Lady Gaga dazzled in Copacabana: how was the show record in Rio de Janeiro
At 10:03 pm, Gaga appeared on stage with a red dressbut soon changed to a suit with the colors of the Brazilian flag, unleashing the euphoria of the attendees. The show, which was Transmitted live on television and internetincluded a coachella style production: dancers, impressive changing rooms, giant LED screens and a narrative divided into five acts.
During the beginning, he performed songs like Bloody Mary, Abracadabra, Scheiße, Judas and Poker Face. Gaga He combined past successes with new songs from his album Mayhemmarking her return to pop with a gothic and theatrical aesthetic that she herself has called a “Gothic opera.”
In one of the most emotional moments of the night, the artist stopped the show for dedicate some words to your fans:
“Thank you for making history with me. The people of Brazil is the reason I am shining,” he said excitedly. “Of all the things I could thank is that you waited for me for more than 10 years … Brazil, I am ready,” he added.
Dressed with a vibrant red suit, on a Victorian structure and in the middle of a gigantic stage of 1,260 square meters that evoked a Greek theater, the pop superstar inaugurated the show playing “Bloody Mary”.
The operatic atmosphere with which the presentation began quickly entered the Pop rhythm with “Abradacabra”. As by magic, dancers appeared until that moment hidden under the artist’s skirt to give life to energetic choreographies, which unleashed frenzy in their ‘Little Monsters’.
“Brasiiiiiiiiiil, I missed you very much!” He exclaimed in English. But the moment he led to his fans to ecstasy was shortly after interpreting ‘he wanted’, when he made a parenthesis to thank the attendees.
From a high box extended the Brazilian flag and read a message that was translated into simultaneous in which he said he felt “honest”, “Suertuda” and “proud” of acting again in the country.
“Thanks for waiting for me for more than ten years”nostalgic exclaimed. “I thank you for receiving me with open arms” and “Make History with me,” he added.
The greatest emotion, however, was lived towards the end of the concert when Gaga interpreted the most anticipated successes for his “small monsters.”
After an intimate “Shallow” – Oscar’s gain for best original song – to the piano, “Bad Romance” made the attendees vibrate.
With the concert at Copacabana Lady Gaga beach he paid a debt that had pending with Brazil for 13 years, when he visited the country with the world tour ‘The Born This Way Ball’.
How was the production of the event?
The stage was a Monumental work:
- 1,260 square meters of surface
- Waterway and latest generation LED screens
- 16 towers distributed throughout the beach to guarantee visibility
- Sceography divided into five narrative acts
Luiz Guilherme Niemeyer, one of the producers of the event, He assured that this was the biggest stage in Gaga’s careereven greater than the one he used in Coachella.
The Lady Gaga Song List in Rio de Janeiro
The Setlist combined Classic successes and new songs from your Mayhem album. Here the complete list:
- Bloody Mary
- Abracadabra
- Judas
- Scheiße
- Garden of Eden
- Poker Face
- Abracadabra (Gesaffelstein Remix)
- Perfect Celebrity
- Disease
- Paparazzi
- Alexander
- The Beast
- Killah
- Zombieboy
- Die with a smile
- How Bad do U want me
- Shadow of a man
- Born This Way
- Blade of Grass
- Shallow
- Vanish into you
- Bad Romance
With a mixture of Nostalgia, energy and connection With the public, Gaga achieved a historical show. “Tonight I want them to shine with me,” he told them.
The night when Gaga returned to the stage It was a rebirth. An epic moment that will be recorded in the collective memory of millions of people.
Lady Gaga and a historic show in Copacabana: the recitals records in Rio de Janeiro
Although Lady Gaga has written a new chapter in the history of music, she has not been able to overcome the total record held by the British and Roquero Rod Stewartwho added 3.5 million attendees To his show on the beach of Copacabana on December 31, 1994, considered the free concert with greater assistance in history by Guinness World Records.
However, pop culture specialist Sergioopina points out that “Rod Stewart concert in 1994 was a recital of New Yearsubject to interest and the agglomerations of this holiday. “” The shows of Lady Gaga and Madonna in Copacabana are typified as events strictly associated with their figures“, he explains, ensuring that The American would hold “the record to the solo show with more attendees in history”.
Lady Gaga generated more than US $ 100 million for Rio de Janeiro
“I’m going to spend public money on Lady Gaga? Yes. With Madonna I spent too. Do you know why? Because it fills all hotels, fills all the restaurants …,” said Eduardo Paes, mayor of Rio de Janeiro.
A year ago, the free show that Madonna gave the beach of Copacabana brought together 1,600,000 spectatorsaccording to official figures; and almost nine hundred thousand according to the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper. But above all, Madonna generated about sixty million dollars for the affectionate economy.
Something similar happened with Lady Gaga, who appeared in the same sand as Madonna. Flight figures to Rio de Janeiro, hotel and square occupancy offered by applications, added to gastronomic consumption, realize that the investment of hiring the Canadian artist for a free concert is safe gain.
The official estimate based on the aforementioned topics estimates that Lady Gaga will generate an economic movement of about one hundred million dollars. For this reason, the aforementioned Mayor Eduardo Paes already thinks about the future concert on the beach: that of the Irish band U2.
The only time Lady Gaga acted in Brazil was in 2012, as part of the Born This Way Ball tour. In that presentation he brought together fifty thousand spectators in the two athletes, in the west of Rio. He also walked with a strong police device through the favela in Cantagalo, in Ipanema, where he was photographed playing ball with a group of children. And the experience in the neighboring country seems to be unforgettable for Lady Gaga since the word “river” was tattooed. Five years later, her performance in Rock In Rio was confirmed but at the last minute she canceled her by severe pain caused by fibromyalgia, a condition that she has faced for years.
Brazil’s Internet users baptized the show as Gagacabana 2025 (a combination of Gaga in Copacabana). In a popular commercial area of the center, fans did not hesitate to make an hour of tail to enter the Lix store, which offers t -shirts, caps and accessories with their image. The most wanted article: a sleeveless shirt with reasons inspired by the dress made of raw meat that she wore on the 2010 MTV Awards.
“We expected to receive people, but this exceeds everything we had imagined,” manager Paulo Moreira Monteiro told AFP, who estimates that his billing increases seventy percent compared to a normal week. “Today everyone is in Rio!” The mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes, proudly said.
Source: Ambito
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