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The best moments in Lady Gaga's Chromatica Ball film, from a new album tease to the A Star Is Born costar cameo

"RuPaul's Drag Race" icon Willam makes a brief appearance in the concert film, which also ends with the tease "'LG7.' Gaga returns."

If waiting for the long-promised Chromatica Ball film the past two years gave you a migraine worthy of a holy wafer known as Nurtec ODT, you must be a Lady Gaga fan.

For those that weren't tortured by the agonizing delay, you're in for a fresh treat, as the pop icon finally released the concert film on Saturday. The good news? It's as bonkers, brash, and unabashedly pop as the Chromatica album that inspired it — and even contains an exciting tease for LG7 , the fan-given nickname for the next album in Gaga's oeuvre.

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Filmed in front of an audience of more than 52,000 people during the tour's Sept. 10, 2022 performance at Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium, Gaga Chromatica Ball was directed by the singer herself, capturing the full concert from beginning to end. And while there aren't many major surprises along the way (the film doesn't include documentary-style behind-the-scenes segments), it's still a strong highlight reel for one of the most immersive and elaborately designed tours of Gaga's career.

From live versions of "Bad Romance," "Poker Face," and "Rain on Me" to a cameo from one of Gaga's A Star Is Born costars, Entertainment Weekly has compiled the best moments from the concert film — and, frankly, some of the strongest live performances of Gaga's career.

Gaga Chromatica Ball is streaming now on Max .

Lady Gaga teases LG7 at the end of the film

As one era ends, another begins. Gaga was uncharacteristically cryptic in the run-up to her Chromatica era, which began nearly four years after 2016's Joanne . Now, as the Chromatica Ball film concludes the album's quadruple-year cycle, Gaga is sending "Stupid Love" and "Free Woman" off with a hint at what's to come.

As Gaga makes her way off the stage at the end of the concert film, a snippet from a new song plays over the footage, with Gaga singing "dance in the shadow of the night" as the words " LG7 " and "Gaga returns" briefly appear on screen.

This marks the most significant tease for new music that Gaga has unveiled for the project to date, after she spent the past several months posting images of herself recording new material, using everything from monster emojis to the words "tik tok tik tok" to keep fans guessing at what sounds the next era might hold.

The A Star Is Born costar cameo from Willam

You can't read Gaga's "Poker Face," but you can absolutely clock RuPaul's Drag Race star Willam 's beautiful, bejeweled mug when the drag icon makes a brief cameo in the audience during the second number of the show.

Gaga reportedly handpicked Willam to appear alongside fellow Drag Race alum Shangela in scenes from Bradley Cooper 's 2018 movie A Star Is Born , in which the queens play drag bar owners who foster the singing talents of Ally (Gaga) before she becomes a pop star under the guidance of Cooper's country crooner Jackson.

Days after Gaga Chromatica Ball was filmed, Willam shared an Instagram video showing off "some Chromatica nails for my friend’s gig" at the venue.

High-definition tour interludes that connect the painful (yet triumphant) Chromatica story

One thing Gaga fans yearn for (and then obsess over) during each tour is when we'll get the icon's elaborate video interludes in HD form. It took roughly two years for the Chromatica Ball shorts to drop as part of the concert special, and, given the size of the outdoor venues Gaga played on the unusually short run of the tour throughout the summer of 2022, finally having these story-connecting visuals in crips, up-close form (versus squinting to see them at the live show) helps drive home its overall narrative.

In essence, the story begins with Gaga singing her signature hits like "Bad Romance," "Poker Face," and "Just Dance," while breaking out of a steel cocoon. She famously tweeted (and drew criticism for) likening fame to prison during the Chromatica album cycle, so this part of the concert was always obvious: Even at her peak (the three songs above are arguably her most impactful singles), Gaga was suffering in private.

Cut to the stark interlude that shows her on a cold operating table, nodules attached to her head, splayed out for the world to see, like a medical patient wasting away in plain sight. We also see an overhead shot of what can only be compared to a CT scan of her brain, alight with electronic pulses. Producer BloodPop said in an interview with EW that Chromatica was made when Gaga was "slipping down the rabbit hole of sadness." This included grappling with mental illness and subsequent treatment with antipsychotic medication, as she sings about on the album track "911."

"[Medication] is not fun to talk about for most people, but it’s a very real part of modern life for those who need it," BloodPop told EW at the time. "This was her truth, and she wanted to write about it even though she knew it would be painful to 'go there.'"

Now that we have the visuals, the album's messages about overcoming trauma and pain (both physical and mental, as Gaga also has fibromyalgia ) through song — and even the textures of the brutalist structure of the Chromatica Ball stage — become clearer.

The "Sour Candy" screaming still slaps

There was a time when it seemed likely that Gaga's Blackpink collaboration "Sour Candy" might be released as an official Chromatica single — but, like Artpop: Act II , that fantasy never materialized . Still, Gaga treated viewers to some inventive vocal acrobatics on the album's accompanying tour, and we're happy to report that the oddball "ahh"-ing and pseudo-climaxing are part of the concert film. Topping things off, Gaga kicks off the moment by asking the audience, "Are you a hard, gummy, or a stringy candy, L.A.?"

The "Bad Romance" and "Hold My Hand" fire effects still scorch eyebrows

Even if you didn't see the memes about Gaga's Chromatica Ball pyrotechnic displays being hot enough to melt the Haus Labs foundation right off your face, you can still practically feel the heat while watching the concert film at home.

The effects begin during the tour opener "Bad Romance" and die down in the middle of the show, only to reappear as fiery flames again during the epic "Hold My Hand" finale .

The live version of "Replay" solidifies its might

The debate over which of Gaga's album cuts deserve to be singles is a common point of contention among her fanbase, with standouts like Born This Way 's "Heavy Metal Lover" and Joanne 's "Dancin' in Circles" regularly cited as potential hits that got away. Chromatica Ball , however, solidifies the Chromatica tune "Replay" as one of the greatest non-single releases in Gaga's discography.

The underrated song that should’ve been a single finally gets its broadcast debut in the special, with Gaga amplifying the already lush production (which uses a dizzying sample of Diana Ross ' 1979 song "It's My House" ) with her famous rocker shrieks. It can be hard to preserve the wallop a good banger packs when playing it on stage with live instruments, but the sledgehammering chorus of the original still hits — hard — accompanied by Gaga's backing band on guitars and keyboard.

"I'd already begun working on the 'Replay' instrumental outside of the Gaga project. Before I played it to Gaga and Blood, it was a sketch I had based around [the] sample," producer BURNS previously told EW . "When BloodPop heard it, he suggested I rework it to fit a song they had started writing together called 'Replay' …. It was the last song we finished for the album, I think."

Multiple piano ballads with intimate camera angles, from "Shallow" to "Angel Down" — and some politics

As easy as it is to get lost in a classic Gaga hook as it throbs over an electro-dance bassline, the 38-year-old pop star always pays tribute to her roots as a singer-songwriter behind the piano.

Here, we get perhaps the most extended showcase of her balladry to date, with Gaga cycling through five songs accompanied by nothing but her voice and fingers on the keys.

As goofy (let's be real) as the lyrics to "Born This Way" may sound sung in earnest at the piano, there's no denying the spine-tingling experience of hearing Gaga's voice echo throughout an arena. Coupled with her calls for queer rights and staunch criticism of anti-abortion legislation that swept the country shortly before the special was filmed, the moment registers as all the more powerful.

Then things really get going, as Gaga belts some of the best lyrics she's ever written during "Shallow" and “Always Remember Us This Way," from the A Star Is Born soundtrack, which melt away into “The Edge of Glory” and her protest anthem "Angel Down."

Though it's not the same Gaga who gave the impassioned "Prime Rib of America" speech against the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy in 2010, or the Gaga who spoke through tears in Florida after the Pulse nightclub shooting, her criticizing policy through art is a welcome return for the rebellious pop star fans fell for at the end of the aughts.

The final "Put your hands up!" count is...

If you've seen Gaga on tour, you know you're going to be instructed, commanded, or forced to "put your hands up" in some form. In total, Gaga shouts for the Los Angeles crowd to lift their arms no less than 45 times (yes, we counted), averaging out to the Oscar winner uttering her signature concert phrase at least once every 2.5 minutes throughout the 113-minute special. Sometimes, Gaga delivers variations of the decree, ranging from the traditional "put your hands up" to "put your f---in' hands up” and even "I’ll get him hot, put your f---ing hands up" to the tune of "Poker Face." There's even a portion during "LoveGame" in which she says it five times in less than six seconds.

Anyway, the whole thing ends with a shot of Gaga — you guessed it — with her steel Chromatica claw held high in the air. So, Mother practices what she screeches!

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Lady Gaga gets emotional in video on first night of world tour: 'I was really battling from my life'

For the first time since 2018, Lady Gaga is ready to hit the road on tour. 

As the doors opened at Merkur Spiel-Arena in Düsseldorf, Germany for the first night of her 2022 tour, the Chromatica Ball, Lady Gaga posted a video from backstage on her Instagram candidly discussing her feelings and nervousness of returning to the stage and the meaning behind the show.

“I want to allow you all to interpret this show in the way that you want to, but I will say that it really documents the many different stages and sides of grief and the manic energy of grief that I feel that I’ve experienced in my life,” she said. “I really want to thank you for sticking it out with me and loving me through all the different iterations of my artistry as well as me as a person.”

She continued, adding, “I feel more clear today than I have in a long time and more pain free than I have in ages. And being free of pain on stage is a real healing experience because I’m able to dance and sing and enjoy the audience, enjoy the show, and really tell a story.”

“I don’t know that I’ve been as speechless as I am today, knowing what we’re about to do,” she said. “But if you know people ask me all the time what ‘Chromatica’ was about and in ‘Babylon,’ I say battle fair life and when I made ‘Chromatica’ I was really battling from my life.”

She acknowledged that that would be a “tough spot” for anybody, but wanted her fans to know that the Chromatica Ball was “created in the spirit of that battle to win yourself back.” 

“There’s no greater prize than you,” she said. “There’s no thing more important than your own heart and your own ability to heal, and we don’t heal on our own, I don’t think, but I think it’s possible to at some point have your own back. And having your own back takes a lot of strength and time.”

Lady Gaga also revealed some details surrounding The Chromatica Ball, which was originally planned for 2020 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic , explaining, “The stage was inspired by brutalist architecture, materials, textures, crudity, transparency — a real savage and hard look at yourself, what you’ve been though.”

“I want to tell a story but with abstractions and art, so this show celebrates things that I have always loved,” she added. “Art and fashion and dance and music and technology, poetry, and the way all of those things work together.”

To conclude the touching video, Lady Gaga wished all of her fans at the show a fun time, adding, “I hope you love this thing that we made you you….I’ll see you on the dance floor.”

The Grammy winning singer’s honest video comes just two days after she expressed her fears of returning to the stage in a tweet on Friday, July 15.

“There was a time I thought I’d never be on stage again,” she wrote. “I was so sad I couldn’t even dream anything but a painful nightmare. I’ve overcome my nightmare with love, support, trust, truth, bravery, talent and dedication. I am so grateful. I’ll see you in BABYLON.”

Over the years, Lady Gaga has been candid about living with PTSD and struggles with fibromyalgia chronic pain , including how it affects her life and career. In the past, the singer had to cancel the European leg of her Joanne World Tour in 2017 as well as the final 10 dates of the tour in early 2018, citing her pain and health.

Her chronic pain was also a focal point during her Netflix documentary “Five Foot Two.”

At a press conference at the Toronto International Film Festival, Lady Gaga said “It’s hard, but it’s liberating, too” when it came to discussing her health.

“There is an element and a very strong piece of me that believes that pain is a microphone,” she said. “My pain really does me no good unless I transform it into something that is. So I hope that people watching it that do struggle with chronic pain know they’re not alone.”

Francesca Gariano is a New York City-based freelance journalist reporting on culture, entertainment, beauty, lifestyle and wellness. She is a freelance contributor to TODAY.com, where she covers pop culture and breaking news.

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Lady Gaga’s Chromatica Ball Brings the Spectacle to Dodger Stadium but Really Soars With Solo Segment: Concert Review

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Freddie Freeman was hitting homers down in San Diego, so it was up to visiting superstar Lady Gaga to keep the on-base percentage exceptionally high Saturday night at Dodger Stadium, site of one of the last stops on her “Chromatica Ball” outing. Surprises were few, this many weeks into a mega-tour whose production values were already known among the legions of Little Monsters who’d long since put curious paws to Googling Gaga’s setlists and setpieces.

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Once those three introductory hits were out of the way and Gaga regained full control of her life and limbs for the next hour and 45 minutes, title cards periodically appeared on screen, establishing “Act I” through “Act V” and subsequent finales and denouements. Unlike her long-running “Enigma” show in Las Vegas, this tour has none of those scripted, philosophical monologues, so it’s not easy to suss whether there’s a real narrative arc at play in her mind or whether the ”act” business just provides cover for costume changes. There was undeniably an element of the momentum going into stall mode every time Gaga disappeared from sight for four or five minutes. But, as costuming spectacle goes, you’d be hard-pressed to argue it wasn’t worth the lull when the singer would suddenly reappeared in a bodysuit made out of what looked like innards-revealing, torso-hugging plexiglas, or better still, all masked up as a lovely, if intimidating, purple mantis.

She and her dozen or so dancers worked hard for the money for the first two-thirds of the show, working up enough monsoonal moisture to breathe sweaty life into “Chromatica” album tracks that might’ve slipped a fan’s mind, like the very pandemic-premonitory-feeling “911.” The set warmed up, eventually, after being established in the show’s beginnings with a monochromatic feel Gaga herself has said was inspired by architectual brutalism. (Gaga could sound a little Germanic herself in the early going as she repeatedly commanded the audience to “get your fucking hands in the air,” with a commandeering scowl and harsh make-up that was its own kind of brutal.)

But then, past the halfway point, the crowd of 52,000 saw that platform at second base pay off with an extended solo segment that gave the audience the unmitigated, uninterrupted Gaga that would form a solid basis for a fine one-woman stadium show, should she ever want to attempt that ballsy a gambit. Sitting at a piano that had been formulated to appear as something growing organically out of gnarly forest limbs and trunks, the queen of poker faces smiled for the first time all evening (not counting a sinister giggle earlier) and turned Dodger Stadium into an enchanted pop forest with a clinching series of solo ballads and, yes, motivational speeches.

For some of us, no show Gaga ever does will outdo her “Jazz and Piano” residency in Vegas, where she was more parts Rosemary Clooney than Grace Jones. But, of course, you’re not getting the full Gaga if you’re getting her in Irving Berlin mode. And in this show, the affected but still affecting intimacy of the solo segment made for a dynamic setup to a final stretch back on the main stage that made her dance-teria mode seem like her best mode after all.

Coming after a quieter, more thoughtful segment, “Stupid Love,” an up-tempo track that seemed kind of underwhelming when it was introduced as “Chromatica’s” first single two and a half years ago, suddenly weirdly felt like a visceral kick in the pants. And “Rain on Me,” too, finally felt as cathartic as Gaga meant it to. (After the crowd had just narrowly dodged an unseasonable L.A. precipitation bullet, it’s a good thing being an actual rainmaker is not among Gaga’s talents.)

The most interesting superstars are the ones that walk fine lines, and Gaga certainly continues to do that. After “Joanne,” and especially after the world discovered — via “A Star Is Born” — that she’s conventionally pretty, she could have further played the authenticity card for all it’s worth. But in the spirit of those “Keep Austin weird” bumper stickers Texans used to brandish, Gaga has determined to keep herself weird — or just weird enough to provide necessarily ballast to her more earnest inclinations. It’s clear, by the end of a show, that she just wants to give the disenfranchised world a hug. But with costuming that include jagged shoulder cones, it’s not clear how that’s going to happen without blood involved.

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Lady Gaga Launches Chromatica Ball: Setlist + Video

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The post Lady Gaga Launches Chromatica Ball: Setlist + Video appeared first on Consequence .

After an extended wait, Lady Gaga finally launched her “Chromatica Ball” in Düsseldorf, Germany on Sunday, July 17th.

The 20-song setlist contained nine songs from her 2020 album Chromatica , including the first-ever performances of “Alice,” “Replay,” “Sour Candy,” “Babylon,” “Free Woman,” and “Enigma.” Additionally, Gaga dusted off “Monster for the first time since 2014.

The setlist was divided into five acts, opening with a trio of fan favorites in “Bad Romance,” “Just Dance,” and “Poker Face.” She also performed “911,” “Telephone,” “Born This Way,” “The Edge of Glory,” and “Shallow.” For the encore, Gaga debuted “Hold My Hand,” her contribution to the Top Gun: Maverick soundtrack.

Update: Lady Gaga seemed to confirm a fan’s interpretation of the “Chromatica Ball” and its five acts.

🥹🖤 https://t.co/TLh02pc8DO — Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) July 18, 2022

Lady Gaga’s “Chromatica Ball” is a tour almost three years in the making. Originally announced in 2020, the tour was twice postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. In a social media post prior to the tour’s launch, Gaga admitted that there “was a time I thought I’d never be on stage again. I was so sad I couldn’t even dream anything but a painful nightmare. I’ve overcome my nightmare with love, support, trust, truth, bravery, talent and dedication. I am so grateful. I’ll see you in BABYLON.”

She further elaborated in an Instagram video posted hours ahead of Sunday’s concert. “I want to really thank you for sticking it out with me, and loving me through all the different iterations of my artistry, as well as me as a person,” Gaga said. “I feel more clear today than I have in a long time, and more pain-free than I have in ages.” (In 2018, Gaga was forced to cancel tour dates due to fibromyalgia, a condition that causes chronic pain.)

“Being free of pain on stage is a real healing experience because I’m able to dance and sing and enjoy the audience, enjoy the show…and really tell a story. I just want to thank you. I’m going to thank you in another way, and it’s through this performance. And it will be through every performance. I don’t know that I’ve been as speechless as I am today, knowing what we’re about to do.”

Gaga’s “Chromatica Ball” hits Stockholm, Paris, Arnhem, and London before making its way to North America in August. Tickets are available here .

Lady Gaga’s “Chromatica Ball” Photos:

Lady Gaga’s “Chromatica Ball” Setlist: Bad Romance Just Dance Poker Face

Act I The Treatment Alice (Live debut) Replay (Live debut) Monster (First time since 2014)

Act II The Garden 911 Sour Candy (Live debut) Telephone LoveGame

Act III The Universe Video Babylon (Live debut) Free Woman (Live debut) Born This Way

Act IV Flower Queen Shallow Always Remember Us This Way The Edge of Glory Enigma (Live debut)

Finale Veils Stupid Love Rain on Me

Encore Hold My Hand

replay – chromatica ball pic.twitter.com/0bTd9xrOUn — renato (@gagaledger) July 17, 2022

“This not a tour .. it’s a ball gays put your hands up” i love her. 🥹 #ChromaticaBall #TheChromaticaBall pic.twitter.com/v9D01XfgNW — 💗CHROMATICA⚔️ (@GAGAholiicc) July 17, 2022

we used to pray for moments like this 🥹🥹🥹 #CHROMATICABALL pic.twitter.com/PUKKr7Zsf8 — irenellaaa (@actuallyiree) July 17, 2022

That boy is a monster M-M-M-Monster #ChromaticaBall pic.twitter.com/3Q9ApDnc0K — GRINTHAL ⚔️💗 (@iamgrinthal) July 17, 2022

YOU HAD THE GUN, YOU HAD THE GUUN, YOU HAD THE GUUUUUUN #ChromaticaBall pic.twitter.com/8sFGi8Se5N — isadora. (@freewxman) July 17, 2022

Lady Gaga – Shallow #ChromaticaBall pic.twitter.com/7wD4Pz6c7H — 𝕃𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕝𝕖 𝕄𝕠𝕟𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕤 🇮🇹 (@LMonstersITA) July 17, 2022

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A curious thing is happening online: Out of seemingly nowhere, Lady Gaga ’s 2009 VMA performance of “Paparazzi” is a trending sound on TikTok. If you watched it live 13 years ago, it always stuck with you. It was one of the most shocking and sensational star-making performances of any pop artist’s career.

Onstage at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium Thursday night, Gaga performed the song in a palace-like setting. After performing an extended, dramatic piano interlude, she emerged with fake blood covering her white bodysuit, belting the chorus like her life depended on it.

Death, rebirth, blood, sweat, and tears have always been essential parts of Gaga’s ethos. She’s always been obsessed with how art interacts with and responds to tragedy. All of that comes together at Chromatica Ball, Gaga’s twice-postponed show in support of her 2020 release, Chromatica . The album dives into one of Gaga’s darkest periods (the lyrics are truly heart-wrenching … under the house-inspired beats), which came out during the world’s worst moments. But at her show on Thursday, there was only space for joy.

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Gaga’s set looks like some type of Berlin nightclub: imposing and ominous. She took inspiration from brutalist architecture, as she wrote on Instagram before launching the tour last month. The Ball itself is split into distinct parts, each separated by lengthy interludes of Gaga posing in various high-fashion outfits. The prelude is a tour de force and a flex, kicking off the show with three of her earliest hits: “Bad Romance,” “Just Dance,” and “Poker Face.” One right after the other, the run of smashes comes swinging in like a hammer, with Gaga performing the first two from some type of cape-like shell, from which she slowly emerges. Her dancers (and the crowd) do the long-memorized video choreography for each, moves laid deep in our muscle memories.

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The ensuing four acts are then structured around Chromatica itself, interspersed with songs from The Fame , The Fame Monster, and Born This Way mostly (sorry to the Artpop or Joanne devotees: Cuts from those albums were left off the set list entirely). One pleasant surprise was “Monster,” a Fame Monster deep cut that she hadn’t played live since 2014 before this tour. The moments when the old merged with the new were deeply satisfying, like the transition from “Sour Candy” to “Telephone” during Act Two.

Gaga is at her best when she’s at her absolute, most unbridled weirdest. The interludes make little to no sense and only some of them seem to be related to what’s about to happen onstage (like the brutalist hospital pictured before Act One that leads way to Gaga singing “Alice” from what appears to be some type of stone slab). The best of the interludes was before the finale, with Gaga at her most melodramatic. She recites a creepy sonnet about art and the responsibility of the artist: “This life is only art on life support, and nature is a knight. No king, no court,” she says as the vocals chaotically layer. If we found out later she was teasing her part in Joker 2 , I’d buy it.

Gaga puts on one of the best productions in pop, but she’s just as good letting her immense voice shine. She took to the B stage in the middle of the floor for a large portion of the concert, and it was one of the most cleansing, and longest, acts of the show. Seated behind a piano that resembled a fallen tree, with branches jutting out, she performed a pair of A Star Is Born cuts. Her voice on “Shallow” was probably echoing all the way back to Manhattan. She dedicated “Always Remember Us This Way” to her friend Tony Bennett, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2016.

Later, before her stripped-down take on “Edge of Glory,” she shouted out Bruce Springsteen for inspiring the single, as well as the late E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons, who played on it. She reminded the audience that Clemons died the day the video came out. She’s one of the rare artists to come through MetLife and not solely claim it as a New York show, giving props to some personal history she’s had in Jersey while growing up in NYC. “A lot of good things have happened to me here and a lot of bad things,” she said at one point behind the piano. “Let’s focus on the good tonight.”

Gaga used the piano moment to highlight the true sadness she was delving into on Chromatica . The album was largely celebrated for Gaga’s return to full dance pop, but beneath the surface is some of her finest and most personal songwriting. She stripped down “1000 Doves” and “Fun Tonight” to their raw cores. She could — and maybe should — have done a deconstructed take on the album instead of the remixed version she put out last year.

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The finale was quick and high-energy after the piano portion, with Gaga running through extended versions of singles “Stupid Love” and “Rain on Me.” The latter was such a jolt of optimism and energy in 2020, when the world was faced with both incredible pain and confusion. It’s a celebration of life that feels even more prescient now that we can at least leave the house and experience moments like these.

Surprisingly, she didn’t end the show there. Instead, she put on an encore with the silliest encore selection possible: her Top Gun: Maverick soundtrack single “Hold My Hand.” It’s not the best or biggest Gaga song, just the most recent. Sure, there’s not a single power ballad in the world not worth paying to see Gaga sing. But it fell a little flat as the way to end the night when “Rain on Me” provided the show closure we needed.

Even 13 years after that VMA performance, Gaga is still breaking new ground for herself and the genre of pop music. Thankfully for us, she’s the type of artist who almost makes you impatient wanting to know what the next 13 will bring.

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How to Watch Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica Ball’ Movie

From “Bad Romance” to “Shallow” from “A Star Is Born,” Gaga’s greatest hits are now streaming

After Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour and Beyoncé’s Renaissance made a splash with their respective concert films last year, it’s Lady Gaga’s time to shine.

The concert film “Gaga Chromatica Ball” showcases the pop star’s greatest hits — including “Bad Romance,” “Poker Face,” “Telephone” and “Born This Way” — as performed during her 2022 show at Los Angeles’ Dodgers’ Stadium. The concert film also includes performances of Lady Gaga’s “A Star Is Born” hits , including “Shallow” and “Always Remember Us This Way.”

Keep on reading to get all the details on “Gaga Chromatica Ball” and how to watch it.

Where to Watch “Gaga Chromatica Ball”

The concert film is now streaming on Max . You can also watch on Hulu with the Max add-on for $15.99 per month.

When did “Gaga Chromatica Ball” come out?

The HBO original concert special premiered Saturday, May 25 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and was simultaneously available to stream on Max.

Is it streaming outside the U.S.?

“Gaga Chromatica Ball” is available to watch on Max in Latin America and the Caribbean, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Viewers in The Netherlands and Poland can watch on HBO Max while the special will be available on HBO GO to viewers in Southeast Asia, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, on Crave in Canada, on Pass Warner in France, on Stan in Australia and on ThreeNow and Three in New Zealand.

The special is not yet streaming in the U.K., Italy, Germany, India and Japan.

When and where was the concert filmed?

The performance was filmed during Lady Gaga’s 2022 Chromatica Ball Tour stop in Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles, where she performed in front of a sold-out crowd of 52,000 people.

How Long is “Gaga Chromatica Ball”?

The concert special is just under two hours, with its runtime clocking in at an hour and 53 minutes.

What songs are in the “Chromatica Ball” concert movie?

Songs include “Bad Romance,” “Shallow,” “The Edge of Glory,” “Always Remember Us This Way,” “Rain on Me” and Gaga’s “Top Gun” song “Hold My Hand.” See the full list of songs here .

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Video Review – Gaga Chromatica Ball: Like The Album, So Close To A Masterpiece

May 24, 2024 by EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno reviews Lady Gaga’s latest concert film…

As a longtime Lady Gaga fan, it was only a matter of time before I was able to deep-dive into a concert film she released.

The moment is now with GAGA CHROMATICA BALL , released exclusively on HBO and streaming on Max.

Much like the album it’s based on, the explosive and high-energy concert film is so close to being a masterpiece. With her peers dropping similar films like Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé and Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) , it was vital for Gaga to do her thing and go a different route.

See why I think the iconic singer may play it too safe for the long-awaited film but still works for hardcore Little Monsters.

Check out the review below, and  be sure to follow us on YouTube for more reviews, exclusive interviews, and other video content …

In front of a sold-out crowd of 52,000 people, thirteen-time GRAMMY® and Academy Award® winner Lady Gaga delivers a career-defining performance at Los Angeles’s Dodger Stadium during her 2022 Chromatica Ball Tour. Released exclusively on HBO and streaming on Max, GAGA CHROMATICA BALL delivers breathtaking live performances of some of Gaga’s biggest and most cherished hits, including “Stupid Love,” “Bad Romance,” “Just Dance,” “Poker Face,” “Shallow,” “Rain On Me,” and more. The film delivers huge show-stopping moments and intimate piano numbers, complete with heart-stopping choreography, intense pyrotechnics and an array of iconic outfit changes as only Gaga does. This is Lady Gaga as you’ve never seen her before.

The HBO Original concert special GAGA  CHROMATICA  BALL debuts on Saturday, May 25, at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and will be available to stream on Max.

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Sasha Velour Interviews Lady Gaga about The Chromatica Ball

RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha Velour interviewed Lady Gaga about her concert special GAGA Chromatica Ball ahead of its premiere in May.

You can watch the interview below.

" Chromatica , for me, is an ending and a beginning at the same time," Gaga said. 

While Gaga recalled the songwriting process for Chromatica as being both thoughtful and filled with anxiety, she called the tour a "total liberation." 

"It was like every faculty that I have when it comes to being an imaginative person just came back full throttle," Gaga said. 

Gaga said her performances and music are inspired by her fans, and the Chromatica Ball film is no different. 

"The way that this film was put together was designed to show the fans everything," Gaga said. "The fashion, the art direction, the films that were shown, the beautiful hair and makeup, was all a part of what Chromatica was all about." 

When asked if the Chromatica Ball tour allowed her to examine new parts of herself, Gaga said her biggest challenge when it comes to reinvention is to slow down.

"Sometimes I want to transform so much that I am just, like, a loose cannon," Gaga said. "All the fans know exactly what I'm talking about." 

Despite this, the tour helped her understand that she's always an artist, even when she's in between projects. 

"I get to be an artist every day, and whatever my reinvention is, is a part of that," Gaga said. 

To close the interview, Gaga teased a little bit of what to expect from her new music. 

"I have just been in the studio all the time, and I'm making a lot of music," Gaga said. "It's just this incredibly vast experience that I just feel so lucky that I get to have. I'm excited for Monsters to hear where I am now and be connecting on that level again." 

GAGA Chromatica Ball is available to stream on Max and Warner Pass. 

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Lady Gaga, star of Nurtec commercials , Haus Labs Instagram posts , and Joker: Folie à Deux , would like to remind you that she is also sometimes a singer. Gaga’s Chromatica Ball film is finally being released on Max. In case your memory doesn’t go back that far, a reminder: The Chromatica Ball was a 2022 tour of her 2020 album. We guess Chromatica content arrives on a two-year cycle, because the tour film is out in 2024. The concert film’s trailer features the riff from Gaga’s song “Stupid Love,” which was released pre-pandemic.

The concert film will come out on HBO and Max on May 25, the beginning of Memorial Day weekend, giving the audience a nice break for interplanetary travel. Rerelease the Chromatica Oreos for celebratory watch parties, cowards.

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“I’m not having fun tonight,” Lady Gaga sang to a packed MetLife Stadium on Thursday (Aug. 11) night. No, Mother Monster wasn’t putting down her 54,000 exhilarated fans at the East Rutherford, New Jersey stop of her Chromatica Ball Tour; she was simply delivering the declarative lyric from her wistful breakup anthem “Fun Tonight.” Even so, the opportunity wasn’t wasted on one fan: “WE ARE!” he screamed in response. That unexpected levity during a collective emotional pause was exactly the kind of moment that makes the joy of live music so impossible to replicate. And when a supermoon popped its shining face above the rim of the MetLife Stadium as Gaga segued into “Enigma,” it reminded you how amazing it is to finally have concerts back in our lives.

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The Chromatica Ball Tour was initially slated to begin in 2020 but was quickly postponed a year due to the pandemic and then once again until 2022. For most artists, pulling off an all-stadium tour this summer in support of a two-year-old album would be a total non-starter, but in a lot of ways, the timing has benefitted Gaga. Chromatica served as a return to her art-pop weirdness and dancefloor roots, something that many longtime fans had been waiting years for. Despite the (Oscar- and Grammy-winning) quality of her material in the meantime — and even if you Stan Joanne and Tony Bennett duets — there’s no denying that after two years of lockdown, people are ready to get out and dance . And from the deliciously bratty “Sour Candy” to the whirlwind catharsis of “Rain on Me” to the diva house delight “Babylon,” Chromatica has emotionally resonant dancefloor bangers that stretch from ancient city styles to sci-fi chic.

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Gaga’s millennia-spanning Chromatica mood board was beautifully conveyed by the Chromatica Ball stage design, which melded the stone-slab elegance of ancient civilizations with shades of Fritz Lang’s German expressionist classic Metropolis (1927), particularly during a moment where a mob of her dancers are pressed against a concrete wall, stretching toward an out-of-reach Gaga dancing above. (Given the significance of Babylon to that silent classic and Chromatica , it’s probably not a coincidence.)

Of course, the Chromatica Ball is far from exclusively new material. She opens with a one-two-three punch of her early dance-pop classics: “Bad Romance,” “Just Dance” and “Poker Face” – i.e., the songs that made O.G. Monsters fall head over forked tail in love with her in the first place. But even while giving her audience the setlist wish list-topping tracks at the start of the show, she smartly holds back a bit, building anticipation by performing “Romance” while encased in an angular robotic cocoon. When she’s released, her mobility is dictated by the constraints of a sharp-shouldered outfit paying homage to art-pop pioneer Klaus Nomi, making her movements deliberate and mysterious (the choreographer brilliantly brings her “Babylon” lyric “moving like a sculpture” to vivid life on the Chromatica Ball stage). All this has the effect that by the time we’re just three songs in, Gaga has put on a hell of a spectacle while barely moving from one spot, yet the audience is still losing their minds. When she finally does join her dancers for the full pop choreography experience on fan-favorites like “Monster” and “911,” the ecstatic release is palpable.

Truly, there are no “grab a drink/hit the restroom” moments during this show, but the standout portion is the piano segment of the evening, where she moves to a smaller in-the-round stage and sits behind a piano that looks like H.R. Giger got his hands on some old tubes and a gnarled tree and went HAM. Make no mistake – Gaga’s vocals were fully audible and impressive from start to finish, but during this part of the show, we’re treated to the depths of her substantial pipes and her deep attachment to the energy of the crowd. Plus, it was smartly balanced: Instead of dialing down her delicious oddities and making it a detour into exclusively acoustic material, she gives us the best of both worlds. “Born This Way” begins as a cabaret piano sing-along before morphing into the full dance-pop version, followed by her declaration that “if this country comes for gay marriage, you know what’s gonna happen.” And while “Shallow” is a vocal showcase by nature, she belted it out with a purple insect apparatus covering the top half of her head, which – as a credit to her remarkable taste level – somehow didn’t detract from the emotional impact one bit.

As for the New Jersey setting, the Manhattan native gamely called out both her Jersey and New York fans throughout the night while shouting out Bruce Springsteen and a mutual collaborator, the late Clarence Clemons. Clemons, an essential E Street Band member, brought his sax to Gaga’s soaring Born This Way single “The Edge of Glory” back in 2011; he died two days after the music video’s premiere.

“All I ever wanted was a video on my fire escape,” she laughed, noting that the “Glory” clip gave her the chance to check that item off her bucket list. Citing it as an example of dreams coming true, she encouraged her fans to follow theirs – but it’s safe to say for about 54,000 folks, at least one of those dreams came true on Thursday night thanks to her.

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Akshay Bhatia shot a 5-under 67 that included a free drop after his golf ball fell into a fairway drain at Detroit Golf Club

DETROIT — Akshay Bhatia walked down a fairway at Detroit Golf Club, looking for his ball after a long, straight tee shot, and found it in an improbable spot — underground, after it fell into a drain.

Bhatia said he and the PGA Tour rules official, who granted a free drop, had never seen anything like it.

“It was kind of one-in-a-million chance that ball goes in that small hole in that drain,” he said.

Bhatia went on to shoot a 5-under 67, good enough for a share of the 36-hole lead with Aaron Rai at 13-under 131 at the Rocket Mortgage Classic on Friday.

Bhatia’s drive on the par-5 17th hole managed to drop into one of five holes in a metal drain cap that were just big enough to accommodate a golf ball. He ended up making par in his second straight bogey-free round.

“It’s going to be pretty viral, I think,” he said.

Rai shot 65 to match Bhatia on a course that consistently yields low scores. The Englishman made seven birdies, including four in a five-hole stretch midway through the round, and capped his day with a 21-foot birdie putt on the 18th.

Taylor Montgomery (68), Troy Merritt (64), Erik van Rooyen (64) and Cameron Young (66) were two strokes behind the co-leaders.

Eric Cole (68), Cam Davis (66) and Joel Dahmen (64) were another shot back.

Neal Shipley, the low amateur at the Masters and U.S. Open, gave himself a chance to contend in his first PGA Tour event as a pro. He was four shots back after a 68.

“With my experience with the majors, I don’t feel like there’s a big learning curve for me,” he said.

Amateur Luke Clanton (68) was 7 under, flashing the talent he showed last season at Florida State, where he set a school record with a 69.3 scoring average.

The 22-year-old Bhatia chose to skip college and turned pro at age 17.

“I’ve got a long time to go before I can say, you know, this is the right decision, but so far I’ve made progress every year I’ve been a pro,” he said.

He picked up his second PGA Tour victory at the Texas Open in April and is coming off a fifth-place finish at the Travelers Championship, where he was in the final group that was disrupted by climate protesters storming the 18th green.

Rai, Montgomery and Young are each seeking their first PGA Tour victory. Merritt and van Rooyen have each won twice.

Tom Kim, the highest-ranked player in the field at No. 16, followed up a first-round 73 with a 68 and missed the cut by a stroke at 3 under. After losing to Scottie Scheffler in a playoff last week in Connecticut, he may have run out of gas in the Motor City in his ninth straight tournament.

Miles Russell, a 15-year-old amateur from Florida, shot 70 on Friday and missed the cut in his PGA Tour debut at even-par 144.

The 5-foot-7, 120-pound Russell was a fan favorite, drawing relatively large galleries and hearing a lot of encouragement.

“You got it, kid!” one spectator shouted.

After signing his card and fielding questions from reporters, he hugged family members, posed for photos and signed autographs.

“It’s been surreal,” his mother, Keli Russell, said, holding back tears. “The support from everyone has just been incredible.”

Russell, the youngest player to make a cut on the Korn Ferry Tour , will return to the Motor City next month for the U.S. Junior Amateur at Oakland Hills, where Tiger Woods' son, Charlie , will also be in the field.

“(Charlie Woods) was at actually at my charity event I put on, the Florida Sunshine Cup , I played with him there,” Russell said. “I haven’t played with him in a while and it’ll be good to see him.”

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