Gaga completes historic world tour in high spirits and good health

[Apec 284]

What an amazing tour, era and all-around experience this has been.  She definitely supported me during a dark time with Disease and Abra, and watching her marathon with her best concert ever like 10+ years ago made it abundantly clear she was somehow doing this in the safest and healthiest way possible, and just seeing her being her happiest and most "grounded" self yet while weaving her magic day in, day out was a blast. The Rolling Stone article is really enlightening - our girl ofc still has fibro plus other chronic pain and is thus on some meds but her attitude about having to suffer to create great music and art has totally flipped due to finally feeling understood and supported both personally and professionally. Mayhem feels like it cured something within her - and in me, lol. Requiem is still to come but what a year this has been.  Coachella and Gagacabana were beautiful, and the MBT somehow even improved on the storytelling, the artistry and the sheer depth of The Art of Personal Chaos. 

I was so flabbergasted and a tad concerned when she did things like performing the MBT in Tokio and appearing the same day technically (what's jetlag?) at the Grammy's while after ONE rehearsal giving the amazing Abra Rock version like it was nothing. Same with that MBT-Recording for MTV Music Awards during next day's MBT-VIY at Colbert-MBT run. This woman didn't take any real breaks and kept on innovating and iterating during the MBT itself, what with the surprise piano songs and TDD-rolling, just to name a few examples. But now she seems to know her limits, not that I've ever seen them, lol.

Watching all of this from great fan footage (I'm bedridden due to chronic nerve pain) and just watching her being her happiest and most free yet fills me with such joy. Her thankfulness, how touched she is and her genuine tears when she's at the piano, facing the crowd... that's her, and only her. 

She's such a gem of a person and I'm just glad I can witness it all.  Well done, you amazing woman!

Edited April 17 by Apec

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30 minutes ago, Apec said:

What an amazing tour, era and all-around experience this has been.  She definitely supported me during a dark time with Disease and Abra, and watching her marathon with her best concert ever like 10+ years ago made it abundantly clear she was somehow doing this in the safest and healthiest way possible, and just seeing her being her happiest and most "grounded" self yet while weaving her magic day in, day out was a blast. The Rolling Stone article is really enlightening - our girl ofc still has fibro plus other chronic pain and is thus on some meds but her attitude about having to suffer to create great music and art has totally flipped due to finally feeling understood and supported both personally and professionally. Mayhem feels like it cured something within her - and in me, lol. Requiem is still to come but what a year this has been.  Coachella and Gagacabana were beautiful, and the MBT somehow even improved on the storytelling, the artistry and the sheer depth of The Art of Personal Chaos. 

I was so flabbergasted and a tad concerned when she did things like performing the MBT in Tokio and appearing the same day technically (what's jetlag?) at the Grammy's while after ONE rehearsal giving the amazing Abra Rock version like it was nothing. Same with that MBT-Recording for MTV Music Awards during next day's MBT-VIY at Colbert-MBT run. This woman didn't take any real breaks and kept on innovating and iterating during the MBT itself, what with the surprise piano songs and TDD-rolling, just to name a few examples. But now she seems to know her limits, not that I've ever seen them, lol.

Watching all of this from great fan footage (I'm bedridden due to chronic nerve pain) and just watching her being her happiest and most free yet fills me with such joy. Her thankfulness, how touched she is and her genuine tears when she's at the piano, facing the crowd... that's her, and only her. 

She's such a gem of a person and I'm just glad I can witness it all.  Well done, you amazing woman!

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