Pop provocateur Lady Gaga will be doing her thing at the John Paul Jones Arena on September 8, it was announced this morning. No word yet for when tickets go on sale.
Do not be alarmed if someone who looks like this asks you in early September if you know of a good place to get a sandwich.
According to her website: "The Monster Ball’ is a multimedia artistic experience in the style of the first-ever ‘pop electro opera." This comes a few short months after Gaga cancelled plans to tour with Kanye West (OMG, imagine?), allegedly because of poor ticket sales. And while it’s usually kind of upsetting to hear that somebody’s named their arena tour after the party that’s thrown for death row inmates on the night before execution, we’ll just have to settle for that feeling that falls between delight and confusion that, thank Gaga, we already know so well.
Of Gaga’s concerts, The New York Times raves, "the music [is] an odorless, colorless, almost unnecessary additive to the Lady Gaga spectacle." Shows are said to often include, of course, wild costume changes, but also Gaga alone behind a piano doing her singer-songwriter thing.
But I guess there’s really no way of knowing what will happen.
