The Perfect SETLIST - artRAVE: The ARTPOP Ball -

[Pop 4,541]

artRAVE: The ARTPOP Ball Setlist

 

ACT I: DIGITAL BURQA SWAG
01. AURA
02. MANiCURE
03. JUST DANCE
04. TELEPHONE (feat. Beyonce hologram)

06. Jewels N' Drugs (feat. T.I., Twista & Too Short holograms)

 

LOVEGAME VIDEO/DANCERS INTERLUDE

 

ACT II: GODDESS OF LOVE
07. SEXXX DREAMS
08. POKER FACE
09. MONSTER
10. G.U.Y.
11. VENUS

 

HEAVY METAL LOVER VIDEO/DANCERS INTERLUDE

 

ACT III: SWINE RAVE
12. PAPARAZZI
13. SCHEIBE
14. DONATELLA
15. SWINE

 

MARY JANE HOLLAND VIDEO INTERLUDE

 

ACT IV: HANGOVER BLUES
16. DOPE (piano)
17. MARRY THE NIGHT (piano)
18. GYPSY
19. THE EDGE OF GLORY

 

FASHION! INTERLUDE

 

ACT V: ARTPOP
20. ARTPOP
21. BORN THIS WAY
22. BAD ROMANCE
23. DO WHAT U WANT (feat. R Kelly hologram)

 

ENCORE
22. APPLAUSE

 

ACT I: DIGITAL BURQA SWAG 

Lady Gaga opens the show with a performance of AURA. She ascends onto the stage in a body shaped cage like she did on the Swine Fest. The stage for the first section is a crossbreed between Tarantino's road movie aesthetics and the digital Tron-like backgrounds. We see the Pus*sy Wagon from the Telephone video parked on the right. Gaga is covered head to toe while performing AURA. She is freed from the cage and slowly the dancers tear off her aura/burqa leaving her only in a tight catsuit. Gaga is wearing the straight black wig while she performs MANiCURE + JUST DANCE and after a short welcome she surprises the audience by saying Beyonce is HERE to perform with her. TELEPHONE kicks in and Beyonce's hologram walks on stage, performing the song with Lady Gaga for the very first time. They even do choreo on the *** Wagon together. The audience goes crazy. Lady Gaga has a short speech thanking the TechHAUS for this amazing technology and announces a song about her crew & her family that make all of this happen: JEWELS'N'DRUGS start with holograms of all three rapper collaborators on stage.

After the song is finished, Gaga officially welcomes you to the show and says "Welcome to the artRAVE. Now dance, you motherf***kers!" after which a LOVEGAME  Zedd remix video interlude is played, directed by Nick Knight (the same guy who did The Monster Ball interludes). 

 

Inspiration: Tarantino, Digital World, Road Movies, Technology, Interconnectivity

OMG moment: holograms on stage, the Pvssy Wagon, Beyonce, burqa, body cage

 

ACT II: GODDESS OF LOVE

In this section, Lady Gaga channels her inner Botticelli girl, The Goddess Of Love. This part of the tour is darker, s-xier and raunchier. Lots of Botticelli art on the backdrops mixed with 80s & 90s S&M videos, fog machines, purple, red and blue. She starts off SEXXX DREAMS off a huge bed and blasts into POKER FACE with the original choreography, dressed into her classic seashell girl outfit & wig. A remixed video of MONSTER follows after Gaga makes some raunchy comments about Taylor's private parts. A reproduction of Bernini's "Apollo & Daphne" statue (the one thats in the background of the ARTPOP album cover) appears on stage while she and a bunch of dancers perform G.U.Y. and finally VENUS, followed by a deeply remixed version of HEAVY METAL LOVER. The latter part of this act has lots of extraterrestrial influences. Green glowing shards around the stage, lasers and S&M videos are later replaced by vintage Sci-Fi videos remixed into weird & colorful video backdrops. 

 

Inspiration: Botticelli, Bernini, Venus, Greek & Roman gods and goddesses, aliens, Sci-Fi, S&M

OMG moment: famous statue reproduction on stage, Gaga is sometimes completely naked during Venus

 

ACT III: SWINE RAVE

This section is like a majorly rehauled version of the Swine performance from the iTunes Festival. There is no piano, but there is still the element of paint and colour. When the lights are turned back on, the audience realizes the entire stage has been covered in white canvas to protect it from the onslaught of paint Gaga and performers will explode onto the stage & the audience during this section. Lots of paintbrushes and sprays are given out to the fans in the Monster Pit so they can paint on the canvases, too - making this a very interactive "art" portion of the show. Also, this part of the show has the songs with the hardest beats making it a true "artRAVE". The first two performances (PAPARAZZI & SCHEIBE) are dealing with the media trying to kill the artist. Lots of magazine covers in the back and Gaga shooting out of her big paint gun all over the "paparazzi". During DONATELLA which has a very hardcore choreography, fans receive the paint for the final song, SWINE. Everyone goes insane during this extended version of SWINE, Gaga does hardcore dancing like a beast on stage while the dancers shoot her with all kinds of paint from their paint guns. Fans can write & draw messages onto canvases hanging from the air during this performance. Gaga's body is leaving marks onto big canvases while she's dancing on the floor, making this section a nudge to the body art movement in contemporary art.

 

Inspiration: body art, painting, interactivity, rage, self-expression

OMG moment: paint on stage, paint on the audience, fans can interact with the performance

 

ACT IV: HANGOVER BLUES

Gaga takes off her clothes, leaves just an oversized white T-shirt and underwear on. Her body and hair is still covered in paint. This is the afterparty. The recovery. Or, the rehab. The MARY JANE HOLLAND interlude includes scenes of partying but it's not celebration, it has a very dark undertone. Lots of green in the backdrops and white fog. A big white piano appears out of the fog, where Gaga talks about what she went through lately, the injury, the addiction and performs DOPE on the piano. MARRY THE NIGHT is turned into a beautiful piano ballad, too. She talks about the pain she went through being alone and broken on tour, away from her family and how the only thing that got her through was her fans. That's why she lives a gypsy life that keeps her alive. In the second part of the GYPSY performance she gets up and starts celebrating her dark and dancers come out and turn it into a huge party. She also performs THE EDGE OF GLORY and there is lots of interaction with the audience. She even goes into the crowd, like during the artRAVE performance of ARTPOP.

 

Inspiration: old rock legends, blues, gypsy music

OMG moment: Gaga going into the crowd and talking about her personal life

 

ACT V: ARTPOP

During the FASHION! interlude, there is only a spotlight on the top of the catwalk with Gaga on it and the rest of the stage is in total darkness. A waterfall starts falling onto Gaga that cleanses her from the paint in her hair and her body. This represents a fresh start she got with the ARTPOP era. We also see The Haus members applying makeup and the platinum blonde wig on her while she's on stage, just like we did on the iTunes Festival. After they dress her up, she holds a short speech about how she and her fans can belong together, and so can art & pop. ARTPOP, the song starts and the lights are turned on revealing the huge Jeff Koons statue of Lady Gaga from the album cover behind her. There are also lots of big shiny eggs around the stage. She performs ARTPOP in a similar way to the iTunes Festival. During BORN THIS WAY, the dancers come OUT of the eggs and kill the choreo along with BAD ROMANCE which gets even the non-fans dancing. Dancers disappear and an R Kelly hologram appears for DO WHAT U WANT, which is a very s-xual performance. At the end of the song, Gaga sits on top of the catwalk in the same pose as the statue behind her and disappears.

 

Inspiration: Jeff Koons, ARTPOP

OMG moment: waterfall on stage, Gaga's classic The Fame blonde weave, Jeff Koons statue from the album cover on stage

 

ENCORE

After DO WHAT YOU WANT, Zedd music starts playing for a while different art from the artRAVe is exhibited on stage. Fans from the monster pit are welcome to get up on stage and check it out for a while, but after a few minutes the security escorts them back into The Pit. All lights turn off and after a while the iconic synths from APPLAUSE are heard and Lady Gaga and the full set of dancers come on stage with their Gazing Balls and perform a huge version of Applause, topped with lasers and confetti. They all take a bow theatrically and carry her away from the cheering audience. 

 

Inspiration: mixing an art exhibition with a pop concert, celebration

OMG moment: fans on stage, confetti, lasers, Gazing Balls,

 

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This is my vision of the perfect artRAVE: The ARTPOP Ball tour! Do you like it, monsters?

If not, how to do you imagine it? What are your hopes and wishes for the setlist? 

 

Discuss!

 

[Foivos 64]

This is amazon!

[Haldy 1,024]

I actually rather like it (save MJH being just a video), well done!

[Sunny 12,174]

Didn't read it all, but stanning for it

[hell0samuel 59]

its alright

 

I would like gypsy to be the final song before the encore, think it has 'closing the show' vibe to it.

 

and i would prefer to hear Fashion! / MJH live rather than as interludes.

 

But i love the 'Swine Rave' segment, that will murder everyone!! Everyones faves in one go!! 

& hangover blues sounds slayworthy tbh 

 

& I like the idea of holograms, but only if they look decent and not crap :)

[Blue Jeans 3,815]

ew MJH HAS to be performed, this song will slay live 

[Yoshi 35]

so mjh isnt sung or fashion either?

[Mariano 958]

I kinda want the tour to start with Marry the Night (since the last tour ended with It)  but I guess for a new tour It's better to start with a new song

[SIRE 75]

:applause:

[Pop 4,541]

so mjh isnt sung or fashion either?

 

Mary Jane Holland, I imagine as a dreamy video montage of her crazy party days in Holland with Tara and Madeon. Then after that, she "crashes" with Dope and finds her strenght again with Marry The Night and Gypsy. 

 

Fashion! wouldn't be sung, but she would still be on stage. It would be a performance where we watch her get "clean" and ready for the ARTPOP era, which represents the long period of wait that we didn't see while she was creating this era for us. 

[Cas Winchester 195]

:golfclap:

[Didymus 32,739]

Wtf is Telephone doing there?

[Pop 4,541]

Wtf is Telephone doing there?

 

People LOVE Telephone, I doubt she would skip it. 

[GHGUY 230]

Wtf is Telephone doing there?

Cuz the song is flawless :Whitney:

[WarriorPrince 1]

I like this except for MJH not being performed.