14 DAY TRIAL // If Lady Gaga’s performance at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards is any indication of the kind of things she’ll do on stage to deliver her message, fans who have bought tickets for the upcoming The Monster Ball tour are certainly in for a wonderful ride. However, if more confirmation that the tour will be massive is required, Lady Gaga more than offers it in a recent interview with Rolling Stone magazine.
The “Poker Face” star says that, just like her latest album, the re-packaged “The Fame: Monster,” the tour will also be meant to shock and amaze, a delight for the senses for all fans. It’s an ambitious project, especially if one takes into consideration the fact that it’s been put up in somewhat of a rush, after Kanye West dropped out of the joint tour Fame Kills. Another aspect worthy of being mentioned here is that this show was also moved from early 2010 to November 27, just days after the aforementioned album drops.
However, Gaga and the creative minds behind her Haus of Gaga joined forces to make it happen. Rehearsals begin next week and, with most details already taken care of, Gaga is ready to offer the first particulars on the much-hyped tour. It won’t disappoint, she says, because she’s thought of it as the ultimate experience for which, even better, fans won’t have to pay an arm and a leg. “I wanted to really put together a show that would be the most beautiful, expensive-looking, delicious show, but that my fans wouldn’t have to pay a ton of money to come see. So we’re playing a few nights in a row. I’ve got super loyal fans, so I feel this tremendous obligation to take care of them.” Gaga tells RS.
What speaks even more to the singer’s credit is her decision of not using any of the elements she and Kanye thought of using when they were still ironing out the details for the now-canceled Fame Kills tour. When she was told that the rapper would no longer go on the road with her, Gaga did not become disheartened, assuming she would ever back down in the face of such a challenge. Instead, she got to work and, this way, came up with the idea for The Monster Ball, a tour she likes to think of as an “electro-pop opera.”
“Yeah. It’s the first ever, so it’s really whatever I want it to be. The theatrics and story elements are in the style of an opera. Imagine if you could take the sets of an opera, which are very grand and very beautiful, and put them through a pop-electro lens. The design of the show is very, very forward, very, very innovative. I’ve been thinking about ways to play with the shape of this stage and change the way that we watch things. So what I’ve done is I’ve designed a stage with Haus of Gaga that is essentially a frame with forced perspective, and the frame is put inside the stage.” the singer says of the stage that will be used on tour.
For more details on The Monster Ball tour, please see the Rolling Stone interview here.