The Monster Ball Tour was the second worldwide concert tour by American singer Lady Gaga. Staged in support of her extended play "The Fame Monster" (2009) and comprising a set list of songs from that and her debut album "The Fame" (2008), the tour visited arenas and stadiums from 2009 through 2011. Described as "the first-ever pop electro opera" by Gaga, the tour was announced in October 2009 after with rapper Kanye West was suddenly canceled. The Monster Ball Tour commenced four days after the release of "The Fame Monster" in November 2009. A revision of the tour occurred after only a few months of performances, due to Gaga's concern that the original version was constructed within a very short span of time.
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The Monster Ball Tour
The Monster Ball Tour | Introduction
It was the second worldwide concert tour by Lady Gaga. It was the second worldwide concert tour by American singer Lady Gaga. The Monster Ball Tour was the second worldwide concert tour by American singer Lady Gaga. It was the second worldwide concert tour by American singer Lady Gaga.
what is the meaning of the song alejandro
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The song bids farewell to her lovers.
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whose song is it?
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Lady Gaga
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was it a single release or part of any album?
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It was part of her third EP, "The Fame Monster".
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where was it performed live?
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Yes, she performed at The Monster Ball Tour.
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did it perform well on charts?
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It debuted at number 72 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 for the issue dated April 17, 2010; debuted on the Mainstream Top 40 chart at number 35, and the Hot Digital Songs chart at number 71.
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what is this above tour you mentioned just?
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Emphasis was given on the main music and the vocals sung during the concert, while adjusting them against the screaming and the cheering of the crowd. The release was a commercial success, reaching the top of the music DVD charts in the United States, France and Italy and the top-ten in other nations. It received double Platinum certifications in Australia and France, while in the United Kingdom, it was certified Gold.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Introduction
She brought spectacle and backed it up with soul." "The Guardian" journalist Alexis Petridis reviewed the opening show of the European leg, and commented that "it takes a certain je ne sais quoi to open your show doing something that looks suspiciously like mime on a rickety metal staircase while wearing an outfit with shoulderpads the size of the deck on a small aircraft carrier."
The Monster Ball Tour | Revamped show
They reported that the tour had grossed US$116 million from 122 shows, with an audience of 1.3 million. By the end of the year, Pollstar announced that the tour had earned a total of US$133.6 million from 138 shows, making her the only woman to be placed in their list of the Top 10 Tours of 2010.
The Monster Ball Tour | Commercial reception
The special ends with another black-and-white backstage scene where Gaga and her backup singers perform "Born This Way" a capella.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Content
Upon checking under the vehicle's bonnet, Gaga revealed a keyboard and began to play the opening notes of "Just Dance". Gaga then performed "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich" while scaling various pieces of scaffolding and subsequently "The Fame" where she rose from beneath the stage and played her keytar Emma, wearing a giant red cape. "LoveGame" saw the beginning of the "Subway" section, with Gaga wearing a translucent nun's habit, and a skeletal hand. The song was performed with the aid of a gilded subway car and a "disco stick" while her next number "Boys Boys Boys" featured muscly male dancers cavorting in spandex shorts.
The Monster Ball Tour | Post-revisions
Across Europe, the DVD reached the top of the charts in France and Italy, the former region it was also certified double platinum by the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (SNEP) for shipment of 30,000 copies of the release. It reached the top-ten of the charts in other nations.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Chart performance
Gaga starts singing "Paparazzi" and eventually kills the Fame Monster by shooting sparks from her pyrotechnic bra and underwear. She then leaves for the Monster Ball and after appearing there, meanwhile fans assume the show is over, suddenly Gaga appears on stage and performs the final song, "Bad Romance" while standing inside a giant gyroscope.
The Monster Ball Tour | Post-revisions
After "LoveGame", she talks a monologue about the year "3009". And says that "The kids came out of New York and shot the paparazzi." followed by saying "It was a thousand years before when the monster first entered the city, vanished for our hearts and for our brains and for our faces (referencing to the three video interludes of the tour)" and "we knew we could co-exist with this monster with our MUSIC!!! With our art and with our fashion. My name is Lady Gaga." and tells the crowd she feels "beautiful and dirty rich" and sang "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich".
The Fame Ball Tour | Concert synopsis
The more her image gets around, the better Lady Gaga does."
The Monster Ball Tour | Original show
The 5.1 surround sound of the release utilized DTS-HD Master Audio and new technology to provide the viewer an optimum experience of watching the live concert. Emphasis was given on the main music and the vocals sung during the concert, while adjusting them against the screaming and the cheering of the crowd. The release was a commercial success, reaching the top of the DVD charts in the United States, France and Italy and the top-ten in other nations. It received double platinum certifications in Australia and France, while in the United Kingdom, it was certified gold.
The Monster Ball Tour | Broadcast and recordings
After revisions, the show was divided into four sections: "City", "Subway", "Forest", "Monster Ball" and concluded with an encore. It began with a projected video onto a curtain—which contained images of Gaga smoking a cigarette—while a club remix of "Dance in the Dark" played. Surrounded by violet light, her silhouette appeared on the curtain while she performed "Dance in the Dark". Once the curtain was removed and the chorus reached, the New York cityscape and neon lights were revealed. Gaga gyrated on the set dressed in a "futuristic, angular, glitter ball suit". After descending from her fire escape, she poked around in the hood of a dilapidated green Rolls Royce while performing "Glitter and Grease".
The Monster Ball Tour | Post-revisions
Over the course of the next many months we're trying to play to as many people in as many places as possible", Fogel added. "It's an across the board home run." Demands increased and another additional six dates were added to the announced itinerary. The Monster Ball sold-out shows in Toronto, Vancouver and San Jose who were compelled to add second dates in each city. In Los Angeles, to ensure that concert goers had the best possible access to tickets, a second performance was announced prior to the onsale of the first shows, and both Staples Center concerts were completely sold out.
The Monster Ball Tour | Commercial reception
The following set list was obtained from the concert held on August 7, 2014; at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Encore
The Monster Tour (Eminem and Rihanna) | Set list
The revamp of the tour was planned from the arena shows in the United Kingdom from February 2010. "My team thinks I'm completely psychotic. But I don't fucking care what they think. [...] Well, just to give you an idea, the stage is about four times the size of the one we're on now and conceptually, it's completely different. One thing that has been lost over the past 10-15 years, in pop music, is the idea of showbiz. And this is definitely going to bring that back", clarified Gaga. According to James Montgomery of MTV, the show recalled the film musicals "The Wizard of Oz" (1939) and "West Side Story" (1961), the science-fiction film "Metropolis" (1927), and the television mini-series "Angels in America" (2003).
The Monster Ball Tour | Revamped concept
She's a hybrid from all these other instruments." During an interview on KISS-FM with Ryan Seacrest, on his show "On Air with Ryan Seacrest", Gaga explained that the concert tour was still called Monster Ball, but it had become more of a musical and less of a concert. It had a New York theme at its core; telling a story where Gaga and her friends traveled to the Monster Ball, but got lost.
The Monster Ball Tour | Revamped concept
The Monster Ball Tour was the second worldwide concert tour by American singer Lady Gaga. Staged in support of her extended play "The Fame Monster" (2009) and comprising a set list of songs from that and her debut album "The Fame" (2008), the tour visited arenas and stadiums from 2009 through 2011. Described as "the first-ever pop electro opera" by Gaga, the tour was announced in October 2009 after with rapper Kanye West was suddenly canceled. The Monster Ball Tour commenced four days after the release of "The Fame Monster" in November 2009. A revision of the tour occurred after only a few months of performances, due to Gaga's concern that the original version was constructed within a very short span of time.
The Monster Ball Tour | Introduction
On review aggregate website Metacritic, the special holds a rating of 81 out of 100 based on four critic reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Jed Gottlieb of the "Boston Herald" wrote, "[B]etween the orgy of visuals—stripper strobes, androgynous dancers and a very loose, X-rated 'Wizard of Oz' theme—we get some great song and dance numbers: 'Poker Face', 'Paparazzi' and 'Bad Romance'. These are amazing hits, club-thumping tracks that define joy and sadness for a generation of suburban teens and the urban disenfranchised." However, he felt that the show's non-concert content was not genuine, and found the special to be similar to Madonna's 1991 documentary "".
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Release and reception
When he returned onstage, he pulled the plugs off of their instrument amplifiers and stormed offstage without performing an encore. The rest of the band left the stage afterward.
Beautiful Monsters Tour | Tour
Semon was appreciative of the show, calling it "an out-of-this-world blast and end-of-the-world blow-out that must be seen to be believed." Rick Massimo, reviewing the concert for "The Providence Journal", wrote that as a musical theater, the Monster Ball was not that exciting, but "that leaves the music, and when you lay two hours of her songs end-to-end, it's easy to see the vision, the intelligence and a serious songwriting talent at work." Jay N. Miller from "The Enterprise" was impressed with the show, saying that the music was somewhere between industrial disco and house music with a rock edge, but "always danceable".
The Monster Ball Tour | Revamped show
The performance ended with the railing taking Gaga high above the stage, where she faked her death. This was followed by "Eh, Eh (Nothing Else I Can Say)" as she descended from the top—which signified her rebirth—amidst white lights and mechanical fog. She wore a giant gyroscope around her, akin to "The Orbit" by Haus of Gaga. The last song of the show was "Bad Romance" which she performed in an '80s-inspired white power suit with exaggerated high shoulders and high-waisted pants. The show ended with a video of Gaga getting a heart-shaped tattoo on her shoulder, with the word "Dad" in the center of it.
The Monster Ball Tour | Pre-revisions
Each of them featured Gaga in new outfits, singing songs related to the concept of the segment, as they were followed by a video interlude. The tour received general critical acclaim, with critics praising Gaga's singing abilities, the theatricality of the show, and her sense of style and fashion. The Monster Ball was a commercial success, with sold-out shows and demand for tickets prompting organizers to add more dates to the itinerary. It ultimately grossed an estimated $227.4 million ($ million in dollars) from 200 reported shows and an audience of 2.5 million, becoming one of the highest-grossing tours of all time.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Background
The Monster Ball Tour was the second worldwide concert tour by Lady Gaga. Staged in support of her EP "The Fame Monster" (2009) and comprising a set list of songs from the EP and her debut album "The Fame" (2008), the tour visited arenas and stadiums from 2009 through 2011. Described as "the first-ever pop electro opera" by Gaga, the tour was announced in October 2009 after an intended with hip-hop artist Kanye West was suddenly canceled. The tour commenced four days after the release of "The Fame Monster" in November 2009. A revision of the tour occurred after only a few months of performances, due to Gaga's concern that the original version was constructed within a very short span of time.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Background
Credits adapted from "Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden" DVD booklet.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Credits and personnel
He stated that "One of the best things about this concert is despite its artifice, even its artificiality, there's absolutely no question that Lady Gaga is actually singing. What a novel idea for a live concert, and one that seemed especially refreshing after having just sat through the "" concert Blu-ray, where Brit's live voice was all but buried in the pre-records."
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Development
The singer felt that the design would allow her creative control. Since the album dealt with the paranoias faced by Gaga over the year, the main theme of the show became evolution, with Gaga portraying growth as the show progressed. The set list consisted of songs from both "The Fame" and "The Fame Monster". For the 2010 shows, Gaga felt that a revamp was needed as the original tour was constructed in a very short span of time. The new theme narrated a story where Gaga and her friends, traveling through New York, get lost while going to the Monster Ball.
The Fame Monster | The Monster Ball Tour
She started performing "LoveGame", which ended with Gaga pointing towards her groin. Flames appeared on the video screens, as she got out of her ecto-skeleton outfit. After stripping down to a silver bodysuit she performed "Alejandro", and was carried by her crotch by one of her male dancers, and later lowered onto another one of them. The section was followed by a video interlude featuring snarling dogs and brooding ravens. The performance of "Monster" began with Gaga emerging in a black feathered jacket and performing dance moves reminiscent of Michael Jackson as the backdrops featured a black bird's wings. She continued with two songs from "The Fame Monster" titled "So Happy I Could Die" and "Teeth", after which she removed the feathered dress.
The Monster Ball Tour | Pre-revisions
Each of them featured Gaga in new outfits, singing songs related to the concept of the segment, as they were followed by a video interlude. The tour received positive reviews, with critics praising Gaga's singing abilities and the theatricality of the show. The Monster Ball was a commercial success, with extra demand for tickets prompting organizers to add multiple dates to the itinerary. It ultimately grossed an estimated US$227.4 million from 200 reported shows, attended by an audience of 2.5 million. At the 2010 "Billboard" Touring Awards, Gaga won the Breakthrough Performer Award, as well as the Concert Marketing & Promotion Award.
The Monster Ball Tour | Introduction
During an interview with London's 95.8 Capital FM radio station, Gaga further elaborated on the changes in the show. She said that the show was constructed like a piece of musical theater. It also incorporated a number of contemporary and old musical pieces, some of them being re-recorded specifically for the show itself. A new keytar was constructed for the show and was named Emma. The instrument was created by the Haus of Gaga and the singer said, "We have this new instrument that I brought to the Brits tonight, 'Emma', which is what I was playing on the stage.
The Monster Ball Tour | Revamped concept
The special opens with a black-and-white introduction that sees Gaga ordering a cup of coffee from a New York convenience store before being escorted by security into a black SUV, where she reminisces about the many times she had been at the arena to watch other acts perform, and realizes that she will now be performing there herself. After being escorted backstage, she removes her makeup and cries as she discusses feeling like a "loser". She then sings the opening lines of "Marry the Night" while preparing to take the stage. Full-color footage of the concert (shot on February 21 and 22, 2011) is then seen, interspersed with black-and-white backstage footage.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Content
James Montogomery from MTV reviewed the concert at San Diego and said that "[Gaga] powered through and turned the San Diego Sports Arena into a raucous, delightfully raw discotheque." Writing for the "Las Vegas Sun", Joe Brown observed that "Lady Gaga out-Cher-ed Cher, made Cirque du Soleil and Britney's 'Circus Tour' look like county fair carnivals, and made New Year's Eve in Las Vegas anticlimactic." "Los Angeles Times" writer Ann Powers avouched that the tour was "an invigoratingly ambitious show, executed with vigor by its star and her expressive dancers." Jon Pareles from "The New York Times" said that the tour always provided "something worth a snapshot: a sci-fi tableau, perhaps, or a skimpy, glittery costume.
The Monster Ball Tour | Original show
During "Poker Face", she wore a bondage inspired black leather dress with guns hanging from it and a hat made of muzzles, and pumped her hands in the air while performing the song. This was followed by Gaga sitting on a dentist's chair and spreading her legs during "Paper Gangsta". Another video interlude followed, displaying arty poses of Gaga in gothic looks. She returned to the stage while wearing multiple donned braided extensions for "Paparazzi". Gaga was perched atop a railing and from each of her braids, a dancer was attached on the stage. A backdrop of stars were shown during the performance.
The Monster Ball Tour | Pre-revisions
In the United States, it entered "Billboard"s Top Music Video chart at the top, selling 26,000 copies of the DVD—the greatest total for a music video since Beyoncé' "I Am... World Tour" live CD/DVD sold 37,000 and 31,000 copies in its first two weeks in November and December 2010, and held this title until the release of Adele's "Live at the Royal Albert Hall". Its final appearance on the chart was for the issue dated November 30, 2013, where upon it tallied a total of 64 weeks inside the chart. "Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden" became the fourth best-selling music video of 2011 in the United States.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Chart performance
in February 2011 for another run of U.S. dates. The 2011 dates for the North American Monster Ball Tour were announced as starting from February 19 in Atlantic City, with ten arena dates confirmed through April 18. Additional shows were announced, and Semi Precious Weapons collaborated with Gaga until the tour ended. Live Nation Entertainment's global touring division, headed by chairman Arthur Fogel, held the reins as promoter/producer of the Monster Ball tour. Fogel commented on Gaga's lack of experience in a tour and said that it was an opportunity for her. "As an artist with that kind of talent and vision emerges, it creates a lot of excitement, and ticket sales worldwide demonstrate that people are really excited to see the show.
The Monster Ball Tour | Commercial reception
[...] After [the show] at the Wang Theater, fans could justifiably walk away thinking Lady Gaga is crazy, brilliant or both." Jeremy Adams from "Rolling Stone" reviewed the performance at Wang Center in Boston and said that "Throughout the evening, Gaga [..] aimed for a kind of pop theatricality that might potentially cement her burgeoning status as performance artist." Aidin Vaziri of "San Francisco Chronicle" said that "During her 90-minute performance—not so much a live concert as a meticulously choreographed spectacle—Lady Gaga also evoked Kanye West with the futuristic set, Britney Spears in her heavy-lidded stage movements, Courtney Love with her interminable between-song monologues highlighted by four-letter squelches and—who else?—Madonna for, oh, just about everything else." Jim Harrington from "San Jose Mercury News" felt that the show would have been better technically if around thirty minutes were lessened from it.
The Monster Ball Tour | Original show
From 2000 to 2018, the tour began in January and ended in March, with the World Finals in Las Vegas every year, with shows continuing into the summer and fall months. From 2019 and beyond the tour will still begin in January but will now end in May with the World Finals at a rotating venue each year, with shows continuing until the end of the year. The tours visit many major cities in the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, Central America, South Africa, and Australia. In 2015, an arena tour called "#MoreMonsterJam" debuted. This tour featured 8 drivers driving 3 different vehicles in a points series.
Monster Jam | Tours
Beginning behind a giant, green, laser lit video screen featuring scrim lights, Gaga appeared in a bulb-covered futuristic silver jeweled jumpsuit with matching eye makeup and mask and sang "Dance in the Dark" as dancers, dressed in white balaclavas and white jumpsuits, moved around her. The video screen, resembling an electric mathematical grid, was eventually lifted during the performance. After the song, Gaga strapped a portable silver jeweled keyboard to herself and began to perform "Just Dance" while emerging from the inside of a white cube on a platform. This was followed by a brief video intermission and Gaga returned onstage in an off-white costume, that resembled an alien ecto-skeleton, while the dancers wore skeletal headgear.
The Monster Ball Tour | Pre-revisions
The show is set in and around a large medieval style castle, known as the "Kingdom of Fame" which rotates and manoeuvres throughout the show. A classical score accompanies the show's interludes, tying in with the show's dark, operatic theme. The show began with "Highway Unicorn (Road to Love)" accompanied by an extended intro, which Gaga performed while atop a fully puppeteer-ed horse, with a mechanical look, built by The Jim Henson Company, out of the three-story medieval castle prop. After the song, the stage went dark and spotlights were shone across the stage with a helicopter sound being played.
Born This Way Ball | Concert synopsis
The stage of the original show looked like a frame, comparable to that of a hollowed-out television set. Since "The Fame Monster" dealt with the paranoias Gaga had faced, the main theme of the original shows became human evolution, while elements of the canceled tour with West were still included in some parts. From 2010 onward, the revamped shows had a New York theme and portrayed a story set in the city, where Gaga and her friends got lost and had to find their way to "the Monster Ball". Both versions of the show were divided into five segments, with the last being the encore.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Background
Eight-track recorders were brought to capture its shows, and used the recordings as the base elements for that album.
List of R.E.M. concert tours | Monster Tour ("Aneurysm '95 Tour")
The show was divided into five segments with the last one being the encore. Each segment featured Gaga in a new dress and was followed by a video interlude to the next one. The tour grossed an estimated US$227.4 million from 200 reported shows attended by an audience of 2.5 million, making it the highest grossing trek by a debut headlining artist. A was filmed by HBO during Gaga's February 2011 shows at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
The Fame Monster | The Monster Ball Tour
After a costume change, Gaga burst into "Money Honey" with an extended keytar solo after emerging from beneath the stage as the New York scenery disappeared around her. As she walked towards the Glitter way, Gaga recalls when she was in jail and her friend Beyoncé bailed her out, thus performing the song "Telephone". A piano is then brought in and Gaga goes into the song "Brown Eyes", after which she performs "Speechless" while the piano starts spitting fire. This segment also saw the performance of "You and I" in some of the shows; the song was later added to Gaga's second studio album, "Born This Way".
The Monster Ball Tour | Post-revisions
Gaga then started performing the song "Speechless" on piano, and continued with an acoustic version of "Poker Face". Rapper Kid Cudi joined her then to perform his song "Make Her Say" which contains a sample of "Poker Face". This segment was followed by the performance of "Fashion" and "The Fame", during which Gaga wore a gold Egyptian styled crown and matching body suit, compared to the garment of a viking. Gaga crawled atop her piano during the follow-up songs "The Fame" and "Money Honey", after which she returned to the stage, dressed in black vinyl and nearly nude in a red patent leather bikini, to perform "Boys Boys Boys", backed by a squadron of skinny and shirtless leather boys.
The Monster Ball Tour | Pre-revisions
During which, a giant silver disco ball illuminated the venue.
Golden Tour | Synopsis
The Monster Tour was the one of the highest-grossing tours of 2014 in North America, with a gross of $36 million in only six shows. A total of 581,276 people attended (including outside the stadiums). The two shows at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey grossed $12.4 million with 101, 941 people attending each concert. It was the sixth highest-grossing box office of the year in North America, only behind Billy Joel, George Strait, One Direction and Garth Brooks.
The Monster Tour (Eminem and Rihanna) | Commercial performance
HBO filmed a special of The Monster Ball Tour during Gaga's February 2011 shows at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Documenting the whole concert with intersperses of backstage footage, "", aired in May and was released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 21, 2011.
The Monster Ball Tour | Introduction
The stage of the original show looked like a frame, comparable to that of a hollowed-out television set. Since "The Fame Monster" dealt with the paranoias Gaga had faced, the main theme of the original shows became human evolution, while elements of the canceled tour with West were still included in some parts. From 2010 onwards, the revamped shows had a New York theme and portrayed a story set in the city, where Gaga and her friends got lost and had to find their way to "the Monster Ball". Both versions of the show were divided into five segments, with the last being the encore.
The Monster Ball Tour | Introduction
The contraption was designed by Nasir Mazhar in collaboration with Gaga's own creative production company, Haus of Gaga. The tour's sponsor of the American leg was Virgin Mobile USA, who introduced the "Free I.P." program which offered free show tickets to fans who volunteered their time to homeless youth organizations.
The Monster Ball Tour | Background
The original version of the tour was acclaimed by critics. Jane Stevenson from "Toronto Sun" gave the concert four out of five stars and said that Lady Gaga came across as a "confident, colourful, and campy performer. [...] Gaga's success was evident with slick-looking videos, lights, elaborate costumes, dancers, and yes, a band, even if her stage was sometimes left dark as she left to make numerous changes." T'Cha Dunlevy for "The Gazette" noted that the performance was lacking—adding that the show never reached its peak until the end, when Gaga performed the "real rendition" of "Poker Face" and "Bad Romance." "Better late than never", Dunlevy concluded.
The Monster Ball Tour | Original show
For every coat made of Kermit the Frog dolls or headdresses that covered her face in red lace, there was a stomping disco anthem or tender piano ballad to match. That back and forth is the centerpiece of her Monster Ball Tour." Dan Aquilante from the "New York Post" was critical of the show, calling it "scripted, silly, and tired, right down to Gaga's patter." He added that the 15 costumes Gaga wore during the two-hour plus gig were "more successful helping her cement the notion of an erotic and exotic otherworld." Writing in the "Telegram & Gazette", Craig S.
The Monster Ball Tour | Revamped show
Her dancers conglomerate around her near the end and Gaga reveals herself to be covered with blood. She then states that the thing she hates more than money is the truth and performs "Teeth", while introducing her band. Gaga and her friends then find the Eternal Fountain, which pours out red colored liquid and Gaga explains that it bleeds for anyone. She starts singing "Alejandro" while jumping into the fountain and singing, as blood pours over her. Gaga then returns and sings "Poker Face" on the cat-walk. After the performance, she and her friends find themselves in a dark place, and after some dialogue, Gaga's friends run off, leaving her alone to deal with the Fame Monster, a giant angler fish.
The Monster Ball Tour | Post-revisions
Gaga drives around the Monster Pit followed by choreography for the last chorus of the song. After "Bad Kids" an acoustic section follows with songs like "Hair", "Princess Die" and "You and I". The section concludes with "Electric Chapel" with a display of flashing lights before Gaga leaves the stage. After a Spanish guitar intro, she then returns in a recreation of the meat dress and performs "Americano". "Poker Face" is performed next and at the end of the song Gaga is lowered into a meat grinder. A moment later she emerges from the stage sitting on a meat couch and performs "Alejandro" with her gun bra and green trousers.
Born This Way Ball | Concert synopsis
In Australia, the DVD debuted at number two on the ARIA DVD Chart. The next week, it remained in the same position, while being certified platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for shipment of 15,000 copies of the DVD. "Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden" was certified double platinum in January 2012, denoting shipments of 30,000 copies. It was the fifth and eleventh best selling DVD of 2011 and 2012 in Australia, respectively. The DVD charted on the UK Music Video chart at number four, for the issue dated December 3, 2011. It was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for selling more than 25,000 copies.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Chart performance
Initially, rapper Kanye West and Lady Gaga had plans to launch a joint tour in October 2009, known as . Amid negative response to his controversial outbursts at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, West declared that he would take a hiatus from his music career. Nevertheless, the complete schedule for Fame Kills was released, with the tour set to begin on November 10, 2009, in Phoenix, Arizona. Shortly afterwards, the tour was officially cancelled without any explanation. Gaga addressed the situation at "Billboard"s annual Women in Music luncheon, where she cited creative differences as the reason for the tour's cancellation.
The Monster Ball Tour | Background
The following list is a list of songs covered at the tour, not in any order.
Super Show | Songs
"You also have the crowd, the house going nuts and all the reverberations at Madison Square Garden, so it was really difficult for me to figure out globally how real, how dry, how punchy can we get this thing to sound", he added. Initially Riordan had featured more of the live instrumentation and mixed the songs a number of times, however felt that they needed a dry reverb hence he pondered on the mix along with co-producer coming to a consensus regarding the sound. According to Riordan, the mixing process was approved by Gaga who watched the cuts while travelling on the tour however, she did not ask Riordan to change anything, unlike previous projects the engineer had undertaken.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Development
Thus, the tour is officially known as the Monster Energy Outbreak Tour presents: Iggy Azalea—The New Classic Tour.
The New Classic Tour | Background
The five nominations were among the 104 HBO received for 2011; it made up over one-fifth of the total nominations. The special also received a nomination at the 2012 Dorian Awards in the category of "TV Musical Program of the Year".
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Release and reception
Aedan Helmer from "Jam!" magazine said that "At first blush, it might seem the real driving force behind Gaga's meteoric rise to fame is her hand-picked cadre of costume and set designers—dubbed "Haus of Gaga"—who seemingly know no bounds when it comes to pushing the envelope of haute couture and the theatre of the absurd. [...] But what really sets Gaga apart from the middling masses of lip-synching Britney clones and Idol wannabes is her pure, unadulterated musical talent. [...] The Lady can sing." Theatre critic Kelly Nestruck, while writing for "The Guardian", said "While The Monster Ball has nothing on the great operas or the golden age of musical theatre, Lady Gaga's 'electro-pop opera' is at least twice as entertaining and infinitely fresher than any stage musical written over the last decade." Lauren Carter from "Boston Herald" praised the show saying "[Gaga] only has two albums under her belt but who cares? Every song feels like a hit, and Gaga-as-star is already taking on Madonna-like proportions.
The Monster Ball Tour | Original show
Gaga had initially planned to accompany rapper Kanye West on concert tour . After his controversy at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards with Taylor Swift, West announced that he was taking a break from music. All the Fame Kills tour dates were immediately cancelled and Gaga confirmed that she was going on tour alone to promote "The Fame Monster". Described by Gaga as "the first-ever pop electro opera", The Monster Ball Tour started from November 2009 and finished in May 2011. Gaga and her production team initially developed a stage that looked like a frame with the show fitted within it.
The Fame Monster | The Monster Ball Tour
Katie Foglia ("Pittsburgh Post-Gazette") called the show at the First Niagara Pavilion overwhelming. She explained, "After the sun faded, an introductory video hit the screens. The energy was palpable. although marketed as co-headliners, it became clear that the Goo Goo Dolls just started the show—and Matchbox Twenty ended it".
2013 Summer Tour | Critical reception
During this song, she tells the audience about her life as a teen in New York, and how she became who she is today. Gaga and her friends then continue down the Glitter Way, and soon they run into an angel, who plays a tune that summons a twister, taking them closer to the Monster Ball, but landing them in a strange place that they did not know. Gaga sings "So Happy I Could Die", decked in a white dress, that moves on its own accord. The third segment begins with Gaga returning on the stage and singing "Monster", inside a forest with black, thorn-like trees.
The Monster Ball Tour | Post-revisions
At the 2010 "Billboard" Touring Awards, Gaga won the Breakthrough Performer Award, as well as the Concert Marketing and Promotion Award, the latter being an acknowledgment of her partnership with sponsor Virgin Mobile.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Background
They played in Japan for the first time since 2006 in October 2013. The new stage show, first used in the European leg, involved a giant robotic spider that moved across the stage and all four members were lifted into the air. The spider shot pyro from its legs and had eyes that glowed. In the tour program for the band's final tour, Simmons reflected on the tour:
Monster World Tour (Kiss) | Introduction
HBO filmed a special of The Monster Ball Tour during Gaga's February 21–22, 2011 shows at Madison Square Garden. The special, titled "Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden", aired on HBO on May 7, 2011 and Sky1 on May 21, 2011 in the United States and the United Kingdom respectively. Prime showed the special in New Zealand on June 2, 2011. The special showed the whole of the Monster Ball Tour, and some backstage footage, which was shown in black-and-white. It ended with another black-and-white backstage scene where Gaga and her backup singers perform "Born This Way" a capella.
The Monster Ball Tour | Broadcast and recordings
"Billboard" estimated that by the time the tour wraps up in 2011, it would have grossed close to US$200 million worldwide. The ticket money from the final performance at Radio City was donated for the Haiti earthquake relief. Gaga announced on the rescheduled show at Elliott Hall of Music on January 26, 2010, that about US$500,000 was collected for the relief. At the 2010 "Billboard" Touring Awards, Gaga won the Breakthrough Performer Award, as well as the Concert Marketing & Promotion Award, the latter being an acknowledgement of her partnership with Virgin Mobile. "Billboard" also placed The Monster Ball Tour at position four on their Year-end Top 25 Tours of 2010.
The Monster Ball Tour | Commercial reception
Riordan remembered that the main difficulty was trying to preserve the "craziness" of the audience and Gaga's fans, and their screaming during the concert, nevertheless make the music of the show primary. His team used Lossy which did not use compression, instead one-to-one audio mixing giving the whole sound system "much more of an impactful experience". Riordan decided to engineer the concert sound as "center-channeled" since Gaga did not use backing audio, resulting in the listener getting the whole impact of her vocals, when listened with a headphone. Other difficulty faced by team included converting the heavy production of Gaga's songs to a live format and utilizing the singer's bands.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Development
"Billboard" listed it as the ninth best concert tour of the year with 76 reported shows.
ArtRave: The Artpop Ball | Boxscore
At the end of the main set, before the first encore, the giant lemon moved to the middle of the stage. There a sheet fell off exposing a huge disco ball that lit up the stadium in spinning lights while the Perfecto Mix of "Lemon" played over the PA. The band then would walk out of the giant lemon onto the B stage to perform "Discothèque". The rest of the first encore typically consisted of "If You Wear That Velvet Dress" and "With or Without You". After another brief break, the band would return to perform "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me", their single from 1995 for the "Batman Forever" soundtrack, followed by "Mysterious Ways".
PopMart Tour | Encores
"Sexy! No No No..."'s intro has been taken straight from the Tangled Up [Tour] opening, while the group's "Love Machine" breakdown is a carbon copy of their Out of Control [Tour] number, even down to the choreography. After three years of waiting, we can’t help but feeling a tad disappointed with what will no doubt prove to be the girls’ last ever concert together."
Ten: The Hits Tour | Critical reception
The following songs were performed on all dates, G-Eazy joined her for Me, Myself & I and F.F.F. in Santa Ana. The Monster was also performed on a few North American dates.
All Your Fault Tour | Set list
It went on to appreciate Gaga's vocals and the fact that she did not lip-synch, as well as the hurried costume changes, while commending the "raw" nature of the show. Paul Schrodt of Slant Magazine was more critical in his review, though he gave it a 2.5 star (out of 4) rating. While he positively called Gaga's performances outrageous and "occasionally fierce", he questioned Gaga's authenticity, both on stage and in the pre-concert scenes. Ultimately, he wrote, "Unsurprisingly, HBO's "Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden" raises more questions about Stefani Germanotta (Gaga's birth name) than it answers, which is probably as it should be." Radio host Howard Stern also compared the black-and-white scenes of the special to "Madonna: Truth or Dare", adding that when he darts a glance at Lady Gaga, she is occasionally registered in his brain as Madonna.
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Release and reception
[...] It's going to be a truly artistic experience that is going to take the form of the greatest post-apocalyptic house party that you've ever been to." Although Gaga stated that she was inspired by the things she and West were doing with the Fame Kills tour, she concluded that she did not want to use any of the things that they had designed together. Later, she said that Fame Kills was "the great lost tour", but confirmed that some of the elements of it were incorporated into The Monster Ball. In an interview with MTV News, Gaga further described the tour:
The Monster Ball Tour | Original concept
Adrien Begrand of PopMatters noted that this tour lacked the pyrotechnics that were used in their previous tour, the Here and Now Tour, and felt as if this tour would cater more to the mainstream country audience instead of the hard rock audience. The only production used in the show were a video screen, simple stage, restrained lighting and a set list filled with mostly ballads and covers. Begrand also felt like the covers were a cheap attempt to receive applause more than they would with their own songs. He did give praise to the performances of "Animals" and "She Keeps Me Up".
No Fixed Address Tour | Critical reception
In an interview she stated, "[Kanye] is going to take a break, but the good news is, I am not." After assuring the public that she would be embarking on her own tour, Gaga officially announced The Monster Ball Tour on October 15, 2009. It was originally planned to debut in London in early 2010, but ended up kicking off on November 27, 2009, in Montreal. Rapper Kid Cudi and singer Jason Derülo were confirmed as the supporting acts for the tour, with Cudi supporting Gaga from the beginning of the tour, and Derülo joining from December 28, 2009. The official poster for the tour featured Gaga in Versace 676 sunglasses and wearing a gyroscope around her called "The Orbit", which she first wore on the October 3, 2009, episode of "Saturday Night Live".
The Monster Ball Tour | Background
After refusing to tour in support of their two previous releases, "Out of Time" and "Automatic for the People", the band agreed to tour in support of "Monster". The tour was critically and commercially successful, though a handful of shows were either cancelled or postponed due to health problems associated with the band members. The concert video "Road Movie" is a compilation of footage taken from the final three nights of the tour, in Atlanta. "New Adventures in Hi-Fi", the band's tenth studio album, was released in 1996 without a supporting tour, though a handful of material was performed during this tour, either during soundcheck or the actual show.
List of R.E.M. concert tours | Monster Tour ("Aneurysm '95 Tour")
In December 2009, Gaga revealed that she planned to cancel the concept of the original shows of The Monster Ball Tour and start afresh. She felt that the revamp of the show was needed as the original tour was constructed in a very short span of time. Gaga recalled that after West and she split up for this tour, she was unsure if she could get a show together in time, but nevertheless wanted to promote "The Fame Monster". Hence she was able to put together "something that, in truth, I never would have done if I had a longer amount of time".
The Monster Ball Tour | Revamped concept
In the final chorus of the song Gaga returns and kills the monster with the sparks from the bra. The song was part of the setlist of Gaga's 2012–2013 tour, the Born This Way Ball. Gaga was notably absent from stage for the first two minutes of the song, and "Mother G.O.A.T.", a floating mechanical head performed it instead of her. Gaga then emerged on stage, and concluded the song while shooting the head, making it to cry blood. During the tour (2014), Gaga performed "Paparazzi" dressed up in a polka-dotted rubber outfit with tentacles growing out around her waist and her head.
Paparazzi (Lady Gaga song) | Live performances
It will be fun." During their performance later in the evening, Manson suffered a hairline fracture on one of his ankles while jumping between on-stage platforms. His injury caused the tour to be temporarily suspended.
Beautiful Monsters Tour | Hole's departure
The show consisted of four segments, with each segment being followed by a video interlude to the next segment, and it ended with an encore. The set list consisted of songs from her debut album only. Gaga appeared on the stage in new costumes including an innovative dress made entirely of bubbles and premiered an unreleased song called "Future Love". An alternate set list with minor changes were performed after the first North American leg of the tour. The show has received critical acclaim with critics complimenting her vocal clarity and fashion sense as well as her ability to pull off theatrics like a professional artist.
The Fame Ball Tour | Introduction
"The A.V. Club"s Genevieve Koski gave the special a B+ rating, claiming that Gaga "proves that she is a "performer"" and that "she puts on a "show"", though she felt that the concert was overly emotional and artistically ambitious, and that Gaga's on-stage banter was slightly annoying. Koski also compared the special to the Madonna documentary. Linda Stassi from "New York Post" was also positive in her assessment of the concert special. She complimented the behind the scenes footage, the costumes and the dancing and the pyrotechnics of the show, describing it as "a concert that would make Madonna's shows look like run-of-the-mill dinner theater." A review in website Idolator described Gaga as "ringleader of her own circus — in complete control of her little monsters".
Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden | Release and reception
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Headbangers Ball Tour | Personnel
The show ends with large balloons and confetti falling from the ceiling.
That Bass Tour | Synopsis
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Monsters of Rock Tour 1988 | Setlists
As shown in the first legs of the tour, the first four songs are always the same. The concert begins with footage of Brooks' silhouette while singing the opening lines to the first song ("Man Against Machine" in the earlier shows, later replaced with "Baby, Let's Lay Down and Dance"). He then appears via elevator through the floor of the stage, pauses, and . The bridge and final chorus are omitted and it transitions to "Rodeo", followed by "Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House", and "The Beaches of Cheyenne". Next, depending on the venue, other songs such as "The River", "Two Pina Coladas", "Papa Loved Mama", and "Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)".
The Garth Brooks World Tour (2014–17) | Main set
Throughout the gig, he will run directly into the crowd, shove any and all fans in his way..."" wrote themusicslut.com of the band's performance in New York in March 2007 Critics of the band's live sets were often quick to point out that single "Monster" was best received by audiences at live shows
Not Accepted Anywhere album tour | Reception
This also resulted in three dates of the group's tour being rescheduled.
Above the Noise | Singles
The tour's closing dates in South and Central America included shows in much larger venues, such as the Monsters of Rock festival in São Paulo. During the concert at Teatro Monumental in Santiago, Chile on August 29, 1996, an audience member spat at Blaze Bayley multiple times. First towards the end of the opening song "Man on the Edge" and then again in the middle of "The Trooper" at the end of the concert. This caused Bayley to fly into a verbal rage while Steve Harris and Janick Gers made threatening gestures. The band did however finish the concert as planned.
The X Factour | Introduction
Manson's performance, by contrast, utilized expensive pyrotechnics, elaborate props and set pieces as well as numerous costume changes. Much to Love's chagrin, the majority of concertgoers were Manson fans who were less interested in the Hole performance. The tour commenced, as scheduled, on February 28, 1999 at the Spokane Arena in Spokane, Washington. MTV reported that the inaugural show only sold 8,500 tickets, less than half of the arena's 18,000-person capacity. Monster Magnet's opening slot lasted 45 minutes and, as noted by MTV, displayed "the same energy that made them a hit on Rob Zombie's last US tour". During Hole's performance, Love joked with the audience between songs.
Beautiful Monsters Tour | Tour
The tour additionally received positive response from reviewers, but some criticized it for being disjointed. On November 24, 2014, the concert was streamed live from Bercy Arena in France.
ArtRave: The Artpop Ball | Introduction
The following songs were performed during the concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City. It does not represent all songs performed on tour.
Top of the World Tour | Set list
Bret and Jemaine play a fragment of "Rock the Party" at the gig in the hotel lounge. In the park at the end of the episode, when Murray is on the phone, we can see the boys on stage in the background playing the intro music for "Robots".
What Goes on Tour | Other songs
This set list is representative of the first show in Los Angeles. It does not represent all dates throughout the tour.
Born This Way Ball | Set list
The Beautiful Monsters Tour was a North American concert tour co-headlined by American rock bands Hole and Marilyn Manson. Launched in support of each band's respective third full-length studio LPs, 1998's "Celebrity Skin" and "Mechanical Animals", the tour was planned to run from February 28, 1999 until April 27, with 37 shows confirmed. However, due to a highly publicized altercation between the bands' respective lead vocalists, the tour only visited arenas until March 14, for a total of 9 shows before Hole withdrew from the bill. The tour garnered a large amount of media attention and was billed by MTV as a "potentially volatile mix" due to the public feud between each band's outspoken vocalist.
Beautiful Monsters Tour | Introduction
This is going to be, like, the ultimate creative orgasm for me 'cause I'm ready to move on. I'm not restricted to a certain structure for my show anymore. No limitations. I'm free. [...] I want to have a clear schedule of the dimensions for each venue so that we can properly execute all the technology and visuals. I need to mentally prepare days in advance if things are going to be taken out; otherwise, I won't have a good show...Every show's gonna be an A show by the time I'm done screaming at everyone – 'Hang it! Hang everything! Find a place to hang it!' That's gonna be my motto." The set list consisted of songs from her debut album mainly, but some new songs like "Fashion" from the "Confessions of a Shopaholic" soundtrack were also considered.
The Fame Ball Tour | Background
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Monster Jam Path of Destruction Tour | 2016 Tour
She is also fused into a keytar, standing near her dancers in front of a medieval castle. The first and second legs for the Born This Way Ball were announced the following day, revealing that Gaga would perform concerts in countries such as South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Additional dates as part of the Australasia leg were added on February 15, 2012. Live Nation Global Touring CEO Arthur Fogel and his team will steer around the tour, as they did the bulk of the Monster Ball tour of 2010–11. Fogel explained that "The last tour established [Gaga] as a major act worldwide and I believe this tour will be an extension of that, particularly considering we're going to territories she's never been in, like Southeast Asia and Latin America." A European leg was announced in March 2012, which consisted of twenty-one dates over a period of two months, initiating in Bulgaria while concluding in Spain.
Born This Way Ball | Background and development
"So no matter where I go, my fans get the same experience. So often you go into theaters and there's ambient light flying in from all sorts of places, and the audience is in different spots, and the stage is in different shapes and lengths and widths and depths, so this is a way for me to control all the light and all of the different elements of the show", she added. The show revolved around themes of evolution, as well as her paranoias represented on "The Fame Monster". While developing the tour Gaga spoke about original sin and demons inside human beings; "So we talked about growth, and that led us into this kind of scientific space, and we started talking about evolution and the evolution of humanity and how we begin as one thing, and we become another." This theme of monsters and evolution played a part in the fashion for the tour, which according to Gaga was "another level from where we were with the Fame Ball.
The Monster Ball Tour | Original concept
On April 4, the band posted another studio video, this time with Lenzo discussing his bass parts. Between April 11 and May 12, the band went on the Spring Fever Tour supporting All Time Low and Pierce the Veil. On June 27, it was announced that recording had finished. On July 11, the band released a third studio update. A week later, the band posted a fourth studio update video.
Monsters in the Closet (Mayday Parade album) | Background and production
The Monster Tour was a co-headlining concert tour by American rapper Eminem and Barbadian singer Rihanna. The tour began on August 7, 2014 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena and concluded on August 23, 2014 at the Comerica Park in Detroit.
The Monster Tour (Eminem and Rihanna) | Introduction
Thomas fell to fifth overall, as 's Ben Hermans and Jon Izagirre of moved into third and fourth respectively.
2013 Tour Down Under | Stage 5