for the experience was Chromatica Ball I think. It was my first time in a stadium and the atmosphere was electric.

Joanne was fun. The tilting stage (which broke), moving bridges, and the piano segment there, especially TEOG, were all great I think. I'm on the edge *with youuuuuu*.

ArtRave was my first time seeing her and it was such a vibrant, colourful show. I remember being very impressed by the laser lighting. Not at all impressed by Lady Starlight.

For Mayhem, I was in the stands for the first time and felt like I was watching the show from outside. I didn't feel like I was fully there. For all the other tours I was on the floor. The show itself was a spectacle though. The Paparazzi dress was particularly magnificent.

So yeah. 

[Ladle Ghoulash 33,585]

6 minutes ago, dynamite said:

I know you were laughing at yourself making this

Someone had to laugh, sister. #PromoteOnlineKindness

[dynamite 62,684]

36 minutes ago, PartySick said:

lazy Susan

[NUTELLA 16,593]

2 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Someone had to laugh, sister. #PromoteOnlineKindness

On 12/9/2025 at 9:24 PM, Ladle Ghoulash said:

@NUTELLA can you make a version of Glinda whispering into Elphaba’s ear but it’s us? I’m bad at Photoshop 😔

Hot take: you're a BITCH

[dynamite 62,684]

2 minutes ago, NUTELLA said:

Hot take: you're a BITCH

More exposed than Katy Perry at a talent show