Decipher the Lady Gaga al Coachella show (or at least try)
Lady Gaga is lying in a common pit. It lies on the ground in the midst of the skeletons of some women. The notes of “Perfect Celebrity”, One of the songs contained in the latest Popstar album,” Mayhem “. The text is A tough accusation addressed to the entertainment industry, which creates myths and then destroy them and make room for new idols. «I’m made of plastic like a human doll / you push and pull me, the don’t hurt at all / talks in circles’ causes by brain it aches / you say” i love you “, the disintegrated”, “I am made of plastic like a human doll / I tear me and you pull me, but it does not make me bad at all. brain / tell me “I love you” and I disintegrate », sings
Lady Gaga. The passage is one of the most emblematic of the performance of Miss Germanotta al Coachella, where on Friday night – when in Italy, due to the time zone, it was the dawn on Saturday – the voice of “Poker Face” He held a show already entered the history of the Festival That every spring in the Desert of Indio, in California, inaugurates the season of large US summer rallies, among the most anticipated media events, followed and commented on overseas. The performance, because this was the concert of the pop star on the coachella main internship, A mixture of music, dance, theater, cinema and performative art (in pure Gaga style)was designed and staged like The manifesto of an artist outside the patterns, visionary, ambitious, alien, capable of bringing ideas in pop that stimulate debates and discussions. An artist, in fact.
The rise, the fall and the redemption
Who belong to those remains is not given to know: stars of the two thousand and ten, contemporary to Stefani Germanotta, who ended up crumbling, crushed from the gears of the show business car? Gaga does not explain things: enigmatic and cryptic as it is, leaves every possible interpretation open. Shortly after the singer -songwriter comes out of that common pit. It does so on the notes of another emblematic song, that “Paparazzi“With which in 2009 the then nascent star of pop criticized – his words -«media prostitution», Speaking inner struggle in celebrities in finding a balance between fame and private life.
He gets help from two metal crutches, which make it look like.A bionic woman, a little dented, but ready to recover what belongs to her: “Ready for Thos Flashing Lights”, “I am ready for those blinding lights”, sings, piano and voice, Gaga, before throwing away those crutches and open his arms on stage in front of the coachella’s oceanic crowd. The sequence seems to retrace the cycle of ascent, fall and redemption that Mother Monster has accomplished in these years. First the sensational and thunderous exploit with “The Fame” and “Born This Way”. Then the crisis crossed with “ArtPop” (the 2013 album of the 2013 and then only subsequently “rehabilitated” in its discography). So the tiring rebirth that began with “Joanne”, passed for “A Star Is Born” and the Oscar with “Shallow” and for “Chromatica”. Finally, the redemption with “Mayhem”, the album that marked his return to the pop of the beginning.
The meaning of the lineup
Perhaps it is no coincidence that in building the show to the coachella, Gaga has decided to leave all the songs of “ArtPop”, “Joanne” and also of “Chromatica” out of the lineup. The visionary performance, lasting two hours, was designed around the songs of “Mayhem”, but among the various “Abracadabra“(With which he opened the show, after a quote from” Bloody Mary “, performing a very high scaffolding covered by a red dress, inside which they were hidden, such as” Little Monsters “, his dancers),” Die with a smile “,” Disease “and” Perfect Celebrity “also included Hit who have marked the history of the pop of the last twenty years as same “paparazzi” and “poker face”, but also “
Alejandro” And “Born This Way”. Gaga set up a colossal show, between dress changes, special effects, choreography (on” Poker Face “has staged A game of chess against a sort of alter ego) and a scenography with a Baroque style with Gargoyle and Angels who remembered that of a theater of the work: “It is my way to thank you,” he told the crowd of Coachella and the millions of fans connected by every corner of the world, curious to find out what to expect from the shows of the “Mayhem Ball Tour” that It will also arrive in Italy on 19 and 20 October for two shows already sold out at the Milan Forum.
Gaga is back to stay
Miss Germanotta, who had been missing from the festival since 2017, has archived the “Joker: Folie à Deux” flop once and for all, the film in which Harley Quinn’s role last autumn, the partner of the iconic villain of Batman played by Joaquinn Phoenix, rebelling to be one of the greatest pop artists of the last thirty years. The performance was praised by critics from all over the world. The Guardianamong the most authoritative and prestigious British newspapers, he reviewed the show by assigning him five out of five stars: he called it “one of the best that coachella has ever hosted»(With all due respect to that of Beyoncé of 2018) and as the masterpiece of”a monarch of pop music“That” more than any other contemporary pop star has faced pop as a transmirement (the magic ability to transform itself, ed) “. Billboardin the USA, wrote that the performance was “a treatise developed on fame and price to be paid to keep it». In short, Lady Gaga seems to have returned. This time to stay.
