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Discussion: Born This Way Ball Review Thread
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Born This Wall Ball Review Thread
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This messy merge. 
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Great! 
Remixed, you should separate the reviews per show/city.
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Flawless. Though I'm afraid this thread might leave other stans insecure about their fav. 
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Working on it 
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I have categorized the reviews by city/country!
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The slayage 
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The praises keep rolling in 
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She is slaying. 
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Wait there are no reviews from japan ?? 
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Wait there are no reviews from japan ?? |
I couldn't find them, it was really difficult. If anyone finds some I'll add them.
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Wait there are no reviews from japan ?? |
I believe that they're all in Japanese. And the cyber space in Japan seems to be far different from the one we are familiar with.
You might need a superb Japanese knowledge to search for and translate those.
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Love her or hate her she is arguably this decade's ultimate pop star and on Saturday night she showed the 50,000 fans who had travelled to Dublin's Aviva stadium to see her Born This Way Ball why.
Controversy began before the star even took to the stage as earlier in the day anti-fur group Animal Rights Action Network held a protest out-side the Lansdowne Road venue.
Around 20 members held placards criticising the singer's wearing of fur saying they were "deeply saddened by Lady Gaga's indirect attack on all fur-bearing animals".
However, the show went on and as darkness fell around the Aviva Stadium the dramatic strings of Handel's Hallelujah from the Messiah set the scene before a true musical extravaganza.
With as many costume changes as songs (I stopped counting at the 13th new outfit) and set against the backdrop of a 50ft tall Disney-gone-wrong medieval castle, Gaga was clearly out to be bigger and better than on her last trip to Ireland in 2010.
As the curtain dropped the controversial star entered the stage in unusually subdued style on the back of a mechanical horse escorted by a procession of dancers singing the lesser known industrial techno track Highway Unicorn.
However, she was soon back on true Gaga form singing a mix of hits while giving birth to herself from a huge inflatable zip-up vagina, tearing around the stage as a Transformer-style motorbike with a scantily-clad female dancer perched on top and putting herself through a mincer while wearing a slightly more risque take on the now infamous meat dress.
The Born This Way Ball, which started its European leg mid-August after dancing its way through Asia and Australia, did have a narrative, however, sometimes it was hard to follow.
From what this reviewer could gather the cod-opera told the story of an alien - Gaga - who escaped imprisonment only to be persecuted by Mother G.O.A.T. (Government Owned Alien Territory), a giant hologram which could have been mistaken for the love child of Gaga and Kryton from Red Dwarf.
After a rendition of chart topper Bad Romance the singer explains that only after she has extracted enough art, love and inspiration from the crowd will she be able to kill her oppressor and "return to earth as your pop singer".
Few could fail to be impressed by the showmanship of the 26-year-old native New Yorker but for this undecided little monster the constant shock-jock approach took away from a real attraction.
An impromptu a capella rendition of Happy Birthday to two of her dancers and a London 'nanny' and a heartfelt encore of The Edge of Glory gave a glimpse of a flawless vocal talent which could be missed behind such a massive smoke-and-mirrors production.
The ripping apart of Barbie dolls while singing nursery rhymes during a fan show-and-tell and constant sexual and religious references distracted from a positive message of being true to one's self.
The two-hour pop music spectacular, when taken for what it was, was undeniably a great night's entertainment.
When she first took to the stage the mother monster declared "I'll make you squeal, long as you pay me".
Ultimately, that is what she did.
Source: The Irish News
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Love her or hate her she is arguably this decade's ultimate pop star
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Scan completed , 0 lies.
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London Evening Standard: ****/***** stars
Lady Gaga, Twickenham stadium - review
Gaga's Born This Way Ball boasts another huge spectacle for the senses, but still remains something of a mystery
“Changing the world is as easy as changing your hair,” claimed Lady Gaga midway through last night’s Born This Way Ball. Like much of what she said at the second of her two Twickenham extravaganzas, it was glib twaddle, cynically aimed at the insecure schoolgirls who form the core of her audience. And that’s before the endless proclamations of adoration to those fans, which might have rung less hollow had she not played a late Sunday evening/early Monday morning public transport desert, hence the surreal post-concert sight of bedraggled spectators wandering through TW2’s leafy streets, a tired army struggling to find a night bus.
Perhaps it would be kindest to pass over her jaw-droppingly awful version of John Lennon’s Imagine, which, if nothing else, explored the song’s hidden shallows. Precious little of her budget was spent on amateurish, low wattage lighting; she bogged herself down in some ridiculous concept about aliens; she appropriated too much Madonna (the gun fetish, the comedy swearing, the music) and she can sink into loud blandness and unrelenting shrillness. Yet, at just 26 the former Stefani Germanotta is the first great pop star of the 21 Century. Impossibly charismatic, Gaga’s mystique remains intact: her between-song babbling suggested heartfelt confession, but she gave away nothing of herself.
As ever with a rip-roaring, senses-rattling stadium show, The Born This Way Ball was at its best when it was at its biggest. All the great moments were supersmart, superlatively choreographed set-piece spectacles. Judas featured the always-welcome combination of giant flags and marching; Americano was a thrilling, faux-matrimonial firestorm and best of all The Edge Of Glory began quietly before exploding into a tsunami.
What further set Gaga apart, though, was not merely the attention to detail she applied to her smorgasbord of ideas, but how determined this superstar was not to coast. The myriad costume changes (nothing outrageous unless unnecessarily tacky footless tights count) were expected, but skidding across stage, a union jack trailing behind her during You And I certainly wasn’t. Hopefully, she will never stop trying: for all her comic-book sexuality, it’s her most attractive feature.
http://www.standard.co.uk/arts/music...w-8156122.html
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WERK!
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I see my avi is put to use . Yaaas!
And Gaga gurl , get that praise!
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Glamand great songs in pairs: The Darkness and Lady Gaga deliver arguably the best pop show that the Berlin O2 World must align this year.
There are not 200 people in the designed for 17 000 visitors hall, as the opening act The Darkness begins. At 19.15 clock, "Start: 19:30 clock" on the card. The announced first of two support acts, Lady Starlight, with the mid-noughties Gaga began her career on the stages of New York, came even earlier on, and unfortunately also of the presence of the reporter. Lady Starlight on this late afternoon should therefore have seen even fewer people.
So now there is The Darkness, this aufgebretzelte to the hair tips band - and slams their stadium rock into a gaping void. They have some compassion. Then singer Justin Hawkins yells in the first song, "Every Inch Of You" the incredible line "And every man, woman and child wants to ... suck my **** ". Neither the already attending primary school students nor their accompanying persons will understand that, but just the thought in mind that they must have heard it, royally amused. Just like the rest of the set of the reunited glamrockers: "Growin 'On Me", "One Way Ticket", "I Believe In A Thing Called Love" - absurdly catchy hooks and riffs. The hall is filling up, but that does not change the behavior of Hawkins. Would perform just before a group of moles as he's done it before tens of thousands of fans on the biggest stages of his English home. Like its model Freddie Mercury to communicate soon with the whole amount, this leaves in bizarre variations "Mother****er", the key word of the crusher "Get Your Hands Off My Woman", sing along. Just before that he encouraged to clap along by the bass drum before doing a headstand and the legs together rhythmic beats. The Entzückungsschreie that causes the deposition of his shirt, he commented: "Yeah, ... Nipples, ... but there are only two, no need to spin. "
Had there been this band beginning of the 70s, it would rank among the largest of their craft. So it fits in front of the largest and grandest reigning pop star in the world.
Lady Gaga on a mechanical horse rides to the opener "Highway Unicorn (Road To Love)" field. Behind her stands a multi-storey castle. From a castle gate stands a giant, inflatable abdomen of a pregnant woman whose vagina Lady Gaga emerges as an intro to the pounding "Born This Way". Exactly three months ago, on the same stage, Madonna sang this song to draw attention to the similarities with its "Express Yourself". A pathetic gesture in a show that is in comparison to this one "poor" with even mild criticism. But tiring is the eternal confrontation with La Ciccone. Lady Gaga has long been a leader of a whole league of its own role model for her "Little Monsters" said fan base to which she cares that night especially. The new song "Princess Die", she invites a female fan who travels to her for weeks afterwards, for a duet on stage.
But we did not even compare. For several minutes she commented gifts that fly up to her. A roll of toilet paper reminds them of their last Berlin aftershow party, which she spent in the notorious libertine Lab.oratory gay club Berghain. She reads fan mail, which can - usually fantastic costumes - Author big show on the screens. Grassroots work, sure, but not in Sun approaches chumming and experienced how it disgusting when colleagues found similar caliber. But Gaga has so much of what we knew as yet: While throwing "Poker Face" is her little clad dancers in oversized meat grinders. Women would be treated like meat anyway but now says Gaga. As a substitute for the dancers artificial carcass halves are driven onto the lift.
Even so, the trappings remains trappings. Central is the music. And "Poker Face" is just one of so many outstanding pop songs that put this woman so far at the top of the charts in the world. As is the euphoric "Bad Romance," the unabashedly in the spirit of Bon Jovi standing "The Edge Of Glory" and of course "Scheisse," the smashing revue number that originated in this city. "Dance! Celebrating! There I do not care whether you need tomorrow hungover "in the work, Gaga says at one point. You even have to work every day of her life eventually. Later she takes the back: "Of course it's not me no matter how you're going tomorrow. What did you think? I love it. "Berlin loves back.
http://www.musikexpress.de/news/meld...euch-doch.html
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Lady Gaga is known as the new Queen of Pop, as discovery of the millennium, as a style icon. She was voted one of the most powerful woman in the world, who has more than 90 million records sold and millions of fans on Twitter and Facebook the most successful artists in the world. She justified that exuberant praise, the 26-year-old New Yorker proved on Thursday night at the Berlin O2 World.
And Lady Gaga would not be Lady Gaga if she were of a concert not to make a show out of this world. Even the stage speaks for itself: a huge fortress like in the Middle Ages. Lady Gaga comes in artful black knight gap out of the gate - she rides a frighteningly real-looking unicorn.
Blows at "Born This Way" is suddenly a large vagina. Only extends the singer forth above, then there is a large zipper opens at the center, and Lady Gaga comes from the inside jumped out. "Deutschlaaand" she calls out to the screaming audience . When the choreography seems to come hard to sing. On the big screens one sees her body in motion, but rarely her mouth.
In "Bad Romance", she slips out of an egg and is known. "I'm not an alien, no woman, no man, I'm not human" You take it from her. Of her dancers, she is kidnapped. In "Fashion Of His Love" you can clearly hear her voice. Why now, you ask yourself. Has the daughter of an Italian father but by her musical training it takes to reveal more of it.
Costume change churning. "You have worked hard to be here today. "Also for your outfits, appreciates Lady Gaga fans into one of their breaths So it takes two things to the point:. Ticket prices went off at about 70 euros And the men, women and children in the audience wanted to do the artist alike.. . face outfits much makeup, funnier and less funny Hair Accessories In addition to the young women sits an elderly couple with binoculars Besides a knutschenden Men Couple's little daughter with her parents is celebrated and rejoiced together -.. finally on stage, the show goes on ceaselessly.
In "Telephone", which she recorded with Beyonce Knowles - but who needs this evening already -.., Lady Gaga ran over her stage island in the middle to move the arms from the fans and one of her dancers, she snatches a telephone receiver pressed to her breasts an imaginary number. Nothingness of an outfit exposed repeatedly to her bare buttocks. "Did you have a good time, if not, I do not care", screams Lady Gaga and stretches the audience against her backside.
The evil it does no one - on the contrary. As the singer approaches the edge of the stage, she is showered with gifts, letters, and a roll of toilet paper. All it takes itself. Is pleased with the glittering crown as well as on the T-shirt, which she runs away.
On a huge black motorcycle with a piano she is giving a speech. "It's just as easy to change the world like his hair." We Also follow "Hair" - sung bewitching of Lady Gaga, who accompanied himself on the piano. A young woman walks on stage, patting Lady Gaga the still half-naked butt and clings tightly to her. "Together they breathe" The Princess "into the microphone.
Then there are all the action. In "You And I" she grabs a rocket-like guitar and belts out a few chords. Then sliding it between animal carcasses on the stage. For "Poker Face" is she headlong into a giant meat grinder, and then click in a meat dress Sitting on a couch meat. Then again, it has a black bra on, where two Kalashnikov were tinkered.
Finally, it pops out the song that originated in Berlin - with the dramatic title "****" Lady Gaga can move even after two hours the audience still in ecstasy. So she turns to the keyboard in the tower of her castle and confident.. again with "Edge Of Glory". Her fans will not let go. So she takes four similarly crazy people send out to the stage and celebrate with them, "Marry The Night." The night does not seem to them to be over.
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