8/30/2011

Lady Gaga Live - The Monster Ball Tour at Madison Square Garden | Top POP Dance Concert Videos Online

114.19 minutes
Video Concert Live at Madison Square Garden, New York City.
The Monster Ball Tour was the second worldwide concert tour by American recording artist Lady Gaga. Staged in support of her album 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 an intended joint concert tour with rapper Kanye West was suddenly canceled. The Monster Ball Tour commenced four days after the release of The Fame Monster in November 2009.

Lady Gaga Live - The Monster Ball Tour at Madison Square Garden | Top POP Dance Concert Videos Online

Track list
01- Dance In The Dark
02 - Glitter & Grease
03 - Just Dance
04 - Beautiful, Dirty, Rich
05 - The Fame
06 - LoveGame
07 - Boys Boys Boys
08 - Money Honey
09 - Telephone
10 - Speechless
11 - You and I
12 - So Happy I Could Die
13 - Monster
14 - Teeth
15 - Alejandro
16 - Poker Face
17 - Paparazzi
18 - Bad Romance
19 - Born This Way

Revised after only a few months of performing due to Gaga's concern of the original version being constructed within a very short span of time, the original 2009 version had a stage alike a frame with forced perspectives with everything fitted within it: 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 show became human evolution with Gaga portraying her personal growth as the show progressed while elements of the cancelled tour with Kanye West still remained in some parts. From 2010 and onwards, the revamped shows had a New York theme and portrayed a story set in New York 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. Each segment featured Gaga in a new outfit singing songs related to the named segment and was followed by a video interlude.

Contemporary critics praised the show; commending Gaga's singing abilities and sense of style and fashion. They were also impressed by the pompousness and the theatricality of the show, comparing it to the tours of artists like Madonna. At the 2010 Billboard Touring Awards, Gaga won the Breakthrough Performer Award, as well as the Concert Marketing & Promotion Award, the latter being an acknowledgment of her partnership with sponsor Virgin Mobile. The tour became the highest grossing tour by a debut headlining artist and one of the highest grossing tours of all time.

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Source : Wikipedia
Lady Gaga Live - The Monster Ball Tour at Madison Square Garden | Top POP Dance Concert Videos Online

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