14 DAY TRIAL // The much expected and heavily mediated Royal Variety Performance finally took place at the Opera House in Blackpool. Among the many entertainers featured on the bill this year was also Lady Gaga, the eccentric American singer and performer known for her off the wall style of dress and ideas for live shows. Not only did Gaga manage to tone down her extraordinary style, but also her performance, The Telegraph says.
Dressed in an enormous PVC red dress cut in Elizabethan style, including the trail and high collar, and with matching red sparkly makeup, Gaga was the very image of propriety as she curtsied the Queen of England, who seemed equally pleased as she was amused. The performance too was mellow in comparison to the “antics” Gaga usually does on stage, with the singer choosing her most recent ballad, “Speechless,” for the occasion.
“Controversial pop star Lady Gaga put in a relatively conservative performance, perhaps toning down her outrageous style for the Queen. Wearing a red PVC outfit, featuring a 20ft long cloak and Elizabethan-style collar, she played a ‘floating’ piano, which was suspended in the air on giant stilts. ‘Good evening Blackpool. Let me hear you rattle your jewelry,’ she said. ‘My father is here tonight and I wrote this song for him, it’s called “Speechless”.’ Lady Gaga remained tight-lipped on her conversation with the Queen. ‘That is private,’ she said,” The Telegraph writes.
As we also reported on a previous occasion, one of the biggest fears of the organizers of the Royal Variety Performance, an A-list charitable event if there ever was one, was that Gaga would go for the shock factor with her performance, as she usually does when performing live. Reports in the British media even said that she was thinking of doing a repeat of her bloody performance at the 2009 VMAs, when she simulated suicide at the end of her hit song “Paparazzi.”
Another point of concern was that she would appear too scantily dressed in front of the Queen, even though Gaga herself said in one of her past interviews that she would know how to dress for the occasion. “I’m sure it’ll be some latex fashion venture. She called me for a reason. She wants a good Gaga show! I am ready for the Queen. [Even though] I have enough queens every night for a lifetime! [I have] a good curtsy. I’m a lady, remember?” Gaga was saying not long ago.