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Considering her penchant for changing the game faster than you can say “meat dress,” one has to assume that Lady Gaga will be completely reinventing her stage show when she heads back out on the road to promote her upcoming album Born This Way.
Just in case, though, anybody wantimg to relive the magic of Gaga’s Monster Ball tour can tune into HBO on May 7.
Lady Gaga Presents The Monster Ball Tour: At Madison Square Garden was recorded at the venerable arena in her hometown, and not only captures the spectacle of the tour—with its army of dancers, massive stockpile of pyro and at least one giant anglerfish—but also some exclusive behind-the-scenes moments, like this teary backstage breakdown, below:
Not to belabor the point, but the preview, with its black and white film and the mid-styling confessional, borrows an awful lot from Truth or Dare, the groundbreaking documentary that captured Madonna on her 1990 Blond Ambition tour.
It’s not going to get Gaga away from those pesky comparisons, but if her HBO outing is anywhere near as good as Truth or Dare (which holds up remarkably well, even after 20 years; seriously, Netflix it), then Monster Ball may very well be essential viewing.
Ugh.
Concert footage in black and white is HARDLY “copying”. There are so many, many musicians and bands that have done that before, not just Madonna.
Right, and it isn’t like Gaga made this film. HBO produced it, it is their project.
She copies Madonna- Truth or Dare!
How lame & unoriginal!
..and the Oscar goes to…..?
….a stunt and a rip off [of] Madonna, Kylie, Britney, Grace Jones idolatry to shore up her talentless, mundane and boring performances !
Jeeze.. for crying out loud, CaCa! It is just a pop concert not a high art!
Zzzzzz
Excuse me but didn’t black and white concert footage exist BEFORE Madonna was even born???? Oh yeah, it did because we didn’t use to have color tv. People get a life. Just because GAGA breathes in it does not mean she is copy cating anyone and to mention Britney who has no talent other than copying people or else paying talented people and copying their choreography is just stupid.
Honestly, I hate Lady Gaga !
you are so right so man other concerts did their footage in black and white also. smfh people are always comparing like stop it gosh
Good grief.. stop appeasing her pretension. She is a manufactured pop artist who can sell anything with the help of her own marketing people. Suck big time…Judas or Born This Way sucks. And it’s not even original it’s just a recycle of Bad Romance. Is it catchy? Not really. It’s really not that worth because Bad Romance and Poker Face were catchy.
How many times is she going to release the same hype and pretend it’s new?
Gaga, please.. make music from your heart not your bank account!
Gaga- a tiresome copycat!
THE GRAMMY SHOULD DROP HER TOTALLY!
FREE USA & MUSIC INDUSTRY FROM PLAGIARISM! AMEN!
bad acting deserves razzies awards
Simple…I have already BOYCOTTED her!
Join us.. MAY- LADY GAGA BOYCOTT MONTH !!!
Join us.. MAY- LADY GAGA BOYCOTT MONTH !!!
Join us.. MAY- LADY GAGA BOYCOTT MONTH !!!
Join us.. MAY- LADY GAGA BOYCOTT MONTH !!!
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LoSer!
This song sucks. Its a flop and we all know it. The lyrics are elementary!
Tears of a clown who tries to gain sympathy because Judas flops !
Next?!
Agree!
Even Rihanna is more original than her. Just hype no substance!
*Gaga does celebrity crying strategy for the sympathy ratings*
Her music is getting insipid and horrible..year by year. Time to take a break!
no sympathy from me for sure.
one word- FUGLY!
Judas is a done-deal. Time for 3rd single!
this preview makes me wanna poke her face even harder.
Doesn’t she remember how hard she worked to get into this industry?? And now she’s on top and she’s whining about it? Oh it’s so hard to have to take criticism… well she needs to get over it, because she’s putting herself out there and not everyone is going to like her and not everything she does is golden.
SHE IS A FLAKE !!!
overrated walking clown!
When she is going to copy ‘Sex’ book?
Keep crying Gaga, someday you’ll produce something intelligent.
Why did he cry ?! 8)
Self-proclaimed musician with a name sounds like CaCa.
Who wants to take YOU seriously? I dont!
I wonder if she fakes her orgasm, too? LOL
BAM!
too funny about her orgasm! LOL
Madonna comparisons have grown stale. Lady Gaga should not far either – Madonna did it before she was born.
FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP FLOP AND JUDAS IS BORING!!!!!
Lady CaCa does Madonna again.
I wonder if she’ll mention her inspiration – Whitney Houston???
That was the truth though. She promised herself when she was young that if she ever won a Grammy she would thank Whitney.
If she is doing Madonna, she’s doing it a lot better — she’s actually singing live (and it sounds great btw, I was there) and plays piano. Madonna did none of that.
Madonna sings live and plays guitar. What was your point again?
Being more technically talented =/= overall better artist.
@Mike
You can barely count 3 guitar chords and Madonna’s processed vocals and backtracks as a “live spectacle”
Sorry but Gaga’s Monster Ball is way more entertaining than anything Madonna could conjure up live.
Oh puhleeze, Gaga the clown took tumbles so many time in her shows! She is an amateur performer!
Hype and lies! Gaga’s status is just a tiny little achievement of Madonna’s Like A Virgin era !
she is a clown who pretends to be a musician. she belongs to Cirque de Vegas!
prefer Madonna 100x better
Madonna said……”(YAWN), did I do this a few years ago!”
And then she calls the Madonna comparisons “completely ridiculous”. It’s obvious she is copying her Madgesty.
Her Madgesty would have to actually compose, produce & write all of her material (she didn’t) before she could be copied by someone that DOES compose, produce, & writes all her own stuff.
Bran..I think it’s fair to say that Madonna was (and is) as involved in what she releases as GaGa. Do some research. Ack.
Lady Gaga- the biggest copycat artist of the 21st Century!
Now I begin to like Madonna!
Where is the proof reader of this articles…Ugh!
QUEEN OF COPYCAT OUGH!
The only things Madonna and Gaga have in common is that they both got started in NYC and both are American of Italian descent. STFU haters!
I saw the concert live and I will be watching again on HBO. I enjoy Gaga a lot more than I ever enjoyed Madonna.
You must be insane.
I want my money back !!!!!
hi lady gaga my name is germaine bernard you are my qeen you are great you very good @ what you do dont ever thank you are a loser you are lady gaga the great
I love this movie. Like the part where she gets banned in Canada or when Warren Beatty visits her backstage or when she hangs out in bed with her dancers.
Next she’ll be remaking Body of Evidence.
i love madonna i love lady gaga to they are bouth great
So now Madonna invented black and white? Give me a break.
Exactly! This comparing is getting stupid, not just for Gaga but for some other artists too.
She copies the concept..!
Um Truth or Dare anyone? I guess she can trick all of the 12 year olds who have not seen a lot of Madonna’s earlier work but there’s plenty of us who are just losing respect from someone we thought at the beginning of her career she might be an original. Madonna did it first and did it better. Go back to being who you were at the beginning. This is getting embarrassing.
mm im actually 16 years old. and i didnt even really know madonna’s work. till lady gaga came around. so you better thank gaga because in one way or another she is introducing us, the new generation to madonna.
trust me i have been going back and looking at madonna’s earlier work too because of it and also realizing Madonna’s true brilliance. Just think Gaga should own up to it more. These concert promos are just too much, such a blatant rip off.
I personally know plenty of teens (myself included) who knew well enough about Madonna before Gaga ever came along. I grew up always hearing about her, and I wasn’t really raised on her. Radio stations to this day still play Madonna’s old stuff often enough for her to not be forgotten about. So don’t give GaGa THAT much credit, not everyone in your age group is only aware of artists that are of this generation. Not to mention that pop stars before Gaga (Britney, Christina) frequently cited Madonna as an inspiration, so to make it seem as if Gaga brought attention to her existence for the first time is beyond ridiculous.
I was 12 less than 3 weeks ago jeff………and i still was able to immediatly recognize madonnas name plastered everywhere about gagme. Not all of the 12 uyear olds are completly ignorant
. Dont feel bad. Im still learning how stup!d my generation is.
BREAKING NEWS: LADY GAGA IS NOW STUDYING KABBALAH. I feel like that headline is around the corner. This is getting ridiculous GADONNA. Wish she was the orginal i thought she might be when she first came out and sorry everyone the first two singles off this new cd are horrible. She should of taken a break after Bad Romance because that song was fantastic.
Can someone make this white trash go away?!
Italian trash..sucas! LOL