Lady Gaga’s Monster Ball Tour
On November 23rd 2009 (just a few weeks away!) famed pop diva Lady Gaga will re-release her album The Fame with new tracks entitled The Fame Monster. As her description of the upcoming Monster Ball Tour (a replacement tour for her concaelled tour with Kanye West due to lack of ticket sales) goes, she says it’s an “electro-pop opera”. The avante-garde clad vocalist and performer stated her fans will not only be receiving a rock concert but more her interpretation of Broadway. As MTV puts it, “Imagine her bloody VMA performance taken to the next level.” Lady Gaga outfits MTV VMA with grace, I say..
In her own words,
“The basic philosophy of the show is theatrical and that’s what opera is — it’s an ostentatious, over-the-top interpretation of a story. So that’s what pretty much my whole life is, but that’s what the show is.”
As such, Lady Gaga says the theme of her forthcoming tour centers around evolution, literally. She told MTV, “I begin as a cell and I grow and change throughout the show and it’s also done in what now is becoming my aesthetic, which is, you know, it’s part pop, part performance art, part fashion installation — so all of those things are present.”
Battling demons is the main theme of her re-release. Many of the tracks are titled The Insert-Vice-Here Monster, signifying her stresses over leading such a heavy celebrity lifestyle. “It’s a story,” she told MTV and further said, “It’s me battling all my monsters along the way. I’m playing all the music from The Fame, all the music from The Fame Monster. And the stage that I designed with the Haus is a giant cube that sits. Imagine you were to hollow out a TV and just break the fourth wall on a TV screen. It forces you to look at the center of the TV. It’s my way of saying, ‘My music is art.’ ”
But she chose this lifestyle, didn’t she? And promoting her work, doesn’t it mean she’s even promoting the demons she is battling? There is an obvious correlation between Lady Gaga’s music and Eminem’s. It’s almost as if Dr. Dre had a hand here as well… the Lady Gaga outfits MTV VMA previewed for us will most likely lead to her donning a shark-head mask with a severed arm hanging out of the mouth if we are lucky!