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Lady Gaga Outdoes Herself With a Coachella Spectacular That’s Equal Parts Freaky and Hearty
Lady Gaga's performance capping the first night of Coachella 2025 managed to be both bizarro and warm-hearted, in her fashion.
There seemed to be an underlying arc to the narrative of the show, which began with a spoken poem about “the manifesto of Mayhem” and went on to include title cards for Acts I, II, III., IV and V. (Among these were “Of velvet and vice”; “And she fell into a gothic dream”; and “The beautiful nightmare that knows her name,” in case you were not also taking notes.) Anyone who doesn’t think it’s fun to navigate visual confusion might have turned in early for the night, rather than try to make sense of, say, why Gaga’s costuming and design seems to marry soft, giant feathers with thorny wrap-arounds and exoskelton imagery. The idea that this was essentially a one-off seemed confirmed when she told the crowd: “I wanted to make a romantic gesture to you… I decided to build you an opera house in the dessert.” Ah, so that’s what the back of her massive set was supposed to be.
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