Gaga Shows Me Her Teeth

To start off my fantastic spring holiday my friends and I went to see Lady Gaga at the O2 Arena in London.  Although the show was absolutely fantastic, it came at a stressful and eventually much larger price.  We bought our tickets for ₤85.00 from an online company called ViaGogo - but we didn't get them in the mail so the day before we left for London we called the company so they could fix the problem (with other companies, such as Ticketmaster, if you don't get your tickets in time you simply have to call them and they will inform the venue of the problem and all is well).  However, we couldn't get ahold of them, and even though we tried the next day too, we just kept getting their automated answering service that said they were unavailable.  So, a little anxious, we made our way to London, hopeful that the people at the ticket office would be able to figure something out.  We were not so lucky.  They told us they couldn't do anything because ViaGogo isn't one of their regular clients and they couldn't do anything about it.  We asked to speak to a supervisor and, although she did everything she could, she was not able to give us the tickets; she said that since we had floor seats there was no proof that our tickets weren't used by someone else (which is total garbage because we would have had to sign for them at the post office upon arrival...but they didn't seem to care about that fact).  So our only options were to either go home broken hearted or buy new tickets.  We obviously chose the latter - how could we possibly turn around and walk away from Lady Gaga!?  We bought ₤55.00 seats in the upper bowl and sucked up our loss, hoping that we get our money back from Via-LAME-Oh.

Considering the shitty start to our evening, the tickets turned out to be fantastic.  We were in the front row, and although we were up very very high, we could see everything perfectly and didn't have to worry about people blocking our view.  She opened with Just Dance to get everyone going, and basically made us Oooh and Aaah throughout her entire show.  She played every song I could have possibly wanted to hear; her costumes were crazy-wonderful (including the videos that were played during her costumes changes - one in particular of her eating a very juicy plum which was made to look as though she was eating a human heart - I gagged a little, I must admit, but it was really cool), her dancing spot-on fabulous, and her singing absolutely astounding.  I actually didn't realize that she is as good a singer as she is.  Not to mention the fact that she can play the piano like no other (and with her stiletto shoe at that)!

Her show was incredibly entertaining.  After a couple songs she and her crew launched into a spell-binding story; after she was sucked into a tornado and swept away to a "very bad place," she was "eaten" up by a boy monster who ate her heart and her brain - her dancers surrounded her and when she emerged she was covered in fake (but very believable) blood.  She danced around in the blood for a while, and then ended up in a forest where a huge (and I mean that very literally) octopus-type-thing attacked and essentially raped her.  The whole thing was extremely entertaining, albeit a little weird (but what can you expect from Gaga)?

What was most amazing about her show was the way she would stop and speak to her audience; she is enormously thankful for her fame and lets it be known (constantly) that it is her fans who she lives for.  She told stories about how no one ever believed in her, and how now she is proud to be able to tell them to "fuck off and ask [her] for her fucking autograph." 

If it is at all possible, I left the concert loving Lady Gaga one hundred times more than I did before.  So, even if I don't get my money back for the original tickets, I would say that she is definitely worth the price.