LOL-apalooza

Terrible pun. But what else am I supposed to come up with at 8:50?
Pics from Lollapalooza, featuring Gagi in her Monster Ball costumes. New hair tho.
According to reviews, she didn't try to win over her old crowd with some rock ballads and a blast from her past (with the exception of the infamous disco bra). It's too bad. I guess we had to expect Gaga to fail once in a while.
According to Idolator, though, "the pop firebrand stunned the crowd by showing up to play drums briefly for glam-rockers Semi-Precious Weapons, the opening act on her Monster Ball tour)."

Live Review:
Lady Gaga may have been ready for her diva moment at Lollapalooza, but Lolla wasn’t quite ready for her.
In an indulgent, two-hour set that left crowds retreating to the Strokes in steady droves, Gaga made it clear that she’d come a long way since her last Lolla gig, an unremarkable stint on the BMI stage in 2007. Bringing back the disco bra and panties she wore for that set, Gaga reaffirmed her awesomeness while we all listened in, “ The BMI Stage was a fucking train wreck. You were born a superstar!” Her rambling bordered on therapy at times, as she repeatedly referenced how mean everyone was to her in high school. “No one fucking believed in me, but we did it. And look at all of us now.”





Leisure Blogs:
8:30 p.m.
Lady Gaga (above) has been onstage for nearly 30 minutes, and the set is still having trouble getting untracked. Her pacing is terrible. The stage is as elaborate as advertised, a tri-level monstrosity that features a stalled car and a simulation of a subway train amid glittering neon and a tenement-like staircase. But the singer isn’t interested in a strictly choreographed, arrive-and-conquer sensory assault in the Madonna mold. She’s got issues, and she wants to share. The cold remove or canned patter of many pop divas can be a drag, but Gaga overcompensates by engaging in long monologues that come off as speeches. What gives the night a fascinating spin is her vivid recall of her 2007 set on a much smaller stage at the same festival. That memory of being ignored and misunderstood even as she played many of the same songs that would later become huge worldwide hits fuels her set. And so this becomes something of a live therapy session, positively fierce in moments, but an absolute drag in others. Strolling through the audience, the restlessness is apparent as Gaga vents, meanders and takes her time setting up songs early in the set. But once she focuses on the music instead of the psychotherapy, her talents as a singer, musician and provocateur take over and she finishes strong. Will she sacrifice spontaneity for a more focused show next time? She’ll need to if she wants to keep playing in front of audiences this size. (GK)



As previously mentioned, though, Gaga's highlight of the day was her stint with SPW.
Piece of Mind:
GaGa invaded the stage when the band sang "Magnetic Baby" hours prior to her own full set. "If anyone calls Lady GaGa a pop star I'll f*cking kill them," Tranter said in an accompanying message of the picture taken by Last Nights Party from Chicago where the gig took place. "She is a rock star, and she is helping, Semi Precious Weapons, bring rockNroll back. RockNRoll is back bitches!"
Tranter also told MTV News that this wouldn't be the last you would see of Gaga collaborating with the band. "Gaga herself has plans to collaborate with us, both artistically and sexually," he teased.