April 27, 2012

Born This Way Ball Opening Night

Last night in Korea, Stefani kicked off of her worldwide tour.   I'll start off with the usual pandering and prattle that is the Monster Ball 2.0, complete with psychotic screaming and all.  See if you can manage watching the whole thing.  That is if you don't start cringing within the first 5 seconds.


           

If you attend the show, I'll guarantee you'll hear a similar speech with a different city named.  Ex: rah rah Roma, Roma, rah rah Singapore, rah rah Bangkok, rah rah Paris and so on and so on and so on.

Watch how she runs screaming her name like a mental patient escaping from the lobotomy ward at Danvers Insane Asulym.


             

Here we have Alejandro. Suffice it to say that it's nothing performance and it's hard not to think of Madonna's Like a Virgin number from the Blond Ambition Tour.   All that's missing are the cone bras on the men.  And, the girl cannot dance for the life of her.  Point that gun cone bra to her head and she still won't find the rhythm.

          

           
More bad dancing.


           

And finally, here's Just Dance.  Gaga chose not too.



                

Luckily she had her dancers. They pretty much carried the show for her.  Although during Just Dance, it reminded me of The 20 Minute Workout from the 80's.

                                      

According to some, the Monster Pit looked a little empty.

























Here's Stefani's inspiration for her set design.