Half an hour writing on the screen, in red, with a red pen, on a parchment that he picked up after half an hour of writing. Peace, calm, concentration. After that the storm. Also red. She appeared on a structure that recalled the skirts of the 18th century, Versailles. Roar on the track. The bracelets distributed at the entrance gradually flickered red, starting from the head of the walkway that led into the runway. Lady Gaga was on stage, giving meaning to everything, to that stage shaped like a lyric theater box that had seemed so dead and inane until then.
The show began in a thunderous manner, uniting the songs of the first act in such a way that the crowd that filled the first of Lady Gaga’s three concerts in Barcelona could not even breathe. They played Bloody Mary, all red, Abracadabra, the blood color remained, and Judas, even redder. On the stage, in the stands, on the bracelets of people who even then only danced and screamed. Surrounding the diva is a swarm of dancers, bees revolving around the queen, confident, dynamic, firmly stepping on the stage. In the sixth song, and after pretending to write again like an ancient Amanense, the red gave way to green when the sound Garden Of Edenwhile in the next topic, Poker Facea chess board took up the hallway leading from the stage and it was all pieces. Colorful, resounding rhythm, strident but defined volume. The concert was already launched in the first of its acts.
The second act, in fact the entire rest of the concert, was not far behind this frenetic beginning. Either the songs were hooked or introductory fragments that led to costume changes maintained the tension of the show. Now the star bathed in sand, Perfect Celebritynow she was a kind of bride who walked with difficulty thanks to futuristic crutches, Paparazzi but it was always her, singing with a controlled energy and a vigor that denoted a splendid state of form. An edge in its fullness, enjoying.
The food that the public received, mostly young but with notable inclusions of already mature people, was not only visual. The sound pulse of the concert maintained a marked dance impulse, in the form of both pop and music designed for the club. All of them supported by a band that, located in the stage boxes, denoted its presence with a clear sound despite the thunderous volume. Sometimes, given the suggestion that Lady Gaga’s presence on stage, one could conjecture that just being there would be enough, that her “little monsters,” as she had called them in Spanish, would already be fed up. But no, the diva literally left her body and throat in a spectacle that required notable dedication from her. In Alejandro, the court was dyed cream and everyone could see each other’s faces, and in them there was the same gesture of joy, of dedication, on their foreheads the same sweat as on hers and in their less trained throats, a fatigue that hours later would be hoarseness. A long-awaited concert to remember. The fourth act began with eighties dance pop, and continued with pop supported by guitars. The stage lighting is low, on a strip of spotlights located a little above her and the dancers’ heads.
The show was almost a baroque montage, dominated by the screen that was located behind the operatic stage. And in a way that was Lady Gaga’s concert, a kind of contemporary opera that in the fight of good against the evil underlying the plot, offers a window of understanding and escape for those who do not feel adapted to a society that builds more misfits every day. And since there is no single model, Lady Gaga caters to everyone, including lovers of power ballads, like that The Best that closed the second act with fierce guitars of metallic origin.
From here on, the concert gained even more pulse and nerve, something that seemed impossible, and in Killah, with a huge skull spinning around the scene, the audience continued dancing hora with a rocking pulse. And she with a perfect dress for Halloween. The one that was experienced in advance yesterday in Barcelona. Lady Gaga gave a lot of play and imposed her twisted and overloaded aesthetic with a soundtrack that sinks into the past. The one that is not far away yet.