There is something special about Lady Gaga
Felipe Machado - Guitarist of the Brazilian heavy metal band “Viper”
Unicorn in the audience of Lady Gaga’s concert.
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what's a guy that likes heavy metal would be doing in the show more pop on the planet?
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Forty minutes later, the curtain falls covering Lady Gaga’s scenario: wow, a medieval castle! Cool, now let's see what Gaga will do with it.
The lights go out and she walks like a queen: mounted on a black horse, with his troupe waving flags and marching like an army fighting to protect the new queen of pop.
And than it’s where we can hear the highest chorus of Lady Gaga’s fan.
Fans? No, followers. Followers? No, disciples. Gaga has a very interesting relationship with the fans, something no artist today could establish with such property. For them, Gaga is not just a singer, but a spiritual leader. More than that: a religious leader, I would say. Because freedom is a concept whereby there are people who would die for, and if that is not a basic component of religion, so I do not know what is.
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At 26, Gaga shows an amazing maturity. And still manages to be spontaneous, even with all the obsession with her image. While old rockstars appear for ten seconds in the balcony of the hotel with a bad face, Gaga extends tracks ('I love Rio'), waves to fans several times, appears half-naked, sends sandwiches and pizzas for 'little monsters' not go hungry. In Rio, left the Hotel Fasano, caught a ride with a motorcycle taxi and went to the slum to play barefoot soccer with kids. Then tattooed the word 'Rio' in her neck, and said that this trip changed her life. In São Paulo, spent a night in the club Romanza, surrounded by hookers and seeing pole dancing shows. Lie? Truth? Marketing? We never know. Never mind. What matters is "what fans think of her."
Now, for those who like pop, the music is great. There are several hits sung in unison by the 'little monsters' (hear the entire stadium singing 'Bad Romance' was crazy)
and the most interesting is that Lady Gaga doesn’t seem to dub her voice, unlike what happens with Madonna and Britney Spears, and other artists which dance while sing. There are backing vocals recorded, of course, just as there are loops and electronic beats. But it seems the microphone is connected all the time, which you can see even by how much she improvises on top of the songs or yells 'Sao Paulo, Brazil!'.
By the way, Gaga seemed really have fallen in love for Brazil - or I was misled by one of the most world's famous buniness women.
It also has the populist part of the show, when Gaga asks for three 'little monsters' go up on stage to accompany a song beside her on the piano. Of course the two girls and the boy (at least the guy was born a boy, if you know what I mean, not that there's anything wrong with that) go into ecstasy. Someone who has been deprecated in the audience must have been angry because threw an object on Lady Gaga’s face in this part.
The stadium rehearsed a chorus of 'mother****er, mother****er ...' but Gaga took herself an attitude that once again surprised me: while Axl Rose threatened to leave the stage at each piece of paper that hit him, Gaga told the audience to stop to boo because she was okay, like nothing big had happened.
In times of exacerbated stardom, is at least interesting to see a girl with so much common sense in front of 50,000 people. And the choir stopped.
Gaga go to the piano and rock in an acoustic version of 'Hair', one of his few songs, let’s say 'smart'. The chorus says 'I am my hair', again a simple but powerful idea. Think about it, is a crude and simple truth to say that 'we are our hair.' That our hair is culturally belong to some tribe, etc..
Of course it is a metonymy in relation to our personality, but just notice the importance of hair in the history of popular culture to understand that there is more meaning in the phrase "I am my hair' than we think to know in our philosophy.
After 'Hair', Gaga sang 'You and I', a look like Elton John’s hit, where she really shows the power of her voice. And then I found myself back to that night at Carnegie Hall, when she caught my eye amid much heavier weights of world music. Yesterday I had exact the same impression that in 2009:
there is something about Lady Gaga that can't be explained in words, there is something about the great artists that we can't define. Maybe this is just a way to recognize the great artists. At 26, Lady Gaga has joined that list.
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