A pop opera in front of a great delusional crowd in the iconic Copacabana beach: Lady Gaga turned on to Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, during a mega free concert for her return in Brazil since 2012.
“Brazil, I missed you a lot,” shouted the American pop star before singing one of his greatest successes, Poker’s face, on a monumental chess board, one of the great decorations of this two -hour show.
The 39 -year -old singer entered the scene twenty minutes late in time, caught two meters high on the endless train of a scarlet dress that, when opened, revealed a vertical cage in which his dancers were hidden, because Bloody Mary.
She then chained with Abracadabraone of the emblematic titles of his latest album, Violencereleased last March. In the middle of the song, he removed the red dress, revealing another one that took below in the colors of Brazil: green, blue and yellow.
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Throughout the week, the “Little Monsters”.
The City Council said in X that 2.1 million people attended the concert in Copacabana, more than 1.6 million for Madonna’s in the same place a year ago, even if these figures were disputed by certain specialists who considered them exaggerated.
The municipal authorities, which also expect economic benefits of more than $ 100 million, wish to perpetuate this tradition of mega free concert in May, to stimulate tourism for a period considered of low season.
Mayor Eduardo Paes has already suggested that he intended to bring the Irish Rock Group U2, without specifying a date. For the Lady Gaga concert on Saturday, an impressive security device was deployed, with more than 5,000 agents, drones and video surveillance cameras with facial recognition.
“We write the story tonight”
The interpreter of bad Romance He was supposed to be one of the main mains of the Rock Festival in Rio in 2017, but he had been forced to cancel at the last minute for health reasons, which he did not stop remembering on Saturday.
“You waited for me, you had to ask yourself why it took me so long to return, but I was healing, recovering the strength (…) Now, I’m ready and I’m going to give everything for you,” he said, he moved to tears, during a speech in the middle of the concert. “We wrote the story tonight,” he said.
And before Born in this wayThe pop diva wanted to greet in particular “the LGBTQ community of Brazil”, in which it has a large number of fans. This title is the favorite of Alan Jones, who came from the state of Santa Catarina (South), inspiring a drawing that was tattooed in the left arm.
“It’s thanks to this song that I started to accept myself as I am,” says this hairdresser who will celebrate his 30th anniversary next week.
“The last time I came here, we were friends, but now we are from the same family,” said Lady Gaga, sitting the piano before singing at the end of the concert ShallowTHE BALADA OF THE FILM A star is bornin which he was playing with Bradley Cooper.
And after retirement, fans continued to sing for long minutes in Cappella the chorus of “Bad Romance”.
Source: BFM TV
