Monsters Invade New York City: Lady GaGa Leads The Pack

On the final Sold Out show at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, the New York native Lady Gaga gave it all up, “It’s my last night New York so tonight we get to fuck,” she said of her forth sold out night at the legendary music hall. She continued, “And we won’t have to call each other in the morning.” The crowd cheered and raised their paws in solidarity; it’s the rock n roll hand signal of Gaga fans who quickly adopted it after the release of her “Bad Romance” music video.

Her fans or little monsters as she calls them sang along to every song including those released last November. It was a night of fun, music, dancing but most importantly unity. Never in my 10 years of concert going had I experienced such a sense of comradely. Everyone was there to have a good time.

Gaga opened with “Dancing in The Dark,” performing behind a mesh screen that projected neon green lights. Throughout the number we’d get flashes of the singer traipsing through the set as her dancers one by one emerged gyrating from the dark. Once the screen was raised and the pop star was in full view the crowd lost their minds once more.

Visually the show was breath taking. Elaborate costuming aside the images projected were Avant-garde montages of the inner workings of Gaga’s artistic mind or her manifesto as she called it. The images could have easily been a part of an art instillation at MOMA but for Gaga it was her way of embracing the absurd or things inside oneself that one may fear and celebrating them.

It’s hard to believe that this time last year Lady Gaga was performing club shows and small venues, her music although popular hadn’t spawned a craze. Her eyebrow raising image has inspired thousands of copycats and as of last night Gaga is one show away from embarking on her first arena world tour.

Every dollar earned from Sunday’s show including ticket sales and merchandise sold went towards relief efforts in Haiti.

At the end of the day what makes Lady Gaga great is her eagerness to please, she like Tinkerbell lives off the public’s applause and adoration. And oh yea I forgot to mention she actually sings, live.