Lady Gaga’s Chromatica Ball Brings the Spectacle to Dodger Stadium But Really Soars With Solo Segment: Concert Review
12.09.2022 - 03:41
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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic 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. Anyway, knowing what’s coming doesn’t quash the overpowering effects of a savvy performer who’s determined to look as cold as inhumanly possible while also, conversely, sounding like the warmest superstar you’ve ever encountered. Does that count, in ballplaying terms, as a slider?
As the singer reminded the audience, this occasion was a long time in coming, as Gaga is effectively bringing up the rear among performers who had tours scheduled for mid-2020 and are finally making good on them. She’s no Taylor Swift, consigning her “Lover Fests” to the dustbin of necessarily abandoned ideas; Gaga has remained undaunted in making it clear that 2020’s “Chromatica” is the album she is very much touring behind, with 10 songs from the two-year-old album accounting for just under half the overall set. There was a sense of post-pandemic victory to Gaga’s increasingly lengthy asides, late in the two-hour-plus concert — “The whole world did not fade. We’re all here, in some kind of way,” she said. But, as an undertow, you might detect a sense of vindication for the “Chromatica” record itself, in how she’s determined not to let it go down as a lamb that got lost in the storm. So, extra points for chutzpah for how Gaga starts off
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