14 DAY TRIAL // In September last year, Lady Gaga performed at the MTV Video Music Awards and shocked an entire world with her rendition of “Paparazzi,” as it included such images as her being killed by her male dancers. Now on tour in the UK, the singer recreated that number on stage the other day, putting herself on the line with angry parents who are outraged she’d do that after the Cumbria killings.
As AceShowbiz can confirm, the singer was most likely unaware of the reaction she’d generate in members of the audience when she took to the stage and allowed herself to be covered in blood and then make-believe killed. Parents and critics, though, did not appreciate the symbolism in this particular part of her choreography, and saw it only as in very bad taste and offensive given the killing spree in Cumbria and the murders in Bradford.
“Lady Gaga has come under fire for mimicking a murder scene onstage during a performance in Britain on Wednesday, June 2, as the UK comes to terms with two separate killing sprees. The ‘Poker Face’ hitmaker revisited her shocking performance from last year’s MTV Video Music Awards at a show in Manchester, England when she pretended to be brutally attacked by her male dancers, before falling to the floor covered in fake blood. […] Both incidents have left Brits reeling – and revelers at Gaga’s gig were disgusted by the pop star’s untimely antics,” the aforementioned e-zine writes.
“I’m a huge fan but was shocked like everyone else. It was sick, especially after what happened in Bradford and Cumbria. It was just over the top and gory,” Lydia Haines says for The Sun, as cited by AceShowbiz. “I’m absolutely sickened at what I saw. We know Lady Gaga is not exactly mainstream for all the family, but she crossed the line this time. It was extremely tasteless to see her pretend to be attacked in such a gory way, especially in front of kids,” another concertgoer says.
Lynn Costello, spokesperson for Britain’s Mothers Against Violence and an anti-violence campaigner, says that she, for one, would never let her children attend a Gaga concert. With all that, she adds, the singer’s most recent number shocked her because it proved that she (Gaga) and her people only care about selling tickets and don’t really care about the families and friends of the victims.