Lady Gaga at the Landmark

Posted by: Ian – Sep 30, 2009

"I missed you. I traveled all around the world and I know I missed you, but I want you to know that I brought back to you a show that nobody else in the United States of America has seen" - Lady GAGA RVA 9/28/09

The Line started just before noon and stretched behind the Landmark hours before the doors opened.

Her methodically planned take on the fractured pop starlet with a satiric gleam, taking the darker chances away from a pop princess to be a progressive performance pop artist, intentions succeed with the evolution of her stage show from the New York club years that color the lyrics. She has a hell of a voice and can be traced to significant female influences but all the press and articles obligatorily mention of Bowie and Mercury and by associating her with male performers beyond songstresses her immersive character takes a Masculine/Feminine embodiment of an androgynous perfect human in the 21st century.

Her alter ego is Candy Warhol in video montages that transition costume changes and band instrumentals. All hints to what is to come in her future productions.

In the fallout of Toads Place running into the ground and the canceled National show so much has happened to both Lady GAGA and the world these past 6 months. For her it went pretty well her coverage in the press following the American Idol performance can be matched by her record sales. She has toured the world sharing her thoughts on twitter and her tour documentary videos on Youtube directly connecting the artist with her fans on the net naturally. Faith no More in their reunion covered a tease of Poker Face. She released an epic music video with Jonas Akerlund for Paparazzi a dramatic artist vision over the industry standard video’s she started with. She killed the VMA’S with her Haus of GAGA fashion, performed the Much Music awards with sparks. But before new material is released and what can only be a gigantic tour with Kanye West, Richmond finally got its show. The move to the Landmark allowed for what I imagine at least a thousand additional tickets being sold with more fans from Virginia seeing their pop diva.

As the audience waited for the show to start a large-scale profile photo shoot took place amongst the diverse and fashion inspired fans that were overjoyed to be there.

In a set that saw her play her barely year old classics, she showed her vocal highs, musicality, choreography, and staging all in trademark GAGA fashion.

Starting with an album download last fall and my ticket purchase in January I did significant research in hopes of landing the non-traditional non-promotional academic interview but found myself thankful to be an audience member as her fame has skyrocketed. After getting to the line as it wrapped around behind the Landmark, we first had seats in the front row of the third tier in some sort of a time warp we found ourselves Stage right box, what had not happened by plan by chance became real.

Thanks to Dipti Bhatt, Sarah Carr, The Landmark, Centerstage, and The National staff, also all the RVA GAGA FANS for a fantastic show, I hope she had as great a time as the piercing screams indicated you guys did.

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